The Preface.
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. Oates 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; All which Phamphlets tended to no other evil, than the laying open the Villanies of Oates and the reſt of his Perjur’d Diſciples: And when theſe things were almost blown over, this Varlet quarrels again with Oates’s Manifeſto; becauſe it ſo plainly diſcovers the Impoſſibilities and Contradictions of Oates in the whole courſe of his Evidencing: But (thanks be to God) Tempora mutantur, &c. and
