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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60497	No faith or credit to be given to Papists being a discourse occasioned by the late conspirators dying in the denyal of their guilt : with particular reflections on the perjury of VVill. Viscount Stafford, both at his tryal, and in his speech on the scaffold in relation to Mr. Stephen Dugdale and Mr. Edward Turbervill / by John Smith Gentleman ...	Smith, John, of Walworth.	1681 (1681)	Wing S4128; ESTC R12871	58,333	38

these Depositions that he had not only more than an ordinary Reputation in my Lord Aston's Family the management of my Lords chiefest Concernments being entrusted with him but that he was highly valued by the whole Countrey for Candor Integrity Justice and Truth beyond what other Papists under all the Recommendation of Birth Breeding and Inheritance could arrive unto And as to be accounted and stiled Honest Mr. Dugdale was the greatest honour that a virtuous ambition could make him aspire unto so his Temper and whole Conduct since called forth to appear on a more publick Theatre do proclaim him every way worthy of that Compellation And this Character which he obtained in Staffordshire doth so correspond with what we have seen and observed of him in London that all impartial men do readily acknowledge the justness of it And whereas my Lord Stafford protested in the presence of God that as he was never with him alone so he never spake to him but once and that only concerning a Foot-man Here are proofs neither to be distrusted nor contradicted that he had both frequent conversation with him and admitted him into those privacies which others were debarred and shut out from And indeed by the familiarity he entertained him with and the sequestring themselves from all other Company whensoever they discoursed together we may easily imagine what was the Subject they treated about For what else should recommend another Persons Servant to those Privacies which my Lord Stafford vouchsafed Mr. Dugdale or prefer one of so mean a Rank to be selected from among the company of the best Gentlemen to be discoursed with apart but that there was some important Design on foot of which they two were particularly conscious And could this in probability be any other than the mighty Affair of destroying the King and overthrowing the Protestant Religion which the whole Papal Party had so long designed and were at that time filled with the highest confidences of accomplishing § 12. The next thing that lies before us is the consideration of this late Lords renouncing all knowledge of Mr. Turbervill and with what solemnity he abjured the having so much as at any time seen him For having at his Trial not only declared that he never saw him before in his life he repeats it in his Speech upon the Scaffold and withall avers upon his Death and Salvation that he never spake one word to Mr. Turbervill or to his knowledge ever saw him until his Trial. Some possibly may be ready to believe that my Lord Viscount Stafford had the gift of forgetfulness and that the Papists by a peculiar Donation remember nothing that may either asperse themselves or the interest of the Catholick Cause But as they can not tell us where such a priviledge is bequeathed unto them so we shall make it appear by irrefragable Testimonies that he was well acquainted with Mr. Turbervill and that the spring of this misadventure in denying it was not the weakness of his Memory but the badness of his Conscience Nor shall I insist upon the Testimony of Mr. Mort who being produced at the Trial of my Lord Stafford deposed that being acquainted with Mr. Turbervill at Paris the said Turbervill did to the best of his remembrance tell him that his Brother who was a Monk had introduced him into the favour of my Lord Stafford and that once being in company with Mr. Turbervill the said Mr. Turbervill withdrew from him to speak with that Lord and that he the said Mort walk'd about Luxemburg-house till his return For though this Testimony doth mightily strengthen Mr. Turbervills Evidence being agreeable in several circumstances with what he declared yet forasmuch as the whole is to be found in the Printed Relation of my Lord Staffords Trial together with the great and convincing improvement which an excellent Person made of it I shall therefore decline enlarging upon it and shall proceed to advance two other Depositions demonstrative of this late Lords insincerity and falsehood in renouncing before God and men the having had any former knowledge of Mr. Turbervill The Information of John Showter Gent. one of the Clerks in the Crown-Office in Chancery taken upon Oath this 3th day of January 1680. before me Edmond Warcupp Esq one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace in the said County and City Middl. Westm. ss THis Informant saith that about six or seven years ago he did frequently resort to the Chappel at Tart-Hall to Mass the then House of William late Viscount Stafford and one of those times he met there one Mr. Glassie who asked this Informant a List of the Names of the Justices of the Peace in Shropshire which List some few days afterwards this Informant carried to Tart-Hall and delivered it to the said Glassie who in kindness invited this Informant to drink a Glass of Wine in the Cellar and two other Gentlemen went to drink with them and after some time this Informant asked the said Mr. Glassie who a Tall thin Gentleman was who was then one of the Company who answered his name was Turbervill and that he belonged to the Lady Molineux and this Informant cannot positively say that Mr. Edward Turbervill now produced was the same Person then in his Company but believes he may be the same by his stature and thinness only his Hair did then look like a Perriwig and was much longer than it is now And he further saith that he verily believes he saw the said Mr. Turbervill at least forty times in the said House up and down so commonly that he believed the said Turbervill to be one of the Lord Staffords Family and did likewise see him several times at Mass at the said House John Showter Jurat ' die Anno supradicto coram me Edmond Warcupp Vera Copia Ex ' per me Edmond Warcupp The Information of Colonel John Scott taken upon Oath the 13th day of February 1680. before me Edmond Warcupp Esq one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace in the said County and City Middl. Westm. ss THis Informant saith that he was at Paris in France in the month of November 1675. and there met William late Viscount Stafford whom this Informant was well acquainted with in a Cedan in the Street called Rue de Neuf Fosse about the 18th or 20th of the said November who called to this Informant inviting him to his Lodgings which he then said was in a Street called La Rue de Pornoung at a Corner House at the lower end of that Street the upper end whereof is fronted by Luxemburgh-house to which Lodging this Informant went the next day and was introduc'd into his Lordships Chamber who complain'd of a lameness which the Informant judg'd to be the Gout and this Informant visited him several times afterwards in his Chamber which was a lower Room in the said Corner House about the latter end of the said month of November 1675. when a certain Person

who did not And for one of my Lords two Witnesses namely Mr. Sambich his deafness might excuse him in saying he heard no such thing though at the same nearness to Mr. Dugdale when the words were spoken as Mr. Hanson or Mr. Ansell were And besides though his deafness hindred his hearing Mr. Dugdale when he communicated that morning the news of the Murther nevertheless he had so far arrived at the knowledge of it some time or other that day that he acquainted Charles Chetwyn Esq with it in the Afternoon as the said Charles Chetwyn Esq deposed upon Oath at the Tryal of the Jesuits and upon the occasion I have mentioned this Gentleman I shall crave Liberty to rectifie one mistake in the Printed Relation of that Tryal which is that whereas Charles Chetwyn Esq swore this was told him by Sambich on Monday as Edward Smith Esq and Bencher of the Middle Temple and Justice Warcup who were both present at the said Tryal are ready to depose yet through the fault either of the Printer or of him that took the Tryal Tuesday is set down in the Published Account But to proceed to Mr. Phillips the other witness produced to detract from the credit of Mr. Dugdale in this matter where we desire to observe that together with the denyal of his having heard any such words he denyed likewise his being at that Ale-house either that day or the following which as none about Tixall who know his constant custom of visiting Eld's once or twice a day can easily believe so he appears plainly to be a very bold and venturous person in taking upon him to say that he was not such a day in a house where he used constantly to resort and this after such a compass of time wherein without reflection upon the weakness of his memory he may be supposed not to remember what he either did or where he was so long before But besides this we have something else to add whereby the Authority of this Parson against a Protestant is everlastingly blasted and supplanted For whereas he thought to recommend his Testimony by pretending himself a Minister of the Church of England there is an Information given upon Oath before Justice Warcup against him that he the said Phillips declared his readiness to renounce the Protestant Religion and forsake the Communion of the Church of England providing a competent Annual Provision could be settled upon him for the maintenance of himself and his Wife and Children And pursuant hereunto he employed a friend to treat with my Lord Aston about it who being very fond of a Proselyte of such a character undertook to charge himself with the care of him and his family But at the same time under the influence of Father Evers counsel he advised him to continue his station for a season where he was for by pretending himself still a Minister of the Church of England he remains better qualified and more capacitated to promote the Romish Interest than if he should immediately pull off his Mask and vouch himself openly for a Papal Convert And surely no man can believe him to be a competent witness against the Credit and Reputation of a Protestant that is first willing to abjure his Religion upon so base motives and then proceeds upon as ill inducements to dissemble the Profession of a Religion which he hath declared himself unsatisfied in and ready to renounce He that is not afraid to deal falsly in a matter of so great importance as Religion will not scruple to transgress the rules of Justice and prevaricate from the lines of Truth in moral Concernments And especially when the acquitting himself as he did may be supposed his Probationership for his plenary admission into the bosom of the Roman Church and the Compensation he was to make for the annual Pension that was to be settled upon him nor ought it to surprise any Protestant or True Englishman that they have been able to muster up some few persons to detract from the esteem of Mr. Dugdale if we do but consider the Methods they have used by Bribery and Subornation to effect and accomplish it or that they have proceeded further than to lessen his Reputation namely by offers of money to engage men to destroy him and in reference to the first I shall produce the Testimony of Simon Wright one whom I briefly mentioned before this person being known to have been well acquainted with Mr. Dugdale for that he used in quality of a Barber frequently to trim him was accordingly applied unto by Mr. Plessington and proffered seven hundred pounds if he would appear as a Witness to take off his Evidence or if he would destroy and assassinate him And for his security as to the obtaining of the money if he would have complied with the proposal both Mr. Reeves an Apothecary in Chancery-Lane and Mr. Deway the Scriviner tendred him their several obligatory notes Yea they framed a Paper for him wherein he was to testifie that Mr. Dugdale had suborned and hired him to swear against Sir James Symons and Mr. Gerrard two Persons accused about the Plot which they prevailed with him by money and promises to set his hand unto and would have persuaded him to make an Affidavit upon it before a Justice of Peace the tenor of which Paper being directed to Sir James Symons was as followeth I can bless God with a safe Conscience declare upon Oath that Mr. Dugdale hath been unkind to me in taking his opportunity of my poverty by reason of a private meeting of us two by his appointment He did at that time preffer if I would swear against you and Mr. Gerrard he would protect me as one of the King's Evidence and I should not want money And now as this Paper alone is sufficient to detect the waies and methods they have used for overthrowing the Reputation of Mr. Dugdale so the Providence of God is to be acknowledged in the infatuation of my Lord Stafford who to the blasting of the Papal Cause and the evidencing of his and others guilt in the present Conspiracy produced it For being in their hands it was in their power to have suppressed it as it appears by the Testimony of Wright they did another Paper of much more consequence to which also they had suborned hired and wheedled him to set his hand And as if it had not been enough to endeavour to corrupt persons to swear falsly against him they have dealt with some to assassinate and kill him as appears not only by the Informations of the aforesaid Simon Wright who was to have stabbed him and by the Informations of Thomas Lander who they would have perswaded to put fire to the Room where Mr. Dugdale lay and to burn him in his Bed both which Informations are published lately by Thomas Symmons at the Prince's Arms in Ludgate-Street but also by the following deposition of Simon Ansell The Information of Simon Ansell as