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selves by such means as we offer them, as some has already Promised
to do as soon as we make way for them to joine us, The Rebells that
arrived here Last Summer are Cheifly Purchased by Roman Catho-
licks These are fit men for our Purpose and such as seems 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 a Branch of the same Cause and that theres 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; This
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 every thing material that is most Likely to ad-
vance our Cause to the Day of Battle, and upon the whole I think
we may Conclude our Plott is well Laid, and which we cannot fail
with some Accident or unseasonable Divisions amongst ourselves
which God of his Infinit Goodness and Mercy Prevent by Inspiring
the hearts of all those Concerned with Unity and Concord my Indis-
position 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 Leave to Referr 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 am &c. R. T. M.
December 11^th 1747
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 & Divisions but all my Council were Re-
jected till now too late Experience Shews you my advise was Whole-
som, and such as ought to have been followed: if you had unani-
mously 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
Confinement would still have been Zealous Propogators of the Catho-
lick Cause, but when they found that the Division so long Keept up
amongst you was begining to form themselves into factions upon
Different Measures and oposite Designs I suppose they thought it
Time to Provide for their own Safety, which they could not have
done any so Effectually as by Informing against others, and had

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they been at Large two days longer they would certainly have In-
volved the whole body of the Roman Catholicks in their Inevitable
Ruin which God of his Infinit goodness and Mercy Grant may not
be already Done, but however I hope this Experience will Learn
•you to be more unanimus for the future and teach you to Act, more

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