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“ repent it. " Danby had afterwards sufficientreason to applaud the sagacity of his master.

The cry of the plot was immediately echoedfrom one house to the other. The authority ofparliament gave sanction to that fury, with whichthe people were already agitated. An addresswas voted for a solemn fast: A form os prayerwas contrived for that solemnity ; and becausethe popish plot had been omitted in the firstdraught., it was carefully ordered to be inserted;lest omniscience should want intelligence, to usethe words of an historian

In order to continue and propagate the alarm,addresses were voted for laying before the housesuch papers as might discover the horrible*con-spiracy; for the removal of popish recusants fromLondon; for administering every where the oathsof allegiance and supremacy; for denying accessat court to all unknown or suspicious persons ; andfor appointing the trained bands of London andWestminster to be in readiness. The lords Powis,Stafford, A run del , Peters, and Bella sis werecommitted to the Tower, and were soon afterimpeached for high treason. And both houses,after hearing Oates’s evidence , voted, “ That“ the lords and commons are of opinion , that" there hath been, and still is, a damnable and" hellish plot, contrived and carried on by the“ popish recusants, for assassinating the king, for

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