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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46751	The narrative of Robert Jenison of Grays-Inn, Esquire containing I. a further discovery and confirmation of the late horrid and treasonable popish plot against His Majestie's person, government, and the Protestant religion, II. the names of the four ruffians, designed to have murthered the King, III. the reasons why this discovery hath been so long deferred, by the said Robert Jenison, IV. an order of His Majesty in Council touching the same ... : together with a preface introductory to the said narrative.	Jenison, Robert, 1648-1688.	1679 (1679)	Wing J561; ESTC R11080	31,524	50

Capt. Levallyn who was heir to a good Estate unless the Pique which he had to the King might induce him to it And this Informant further saith that being with the said Thomas Jenison and another Gentleman about the latter end of April or beginning of May 1678 whose name he now remembers not in the said Ireland's Chamber there came one in who after some private discourse with Mr. Ireland departed and after he was gone the said Thomas Jenison told this Informant 't was one Mr. Oates who had been a Parson but was come over to them and that he was a brisk jolly man and well worth his acquaintance And he further saith that about the time that some Regiments were drawn together upon Hownsloe Heath the said Thomas Jenison told this Informant he had a matter of great consequence to impart to him adding that there was a Design on foot so laid as it could not be discovered in which most of the greatest Catholicks in England were embarqued and that it would be of great advantage to this Informant to embarque with them and that he could not be in greater danger than they and that he would acquaint this Informant with the particulars after he had receiv'd the Sacrament of Secresie which he engaged this Informant to do upon the next Holy-day at Sr. Philip Terwitt's House in Bloomesbury but this Informant neglecting so to do he missed the opportunity of being further informed And this Informant then wishing he had had a Commission in the new Levies the said Thomas Jenison replyed that he would get him a Commission from the Duke of York whereunto this Informant returning answer How can that be since all the Commissions are now granted and full The said Thomas Jenison answer'd I will tell you that hereafter therefore let me know how I shall send a Commission to you into the Countrey with safety he knowing this Informant intended suddenly to go into the Bishoprick of Durham And this Informant very well remembers there happening some discourse about the said Parson lately come over to them the said Thomas Jenison said that that Parson was ingaged in the design whereto this Informant objected That a reconciled enemy ought no more to be trusted than an open foe but the said Thomas Jenison answered they were sure enough of him and that once reconciled they were the more resolute and trusly To which opinion this Informant submitted instancing Dr. Godwin and Dr. Baily as being zealous Catholicks although they were Protestant Converts And this Informant further saith that he was in Shinfield Parish near Redding in Berkshire about the time of Coleman's Tryal where he met with Mr. Cuffell a Romish Priest and Jesuite who then much blamed the said Coleman saying he believ'd he was infatuated to suffer his own papers to be taken upon discovery of the Plot whenas he had given notice to Mr. Harcourt Mr. Ireland and the rest of the Jesuites to burn or secure theirs And he very well remembers that amongst other discourse this Informant spoke against the opinion that Bellarmine Mariana and Suarez maintained touching the Power of the Pope to depose Kings upon which the said Mr. Cuffell mentioned a sentence which he said Bellarmine quoted out of the Scripture for that opinion And this Informant also very well remembers that Mr. Tho. Jenison and himself discoursing of the Popes Power about deposing of Kings affirmed that that Doctrine was not laid aside The Further INFORMATION OF Robert Jenison OF Grayes-Inn Esq Taken upon Oath AUG 6. 1679. be before me Edmund Warcupp Esq one of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex THIS Informant saith that after he had upon much importunity of Mr. William Ireland upon the 19th day of August 1678. named unto him Captain Levallyn Mr. Kerney Mr. Brahall and Mr. James Wilson to be stout and couragious Gentlemen as in this Informants former Deposition is contained the said William Ireland did ask or require this Informant to go down with the said Gentlemen to Windsor to be assistant to them in the taking off the King which this Informant refused saying he would not have any hand in the Death of the King saying No men of Estates would engage therein as this Informant believed And the said William Ireland did approve of the said four persons named as aforesaid by this Informant as fit for the design and declared that he knew Mr. Levallyn and Mr. Kerney before this Informant had named them By which this Informant did apprehend that he might have communicated with them of the said design for Windsor before the nomination aforesaid And this Informant further saith that upon the day that this Informant receiv'd the 20 l. lent unto him this Informant as in his former information is mentioned went with his Brother to Mr. William Harcourt's Chamber in Duke-street to return thanks for the obligation in consenting to lend the money And Mr. Thomas Jenison did let fall some expressions to the Purpose following viz. If C. R. meaning the King would not be R. C. meaning Roman Catholick he should not be long C. R. meaning Carolus Rex and further added upon discourse that the King being deposed he was no longer King and it were no sin to take him off And if it should be discovered who did it perhaps two or three might dye for it but denying the fact the matter would soon blow over And he further saith that much about the same time discoursing of the design wherein the greatest Catholicks in England were embarqued the said Mr. Thomas Jenison did name my Lord Arundel of Warder my Lord Bellasis my Lord Powis and two or three others whose names this Informant does not now remember that were to be great Instruments in promoting the Catholick Cause and they had often attempted the Lord Ireasurer and had at last made him theirs And he further saith that upon the 19th day of August 1678 aforesaid Mr. William Ireland did ask this Informant for the 20. l. lent unto this Informant upon Bond as aforesaid although the same was not then due and further said he wanted 80. l. having then occasion for that summ but this Informant answered that his allowance from his Father was but 80 l. per annum and he could not spare much out of it And he further saith that the Commission which the said Tho. Jenison promised to obtain for him from the Duke of York was delayed and not to be sent unto him until such time as the taking off the King was accomplished as this Informant did understand from the said Thomas Jenison And this Informant knows that Mr. Kerney and Mr. Coleman were well acquainted and this Informant doth humbly beg pardon of His Majesty and the Kingdom for concealing thus long the treasonable practices against his Sacred Life and Government and the Protestant Religion which this Informant doth say was occasioned by reason he this Informant was unwilling to impeach his own Brother Mr.

Ireland was in London August the Twenty Ninth as he mistakes it whereas my Depositions spake of August the Nineteenth that I saw and discoursed Him here Where he was the Twenty Ninth of that Month doth not affect me but at the time by me Deposed I am sure my Brother nor no Person living could ever see Him the said Ireland in any other place unless it were possible for the same man to have Two Bodies in Two different places at one and the same time 4. And whereas he alleadges in his Letter that I told him I could prove Titus Oates perjured I confess the great affection I had for him as a Brother did set my thoughts at work at that time for the invalidating the Testimony of Mr. Oates so far at least as my Brother was concerned therein but it can in no sort be concluded that by what I said by my Brother or asserted in a Petition upon that occasion presented by me to His Majesty That I should have been able although I should have sworn it to invalidate the Testimony of Mr. Oates much less that I was perswaded in my self that there was no Plot or that I would have him to acknowledge that which in his Letter he calls an Incredible Story The Matter being too apparent to be hid 5. The charge of Perfidiousness Apostacy for so it amounts unto of imitating yea out-doing Judas himself c. is grounded on a false Basis viz. That the Church of Rome to use a Scripture Expression is the Pillar and Ground of Truth and therefore my interposing for the continuance of Reformed Protestancy in these Nations as far as my weak endeavours can contribute thereto not to mention my embracing thereof and deserting the Roman Church is in their sense hiding and driving the Truth from the Nation which censure how well or rather how ill Grounded it is let all true Protestants yea let all sober Christians of whatsoever perswasion provided they be not of their Interested Church judge and determine 6. The Weeping which my Brother misconstrues in his Letter to me was on this occasion I went to give him a Visit in Newgate partly out of Brotherly Kindness and Respect and partly by my Father's encouragement to move him to make some Confession and Acknowledgment where finding him who had had Liberal Education abroad in the World and was besides so nearly related to me to be shut up in a Close Prison and knowing him to be under the Character of the deepest Guilt I was so far transported with Natural Affection which I hope is no Crime in the Profession of any Religion as to break out into Tears proceeding from some Emotion of Spirit on so sad a Spectacle when it was not at all out of Reflection or Guilt in my self which might in any sort assimilate my case to St. Peter's whose sin if I were guilty of I would willingly tread in the same foosteps of his Repentance But my carriage at that time was so far from being imputable to me as a Crime that if I mistake not my Brother might rather have accepted it as an Argument of my sincere and Brotherly affection to him as indeed it was 7. Though I heartily wish to all those concerned in this Plot true repentance and amendment of life and cannot say Amen to the Issue of their endeavours hoped for and expected by Them yet my Testimony hath not been instrumental to the condemnation or suffering of Mr. Ireland as is suggested without ground in the Letter for his Tryal and Condemnation was past before any Evidence of mine in relation to him came to be published And as to my endeavour to prejudice my Brother which is there also intimated I reply that my visit to him was purposely in order to his preservation his Person abstracting from his Crimes having been and yet is always notwithstanding the Severity of his Censures dear to me whose safety I shall study as well as my own as the event I hope will make appear And as for all others concerned in the Plot I shall count it a great mercy if their Designs may be obviated and prevented without shedding any more Blood After this Grand Charge by my own Brother whose Letter I have thus opened and dissected I have been further assaulted by Female Addresses that so if possible the entreaties of that Sex might take me off from prosecuting my Discovery and that in a Critical Juncture of time immediatly before the Tryal of Sir George Wakeman Hear then how a Kinswoman of mine and her Mother my Aunt residing in Staffordshire have accosted me by their Letters out of the Country A Letter to Robert Jenison Esq from his Cousin Harwell Dearest Cousin I Think my Mother is the onely Aunt you have in the world if you have either Compassion for her or Kindness for me I beg of you for the love of God to recall your pernicious Mistakes for so we are sure they be and may prove to be of very dangerous Consequence to your Soul disgrace to your Family and Ruine to your Brother We do impute it to some Oppression of the Fancy since you had that great Fit of Sickness rather then any thing of Will to doe so great an Injustice either to the Living or Dead My most dear Cousin let me beg of you to desist and not so much as to have a Thought of any such Thing which Fancy in time through God's Goodness may pass away My Mother saith she could tell you of a very near Relation of yours that came to her and wept extreamly She demanded the Cause he answered his Sister was Dead My Mother said she should have heard of it if that had been so he notwithstanding persisted saying that he saw her Dead It prov'd to be nothing but a weakness of his Fancy and that Sister to my Mother's Knowledge was alive twenty years after I believe the strange Death of our Cousin might work and create strange Fancies in you that had so great a Fit of Sickness that you lay Dead for a Time as I was told Dear Cousin I do most intirely love you which makes me so free with you and I assure you my Mother can scarce either eat or drink or sleep she is so full of Sorrow I fear if you persist wilfully you will break the Heart of your onely Aunt and my Dear Mother which will more afflict then you can imagin Your most affectionate Cousin and Servant C. H. July the 7th 1679. POSTSCRIPT We shall have no ease till we hear from you pray let it be speedily Superscribed to Mr. Robert Jenison at his Chamber in Grayes-Inne After this Letter from the Daughter and my Answer thereunto I received the two following Epistles from her Mother Superscribed also to me at Grayes-Inne Madam Harwell's Letter to her Nephew Robert Jenison Esq Dear Nephew I Received your Letter which gave me no satisfaction in the Contents but your Civility in Returning an Answer I acknowledge and