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A26368 The history of the late conspiracy against the king and the nation with a particular account of the Lancashire Plot, and all the other attempts and machinations of the disaffected party since His Majesty's accession to the throne / extracted out of the original informations of the witnesses and other authentick papers.; Histoire de la dernière conspiration d'Angleterre. English Abbadie, Jacques, 1654-1727. 1696 (1696) Wing A52; ESTC R14960 75,108 198

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apt to appear in their native and hideous Colours than when they are protected by the Indulgency of the Laws and the Clemency of the Government and meet with an opportunity to cover their pernicious Designs with a false pretext of Duty and Allegiance They are perpetually talking of Fidelity and Obedience and seem to make Loyalty their Idol tho' they are usually the Principal Promoters of Rebellion and seldom or never well affected to the Government under which they live Plotting is their Business and Recreation they love Confusion and expect to live by it and are ready to joyn with every Faction upon the cheapest Terms that can be propos'd When there is no present Advantage in view they work for Expectation Plunder is all the Pay they require and their Prosperity consists in the Desolation of their Country Besides the French were preparing to land a considerable Body of Forces in this Kingdom to support the disaffected Party For the Court of St. Germans repented that they had formerly plac'd too much confidence in an Army of English Men who lov'd their Country and their Religion 'T was the general opinion of the Party that the placing of too much Confidence in Subjects who were unworthy of it depriv'd King James of the assistance he might have expected from others They remember'd the advice of some of his Councellors who looking upon his Army as the Nerves and support of his Undertakings and the only Way to secure him against the obstinacy of those whom neither the lawfulness of his Authority nor his Moderation in using it cou'd retain in Obedience to the Government wou'd have perswaded him to entertain a sufficient number of Catholics in his Army to keep the rest in awe and to put it out of their Power to betray him and were of opinion that both these Effects might have been produc'd by joining the Irish Troops to such of the English and Scotch as were Remarkable for their Fidelity to his Interest Thus we may easily perceive by the reflexions they made on their former Conduct what Measures they resolv'd to take for the future They concluded that an Army of French and Irish with some pretended Protestants who regarded neither their Country nor Religion wou'd never show King James a Copy of his Salisbury Expedition and that with such Forces as these they might make an entire Conquest of England as soon as they shou'd think fit to undertake it In pursuance of that design the French labor'd with great application to encrease their Naval Strength ping that if they cou'd corrupt the Officers of our Fleet or be in a readiness to put to Sea before the Dutch Men of War cou'd join Ours they might easily find an opportunity to fight us with advantage and afterwards Land their Soldiers without Opposition In the mean time to oblige us to send our Land Forces to Flanders and at the same time to hinder our Allies from assisting us the French King appear'd at the Head of his numerous Armies as if he had resolv'd in one Campaign to conquer a Country which for Sixty Years had been both the Seat and Cause of the War He intended to invade England if our Army continu'd in the Netherlands or to make himself Master of those Provinces if we shou'd be oblig'd to recall our Forces But the Principal Design of all the vast Preparations he had made was to keep this Nation embroil'd in a Civil War till he had broken the Confederacy that he might fall upon us with his united Forces and by subduing England put himself in a condition to conquer all the rest of Europe But tho the Conspirators expected a considerable Reinforcement from France and a powerful diversion in Flanders tho they were sure of the Assistance of so many false Protestants and as they imagin'd of several Officers in our Navy notwithstanding all these Advantages they look'd upon His Majesty's Life as an invincible Obstacle to the Accomplishment of their Designs and despair'd of succeeding in their Attempt against us while we enjoy'd the Protection of our Great Deliverer They dreaded his Power Forces and Alliances but were more afraid of his single Person than of the united strength of the whole Confederacy They had oftentimes had the unwelcome experience of his Constancy Resolution and unweary'd Application and knew to their sorrow and cost that his Courage was never shock'd by the most terrible Dangers that upon a pressing Exigency he cou'd brave a thousand Deaths and cut his way through the most vigorous Opposition that when the posture of his Affairs requir'd more Prudence than Valor he cou'd proceed with all the Coolness and Policy of the wariest Statesman that he was peculiarly happy in baffling the Designs of his Enemies and in turning even their most successful Contrivances against themselves that he was equally unmov'd in Good and Bad Fortune that he was never capable either of Vanity or Fear and cou'd only be overcome by Himself These Considerations made his Enemies resolve to take away a Life that secur'd Europe and England particularly from the utmost Efforts both of their Policy and Force And in pursuance of this execrable Resolution they engag'd some desperate Villains to Murder him But God saw and blasted their dark Contrivances and deliver'd Him whom He had made the Deliverer of so many Nations The Assassins were taken near Bosleduc and by their Examination it appears That Dumont and Grandval were solicited to undertake the Assassination of the King That the Design having miscarry'd in 1691. was resum'd the next year That one Leefdael formerly Captain Lieutenant of a Troop of Dragoons in the Service of the States coming to Paris Grandval communicated the Design to him and desir'd him to be concern'd in it with Dumont and himself because he thought Dumont wou'd not be able to execute it alone That Grandval went with Leefdael and Collonel Parker to St. Germains and that King James said to him Parker has acquainted me with your business If you and the other Officers do me this Service you shall never want any thing That upon this assurance a Letter was sent to Dumont who was then at Hanover desiring him to meet Grandval and Leefdael in the Country of Ravestein where they were to take their last Resolutions and entreating him to hasten his departure least the King in the mean time shou'd return to England That Dumont was to lye in wait and to kill His Majesty as he pass'd the Lines or went to visit the Posts at the decamping of the Army That Grandval told Leefdael upon the Road that if their Design succeeded the Confederacy wou'd be broken that every P●●nce wou'd recall his Forces that the Country being left without defence the French King wou'd soon make himself Master of it and that King James wou'd be restor'd to his Throne To keep Leefdael from being discourag'd by the Difficulties and Hazards to which the prosecution of their Design might expose 'em