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Oates so little credited that Sir G. Wakeman was dismissed after examination, Oates told none of the essential parts of the Plot at first-- See Journals of the Lords for his Perjury about Q. before whom he had sworn, that he had no other person of Quality whatever to accuse-- this a fortnight before he accused Her. --The Lord Chancellor asking him at Council if he had ever seen Coleman, he said no; yet at the tryal told another Story-- impossible that the Jesuits should trust Oates after turning him out of their Society for ignorance and debauchery.

Lord Bellas is a brave Officer, was infirm, troubled with the Gout, and unfit for employment-- Petre was no Soldier and timorous. Sir Fr. Ratcliffe no Man of the Sword, finical; and when Oates swore he had given him his Commission in Wild Garden, had not been in London in two years, but at his house in Northumberland, not having in that time lain a night out of it, as was known to all in those parts, as Dan. Collingwood testified in the House of Commons, when he was first accused. Colonel Thomas Howard was grown very infirm, and died of his indisposition, about the time named by Oates, who swore he gave him a Commission in Wild Garden, when T. Howard was at Bath; and after he came to London never stirred out twice, being so lame and infirm, that he could not walk up Stairs, but was carried in a Chair, not able to stand or Walk, died a fortnight after he came from Bath. Sir W. Goring not of Age, lately came from abroad, was unfit to have so many thousand pounds pass through his hands, no meeting of Jesuits at White Horse Tavern, though since in three Years to chuse a principal and other Officers Secretary, Proctor; all that died in prison, or were

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