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A43880	Historical collections, or, A brief account of the most remarkable transactions of the two last Parliaments consisting of I. The speeches, votes, accusations, addresses, and article of impeachment, &c., II. The bills of association, exclusion, and repeal of 35 Eliz. &c., III. The several informations, messages, narratives, orders, petitions, protestation of the Lords, and resolves of both Houses, etc., IV. The tryal and sentence of William Howard Lord Viscount of Stafford in Westminster Hall, his speech and execution on the scaffold at Tower Hill with many other memorable passages and proceedings of the two last Parliaments, held and dissolved at Westminster and Oxford, V. A perfect list of each Paraliament, VI. His Majesty's declaration, shewing the causes and reasons that moved him to dissolve the two last Parliaments.		1682 (1682)	Wing H2100; ESTC R32032	89,184	314

adtunc ibidem recipiatis ipsum sic in custodia vestra existentem statim usque usualem Locum super le Tower-hill ductatis Ac Caput ipsius Willi. Vicecomitis Stafford adtunc ibidem amputari ac à Corpore suo omnino separari faciatis aliquo Judicio Lege Ordinatione seu Mandato preantea habit ’ fact ’ ordinat ’ seu dat ’ in contrarium non obstante Et hoc sub periculo incumbente nullatenus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westm decimo octavo die Decembris Anno Regni nostri tricesimo secundo BARKER Englished thus CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. To the Sheriffs of London and Sheriffs of Middlesex Greeting Whereas William Viscount Stafford has been Impeached by the Commons of our Kingdom of England in Parliament Assembled of High Treason and other Crimes and Offences by him perpetrated and committed And thereupon by the Lords Temporal in our present Parliament conven'd was try'd convicted and in due Form of Law attainted and is adjudg'd to die of which Judgment Execution yet remains to be done We charge and by these Presents firmly conjoyning command you That in and upon the 29 th Day of this Instant December between the hours of Nine and Eleven before Noon of the same Day that the said Viscount Stafford without the Gate of our Tower of London then and there to be to you deliver'd as by another Writ to the Lieutenant of our Tower of London directed we have given Command you then and there receive into your Custody and him so being in your Custody that you presently conduct to the usual place upon Tower-hill and cause the Head of him William Viscount Stafford then and there to be chop'd off and altogether separated from his Body any Judgment Law Ordinance or Command before had made ordain'd or given to the contrary notwithstanding And of this upon penalty thereof to ensue you are not to fail Witness our selves at Westminster the 18 th day of December in the 32 d. year of our Reign Upon Wednesday the 29 th of December about Ten of the Clock in the Morning the Sheriffs received the Prisoner from the Lieutenant of the Tower and conducted him to the Scaffold Upon which the Prisoner being come after a short pause produc'd a Paper out of his Pocket which contain'd the following Speech which he read with his Hat off and gave several Copies thereof Signed with his own Hand to Sheriff Cornish and other Gentlemen about him THE SPEECH OF WILLIAM HOWARD Late Lord Viscount Stafford Vpon the Scaffold on Tower-Hill immediately before his Execution Wednesday Decemb. 29. 1680. 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 recollected my self as I might have done and partly because not only my Friends but my Wife and Children have for several dayes been forbid 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 be 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 than 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 the 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 may by heir Subjects be Deposed and Murdered as to the Murder of Princes I have been taught as a matter of Faith in the Catholick Faith that such Doctrine is diabolical horrid and 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 writ 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 't is my true and real Judgment 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 unfitting there or contrary to the Law and use of Parliaments for certainly if I had the Lords would as they might have some way punished me So t am not culpable before God or Man It is much reported of Indulgences Dispensations Pardons to Murder Rebell Lye 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 things 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 having so often had so fair occasions proposed unto me and so am guilty

The Tryall of William Howard L d. Viscount Stafford in Westminster hall His Execution on Tower hill A. L d. high Steward B. B. The Peers in y r. Robes C. C. The Commons D The Iudges E. The Prisoner F. The K s. Box. G. The Managers of ● Tryall H. The Evidence HISTORICAL Collections OR A Brief Account of the most Remarkable Transactions of the Two Last PARLIAMENTS Consisting of I. The Speeches Votes Accusations Addresses and Articles of Impeachment c. II. The Bills of Association Exclusion and Repeal of 35 Eliz. c. III. The several Informations Messages Narratives Orders Petitions Protestation of the Lords and Resolves of both Houses c. IV. The Tryal and Sentence of William Howard Lord Viscount Stafford in Westminster Hall his Speech and Execution on the Scaffold at Tower Hill with many other memorable passages and proceedings of the two last Parliaments held and dissolved at Westminster and Oxford V. A perfect List of each Parliament VI. His Majesty's Declaration shewing the Causes and Reasons that moved him to dissolve the two last Parliaments The Second Edition London Printed for Simon Neale at the Three Pidgeons in Bedford street over against the New Exchange Strand 1682. TO THE READER MEthod and Order are the chiefest Helps and Assistances of Memory And therefore the ensuing sheets being only a bare and brief Collection of the most memorable and Important Passages which occurred in the two last Parliaments held at Westminster and Oxford we have observ'd that method and connexion in the series of Affairs which is most acceptable to the Memory by separating the perfect from the imperfect Matter that the Reader may read with more delight the carriage of things and make his own observations To which end we have made no Comments or Reflections of our own to shew either favour or affection partiality or byassed humor contracting what might seem tedious and cutting off the superfluities of a Diurnal way of writing They that have not been so careful to preserve the loose Sheets of the dayly Occurrencies or have not had the opportunity to buy all the Narratives concerning the Popish Plot may here find the substance of all together and by the help of the Index at the latter end have recourse to what ever they shall have occasion to bring to mind within the short compass of those few Months So that we doubt not but the benefit of the design will far exceed the price of the Volume Some omissions there may be but by those that have view'd these Sheets 't is not believed that there are any of any great Moment Whatever they are 't is hoped the Reader will pardon small defects and judg charitably of the work it self considering the Variety and the nicer nature of the several Subjects For as for the Truth of the matter there is no question of it there being no where any deviating from Authentick Hands and Approbation HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OR TRANSACTIONS OF THE LATE PARLIAMENT IN A DIALOGUE BETWEEN FAME and TRVTH Fame WHile the last Parliament sate I was so tir'd with carrying News to and fro from the City to the Country then back to the City again day and night night and day that upon the Dissolution of the Session I resolved to retire altogether into the Country to recruit my self and refresh the wearied Pinions of my Wings Truth 'T is a happiness I can seldom enjoy for I still find my self so much abus'd and scandaliz'd by Rumour and False Report that daily affront me where-ever I come that I hate to come near a Market-Town as I hate to tell a lye Fame That 's the business which I come now to thee about to seek a Remedy how to avoid this Inconvenience for the future Truth And hast thou found out the way dost think Fame Yes For though the Parliament last Session took a most Excellent way to give a daily accompt of their Proceedings yet by reason of the many interferings of private with publick business people are confounded in their Memories and forget the Coherence of the main Transactions while they endeavour to separate the more from the less important Truth I must confess indeed that Order and Method are the main Assistances of Memory Fame Therefore I say that if Thou wouldst but assist me in this Business and recollecting thy just Memory wouldst but give me an Exact easie and methodical Relation of the Proceedings of the late Session without Animadversions or Flourishes but plainly and impartially I believe it would be very much both for thy advantage and mine too Truth That I shall most willingly do not only for my own but the advantage of all those that as I am perswaded read with more delight a successive and cohering then a disorder'd and interrupted Story Fame Thereby will Fame be beholding to Truth for the Truth which she reports and Truth be no less beholding to Fame for reporting the Verity of Things Truth Where then wouldst thou have me begin Fame Just where the Parliament it self began For that in the procedure of Affairs is just like a full Stop and a Break in Writing Truth The Parliament then as is well known assembled at the usual Places at Westminster upon Tuesday the 21. of October in the year 1680. So soon as they were met a Message was sent from his Majesty to the House of Commons by Sir Edward Carteret Usher of the Black Rod commanding the Members to attend him in the House of Peers Whither the Commons accordingly repairing his Majesty was pleas'd to declare himself to the effect as follows That the several Prorogations he had made had been advantageous to the Neighbouring States and useful to Himself as having employ'd that time in makng and perfecting an Alliance with the Crown of Spain suitable to what he had before with the United Provinces That he had all the reason in the world to believe that what was so much desir'd by former Parliaments must needs be acceptable to them Which as they were the best Measures that could be taken for the safety of England and repose of Christendom so they could not but attain their ends if our home-Divisions did not render our Friendship less considerable abroad That for prevention thereof he gave them all Assurances that nothing should be wanting on his part to give them the fullest Satisfaction their hearts could wish for the security of the Protestant Religion which he resolved to maintain against all Conspiracies of our Enemies and to concur with them in any propos'd Remedies that might consist with preserving the Crown in its Due and Legal Course of Descent To which purpose he recommended to them the speedy Examination of the Plot and that the Lords in the Tower might be brought to their speedy Tryals Then he laid before them the matter of Tangier and the Expences he had been at to relieve and maintain that place upon which he desired their Advice and Assistance But that which he valued

so made by his Mother in whose Reign there would be no difficulty of doing it And farther that the Declaration of Indulgence and the War against Holland were in Order to the introducing of the Catholick Religion into England And the same Author reported to him That Madam came over to Dover about the same design That he knew several Commanders in the Army mustered upon Black-Heath to be Roman-Catholick's and that it was the common Intelligence and Opinion among them that the said Army was rais'd to bring in the Romon-Catholick-Religion into England That in the Year 1679. Marquess Montecuculi the D. of Modena's Envoy told him if he would undertake to kill the King either in his own Person or by any other he should have Ten-Thousand pound That the same Marquess told him that upon killing the King the Army in Flanders and Parts adjoying to France was to come over to destroy the Protestant-Party after which there should be no more Parliaments in England and that the D. of Y. was privie to all these designs That in the Year 1680. He met Kelley the Priest at Calice who owned himself to be one of the Murtherers of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey and that the same was done much as Prance had related it and That Monsieur De-Puy a Servant to the D. of Y. had told him soon after the said Murther was committed that the said Murther was consulted at Windsor and farther told him that there was a necessity of taking off the King and that it would soon be done with some other passages of less remark to the same purpose Upon this Information Mr. Secretary Jenkins was Ordered to go up and impeach the said Fits-Harris at the Barr of the Lords House In the mean time that is to say in the forenoon of the next day being Saturday the 26 of March other Examinations of Mr. John Serjeant and David Maurice relating to the Popish-Plot were Read and Ordered to be Printed That of Serjeant was short that a Gentlewoman an Acquaintance of his in Flanders one Mrs. Skipwith told him That Gawen one of the Five Jesuits which were Hang'd had maintain'd against a scruple of Conscience by her put that the Queen might not only lawfully kill the King for violating her Bed but was bound to do it and that if she did not she was guilty of his greater Damnation in letting him continue so long Maurice's Information was shorter That he heard the Gentlewoman confirm the Truth of Gawens words Presently after the House taking into debate the means for the security of the Protestant Religion and safety of his Majesties Person came to a Resolution that a Bill should be brought in for excluding James D. of York from Inheriting the Imperial Crowns of England and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereto belonging The same Day in the Afternoon the House being inform'd that the Lords had refus'd to proceed upon their Impeachment of Edward-Fits-Harris and had directed that he should be proceeded against at Common-Law They came to three Resolves That it was the undoubted Right of the Commons in Parliament assembl'd to impeach before the Lords in Parliament any Peer or Commoner for Treason or any other Crime or Misdemeanour and that the Refusal of the Lords to proceed in Parliament upon such an Impeachment was a denial of Justice and a violation of the Constitution of Parliaments Secondly That in the Case of Edward Fits-Harris who had been impeach'd by the Commons for High Treason before the Lords with a Declaration that in convenient time they would bring up Articles against him for the Lords to resolve That the said Fits-Harris should be proceeded against according to the Course of Common-Law and not by way of Impeachment in Parliament at that time was a violation of the Constitution of Parliaments and an Obstruction to the farther Discovery of the Popish-Plot and of great danger to his Majesties Person and the Protestant-Religion Thirdly for any Inferiour Court to proceed against Edward Fits-Harris or any other Person lying under an Impeachment in Parliament for the same Crime for which they stood impeached was a High breach of the Priviledge of Parliament After this they Ordered two Bills to be brought in The one for the better Uniting his Majesties Protestant-Subjects The other for banishing the most considerable Papists in England by their Names out of his Majesties Dominions Munday the Twenty-eighth Day of March and last of the Session little remarkable pass'd only the Bill of Exclusion was read a Second time But these and all other their debates that Morning put a suddain Conclusion for soon after being sent for by the King to the House of Lords his Majesty told them That their beginnings had been such that he could expect no good success of this Parliament and therefore thought fit to dissolve them and accordingly the Chancellor by the Kings command declared the Parliament dissolv'd After the Dessolution of the Parliament the King went back to Windsor the same Day and from thence after a stay of some few Hours returned to White-Hall Fame I will not ask Thee what were the Coffee-Houses Censures and Comments upon an Action of so much importance and so suddain as this Truth No for if Thou didst it would be to no purpose For Thou knowest I have little to do there but the first thing that I saw in Publick upon the Stalls was a Half-sheet of Paper entitled The Protestation of the Lords Upon rejecting the Impeachment of Mr. Fits-Harris giving for Reasons why it was the undoubted Right of the Commons so to do because great Offences that influence the Parliament were most effectually determined in Parliament nor could the complaint be determin'd any where else For that if the Party should be Indicted in the Kings Bench or any other Inferiour Court for the same Offence yet it were the same Suit an Impeachment being at the suite of the People but an Indictment at the suite of the King Besides that they conceived it to be a denial of Justice in regard the House of Peers as to Impeachments proceeding by Vertue of their Judicial not their Legislative Power could not deny any Suitors but more especially the Commons of England no more then the Courts of Westminster or any other Inferiour Courts could deny any Suite or Criminal Cause regularly Commenced before them Sign'd according to the Printed Copy Monmuoth Kent Huntington Bedford Salisbury Clare Stamford Sunderland Essex Shaftsbury Macclesfield Mordant Wharton Paget Grey of Wark Herbert of Cherbury Cornwallis Lovelace Crew Upon the Munday next after Easter-Week came forth His Majesties Declaration shewing the Causes and Reasons that mov'd him to dissolve the Two last Parliaments Wherein after he had set forth with how much reluctancy he did it and how absolute his Intentions were to have comply'd as far as would have consisted with the very being of the Government with any thing that could have been propos'd to him for preserving the Establish'd Religion