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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

his Pas-port for another world and comming to me then at the Horseshooe Tavern he gave me thirty Guinnies but Mr. Cross comming into the room at that instant of his delivering them me I immediatly return'd them him again not desiring any Eye witnesses of my receiving his gold at which he seemed to be very angry Some time after this some unexpected troubles overtaking me I was for the security of my person obliged to quit my Habitation and the Night before I went I met with Mr. Plessington near middle row in Holbourn and told him I feared I could not performe my promise to him because I wanted mony to carry on the design he desired me to be as true to him as he would be to me and then gave me three Guinnies and ordered me to meet him the Monday following at Billings-gate this was in September 1679 but I failed then meeting him I then took a lodging in Wapping unknown to Mr. Plessington but he meeting Mr. Leacroff of Walton in Stafford shire my very good friend enquired of him where I was and pretended that I had much damnified him in not meeting him at Billings-gate according to appointment Mr. Leacroff told him that I was under a Cloud at which he seemed very sorry and said he might notwithstanding have met me for he knowes I design him no hurt but should have met him for his advantage After this he understanding that I was removed to a Cheesmonger in Ratcliff caused me frequently to visit him in the Tower and if at any time I was questioned whether I went he ordered me to make use of my own Friends names in the Tower as Mr. Shenton in the Minte Mr. Hubbard at Sir George Whartons or Mr. Spenser at Sir Jonas Moores any of which names would have gained me admittance At one of our meetings there I told him that Mr. Dugdale had appointed me to meet him on such a day which day I then told him at the Fleece Tavern at Billings-gate then he desired me to call of him that day before I went to Dugdale which I did and dined with him at his Lords Lodging in the Tower it was the day after His Grace the Duke of Monmouth returned from beyond the Seas or thereabouts When we had dined Mr. Plessington conveyed me to an Ale-house in the Tower near the Lieutenants House the House had the Model of a ship or two hanging in it There came two or three Gentlemen with Mr. Plessington who importuned me to get Mr. Dugdale away from Billins-gate by water designing to attempt him upon the water as I supposed I told them I would go to him to the Fleece and see what Company was with him and if he were alone would acquaint them Accordingly I went and found two persons with him and a third came to him whilst I was with him but I had staid there longer than they expected so that when I returned back to the Dog they were gone and had taken with them my Cane which I left there The next day I went to Mr. Plessington for my Cane who said to me we missed a brave opportunity Yesterday I replyed not as good as when I missed my designe upon him in the Strand no said he but have at the third time and then he seemed to suspect me for refusing the thirty Guinnies at the Horseshoo-tavern which I told him I did fearing Mr. Cross should discover something of our designe hang him said he if he do wee l tell him another story I then asked him what I should say to persons that asked me how I came so soon to want monies when I so lately had seven hundred pound to put out to use Pugh said he tell them that it was mine and that I being as you feared concerned in the Plot you were to put it out in your name for my use in which I observed his directions But be sure said he that you continue to blast Dugdale all you can for we can have no fitter person for the purpose than your self but I will suddainly be with you again and contrive a way for you to do it more easily and effectually Accordingly he came on a Saturday ni●ht and lay with me an then told me that I being a witness or Mr. Dugdale in the Trial of Price might do them the service they desired by swearing that Mr. Dugdale profered me I monies maintenance and protection as a Kings Evidence if I would swear against Sir James Symons Mr. Gerard and others this I promised to do but before the trial having seriously considered what it was that I was about to do my purpose was altered and therefore desired Mr. Plessington to put it off and told him I would be out of the way before I was subpaena'd designing to go to Chelmsford in Essex but he would by no meanes consent to it and so I was at the trial of Anne Price and John Tasborough but did not swear against Dugdale as I had promised and as they expected at which I after perceived they were much startled Soon after Mr. Plessington coming to me told me that I had lost my self and that I was not the man he took me for and after some other discourse said that if I would yield my self forsworn in what I had witnessed at the Trial he would get a Friend to speak to the Duke of York and did not in the least question but by his meanes to get me a Pardon for Perjury And he then instructed me to say that Mr. Dugdale threatned me if I owned a word of our meeting at Billings-gate or of his promises to me that he would bring two to swear Treason against me and have me hanged or at least such Crimes as should cause me to be Pillored And at his instigation I did tell several in and about London that Dugdale was a Rogue and that I would do his business for him ' ere long that he had made me forswear my self to do him a kindness with more such notorious falshoods About four days after the Trial I was upon suspition apprehended for a Priest and carryed before Sir William Waller but was releast by the meanes of a Letter from my Honored Friend Sir Humphery Doleman this was in February 1679. After this I began to stand firm to the Popish Interest and was intended to be a witness against Mr. Dugdale in the Trial of the Lord Aston and Sir James Symons this was in the beginning of the year 1680. That which confirmed me more to their Intrest was the misinformation I had receiv'd by their meanes concerning Mr. Dugdale viz. That he was the cause of my being apprehended for a Priest and that he designed mischief against me and that he had profered ten pounds to take me before the Lord Astons Tryal with which I acquainted Sir Thomas Whitegrave who bid me if any trouble of that Nature came upon me to send to Mr. Thomas Robinsons in Cursitors Alley where he and his