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A63144	The tryal and condemnation of George Busby for high-treason as a Romish priest and Jesuite, upon the statute of 27 Eliz., Cap.2, at the assizes and general goal-delivery held at Derby, for the county of Derby, the 25th day of July, in the 33th year of the reign of our Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second, &c : before the Honourable Sir Thomas Street, Knight, one of the barons of His Majesties exchequer / as it was faithfully taken, by a person of quality.	Busby, George, 1638-1695, defendant.; Person of quality.; England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Derby)	1681 (1681)	Wing T2142; ESTC R28367	26,523	42

continued privately there for none besides Mr. George Brent and my self and the women of the house were suffered to know of him nay some of his Relations who have lain in the house have not known but that he was beyond Sea though they were Papists yet he would not suffer them but concealed himself Busby I pray will you tell me what day month or year it was you and I had this Discourse you speak of and tell me how it came that I was so familiar with you Bar. Street What need you impose it upon him when he saith he hath lived with you Six years and more He cannot remember it but he tells you that it was in the Garden where he has been with you an hundred times and more not thinking further of it 't is impossible to satisfie you the particular time therefore why do you ask him such a foolish question Busby I desire you will let me know how you as you pretend come to know I was a Jesuit Jos Dudley Sir it is what you know to be truth and I am sure you cannot but remember it was in the Walk at the head of the Orchard where you was before me expecting my coming to you and did then use all the perswading means that might be to confirm me in your Opinion in which I seemed so well satisfied that you told me you would leave me to consider of it but that I ought to forsake my Friends and whatever else to come to God Almighty of which you did not doubt but bid me be careful for delays were dangerous And my Lord as to his being a Jesuit he did own it when my Master was committed to Prison for refusing the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance for he was then private at West Hallam withal saying in his Conscience he ought not to take them for their Church would not allow it but on the contrary did expresly forbid it nevertheless Mrs. Powtrell Mr. William Powtrell and divers of the Family did argue for his so doing especially after Mr. Thomas Cannynge came from St. Thomas in Stafford-shire and said that his Uncle Fowler he and all belonging to him had taken the Oath of Allegiance And that it was the Opinion and with the consent of Mr. Fitter their Priest that they might do it and for that reason Mr. Cannynge came to advise my Master the like but Mr. Busby did reject the motion and said no Secular Priest could give leave so to do and for his part he was absolutely against it and so was all the Society But if Seculars gave too much liberty he would not be guilty of their fault so when all would not prevail with him then Mrs. Powtrell and I went to Mr. William Brent at Fox Coat in Warwick-shire her Grand Father and Mr. Busbys Father-in-Law a Councellor to have his advice and upon his writing several Letters to my Master and Mr. Busby that it was proper for my Master so to do nor could he avoid it then in compliance to Mr. Brent he did not much oppose the taking of the Oath of Allegiance And those Letters the next night after Mr. Gilbert had taken Mr. Busby Mrs. Smally for fear he should find them did burn but shewed them to me as she was looking over many papers more the most of which she did likewise burn Mr. Gilbert For your Lordships and the Juries further confirmation that the Prisoner is a Jesuit as well as a Priest and that he held a dangerous Correspondence with some of his Order which have been Executed for their Treasons in relation to the Plot I must acquaint your Lordship that this Busby was Procurator for the Jesuits and that he received the Rents of their Lands from 1673 till 1677 and that he disbursed and returned several great Summs of Money to divers Jesuits as may appear by Letters and his Account Book which I took where may be seen what Dealings and Transactions he had with Gawen Harcourt Turner Ireland Pool Bennet Heaton Tomson and others of his Tribe He could not deny it to be his own hand writing My Lord here is the Book Which was presented to the Judge and Perused by him Then Mr. Gilbert proceeded My Lord I did also search at West-Hallam House for Popish Priestly Garments and being well informed that there were such in the House and found divers Suits of Vestments and other Popish Trinkets which I brought away together with those I formerly sent back from the last Assizes all which I have ready in Court to be produced and have also a Minister here who has formerly been a Popish Priest himself to inform your Lordship the names and use of all the Particulars here are also my Lord a Box of Wafers which I suppose they use for the Sacrament at the Mass the larger sort I am told are for the Priests use the lesser for the People and here are the Wafer Irons which made them Mr. Sheppey Pray tell my Lord and the Jury the Names of all those Things and how the Priest useth them at Mass Mr. Sheppey taking up the Things said My Lord this is a Vestment used when the Mass is said this is a Stole and this is a Maniple and this an Antipendiana And so gave an Account of the rest of the Trinkets Then Thomas Houis was called and sworn Bar. Street What can you say Friend of the Prisoner See if you know him look upon him Thomas Houis I know him well enough he perswaded me to be a Roman Catholick when I was about to marry a Mans Daughter that was a Papist whom I could not have until I turned to their Religion Mr. Busby perswaded me and when he had converted me bound me to believe that Matrimony was a Sacrament he gave me Absolution and made me do Pennance the words of the Absolution I cannot pronounce but I have been several times at Mass when he said it when I had Absolution from him after Confession I was to say these words For all which and whatever else I cannot at this present call to mind I am heartily sorrow for for the love of God and purpose by Gods Grace to amend beseeching you my Ghostly Father to Pray to God for me and to give me Absolution and Pennance Afterward you know you marryed me and I was Cited to Lichfield Court for being marryed privately by you My Lord I have been present when Mr. Busby said Mass at West-Hallam and have heard and seen him say Mass several days in his Priestly Robes I never knew any other Priest but him at West-Hallam most Sundays and Holy days he said Mass where were present most of the Roman Catholicks in those parts I have heard him Preach three times and no more Busby Did I come to you or you to me Tho. Houis I came to you Busby Then I did not perswade you to turn Catholick you was satisfied upon the first perswasion before you came to me and declared you would turn

Catholick Tho. Houis I was perswaded by Mr. Shirborn of Standly Grange yet not fully convinced but by you Mr. Gilbert My Lord this Shirborn he speaks of was one Captain Shirborn a great Papist who lived near me a Letter Carrier as was reported and one that sold them Books and Trinkets Tho. Houis For I was fully satisfied then in all things by your instructions and hearing your Sermons as for Mass I did not understand it but you said it was Mass besides others called it so Busby How can you swear to a thing you do not understand Tho. Houis If I did not you told me so and I believed you because you did the Office of a Priest Bar. Street It seems this is the matter you courted a Papist for your wife and Busby told you the way to have her was to be a Papist and you did hearken to Busby to perswade you he told you Matrimony was a Sacrament and before you were married you must be Confest and have Absolution and Mr. Busby you put words into his mouth to desire Absolution but gave it in such language as he understood not he says he has heard you say Mass frequently But Preach only three times Busby It is an easie matter for him to say such things but how does he prove it to be Absolution of Mass when he says he understands not the Language Tho. Houis My Lord I have not only been present at that which they call their Mass but I have also received the Sacrament from Mr. Busby then and have seen him give the Sacrament to divers other persons too and besides my Lord I did send my Eldest Child to the Chappel at Standly Grange to have it Christened by Mr. Busby This Woman pointing to Sarah Clark who stood by carried it When we came there Dr. Richard Needham who lived there said to me Are you the Father of this Child I answered yes Then says Dr. Needham you ought not to be present when your Child is Christned whereupon my Lord I went into a corner of the Room but could perceive well enough what was done and Mr. Busby did Christen my Child and gave her the Name of Ann Mr. Peter Waldron was Godfather and Mrs. Ann Smally Godmother Kings Council We shall now call Elizabeth Evans for further proof of Mr. Busby's exercising his Priestly Office Who was also Sworn Bar. Street Come good Woman what can you say of the Prisoner at the Bar do you know him Eliz. Evans Yes I know the Prisoner at the Bar its Mr. Busby my Lord and have seen him in his Priestly Habit say Mass in the Chappel at Mr. Powtrells House at West Hallam I saw him Christen Henry Avery's Child of Stauton I was Godmother to the Child He has Confest me several times and I have received Absolution from him I have received the Sacrament from him Bar. Street What was it he gave you when you received the Sacrament from him Eliz. Evans I know not what it was Mr. Busby gave me Then the Waffers were called for they were of several sizes in a Box. And being shewed to her she said yes my Lord these are what he gave us at Mass for the Sacrament I remember them they were just such Busby Waffers are things usually put under Biskets and Macaroons therefore how can she say those are the Sacrament for they are what I have seen given to Children to eat and to play withal Bar. Street They are things indeed to give to Children Kings Coun. Pray call Dorothy Saunders who appeared and was Sworn Bar. Street Well Dorothy Sanders what say you Dorothy Saunders He has several times absolved me and given me the Sacrament and has said Mass where the company were sometimes more and sometimes less and having a Waffer given her into her hand and he held up the Waffer thus and shewed the Court and the Jury the manner of his Elevation of the Host and being asked by the Judge whether she knew Priestly Vestments Answered Dorothy Saunders Yes I know Priestly Vestments when I see them which being shewed to her she said she had seen Busby in some of them but for his Christning of Children I know nothing of that Busby Is that the Sacrament Those Waffers in the Box is that the Sacrament D. Saunders We took it at your hands for the Sacrament Bar. Street Mr. Busby you are so Impertinent in your Questions you think you have weak persons to deal with I hope the Jury will take notice of it Kings Council Call Sarah Clark who appeared and was Sworn Bar. Street Sarah Clark have you heard Mr. Busby say Mass Sa. Clark Yes my Lord that which he told us was Mass but I did not understand it for it was in another tongue which they said was Latin Bar. Street But had he his Vestments on or how was it tell us good Woman S. Clark Yes my Lord he had Vestments on and he did then give us the Sacrament as he called it which was a Wafer and that he put into our mouths after that he had Elevated the Host And he himself told me it was the Sacrament Bar. Street Well and have you made Confession to him and has he Absolved you after you have done so S. Clark I have been at Confession before him upon my knees and when I had done he spoke something to me in Latin as I think which he said was Absolution and I did take it to be so and I have sometimes my Lord heard him Preach and that I understood because it was in English He told me what Absolution was and the Mass and the same was to be read in English and those that could read at those times said the same Bar. Street Several Witnesses have spoken closely that he has exercised his Office in all things as a Priest have you known him marry any Body and Christen Children if you have speak S. Clark My Lord he did not marry me one Mr. Gavan married me but I have heard that he did marry Thomas Houis and I am sure he did Christen Thomas Houis his First Child for I carried it to him and Mr. Waldron and Mrs. Ann Smally were Godfather and Godmother and he did name it Ann it was Christened at Standly Grange at Dr. Needhams House and several others were there at the same time and afterwards I brought it home Busby How do you know it to be Mass and Absolution when you say you do not understand the Language I spoke in S. Clark Though I did not understand what you said you told me what every thing meaned and I did believe you because others told me so too besides all Papists thought it their duty as you told us to be there all Holy days and Sundays to prevent a Venial Sin which if we omitted we were lyable to Pennance Mr. Gilbert My Lord We have three or four more Witnesses but we are loath to trouble your Lordship and the Court with any further