not for any Consideration of me speak any Thing which you cannot justifie for Truth Earl of N. Mr. Moore Do you know that Person there Pointing to Blackhead Mr. Moore My Lord I do know him so far that I have seen him once or twice at my Lords House at Bromley Earl of N. What Business had he at Bromley Mr. M. The first Time he brought a Letter to my Lord. Earl of N. From whom Mr. M. My Lord It was from a Country Minister in Buckinghamshire a Doctor of Divinity as he wrote himself his Name was Hooke Bishop of R. My Lords I now very well remember that was the Name Hooke or something very near it There may be the Difference of a Letter I will not stand upon that or can it be expected I or my Servant should be positive as to every Letter of a Name in so sudden a Question Earl of N. Mr. Moore What was the Business of that Letter Mr. M. My Lord it was concerning one that offered himself to be the Doctor 's Curate whom he suspected to have Counterfeited my Lord's Letters of Orders The Doctor desired my Lord to look into his Books whether he had Ordain'd any such Person My Lord and I did thereupon search all the Places where the Memorials of such Affairs are kept and we found no such Name and so my Lord himself wrote back to the Doctor by this very Man that stands here Earl of N. Mr. Moore Will you take your Oath of all this Mr. M. I am ready to take my Oath of it if you please to give it me Earl of N. What say you Blackhead You see here is a young Man the Bishop's Secretary comes in by chance and confirms punctually what the Bishop had said before concerning your Message to his Lord And he offers to take his Oath of it If you did bring a Letter from one Doctor Hooke Why do you not confess it It can do you no hurt Blackhead I know of no such Divine as Doctor Hooke nor any Thing concerning one that Counterfeited the Bishops Orders The Letter I brought was from Mr. Young Mr. M. My Lord This Fellow cannot but know that what he says is shamefully false I assure you I have the Original Letter at home to produce And doubt not but divers of my Lords Servants remember him and his Business as well as I do For he was a second Time at Bromley some Weeks after Earl of N. What was his Business then Mr. M. He said He came to acquaint my Lord That his Master Doctor Hooke had seized on the Person who had forg'd his Orders My Lord ask'd him Whether he had also seiz'd the False Instrument And if he had desired it might be transmitted to him This Man answered He believed his Master had got it That he was coming up to London and bringing the Cheat with him and had been there sooner had he not sprain'd or hurt his Leg But when he was come the Doctor would give my Lord Notice or himself wait upon him My Lord was much pleased with this second Message and gave Orders to have the Bringer of it well used He was so and freely discoursed with the Butler and the other Servants touching his Business there So that I am verily perswaded several of them remember all these Circumstances of it and perhaps more than I do Upon this Blackhead being again urg'd by the Lords with so plain a Testimony perfectly agreeing with what I had said and he still persevering obstinately to deny every part of it I and Mr. Moore were ordered to withdraw Blackhead staying behind As I was going out I said My Lords I cannot comprehend to what purpose this Fellow persists in this Lye I am sure he can never prove that I have injured the Government in Word or Deed or Writing Then I could not but again observe to the Lords what visible Marks of Falshood and Treachery there were in Blackhead's Face For indeed all the while he look'd as if he would have sunk into the Ground Tho' as I was told afterwards before I came into the Room he had appear'd very brisk and bold and full of Talk But upon my first coming in his Complexion which was naturally very sallow turn'd much paler and darker and he was almost Speechless saying nothing to any purpose more than what he thought was necessary to keep him firm to the main Lye That he had brought me a Letter from one Young and no other But after my being withdrawn about half an Hour I was called in again and Blackhead sent forth Earl of N. Now my Lord the Business is out the Fellow has confess'd he brought the Letter to you Written not in the Name of Young but as from one Doctor Hookes Hookes was the Name not Hooke your Lordship was in the right in saying you would not stand upon a Letter Bishop of R. My Lords I could not trust my Memory so far as to a Letter But one Thing I was sure of That was the only Letter this Rascal ever brought me and it was not from any whose Name was Young Earl of N. Well that Business is over he has confess'd it and now my Lord Pray take a Chair and sit down Earl of Devonshire Pray my Lord sit down Bishop of R. No my Lords I desire you to excuse me Earl of N. My Lord we have some few Questions to ask you and therefore pray repose your self Bishop of R. If you please to permit me I had rather answer what your Lordships have farther to say standing thus as I am at the Table Earl of N. Then my Lord we shall ask you Have you ever written to the Earl of Marleborough within these Three Months Bishop of R. I think I may safely affirm I never writ to my Lord Marleborough in my Life But I am certain and upon the Faith of a Bishop I declare I have not written one Word to him these Three Months Earl of N. Have you received any Letter from my Lord Marleborough within these three Months Bishop of R. I protest solemnly I have not received any Earl of N. Have you received any Written or Printed Papers from my Lord Marleborough within that space of Time Bishop of R. As in the Presence of God I declare I have not My Lords I have had some Acquaintance with my Lord Marleborough both in King Iames's Court and in the Parliaments since but I cannot call to mind that ever I wrote to him or he to me Earl of N. Then I think my Lords we have nothing more to do but to wish my Lord Bishop a good Iourney to Bromley With that they all rose up and saluted me testifying their great Satisfaction that I had so well cleared my self confounded my Adversary More especially Two Noble Lords of the Company to whom I said I would now particularly Appeal gave me an Ample Testimony of their belief of my Innocency in this Accusation and of my Dutiful Disposition
Imprimatur Octob. 19. 1692. Edmund Bohun A RELATION Of the Late Wicked Contrivance Of STEPHEN BLACKHEAD and ROBERT YOUNG against the Lives of several Persons by Forging an Association under their Hands Written by the Bishop of Rochester In Two Parts The First Part being a Relation of what passed at the Three Examinations of the said Bishop by a Committee of Lords of the Privy-Council The Second being an ACCOUNT of the Two above-mentioned Authors of the Forgery In the SAVOY Printed by EDWARD IONES MDCXCII A RELATION of the late Wicked Contrivance of Stephen Blackhead and Robert Young against the Lives of several Persons by Forging an Association under their Hands c. I Think it becomes me as a Duty which I owe to my Country and to the Character I have the undeserved Honor to bear in the Church to give the World some Account how my Innocency was clear'd from the late Wicked Contrivance against me In hopes that this Example of a false Plot so manifestly detected may be in some sort beneficial to the whole Nation on the like Occasions for the future However that the Enemies of the Church may have no Reason to cast any Blemish upon it from the least Suspicion of my Guilt And that this faithful Memorial may remain as a poor Monument of my own Gratitude to Almighty GOD to whose immediate Protection I cannot but attribute this extraordinary Preservation Perhaps my Reader at first view will look on this Relation as too much loaded with small Particularities such as he may judge scarce worth my remembring or his knowing But he will pardon me if I presume that nothing in this whole Affair ought to appear little or inconsiderable to me at least who was so nearly concern'd in the event of it I have therefore made no scruple to discharge my weak Memory of all it could retain of this Matter Nor have I willingly omitted any Thing though never so minute which I thought might serve â— to fix this wonderful Mercy of GOD the more on my own Mind or dâ—d any way conduce to the saving of divers other innocent Persons Lives as well as mine I cannot indeed Promise that I shall accurately repeat every Word or Expression that fell from all the Parties here mentioned Or that I shall put all down in the very same Order as it was spoken having not had the Opportunity to take Notes of every thing as it pass'd But this I will say if I shall not be able to relate all the Truth yet I will omit nothing that is Material I will as carefully as if I were upon my Oath give in all the Truth I can remember and nothing but the Truth What I Write I intend shall consist of Two Parts The First To be a Narrative of the plain Matter of Fact from my first being taken into Custody May the 7th to the time of my last Dismission Iune the 13th The Second To contain some Account of the Two Perjur'd Wretches that were pleas'd for what Reasons they know best to bring me into this Danger For the Truth of the Substance of what I shall recollect on the first Head I am bold to appeal to the Memories of those Honourable LORDS of the Council by whom I was thrice Examin'd And touching the second I have by me so many Original Papers or Copies of unquestionable Authority which I am ready to shew any Worthy Persons who shall desire the Satisfaction as are abundantly sufficient to justifie all that I shall think fit for me to say against Blackhead and Young especially against Young It was on Saturday the seventh of May of this present Year 1692 in the Evening as I was walking in the Orchard at Bromeley Meditating on something I design'd to Preach the next Day that I saw a Coach and four Horses stop at the outer Gate out of which two Persons alighted Immediately I went towards them believing they were some of my Friends coming to give me a Visit. By that time I was got to the Gate they were enter'd into the Hall But seeing me hastning to them they turn'd and met me about the middle of the Court The Chief of them perceiving me to look wistly on them as being altogether Strangers to me said My Lord Perhaps you do not know me My Name is Dyve I am Clerk of the Council and here is one of the King's Messengers I am sorry I am sent on this Errand But I am come to Arrest you upon suspicion of High Treason Sir said I I suppose you have a Warrant for so doing I pray let me see it He shew'd it me I read it and the first Name Highted on being the Earl of Nottingham's I said Sir I believe this is my Lord Nottingham's own Hand and I submit What are your Orders how to dispose of me My Lord said he I must first search your Person and demand the Keys you have about you My Keys I presently gave him He search'd my Pockets and found no Papers but some poor Notes of a Sermon and a Letter from Mr. B. Fairfax about ordinary Business Now says he My Lord I must require to see the Rooms to which these Keys belong and all the Places in the House where you have any Papers or Books I straight conducted him up Stairs into my Study This Sir said I is the only Chamber where I keep all the Books and Papers I have in the House They began to Search and with great readiness turn'd over every thing in the Room and Closets and Presses shaking every Book by the Cover opening every part of a Chest of Drawers where were many Papers particularly some Bundles of Sermons which I told them were my proper Tools And that all that knew me could Vouch for me it was not my Custom to have any Treason in them They read several of the Text and left them where they found them But in one corner of a Press which was half open they met with a great number of Letters fil'd up I assur'd them they were only Matters of usual Friendly Correspondence and most of them were of last Years date Mr. Dyve looking on some of them found them to be so and said If he had time to view them all he might perhaps see reason to leave them behind But being expressly Commanded to bring all Letters he must carry them with him I left him to do as he pleased so they seal'd them up Then they went into my Bedchamber and the Closets adjoining doing as they had done in my Study feeling about the Bed and Hangings and knocking the Wainscot in several places to see if there were any private Hole or Secret Conveyance After that they came down Stairs and search'd the Parlour and Drawing-Room on that side of the House with the like exactness In all these Rooms I observed they very carefully pryed into every part of the Chimneys the Messenger putting his Hand into every Flower-Pot Which I then somewhat smiled at But
since I found he had but too much Reason so to do When they had done searching in all those Rooms and in the Hall as they were going out and had taken with them what Papers they thought fit they carryed Me away in the Coach that brought them By the Way we met my Servant Mr. Moor coming from London I call'd out to him Have you any Letters for Me He gave me three or four which I deliver'd to Mr. Dyve to open Who found nothing in them but Matters of private Concernment or ordinary News And so between Ten and Eleven at Night we arrived at Whitehal and I was brought to my Lord Nottingham whom I found alone in his Office My Lord said I I am come upon your Warrant but certainly there must be some great Mistake or black Villany in this Business For I declare as in the Presence of God I am absolutely free from any just Accusation relating to the Government His Lordship told me He himself was much surprized when he heard my Name mentioned I intreated him I might be Examined that Night if any Witnesses could be produced against me He said That could not possibly be because the Lords who had the Management of such Affairs were separated and gone Home But that I was to appear before them the next Day and in the mean time all the Civility should be shewn me that could be expected by a Man in my Condition My Lord said I I hope it being so very late you will suffer me to lie at my own House at Westminster He reply'd You shall do so But you must have a Guard of Soldiers and a Messenger with you A Guard of Soldiers said I My Lord methinks is not so necessary to secure one of my Profession I should rather offer that I may have two or more Messengers to keep me tho' that may put me to greater Charges My Lord said he I for my own part would be glad if I might take your Parole But I must do what I may answer to others and therefore I pray be Content At this I acquiesced only adding My Lord here are divers Papers brought up with me which upon my Credit are but of common Importance yet because they are most of them private Talk among Friends there may be some Expressions which no Man if it were his own Case would be willing to have divulg'd and therefore I desire your Lordship will take Care they may not be shewn to the Prejudice of any He answer'd You have to do with Men of Honour And you shall have no Occasion to complain upon that Account And so I was convey'd Home to Westminster by Mr. Dyve and Mr. Knight the Messenger in the Coach with Me and a Guard attending on each side After we came to the Deanery Mr. Dyve having diligently surveyed my Lodgings and the Avenues to them left Me about Midnight with a strict Charge to the Messenger and Soldiers not to give me any unnecessary Disturbance but to watch carefully at my Bed-Chamber-Door till further Orders which they did The next Day being Sunday May the 8th Mr. Dyve came again to me about Noon to acquaint me That I was to attend the Committee of the Council that Evening by Six o' the Clock And says he My Lord I suppose you have here also at Westminster a Room where you keep the rest of your Books and Papers I told him I had Then said he I have Commission to search there likewise particularly in your Cabinet I shewed him my Library and gave him the Keys He opened all the Presses of Books and viewed particulary every Shelf and examined every Drawer in the Cabinet But finding nothing there of a late date or that might afford any the least shadow of a Trayterous Correspondence he went away without removing any one Paper thence At the time appointed I was brought by the Messenger and Guard to Whitehal where a select Number of the Lords of the Council were assembled at my Lord Nottingham's Lodgings There were present as I remember the Earl of Devonshire Lord Steward the Earl of Dorset Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Nottingham Secretary of State the Earl of Rochester the Earl of Portland the Lord Sydney Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Sir Edward Seymoâ— When I was enter'd the Room and come to the end of the Table my Lord Nottingham began But now for the greater perspicuity of the whole Proceedings and to avoid the too frequent repetition of said I or said such an one or said they I will henceforth give all the Questions and Answers and the rest of the Discourses in the Name of every Person as they spoke and by way of Dialogue Earl of Nottingham My Lord You cannot but think it must be some extraordinary Occasion which has forc'd us to send for you hither in this manner Bishop of Rochester My Lord I submit to the Necessities of State in such a Time of Jealousie and Danger as this is Earl of N. My Lord I am to ask you some Questions to which we desire your plain and true Answers Bishop of R. My Lords I assure you mine shall be such as I hope I have been always taken for a Man of Simplicity and Sincerity Earl of N. Have you Composed a Declaration for the present intended Descent of the late King James into England Bishop of R. I call GOD to Witness I have not Earl of N. Did you ever draw up any Heads or Materials for such a Declaration Bishop of R. Upon the same Solemn Asseveration I never did Earl of N. Were you ever solicited or apply'd to by any Person for the Undertaking such a Work Bishop of R. I never was Earl of N. Do you hold any Correspondencies abroad in France Bishop of R. I do not hold any Earl of N. Have you ever sign'd any Association for Restoring the late King James Bishop of R. I never sign'd any Earl of N. Do you know of any such Association Or any Persons that have subscribed one Bishop of R. Upon the Word of a Christian and a Bishop I know of no such thing nor of any Person who has subscribed any Paper of that Nature Sir Edward Seymour My Lord Bishop of Rochester We have examined the Papers that were seized in your Closet at Bromley We find nothing in them but Matters of ordinary and innocent Conversation among Friends only we have one Scruple That there are few or no Letters among them witten since Lady-day last Bishop of R. Sir I suppose there may be some of a Date since that Time in the Bundles If I had preserv'd more they would have been of the same Nature with the rest that you have that is concerning common Intelligence and the Talk of the Town not any Secrets of State or against the Government My Lords I hold no Correspondencies of that kind When I am in the Country I desire some Friend or other here to let me know how the World goes that I may
I found him worthy But upon inquiry I received from all Hands so very ill a Character both of this Young and his Wife that I resolv'd to give him no Answer at all and I have never heard any thing more of him to this Day But now I beseech your Lordships to give me leave to speak to this Person my self And they intimating I should do as I thought best I said to him I Conjure you in the Presence of these Noble Lords and especially of the Great LORD of Heaven and Earth that you will declare the Truth of what I am going to ask you When you came to my House at Bromley upon a Fast-Day it was I think the first Fast of this Year Did not you desire to speak with me as having a Letter for me When I came to you into my Hall Did not you first kneel down and ask me Blessing Did you not then deliver me a Letter affirming it was from a Country-Minister a Doctor of Divinity Did not you tell me You were his Servant or Bayliff And that your Master had sent you on purpose many Miles to receive an Answer your self to that Letter from my own Hand Blackhead I never brought a Letter to the Bishop of Rochester from a Country Minister I know no such Doctor of Divinity Nor ever was Servant to any I only brought a Letter to the Bishop from Mr. Young Bishop of R. My Lords What I say is most certainly true This Man had never any other Business with me but in relation to that Letter pretended by him for now I find it was but a pretence to be written to me by an Eminent Country Divine in Buckinghamshire a Person of a Considerable Estate as he told me My Lords I cannot yet call to Mind the Doctor 's Name But the Business of the Letter I am in great part Master of and it was to this purpose That there was a Person naming him who had apply'd to him to be his Curate but that he had Reason to suspect he had Counterfeited my Hand and Seal for Holy Orders Therefore he desired me to send him Word under my own Hand by the Bearer his Man Whether I had Ordain'd such a One in such or such Years That if I had he would Encourage and Entertain hâ—m if not he would take care he should be punish'd for his Forgery Now My Lords upon the receipt of so Friendly a Letter by this very Messenger I bid him stay a little and I would give his Master Satisfaction out of my Books Whether I had Ordain'd any Man of that Name which I thought I had not Accordingly my Secretary and I did severally turn over all my Papers relating to such Affairs as carefully as we could and finding no such Mans Name in them in which we could not be easily deceiv'd because I keep Methodically as no doubt every Bishop does all Recommendations Subscriptions Testimonials and Titles of those I admit into Orders I wrote the supposed Author of the Letter as civil an Answer as his seemed to deserve That I was extreamly pleased and thankful that a meer Stranger to me should be so careful of my Reputation That my Secretary and I had diligently examin'd all the Books where such Things are Recorded And I could assure him I never had Ordain'd any such Person either Priest or Deacon within the space limited in his Letter or at any other time That I should look upon it as a signal Service done to the Church in general and a special Favour to me in particular if he would as he promised cause the Counterfeit to be apprehended so that the Course of Law might pass upon him This Letter my Lords all Written with my own Hand I delivered to the Person here present And he went away with it asking me Blessing again upon his Knees and promising I should speedily be made acquainted with the Success Earl of Devonshire I pray My Lord how was the Letter Superscrib'd you sent back by this Man Bishop of R. My Lord It was to the same Person with the same Superscription as he Subscrib'd himself and directed to the same Place where he said he was Minister tho' the Name of Place or Minister I cannot yet recover But let that Letter of mine be produced and it will put an end to this whole Controversie Blackhead The Letter I receiv'd from the Bishop was Superscrib'd to Mr. Young and to no other Bishop of R. My Lords This is a Horrid Falshood I well remember now this Fellow was at my House a second time some Weeks after the first When he came I was in the Garden with some Gentlemen my Neighbours where first asking me Blessing he told me His Master the Doctor had taken up the Person who had Forg'd my Orders That the Man stood upon his Vindication but that his Master was bringing hint up to London and then I should hear farther from him Adding That his Master was a Man of such a Spirit and such a plentiful Estate that whenever he suspected a Man to be a Rogue or a Cheat he would spare no Pains to discover him nor think any cost too much to get him punish'd These my Lords I well remember were the Knaves very Words And I hope your Lordships will likewise deal with him in the same manner I took this second Message still more kindly and order'd my Servants to entertain the Messenger very civilly Blackhead I brought no such Message All my Business with the Bishop was from Mr. Young which I suppose was of another Nature Bishop of R. What I say is so true that I am confident several of my Servants do remember the Particulars For this Man stuck not to Declare his Business before them all very much Magnifying his Master and his House-keeping and Vapouring what an Example he would make of the Counterfeit Priest without putting me to any Trouble or Expence Earl of Devonshire Has your Lordship none of those Servants near at hand Bishop of R. My Lord some of them are in Town and one my Secretary Mr. Moore by an accidental good Fortune came hither with me He was without when I was called in I doubt not but he will satisfie your Lordships what was this Man's Errand to me He is a young Man of Great Honesty and I believe would not tell a Lye to save my Life I am sure I would not have him Whilst they were calling in Mr. Moore I added My Lords I appeal to the Great God of Heaven to judge between me and this Wretch touching the Truth or Falshood of what we say and to deal with us both accordingly at the last Day of Judgment And I dare also appeal to your Lordships to judge between us by what appears to you For did you ever see greater Villany and Consciousness of Guilt in any Man's Countenance than in his By this time Mr. Moore being come in I said Moore Apply your self to My Lord Nottingham I charge you Do
to the Government My Lord Nottingham then told me in the Name of all the rest They had no farther Trouble to give me I intreated them to suffer me to add a few Words They permitting me I said My Lords I heartily thank you for Confronting me with this Fellow else I could not so well have made out my Innocency But I might still have lain Under a Suspicion whereof I had not known the least Ground Had this been a Tryal for my Life I should have been glad to have such Honourable Persons for my Judges But now I have much more Reason to bless GOD that you have been my Compurgators That you are Witnesses as well as Judges of the Detection of this Villany against me whereof I must acknowledge as yet I do not fathom the bottom Wherefore I must intreat That I may put my self under your Protection for the future For although this Fountain of Wickedness has been now stopt in this Particular as to my self yet it seems to run under Ground still And unless special Care be taken it may break forth again in some other Place on some other Occasion to the Ruine if not of Me yet of some other Innocent Person Earl of Devonshire No My Lord You need never fear this Fountain can break forth any more to do you or any other good Man any Prejudice He having been so palpably Convicted of Knavery and Lying Bishop of R. My Lords I hope so As for my Self I take my own Innocency to be abundantly Vindicated by this your general Declaration in my Favour I make no question but your Lordships will next Vindicate your Selves and the Justice of the Government by bringing this Wicked Man to Condign Punishment and by examining the main Drift of his Design and who have been his Accomplices They all assuring me I might relie upon them for it I withdrew All this while I had not the least Conjecture or Imagination who this Young should be with whom Blackhead pretended I held so close a Correspondence But my next Appearance before the Committee of the Council will clear up what remains of the whole Wicked Mystery In the mean time returning Home that Evening to Bromley I presently met with a plentiful Concurrence of Evidence from most of my Servants of their Discourse with Blackhead and their Knowledge of his Business in reference to Dr. Hookes Letter First The Butler Thomas Warren told me That according to my Order to use him kindly he had done so both times has was with us Particularly the second time he had entertain'd him with one of the Petty Canons of Windsor who came thither by chance in the Parlour next the Garden That thence he brought him down into the Cellar where Blackhead Drunk my Health with Knees almost bended to the Ground That then he earnestly desir'd him to shew him my Study saying I have heard your Lord has a very good Study of Books My Master Hookes has a very good one He often lets me go into it and I doubt not but you have the same Liberty I pray let me see his Books The Butler answer'd My Lord has but few Books here only such as he brings from time to time from Westminster for present use and they are lock'd up in Presses so that I cannot shew them if I would I pray then said Blackhead let me see the Room I hear it is a very fine one The Butler said He could not presume to do it without my leave Then said Blackhead let me see the rest of the House The Butler excus'd his not being able to do it then because there were some Ladies with his Mistress The same Request he assur'd me Blackhead repeated almost twenty times But still he deny'd him Then Thomas Philips my Coachman and Iohn Iewel my Gardiner confirm'd most of what the Butler had said All of them agreeing that both the times he was at Bromley especially the second he had talked publickly with them of the Business he came about from his Master Dr. Hookes Enlarging much in Commendation of the said Doctor what a Worthy Man he was What Hospitality he kept And how he would never rest till he had brought to Punishment the Knave that had forged my Hand and Seal for Orders They added That after I had dismiss'd him he linger'd about in the Garden the Hall and the great Parlour a long time and was full of such Discourses Moreover the Gardiner and William Hardy the Groom and Thomas French and one or two of the other Servants who remain'd at Bromley whilst I was in the Custody at Westminster did all assure me that this Man who brought first the Letter and then the Message from Dr. Hookes had been a third time at my House whilst I was under Confinement That it was upon a Sunday which by Computation prov'd to be Whit-Sunday May 15th That they found him in the midst of the House before they knew he was enter'd He told them that passing that way he came to Condole for my Mishap and to enquire what the Matter was hoping it was not so bad as was reported at London They answer'd They knew nothing of Particulars yet doubted not but I was innocent That he then again desir'd to see the House But all the Doors were lock'd except the great Parlour which has no Lock upon it That he would have enticed them to Town to Drink with him which they refused but made him Drink there and he coming after Dinner they perswaded a Maid-Servant to provide him some Meat Which she did but unwillingly telling them she did not like the Fellows Looks That perhaps he might come to Rob or to Set the House now so few Servants were at Home That he rather looked as indeed he did like some Knavish broken Tradesman than an Honest Rich Clergy-Man's Bayliff or Steward as he also call'd himself and it has proved since that her Conjecture was true All this and more my Servants repeated to me touching Blackhead's Behaviour in my House and his Discourse concerning his Master Dr. Hookes And they offer'd to depose it all upon Oath And above all the next Day being Saturday Iune the 11th Mr. Moore coming from London immediately found the Original Letter that Blackhead had brought me from the pretended Doctor Wherefore being furnished with all these fresh Materials especially with the Letter it self and being not a little surprized to hear that the Rogue had the second time of his coming been so earnest to get into my Study or any of the other Rooms and that he had the Diabolical Malice against me to come to my House a third time on pretence of Condoling my Misfortune which I then thought it was probable had chiefly proceeded from his Malicious Perjury against me All this consider'd I resolved to go to London on Munday Morning with these Servants and to carry the Letter that he brought me as from Dr. Hookes to lay the whole Business before the Lords of the