The Preface.
with the aſſiſtance of a certain Inſtrument, (who ſwore through two Brick-walls before Oates appear’d,) cauſed me to be impriſon’d ſix times, ſo that for above ſix years I was never free from Trouble, having ſeldom leſs than 3 or 4 Indictments at a Seſſions againſt Me; at other times Informations in the Crown-Office, which villainous contrivances of their Agents, coſt Me at least 500 l. in Money, beſides the loſs of My Trade and Reputation; The Principal Crimes they alledged againſt Me, were, Let Oliver now be forgotten, a Song; A Huy and Cry after T. O. when turn’d from White-Hall; The Character of an Ignoramus Doctor; A Dialogue between the Devil and the Doctor; The Priſoners Lamentation for the loſs of Sheriff Bethel; And at laſt for Oates’s Manifeſto; All which Phamphlets tended to no other evil than the laying open the
