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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42804	A letter from St. Omars in farther confirmation of the truth of the Popish Plot upon a consideration of divers circumstances in the trials together with several new matters relating to a farther discovery thereof, and particularly, a letter from Mr. Jennison proving Mr. Ireland to have been in London the 19th of August, contrary to the Staffordshire witnesses and what the five Jesuits (lately executed) insisted upon at their trials : with remarks upon the said letter.	D. G.; Jenison, Robert, 1648-1688. Letter form Mr. Jenison ... touching Mr. Ireland's being in London in August 1678.	1679 (1679)	Wing G8; ESTC R11425	51,290	25

there were twelve men of one mind that thought them guilty and I am confident that there are twelve thousand of the same opinion and that all those who say to the contrary must speak it out of Ignorance or Prejudice As to the proofs against Mr. Langhorn you will find them very home and positive and first pag. 6. and 7. Mr. Dugdale is brought to prove the Plot in general which he again swears to as to their several Consultations and design of murthering the King and massacring the Protestants and bringing in of Popery to which also Mr. Prance concurs Then as to the particular Charge against Mr. Langhorn Dr. Oates swears pag. 10. that he carried several Letters from Mr. Langhorn to persons beyond the Seas in one of which he saw under his own hand That now they had a fair opportunity to begin and give the blow with many other expressions plain enough concerning the Plot and these he saw signed Richard Langhorn and then he farther swears that he had Orders from the Provincial to give Mr. Langhorn an account of the Resolutions and passages that were form'd and done at this Consult of the twenty fourth of April and that he gave him an account of the same and of their Resolution of killing the King and that the said Langhorn lift up his hands and eyes and pray'd to God to give to it a good success Then pag. 11. he swears he saw in his Chamber in the Inner-Temple lying on the side of his Desk certain Commissions which he had heard to have been sent over to him for several persons in England which they called Patents and that upon Dr. Oates his desire to see them he permitted him to peruse several of them which he did and there saw one Commission to the Lord Arundel of Wardour and another to the Lord Powis the one to be Lord High Chancellour the other to be Lord High Treasurer of England and to the Lord Bellasis to be General to the Lord Peters to be Lieutenant-General and one for Mr. Coleman to be Secretary of State and for Mr. Langhorn himself to be Advocate of the Army and that these were signed Johannes Paulus de Oliva by virtue of a Brief granted by the Pope These Commissions were signed with the Jesuits mark And that Mr. Langhorn told him he had sent one of these Commissions by his Son to be delivered to the Lord Arundel of Wardour's Son and that it was delivered And pag. 13. he swears that Mr. Langhorn being employed as Solicitour for several of the Fathers of the Society that upon his solicitation of the Benedictine Monks they had promised him 6000 li. for the carrying on of the Cause and that Mr. Langhorn promised in his hearing to do his utmost for the procuring the said money And also that he was much disgusted with Sir George Wakeman because he was not contented with 10000 li. to poison the King and pag. 14. he swears that Mr. Langhorn call'd the said Sir George Wakeman a covetous man and that since it was a publick concern it was no matter if he had done it for nothing but that he was a narrow-spirited and narrow-soul'd Physician Then an Instrument being produced in Court signed by Paulus de Oliva Mr. Oates swore that the Commissions he saw were signed by the same hand and had all the same mark but they were all convey'd away and this being onely concerning an Ecclesiastical business was left however this shews he used to receive Patents from and had Commerce with the Superiour of the Jesuits in Rome And this was found in Mr. Langhorn's Chamber a long time after Mr. Oates had given in his Testimony Then pag. 19. Mr. Bedlow swears he went with Mr. Coleman to Mr. Langhorn's Chamber and there Mr. Coleman gave him his Letters to Le Chese and to the Pope's Nuntio and to others open to reade and to register in a Book by him kept for that purpose and that he saw Mr. Langhorn reade these Letters which were concerning the design they had in hand and that he registred them in a Book in his Closet whilst he and Mr. Coleman walked in the outer Room and that afterwards Coleman sealed up these Letters and gave them to Mr. Bedlow who was to carry them to Le Chese the King of France his Confessour and that some of the expressions in those Letters were That all things were now in a readiness and that they onely wanted money That the Catholicks were now in safety and that all places and offices had been disposed to them and that all the Garrisons were already in their hands or would be put into their hands suddenly And that now they had a fair opportunity having a King so easy to believe what was dictated to him by their party and that if they mist the opportunity they might despair of ever introducing Popery into England This was the effect of most of the Letters and with them Mr. Langhorn was made acquainted and register'd them in a Book Pag. 20. he swears he brought Letters from Harcourt to Mr. Langhorn to be register'd which Mr. Langhorn receiv'd and register'd accordingly for he wrote by him to Harcourt that he had receiv'd the Letters by Mr. Williams which was the name that Bedlow then went by and that he would transcribe them and return them to him again Now these Letters were one of them declared to be from the Rectour of the Irish Colledge at Salamanca which specified that the Lord Bellasts and the rest of the Lords concerned and the whole party should be in a readiness and to have it communicated with all expedition for that they had sent some Irish Cashier'd Souldiers with many other Lay-Brothers under the notion of Pilgrims for S. Jago who were to take shipping at the Groin and to land at Milford-Haven in Wales and there to meet and join with the Lord Powis The other Letter was from Sir William Godolphin which Mr. Bedlow had brought out of Spain directed to the Lord Bellasis which was about the same design and was also register'd by Mr. Langhorn in a Book which he saw near 3 inches thick and that he guesses two thirds of the Book might be wrote out Now by this judge you whether the Indictment of High Treason be not proved against Mr. Langhorn and whether he be not guilty of this Treason and Conspiracy of bringing in Popery of levying War and killing the King by two several witnesses who have so positively sworn it against him The defence Mr. Langhorn makes for himself is no other then what his Brethren in Iniquity had done before him to deny the fact and to endeavour to invalidate the credit of the Witnesses by intrapping them in point of time and place And to this end pag. 14 15 16 c. he asks Mr. Oates many questions little to the purpose and onely to amuse the Auditours Then pag. 27. he would make Mr. Oates an Approver as having been pardoned for the same

sinister end nor out of any malice or in wrong to any person whatsoever And this he declares in the presence of Almighty God the Searcher of Hearts before whose just and dreadfull Tribunal he expects to appear and begs and implores the mercy of the King of Heaven on his sincere Repentance for his wicked fact and great sin committed in being an Accessory to the Death of Sir Edmundbury Godfry as he had obtained that of his King here for the same The third was that being through fear and terrour made to acknowledge himself guilty he was forced in his Conscience to deny all again before His Majesty of Great Britain And here indeed they have some appearance of Truth and with it they have made a great dust thinking by this means to blind the eyes of the people But Mr. Prance himself in his Narrative pag. 22. and 23. so well clears that aspersion that there can be no more said and in my judgment renders him more strong and firm after his staggering and fluctuation for he calls it there his imbecillity and weakness that though he had onely for his Conscience sake made his free Confession being awakened by the horrour of his Crimes yet afterwards he went and declared to the King that he was Innocent and that all those he had accused were also Innocent Now they cry out a man that will thus say now one thing and then another thing is not to be believed and that his Evidence is nothing worth But pag. 23. Mr. Prance says this for himself That the fear and terrour of death not then having any assurance of Pardon lying heavy upon him and also the fear of being assassinated by the bloudy and revengefull Priests and Jesuits and also that if he should escape with Life that he should wholly lose his Trade and so be consequently ruined and undone since his chief subsistence depended on the Trade he had with the Roman Catholicks and that his Soul was not yet intirely out of the snare of Popish thraldom induced him to think he might lawfully say That he and all the rest were Innocent because the horrid Crime of the Murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfry had been declared by the Popish Priests to be no sin and so in that sense they were all Innocent though he had not since the Fact received Absolution And thus by the way you may observe how they all die Innocent as themselves at the Gallows are pleas'd to say But then he desires you to consider that to strengthen his first assertion and to invalidate this act of his weakness and fear he says That what he had declared concerning the Murther was solemnly and upon Oath and this supposed Retractation suddenly in Passion Consternation and Fear and not upon Oath Secondly That he was no sooner carried back from the King and Council to Newgate not being above half an hour after but that he earnestly requested his Keeper to carry him back again that he might justify his former Confession to be true in all Circumstances and that what he had lately said contradictory thereto was caused by his perplexity of mind and the terrour he lay under and being immediately carried back He denied his Recantation and voluntarily upon Oath confirmed what he had first declared to be true And afterwards falling sick whilst in Newgate and like to die he then expecting to die declared and often asserted to divers his first Confession to be true in all points as also since he recovered his health So that 't is very plain all this dust which the Priests and Jesuits have raised about this matter is blown away and Truth is become perspicuous to any ingenuous man that will but impartially look into these transactions and consider them as they are and not as they are represented by their false perspectives This is all that I have heard to be objected as to the Witnesses and you may judge by what I have been able to say how frivolous it is But these malicious persons have not onely raised objections against those persons before mentioned who were Witnesses against these Plotters but they also endeavour to cast an Odium on the Judges themselves especially the Lord Chief Justice whom they report to be a very violent and passionate man against them triumphing in their overthrow handling the Prisoners cruelly and hardly daunting their Witnesses and lashing out against them and their Religion with many the like bitter reports and as I have heard they have not stuck to have sent him Letters from this side the Water upbraiding him for walking contrary to the steps of his Predecessors in the like Cases and have also been so impudent as to send him a Book in the French Tongue which endeavours to make this Plot to be contrived and laid not by the Papists but by the Factious and Sectarian Parties in England But this is fumos vendere and I think that Worthy Person needs no Justification I am satisfied and suppose none that have read or heard the Trials of those persons condemned for the Plot and Murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfry but must remain satisfied in the fair and upright dealing of the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs in hearing the Evidence fully on all sides and judging justly and indifferently between the King and the Prisoners And in this extraordinary Case if after an impartial and legall Trial he in summing up the Evidence pressed it home to the Jury to doe Justice and if he spake something as to the Catholick Religion and the Jesuits and Jesuited party that has raised these Commotions and Conspiracies and brought those men into the snare he ought not to be blamed and I cannot find either in him or those other Judges who gave Sentence of Death on the offenders but that they did it according to Law modestly and without that triumphing and bitterness as they would seem to intimate But to what poor shifts are these men drove to hide this abominable Plot and wicked Contrivance when they would insinuate into the people on this side the Water and at a distance from you that there never was any such person as Sir Edmundbury Godfry and that you in England have fram'd a story of such a Murther taking a hint from a Town called St. Edmunds Bury to make the Papists odious and by that means to raise the malice of the people against them This shews very much the weakness of their Cause or rather the foulness of it that they are forced to such narrow starting-holes to keep up their reputation here But with you this needs no answer that worthy Gentleman being so well known in the place where he dwelt and was too publick a Light to be hid in obscurity under a Bushel To make this Discovery yet more full and evident I find that God has brought forth of the Tower of London one Mr. Everard after four years imprisonment to give his Testimony concerning this very Plot as appears by his Evidence and