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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50581	Memoirs of the most remarkable enterprises and actions of James Duke of York, Albany, and Ulster		1681 (1681)	Wing M1672; ESTC R903	7,284	16

Edmundbury Godfrey would come in a Witness against him in regard he had been so diligent in taking Examinations The DUKE returned him Answer back again that bid him be sure not to confess and he should not need to fear Sir Edmund Bury-Godfrey and that there should be care taken or somewhat to that purpose Also Mr. Dangerfield gives Account that about the Months of September or of October 1679. That Mrs. Cellier and himself then waiting of the Lord Peterborough to be introduced to the DUKE of YORK after some Discourse his Lordship took them into the DUKES Closet at White-Hall where having kissed the DUKES hand Mr. Dangerfield gave his Royal-Highness a little Book containing a Scheme and the pretended Discovery he had made in the Presbyterian Plot which the Duke after some short perusal of thanked him for and also for his diligence in the Catholick Cause desired him to go on and wished him good success in all his undertakings adding in these words viz. That the Presbyterian Plot was a thing of most weighty Consequence and if well managed would be conducible to the safety of the Catholick Cause not questioning but the effects of it would Answer their expectations especially in the Northern parts where I am well assured the Major part of the Gentry are his friends and have given sufficient Demonstration of their Affections to him likewise of their intents to prosecute the Presbyterian Plot to the utmost After this his Highness ordered that Mr. Dangerfield and Mrs. Cellier to be careful of what they communicated to the persons who were to be Witnesses in the New Plot lest they should be caught in the subornation and thereby bring a terrible Odium upon the Catholicks and so they be made uncapable of any further Service After this the Duke informed them that in a Month or two's time the Commissions would be ready but ordered them in the mean time to bring their parts to bear with the Commissions and particularly ordered Mr. Dangerfield to find out some persons which were fit to be trusted and that should accept of such Commissions which should be delivered by a person appointed for that purpose but not to be known to them to be any other but a Presbyterian So that when occasion should require they might together with those which Mr. Dangerfield Mrs. Cellier c. had then be ready to swear in the Plot and that the Presbyterians were raising Forces against the King and Government and had given out Commissions to that purpose And in Order to this Mr. Dangerfield in some short time after procured several to accept of such Commissions when they should be ready whose business in the mean time was to spread Reports in the Coffee-houses that the Popish-Plot was a contrivance of the Presbyterians For their encouragement in the prosecution of that Sham-Plot the DUKE promised that he would take care that money should not be wanting but ordered them to use all the expedition the thing would allow to make a Discovery thereof to the King After which the Duke said The Catholick party would be eased of the Charge in regard it would be defrayed some other way The DUKE then made divers Vows and bitter Execrations to stand by them in the thing and engaged on his honour to be their Rewarder Adding that such considerable Heresies were not to be slighted further promising that to whose Lot soever it should happen to be imprisoned according to their fidelity and stedfastness in the Cause so much the more should their Reward be augmented and that all care possible should be used to support and preserve them and particularly desiring Mr. Dangerfield to keep up to the couragious and active Character which his Highness had heard of him All which Mr. Dangerfield promised to do Mr. Dangerfield some time after went to wait on the Lord Peterborough from the Lady Powis to the end that he might move the DUKE to get him with all expedition to the King he then being ready About four days after this my Lord Peterborough sending for Mr. Dangerfield and took him to the DUKE again who was then in his Closset at White-Hall and the DUKE told Mr. Dangerfield that he must prepare himself to wait on the King to give his Majesty a more particular Account of the Presbyterian Plot than what the little Book made mention of which Book the DUKE said he had given to the King And that he had so ordered the matter that Mr. Dangerfield should be furnished with money to enable him in the prosecution thereof But his Highness charged him to consider well his Story before he waited on the King Then the Duke told him that by his diligence he had gained a good Reputation among the Catholicks and that he should by his Service to that Cause highly merrit Adding that in a short time he should see the Catholick Religion flourish in these Kingdoms and Heresie torn up by the Roots and that he had heard of the Proposal which had been made him by the Lords Powis and Arundel about taking off the King and about his Refusal as also what he had accepted touching my Lord Shaftsbury and of all his Transactions in the Presbyterian Plot saying in these very words viz. If you value the Religion you profess and my Interest as you say you do and your own future Happiness take my Advice and depend upon my Honour and Interest for your Advancement For Sir you look like a Man of Courage and Wit therefore less Discourse may serve with you than another So that if you will but move by the Measures that I will give you you shall not only escape with safety but be rewarded according to the greatness of your Actions To which Mr. Dangerfield Replied that he would stand and fall in defence of the Roman Catholick Religion and his Highness Service adding that he was not a little concerned for his refusing to kill the King by whom he was well satisfied by his Ghostly Father stood Condemned as an Heretick But this he did offer that if his Highness would command him to the Attempt he would not fail either to accomplish it or to loose his Life Upon which the DUKE gave him twenty Guinnies and said that if he would be rigorous in what he had already undertaken he would so order it that his Life should not be in the least danger adding we are not to have men taken in such daring Actions but to have them make an effectual dispatch and be gon some time after this when Mr. Dangerfield was ready to convey the Letters into Collonel Mansels Chamber he went to the Lord Peterborough who brought him to the DUKE whom Mr. Dangerfield told that he was ready to fix the Letters in Collonel Mansels Chamber to which his Highness answered that he must make haste that he might be impowered to make a General search of the like Nature for said the DUKE since I saw you last the Lady Powis hath informed me that there are abundance of Letters and Witnesses Ready so that it is now high time to begin FINIS