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A81616	The information of Thomas Dangerfield, gent. Delivered at the bar of the House of Commons, Tuesday the twenty sixth day of October, in the year of Our Lord 1680. / Perused and signed to be printed, according to the order of the House of Commons, by me William Williams, speaker.	Dangerfield, Thomas, 1650?-1685.; Williams, William, Sir, 1634-1700.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1680 (1680)	Wing D188A; ESTC R226002	5,165	14

I Appoint Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills to Print this Information According to the Order of the HOUSE of COMMONS And that no other Person presume to Print the same Novemb. 10th 1680. Wi WILLIAMS Speaker THE INFORMATION OF THOMAS DANGERFIELD GENT. About the Months of September or October 1679. WHen Mrs. Cellier and my self waited on the Lord Peterborough to be Introduced to his Highness the Duke of York his Lordship enquired of me If the Lady Powis had given meany directions how to Discourse the Duke I replyed She had Then he desired to know what they were Upon which I shewed his Lordship a little Book in which was contained a Scheme and the pretended Discovery which I had made in the Presbyterian Plot. Which Book his Lordship carefully perused and finding some omission therein he ordered me to Write while his Lordship did Dictate to me these words viz. That the Presbyterian Party intended to make an Insurrection in the North and so to joyn with an Army of the Scots Immediately after this his Lordship took us into the Dukes Closet at Whitehall where we both kissed his hand and me he took from the ground for I was kneeling Then I gave his Highness the aforementioned little Book which he after some short perusal thereof thanked me for and also for my diligence in the Catholick Cause Did advise me to go on and wished good success to all my Undertakings Adding in these very words viz. That the Presbyterian Plot was a thing of most mighty consequence and if well managed would be very Conducible to the Safety of the Catholick Cause and I do not question but the Effects of it will answer our Expectation especially in the Northern parts where I am well assured the Major Part of the Gentry are my Friends and have given sufficient Demonstration of their affections to me as also of their intentions to prosecute this Presbyterian Plot to the utmost for they are no Strangers to the Design Immediately after this his Highness ordered that Mrs. Cellier and my self in the hearing of the Lord Peterborough who was privy to the whole Discourse to be very careful of what we Communicated to the persons who were to be the Witnesses in that new Plot lest we should be caught in the Subornation and so bring a terrible Odium upon the Catholicks and make our selves uncapable of any further Service After this the Duke informed us That in a Month or two's time the Commissions would be ready but ordered us in the mean time to bring our part to bear with the Commissions and particularly ordered me to find out some persons as there was enough such among the Catholicks as well as elsewhere which were fit to be Trusted and that should accept of such Commissions which should be delivered them 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 we then had be ready to swear in the Plot and that the Presbyterians were raising Forces against the King and Government and had given our Commissions to that purpose And in order to this I did in some short time after procure one Bedford Curtice Grey Hill Hopkins and others 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 c. Now for our encouragement in the prosecution of that Sham-Plot the Duke promised that he would take care that Money should not be wanting but ordered us 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 he was sure it would be defrayed some other way Then the Duke made divers Vows and bitter Execrations to stand by us in the thing and engaged on his Honour to be our Rewarder Adding That such Considerable Services were not to be slighted and further promised 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 but particularly desiring me to keep up to the couragious and active Character which his Highness had heard of me All which I promised to do Whereupon we withdrew to the Lord Peterboroughs Lodging where we continued till his Lordship had Introduced Sir Robert Peyton to the Duke Which being done his Lordship left them together as he said and came to us where among other Discourse his Lordship told me I had a great opportunity to make my Fortune what I would my self if I would but follow the advice of his Master the Duke of York who as his Lordship said would certainly be my King in a very short time Adding that I must be resolute in my undertakings For said he the Duke much affects Resolution but hates mortally the timorous man Then I answered his Lordship That I valued not my Life provided to lose it would be serviceable to the Duke's Interest At which Expression he seemed fully satisfied and from that time called me Captain Willoughby and at our coming away his Lordship gave particular order to his Servants That at what time soever day or night either Mrs. Cellier or my self should come to speak with his Lordship we should be forthwith admitted And then we parted Some short time after I went to wait on his Lordship from the Lady Powis at midnight to desire him to move the Duke to get me with all expedition to the King for then I was ready About four days after this his Lordship sent for me and took me to the Duke again who was in his Closet at Whitehall and the Duke told me I must prepare my self 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 I should be furnished with Money to enable me in the Prosecution thereof But his Highness charged me to consider well my Story before I waited on the King Then the Duke told me I had gained by my Diligence a good Reputation among the Catholicks and that I should highly merit by my Services to that Cause adding That I should in a short time 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 me by the Lords Powis and Arundel about Taking off the King and of my refusal as also of what I had accepted touching my Lord Shaftsbury and of all my Transactions in the Presbyterian Plot saying in these very words viz. 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