_Citt._ Now you talk of _Impostures_, what do you think of _L'Estrange's History of the P L O T_, and his _Answer to the A P P E A L_? Whether are Those Pamphlets, _Impostures_ upon the _Multitude_, or _Not_? _True._ You were saying e'en now, That _The History of the Damnable Popish Plot_ was of your Writing; Answer me That Question, First; Was it so, or not? _Citt._ No, it was not of my Writing; It was done by a _Protestant-Club_. _True._ Why then let me tell ye, if a man may believe the _Preface_ to That _Club-History_, or the _Notes_ upon the _Answer to the Appeal_ (for I have read them all:) _L'Estrange's Pamphlets_ are great abuses upon the _People_: But if you had the Books about ye, the matter were easily clear'd by comparing them. _Citt._ By good luck we have 'um all about us, that can any way concern this Question. And look ye here now. Reflexions upon _L'Estrange_. First, _He calls his_ Abridgement _of the_ Tryals, _The_ History _of the_ Plot, _without mentioning one word of the Original Contrivance, the Preparatives, manner of Discovery, and other Remarkables essential to a_ History. 2. _He omits_ Staly's _and_ Reading's Tryals, _which yet sure had Relation to the_ Plot. 3. _In his_ Epistle, _he seems to drown the_ Popish Plot _with suggestions of an_ Imaginary One _of the_ Protestants. 4. _The amusing People with such Stories, is notoriously a Part of the_ Grand Popish Designe. 5. _Whereas he tells us, that not one_ Material Point _is omitted, most Readers cannot finde the substantial part of Mr._ Bedloes _Evidence against_ Wakeman, _(P. 46 of the Tryall) So much as hinted at: Not to mention the gross shuffles, and Omissions in_ Pag. 77, _and elsewhere._ 6. _He charges the_ Printed Tryals (_in his FREEBORN SUBIECT_ P. 15.) _with many_ Gross Incoherences, _and very_ Material mistakes; _yet Instances but_ One, _and corrected too, as an_ Erratum. 7. _When Our Posterity shall urge these Tryals for proof against_ Papists, _how easily may the subtle Villains stop their Mouths, by alledging from this Authour that_ no heed is to be given to the said Tryals; _(being so publickly own'd by a Person of his Note, and Late Qualification) to be guilty of so many, and such very_ Material Mistakes. The Fore going Reflections Answer'd. _True._ Observe here, _First L'Estrange_ expounds his _History_ in the _Title Page_, by restraining it to the _Charge_ and _Defence_ of _the Persons there mentioned_: Beside that he calls it an _Historical Abstract_, and a _Summary_, in his _Epistle_. 2. _Staleys Trial_ had no Relation at all to the _Plot_, and _Reading_ was not Try'd for's _Life_; and so not within the Compass of his intention exprest in the _Preface_. 3. The _Epistle_ acknowledges a _Detestable Plot_, and a _Conspiracy_: but advises _Moderation_, and that the _Rabble_ may not dictate Laws to _Authority_; for _that Licence_ was the Cause of the _Late Rebellion_.