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A27248	A narrative and impartial discovery of the horrid Popish plot, carried on for the burning and destroying the cities of London and VVestminster, with their suburbs, &c. setting forth the several consults, orders and resolutions of the Jesuites, &c. concerning the same. ... / by Capt. William Bedloe ... one of the Popish Committee for carrying on such fires.	Bedloe, William, 1650-1680.	1679 (1679)	Wing B1677; ESTC R11047	55,110	38

of the Families knowledge but as he was removing the said Packs there came in 4 persons like Gentlemen to take Coach for Dover or that way which Coach was standing by the said Shed and they by it drinking immediately after which the said Ostler was called into the Street and left all in safety but in short time returning met the said Coach driving our with all speed and found the said Flax Shop on Fire Anthony Blake the Head-Tapster attesteth that he waited on those Gentlemen filling them drink and being sent for 6 Canns at his return the Coach was driving away and the Tow in the place aforesaid all on a Flame Mr. Weyland the Master of the House and his whole Family solemnly attesting they know not how it came to kindle there but verily believe it must come through some Treachery This is the more probable because one Harrison some small time before had told Mr. Atkins at the Grey-hound-Inn in Holbourn that there would within three weeks or a Month be great and dreadful Fires about London and Southwark and particularly mentioned the Talbot and George-Inns and advised him to put off his House and Goods which Harrison in the time of this Fire was seen suspitiously lurking about the Talbot-Inn which suffered much by this Fire and being known by the said Mrs. Atkins Daughter of the Gentlewoman that kept the Talbot and coming thither to help them he was seized and carried to a Foot-Company that stood in Arms near the said Inn and a Charge given them by my Lord Craven and Sir Iohn Smith then one of the Sheriffs of London to keep him safe after the Fire was put out enquiry being made for him the Captain told them he was discharged by the Lord Craven However on the 27 of July being informed he taught School in Thredneedle-street he was retaken and examined before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen where the following Articles were prov'd against him upon Oath 1. THat he had had frequent Correspondency with Iesuites and Papists 2. That he had spoken to several of his Acquaintance to go with him to Popish Meetings declaring that he knew of many 3. That he had been perswaded to turn Mendicant Fryar and hath been offered a stipend to turn to the Romish Religion 4. That he knew there would be divers great and dreadful Fires in and about London within a month 5. That he advised Friends to rid their hands of all their Concerns in and about London for there would be a great consumption of houses there 6. That when he was in Custody of the Foot Company aforesaid Mr. Atkins aforesaid offering to swear the former Article he threatned him if he did it should Cost him the best house he had 7. That he said there were forty Thousand French Papists lately come over to his knowledge besides many that were amongst us already 8. The Lord Mayor asking him Who perswaded him to turn Catholick He answered King's Under-Barber Phillips After which he told the Court That when he was first apprehended for these things my Lord Craven discharged him and took him with him in his Barge to Whitehall He further told the Court that he was sometime an Assistant to Mr. Lovejoy School-Master at Canterbury and that he had Letters Testimonial of his goood behaviour from the Dean of Canterbury Upon which my Lord Mayor remembred that he had seen him with Mr. Lovejoy and said that Mr. Lovejoy told him That he was an Idle Rogue And so he was committed to Newgate On Saturday the 30th of July it was further desposed upon Oath by Thomas Roe before Sir Iohn Fredrick as follows The Information of Thomas Roe of Bernards Inn Gent. taken the 30th of July 1690 by Sir John Fredrick Alderman one of His Majesties Justices of Peace in the City of London upon Oath as followeth THomas Roe saith that he hath for at least twelve or thirteen years last past been acquainted with one Ioseph Harrison who was examined lately at the Guild-Hall London before the Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen upon suspition of his being a Conspirator in the Fireing the City and Suburbs in several parts thereof Thomas Roe and Ioseph Harrison having been School-fellows at Eaton Colledge and being thereby acquainted Ioseph Harrison hath several times lately been with him and advised him to with-draw his Concerns and remove above twenty miles out of the City for that the City and twenty miles round would be suddenly destroyed and laid waste or to that purpose Whereupon Thomas Roe asked him whether he were privy to any such conspiracy or concern'd in its Agitation pressing him with divers Arguments to discover what he was acquainted with of that kind Harrison replyed That he had no personal and positive knowledge thereof Thomas Roe demanded upon what ground then he did thus advise him Ios. Harrison replyed That he was sometimes conversant among some Papists and perceived a Plot or Design was carrying on by them against the City of London and the Protestant Religion which Plot or design said he the Papists call The Game of Trap or do you understand Trap ad Crucem which is the watch-word amongst them Further Ios. Harrison said That he was informed of those things by some German Protestants and that he had offers of fifty pounds per annum made him by some Iesuites and Papists to turn to their Religion but he had refused it and would not embrace the Romish Religion Thomas Roe further saith That about five weeks since he walked through New-Cheapside and from thence into Mark-lane with Ioseph Harrison in company with Mr. Moseley a Gentleman belonging to Bernards Inn likewise and one of his acquaintance together with another man a stranger to Thomas Roe Upon their first associating Harrison said unto him That he would not discover himself to be an Englishman but pretended himself to be a German or Italian whether of the two he doth not well remember and that he might not detect himself spake in the company as occasion offer'd in Latine But leaving the place where they tarried in Mark-lane going towards Bishopsgate-street Mr. Harrison told Mr. Roe secretly That he believed that Mr. Mosely understood the Game of Trapp by some signs he had observed from him and that he would try him Then going altogether into a house about the end of Thredneedle-street Mr. Harrison having by this time discovered himself to be an Englishman said Trapp and made a Cross over his face with his finger directing himself to Mr. Moseley whereupon Mr. Moseley did also say Trapp crossing his forehead or race two or three times and with a quick motion drew his finger over his own Throat Upon which Mr. Roe asked Mr. Moseley what was the meaning of Trapp but he refused to tell Mr. Roe urging him again He replied He would not saying You are not of my Religion Then Mr. Moseley asked Mr. Harrison what his Name was for he knew him not by Name He

Seymour Sir Rowland Beckley Col. Strangways Sir John Charlton Mr. Sandys Mr. Finch Sir Tho. Allen Sir Edward Massey Lord Ancram Col. Birch Lord Herbert Mr. Whorwood Sir Edm. Walpool Mr. Pepis Sir Robert Brook Sir John Heath Mr. Coventry Sir Robert Atkins Sir Richard Everard Sir Tho. Littleton Mr. Millward Serj. Maynard Sir Thomas Gower Mr. Crouch Mr. Prin Sir Richard Ford Sir Jo. Talbot Mr. Trevor Mr. Merrel Mr. Jones Mr. Rob. Milward Mr. Morley Sir Thomas Clifford Sir Will. Hickman Sir Solom Swale Sir Will. Lowther Mr. Garraway Sir Hen. Caesar Sir Richard Brown Sir Tho. Tomlins Sir Rich. Vatley Sir Fran. Goodrick Sir John Monson Mr. Maynard And they are to meet to morrow at two of the Clock in the afternoon in the Speakers Chamber and to send for Persons Papers and Records VVill. Goldesbrough Cer. Dom. Com. October 9. 1666. Ordered That these Members following be added to the Committee appointed to enquire into the Causes of the late Fire Viz Sir John Pelham Mr. Hugh Buscowen Mr. Giles Hungerford Sir VVilliam Lewis Sir Gilbert Gerrard Sir John Brampstone Mr. Milward Mr. Buscowen and all the Members that serve for the City of London VVill. Goldesbrough Cler. Dom. Com. October 16. 1666. Ordered That Mr. Davies Sir Thomas Higgons Mr. St. John Sir Richard Franklin Sir Thomas Tomkins Mr. Devereux Mr. Millard Mr. Lewis Mr. Dowdswell Sir James Thyn Sir Edm. Pierse Mr. Coleman Sir Tho. Allen Mr. Giles Hungerford Mr. Churchill be added to the Committee appointed to enquire into the Causes of the late Fire Will. Goldesbrough Cler. Dom. Com. THe Honourable Committee according to the fore-mentioned Orders of the House did meet in the Speakers Chamber and having chosen Sir Robert Brook for their Chairman proceeded to receive many considerable Informations from divers credible Persons about the matter wherewith they were intrusted and thereupon did at last agree that Sir Robert Brook should make the ensuing Report to the Honourable House of Commons The Report of Sir Robert Brook Chair-man to the Committee that was appointed by the House of Commons to enquire into the Firing of the City of London made the Two and twentieth of January 1666. THat in a Letter from Alanson of the 23d of August 1666 New Stile written from one Dural to a Gentleman lodging in the House of one of the Ministers of the French Church in London called Monsieur Herault there were these Expressions Pray acquaint me with the truth of certain News which is common in this Country That a Fire from Heaven is fallen upon a City called Belke scituated on the side of the River of Thames where a world of People have been killed and burnt and Houses also consumed Which seemeth a word of Cabal cast out by some that were knowing and taken up by others that might be ignorant of the signification of it Mrs Elizabeth Styles informs That in April last in an eager discourse she had with a French man Servant of Sir Vere Fan he hastily replied You English Maids will like the Frenchmen better when there is not a House left between Temple-Bar and London-Bridge To which she answered I hope your eyes will never see that He replied This will come to pass between June and October William Tisdale informs That he being about the beginning of July at the Greyhound in St. Martins with one Fitz-Harris an Irish Papist heard him say There would be a sad Desolation in September in November a worse in December all would be united into one Whereupon he asked him Where this Desolation would be He answered In London Mr. Light of Ratcliff having some discourse with Mr. Langhorn of the Middle-Temple Barrister reputed a zealous Papist about February 65 last after some discourse in disputation about Religion he took him by the hand and said to him You expect great things in Sixty Six and think that Rome will be destroyed but what if it be London Mr. Kitley of Barkin in Essex informs That one Mrs. Yazly a Papist of Ilford in the said County came unto his House August the 13th and being in discourse with his Mother said They say the next Thursday will be the bottest day that ever was in England She replied I hope the hottest season of the year is now past To which she answered I know not whether it be the hottest for Weather or for Action This Mrs. Yazly coming to the same House the Week after the Fire Mr. Kitley said to her with some trouble I have often thought of your Hot Thursday To which she replyed It was not indeed upon the Thursday but it happened upon the Sunday was sennight after Mrs Yazly hearing this Evidence produced against her endeavoured to avoid the words saying That upon the 13th of August she did tell Mrs. Kitley That they say the next Thursday will be the darkest Thursday that ever was in England but not otherwise which she affirms to have received from one Finchman an old Woman of Ilford who being examined by a Justice of Peace to discover the truth thereof denied that ever she said any such words to Mrs Yazly or that she had discoursed with her about any such matter And as to the subsequent words she saith Mrs Yazly denies ever to have spoken them But Mr. Kitley offered in her presence if it should be demanded to bring his Mother and Wife to testifie the same William Ducket Esq a Member of the House informs That one Henry Baker of Chippenham in the County of Wilts coming from Market with one John Woodman of Kelloway in the same County the Thursday before the Fire began in London they had some discourse about the buying of a yoke of fat Bullocks wherein they differed because Woodman who was to sell them was desired to keep them a while in his hands But the said Woodman denied so to do for that as he alledged he could not stay in the Country till that time which Baker would have them delivered to him in and being asked whither he was going he refused to tell Asking what had he to do to make that question But riding a little further the said Woodman exprest these words You are brave Blades at Chippenham you made Bonfires lately for beating the Dutch But since you delight in Bonfires you shall have your Bellies full of them ere it be long Adding that if he lived one week longer he should see London as sad a London as ever it was since the World began And in some short time after he should see as bloody a time as ever was since England was England This discourse was not much taken notice of at that time it was spoken But when the City of London was Burnt the said Henry Baker gave this Information to the said Mr. Ducket and thereupon he issued out his Warrant to apprehend Woodman but he was gone out of the Country and cannot be heard of since Robert Hubert of Roan in Normandy who acknowledged that he was one of those that

was on fire and the smoak thereof infested the adjacent Houses And when this was done there was No fire near the place Mr. Michael March an Officer in the Trained Bands in a Company of Sir Richard Browns apprehended a Walloon in the time of the Fire at the Nags-head in Leaden-hall-Street with an Instrument like a dark Lanthorn made as is conceived to lay a Train of Powder and it was tilled with Gun-powder There were two more of the same Nation in his company They being asked to what use they employed the same Instrument would give no Account thereof Newton Killingworth Esq informed That he apprehended a person during the Fire about whom he found much combustible matter and certain black things of a long figure which he could not indure to hold in his hands by reason of their extream heat This Person was so surprized at first that he would not answer to any question But being on his way to White-hall he acted the part of a Mad-man and so continued while he was with him Sir Iohn Maynard a Member of this House affirms That he had some of that combustible matter in his hands and though it were in its natural substance and unfired yet the heat of it was scarcely to be endured by the touch Mr. Freeman of Southwark Brewer whose House was lately fired informs That on the day his House was fired about a quarter of an hour before that happened a Paper with a Ball of Wild-fire containing near a pound weight wrapped in it was found in the Nave of a Wheel in a Wheelers-yard where lay a great quantity of Timber How his House was fired he knoweth not but this he affirmed to the Committee That it could not be by accident because there had not been any Candle or Fire in the Housewhere the Hay lay that whole day and that the Hay being laid in very dry and before Midsummer could not possibly be set on fire within it self Moreover he said That the Hay-loft was on fire on the top of the House and that the Fire spread from the one end of the Roof to another in an instant Mr. Richard Harwood informs That being near the Feathers Tavern by St. Pauls upon the fourth of September he saw something through a grate in a Cellar like Wild-fire by the sparkling and spitting of it he could judge it to be no other Whereupon he gave notice of it to some Souldiers that were near the place who caused it to be quenched I had Order from the Committee to acquaint you That we traced several Persons apprehended upon strong Suspicion during the Fire to the Guards but could not make further discovery of them ☞ Thus far was the Report What follows was given in to the Committee but not by them Reported to the House at that time A Letter from a Person of Credit to the Chair-man of the said Committee SIR HEaring that you are Chairman to the Committee for examining the Firing of London I thought good to acquaint you with this Information that I have received William Champneys a Hatband-maker now living upon Horslydown was upon Tuesday-morning September the fourth 1666 in Shoe-lane and there met with a Constable who had apprehended a Frenchman whom he took firing a House there with Fire-balls and charged the said Champneys to assist him who carried the said Frenchman to Salisbury Court hoping there to have found a Justice but finding that Place burning down returned into Fleet-street who was presently called upon by the Commander of the Life-Guard to know what the matter was The Constable told him He had apprehended a Frenchman firing a House in Shoe-lane he examined the Person and committed him to the Guard and told the Constable he would secure him and carried him along with him The Constable asked him whether he should go along with him to give in his Evidence He replied That he had done enough and might go home But what became of the Frenchman he knoweth not Your humble Servant S. G. In a Letter from Ipswich directed For the Honourable Sir Robert Brook it is intimated That about the 30th of August 1666 one of the Constables of Cotton in Harismer Hundred being about the survey of that Town about Hearth money was told by one Mr. Will am Thompson a Roman Catholick in that Town That though time were like to besad yet if he found any cause to change his Religion he would see he should not want And further said to him What will you say if you hear that London is Burnt The Affdavits touching a Frenchman that said There were Three hundred of them engaged in Firing the City The Informations of Richard ●ou●d of St. Giles in the Fields Ironmonget William Cotes Samuel Page Francis Cogny Edmond Dakins and Richard Pardoe taken the 8th day of Septemb. 1666 by Sir Justlnian Lewen Knight one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the Country of Middlesex upon Oath as followeth RIchard Bound saith That upon Tuesday night last about twelve or one of the clock there was a Frenchman brought by the Watch to this Informants Fathers house being at the sign of the White-Hart in King-street taken as a suspicious person The said person being questioned by them Whether he was not one of those that Fired the City or had a hand therein or any privity or knowledge of any that had designed the same or words to that effect The said person answered a great while in a perverse manner quite different from the question But being further pressed to tell the truth and being told that if be were guilty it would be the only way to save his life He did at first obstinately deny that he knew any thing of any Plot. Whereupon a young man took the Prisoner aside to the end of the Room and after some private discourse between them they both returned to this Informant and the rest of the Company and the said young man spake openly to us in the hearing of the Prisoner That the said Frenchman and Prisoner had confessed There were Three hundred Frenchmen that were in a Plot or Conspiracy to fire the City Upon which this Informant and others spake to the said Frenchman in these words or to the same effect Well Monsieur you have done very well to confess what you have done and no doubt but you may have your Pardon if you will confess all you know of this Plot And thereupon further asked him Are there no more than Three hundred persons in the said Plot He answered There are no more than Three hundred persons Then we inquired who they were and how he came to know they were Three hundred To which he would give no direct Answer but put it off with other extravagant discourse And being asked why he came to St. Giles Parish where he was apprehended He told a Story that he came from Islington-Fields where his Masters Goods were But the Goods were now removed but he could not tell whither and