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A34573	Stafford's memoires, or, A brief and impartial account of the birth and quality, imprisonment, tryal, principles, declaration, comportment, devotion, last speech, and final end, of William, late lord viscount Stafford, beheaded upon Tower-hill on Wednesday the 29. of December 1681 hereunto is also annexed a short appendix concerning some passages in Stephen Colleges trial.	Corker, James Maurus, 1636-1715.	1681 (1681)	Wing C6306; ESTC R20377	92,206	80

he I may perhaps shake for cold but I trust in God never for fear After some time spent in Spiritual discourses at length about Ten a Clock word was brought him That Mr. Lieutenant waited for him below upon which he sweetly saluted his Friends bidding them not grieve for him for this was the happiest day of all his Life then he immediately went down and walked along by the Lieutenants Chair who had the Gout through a lane of Soldiers to the Barrs without the Tower There the Lieutenant delievered him to the Sheriffs and they from thence Guarded him to the Scaffold erected on Tower-Hill All the way as he passed several thousands of People crowded to see him many civilly saluted him and few there were amongst that vast number whose hearts were not touched and mollified with Compassion for him Having mounted the Scaffold there appeared in his Countenance such an unusual vivacity such a Chearfulness such a Confidence such a Candor as if the Innocence of his Soul had shined through his Body Nothing of that Mortal paleness Nothing of those Reluctances Convulsions and Agonies incident to persons in his condition could in the least be perceived in him He looked Death in the face with so undaunted a Resolution as gave many occasion to say Grace had left in him no Resentments of Nature After a short pause viewing the People and finding them attentive to what he should say he stept to one side of the Scaffold and with a Graceful Air and intelligible Voice pronounced his last Speech as followeth My Lord's last Speech BY the permission of Almighty God I am this day brought hither to Suffer Death as if I were Guilty of High Treason I do most truly in the presence of the Eternal Omnipotent and All-knowing God protest upon my Salvation that I am as Innocent as it is possible for any Man to be so much as in a thought of the Crimes laid to my Charge I acknowledge it to be a particular Grace and Favour of the Holy Trinity to have given me this Long time to prepare my self for Eternity I have not made so good use of that Grace as I ought to have done partly by my not having so well recollected my self as I might have done and partly because not only my Friends but my Wife and Children have for several days been forbidden to see me but in the presence of one of my Warders This hath been a great trouble and distraction unto me but I hope God of his Infinite Mercy will Pardon my Defects and accept of my good Intentions Since my long Imprisonment I have considered often what could the Original Cause of my being thus Accused since I knew my self not Culpable so much as in a thought and I cannot believe it to be upon any other account then my being of the Church of Rome I have no reason to be ashamed of my Religion for it Teacheth nothing but the Right Worship of God Obedience to the King and due Subordination to the Temporal Laws of the Kingdom And I do submit to all Articles of Faith believed and taught in the Catholick Church believing them to be most consonant to the Word of God And whereas it hath so much and often been objected That the Church holds that Sovereign Princes Excommunicated by the Pope way by their Subjects be Deposed or Murthered As to the Murther of Princes I have been taught as a Matter of Faith in the Catholick Church That such Doctrine is Diabolical Horrid Detestable and contrary to the Law of God Nature and Nations And as such from my heart I Renounce and abominate it As for the Doctrine of Deposing Princes I know some Divines of the Catholick Church hold it but as able and Learned as they have Written against it But it was not pretended to be the Doctrine of the Church that is any Point of Catholick Faith Wherefore I do here in my Conscience declare that it is my true and real Judgement That the same Doctrine of Deposing Kings is contrary to the Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom Injurious to Sovereign Power and consequently would be in me or any other of His Majesties Subjects Impious and Damnable I believe and profess That there is One God One Saviour One Holy Catholick Church of which through the Mercy Grace and Goodness of God I die a member To my great and unspeakable grief I have offended God in many things by many great Offences but I give him most humble thanks not in any of those Crimes of which I was Accused All the Members of either House having liberty to propose in the House what they think fit for the good of the Kingdom accordingly I proposed what I thought fit the House is Judge of the fitness or unfitness of it and I think I never said any thing that was unsitting there or contrary to the Law and Vse of Parliament for certainly if I had the Lords would as they might have punished me so I am not culpable before God or Man It is much reported of Indulgences Dispensations and Pardons to Murther Rebel Lie Forswear and Commit such other Crimes held and given in the Church I do here profess in the presence of God I never Learned Believed or Practised any such thing but the contrary And I speak this without any Equivocation or Reservation whatsoever And certainly were I guilty either my self or knew of any one that were Guilty whosoever that were so of any of those Crimes of which I am accused I were not only the greatest Fool imaginable but a perfect Mad-man and as wicked as any of those that so falsly have accused me If I should not discover any ill Design I knew in any kind and so upon Discovery save my Life I have so often had so fair occasions proposed unto me And so am guilty of Self-Murther which is a most grievous and hainous Sin and though I was last Impeached at the Lords Bar yet I have great grounds to believe that I was first brought to Tryal on the belief that to save my Life I would make some great Discovery And truly so I would had I known any such thing of any ill Design or Illegal Dangerous Plot either of my self or any other Person whatsoever without any Exception But had I a thousand Lives I would lose them all rather then Falsly accuse either my self or any other whatsoever And if I had known of any Treason and should thus deny it as I do now upon my Salvation at this time I should have no hope of Salvation which now I have through the Merits of Christ Jesus I do beseech God to bless His Majestly who is my Lawful King and Sovereign whom I was always by all Laws Humane and Divine bound to Obey and I am sure that no Power upon Earth either singly or all together can legally allow me or any body else to lift up a Hand against him or his Legal Authority I do hold that the

Stafford's Memoires OR A Brief and Impartial Account OF THE BIRTH and QUALITY IMPRISONMENT TRYAL PRINCIPLES DECLARATION COMPORTMENT DEVOTION Last SPEECH and Final END OF WILLIAM late Lord Viscount STAFFORD Beheaded upon Tower-hill on Wednesday the 29. of December 1681. Published for Rectifying all Mistakes upon this Subject Wisd 4. Vitam illorum estimabamus insaniam Finem illorum sine Honore c. Hereunto is also annexed a short APPENDIX concerning some Passages in STEPHEN COLLEDGES TRIAL Printed in the Year MDCLXXXI The INTRODUCTION IT is a wonder to see how Passion and Interest predominate over Reason in Mankind Nothing is done nothing said without some tincture of either or both Even common Occurrences are usually related as Men would have them to be rather then as they are Plain-dealing is almost fled And all things now a days whether Private or Publick Sacred or Prophane are according to different Inclinations without regard to Truth promiscuously made the Subject of a Satyr or Panegirick An obvious example of this we have in the several accounts given of the Tryal Declaration Demeanor and Death of the late Lord Stafford concerning whose Tragedy though acted for the most part in the face of the whole Nation yet there have flown about in a manner as many and those contradictory Stories as there are Relaters and such as know least commonly talk most to compleat the Error It is true the Printed Tryal set forth by Authority is no wise liable to these gross mistakes But it hath swelled in the Press by forms c. To so vast a volume that few can spare either money to buy it or time to read it Besides it is in a manner silent of matters chiefly designed for the Subject of this Treatise viz. My Lords Comportment Declaration Devotion Last Speech and other Occurrences which happened inclusively from the time of his Tryal to his final end Having therefore attained to a most exact and certain knowledge of these particulars I shall for the satisfaction of the curious and manifestation of Truth give together with an abstract of the whole Tryal and some occurrences concerning it a plain and sincere relation of what I know and can by unquestionable Evidence justify to be true And herein I shall also totally abstain from any the les● moralizing upon transactions whereby to forestal the Readers Judgment But contenting my self with a plain and candid Relation of things as I find them leave every one to the freedom of his own censure and verdict upon them SECT I. My Lords Birth Education Quality c. William Howard Viscount Stafford was second Son to Thomas Earl of Arundel and Uncle to the now Duke of Norfolk In his youth he was educated with all care and industry imaginable to improve in him the endowments of Nature and Grace And to speak truth he was ever held to be of a generous Disposition very Charitable Devout addicted to Sobriety inoffensive in his words and a lover of Justice When he arrived to years of maturity he married Mary descended from the ancient Dukes of Buckingham Grandchild to Edward and Sister and sole Heiress to Henry Lord Stafford To whose Title he succeeded being created by the late King Charles of Glorious memory Baron Anno 1640. And soon after Viscount Stafford During the time of the last bloody Rebellion he suffer'd much for his Loyalty to the King Always behaving himself with that courage and constancy as became a Nobleman a good Christian and a faithful Subject After his present Majesties joyful restauration he lived in Peace Plenty and Happiness Being blessed with a most Virtuous Lady to his Wife And many pious and dutiful Children In which state he remained till the 66. year of his age when happened this Revolution of his fortune as followeth SECT II. My Lords Imprisonment Charge and Arraignment c. ABout Michaelmas Anno 1678. Mr. Titus Oates formerly a Minister of the Church of England accused upon Oath before the King and Council and not long after also before the two Houses of Parliament several Roman Catholicks some Persons of Quality and amongst the rest the Lord Viscount Stafford of High Treason for intending and designing the Death of the King the introducing of Popery and subversion of the Government My Lord though he immediately heard of this Impeachment yet relying as he said on his own Innocence never left his Family nor withdrew himself from his ordinary known Acquaintance and Affairs till the 25th of October 78. when by Virtue of a Warrant from the Lord Chief Justice he was sent Prisoner to the Kings Bench and from thence soon after to the Tower where he remained above two years before he could be admitted to Tryal During this interval the whole Nation was surprized and allarm'd with the noise of an horrid Plot contriv'd by the Pope Priests and Jesuits wherein the King was to be murthered Armies raised Protestants Massacred and the three Kingdoms destroyed by Fire and Sword the People were affrighted searches made Guards doubled and all in an uproar The King hereupon consulted the Parliament and both Houses declared it a Plot. Yet to strengthen the Evidence as yet but weak and make farther discoveries Indempnities are promised Rewards proposed and encouragements given by Proclamation to any who would make out upon Oath the particulars of what in substance was already declar'd By this and the like sedulity of the King and three succeeding Parliaments several new Witnesses came in First Captain Bedlow Next Dugdale Prance and two others Bolron and Mowbray out of the North Then Mr. Jennison Smith Seigneur Francisco Dangerfield Zeile Lewis c. Lastly one Mr. Turbervile who together with Oates and Dugdale gave Evidence against this Lord Stafford of whom we now treat After two years Imprisonment when many Roman Catholicks both Priests and others had been Executed and most of the rest Imprisoned or fled At length my Lord was brought to his Tryal on the 30 th day of Novem. 1680. at the Peers Bar in Westminster-Hall the House of Commons being present and the Lord Chancellor High-Steward of England The Impeachment was drawn in the name of the Commons of England wherein my Lord was charged together with other Papists for having imagin'd and contriv'd to murder the King to introduce Popery and subvert the good Government of Church and State established by Law To this Impeachment my Lord being thereupon arraigned pleaded Not Guilty Allegations in proof of the Plot in general ¶ 1. THen the Cause was opened and the Commons Learned Counsel who were appointed Managers of the Tryal set forth the Charge in most Copious and Eloquent Language And beginning first with the Plot in general they shew'd to the life the Wickedness the Malice the Horror of so Dreadful Bloudy and Hellish a Design They strongly insisted on the express Positive Oaths of the Witnesses upon whose Testimony the credit of this Plot chiefly depended They amply dilated upon the Letters of Coleman

Letters bear a plain and open face of what the Authors intended And the Writers were Persons who had there been a Plot. were the most likely of all others to have been the main Engines and Contrivers of it Nevertheless we do not find one single world or sillable in them from whence may be gathered any such design The substance of them being only some imaginary Conceits and over-weening Policies of four or five aspiring men willing to be Great or at least to be thought so and desiring perhaps in some measure a liberty of Conscience yet without confronting much less destroying the King or Government Wherein also as far as appeareth by the Letters they were nowise seconded by the Catholicks in general nor much countenanced by those whose Favorites they pretended to be so that upon the whole matter these Letters rightly considered are rather as is said before a manifest Vindication of the Roman Catholicks Innocense then a Confirmation of the Plot. Concerning the Death of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey there is nothing to fasten that Murder on the Roman Catholicks but the bare improbable though gainful Oathes of two Infamous Persons The one viz. Bedlow notorious for Cheats and Misdemeanours The other viz. Prance self Condemned of Falshood herein by the testimony of his own Mouth for he once Swore he was an Actor in the said Murder and soon after before the King and Council unswore what he had said and Protested upon his Salvation he knew nothing of it There are furthermore some remarkable and pressing circumstances which the Papists urge in their own defence herein One is that Sir Edmnndbury Godfrey was esteemed by all a moderate man and particularly Indulgent to Catholicks And 't is not credible the Papists would Murder their Friends especially in a conjuncture of time when it was to no purpose not could any ways Stifle the Discovery of the Plot already made Nay when they could not but see such an Horrid Action if known must needs draw the wrath and detestation of the whole Nation upon them The other is that the whole though premeditated series of this Murder as it is related by the Witnesses seems to be involved with innumerable Absurdities Contradictions moral Impossibilities and Pregnant appearences of Perjury The Scene of the Tragedy must be forsooth the publick Yard of Somerset-House a place or rather thorow-fare of continual intercourse within twenty Paces of the Common Guards where Watch is kept night and day The Assassines to effect their design must feign a Quarrel and call Justice Godfrey out of the Street a notable Policy to keep the Peace though none Passengers Soldiers or Neighbours perceived any thing of this Tumult When they had him in the Yard they Strangled him with an Hankerchief a very proper Instrument studyed and contrived before-hand to strangle a Man After the business was done they let him lie exposed in this open place half living half dead above a quarter of an hour At length they dragged him into a Chamber in Doctor Godwin's Lodgings a Room attested to be of daily use to the Servants never lock'd but constantly obvious to all Comers and Goers here they kept him two days and then carryed him through several Courts into several Rooms and Apartments in Somerset-House And having thus to no purpose tossed him up and down from Saturday till Wednesday they finally placed him though stiff and Inflexible in a Sedan and carryed him to the Soho and there set him astride on Horse-back to ride before Hill to the place where he was afterwards found Bedlow deposeth Sir Edmundbury Godfrey was Throtl'd with a Cravat Prance Swears it was with an Handkerchief The names of the Assassines cited by Bedlow are Prichard Welsh Le Phaire and other Jesuits But the Murderers nominated by Prance are Greene Hill Bury Gyrald and Kelly and these two parties are quite different Actors and as far as apears by the Evidence neither their Designs nor Persons well known to each other Prance saith he saw the dead Body very plainly in a low Room by the light of a dark Lanthorn but what was thrown over it he could not tell Nor could he afterwards when required go to the Room where he said he saw it Bedlow tells us he refused to have any hand in the Murder for which cause the Jesuits did not acquaint him who it was yet they shewed him the dead Body in the presence of many who neither knew him nor he them Prance himself further declared he never was in Bedlow company till he came to Prison The main Assassines were ignorant of what reward they were to have But Bedlow though no compartner in the Murder could tell there were Four Thousand Pounds ordered of which Two Thousand Pounds were proffered to him alone if he would but assist the rest to convey away the Corps This Murder is affirmed to have been committed on Saturday the twelfth day of October 78. at nine a clock at night and the Body conveyed away on the Wednesday following about Midnight In direct opposition to which Hill Green and Bury who were Accused Tryed and Executed for this Fact produced these Witnesses One Mrs. Tilden and Mrs. Broadstreet attested that Hill who dwelt with them never kept ill hours but always came in by Eight of the Clock That he could not go out afterwards because he waited at Table and the Maid Catherine Lee locked up the doors and the Family went not to Bed till Eleven That particularly he was at home on Saturday night when Sir Edmundbury Godfrey is said to be Kill'd and on Wednesday night when carried away James Warrier attested That Green his Lodger was in his House and company on Saturday October the 12th from seven till after ten at Night and that he exactly remembred it by his Work The three Centinels who Successively kept strict Guard on the aforesaid Wednesday Night at the great Gate at Somerset-House through which 't is affirmed the Body was carried out in a Sedan declared there went out that way no Sedan at any hour whatsoever from seven a Clock that Night to four the next Morning The Amplitude of which Testimony includes at least three hours immediatly before and after the time Sworn to by Prance and Bedlow Eury's Maid attested That her Master came in that same Wednesday in the Dusk of the Evening went to Bed about 12. and could not well after that go out again without her knowledge the passage to his Chamber being through hers And it is most worthy of observation that this Bury was and professed himself to be both during his Imprisonment and at his very Death a Protestant of the Church of England Yet this Man though after Condemnation he was proffered his Life if he would own the Fact Nevertheless absolutely denyed it to his last Breath And when the very Cart was drawing away from under him he lifted up his Hands and said As I am innocent so receive my Soul O Jesus wherefore if

and Commons in Parliament assembled That he never read or knew of Coleman's Letters or Consultations for Tolleration till he saw the Letters themselves in the Printed Tryal How far Coleman was Criminal he did not know but he believed he did that which was not justifiable by Law That as to the damnable Doctrine of King-killing If he were of any Church whatsoever and found that to be its Principle he would leave it That he knew the disadvantage he was under in being forced alone to stand a contest with the Learned Gentlemen the Mannagers who have those great helps of Memory Parts and Understanding in the Law all which he wanted That therefore he hoped their Lordships would not conclude barely upon the manner either of his or their expressions But seriously debating the merits of the Cause in it self would please to be his Councel as well as his Judges That seeing he was to be Acquitted or Condemned by their Lordships Judgement He knew they would lay their hands upon their Heart Consult their Consciences and their Honours And then he doubted not they would do what was just and equitable That with submission to their Lordships he thought it hard measure and contrary to Law that any one should be Imprisoned above two years without being admitted to Tryal And that it was of evil consequence for any one to have Justice denyed him so long till his Opponents had found occasion to gain their ends That however those large Allowances and Rewards granted to the Witnesses for Swearing might peradventure be an effect of His Majesties Grace and Bounty yet it was not easily conceivable how the hopes and promises of so great Sums should not prove to dissolute indigent Persons strong Allurements and temptations to Perjury Finally That the defence he had made he owed it to the worth and dignity of his Family He owed it to his dear Wife and Children at which words he was observed to weep He owed it to his Innocense He owed it to God the Author of Life That he confided their Lordships would duly reflect what a dreadful thing Murder is and the Bloud of Innocents And that he verily believed none of the House of Commons desired his Death for a Crime of which he was not Guilty That he hoped their Lordships would not permit him to be run down by the shouts of the Rable the Emblem of our past Calamity It began in the late times with the Lord Stafford and so continued till it ended in the Death of the King the most execrable Murder that ever was committed And where this will end said he God knows To conclude He again declared in the presence of God of his Angels of their Lordships and all who heard him That he was intirely Innocent of what was laid to his charge That he left it to their Lordships to do Justice and with all submission resigned himself to them To this discourse of my Lords the Mannagers returned for answer That his Lordships last Address was not regular nor according to the due method of proceedings for if after his Lordship had summed up his Evidence and the Prosecutors had concluded theirs he should begin that work again and they by consequence be admitted to reply he might still rejoyn upon them and so there would be no end of proceedings They therefore desired this Indulgence granted to my Lord might not serve for a future President The Conclusion of the Tryal ¶ 5. HEre then the Lord High Steward wholly terminating all further process on either side The Court gave final Judgment And the Lord High Steward collecting the Votes my Lord Stafford was Pronounced Guilty by fifty five Votes against thirty one When the Votes were passed the Lord High Steward declared to the Prisoner He was found Guilty of High Treason whereof he was Impeached To which my Lord Stafford answered Gods holy name be praised my Lord for it Then the Lord High Steward asked him What he could say for himself why Judgment of Death should not be given upon him according to Law He reply'd My Lord I have very little to say I confess I am surprized at it for I did not expect it But Gods will be done and your Lordships I will not murmur at it God forgive those who have Falsly Sworn against me We are now come to the final Sentence of Death For a Prologue to which the Lord High Steward made a short Pathetick Speech wherein after some reflections upon the Plot in general he descended to my Lords case in particular And then advised his Lordship as now a supposed guilty Person to bething himself of the State and Condition he was in of his Religion and Guides that 't is said had seduced him Of the repentance due to so hainous Crimes And concluded with an assurance to his Lordship That a true Penitential Sorrow joyned with an humble and hearty Confession was of mighty power and efficacy both with God and Man He then pronounced Sentence upon him in these words The Judgment of the Law is and the Court doth award it That you go to the place from whence you came from thence you must be drawn upon an Hurdle to the place of Execution when you come there you must be Hanged up by the Neck but not till you are Dead for you must be cut down Alive your Privy Members must be cut off And your Bowels Ript up before your Face and thrown into the Fire Then your Head must be severed from your Body and your Body divided into four Quarters And these must be at the disposal of the King And God Almighty have mercy on your Soul My Lord received this dismal Sentence with a meek and resigned Countenance He declared in the presence of Almighty God he had no malice in his Heart to them that had Condemned him But freely forgave them all He made one and only one humble request to their Lordships viz. That for the short time he had to Live a Prisoner his Wife Children and Friends might be permitted to come at him My Lord High Steward told him their Lordships had so far a Compassion for him They would be humble suiters to the King That he will remit all the punishments but the taking off his Head Thus Sentence being passed the Lord High Steward broke his Staff and my Lord Stafford was led back from the Bar to the Tower The Ax being carryed before him as the Custom is in such cases with the Edge toward him SECT III. My Lords PRINCIPLES of FAITH and LOYALTY DOubtless the thing which most weighed to my Lord's prejudice most advanced the credit of the Evidence And most influenced both his Prosecutors and Judges against him was a pre-possessed Opinion of wicked Principles supposed to be held and practised by my Lord as the matter of his Faith and Religion It is by many taken for granted The Papists hold it an Article of Faith That to Depose and Murder Kings to Massacre

There are few who have not heard of the late Tryal of Stephen Colledge Sirnamed the Protestant Joyner a man very active in the Death of my Lord Stafford and a zealous defender of Dugdales Honesty He was Impeached Arraigned Condemned and Executed for High Treason In Speaking Treasonable Words And having by a designed combination with others appeared in Arms to Seize the Kings Person at Oxford The Witnesses against him were Smith Dugdale Turbervil Haines Mr. Maisters and Sir William Jennings It is not my intent here to Epitomize Colledges whole Tryal Nor to give my Censure or Verdict upon it But only to inform the Reader of some Passages which chiefly relate to the main Witnesses against my Lord Stafford And which are now become the Subject of Surprize and Astonishment to all Considering Persons Please then to Note That Stephen Dugdale and Edward Turbervil two of the Principal Witnesses upon whose Testimony my Lord was Found Guilty and John Smith otherwise called Narrative Smith who at my Lords Tryal seemed the only plausible Deponent as to the Plot in General gave respective Evidence against this Colledge at Oxford as followeth Stephen Dugdale Swore First Mr. Colledge told him That the King was a Papist That he was as deep in the Plot as any Papist of them all which the Papists themselves also confess That he had an hand in Sir Edmundbury Godferys death That he was a Rogue That nothing was to be expected from him but Popery and Arbitrary Government And that the Clergy of England were Papists in Masquerade Secondly That Colledge had framed several notorious Libels against the King to render him contemptible And raised Arms with intent to seize His Sacred Person at Oxford c. Turbervil Swore He heard Colledge say First That there was no good to be expected from the King For that he and his Family were Papists and had ever been such Secondly That His Party would Seize the King and secure Him till he came to those terms they would have of him Thirdly That the Parliament which cut off the late King's Head did nothing but what they had just cause for c. Smith Swore First That Colledge told him There were Moneys collected to buy Arms and Amuniton to bring the King to Submission to His People Adding thereunto That he wondered Old Rowley meaning the King did not consider how easily His Fathers Head came to the Block which he doubted not would be the end of Rowley at last Secondly That Colledge had provided himself of a great Sword Pistols Blunderbuss with Back Breast and Head-Peice And that he heard him say The City was provided and ready with Powder and Bullets That he would be one who should Seize the King in case he secured any of the Members of Parliament And that if any man nay even Rowley himself should attempt to seize upon his Arms He would be the death of him c. In direct Opposition to these witnesses Colledge produced Titus Oates the third principal Witness against my Lord Stafford And first Grand discoverer of the Popish Plot who gave attestation against the said several Witnesses after this manner AGainst Dugdale Oates deposed That the said Oates discoursing upon occasion with Dugdale concerning his being an intended Evidence against my Lord Shaftsbury and other Dugdale replied There is no body hath any cause to make any such report of me For I call God to Witness I know nothing against any Protestant in England But afterwards Dugdale having Sworn matters of High-Treason against Colledge before the Grand-Jury at the Old-Baily and being hereupon charged by Oates as having gone against his Conscience and contrary to what he had declared to him Dugdale answered It was all long of Collonel Warcup for said he I could get no money else And he promised I should have a place in the Custom House In opposition to this Testimony Dugdale Swore Vpon the Oath he had taken and As he hoped for Salvation It was not true Against the same Dugdale Oates farther deposed That Dugdale did confess he had an old Clap yet gave out he was Poysoned which sham passed throughout the Kingdom in our Intelligences But in Truth said Oates it was the Pox As I will make appear by the Physician that cured him In opposition to which Dugdale protested If any Doctor would come forth and say he cured him of a Clap or any such thing He would stand Guilty of all that is imputed to him AGainst Turbervil also Oates gave Evidence in these words A little before the Witnesses were Sworn against Colledge at the Old-Baily I Oates met with Mr. Turbervil I was in a Coach But seeing Mr. Turbervil I stept out of the Coach and spoke with him For hearing that he was a Witness I did ask him whether he was a Witness or no against Colledge Mr. Turbervil said He would break any ones head that should say so against him for he neither was a Witness nor could give any Evidence against him So after he came from Oxon I met with Mr. Turbervil again And hearing he had been there I asked him if he had Sworn any thing against Colledge He said yes He had been sworn before the Grand-Jury Said I Did not you tell me so and so Why said he The Protestant Citizens have deserted us And God Damm him He would not starve These very words he several times repeated But when I asked him what he had sworn he said I am not bound to satisfie Peoples Curiosities Vpon the word of a Priest said Oates what I say is true As I am a Minister I speak it sincerely In the presence of God This Gentleman did say these words to me which made me affraid of the Man And I went my ways and never spoke with him afterwards nor durst I For I thought He that would Swear and curse after that rate was not fit to be talked with In opposition to all which Turbervil swore That he met Dr. Oates just at his Lodgings And the Dr. alighted out of his Coach and spoke to him and invited him to come to his old Friends For he told him They had some Jealousie that he was not true to them And he farther told him If he would come to the King's Head Clubb he should be received with a great deal of Kindness But never afterwards said Turbervil did I speak with the Doctor a Tittle about any Evidence Vpon my Oath added he I did not And truly I always looked upon Dr. Oates as a very Ill Man and never would converse much with him AGainst Smith Oates gave this attestation viz. To my knowledge Mr. Colledge and Mr. Smith had some provoking words passed betwixt them at Richards Coffee-house And Mr. Smith comes out and Swears God Damm him he would have Colledges Bloud So when I met him said I Mr. Smith you profess your self to be a Priest and have stood at the Altar And now you intend to