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chiefly purchased by Roman Catholicks, these are fit Men for
our purpose, and such as seem to be sent by Providence on
purpose to assist in this great Work, for tho' they have once
miscarried, yet when they come to understand that this is a
Branch of the same Cause and that there are some here who
has Courage enough to play the Men, no doubt but they will
be the same Men still, and more desperate now than ever,
the late Proclamation having deprived them of all hopes of
Redemption otherwise: Thus as well as my Indisposition will
permit me, I have given you an Account of the Measures
that has been taken here, how far We are advanced, and with
everything material that is most likely to advance our Cause
to the Day of Battle, and upon the whole I think We may
conclude Our Plott is well laid, & such as cannot fail without
some Accident or unseasonable Divisions amongst Ourselves,
which God of his infinite Goodness and Mercy prevent by
inspiring the hearts of All those concerned with Unity &
Concord, My Indisposition will not permit me to give this
Account under my own hand, nor will a violent fever that now
begins to rage permit me to say more, which makes me beg

Lib. C. B.

Leave to refer you to the Bearer for a more particular
Account: I can add no more but as I began without the Title
due to your worthy Deeds, so for the same Reason I must
conclude without Ceremony that I am &c.
Decem^r ii^th 1747 R. T:M:

To
8: R: G: & Y. Z: This.
Gent.
I received yours and therein I behold the Accomplishment
of my Prophecies, I have often forewarned you of the fatal
Consequence that attends such heats and Divisions, but all
my Councils were rejected, 'till now too late Experience shews
you my Advice was wholesome, and such as ought to have
been followed: if you had unanimously gone on upon what I
so often recommended and so earnestly pleaded for, things
had not been brought to the Pass they now are, and those
Gentlemen you now are obliged to keep under strict Confine-
ment would still have been zealous Propagators of the Catho-
lick Cause, but when they found that the Divisions so long
kept up amongst you was begining to form themselves into
factions upon different Measures and opposite Designs I sup-
pose they thought it time to provide for their own Safety,
which they could not have done any way so effectually as by
informing against Others, and had they been at large two
Days longer, they would certainly have involved the whole
Body of the Roman Catholicks in their inevitable Ruin, which

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