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A89976	An exact abridgment of all the trials (not omitting any material passage therein) which have been published since the year 1678 relating to the popish, and pretended Protestant-plots in the reigns of King Charles the 2d, and King James the 2d.	P. N.	1690 (1690)	Wing N64A; ESTC R229644	248,177	499

the quarterly Sessions several came to them to ask News and they told of Mr. Arnold's Hurt and were as sorry for it as any Persons could be and confess'd it a very ill thing That he supposed Mr. Arnold must needs be acquainted with Giles he having been head-Constable and always a Protestant Then John Jones the Cutler's Apprentice swore That his Master asking the Prisoner Mr. Giles Have you been in some Battel Have you been fighting with the Devil No said he for I never met with Arnold And that he did not hear his Wife bid him hold his Tongue Then John Howel Mr. William Richmond's Man deposed That he came to Town with Giles that Day about 12 and that he heard him call to his Master about 11 or 12 a Clock that Night Then Ann Beron being sworn she deposed That Giles was in her Company most part of that Day and that she was at Dinner with him and till 9 a Clock at Night when she left him in the Kitching and went to Bed Elizabeth Crook the Maid of the Inn she swore she made his Bed about 10 and before 11 asked him if she should take away his Candle He bid her lock the Door and he would put out his Candle but she went away and did not and left the Candle She denied that Mr. Richmond came to her or that she saw him till he refresh'd her Memory by remembring her how he courted her to make himself merry which then she acknowledged much to the credit of Mr. Richmond's Testimony and disparagement of her own Then one Edward James did swear That he drank with Giles at the King's-Arms in St. Martin's-Lane from 9 to 12 at Night and then left him in the Kitchen the same Night the Maid had sworn otherwise just before him Then Robin Gibbon John Chadwick Eliz. Peter Powel and Roger How all swore they saw him about 9 but that was not material To these Witnesses the King's Counsel thought it needless to answer they being all either frivolous or contradictory Therefore Sir George Jefferies the Recorder summ'd up the Evidence and directed the Jury who withdrew and after about half an hours debate brought the Prisoner in Guilty Which done the Court adjourn'd till the Saturday following when the Recorder passed the Sentence of the Court upon him which was To stand from 12 to one in the Pillory one day at the place where the Fact was committed another day over against Greys-Inn in Holborn and another at the May-pole in the Strand with a Paper on his Hat signifying his Offence and then to pay to the King 500 l. and be committed in Execution till paid and then to find Sureties for his Good-Behaviour during Life The Trial of Elizabeth Cellier at the Old-Baily on Saturday Sept. 11 1680. THen and there the Defendant appeared upon an Information for Writing Printing and Publishing a scandalous Libel called Malice defeated c. to which she had pleaded Not Guilty The Jury were John Ainger Richard Boys John Stephens Thomas Phelps Gilbert Vrwin Edward Allanson Richard Living John Coggs Henry Hodgsden John Barnard Edward Low and James Southern To whom the Information being read Robert Dormer Esq opened the same and then Mr. John Penny depos'd that he bought that Book the Libel being shewn him of Mrs. Cellier who own'd it for hers and said she could if there were occasion put a great deal more in Mr. William Downing deposed that he printed part of that Book by her direction to fol. 22. and then the Messenger found it and some body else printed the rest Mr. Robert Stephens depos'd that he saw the Book a printing at Mr. Downings and heard Mrs. Cellier own it for hers and say that she kept a Man in the House to write it and she dictated to him and that he saw her sell several of them Then Mr. Matthias Fowler deposed that he bought two of them Books of Mrs. Cellier for 4 s. hearing that his Name was mention'd therein tho very falsly as he had made Oath before the Lord Mayor all that he knew being only this That on the Tuesday seven-night after the Murder of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey one Corral a Coachman waiting to carry some Gentlemen that were in his House begg'd a Pipe of Tobacco of his Wife in the Bar Ay said she thou lookst like an honest Fellow and I believe thou hast no hand in the Plot a casual word that was passant at that time thereupon he began to tell her how he had escaped that danger for that four met him against St. Clemens Church-wall and swore he should stand and do as they would have him when he saw Sir Edm. Godfrey's Body in a Sedan whom he sham'd upon and told them he could not carry him for that the Axle-Tree of his Coach was broke That this he over-heard and came out which the Fellow repeated over again to him but then perceiving he had been too lavish in his Discourse he run out in haste pretending to see whether the Seats of his Coach were not stolen out whom he followed and found him driving away tho he had left his Whip behind He took the number of his Coach which the next day giving to Captain Richardson he secured the Man and he was brought with him to Wallingford-house and examin'd by the Duke of Buckingham the Earl of Shaftsbury the Marquess of Winchester two other Lords and Major Wildman where he confessed the whole matter that he said so at his House but would have sham'd it off himself that he only heard it from others and being nothing could be got out of him he was reordered to Newgate where he continued several Months but that he never was with him there as the Libel charged him Whereupon the Libel was then produced and the several Clauses recited in the Indictment were read which were to this purpose It was intituled Malice defeated or a brief Relation of the Accusation and Deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier wherein her Proceedings both before and during her Confinement are particularly related and the Mystery of the Meal-Tub fully discovered together with an Abstract of her Arraignment and Trial. Written by her self for the Satisfaction of all Lovers of undisguised Truth In the Book she gives an Account how she turn'd from Protestanism to Popery upon the occasion of King Charles I. Murther ascribing the Preservation of King Charles II. at Worcester wholly to the Papists and from her Observation of the chiefest Sticklers for the Plot being those or the Sons of those that acted the principal Parts in the last Tragedy she doubted of its Truth and therefore thought it her Duty through all sorts of hazards to relieve the poor imprisoned Catholicks which she had done some Months before ever she saw the Countess of Powis c. That on Thursday Jan. 9 1678 she being in Newgate with five Women of which three were Protestants about four in the Afternoon they all heard terrible Groans and Squeeks which came out

the third at Charing-cross and in every place some Parcels of her Books to be burnt by the Common Hangman before her Face and a Paper of the cause to be upon the Pillory and she to find Sureties for her good Behaviour during Life The Trials of Thomas Thwing and Mary Pressicks at the Assizes at York on Thursday July the 29th 1680. THen and there the Prisoners appeared having been arraigned and pleaded Not Guilty to an Indictment of High-Treason for conspiring the Death of the King and Subversion of the Government The Jury after 25 challenged by Thwing sworn were Sir George Cook Bar. Thomas Worsley Esq William Caley Esq Roger Lee Gent. John Dixon Gent. George Wray Gent. Henry Pinckney Gent. John Blackston Gent. William Hardcastle Gent. Nicholas Stone Gent. George VVesterby Gent. Charles Tucker Gent. To these the Indictment was read and afterwards opened and the Treasons therein aggravated by the King's Counsel Then Mr. Robert Bolron being sworn deposed that in 1674. he came to live with Sir Thomas Gascoyne and was Steward of his Colepits and in 1675. he turned Papist and about January 1676. Mr. Thwing Father Rushton and several others came to his House at Shippon and did there examine him how he stood affected to the Roman Catholick Religion and whether he was resolved to venture his Life and Estate in it if there were any occasion to which he agreed and resoved to obey his Ghostly Father in all things and Father Rushton his Confessor gave him the Oath of Secresy That in 1677. there was a Consult at Barnborow-Hall Sir Thomas Gascoyne's House in the old Dining-Room Sir Miles Stapleton Sir Thomas Gascoyne the Lady Tempest Thwing Rushton and others being present wherein it was agreed that the King should be killed and Thwing said that if they mist this opportunity of doing it they should never have the like again and the effecting of it would be very beneficial to the Church of Rome And in hopes this would succeed they agreed they would erect a Nunnery at Dolebank but their real Intention was to have it at Heworth within a Mile of York after the King was killed and to avoid Suspicion the Lady Tempest promised them Broughton for the present and Thwing was to be Confessor of the Nunnery for the present That he paid 10 l. to Rushton in Thwing's presence towards killing the King and saw a List in Rushton and Thwing's Hands of Money raised for that purpose He paid 5 l. also to have his Soul prayed for And Thwing told him afterwards that in Yorkshire Lancashire and Derbyshire 30000 l. was raised for the killing of the King and that the List was sent beyond Sea Against Mrs. Pressicks he deposed That in 1678. she told him that she being in London did hear a Woman cry after her Stop the Papist stop the Plotter but she got away and afterwards durst not appear publickly That discoursing with her about the Plot she said Father Harcourt was her Confessor and first engaged her in it and that Pickering told her he was to have killed the King saying she was sorry he did not and that Oates and Bedloe were two Rogues had it not been for them the Plot had not been discovered Telling him the Gun which was to have shot the King was found with Pickering which she believed was the cause of his Death And that she said the King was an Asse and not fit to govern that what Mony the Parliament gave him he spent on Whores and Concubines Then Mr. Lawrence Mowbray deposed That about Michaelmas 1676. there was an Assembly of divers Priests in Rushton's Chamber at Barnborow-hall whereat he was admitted he being one that waited upon Rushton at the Altar and having took the Oath of Secrecy from him and Thwing was there he and Rushton manag'd the Conference wherein they declared the King was an Heretick and excommunicated by the Pope and that he should be killed because he had broke his Promise made to the Jesuits when he was beyond Sea and that it was not only lawful but meritorious to kill him That there was a List of those engaged in the design That he did not accuse Mr. Thwing till his 2d Examination before Justice VVarcup and that he knew nothing against Mrs. Pressicks Then Mrs. Bolron deposed the same against Mrs. Pressicks of what she had said at Mr. Bolron's House as before adding that she said there would never be quiet in England till the Papists had got the upper hand and not left a Protestant and she hoped an Army of Catholicks would be raised to set up Popery Mrs. Bolron jun. deposed the same being then also present One John Hutchinson was present too and deposed the same adding that she said likewise that we should never be quiet till the D. of York was made King Then Thwing urged in his defence that all this was only out of Malice to Sir Thomas Gascoyne's Family to which he was related and called Witnesses Nathaniel VVilson said that about last Michaelmas Mr. Bolron asked him if he could tell any thing of Father Rushton and he told him no then he bid him keep his Secrets and he would give him more than he could earn in seven Years but that unless he could shed the Blood of some of them he should get nothing Then Mr. Lowther the Justice who took Mr. Bolron's Examination the 24th or 25th of June 1679. testified that he did not then mention Thwing Obediah Moor said that about last Candlemas was 12 Months Mr. Bolron told him that Sir Tho. Gascoyne nor none of his Family were concerned in the Plot and that he believed there was no Plot. But in August after he told him he had but equivocated with him in what he said before and that there was a real Plot and if he had sworn a thousand Lies he could have been forgiven them Stephen Tompson testified that Bolron was arrested by Sir Tho. Gascoyne for Debt to whom he was bound with him When the Plot came out he asked Bolron if Sir Thomas was concerned he said no he was as innocent as the Child unborn but afterwards he said if Sir Thomas did sue him he would do him a greater Mischief and that while he intreated Sir Thomas's Forbearance for three Weeks Bolron came up to London and swore Treason against him and as to Mrs. Pressicks Bolron's Grandmother told him she could say nothing against her but Bolron said she must say so and so Then Zachary Thorpe testified that he meeting Bolron in Long-Acre before the last Assizes he told him Sir Tho. Gascoyne was cleared but swore the Jury were Rogues And that he was now going down to the Assizes at York against the Lady Tempest and swore he would ruin them if one thing would not do another should do it And that Bolron would have had him been evidence against Shipton last Assizes But Mr. Justice Dolben knowing this Witness thought his Testimony very improbable William Hardwick