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A63173	The tryal of Edward Coleman, Gent. for conspiring the death of the King, and the subversion of the government of England and the Protestant religion who upon full evidence was found guilty of high treason, and received sentence accordingly, on Thursday, November the 28th, 1678.	Coleman, Edward, d. 1678, defendant.; England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.	1678 (1678)	Wing T2185; ESTC R4486	80,328	98

you went to Mr. Coleman whether you seized his Papers and what Papers you saw and how you disposed of them after they were seiz'd Mr. Bradly The 29th of September being Sunday Evening at Six of the Clock I received a Warrant from the Council-Board to apprehend Mr. Coleman and to seize his Papers and to bring them to the Council-board He being not at home I spoke with his Wife and told her I came to search her House I had a Warrant so to do She told me I was welcom I dedesir'd her to send for her Husband I found in several parts of the House a great many Papers I put them up in several Bags I found some in a private corner in a Deal Box. L. Ch. Just What kind of Corner Mr. Bradly In Mr. Coleman's Chamber not in his own Study but in another place behind the Chimney the Box was tack'd together with a Nail I lifted it up and saw they were Letters I put it down again as it was and gave it into the custody of one that was with me to look to it Then I came to his own Study where his ' Scritore was and put up all I could find in several Baggs and Sealed them and brought them to the Council-chamber Attorn Gen. Did you put up any other Papers among them then what you found at Mr. Coleman's House Mr. Bradly I did not upon my Oath I had them all at Mr. Coleman's House Attorn General Did you bring them all to the Clerks of the Council Mr. Bradly Yes Before I came out I tyed them all up and sealed them with my own Seal and was constantly with them At. Gen. Now we will give your Lordship an account how these things were received that were there found Sir Robert Southwell look upon the large Letter and tell my Lord and the Jury whether that were among the Papers brought by this Messenger Sir Robert Southwel My Lord I did not see this Letter in several days after the papers brought me from Bradly when he came in with Three great Baggs and a Box of Letters on Sunday night Said I which are Mr. Coleman's principal papers Said he those that are in the large speckled cloath Bagg for these we took first in the Scritore These I took and meddled not with the other I presume other Clerks of the Council can give a particular account where this paper was found At. Gen. Sir Thomas Doleman look upon the Letter whether you can remember any thing of it Sir Th. Doleman I remember I found it in a Deal Box among Mr. Coleman's papers those that Bradly brought Court That 's plain enough At. Gen. That we may not often prove what we shall often make use of I would prove it fully once for all that all these papers were of his Hand-writing This we can prove by two sorts of Evidences his own Confession and the Witness of Two persons one that was his Servant and th' other a Sub-Secretary that did write very many things for him Mr. Boatman look upon these papers Tell my Lord and the Jury whose Hand it is Are you acquainted with Mr. Coleman's Hand What relation had you to him Boatman I was his Gentleman that waited on him in his Chamber Five Years This is very like his Hand Lord Ch. Just Do you believe it is his hand Boatman I believe it is Lord Ch. Just Little proof will serve the turn because they were taken in his possession At. Gen. I desire to prove it fully look upon all the Papers turn all the Leaves see if they be not all one hand and whether you believe all to be Mr. Coleman's hand Writing or not Boatman I believe it to be all his hand Lord Ch. Just Do you know when the last Packet of Letters came up that were sent to Mr. Coleman from beyond the Seas Boatman Two or three dayes after he was taken Prisoner Lord Ch. Just Do you know where they are bestowed Did you receive Monsieur Le Chese's Letters for Mr. Coleman Boatman Yes Lord Ch. Just Did you ever Write any for him to Le Chese Boatman No. At. Gen. Inform the Court whether he kept any Book to make Entry of Letters he sent or received Boatman Yes there was a large Book my Master did enter his Letters in and his News At. Gen. What is become of that Book Boatman I know not At. Gen. When did you see that Book last upon your Oath Boatman On Saturday At. Gen. How long before he was sent to Prison Boat Two days because the next day was Sunday which he did not make use of it on Monday my Master was in Prison and I did not mind the Book L. Ch. Just Were there any Entries of Letters in that Book within Two Years last past Boatman I cannot be positive At. Gen. Did he not usually write and receive Letters from beyond Sea Till that time had he not Negotiation as usually Boatman He had usually News every Post from beyond the Seas Prisoner There 's Letters from the Hague Brussels France and Rome they are all with the Council which were all the Letters I received Att. Gen. We have another Witness Cattaway are you acquainted with Coleman's Hand-writing Do you believe it to be his Hand-writing Witness I believe it is they are his Hand-writing Att. Gen. It will appear if there were no other proof in this Cause his own papers are as good as an hundred Witnesses to condemn him Therefore I desire to prove them fully by his own Confession Sir Phil. Lloyd a Witness These are the Papers I received from Sir Thomas Doleman I found them as he saith in a Deal Box Among his Papers I found this Letter Mr. Coleman hath owned this was his Hand-writing it 's all one Letter Att. Gen. 'T is all the same Hand and he acknowledged it to be his Mr. Recorder I desire Mr. Astrey may read it so that the Jury may hear it Mr. Astrey Clerk of the Crown reads the Letter The 29th of September 1675. It is subscribed thus Your most humble and most obedient Servant but no name Mr. COLEMANS Long Letter SInce Father St. German has been so kind to me as to recommend me to your Reverence so advantagiously as to encourage you to accept of my Correspondency I will own to him that he has done me a Favour without Consulting me greater than I could have been capable of if he had advised with me because I could not then have had the Confidence to have permitted him to ask it on my behalf And I am so sensible of the Honour you are pleased to do me that though I cannot deserve it yet to shew at least the sense I have of it I will deal as freely and openly with you this first time as if I had had the honour of your Acquaintance all my life and shall make no Apology for so doing but only tell you that I know your Character perfectly well though I am not so happy

to hold by to deceive you so that now you may look upon it there is nothing will save you for you will assuredly dy-as now you live and that very suddenly In which I having discharged my Conscience to you as a Christian I will now proceed to pronounce Sentence against you and do my duty as a Judge You shall return to Prison from thence be drawn to the place of Execution where you shall be hanged by the Neck and be cut down alive your bowels burnt before your face and your Quarters sever'd and your Body disposed of as the King thinks fit and so the Lord have mercy upon your Soul Coleman My Lord I humbly thank your Lordship and I do admire your Charity that you would be pleased to give me this admirable Councel and I will follow it as well as I can and I beg your Lordship to hear me what I am going to say your Lordship most Christian like hath observed wisely that Confession is extreamly necessary to a dying man and I do so too but that Confession your Lordship I suppose means is of a guilty evil Conscience in any of these points that I am condemn'd for Of maliciously contriving c. if I thought I had any such guilt I should assuredly think my self damn'd now I am going out of the world by concealing them in spite of all Pardons or Indulgencies or any act that the Pope or the Church of Rome could do for me as I believe any one Article of Faith Therefore pray hear the words of a dying man I have made a Resolution I thank God not to tell a lie no not a single lie not to save my life I hope God will not so far leave me as to let me do it and I do renounce all manner of mercy that God can sh●w me if I have not told the House of Commons or offer'd it to the House of Commons all that I know in my whole heart toward this business and I never in all my life either made any proposition or received any proposition or knew or heard directly or indirectly of any proposition towards the supplanting or invading the Kings Life Crown or Dignity or to make any Invasion or Disturbance to introduce any New Government or to bring in Popery by any Violence or Force in the world if I have my Lord been mistaken in my method as I will not say but I might have been for if two men differ one must be mistaken therefore possibly I might be of an Opinion that Popery might come in if Liberty of Conscience had been granted and perhaps all Christians are bound to wish all People of that Religion that they profess themselves if they are in earnest I will not dispute those ills that your Lordship may imagine to be in the Church of Rome if I thought there was any in them I would be sure to be none of it I have no design my Lord at all in Religion but to be Saved and I had no manner of Invitation to invite me to the Church of Rome no not one but to be Saved if I am out of the way I am out of the way as to the next world as well as this I have nothing but a sincere Conscience and I desire to follow it as I ought I do confess I am guilty of many Crimes and I am afraid all of us are guilty in some measure of some failings and infirmities but in matters of this Nature that I now stand condemn'd for though I do not at all complain of the Court for I do confess I have had all the fair play imaginable and I have nothing at all to say against it but I say as to any one act of mine so far as acts require Intention to make them acts as all humane Acts do I am as Innocent of any Crime that I now stand charg'd as guilty of as when I was first born L. C. J. That is not possible Coleman With submission I do not say Innocent as to any Crime in going against any Act of Parliament then it is a Crime to hear Mass or to do any Act that they prohibit but for Intending and Endeavouring to bring in that Religion by the Aid and Assistance of the King of France I never intended nor meant by that Aid and Assistance any Force in the world but such Aids and Assistances as might procure us Liberty of Conscience My Lord if in what I have said no body believes me I must be content if any do believe me then I have wip'd off those scandalous Thoughts and abominable Crimes that c. and then I have paid a little Debt to Truth L. C. J. One word more and I have done I am sorry Mr. Coleman that I have not Charity enough to believe the words of a dying man for I will tell you what sticks with me very much I cannot be perswaded and no body can but that your Correspondence and Negotiations did continue longer than the Letters that we have found that is after 1675. Now if you had come and shown us your Books and Letters which would have spoke for themselves I should have thought then that you had dealt plainly and sincerely and it would have been a mighty Motive to have believed the rest for certainly your Correspondence held even to the time of your apprehension and you have not discovered so much as one Paper but what was found unknown to you and against your will Coleman Upon the words of a dying man and upon the expectation I have of Salvation I tell your Lordship that there is not a Book nor Paper in the World that I have laid aside voluntary L. C. J. No perhaps you have burnt them Coleman Not by the Living God L. C. J. I hope Mr. Coleman you will not say no manner of way Coleman For my Correspondence these two last years past I have given an account of every Letter but those that were common Letters and those Books that were in my House what became of them I know not they were common Letters that I use to write every day a Common Journal what past at home and abroad my men they writ e'm out of that Book L. C. J. What became of those Letters Coleman I had no Letters about this business but what I have declared to the House of Commons That is Letters from St. Germans which I owned to the House of Commons and I had no methodical Correspondence and I never valued them nor regarded them but as they came I destroyed them L. C. J. I remember the last Letter that is given in evidence against you discovers what mighty hopes there was that the time was now come wherein that pestilent Heresie that hath domineer'd in this Northern part of the World should be Extirpated and that there never was greater hopes of it since OUR Queen Maries Reign Pray Mr. Coleman was that the concluding Letter in this affair Coleman Give me leave to say it upon my dying I have not one Letter c. L. C. J. What though you burnt your Letters you may recollect the Contents Coleman I had none since L. C. J. Between God and your Conscience be it I have other apprehensions and you deserve your Sentence vpon you for your offences that visibly appear out of your own Papers that you have not and cannot deny Coleman I am satisfied But seeing my time is but short may I not be permitted to have some immediate Friends and my poor Wife to have her freedom to speak with me and stay with me that little time that I have that I might speak something to her in order to her living and my dying L. C. J. You say well and it is a hard Case to deny it but I tell you what hardens my heart the Insolencies of your Party the Roman Catholicks I mean that they every day offer which is indeed a proof of their Plot that they are so bold and Impudent and such secret Murders Committed by them as would harden any mans heart to do the Common favours of Justice and Charity that to mankind is usually done they are so bold and insolent that I think it is not to be endured in a Protestant Kingdom but for my own parlicular I think it is a very hard thing for to deny a man the Company of his Wife and his Friends so it be done with Caution and Prudence Remember that the Plot is on foot and I do not know what Arts the Priests have and what Tricks they use and therefore have a care that no Papers nor any such thing be sent from him Coleman I do not design it I am sure L. C. J. But for the Company of his Wife and his near Friends or any thing in that kind that may be for his Eternal good and as much for his present satisfaction that he can receive now in the condition that be is in let him have it but do it with Care and Caution Cap. Richardson What for them to be private alone L. C. J. His Wife only she God forbid else Nor shall you not be deny'd any Protestant Minister Coleman But shall not my Cosin Coleman have Liberty to come to me L. C. J. Yes with Mr. Richardson Col. Or his Servant Because it is a great Trouble for him to attend always L. C. J. If it be his Servant or any he shall appoint 't is all one Mr. Richardsson use him as Reasonably as may be considering the Condition he is in Court Have a care of your Prisoner On Tuesday the Third of December following being the Day of his Execution Mr. Coleman was Drawn on a Sledge from Newgate to Tyburn and being come thither he declared That he had been a Roman Catholick for many years and that he thanked God he died in that Religion And he said he did not think that Religion at all prejudicial to the King and Government The Sheriff told him if he had any thing to say by way of Confession or Con●●●●ion he mig●● proceed otherwise it was not Seasonable for him to go 〈…〉 Expressions And being asked if he knew any thing of the 〈…〉 of Sir Edmondbury Godfry he declared upon the 〈…〉 he knew not any thing of it for that he was 〈…〉 Then after some private Prayers and Ejaculations to 〈…〉 ●he Sentence was Executed he was hanged by the Neck Cut 〈◊〉 alive his Bowels burnt and himself 〈◊〉 FINIS

did he intend to bring in Popery Why his own Letters plainly convict him of one step towards it in endeavouring with Foreign powers to bring in that Religion and to Subvert ours And for the other way of doing it by killing the King I leave it to you whether there were any more probable way than that indeed to do it And could he think that the French King would not have thought himself cozened of his Money if he had not given him hopes that he would use the most probable Methods that he could to effect his Design Therefore there must be more in it for he that was so earnest for that Religion would not have stuck at any Violence to bring it in he would not have stuck at blood For we know their Doctrines and their Practises and we know well with what zeal the Priests push them forward to venture their own Lives and to take away other mens that differ from them to bring in their Religion and to set up themselves For indeed in the Kingdoms and Countries where Popery reigns the Priests have Dominion over mens Consciences and power over their purses And they use all Arts imaginable of making Proselites and take special Care that those in their Communion shall know no more than the Priests shall give them leave to understand And for this Reason they prohibit the use of all Books without their License This blind Obedience begets blind Ignorance and this is a great subtilty of theirs to keep them in it that they may perfectly submit to them What cannot they Command when they have made others slaves in their understandings and that they must know no more then what they give them leave to know But in England it is not so Mr. Coleman and therein you would have found a great disappointment For if Liberty of Conscience had been tollerated here That the Consequence of it would have been Popery I deny Nothing is more unlikely for though in the short Reign of Queen Mary Popery came in for some time which was but for a little time and then the people were not so well grounded in the Protestant Religion nor in the principles of it But now they are Insomuch that scarce a Cobler but is able to baffle any Roman Priest that ever I saw or met with And Thanks be to God we have a Preaching Ministry and the free use of the Scriptures allowed amongst us which they are not permitted to have And after this I wonder that a man who hath been bred up in the Protestant Religion as I have Reason to believe that you Mr. Coleman have been for if I am not misinformed your Father was a Minister in Suffolk For such a one to depart from it is an Evidence against you to prove the Indictment I must make a Difference between Us and Those who have been always educated that way and so are under the prepossession of their Education which is a difficult thing to be overcome And I do assure you there are but two things that I know of can make one do it Interest or gross Ignorance No man of understanding but for By-ends would have left his Religion to be a Papist And for you Mr. Coleman who are a man of Reason and Subtilty I must tell you to bring this to your self upon this account that it could not be Conscience I cannot think it to be Conscience Your Pention was your Conscience and your Secretaries place your Bait. For such men I say as have been bred up in the Protestant Religion and left it I can hardly presume that they do it out of Conscience unless they do it upon a mighty search not leaning upon their own understanding and abilities nor hearing of one side alone Conscience is a tender thing Conscience will tremble when it leaves the Religion it has been bred in and its sincerity is shown by being fearful least it should be in the wrong No man may pretend to Conscience truly that takes not all Courses imaginable to know the Right before he lets his Religion slip from him Have we so soon forgot our Reverence to the late King and the pious advice he left us A King that was truly A DEFENDER of the FAITH not onely by his Title but by his Abilities and Writings A King who understood the Protestant Religion so well that he was able to defend it against any of the Cardinals of Rome And when he knew it so throughly and died so eminently for it I will leave this Characteristical Note That whosoever after that departs from His Judgment had need have a very good one of his own to bear him out I do acknowledge Many of the Popish Priests formerly were learned men and may be so still beyond the Seas but I could never yet meet with any here that had other Learning or Ability but Artificial onely to delude weak Women and weaker Men. They have indeed ways of Conversion and Conviction by Enlightning our Understandings with a Faggot and by the powerful and irresistable Arguments of a Dagger But there are such wicked Soloecisms in their Religion that they seem to have left them neither Natural Sense nor Natural Conscience Not Natural Sense by their Absurdity in so an unreasonable a belief as of the Wine turned into Blood Not Natural Conscience by their Cruelty who make the Protestants Blood as Wine and these Priests thirst after it Tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum Mr. Coleman in one of his Letters speaks of rooting out our Religion and our Party And he is in the Right for they can never root out the Protestant Religion but they must kill the Protestants But let him and them know if ever they shall endeavour to bring Popery in by destroying of the King they shall find that the Papists will thereby bring destruction upon themselves so that not a man of them would escape Ne Catulus quidem relinquendus Our Execution shall be as quick as their Gunpowder but more effectual And so Gentlemen I shall leave it to you to consider what his Letters prove him guilty of directly and what by Consequence What he plainly would have done and then how he would have done it And whether you think his Fiery Zeal had so much Cold Blood in it as to spare any others For the other part of the Evidence which is by the Testimony of the present Witnesses You have heard them I will not detain you longer now the day is going out Mr. J. Jones You must Find the Prisoner Guilty or bring in two Persons Perjured L. C. J. Gentlemen If your Consultation shall be long then you must lie by it all night and We 'l take your Verdict to Morrow Morning If it will not be long I am content to stay a while Jury My Lord We shall be short J. Wyld We do not speak to you to make more haste or less but to take a full Consultation and your own time There is the Death of