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A81180	A Cunning plot to divide and destroy, the Parliament and the city of London. Made knowne (at a common hall) by the Earle of Northumberland, Master Solliciter, and Sir Henry Vane. The design is fully discovered in the severall examinations and confessions, of Master Riley. Several examinations and confessions, of Sir Basill Brook. Severall examinations and confessions, of Master Violet. Proclamations from his Majesty. Letters from his Majesty. Letters from the Lord Digby. Letters from Colonell Read.	Northumberland, Algernon Percy, Earl of, 1602-1668.; Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I). Proclamation for the removing of the Courts of Kings-Bench and of the Exchequer from Westminster to Oxford.	1644 (1644)	Wing C7586; Thomason E29_3; ESTC R11898	34,816	59

of this present Parliament as will appeare by the Lord Digbyes letter to De vic and the summoning of the great Councell or Parliament at Oxford compared with the third of these Propositions By the letter to De vic this Parliament as the resolution then was at Oxford must not be acknowledged and by this third Proposition for that very cause the Parliament must be waved and the Treaty must be immediatly between the King and City The consequence whereof had been no lesse then the rendring of the Kingdome for ever uncapable of having any more Parliaments This Parliament It was called and continued according to the knowne Lawes and Usages of the Kingdome was afterwards by an Act of Parliament assented unto by his Majestie so acknowledged and made indissolvable without its own consent a greater Testimony of the validity of this Parliament then I think was ever given to any If neither the Common Lawes and usages of this Kingdome nor the concurrent Authority of an Act Parliament be able to support this Parliament when his Majestie shall declare the contrary I shall without more words leave to your judgements whether this doctrin doth not at once blow up the fundamentalls of all Parliaments Lawes of the Kingdome Libertie of the Subjects and of the whole pollicie and Government of this Kingdome which being destroyed what security you could have devised for the maintaining of the Religion Lawes and Liberties of the Kingdome as is promised you in his Majesties letter I know not 3. The third was not onely the preventing of the assistance of our Brethren in Scotland But that which is worse and must have necessarily followed thereupon the embroiling of both the Nations in divisions in all likelihood fat all unto both this will appeare by putting together what hath beene done by the Parliament those at Oxford and the transactions in this designe The Parliament long since have invited that Nation to our assistance in this common cause upon weighty considerations As first conceiving that by this meanes through Gods blessing this great cause which concernes our Religion Lawes Liberties and all we have would be assured and the event of the War otherwise doubtfull made more certaine 2. Secondly that by their assistance the war might be the sooner ended and so by consequence the calamities which of necessity must accompany it their assistance adding so considerable a strength to our party besides the reputation which the concurrence of a whole Nation with us will adde to the justnesse of the cause 3. And thirdly that as in likelihood by their joynt concurrence a better Peace for present might be procured so in all probability what shall be agreed upon would be the more lasting and durable both Nations being equally interested in what should be agreed upon Besides the Covenant maturely sworn and agreed upon by both Nations for the maintenance and defence of Religion and of the mutuall Lawes and Liberties of each Kingdome a solemne league and Treaty hath likewise beene mutually agreed upon between the Parliament here and that Kingdome concerning the manner of their assistance and great sums of money have been thereupon sent unto them In which Treaty one Article is That neither Nation shall entertaine any Treaty of Peace without the advice and consent of the other This in briefe containes the transactions between that Nation and the Parliament At Oxford by papers in the forme of Proclamations they have stiled this assistance an Invasion of the Kingdome and one end of the calling of that great Councell or Parliament is for opposing of the same In the carriage of the present designe by one of Reads letters to Ryley he saith That a dore is open by the comming in of the Scots for the destruction of this Kingdome That therefore this Peace must presently be concluded That all is lost unlesse it be done speedily The maine intent of the letter is for the speeding of it to that end The Lord Digbyes letter to Sir Basil Brooke referring the delivering of his Majesties letter to my Lord Mayor to his discretion he forthwith delivers it to Wood to be the next day delivered to my Lord Mayor and he next day after the delivery to be by him published He saw it necessary and so resolved at Oxford That we must speedily breake with the Scots Their assistance how necessary and by Gods blessing how beneficiall it is like to be unto us I think you see but this must be prevented The honour and publike faith of Nations how Sacred it is and from the rules of Religion and common policie how tenderly to be preserved each man knowes But this designe must violate and staine our honour in the highest For contrary to the Article before mentioned this Treaty must presently be set on foot without them such violations are alwayes deeply resented by the parties injured how dangerous therefore the consequence must needs have beene he that runnes may reade This was the Designe It was too Ugly It was too Black Bare fac'd to have been presented to your view and therefore it must be masqu't This hook must be baited with the sweet word Peace It hath been long since observed from the Ecclesiasticall proceedings of the Romish Church That in nomine Domini Incipit omne malum The Holy Name of God must bear out all their Spirituall wickednesses The end of all Civil Policie is the preserving of just and Honourable Peace and therefore these men when Divisions Violence and what is most contrary to Peace is intended yet for the compassing of these ends Peace must be pretended So was it by many of them about this time twelve moneth Designed in their Petition to the Parliament for a Peace and so was it in the bloodie plot upon the Citie and diverse Members of both Houses discovered the last Summer For upon the examinations of diverse of them It appeared that the ground of that plot was laid in the first Petition and that the second was to have been guilded over with a Petition for Peace These men I speak of these designes they cry Peace Peace that destruction might have come upon you as an armed man You shal now hear the examinations and other things read at large unto you SIR HENRY VANE JUNIOR His Introduction to the Reading the severall Examinations taken in this businesse Together with severall Observations delivered by him upon occasion thereof GENTLEMEN YOU have heard very fully the State of this bu sines by what the Persons that have already spoken have opened to you in generall that which you are now in the next place to have communicated to you are the Examinations as they proceeded from the mouthes of the Parties themselves that you may see the Design in its lively colours and that as you have had it summarily presented to you from this Noble Lord and worthy Gentleman you may now hear the parties themselves speak The first Examination that was taken was the 4. of Jan. 1643. and

to Master Rily by the name of the Man in the Moone assures him The businesse goes on well at Oxford Promises of reward are made to Ryley and Violet Peace being the pretence Therefore Propositions are framed and agreed on fix in number by Read Sir Basil Brooke Ryley and Violet and seene by others and afterwards sent to Oxford A Petition for Peace being intended the better to induce that It was agreed that his Majestie must write a powerfull and promising letter to the Lord Major and Citizens to be read at a Common Hall and fit Instruments thought upon to be imployed to prepare my Lord Major before hand The Letter was written and agreed uponhere by Sir Basil Brook Master Ryley and Violet and sent to Oxford Violet a prisoner by Master Ryleys means was procured to be exchanged that he might from Oxford bring the letter and advises for the carrying on of the businesse At Oxford the businesse was so diligently sollicited by Read that at Violets coming all things were ready and after three houres discourse in his Majesties presence with the Queene the Dutches of Buckingham the Lord Digby Violet the same day being the Munday before the discovery dispatched from Oxford with his Majesties Letter altered in nothing save the Title and with another Letter from the Lord Digby to Sir Basil Brooke whereby the whole managing of the businesse is intrusted to Sir Basil Brook and it is wholly left to his Wisdom and Discretion whither the letter to the City shall be delivered or not Violet brought both the Letters to Sir Basil Brooke the Wednesday after and one Wood having formerly brought a Letter from Oxford to the City the same in matter with this that Violet brought which will be read unto you Sir Basil Brook delivered the Letter that came last from Oxford to Wood to be delivered to my Lord Major the next day after which was Thursday and with direction That it should have been published on the Fryday The delivery of it to my Lord Major by the discovery of it the same day was prevented and Sir Basil Brooke Ryley and Violet that night were examined Before the Reading of the Examinations Letters and Propositions unto you at large That the main designe to be made out by them as they are conjoyned and have relation to the precedent narrative may be the better understood I shall in brief touch upon the matter of them as likewise upon such Conclusions as may necessarily be deduced from them As first That no Peace was really intended appears throughout the whole transaction The propositions which upon the Supposition that this is no Parliament if anything were to have been the ground-work foundation of it which upon the reading you will finde so flight and frivolous that no man can conceive that our Peace could have been built upon such a foundation Nothing so much as spoken of concerning Ireland or the disengaging of of our ●elves from the Articles of Agreement with our Brethren of Scotland No provision for Reformation of Religion or preservation of that we have or of our Lawes and Liberties But in stead thereof there are quaedam iniqua the Excise must be continued beyond the war that out of it the King might have a benefit and the debts of the Enemies to the Parliament repayed and the City immediatly to be Treated with That no Peace was intended appeares further from the L Digbies Letter written within a day or two of that to the City to the Ki Agent at Brussels who writes that the French Treaty was at an end because the Parliament must not be acknowledged to be a Parliament that as the King for a long time had taken that for a ground so he held the same resolution still being thereunto advised by all his Lords at Oxford and by his resolution of holding a Great Counsell in the nature of a Parliament at Oxford the 22. of this Moneth And when his Majesties Letter shall be read you will finde no particulars whereupon a Peace should have been built save only kinde words in generalls This further appeares from the persons who were the first Designers and Contrivers and were to have been the chief managers from first to last of the businesse Read and Sir Basil Brook known Iesuited Papists and alwaies active in promoting Popish practizes This Peace must have been such as these persons shall contrive The prayer for our deliverance from the Gun powder Treason agreed upon in Parliament saith That the Faith of such Papists is faction Their practises the murdering of the soules and bodies of men Read he hath been a Contriver and prosecuter of the bloody Tragedies of the Protestants in Ireland the other not without suspicion to have had his hand in it what is said concerning the Queen in that particular is set forth by the Declaration of both or one of the Houses and the Articles of her Impeachment the Countesse of Buckingham beside that her husband hath appeared visibly in that Rebession is not free of other cause of suspition These as was said before assisted with the Lord Digby must be the Instruments of this Peace which as it is set forth in his Majesties Letter must be such as that whereby the true Protestant Religion the Lawes and Liberties of the Kingdome must be maintained These Papists you see who had done so good service for the Protestant Religion in Ireland must lay the foundation for the preservation of it here Sir Basil Brook and Read well knew that the Pope and and Popery have been banished this Kingdome by the Parliaments of England and that the succeeding Parliaments to this time have alwaies endeavored the suppression of popery and therefore Degenerating from their Predecessors who in the Gun-powder Treason endeavoured for that cause to have blown up the parliament They must now endeavour the Preservation of the Parliament and the Lawes and the Liberties of the Kingdome The things which from this briefe Narrative the reading of the Examinations Propositions and Letters will appeare to have been designed are these First the dividing the Parliament from the City and the Parliament and the City within themselves First in respect that this Treaty of Peace was to have been immediately between the King and the City and that whereupon the Peace of the whole Kingdome should have been setled as appeares by his Majesties Letter what wide rents such a Treaty must have produced between the City and Parliament is obvious Again for the prosecution of the Treaty when entertained by the City safe conducts were to have been granted not only to those of the City but to such of the Members of either House as would have repaired to Oxford for that purpose Every man sees by this what division and confusion would have followed both in City and Parliament The Projectors were well acquainted with Machivels maxime divide impera The second was no lesse then the utter destruction the nulling and making voyd

him such a Petition he will then very willingly receive it The third thing is this That his Majesty declares that there is no art he hath hitherto passed in Parliament but he will be most willing to confirm a Declaration that is renewed upon all occasions but never otherwise observed then it is now for in the mean time that act whereby this Parliament is a Parliament whereby all other acts of Parliament and the whole frame of the Lawes of this Kingdome are confirmed and preserved that very act in this design is to be laid aside and utterly to be destroyed And this Treaty is brought about for no other ends but to destroy that so that you may plainly see upon what ground these things are got from his Majestie and upon what counsels and withall consider what colour of ground you can have to receive any fruit from any such Declarations and Protestations as these are when they must only serve to amaze you til this Parliament and in this all Parliaments are for ever rooted out and destroyed The next Letter that is to be offered to you is the Letter of the Lord Digby upon another occasion which was presented to the Houses by a Noble Lord that is here present his Excellencie my Lord Generall who intercepted it going beyond Sea you shall understand there yet more clearly what manner of counsels his Majesty is now upon at Oxford which Letter shall be now read unto you For my very worthy Friend Sir Henry De Vic. From Oxford the 27. Decemb. 1643. Your very effectionate Friend and Servant George Digby SIr My indisposition the last week fore'st me to refer you to my Secretary for an account of what Occurrences that offorded This week hath been so little productive of any thing Considerable that when I shall have told you of taking of Beston Castle in Cheshire by his Majestes Forces under the Lord Biron a place of huge Importance both for strength and Command of all those countries of Cheshier Lancashire and some parts of Stafford and Darbishiere I shall have told you all the Marquesse of New castle having attempted nothing since the taking of Winckfield Mannor Plimouth remaining still in its former condition besieged and there having been nothing done between my Lord Hopton and Sir Walliam Waller since the unlucky beating up of one of our Quarters at Alton But we are in daily expectation of a criticall Blow between them The Lord Wilmot being now joyned with the Lord Hopton with a fresh strength of a thousand Horse and both being under march to attain Waller who hath possess'd himself of Arundell-Town we having a strong Garrison in the Castle and it is probably hoped he cannot avoid fighting with him upon disadvantage Thus much for the Military part The Prince de Harcourts Negotiation by way of Intermise for an Accommodation is well nigh at an end as I beleeve for that the pretended Parliament will not hearken to any Propositions from him in any other way then of an avowed addresse by which they might seem either to be owned by him as a Parliament and applied to by him as an Ambassadour or else to be admitted by the King for somewhat more considerable then He hath in a long time owned them for A point which His Majestie may not suffer them to gain without subverting the grounds Maxime of all his late proceedings against them and that which He now goes upon by the advice of all his Nobility here as you will perceive by this inclosed Proclamation upon the effects thereof all the Eyes of the Kingdom are now fixed God send them to be as good actuated as they are in speculation for I am confident that in reason it carries Probability of the surest and readiest way to the reestablishment of His Majestie and his Iust Rights and powers of any course that hath been yet attempted This is all more then the heartiest respects of Your affectionated Servant George Digby I have received yours of the 19. and will by the next give you an account of that particular in it that concernes your self GEntlemen this letter for what concerneth the Military part of it I beleeve your own knowledges are able to give your selves the best judgement how that that Criticall blow that he there sperketh of is now fallen in great part upon their own heads and that thanks be to God Sir William Waller being now in the Castle of Arundell having taken above 1000. or 1200. prisoners and some 100. and odde Officers with all other things delivered to him we see which way the Criticall blow is fallen for which we have all cause to acknowledge the goodnesse of Almighty God The second part declareth to your consideration that boldnesse and confidence which breakes forth in the Lord Digbyes Pen that it seemeth he hath forgotten he hath been a Parliament man he calleth that Parliament which is setled by Act of Parliament the very name whereof ought to be sacred to the eares of all true English men and lovers of their Countrey he calls a pretended Parliament That which durst never be called sayd or written at any time heretofore in England by any whatsoever The second thing you may observe is this That that councell of Nobility which you will heare of by and by in a Proclamation must now not onely be of a Councell of Nobility there but of all those that have beene likewise expelled out of the house of Commons or house of Peeres or withdrawn themselves from their duty and the trust put in them by their Country all these now must assemble together and what to do To settle his Majesties just rights and Power and this just right and power is to make this Parliament though setled by an Act of Parliament a pretended Parliament or in a word to give our lawes liberties or rights a being or not a being solely in his Majesties pleasure how just that is you your selves may easily discerne and how destructive it would be to you A third thing considerable in this letter is that though his Majestie should have any inclination to doe his Parliament right to acknowledge them a Parliament yet my Lord Digby saith it is a point that must not be suffered It is a point which his Majestie must not permit to be gained though it be but to do the Parliament that right as to acknowledge what they are by Act of Parliament his faithfull and Supreame Councell But in stead of this as you will heare by a Proclamation of the 22. of December All the members of both Houses that have forsaken their Country deserted the cause contributed to undermine the State and Kingdome and expose them to the prey of the Irish Rebels This must be the wholesome advice about his Majestie and this wholesome advice must beheld up though with the unnaturall ruin of this Parliament which must not be acknowledged but another thing set up in forme of a Parliament somewhat like a Parliament

only darlings in his Majesties eye whereby they might have served their turns and their ends of you In that therefore you must have as fair and good words as possible may be But now in this on the contrary side when it is to work upon the Parliament then you must be called an odious and rebellious City to draw them from you to Oxford This sufficiently discovers how palpable and grosse they are that all this faire and foule weather is made up only to shift hands to work the same designe of sowing division and dissention among us that so their party might prevaile you may likewise observe from the title of this Proclamation which is by occasion of the invasion of the Scots that they themselves have forgotten the cessation of Ireland whereby they have let loose worse then a forraign nation a nation imbrued in the Protestant blood and settled upon principles for the utter destruction of the Religion and Lawes of this Kingdom I say you may discerne thereby how far forth the cessation of Ireland is forgotten that complyes with all this For after they had murthered almost all the Protestants there and after they have layd that Kingdom waste they must have an opportunity to be let into this Kingdome and no councell called about it to hinder them but rather the councell to bring them over and the princiall actors in that rebellion must be neerest his Majesties heart For the comming of the Scots I believe you all know very well that the Parliament did think fit finding how neer the interest of these two Nations were conjoyned in one finding the constant love and amity of that Kingdome to this and how in its greatest extremity it was very punctuall to it how that the last time it was here it was very punctuall and carefull to observe all conditions and at the desire of the Parliament return back again according to their promise they thought it fit to enter into a Treaty with them in a solemn Covenant which Treaty is now solemnly ratified by both Kingdomes yet this must be called an Invasion When they were last in the Kingdome if they would have joyned with that Army to have come up against the Parliament they might have had very large conditions but that is now forgotten the offers that were then made to them I believe you have heard of already which was that they should have the foure Northern Counties formerly esteemed their ancient bounds that they should have three hundred thousand pounds in mony paid them down at Newcastle that they should have the plunder of the City of London and that all manner of grace or honour that his Majesty could bestow upon particular persons this is that which those that have been in Scotland know was then sent by way of Proposition by Sir Iohn Hinderson who is now at Oxford they then rejected those with scorn and did refuse to make an Invasion upon this Parliament but kept true and faithfull to the Parliament And upon this experience the Parliament thought fit to make use of them again against the publike danger against the ruine of the Protestant Religion which is threaned in all his Majesties three Dominions and therefore as for that point though for the present we cannot give you the full and large Declaration as hereafter will come forth from both Houses yet it is necessary to acquaint you with thus much that you may not be amazed by any such printed Papers as these are Here is a second paper in the forme likewise of a Proclamation whereby you shall see the unevennesse and unsteddinesse of His Majesties Councels at least in appearance for though they be steddy and united in that which is to bring destruction and ruin upon the Parliament and Kingdom yet you may see them halt in their expressions Before you were called a famous Citie you had deserved so well and had all encouragements offered you here on the contrary you shall see what language is given you and because the welfare of this Citie consists much in the residence of this Parliament and Courts of Iustice that are here And of such persons of quality as are necessarily attendant thereupon It is not now only thought fit to call away the Parliament from you but the Courts of Iustice that so you might be left a miserable confused Citie notwithstanding all the faire words and promises that have been given you BY THE KING A Proclamation for the removing of the Courts of Kings-Bench and of the Exchequer from Westminster to Oxford WHereas the sole power of appointing the Place or Places in which Our Great Courts of Iustice shall be kept and of removing them from one place to another as urgent occasion shall move Vs by the Lawes of this kingdom is inherent in Our Royall Person And whereas it is of great importance to Our service in these times of difficulty and distraction to have Our Iudges of Our said Courts to attend neer unto Vs by whose advice We may the better proceed in in all those Cases wherein the Iudgement and knowledge of the Lawes is required And whereas more especially the Chancellor or Lord keeper of the Great Seal of England and the Iudges of Our Court called the Kings-Bench were and are to follow the King and Our Court of Exchequer being the proper Court of Our Revenue ought to attend Vs as We shall appoint And whereas Our Cities of London and Westminster have been and yet are the chief Causers and Maintainers of this present Rebellion against Vs. And We taking into Our serious consideration that while Our Courts of Kings-Bench Common-Pleas and of Our Exchequer are kept at Westminster many of Our good and Loyall Subjects might be compelled or injoyned by Process in Our name to make their appearance there which they could not do without hazard of Imprisonment or other dammage or violence from the fomentors of this Rebellion and many might suffer prejudice by Verdicts and Iudgements had and obtained against them by default or otherwise when they could not with safety come to make their just defences thereupon We did re●olve to remove those Courts from Westminster to Our City of Oxford whether other of Our Courts of Iustice hath been and are already removed by Our former Proclamation And to the end that there might not be any prejudice to any of Our Subjects by discontinuance of their Suits in those Courts or otherwise We did send Our severall Writs of Adjournment directed to Our Iudges of Our said Courts of Kings-Bench and Common-pleas and to Our Barons of Our Exchequer thereby commanding and giving Warrant and authority to them respectively to adjourn all Pleas and Process depending before them in and from the Two and Twentieth day of November last past to the first return of Hillary Terme next commonly called Octabis Hillary to be holden then at Our City of Oxford But our Messenger sent with those Writs as We have been informed for no other cause