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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55630	L'Estrange a papist proved by the depositions upon oath of Miles Prance, Mr. Lawr. Mowbray, Mrs. Jane Curtis, Mr. Richard Fletcher, Mr. Joseph Bennet : taken by the Right Honourable the Earl of Essex, Earl of Clarendon, and Earl of Craven : with several animadversions upon the said depositions, in answer to Mr. L'Estrange's late pamphlets ... / by Miles Prance.	Prance, Miles, fl. 1678-1689.	1681 (1681)	Wing P3174; ESTC R10292	17,506	36

Febr. 8th 1681. I Do appoint Richard Baldwin and no other Person to Print these Depositions and Animadversions upon Roger L' Estrange Esq MILES PRANCE L'Estrange A PAPIST Proved by the DEPOSITIONS UPON OATH OF MILES PRANCE Mr. LAWR MOWBRAY Mrs. JANE CURTIS Mr. RICHARD FLETCHER Mr. JOSEPH BENNET Taken by the Right Honourable the Earl of Essex Earl of Clarendon and Earl of Craven With several Animadversions upon the said Depositions in Answer to Mr. L' Estrange's late Pamphlets Published for the satisfaction of all true Protestants and to Vindicate the Kings Evidence in General from his Aspersions as well as the Author in Perticular By MILES PRANCE LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin in Ball-Court in the Old-Baily MDCLXXXI DEPOSITIONS AGAINST Roger L' Strange ESQVIRE Middlesex ss The Information of Miles Prance taken upon Oath the 25th of October 1680. Before the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon and the Earl of Craven two of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the said County THIS Deponent saith that about three years since he saw Mr. Roger L' Strange three or four times Kneeling at Mass in the Queens Chappel MILES PRANCE This may be thought to be one cause of Mr. L' STRANGE'S blessing the world with so many Dialogues perticularly that lately come forth between PHILO L' STRANGE and PRAGMATICVS wherein he endeavours to clear himself from being either Papist or Jesuit by reflecting against the King's Evidence and by picking out the most convenient Opportunities and Occasions that he can to render them contemptible A way so improbable to gain beleif that they who before never thought him such would now adjudge him rather so to be than acquit him for the Stir he keeps in his Defence 'T is not my business or Profession to be Mr. L' STRANGE's Confessor neither do I think it to be a thing of so much moment to the Kingdom whether Mr. L' STTRANGE be a Papist or no. Nor do I believe every one that comes into a Popish Chappel and kneels in complaisance to satisfie his Curiosity at a Mass to be a Papist However I cannot but deem my self obliged having been so sharply handled by ZECHIEL and EPHRAIM in vindication of my self to shew the world that I am no such dealer in Affidavits as he would make it beleive I am For the Extent of my Affidavit is easie to be discerned I only made Oath of his being at such a place at such times For which my Affidavit is not alone here is one more Middles ss The Information of Lawrence Mowbray taken upon Oath the 25th of October 1680. Before the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon and the Earl of Craven two of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the said County THis Deponent saith that about the first or second Sunday in June 77. An acquaintance of one Anderson which Anderson was Servant to Mr. Allabon in Greys-Inn being with him in the Queens Chappel saluted immediately after Mass a Person whom he told this Deponent was Mr. L' Strange who Licenc'd Bookes This Deponent saith that he hath once since seen the said Mr. L' Strange at Mass in the Queens Chappel and saw him to be the same man he formerly saw there Hitherto there is nothing Sworn but that he was seen at Mass concerning which I have given my sence already that all that went to the Queens Chappel out of Curiosity were not presently to be accompted Papists There must be something else then to make men Judges what other Inducements carry'd him thither or whether any other Inducements or no To which purpose I have inserted these Informations that follow Middles ss The Examination of Jane Curtiss taken Before the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon the Earl of Essex and the Earl of Craven his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the said County of Middlesex October 27. 1680. THis Examinant saith that about the middle or toward the Latter end of the Month of June Last Mr. L' Strange came to her house her Husband being out of Town and there accus'd her and her Husband for Printing and Publishing divers bookes which he said were very dangerous against the Government naming several Pamphlets which she knew nothing of and though she truely did deny her self concern'd in any such thing yet he persisted that he would prove it and proceeded to threaten that it lay in his power to ruin her and her Husband and then told her of his great Interest at Court and that if she would tell him who set her on to publish such books he would take her off from all trouble and promised to do great things for her Husband But she denying that she was ever concerned in such practices or had ever been urg'd or instigated thereunto by any he said that was false and that she had been influenc'd and staid up by ill men and that he beleived it was Oates and his Gang and said he you know what some of them speaking of Oates and those he call'd his Gang are come to already and I do not question but I shall see them all hanged ere long And he refused to Licence several books wherein there was any thing against the Papists more particularly those two bookes she shewed your Lordships which he Swore by his Maker he would not Licence for five hundred pounds which books upon the first sight were Licens'd by the Lord Bishop of London Westmin Libert ss The Information of Joseph Bennet of St. Giles's in the fields Stationer taken upon Oath before the Lords Committees for examination of matters relating to the late horrid Plot Sworn before the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the said City this 30th of Octob. 1680. WHO saith that he did become bayl and enter'd into Bond before one of the Clerks of the Council for one Captain Eli that he should appear the first day of this Term at the Kings Bench barr which said Captain Eli was then a stranger to him but Roger L' Strange Esq one of His Majesties Justices of the Peace being at Mr. Hintons the Apothecaries near this Informants House sent for this Informant and then told him Captain Eli was a friend of his and an honest man and therefore he the said Justice did request this Informant to become Bail for the said Captain Eli and the said L' Strange did then promise this Informant to give him security to save him harmeless and pretended he would then have done it had he not been in great hast And the said Mr. L' Strange did tell this Informant he had sent for another person to bail the said Captain Eli but he not being to be found he therefore sent for this Informant and said he would take it as a great kindness from this Informant The Information of Richard Fletcher of St. Vedast alias Foster London Phisician taken as before WHO saith that about three years agoe he met Roger