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A61188	A true account and declaration of the horrid conspiracy against the late King, his present Majesty, and the government as it was order'd to be published by His late Majesty.	Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713.; Oliver, John, 1616-1701, engraver.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II)	1685 (1685)	Wing S5068AA; ESTC R221757	86,115	235

Treasons Walcot and Ferguson the latter of them having been forc'd for some time before to abscond too because of a Warrant out against him for Publishing some one or other of his many Treasonable Pamphlets That was the last considerable Effort made by the Earl of Shaftsbury against the King and Kingdom After this nothing more was heard of him but that being got into Holland in a Panick fright he lived obscurely and soon after died in Amsterdam having few or no other Companions of the last part of his Life but several miserable English and Scotch Fugitives who had formerly been the Instruments of his Trayterous Practises and were forc'd to fly the stroke of Justice on that Account So that he could not but know that all those about him in his Sickness and Death had Just reason to hate and curse him as their principal Seducer and cause of their Ruine Nor can such an end of such a Life be justly reflected on without a special Adoration of the secret Counsels of the Divine Providence That he who a little before was generally esteem'd the Head and Protector of all the Factious in the Kingdom whom he vouchsafed to distinguish and Honour by the Title of Worthy Men and the Terror and Scourges of all the Good and the Loyal whom he mark'd out and design'd for Destruction and Slaughter under the Name of Men Worthy He who in his own conceit had so much the absolute disposal of the Hearts and Hands of all the Disaffected as to be able to subvert the Establish'd Government when he pleased and had really once gone very far to effect it had not his own Presumption Defeated his Malice That this very Man having seen all his hopes and contrivances dash'd in Pieces at home should have nothing left to do but to take shelter in that Commonwealth which in his former Greatness he had so mortally provok'd there to lead a Life of Disgrace and Misery and to Dye neglected in a Country of which he had formerly express'd so great a Hatred And yet still retaining so much Venemous Rancour against his most Gracious Master as to profess with his last Breath that he had deservedly receiv'd his Deaths Wound meaning the bruise in his Side and now his Death in that Country where he had done his own so much Mischief When he was one of the Commissioners sent thither in the Year 1660 to invite His Majesty home freely and without Terms After this though the Earl of Shaftsbury was gone yet the impressions of Mischief he had left behind on the minds of the Confederates would not so easily vanish They soon reflected on his last advice that so many having been made Conscious to the Design they should certainly find more safety in pushing it on boldly than in too late a Retreat Upon this immediately they recover'd their Spirits and Resolution which his hasty flight had somewhat Damp'd thenceforth they renewed their Consultations with greater vigour than before The Principal Managers having their frequent Meetings as also the inferior Instruments theirs whilst some of each Number gave secret intimations to the other of what was passing in their separate Assemblies Of the great Council of Six the Consults that have been hitherto plainly testifi'd and sworn to were those at Mr. Hambdens at the Lord Russels and at Mr. Shepards The Subordinate Cabals were kept in divers places in and about the City As in the December of that Year at Colonel Romzey's House in the Soho Square in the next February at West's Chamber in the Temple about which time it was agreed that Ferguson should be sent for as he was and came over accordingly Then their Meetings were more frequent upon the Kings being at Newmarket and after Usually at West's Lodging for the conveniency of its situation Or in common Taverns As at the Miter within Aldgate The Horse-Shooe on Tower-Hill The Fortune at Wapping The Syracusa-House The Kings-head in Atheist-Alley The Salutation and the George in Lumbard-Street on June the Twelfth the very Day of the Discovery they met at the Sun-Tavern behind the Exchange on June 14 they met at Bailly of Jerviswood's Chamber and again in Bartholomew-Lane and at the Green-Dragon on Snow-hill and so continued to do some where or other till they totally dispers'd from Walcot's Lodging in Goodman's Fields Their Meetings being so generally in places of Publick Entertainment Therefore to prevent the Observation of Drawers and Servants they often discours'd of their whole Bloody Business in a Canting Language of their own making The King was sometimes call'd the Church-Warden of Whitehall The King and Duke the Black-Bird and the Gold-Finch the Captain and Lieutenant Provisions of Arms as Blunderbusses Muskets Pistols were talk'd of under the disguis'd Names of Swan-Quills Goose-Quills Crow-Quills The Insurrection was styled the General Point the Assassination the Lopping Point and striking at the Head And because several of the Conspirators were Lawyers it was sometimes agreed that their wicked intentions against the King and the Duke should be veil'd under the terms of Dissesing him in Possession and barring him in Remainder At other times the Killing of both pass'd for executing a Bargain and Sale as being a short manner of Conveyance and the Rising in Arms as the longer and more tedious way for executing a Lease and Release The Villains thus wantonly abusing the Innocent Terms of the excellent Profession of the common Laws of England to cover their horrid Designs against His Majesties Person and Crown whose Preservation and Prosperity is the great end and sense of all those Laws But for the most part when they were free and amongst themselves they discours'd of the whole contrivance in plain Language and without reserve their common Healths being such as these To the Man who first draws his Sword against Popery and Slavery in defence of the Protestant Religion Confusion to the two Brothers Popery and Slavery explaining the same to be meant of the Royal Brothers of Whitehal And when some of them who were less harden'd in Cruelty express'd some kind of consternation and dread of the Consequences of so dire a Stroak and desir'd the Infamy of it might be thrown on the Papists others particularly Ferguson declared They thought the Action too good to have the Papists carry away the Honour of it and often applauded it as a Glorious Work That it would he an Admonition to all Princes to take heed how they Oppressed their Subjects That he hoped to see the Fact rewarded by a Parliament and the Actors in it have the Honour of Statues erected to them and the Title of Preservers of their Country So also when Nelthrop Walcot and some few others readily declar'd themselves willing to joyn in the Insurrection but shrunk a little at first at the horrour of the Assassination R. Rumbald and R. Goodenough with monstrous impiety maintain'd the Kings and the Dukes Murder as the more pious Design of the two and recommended it as keeping

shortly after this the Deponent went to Colonel Sydney's and found him just going into London That the said Colonel took out of a Cabinet several Guinea's saying They were to be given to Aaron Smith for his Expences That he was sent accordingly and the Colonel told the Deponent afterwards He was gone and was upon the Road and that he had heard from him when he was about Newcastle It was next plainly prov'd That those Scotch-men came up soon after Smith arrived there This was sworn by Sir Andrew Foster that Cockran Monroe and the two Cambels came to Town about the end of the Spring or the beginning of Summer Cockran and Monroe pretending their Business was a Purchase in Carolina and that upon the very first rumour of a Plot Cockran absconded Monroe and the Cambels were taken To this purpose Attherbury the Messenger also deposed That about the end of June or the beginning of July 1683 he was sent by His Majesties Warrant into London upon a Discovery of some Scotch-men lodging in Black-Friers but the Common-Sergeant of the City and others having been there before him found them making their escape in a Boa● That the Persons were Sir High Ca●●●l Cockran and another That this was after they had been in Town but a little while The next Head of the Accusation concern ' d the Treasonable Pamphlet sound in Colonel Sydney's Study at the time of his Apprehension To this first Sir Philip Lloyd Clerk of His Majesties Council deposed That having been sent by the King and Council to seize Colonel Sydney's Papers he did go and put up what he found in his Closet That he found those Papers now given in Evidence lying upon his Table where he usually writ That he seiz'd them towards the later end of June That having put them up he offer'd Colonel Sydney that he might Seal them with his own Seal but he refusing the Deponent set his Seal to them and so deliver'd them to the Council Next it was made out by as firm Proof as such a Matter will bear That all the Sheets produced were of Colonel Sydney's own Hand-writing which was evidenc'd by Mr. Shepard Mr. Cook and Mr. Cary Men of known Repute and Credit who had long dealt with Mr. Sydney in Matters of Mony and had paid divers Bills of Exchange for him upon Notes written in the same Hand and were never call'd to any account for Mis-payment Then were the Papers read containing rank Treason almost in every Line For therein were broach'd and asserted many horrible Doctrines both against Monarchy in general and the English Monarchy in particular which according to the usual false Reasoning of all Republican Writers he endeavour'd to justifie by divers Quotations and Examples of Sacred and Prophane History grosly perverted and misapplied against the present Government of his Country In short the whole design of those Papers was to maintain That Tyrants may be justly deposed by the People and that the People are the only Judges who are Tyrants And peculiarly concerning this Nation there are these Expressions The Power originally in the People of England is delegated to the Parliament He the King is subject to the Law of God as he is a Man to the People that makes him a King in as much as he is a King The Law sets a Measure to that Subjection The Parliament is Judge of the particular Cases thereupon arising He must be content to submit his Interest to theirs since he is no more than any one of them in any other respect than that he is by consent of all rais'd above any other If he doth not like this Condition he may renounce the Crown But if he receive it upon this Condition as all Magistrates do the Power they receive and swear to perform it he must expect the Performance will be exacted or Revenge taken by those he hath betray'd And in another place he says We may therefore change or take away Kings without breaking any Yoak or that is made a Yoak which ought not to be one The Injury is in making and imposing and there can be none in breaking it And in another That the People must needs be the Judge of what happens between them and the King whom they did constitute And in another that as for the Peoples being Judges in their own Cases it is plain they ought to be the only Judges And in another That the Power of calling and dissolving Parliaments is not in the King And in another ' That the general revolt of a Nation from its own Magistrates can never be call'd a Rebellion These are some of the Treasonable Tenets contain'd in Mr. Sydney's Papers amongst many other Assertions that are equally Criminal but too long to be here inserted Concerning all which villanous Opinions this is certainly known and confess'd by all good Men That as they laid the Foundations of the late miserable War against his Majesties blessed Father and thereby occasion'd the spilling so much Blood even of the Royal Blood it self so when-ever the Multitude shall be infected with the like Antimonarchical Doctrines it will be impossible for the best Kings or the most happy Kingdoms in the World to be free from perpetual Treasons and Rebellious Plottings To all this Colonel Sidney's Answer being only made up of most of the same Pleas in Law that had been over-ruled and the same objections against the Lord Howard which were satisfactorily repell'd in the former Tryals besides that he only barely deny'd the sending of Aaron Smith and his having any hand in or knowledge of that Message And as for his Treasonable Papers he would not grant them to be his or if they were found in his Study he affirm'd That they might have been written many Years ago in answer to Sir R. Filmer 's Book of Monarchy and written with no intention of publishing them but only for private diversion and the exercise of his Pen. In short his Defence consisting rather in Nice Cavils at the known Forms of Law or Discourses ridiculing the Design of a Council of Six and the whole Conspiracy it self than in any solid Arguments or Evidence to invalidate the Witnesses or to clear himself from the Crimes proved upon him he was presently found Guilty His Execution in respect of his Quality His Majesty altered from the usual Punishment of High Treason into that of Severing his Head from his Body At the time of his death on December the 7th he also deliver'd the Sheriffs a Written Paper Wherein after having excused his not speaking what he wrote by alledging this reason among others That this was an Age which makes Truth pass for Treason he objects against the Lord Howard the Infamy of his former Life which Objection no Man in England had less cause to make than himself the Lord Howard and he having been known to be entire Confidents Familiars and Friends for many Years past of their Lives and till the very time of the Discovery Touching