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A34574	Stafford's memoires, or, A brief and impartial account of the birth and quality, imprisonment, tryal, principles, declaration, comportment, devotion, last speech, and final end of William, late Lord Viscount Stafford, beheaded on Tower-hill Wednesday the 29. of Decemb. 1680 whereunto is annexed a short appendix concerning some passages in Stephen Colledges tryal / the whole now again set forth for a more ample illustration of that so wonderfully zealous pamphlet entituled The papists bloody aftergame, writ in answer to the said Memoirs, and published by Langley Curtis, 1682.	Corker, James Maurus, 1636-1715.; Curtis, Langley, fl. 1668-1725.	1682 (1682)	Wing C6306A; ESTC R40876	92,519	237

think I never said any thing that was unfitting there or contrary to the Law and Vse of Parliaments For certainly if I had the Lords would as they might have punished me So I am not culpable before God or Man It is much reported of Indulgences Dispensations and Pardons to Murther Rebel Lie Forswear and Commit such other Crimes held and given in the Church I do here profess in the presence of God I never Learned Believed or Practised any such thing but the contrary And I speak this without any Equivocation or Reservation whatsoever And certainly were I guilty either my self or knew of any one that were Guilty whosoever that were so of any of those Crimes of which I am accused I were not only the greatest Fool imaginable but a perfect Mad-man and as wicked as any of those that so falsly have accused me If I should not discover any ill Design I knew in any kind and so upon Discovery save my Life I have so often had so fair occasions proposed unto me And so am guilty of Self-Murther which is a most grievous and hainous Sin and though I was last Impeached at the Lords Bar yet I have great grounds to believe that I was first brought to Tryal on the belief that to save my Life I would make some great Discovery And truly so I would had I known any such thing of any ill Design or Illegal Dangerous Plot either of my self or any other Person whatsoever without any Exception But had I a thousand Lives I would loose them all rather then Falsly accuse either my self or any other whatsoever And if I had known of any Treason and should thus deny it as I do now upon my Salvation at this time I should have no hope of Salvation which now I have through the Merits of Christ Jesus I do beseech God to bless his Majesty who is my Lawful King and Soveraign whom I was always by all Laws Humane and Divine bound to Obey and I am sure that no power upon Earth either singly or altogether can legally allow me or any body else to lift up a hand against him or his Legal Authority I do hold that the Constitution of the Government of this Kingdom is the only way to continue peace and quietness which God long continue Next to Treason I hold Murther in Abhorrence and have ever done and do And I do sincerely profess that if I could at this time free my self immediatly and Establish what Religion I would and what Government I would and make my self as great as I could wish and all by the Death of one of those Fellows that by their Perjuries have brought me to the place where I am I so much abhor to be the cause of any Mans death that I would not any way be the cause of their Murther how much less would I endeavour the Assassination of his Majesty whom I hold to be as Gracious a King as ever this or any other Nation had And under whom the People may enjoy their Liberties as much as ever any did And if it please God to grant him Life and Happiness according as I have always Wished and Prayed for I am morally perswaded that he and all his Dominions will be as happy and prosperous as ever People were Which I beseech God grant I do most humbly ask Pardon of the Almighty and All-merciful God for all the great Offences I have committed against his Divine Majesty and I know he would not have the Death and Confusion of a Sinner but that he may Repent and Live In that assurance I hope knowing he never despiseth a Contrite Heart And though I have not so feeling a Contrition as I would yet I have it as well as I can and I doubt not but that God will accept of the Good Will I do desire that all People will forgive me any Injury that I have done them in any thing either Wilfully or by Chance and I do heartily forgive all People in this World that have Injured me I forgive even those Perjured Men that so Falsly have brought me hither by their Perjuries I do now upon my Death and Salvation aver That I never spoke one word either to Oates or Turbervil or to my knowledge ever saw them until my Tryal And for Dugdale I never spoke unto him of any thing but about a Foot-boy or Foot-man or Foot-race and never was then alone with him All the Punishment that I wish them is that they may repent and acknowledge the Wrong that they have done me then it will appear how Innocent I am God forgive them I have a great Confidence that it please Almighty God and that he will in a short time bring Truth to Light then You and all the World will see and know what Injury they have done me I hope that I have made it appear that I have some Conscience for if I had none certainly I would have sav'd my Life by acknowledging my self Guilty which I could have done though I know I am not in the least Guilty And I having some Conscience make very ill use of it for I throw my self into Eternal Pain by thus plainly and constantly denying thus at my Death the knowledge of what I am accused of in the least I have said thus much in discharge of my Concience and do aver upon my Salvation what I have said to be really true I shall say little of my Tryal and whether it were all according to the known Law I am two much a Party to say much of it if it were not so God forgive him or them that were the cause of it My Judges were all Persons of Honour who were all as much bound to Judge rightly as if they had been upon Oath upon what was legally proved And not to Vote but according as in their Consciences they were satisfied And if any of them did otherwise upon any account whatsoever I beseech God to forgive them I do heartily I shall end with my hearty Prayers for the happiness of His Majesty that he may enjoy all happiness in this World and the World to come and Govern his People according to the Laws of God and that the People may be sensible what a Blessing God hath so miraculously given them and obey him as they ought I ask Pardon with a prostrate Heart of Almighty God for all the great Offences that I have committed against his Divine Majesty and hope through the Merits and Passion of Christ Jesus to obtain everlasting Happiness into whose hands I commit my Spirit asking Pardon of every Person that I have done any wrong to I do freely for give all that have any ways wronged me I do with all the Devotion and Repentance that I can humbly invoke the mercy of our Blessed Saviour I beseech God not to Revenge my Innocent Bloud upon the Nation or on those that were the cause of it with my last Breath I do with my last Breath truly

Species or Kinds in doing of which he instituted not only a Sacrament but also a Sacrifice a Commemorative Sacrifice distinctly shewing his Death or Bloudy Passion until he come For as the Sacrifice of the Cross was performed by a distinct Effusion of Bloud so is the same Sacrifice Commemorated in that of the Altar by a distinction of the Symbols Jesus therefore is here given not only to us but for us and the Church thereby enriched with a true proper and propitiatory Sacrifice usually termed Mass 11. Catholicks Renounce all Divine Worship and Adoration of Images or Pictures God alone we Worship and Adore nevertheless we make use of Pictures and place them in Churches and Oratories to reduce our wandring thoughts and Enliven our Memories towards Heavenly things And farther we allow a certain Honour and Veneration to the Picture of Christ of the Virgin Mary c. beyond what is due to every Prophane Figure not that we believe any Divinity or Vertue in the Pictures themselves for which they ought to be Honoured but because the Honour given to the Pictures is referred to the Prototypes or things represented In like manner 12. There is a kind of Honour and Veneration Respectively due to the Bible to the Cross to the Name of Jesus to Churches to the Sacraments c. as things peculiarly appertaining to God also to the glorified Saints in Heaven as the Domestick Friends of God yea to Kings Magistrates and Superiors on Earth as the Vicegerents of God To whom Honour is due Honour may be given without any Derogation to the Majesty of God or that Divine Worship appropriate to him Furthermore 13. Catholicks believe That the blessed Saints in Heaven replenished with Charity pray for us their fellow-Members here on Earth that they Rejoyce at our Conversion that seeing God they see and know in him all things suitable to their happy state that God is Inclinable to hear their Requests made in our behalf and for their sakes grants Us many Favours That therefore it is good and Profitable to Desire their Intercession And that this manner of Invocation is no more Injurious to Christ our Mediator nor Superabundant in it self then it is for one Christian to beg the Prayers and Assistance of another in this World Notwithstanding all which Catholicks are taught not so to Relie on the Prayers of others as to neglect their own Duty to God In Imploring his Divine Mercy and Goodness in Mortifying the Deeds of the Flesh in Despising the World in Loving and Serving God and their Neighbours in Following the Footsteps of Christ our Lord who is the Way the Truth and the Life To whom be Honour and Glory for ever and ever Amen THese are the Principles These the Treasons These the Idolatries and Superstitions which though no other then what We have Received of our Fore-fathers and what the greatest part of the Christian World now profess yet have drawn upon Us poor Catholicks in England such Dreadful Punishments I beseech you Sir consider our Cause without Passion or Prejudice and I am confident you will see We are not such Monsters as our Adversaries Represent Us to be nor entertain such Principles as are Inconsistent with our Duty to God and the King You seem to say This very Plot with which We are charged proves Us guilty of wicked Principles But under Favour You here commit a Vicious Circle in way of Arguing For first here are wicked Principles alledg'd to make good the Proof of a Plot And these being deny'd the Plot is introduced to make out the wicked Principles As if a man should say a thing because he thought so and give no Reason why he thought so but only because he said so which instead of Proof is to beg the Question Certain I am Catholicks both Taught and Practised Principles of Loyalty at a Time when the King and Kingdom felt the Dire Effects of contrary Perswasions In Fine whatsoever is pretended against Us it is manifest We suffer for our Religion and for our Religion wrongfully traduced It is a farther Comfort to Us that our Sufferings God be praised are in some measure not unlike to those of Christ our Lord For it was laid to his Charge as it is to Ours that he was a Traytor to Caesar That he perverted the People and endeavoured the Destruction of Church and State Nor were there wanting then as now an Oates and Bedloe two false Witnesses to Swear all this Thus God I hope hath Predestinated Us as the Apostle saith to be conform to the Image of his Son to the end that Suffering with Him We may through his Mercy be Glorified together with him Sweet Jesus Bless our Soveraign Pardon our Enemies Grant Us Patience and Establish Peace and Charity in our Nation THus much of my Lord's Principles in Reference to God and the King Whether they be agreable to Reason and Conformable to the Law and Ghospel of Christ I leave to the Impartial Reader to Judge SECT IV. My Lord's Declaration before the House of Lords after his Condemnation SOon after my Lords Tryal several of his Relations and Acquaintance some out of zeal against Popery and others out of kindness to my Lord were daily urgent with him to make Discoveries of all he knew as the only remaining remedy whereby to save his Life regain the Kings favour and attract the applause of the whole Nation My Lord always reply'd He was most willing and ready out of a meer sense of Duty and Conscience independent of any Temporal advantage to himself to discover with all imaginable Sincerity the utmost of what he knew either to the King or House of Lords when ever they required it The Lords being informed hereof Ordered his appearance before them the next day When he came and had audience granted he made his acknowledgments to this effect That he thought it no crime in any Man to wish his Neighbours might be of the same Religion wherein he himself hoped to be saved Nay to seek and promote it by such ways and means as the Laws of God and the Nation allow That there had been at divers times and on sundry occasions endeavours used and overtures made to obtain an Abrogation or at least a Mitigation of Severities against Catholicks But this to be procured no otherwise then by Legal and Parliamentary means That he himself went to Breda whilst the King was there and propounded 100000 l. in behalf of the Catholicks to take off the penal Laws That after the King came in there was a Bill brought into the House in favour of Catholicks but it was opposed by my Lord Chancellour Hide That there had likewise been framed by the Lord Bristol and others in order to the proposing of them in Parliament several forms of Oaths conceived in

Cap. 15. Verse 54. Absorpta est Mors in Victoriâ AN APPENDIX Containing some Remarques upon the late TRYAL OF STEPHEN COLLEDGE In Relation to the Chief Witnesses against my Lord Stafford Here annexed for the more Ample Satisfaction of the Reader in that Particular HAving in some measure performed what I purposed and promised in the front of this Treatise I might well have here put a stop to my Pen had not an extraordinary Accident raised new matter of Reflections upon the King's Evidence in point of Credit and seemed to call me to a short Survey of it in the close of my Discourse The Judgments of the Almighty are incomprehensible And St. Paul had good reason to Cry out as it were in an Extasy O the depth of the riches both of the Wisdom and Knowledge of God How unsearchable are his Judgments and his ways past finding out Who could ever have imagined That the three direct and main Witnesses against my Lord Stafford at his Tryal should all convene together at another of a quite contrary stamp And this is in so fatal a conjuncture as to confound and destroy by open Perjury each others Testimony My Lord as you have seen endeavour'd to shew the Infamy of the Witnesses The Contradictions in their Evidence The Incoherence of parts And Incredibility of Circumstances throughout the whole Charge To make out which he alledged many pressing Arguments and produc'd many Substantial Witnesses both Catholicks and Protestants in his behalf Nothing seem'd wanting save only his Adversaries themselves against themselves to compleat his Evidence And here it is the Divine Goodness say the Papists who is the Defender of Innocence and Fountain of Truth hath wonderfully manifested what manner of Men my Lord's Accusers were and what credit ought to be given them Even by the proper Testimony of their own Mouths Herein also fulfilling in some sort what my Lord himself Prophetically foretold in his last Speech viz I have a great confidence that it will please Almighty God And that he will in a short time bring Truth to Light Then all the World will see and know what Injury they Oates Dugdale and Turbervil have done me TO give a brief account of this affair There are few who have not heard of the late Tryal of Stephen Colledge Sirnamed the Protestant Joyner a man very active in the Death of my Lord Stafford and a zealous defender of Dugdales Honesty He was Impeached Arraigned Condemned and Executed for High Treason In speaking Treasonable Words And having by a designed combination with others appeard in Arms to Seize the Kings Person at Oxford The Witnesses against him were Smith Dugdale Turbervil Haines Mr. Maisters and Sir William Jennings It is not my intent here to Epitomize Colledges whole Tryal Nor to give my Censure or Verdict upon it But only to inform the Reader of some Passages which chiefly relate to the main Witnesses against my Lord Stafford And which are now become the Subject of Surprise and Astonishment to all Considering Persons Please then to note That Stephen Dugdale and Edward Turbervil two of the Principal Witnesses upon whose Testimony my Lord was Found Guilty and John Smith otherwise called Narrative Smith who at my Lords Tryal seemed the only plausible Deponent as to the Plot in General gave respective Evidence against this Colledge at Oxford as followeth Stephen Dugdale Swore 1 st Mr. Colledge told him That the King was a Papist That he was as deep in the Plot as any Papist of them all which the Papists themselves also confess That he had an hand in Sir E. Godfreys death That he was a Rogue That nothing was to be expected from him but Popery and Arbitrary Government And that the Clergy of England were Papists in Masquerade 2ly That Colledge had framed several notorious Libels against the King to render him contemptible and raised Arms with intent to seize His Sacred Person at Oxford c. Turbervil Swore He heard Colledge say 1 st That there was no good to be expected from the King For that he and his Family were Papists and had ever been such 2 ly That his Party would Seize the King and secure him till he came to those terms they would have of him 3 ly That the Parliament which cut off the late King's Head did nothing but what they had just cause for c. Smith Swore 1 st That Colledge told him There were Moneys collected to buy Arms and Amunition to bring the King to Submission to his People Adding thereunto That he wondered Old Rowley meaning the King did not consider how easily his Fathers Head came to the Block which he doubted not would be the End of Rowley at last 2 ly That Colledge had provided himself of a great Sword Pistols Blunderbuss with Back Breast and Head-peice And that he heard him say The City was provided and ready with Powder and Bullets That he would be one who should Seize the King in case he secured any of the Members of Parliament And that if any man nay even Rowley himself should attempt to Seize upon his Arms He would be the death of him c. In direct opposition to these Witnesses Colledge produced Titus Oates the third principal Witness against my Lord Stafford And first Grand Discoverer of the Popish Plot who gave attestation against the said several Witnesses after this manner AGainst Dugdale Oates deposed That the said Oates discoursing upon occasion with Dugdale concerning his being an intended Evidence against my Lord Shaftsbury and others Duglale replied There is no body hath any cause to make any such report of me For I call God to Witness I know nothing against any Protestant in England But afterwards Dugdale having Sworn matters of High Treason against Colledge before the Grand-Jury at the Old Baily and being hereupon charged by Oates as having gone against his Conscience and contrary to what he had declared to him Dugdale answered It was all long of Collonel Warcup for said he I could get no Money else And he promised I should have a place in the Custom-House In opposition to this Testimony Dugdale Swore Vpon the Oath he had taken and As he hoped for Salvation It was not true Against the same Dugdale Oates farther deposed That Dugdale did confess he had an old Clap yet gave out he was Poysoned which sham passed throughout the Kingdom in our Intelligences But in Truth said Oates it was the Pox As I will make appear by the Physician that cured him In opposition to which Dugdale protested If any Doctor would come forth and say he cured him of a Clap or any such thing He would stand Guilty of all that is imputed to him AGainst Turbervil also Oates gave Ev●dence in these words A little before the Witnesses were Sworn against Colledge at the Old Baily I Oates met with Mr. Turbervil I was in a Coach But seeing Mr. Turbervil I stept out of