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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38819	The depositions and examinations of Mr. Edmund Everard (who was four years close prisoner in the Tower of London) concerning the horrid popish plot against the life of His Sacred Majesty, the government, and the Protestant religion with the names of several persons in England, Ireland, France, and elsewhere concerned in the conspiracy.	Everard, Edmund.	1679 (1679)	Wing E3527; ESTC R4864	11,665	20

speak with me I inquired for what but they could not or would not tell me but it seems by their expressions to my Landlord they were with him the day before to inquire for me and they could tell that I had been last Sunday at Morning Prayers at Whitehall and there also seen the same Night amongst others After break-fasting peaceably I went with them to Whitehall not thinking this any Commitment Business I told my Landlord I thought I would be back within an hour The Secretary at my arrival inquiring of my Name told me he would go and speak with the King about me which I know not whether he did so or no but returning soon after spake not one word to me but going into his Clerk he sent out the same Messengers who called me into the Stone Gallery who said they had Orders to carry me to the Tower but for what they could not tell me Sir John Robinson after my Arrival entertained me to Dinner which continued in the company of his Lady and Solicitor in a free and cheerful manner in Discourse of the French Customs and of his Son whom I knew at Paris After Dinner and having had a Nap with his Chaplain who came in Sir John inquired of me Whether I were not a Roman Catholique I told them I had been such but not one of late and whether I was in Orders I told them never inquiring whether I knew for what I was committed I told them no no No more do I said Sir John but in the general afterwards he sent for one Captain Cresset the then Gentleman Goaler he read unto me a Paper he called his Warrant which being but in general words and giving me no Copy of it made no such impression upon me as now to remember the Contents for I thought it was but some Tower formality wherewith others were served as well as I for Sir John never explained nor insisted upon it no more did I but followed Captain Cresset to my appointed Lodging which was convenient enough as also the Diet so that at the beginning I being not lock'd up neither day nor night for a Month or thereabouts and giving my self to reading an English Chronicle that belonged to my Landlord I unconcernedly expected a speedy enlargement after the Duke of Monmouth should come to hear of my Imprisonment unto whom I desired Sir John to give notice of it but I had no return After some Months Sir John sent for me and said he had Order to examine me he inquired What and whom I verily thought were the Causes of my Imprisonment I told him that the Lady Anne Gourdon alias Huntley with Peter Talbot Titular Bilhop of Dublin were assuredly the Causes of it and might well contrive by other Instruments some false Accusation against me for to weaken the testimony I was to give against them of their plotting against England for that the said Lady had informed me of a Design the English Catholiques had against the King's Person his Government and Religion and that she had correspondency with her Brother the Marquiss of Huntley my Lord of Rothes my Lord of Oxenford of Scotland and other Catholiques and Priests this side and beyond Seas That the said Peter Talbot before I brought him to the French King's presence told me That he was to treat with that King from soine very great Person or Persons in England for to raise men in Ireland for the French King and that I had declared these things in France to one Sir Robert Welsh who desired me to acquaint the Duke of Ormond therewith So Sir John being in haste to go to Whitehall took these Heads in his Table-book and said he would acquaint them above with it but bid me not to mention the Duke of Ormond at all for he was a goodman I bring him in onely by occasion said I. Next day Sir John sent for me and desiring to know what other things I could say I began to particularize the forementioned relations of the Plot but he broke me off of that saying That these were but trifles and that we cared not in England what Priests and Women beyond Seas could devise and that he took such Stories from me but as starting-holes from the only point he had to urge against me That unless I would confess other matters against the Duke of Monmouth he would rack me next day and afterwards hang me I said He might do what he pleased but that I neither knew or could confess any such Design And so I was sent back to my Lodging but my forwardness to speak ever afterwards of any Plot against England was well abated by this Storm I desired my Keepers Wife and Child here present to pray for me for that I was to be rack'd the next day I asked my Keeper What a Rack was An Instrument said he to stretch the Body and Limbs out of all joynts sometimes full of Needles and that it was called the Daughter of some Duke I do not now remember which But this Family being weak persons were themselves frightned at this sad and terrible threatnings alledging That none was ever carried to be executed out of their house Sometime afterwards I was sent for to be examined to Whitehall before the Secretary my Lord of Bath of Newport and some others I never saw before They inquired Whether I had been imployed under the Duke of Monmouth And whether I knew some other persons I do not now remember my self with such other Questions out of which I could not yet know certainly the Cause of my Commitment for no body appeared against me as I think at that time one only at the second time So they in a general manner urged me still to confess to confess what evil Design I had in coming to England I said still I had none nor could I confess any And so was sent back to the Tower Some Weeks or Months afterward I was sent for to Whiteball again where one Dallison who was formerly in France entertained by me for writing appeared He there said That I there in France threatned some persons here in England and that he thought that it was the Duke of Monmouth because of non-payment of Arrears I told him That that was a bad inference that because I threatned some body it must be therefore the Duke of Monmouth who had never any ground so to do for that he had signed an Order for payment of me and spoke to Captain Watson and Doctor Goase for it Though I never was yet paid But the pretext or ground from which they took the occasion of this slanderous Allogisme was from the matters of some private quarrels which one Mr. Hampton and the Lady Anne Gourdon would have me vindicate against some of their Rivals which I complimentally was still wont to promise them I would do the better to insinuate my self into their secrets concerning the Plot and other matters The Lady Gourdon would have the Earl of