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A59378	The Several informations of Mr. Simeon Wright, Thomas Launders and Richard Perkin concerning the horrid Popish Plot in England : and the several ways that have been used to take off the Kings witnesses, and to hinder the further discovery of it : the two former, being witnesses in the trial of the late Lord Stafford, their informations were taken upon oath by Edmond Warcup, Esq., one of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for Middlesex and Westminster, in December last 1680 : the latter was taken upon oath by Sir Robert Atkyns, kt. at the assizes at Stafford, 1679 : the whole informations being nothing but matter of fact.	Wright, Simeon.; Lander, Thomas.; Perkin, Richard, 17th cent.	1681 (1681)	Wing S2767A; ESTC R10186	11,345	30

Son Bromley lodged and either of them would be my Baile Sir Thomas was subpaena'd as a witness for the Lord Aston and was a witness for the Lord Stafford I therefore was forced frequently to shift my lodgings and was entertained at Major General Egertons he being from home within a short time Mr. Germin Drayton Butler both to Mr. Heningham and Sir James Symonds and one Samuel Holt a Black smith to the Lord Aston of Tixal which Holt was also a witness in the Lord Staffords trial came to me frequently to the Bull-tavern in Southampton street Mr. Drayton oftner than the other and did interceed with me to write somthing that might blast Dugdale which I did and he called for it at the time appointed Two or three dayes after Mr. Drayton told me that he must bring a Gentleman to speak with me but would not name him accordingly the next day he called me and we went together to the Crown in Kings street in Blooms-bury whether he brought one Mr. Longner reputed to be the Lord Staffords Solicitor vvho thus accosted me that he was glad to see so honest a good face appear in their cause and that any one would take me for an honester man than ever Dugdale was adding that Sir James Symons was better able to perform than Dugdale was to promise and that I should not need to fear a gratuity for they were the strongest side Upon this I replyed that I was I ready to serve them in such ways as they should propose to me then they desired me to write a Paper to Destroy Dugdales Evidence I told them that I had already written one yea said Mr. Drayton but this we now desire is to satisfie Sir James Symonds yet I often denyed them for that very reason because I had before given them one but at last agreed to vvrite a Paper in their method and they vvere to pick the best out of both for their purpose which when done I vvas to svvear to I cannot undertake to remember the very vvords of it but they dictated to me and I wrote to this purpose Sir I can I bless GOD for it with a safe Conscience swear that Mr. Dugdale did at a private meeting betwixt him and my self proffer me money and a maintenance and protection as one of the Kings Evidence if I would stand by and swear for him against Sir James Symons and Mr. Gerard and others this I do neither for fear nor favour nor in hopes of any future gratuity as I hope to be saved SIMEON WRIGHT This was by their direction and then Mr. Drayton invited me to the Kings-bench Prison whither I went and after Dinner Sir James Symonds sent for me to him to Mr. Coolings and when I came told me he hoped I was sensible how great his future gratitude should be and that he hoped I would stand and fall by them when occasion should serve and that he was sorry that he had no occasion for me at present and then thrust twenty shillings into my hand Many other contrivances they had which I omit because I would not be tedious but can easily prove this and a great deale more This paper before mentioned is the Paper that William Viscount Stafford produced in Court upon his Trial. They have another Paper of this nature would they be so just to produce it which I delivered to Mr. Drayton but I know not in whose hands it is now Mr. Henry Lee Bayliff to Walter Heningham Esq who was accused to be one concern'd in this Hellish Popish Plot did frequently make it his business to revile and asperse Mr. Dugdale especially about the beginning of October last to one Mr. Moore at the House of Thomas Aspery of Aston in Stafford-shire which Mr. Moore then questioning him for and asking his name he reply'd his name was Simeon VVright a Barber in Chancery-lane by which it is very plain that he was knowing to my being imployed to ruine Mr. Dugdale as aforesaid as indeed he was and therefore made use of my Name to obscure his own They had within three Monthes last past told me that theirs is the strongest side and have given me severe charge to stand or fall with them and not be danted from which encouragement I did all that in me lay to blast Mr. Dugdale whereever I came but it hath pleased God to bring me to an acknowledgment of the truth partly by meanes of His Majesties late Proclamation for the encouragment of witnesses and partly by the good Advice of severall Friends but especially my own Conscience prompting me to this Declaration of the truth for the clearing of the Innocent and exposing the Guilty SIMEON WRIGHT Jurat ' 17. December 1680. Cor ' me EDMOND WARCUP FINIS THE INFORMATION OF Thomas Lander OF Shutborrow in the County of Stafford Another of the Witnesses in the TRYAL OF The late Lord Stafford As it was taken upon Oath By Edmund Warcup Esquire one of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex and City and Liberties of Westminster on the 24th day of December 1680. LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Princes Arms in Ludgate-street M DC LXXXI THE INFORMATION OF Thomas Lander OF Shutborrow in the County of Stafford Taken upon Oath the 24th of December 1680. before me Edmund Warcup Esquire one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex and City and Liberties of Westminster as followeth viz. THIS Informant saith That having been employed as a Workman several times at the House of my Lord Aston at Tixall in the County aforesaid he was sollicited by Mr. Francis Hind Steward to the Lord Aston to become a Witness against Stephen Dugdale late Steward to the Lord Aston any way to invalidate or take off his Evidence in relation to the Popish Plot and he served this Informant with a Subpoenae to come up to London for that purpose at the late intended Tryal of the said Lord Aston in June last past but before his coming up the said Mr. Hind Francis Aston Son to the Lord Aston and Thomas Sawyear Servant to the said Lord Aston c. sent for this Informant into a private Room in the said Lord Aston's House and there told him That if he would swear such things as should be dictated to him by the Persons aforesaid to invalidate or take off the said Dugdale's Evidence he should have such a Reward as should be to his own content and not want for Money and Horse as might become a man of better Quality than himself And this Informant agreeing to their Proposals came up to London accordingly They perswaded this Informant likewise to swear that Dugdale was a Cheating Rogue and had cheated this Informant and many more in the Country whilst he was the Lord Aston's Steward To which this Informant answered he would and saith that Hind told him That if he would do according as they directed him that he should besides the Rewards

WE do appoint Thomas Simmons and no other to Print these our Informations Concerning the HORRID POPISH PLOT SIMEON WRIGHT THOMAS LAVNDERS December the 29. 1680. THE SEVERAL INFORMATIONS OF M r. Simeon Wright Thomas Launders AND Richard Perkin Concerning the Horrid POPISH PLOT IN ENGLAND And the several ways that have been used to take off the KINGS Witnesses and to hinder the further discovery of it The two former being witnesses in the Trial of the late Lord Stafford their Informations were taken upon Oath by Edmond Warcup Esq One of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for Middlesex and Westminster in December last 1680. The latter was taken upon Oath by Sir Robert Atkyns Kt. at the Assizes at Stafford 1679. The whole Informations being nothing but matter of Fact LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Princes-Arms in Ludgate-street MDCLXXXI THE Publishers Preface TO THE READER IT is a Truth notoriously known to all considering Persons in this Nation that since the happy Discovery of the late Hellish and Damnable Popish Plot against the life and Government of His Majesty and against our Protestant Religion and Liberties and especially upon the Trials of several of the Conspirators many deep Artifices have been used by the Plotters for defaming the Kings Witnesses and for invalidating of their Testimonies for these ends witnesses have been fetch'd from Saint Omers and have appeared at several Trials but how ill they acted their parts and how unworthy they were of the names of Just and lawful Witnesses all men know Besides these we may remember Mr. READINGS endeavouring to take off Mr. BEDLOE and PRICE and TASBOROUGHS Tampering with Mr. Dugdale though all issued in their own shame and they all receiv'd their just demerits Nor can the designs of Knox Osborn and Lane to take off Doctor Oates's Evidence be obliterated it is well known how they also made use of Mr. Dangerfield who as himself acknowledgeth was engaged through the wicked and malicious instigation of the Countess of Powis the five Popish Lords in the Tower and their Accomplices in a horrid and damnable design of charging the Presbyterians with a pretended Plot against the present Government and Religion by Law established A very fine trick to take the Odium of the Plot off from themselves But it pleased Almighty God out of his Infinite mercy to this Discoverer and to many Innocent Persons that were to be accused yea to the whole Kingdome to bring him to a true sense of the guilt he had contracted and to a Resolution to make a free Discovery of whatever he had been Privy to in this Design The Popish Cause still being exposed by discovering the Artifices above they were put upno new contrivances to hide it or blast the discovery of it several of which are in the following Informations fully laid open One Thing I dare not omit here Viz. My own Observation all along in the progress of this Matter That since the first Discovery of this Plot when ever the Kings Evidence hath seemed to be as it were at a Bay as discouraged by the Power or Policy of malevolent Persons then by the Providence of the Most High another Witness hath risen up to retrieve and confirm what before seemed to be at a loss Thus after the endeavours to disparage and vilifie Dr. Oats in came Mr. Bedloe then Mr. Dugdale to assert and more fully to evince the Truth of the Doctors Testimony which was then and since by many interested Persons endeavoured to be shaken After this God raised up Mr. Praunce who fully discovered the Horrid and Bloody Murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey and confirmed the Plot in several particulars Viz. As to the designed Murther of his Sacred Majesty the Right Honourable the Earl of Shaftsbury and others And since him a Cloud of Witnesses to put the Plot past dispute have appeared as Mr. Jenison Mr. Smith Mr. Bolron Mr. Mowbray Mr. Turbervil Seignior Francisco de Faria and several others And besides this Plot in England there hath been another altogether as cruel and bloudy carried on in Ireland which hath been fully discovered by several Persons of good Credit as Mr. Hetherington Mr. Macnemarra Mr. Boork Mr. Fitz-Gerald Mr. Sampson and others But notwithstanding these great discoveries how many wilfully or at least pretendedly shut their eyes but tho they will not see according to that Scriptural Expression yet in time they shall see and shall be ashamed for the hand of God hitherto hath been more then ordinarily seen in these matters The Reader hath here before him a few of the very many Decrees of Popish Adversaries against the Discoverers of their Plot. Enough to satisfie any unprejudic'd and unbiassed man of the Truth and reality of the Plot ●ince such wayes as these viz. Stabbing Forswearing and Burning were to be used to take off those that revealed it The first Information you have before you is Mr. Wrights who hath fully discovered the several ways wherein he was instructed for the taking off Mr. Dugdale and having so great opportunities to have muthered him his Preservation is only to be ascribed to the wonderful mercy of God and that failing his next work was to blast his Reputation by Swearing Subornation of perjury against him but when this was to be done his Conscience misgave him and God at length brought him to discover the whole Intreague The second Information is that of Thomas Launder who hath also discovered the several ways by which he was perswaded to take off Mr. Dugdale and when it was perceived that he was not a Tool for their purpose then to sacrifice Mr. Dugdale to their fury the house in which he lay must be fired in order to destroy him but herein also God wonderfully appeared for his Preservation That none of these Gracious Providences of the Almighty may be lost upon this Kingdome but all improved with wisdome to an humble acknowledgment and thankful Obedience ought to be the Prayer of every True Protestant The third contains a Horrid story of Romish Priests and their followers impiety a story the like but among Papists has not been heard of no wonder that a Dying Traytor may go out of the world with a Lie in his Mouth since so notorious falshoods as these are allowed by their Priests themselves since such Truths may be so solemnly denied and that with such Horrid Imprecations and dreadful Oaths These Papers are published to the end that all such as are concerned for the Welfare and Prosperity of their Religion and Country may be the more fully convinced how much it is their interest to endeavour for the future to disappoint all the contrivances of this cruel Bloody Party who are so active and so indefatigably industrious to promote their own Designs under the pretence of Religion this is the benefit that is heartily wished may accrue by the Publishing of these Informations to all English-men and to all the True Lovers of the True Protestant Religion