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A36294
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The grand impostor defeated by Tho. Dangerfield.
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Dangerfield, Thomas, 1650?-1685.
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Wing D186; ESTC R38840
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That was fit for a bold and daring Enterprise and the Lord Castlemain it seems was willing to put his Hand to the Plough and make a Weekly Allowance of Money in that as he had done in other Affairs of the like nature before He goes on Vpon which account and that of the St. Omers Witnesses which I had provided for my own Defence in Case of Tryal and which I Lodged at Mrs. Celliers House she came frequently to me Here I think is one of the fairest Confessions of Fact that can possibly be for I only charg'd his Lordship with instructing of the St. Omers Witnesses what they should testifie on the behalf of Langhorn and the five Jesuits And he tells us he provided them for his own Defence and undoubtedly they were design'd to have Testiff'd at his Tryal had they not been so often baffled which put his Lordship to find out a better Expedient by raising a scruple in the Judges Consciences about the validity of my Evidence But will any man of reason believe that the St. Omers Witnesses which his Lordship had provided for his own Defence as he says were never consulted with to know what they could or rather were to Testifie on the behalf of his Lordship in case there had been any such occasion If so then what I have alledged against him must be looked upon as false and Villanous But if they will but consider how material and how common a thing it is for a person that is capable of giving Evidence to be consulted withal to know what he can testifie before there is occasion to use him they cannot but believe much more care was taken by his Lordship of the St. Omers Witnesses who were to give a false and forg'd Testimony as its plain they did and which appear'd as clear as the Sun to the whole Court upon the Tryals of the Five Jesuits and Langhorn to which Tryals I refer the Reader for his satisfaction I say then I hope there is no body but will believe that the Lord Castlemaine could otherwise chuse having provided them for his own Defence but disburse Money to buy Cloaths and equip those his Novitiates in Perjury That he allow'd them so much spending money per Week and that he paid Mrs. Cellier seven Shillings per Week a piece for their Lodging and Diet which could not amount to less than ten or twelve pounds per week for there were 15 or 16 of them in number all this may rationally be suppos'd But that which follows viz. That his Lordship did instruct them daily what they should testifie for himself which he calls making Provision for his Defence and consequently for Langhorn and the Five Jesuits in which sense let his Confession be Recorded to Posterity He runs on That she Mrs. Cellier told him one day she had taken out of Newgate for Three Pounds Ten Shillings a Young man vers'd a little in the Law whom she thought very fit to look after several desperate Debts to the value of 3 or 4000 l. due to her Husband c. How far this Fiction hath been Credited I know not but I am sorry to see his Lordship has no better a shift than this old one of Mrs. Celliers which was invented by her for my particular use a Story so incongruous and unlikely that none but a Drowning Lord in a weak Cause would have laid hold on which is plainly seen thus He says Mrs. Cellier told him she had taken me out of Newgate for Three Pounds Ten Shillings and I say That before I was discharged out of Prison and made fit for their Plotting business it cost them near Three Hundred Pounds He says she thought me very fit to look after desperate Debts c. and for that reason was at Three Pounds Ten Shillings Charge to take me out of Prison In answer to which I say and will prove it by more than one Witness that she enquir'd fore ever she came to me for a man of a bold and daring Spirit and receiving information according to her Enquiry she then came to me and did Discourse me to no other end or purpose than what my first Narrative makes mention of which is far enough from what his Lordship would insinuate And I do farther in the Presence of Almighty God affirm That the end of my being taken out of Prison to get in her Husbands desperate Debts is as false and as preposterous a Lie as ever was told In a word it is a thing that never was heard of until after I had been Committed by the King and Councel for conveying of the Treasonable Letters into Mr. Mansells Chamber c. at which time she Forged that Excuse as you may find it in the 52 Page of my first Narrative apprehending that she and I should be Examin'd apart and therefore she sent me that Note wrote by her own hand to prevent contradictions And as for her Husbands having any such Debts as could amount to the value of a Groat much more to the value of Three or Four Thousand Pounds I am sure is altogether as false and that I may be able to prove that as well as the rest to be a Device I do here offer to produce sufficient Testimony That at that time viz. in the Year 1678 her Husband was taken by all the Merchants in London that knew him to be many Hundred Pounds worse than nothing Nay that I may once more clear up this great point upon which those of the Popish party hinge all their accumulations I do hereby challenge all the World to say impartially That I ever demanded of them or any of them One Shilling more or less either in the Name or for the Use of Mrs. Cellier Now I having made this Challenge in Print two or three times already and no person hath yet come in to contradict it one would have thought that no Papist how silly soever especially a Lord would have had the confidence to make any further use of that Lie it seems his Lordship was very hard put to it that he was forc'd to borrow Mother Damnables Thread-bare Shams But because I will yet set the thing more clear pray do but consider if I had been taken out of Prison only to get in Mr. Celliers desperate Debts First how the Lord Castlemain came to be concerned in so large a Contribution as Thirty odd Pounds towards my Enlargement which I can prove to be certainly true by the Papers that were taken in Mrs. Celliers House Secondly Whether or no the Lord Castlemain all the rest of the Popish Lords in the Tower Mr. Webb and Mrs. Jeane at Peterly Mr. Nevil alias Payne Gadbury Munson Kemesh and Knowles the Popish Priests Donner Rigaut the Virginia Merchant nay and the Lady Powis too were Mrs. Celliers Debtors and what Money I demanded of them in his Name Thirdly How I came to be brought to the Lord Peterborough from thence to the Duke of York and from thence
business at my House was I not angry with him at Powis House for going to the Lords in the Tower They says Dowdal Mrs. Cellier spoke to me to speak to Mr. Dangerfield not to be troubled at your anger Then Dowdal being ask'd by the Court when this was reply'd it was after the Jesuits died In Tryal page 66. Dowdal says viz. Dangerfield told me his Lordship was angry about his going to the Tower in my Lords Name unknown to him then being ask'd by the Court Did he acknowledge to you my Lords Anger in the beginning of July To which Dowdal reply'd it was within a Week after the Jesuits died And a little after that he stands up and tells the Court it was about the 21 of June Now let 's hear what the Lady of the Wicket Testify'd about this business of his Lordships anger Oh me she says positively that This day twelve month viz. the 23 of June 1679. He and I had been employ'd in Writing Copies of some Letters The writing of which Letters is a part of my Charge against his Lordship and against her self as you may find in my first Narrative and I sent him to my Lord to know if he would go something towards the Printing them and he went from him to the Lords in the Tower In an hour and half after my Lord came to me very angry Mrs. Cellier said he I thought you would not forfeit your Discretion to send such a Rascal to me if you send him to me again I will bid my Servants Kick him c. And at another time I would have sent him and said he pray Madam dont send me thither I would rather go an hundred Miles c. So now Gentlemen my design is fairly to set before you the sum of these two Testimonies which for Argument sake I am willing to allow as such Dowdal said That I told him of the Lord Castlemains being angry with me about the 21 of June adding that it was a Week after the Execution of the Five Jesuits now pray do but observe this contradiction 't is worth your while to see what a sort of infatuation these silly Bigots are under when they come to stretch their Zeal for the Cause The Five Jesuits were Tryed on Friday and Saturday being the 13 and 14 of June 1679 after that Langhorn was Tryed and found Guilty after which they were all Six brought to the Bar together and receiv'd Judgment to be Drawn Hang'd and Quartered which accordingly was done upon the Five Jesuits and Priests on Friday the 20 of June c. here is now visible to all mankind six days mistake so that had he been upon his Oath as he was not and that about had been left out for ought I see the transport of this mans Zeal might have brought him into the Bryers of Perjury Cellier seems to testifie that she heard not of his Lordships Anger till the 23 of June but says not one Word of the Week after the Jesuits were Executed c. however there 's two days difference between them I wonder not to reflect either upon the Lord Chief Justice or the Jury by whom this good Lord was Tryed what the World can think of such extraordinary Cases as these are this not being the first of that kind neither And with what Impudence men can as they do in their Lying Pamphlets daily assert the Innocency of such a sort of people as these who in their Testimonies even for one another confess the very Crimes with which they themselves had been charg'd and thus has Mrs. Cellier done when she said He and I meaning me had been employed in writing Copies of some Letters c. which Copies of Letters are those very ones that were intended to be conveyed into the Houses of most of the considerable Presbyterians in England in order to be seiz'd for the carrying on of that Sham-Plot I could give many instances of this kind but my Design in this being only to confute his Lordship by such matter of Fact as particularly relates to himself I am willing to be confin'd to that narrow compass and shall shew you what I brought in Bar to his Lordships Objections and those incoherent false oral Testimonies whose Guilt if possible was greater than the impudence they appeared with First the time that I swore his Lordships anger was about the middle of August 1679. Secondly one Turner then a Papist but some what honester than the rest swore that he saw me at the Lord Castlemains House and being asked by the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs what Month he could charge himself to say he saw Dangerfield in the Lord Castlemains Company Turner made this Answer I cannot well tell I think it might be about July so that here Gentlemen you have this doubtful point this great Lye this most egregious contradiction that his Lordship has so bang'd me about with dissolved in a word or two Cellier and Dowdal testifying for the 23 and 21 of the Month of June and my self and Turner swearing to the middle of August and the month of July positively both of these being long enough after their times to have I think convinc'd a man about the Truth of the Charge though Cellier and Dowdall had agreed never so well about the time Therefore 't is as clear as the Sun at Noon-day that I was with his Lordship after the time that he endeavours to prove his being angry with me and if you 'l but do me the favour to take my Word for it after my Oath I do in the Presence of an All-seeing God most solemnly declare and upon my Salvation That I never knew of that I never heard of nor never gave his Lordship any such cause of Anger as he pretends unless until the Month of August which was the time that he so roughly treated me for refusing of the Proposal that had been made me by the Lords in the Tower Now this great Link of their whole aspersion being broken by Truth and apparent matter of Fact I hope no man from hence forwards will either inconsiderately or out of Zeal to hide the Villany of Popish Conspiracies take upon him to raise an Argument from the Earl of Castlemains Manifesto Or if he does I doubt not but that I may be able to convince him in time of his obstinate and peevish Errour And now I shall return to the next point and his Lordships own words viz. That he would shew me Circumstances to prove the Truth of his Allegation which were that I was then writing the Compendium a Paragraph of which he then read as it lay before me on the Table That one Lawson was then in the House and one Turner a Book-seller c. For how was it possible for you to read a Paragraph in a Paper when I my self was by and in an angry humor and at the very first sight of you c. That Dangerfield neither pretended to have done this by surprise