A Collection of the substance of several speeches and debates made in the honourable House of Commons, relating to the horrid Popish Plot, upon occasion of the bill for disabling James Duke of York from inheriting the imperial crown of this realm.

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An important pamphlet in the Roger L’Estrange canon. Under accusations of being a ‘Papist’ by Titus Oates enablers, Prance and Mowbray,  L’Estrange was summoned before the House of lords three times in the autumn of 1680, and was finally issued a warrant against him on October 30, 1680. By then he was long gone having fled to Holland temporarily.

That L’Estrange’s flight to Holland passed for cowardice, and indeed for a confession of guilt, is revealed in an indigant speech by the Whig peer John Lovelace in ‘A Collection of the substance of several speeches and debates….To which is prefixt a speech of the noble Lord L— against Roger L’Estrange, in the House of Peers. 1681.

The Lord L’s speech was the lead speech in ‘A Collection of Speeches.’

“I would not have so much as a Popish Man nor a Popish Woman to remain here, nor so much as a Popish Dog, or a Popish Bitch, no not so much as a Popish Cat that should pur or mew about the King. We are in a Labyrinth of Evils, and must carefully endeavor to get out of them; and the greatest danger of all amongst us are, our Conniving Protestants, who notwithstanding the many Evidences of the Plot, have been industrious to revile the Kings Witnesses; and such a one is Roger L’Estrange, who now dis-appears, being one of the greatest villains upon the Earth, a Rogue beyond my skill to delineate, has been the bugbear to the Protestant religion, and traduced the King and Kingdoms Evidences by his notorious scribling writings…”

This and other pamphlets would force L’Estrange to reply in “L’Estrange No Papist”.