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A61188	A true account and declaration of the horrid conspiracy against the late King, his present Majesty, and the government as it was order'd to be published by His late Majesty.	Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713.; Oliver, John, 1616-1701, engraver.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II)	1685 (1685)	Wing S5068AA; ESTC R221757	86,115	235

his Papers produced against him he gives an account full of manifest Equivocations and ambiguous Reservations He sufficiently intimates they were his own but implies they were written long ago against a Book of Controversie in Matters of Government Thereupon he goes on openly to justifie those Papers by Positions dangerous enough to the Publick Peace but quite different from what was laid to his charge at his Tryal and was quoted word by word out of those Papers For instead of being a general Discourse for the Peoples Rights against Kings without any particular Applications to Time or Place as in this his last Paper he insinuates them to have been it is apparent to any Man that can but read that those Sheets of his Writing which were given in Evidence struck at the very Root of the English Monarchy and that therein he studied to do his part to bring the Ax very near the Kings Neck once again He farther in that printed Speech most injuriously reviles his Judges affirming with notorious falshood and petulancy That lest the Means of destroying the best Protestants in England should fail the Bench was fill'd with such as had been Blemishes to the Bar. He goes on to make divers the like frivolous and groundless Reflections on the legal and regular Proceedings against him concluding with a Prayer that could be dictated by none but a fierce Republican and a furious Enthusiastical Spirit met together It was in truth a Prayer more proper for their Treasonable Meetings at Mr. Hambden's or the Lord Russel's than to be used as the last words of a Gentleman dying in the profession of his Innocency For after having fondly declar'd That he fell a Sacrifice to Idols he thus addresses his Speech to the great God of Heaven Bless thy People and save them Defend thy own Cause Defend those that defend it Stir up such as are faint Direct those that are willing Confirm those that waver Give Wisdom and Integrity unto all Grant that I may dye glorifying thee for all thy Mercies and that at the last thou hast permitted me to be singled out as a Witness of thy Truth and even by the Confession of my Opposers for that Old Cause in which I was from my Youth engaged and for which thou hast often wonderfully declar'd thy self He makes it his last Glory That he was engag'd in that Old Cause from his Youth and he was so Being yet very young he took up Rebellious Arms against his Majesties Blessed Father and merited so well of that Old Cause that he was thought rightly qualify'd to be Named though he did not actually sit amongst the black Number of the Regicides Upon His Majesties most happy Return his fixt aversion to the restor'd Government was such that he would not personally accept of the Oblivion and Indemnity then generally granted to the whole Nation But he voluntarily banish'd himself for many Years till about the Year 1677 he came into England again and by His Majesties special Grace obtain'd a particular Pardon upon repeated promises of constant quiet and Obedience for the time to come Which how he made good the World may Judge In fine he fell a memorable warning and fatal Example to all the English Nobility and Gentry of this and all future Ages that they should take heed of being so far infatuated with the fancie and Chimerical Felicities of Ancient or Modern Commonwealths as to despise and attempt the ruine of the far more solid Liberty and Happiness to be injoy'd under the English Monarchy On the 28th Day of November 1683 Mr. John Hambden Junior having also sued out his Habeas Corpus was arraign'd for High Misdemeanor and brought to his Tryal the 6th of February following In this Tryal the Lord Howard positively deposed to the same sense as before touching the general Transactions of the Conspiracy till the Earl of Shaftsbury's Death and particularly afterwards of the Meeting of the Council of Six at Mr. Hambden's own House where Mr. Hambden made an Introductory Speech to open the Assembly and the subject of their Debates was concerning the Time Place Men Arms and Mony to be provided towards a Rising and also that then the sending a Messenger into Scotland was proposed and referred to be debated the next Meeting Farther That Mr. Hambden was present at that next Meeting at the Lord Russel's House and amongst the rest deliberated of sending the Messenger into Scotland when Aaron Smith was named and approved to be the Man But the substance of the Lord Howard's Evidence having been before sufficiently set down it will be needless now to follow exactly every Circumstance of it It is enough only to note That most of the same Objections being again repeated by the Defendents Council had the same or like Answers return'd them by the King 's There was indeed one new and very material thing then first particularly and unquestionably made out in this Tryal which was the certainty of Aaron Smith's carrying the Treasonable Message into Scotland This was now demonstrably proved by Sheriff and Bell both Inhabitants of Newcastle Sheriff being the Man at whose House Smith lay in his passage to and fro and Bell the very Guide that went thence to conduct him into Scotland Touching this Matter First Attherbury one of the Kings Messengers testified That Sheriff and Bell had a full view of Aaron Smith who was brought for that purpose from the Kings-Bench before the King That Sheriff and Bell did then own Aaron Smith to be the Man who had pass'd under the Name of Clerk That Sheriff declar'd the said Clerk lay at his House and Bell said that he travell'd towards Scotland with him being hired to shew him the way That to all this Aaron Smith would not answer one word Then Sheriff himself deposed That he keeping the Black-Spread-Eagle in Newcastle Aaron Smith came to his House about the middle of February 1683 That he staid there one Night went away and return'd again in twelve days or thereabout That he travell'd from his House Northward towards Scotland but first desir'd one might be got to shew him the way That to that purpose the Deponent sent for Bell whom Smith presently hired to go with him That when Smith came back he lay another Night at his House and so return'd into the South towards London That Smith went all the while by the Name of Clerk That the Deponent directed him to a Gentleman at Jadburgh which is Forty Miles from Newcastle and within Six Miles of Scotland Then Bell swore That Aaron Smith was the very Man who went by the Name of Clerk That the Deponent living at Newcastle and getting his Livelihood by letting out Horses and guiding of Travellers Sheriff sent for him told him the said Clerk wanted a Guide into Scotland That this happen'd on the Thursday before Shrove Tuesday That the next Morning being Friday he conduced Smith towards Jadburgh that on the Saturday the Deponents Horse was tyr'd so Smith

effectual Course to provide for the future Peace and Stability of the Government yet it had like to have proved a present Occasion of its utter Ruine For when so many guilty Persons found that the great Point of the Sheriffs was resetled on its Antient Bottom and the City-Charter it self in hazard of being speedily vacated so that now there would be no farther evasion for them by any pretence of Law to escape unpunish'd Then they concluded it was high time to bring their Devilish Purposes to a quicker issue and once for all to strike boldly at the Heart of the KING and Kingdom Particularly the Earl of Shaftsbury being conscious to himself of the blackness of his Crimes and of the Iniquity of the Verdict by which he had for that time escaped and finding he was now within the compass of the Justice he had so lately frustrated and contemn'd thenceforth gave over all his quieter and more plausible Arts of Sedition whereby he proudly bragg'd he should in time as his Expression was Leisurely walk his Majesty out of his Dominions and on a sudden betook himself to more precipitate Enterprises Alarming his Companions with a prospect of their common danger thence inflaming some to Insurrections others to Assassinations supposing now there was no way left for him or them to justifie their former Misdemeanors and Treasons but by attempting and succeeding in greater Mischiefs This was found by evident Proof to have been the principal rise and occasion of ripening the Horrid Conspiracy in the Kingdom of England Nor could there possibly have happen'd a stronger Justification of His Majesties Counsels in attempting to rectifie the City-Juries and Elections since it is apparent his principal Enemies laid so much stress on the unjust Power they had therein usurp'd that being once fairly driven from that Strength they immediately resolv'd nothing less than a barefac'd and avow'd Rebellion could repair the Loss their Party sustain'd by so great a Blow As for His Majesties Kingdom of Scotland it is notorious there has been long shelter'd in it a desperate Faction of furious Zealots that under the old Professions of the Cause of Christ and a purer way of Gospel-Worship has grown up by degrees to a Violation at last not only of all the Rules and Institutions of true Religion but of common Humanity For does not the whole Christian World at this day behold with Horror that the most Villa nous Tenets of the fiercest Scottish Covenanters and even of their Remonstrators have been out-done by their Successors and Disciples in the Field-Meetings and Armed Conventicles Have they not thence proceeded to all the Execrable Rage of Rapine and Violence In so much that some of them have lived and died glorying in the most barbarous Murders and basest Cruelties refusing obstinately with their last Breath so much as to pray for His Majesty or to say God save the King though by an unexampled Mercy they had their Pardons assur'd to them at the very place and moment of their Execution upon that single Condition And besides the remains of those Bloody Enthusiasts whose Principles are not yet entirely extinguish'd though their force has been twice vanquish'd in open Field by Gods Providence prospering His Majesties Arms It is certain also the Peace of that Kingdom has of late been much indanger'd by other great Numbers of Factious and Seditious Spirits who though at first they would not venture to incourage publickly the others declared Treasons yet stuck not secretly to favour and foment their Cause and as the event infallibly proves would soon have Own'd and Headed their Fury had it prosper'd Wherefore the wise care of former Sessions of Parliament there having sufficiently provided by a due severity of Good Laws against the dreadful Consequences of continuing the Field-Meetings for the farther securing the Reformed Religion and the Antient Rights of the Crown and the Royal Family in that Kingdom it was judg'd adviseable by the Wisdom of His Majesties great Council the last Session of Parliament to appoint and Authorise a Solemn Test to be taken by all Persons in place of publick Trust or Power In that Session the Test was soon pass'd into an Act of State without any considerable opposition Though there were not wanting some turbulent Men in the Assembly who took that occasion of shewing how ill they were affected to the establish'd Government of their Country Which they could have no other inducement to be but either a desire of Commotions by reason of the desperate State of their own ill-spent Fortunes or Envy at the better Condition of Honester Men or some inveterate Contagion of Treason derived down to them from the last unhappy Age of Confusions Of that unquiet and seditious Party the chief and declared Head was the late Earl of Argyle who during the very sitting of the Parliament had by many indirect ways attempted to hinder His Majesties Service the said Earl and the then President of the Session and their Complices taking their opportunity in wording the Test to add thereto all the very same Clauses that have since giver any Colour of scruple to themseves But when all his crafts for obstructing the Bill were defeated by the far greater Number of well disposed Members the Loyal Voters for it being at least Ten to one of the disaffected then no sooner was the Parliament adjourn'd but the said Earl of Argyle first at Edenburgh next in traversing several Shires did make it his Chief Business to insinuate every where into the minds of the Clergy and Laity the most malicious prejudices imaginable against the whole Tenour of the Test And afterwards on his return to Edenburgh he often presumptuously declared he would either not take it at all or take it only with a reserve of his own explanation which he put in Writing and dispers'd the contrivance of it being such as dissolves all the Obligations of the Oath and makes his own present Fancy and private Opinion the only Standard whereby he meant to be guided in all the publick Duties of his Loyalty and Allegiance At length His Majesties High Commissioner the Duke and the Privy Council of that Kingdom having been well inform'd of the said Earls seditious Carriage in City and Country and being fully confirm'd in their Judgments and Confidences of his Trayterous Purposes in that fallacious and equivocating Paraphrase on the Test which he own'd in their presence perverting thereby the sound sense and eluding the force of His Majesties Laws in order to set the Subjects loose from their Obedience and to perpetuate Schism in the Church and Faction in the State Upon these Grounds he was most deservedly Prosecuted by His Majesties Advocate before the Soveraign Justice-Court according to the known Laws of his Country and after a full and equal Tryal he was found guilty of Treason by the Learned Judges and a Jury hot only of his Peers but also many of them his own nearest Relations Soon after Judgment given

to address himself to the Lord Dartmouth one of His Majesties Privy Council who remitted him to Sir Leolyn Jenkins Principal Secretary of State before whom he gave his first Information upon Oath and in due form of Law on the Twelfth of June in that Year But the intended Assassination upon the first disclosing of it appear'd to be so prodigious a Barbarity that His Majesty for some time gave but very little Ear and slow Credit to this Information as little suspecting as deserving such usage from the worst of his Subjects Which generous Caution that His Majesty took not to be impos'd on by New Rumours of Plots and his Gracious Tenderness not to believe so ill of his very Enemies but upon certain Demonstration was one of the chief Occasions that divers of the principal Agitators and Managers of the whole business took the Alarm and got time to scatter and withdraw beyond the Seas However by Gods Providence continually watching over His Majesties and these Nations safety so many of the Traytors soon after fell into the Hands of Justice who did either voluntarily acknowledge their being Partakers of the Treason or were Convicted of it by Evident Proof that henceforth whoever shall pretend not to believe the Truth of the whole they must either be such as were Parties in the Design or so monstrously unreasonable as to believe there never can be a Real Plot against any Prince or State but what does actually succeed and take effect Thus much is certain of this Conspiracy and it is so remarkable and extraordinary that perhaps the like cannot be affirm'd of any other mention'd in all History that there was scarce a Man Attainted or Executed for it who did not more or less add some new Light to the several parts of the dark Contrivance either by a plain Confession of it or by their very manner of denying it and by the weakness of the Subterfuges whereby they endeavour'd to palliate their Crimes Upon the whole Matter though His Majesty doubts not but the Treasonable Infection was in some degree or other spread into most Quarters of these Kingdoms amongst the Ringleaders of the Republican Clubs and lawless Conventicles in Town and Country there being no reason for any Man to think otherwise since it was the usual boast of their principal Factors That more than Twenty Thousand Persons were made privy to the very beginnings of it before the late Earl of Shaftsbury's Flight Yet His Majesty utterly abhorring that bare Suspicions though never so probably grounded should prevail to conclude any Man Guilty has resolved no Reflection shall be made on the Fame of any but only such whose part in it was made out by positive Testimony And in the Kingdom of England besides the Earl of Shaftsbury who during his time was the Prime Engineer in contriving and directing all the several Motions and Parts of the whole Conspiracy next under him the Persons who are already Judicially found to have been deeply concern'd as Actors some in the Insurrection part others in the Assassination divers of them in both together are these The Duke of Monmouth whom the Factious Party had long Corrupted and Alienated from his Duty and Gratitude to the King and his Royal Highness by suggesting and increasing in him groundless Fears and poys'ning his Mind with unjust and forbidden Hopes The Lord Gray of Wark who for some Years had been ingaged in the most furious Designs of the Faction of late especially after he found that the Wickedness of his private Life could neither be so well hidden or go unpunish'd in a quiet State as in publick Disturbances The late Earl of Essex whose dark and turbulent Spirit and insatiable Ambition had carry'd him on to be one of the Principal Authors of all the late Destractions in Publick Councils and Popular Heats against the Government Till after many such ill Practices unworthy the Son of such a Father God left him at last to fall into this Precipice and permitted him to punish himself for it more severely than the King could ever have found in his Heart to do had he but given His Majesty time to make use of the excellent Goodness of his Nature The Lord Howard of Escrick who had always been a busie Promoter of Fanatical and Republican in Projects for Alterations in Church and State and was therefore for a time the second Favourite of the Disaffected whilst he was Imprison'd with the Earl of Shaftsbury Nor did they ever make any Objections against the Honesty of his private Life till he came to the honestest part of it The Lord Rassel a Person carried away beyond his Duty and Allegiance into this Traiterous Enterprise by a vain Air of Popularity and a wild Suspicion of losing a great Estate by an imaginary return of Popery whereby he was the more casily seduced by the wicked Teachers of that most Unchristian Doctrine which has been the cause of so many Rebellions and was so conformable to his Presbyterian Education That it is lawful to Resist and Rise against Soveraign Princes for preserving Religion Colonel Algernoon Sidney who from his Youth had profest himself an Enemy to the Government of his Country and had acted accordingly As he lived so he died a Stubborn Assertor of the Good Old Cause Mr. John Hambden the Younger who has renew'd and continued the Hereditary Malignity of his House against the Royal Family his Grandfather having been the most Active Instrument to widen the Breach between the late Blessed KING and the seduced part of his People The Usurper Cromwel of en own'd That Mr. Hambden was the very Man who advised him to oppose the Justice and Honour of His Majesties Cause with an affected Zeal of Conscience and pure Religion Sir Thomas Armstrong a Debauch'd Atheistical Bravo one of those who with an Hypocrisie peculiar to this Age would have pass'd for the most forward Reformers of Church and State whilst they themselves both in their Practise and Opinions were the greatest Corrupters of Virtue and all Good Manners Lieutenant Colonel Walcot an Old Officer in Cromwel's Army who after Pardon and Indemnity receiv'd and a plentiful Estate secured to him by His Majesties moll Happy Return yet was actually ingaged in all the Plots against the Government ever since Particularly in that of Ireland some Years ago to surprize the Castle of Dublin He was Introduced by the Lord Howard under the Character of a Stout and Able Officer into a strict Familiarity with the Earl of Shaftsbury from whom he never after parted till his Death accompanying him in his Flight into Holland and returning thence with his Corps he and Ferguson having this peculiar Mark of his Kindness to be named Legatees in his Last Will and Testament as his special Friends Colonel John Romzey who had gotten Credit abroad in Portugal by his Courage and Skill in Military Affairs He was recommended to the Earl of Shaftsbury as a Soldier of Fortune resolute and fit

in the Letters That those superscrib'd to West and Robert Thomson were directed to Major Holmes under those false Names That he the said Spence could open the Letters and explain the way of reading them which he did and then justified upon Oath the Explanation he had made to be according to their true sense It happen'd also at the same time whilst Spence was under close Examination that Mr. Gray of Crechie a Scotch Gentleman skill'd in the Art of Cyphers did without any the least Communication with Spence Decypher some of the principal of the said Earls Letters and when both Spence's and Mr. Gray's Copies were found to agree exactly there could not possibly have been given a more certain Demonstration of the Truth of Spence's way of Decyphering which he confess'd he was taught by Argyle himself In this manner were these Letters proved Authentick and the right meaning of them unfolded And it is evident by the plain Tenour of them that some of them were written by the said Earl just about the time that the Conspiracy was near ripening and when he was inform'd of Ten Thousand Pounds only order'd to be sent him Others were written after he had heard that the Plot was discover'd In every one of those Papers it is easie to trace out manifest Footsteps of the whole Conspiracy But particularly that of June 21 New Style which is June the 11th of the English written the very day before Keeling made the first discovery contains not only a vehement expostulation of the said Earl of Argyle's touching the delay of the Mony from England and the smallness of the Sum design'd but a plain Narration how the Insurrection was to be concerted in both Kingdoms The Body of the Letter was written in Cypher the Preface and Postscript in plain Hand in both there is reference made to Butler's that is Spence's being able to expound it and from the very same Spence was taken the Exposition of it upon Oath Therein the said Earl tells his Correspondent in England That he knew not the Grounds their Friends had gone upon to offer so little Mony nor did he understand what Assistance they would give That till he knew both and heard what Carstares or any other they should send over had to say he purpos'd neither to refuse his service nor object against any thing resolv'd here However that the said Earl had truly mention'd in his Proposition formerly made the very least Sum he thought could do the Business effectually which was not half of what had been requisite in another Juncture of Affairs That what Mony he propos'd to be rais'd was so much within the power of the Persons concern'd that if a little less could do the Business he had thought it would not he stood upon That the said Earl reckon'd the Assistance of the Horse absolutely necessary for the first Brush That as to the precise Number nam'd he would not be peremptory but he believ'd there would need that effectual Number That 1000 might be as easily rais'd as 5 or 600 and it were hard if it stuck at the Odds. That they should consider whether all ought to be hazarded upon so small a difference as to the Mony That though 't is true what was propounded is more by half than is requisite for the first Weeks Work yet soon after all or more will be necessary and then Arms cannot be sent like Mony by Bills That there are above 1200 Horse and Dragoons and 2000 Foot at least in Scotland all well appointed and tolerably well commanded That it were hard to expect Country People on Foot without Horse should beat them triple their Number That if Multitudes could be got together they would still need more Arms and more Provisions That if some considerable thing be not suddenly done at the first appearing it may fright a little but will do no good That the standing Forces will take up some station probably at Stirling That they will have for aid not only the Militia of Twenty Thousand Foot and 2000 Horse but all the Heritors to the Number it may be of 50000 Men That though many should be unwilling to fight for the standing Forces yet most will once joyn and many will be as concern'd for them as any can be against them That though the said Earls Party should have at first all the success imaginable yet it is impossible but some will keep together and have assistance from all the three Kingdoms then it will not betime to call for more Arms far less for more Mony to buy them and they should then prove like the Foolish Virgins That it is next to be consider'd how the discontented English Lords could employ so much Mony and so many Horse better for their own Interest though the Protestant Cause were not concern'd this being a little Sum and small Fonds to raise so many Men and by Gods Blessing to repress the whole Power of Scotland That the Horse to be sent from England need stay but a little while to do a Job unless future events should make Scotland the Seat of the War which would be yet more to the advantage of England That by the best Husbanding the total of the Mony proposed it cannot purchase Arms and absolute Necessaries for one time for an Army of the Number they were to deal with That nothing out of the whole is design'd to be bestow'd on many things useful and some necessary as Tents Waggons Cloaths Shooes Horse Horseshooes c. All which are not only Once to be had but daily recruited much less was any of it apportion'd to provide for Meat or Drink Intelligence or other incident Charges That some honest well-meaning good People may undertake for little because they can do little and know little what is to be done That the said Earl had made the reckoning as low as if he had been to pay it all out of his own Purse That he was resolv'd never to touch the Mony only to have it issued out according to Order That he freely submits to any knowing Souldier for the Lists and to any skilful Merchant for the Prices be had calculated That it will be a great incouragement for Persons of Estates and consideration to venture when they shall know there is a project and prospect of the whole Affair and Necessaries provided for such an attempt That if after the said Earl shall have spoken with Carstares he sees he is able to do any service he will be very willing if he be not able he will pray God some other may That before it be given over he wishes he might have such a conference as he had mentioned in another Letter a week before wherein he had offer'd either to come over privately in Person or to meet any to be sent from hence That he expected not all the Horse from the discontented Lords but some considerable part might be rais'd by particular Friends That he had yet more to add to