Eight thousand Catholics had agreed to take arms in Scotland.

Ormond was to be murdered by four Jesuits; a general massacre of the Irish Protestants was concerted; and forty thousand black bills were already provided for that purpose.

Coleman had remitted two hundred thousand pounds to promote the rebellion in Ireland; and the French king was to land a great army in that island.
Poole, who wrote the Synopsis, was particularly marked out for assassination; as was also Dr.Stillingfleet, a controversial writer against the Papists.

Burnet tells us, that Oates paid him the same compliment.

After all this havoc, the crown was to be offered to the duke, but on the following conditions: that he receive it as a gift from the pope; that he confirm all the papal commissions for offices and employments; that he ratify all past transactions, by pardoning the incendiaries, and the murderers of his brother and of the people; and that he consent to the utter extirpation of the Protestant religion.