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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66539	The legacy of John Wilmer, citizen, and late merchant of London humbly offered to the lords and commons of England.	Wilmer, John.	1692 (1692)	Wing W2884; ESTC R9494	27,537	38

exposed my self to all the Rage and Malice of the Popish Party that they would never leave pursuing me until by one way or other they had my Blood or ruined or removed me out of the way the first God prevented the latter they effected SECT II. IN a short time after the rejection of the Bill of Exclusion by the Lords the second Westminster Parliament being dissolved another is summoned to meet at Oxford upon the twenty first of March 1680 1 but in the interval Discovery being made of a horrid Conspiracy to sham the World with a pretended Protestant Plot Fitz-Harris a Papist who had been employed at VVhitehall to carry on that cursed Intrigue being detected was committed to Newgate but that the Villany might not be pried into by the Magistrates of London he is soon catch'd away and removed to the Tower The Parliament being assembled at Oxford the Commons fall upon this matter and draw up an Impeachment against Fitz-Harris but to obstruct their Enquiry into the Case they are also dissolved having first passed a Vote declaring That for any Person to try Fitz-Harris his Case being before the Parliament he should be deemed and taken for a Betrayer of the Liberties of the Nation Nevertheless Sir Francis Pemberton is instantly made Lord Chief Justice of the King's-Bench and undertakes to try him I being then returned upon the Pannel for his Trial but it was remembred at Court that I had lately brought in a Bill of Indictment against the Duke of York I must therefore be kept off from this Jury and was excepted against by Mr. Attorney General Sir Robert Sawyer without any Reason shewn for it Fitz-Harris being tried condemned and executed to the unspeakable Joy of the Papists and their Adherents who above all things dreaded the Discovery which he might and would have made they were no way discouraged at the unlucky Miscarriage and Disappointment or rather Delay of the Resolution taken to turn the Popish into a Presbyterian Plot but were found to prosecute it with all imaginable Application Reflections on the second Section WHat were Mr. Attorney's Reasons upon the King's Account to except against me are best known to himself but I had a strong Presumption one chief Reason was that I had brought the aforesaid Bill of Indictment in against the Duke of York and therefore might be likely also to puzzle this great and mighty Affair of the Papists upon the Wheel to take Fitz-Harris out of the way either by urging and insisting upon the Vote of the Commons or by bringing in a special Verdict and so have thrown it wholly upon the Judges But I had a Writ of Ease from this Trouble and so a Jury of honest Men I verily believe was sworn and Fitz-Harris was convicted condemned and executed which occasioned great Rejoycings and Acclamations at Court that such a dangerous Conspiracy of theirs against the Parliament and Nation should be no farther discovered SECT III. THE Popish Plot being laid aside the Witnesses who came out of Ireland to prove the part thereof which had been carried on in that Kingdom were in order to the new Intrigue tampered withal and the Relief and Support which the King had allowed them was withdrawn hereupon some of them listed themselves in the Plot-Office at Whitehall and were well fed and clothed others of them apply'd themselves to several Citizens making woful Complaints of their distressed Condition whereupon my self amongst many others commiserating their Distress esteemed it my Duty to relieve them that had discovered a Plot against the Lives and Liberties of Protestants and frequently gave them Bread in their Necessity Thus for some time they continued in the City but every day looking blacker and darker without any prospect of a Parliament to defeat the bloody Designs of the Popish Conspirators these Wretches not being Temptation-proof and observing that their Brethren at the other end of the Town had better Quarters and Entertainment they were also hereby carried over and listed there These Men had often intimated to me what large Offers were made them if they would come over and swear for the King as it was termed and four of them viz. John and Denis Macknamar Brian Haines and Bernard Denis being listed and entred into present Pay they watched an Opportunity at a Tavern which I mostly dined at and inviting me to a Glass of Wine complemented me with many Expressions of Thankfulness for my Kindness to them assuring me that they should always retain a grateful Sense thereof After the drinking a Glass or two of Wine John Macknamar did further enlarge to this effect Sir you have been a kind Friend to us all and helped us with Meat Drink and Money when we were slighted and cast off by others and your Kindness to us shall never be forgotten therefore we could not part with you until we had expressed as much and to let you know further there is a Business will shortly come upon the Stage which will make thousands be amazed and their Hair stand an end They then bid me not be troubled nor afraid and swore not a Hair of my Head should be touched for they would stand between me and danger for old Kindness-sake John Macknamar farther added the Scene will begin with Stephen Colledg my Lord Shaftsbury and others He having thus expressed himself I thanked them all for their Respect but thought it not prudent to ask them any Questions and therefore took my Leave civilly of them Soon after Colledg and then the Earl of Shaftsbury were taken up and committed to the Tower for High-Treason whereby I was confirmed in the Belief of the Villany of these Irish Men. The Midsummer-Quarter-Sessions 1681 approaching great was the Expectation of the whole Kingdom what Proceedings there would be had against the Prisoners in the Tower Mr. Bethel and Mr. Cornish being then Sheriffs and they well-knowing that honest and able Juries were the great Fence and Bulwark to the Lives and Estates of all Men they took special Care to return such to serve at this Sessions as in truth they did upon all other Occasions insomuch that in the End of their Year the Lord-Chief-Baron Mountague gave them this Encomium openly in Court That in all the Verdicts of the several Juries in Causes tried before him he never saw more equal distributive Justice in his Life and that he did in every one of them in his own Judgment both in Law and Equity concur with them and thanked the Sheriffs for their Care Reflections on the third Section MY Lord Shaftsbury and Stephen Colledg called the Protestant-Joyner with others being in the Tower upon the black Imputation of High-Treason it filled the City and Nation with Discourse every one speaking and giving their Judgments as they stood affected some decrying them at a strange rate blackning them as much as they could others were more mild and looked upon it as a Sham-plot And farther note by the way at this time by the