What greater Mischief or Villany than this can be apprehended from them! For not to speak here of the Malicious endeavours formerly used in their Parliament, to exclude You from Your Right of Inheriting the Crown, or of the Treacherous Plots and Designs contrived by some of them, for to take away Your Majesties Life, and that of Your Royal Brother the late King of Blessed Memory: And after all this, Is it reasonable to repose any Confidence in them, or to expect that ever they will prove real and true unto You upon occasion of helping You to regain Your Crown? Or certainly if they should chance to give any such Encouragement, it will not proceed from a real Love to Your Royal Person, but that they find it necessary for their Temporal Interests, which they now experience to be in great danger, and much prejudic’d by their late Rebellious Defection. Consequently, as far as Your Return may avail for the Preservation and Advantage of those their Interests, they may concur thereunto, without regarding any Establishment whatever, that You make in this Kingdom, in favour of the ~Roman~-Catholick Religion and Clergy; for they do not doubt, but that Your Majesty being of the ~Roman~-Catholick Religion, intends to establish the same, and to restore the Clergy to their Livings, Churches, and full Jurisdiction, in this Your Catholick Kingdom. REFLECTIONS. As to some of the Protestants _Design of old to exclude King ~James~ from inheriting the Crown_, as is here mentioned; The _Bill of Exclusion_, as it was the result of the Counsels of those who saw no other way at that time to save _Us_ from Popery and Slavery; so it’s a question, Whether it had not been better for that Prince that that Bill had taken effect. For it seems to me, a far greater misfortune, to be once upon a Throne, and to put a necessity on the Nation to dethrone him, than never to have been suffer’d once to sit down upon it; And I believe that unhappy Prince thinks so himself, by this time. So that the Papists have no great reason to blame the Protestants upon that head. As to the Treacherous Plots and Designs contriv’d by some of the Protestants to _take away the life King ~James~, and of his Royal Brother_, Alas! We all know where this Plot was coyn’d; who they were that brought it upon the Stage; and to what end. This Protestant Plot here hinted at, was thought upon by the Popish Party then at Court, as the only proper means to stifle for good and all the _Popish one_; And what _Villanies, Perjuries, Subornations, Lyes and Murthers_, were put in practice at that time, none in _England_ can be ignorant. It could be wish’d, That for the honour of the Nation, and for the honour both of the _Bar_, and of the _Bench_, these things were buried in perpetual oblivion.