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A36359	Mr. Tho. Dangerfield's second narrative wherein is contained a faithful charge against the Lady Powis, Mr. Stamford, (the Duke of Newburghs resident) and Mrs. Cellier relating to the murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey and the late plot made by the papists, to be cast upon the Protestants : wherein is I. A true account of methods used to invalidate the testimony of Captain William Bedloe and Mr. Prance, II. An account of the several papists imprisoned, and their crimes, with the charges it cost them to get out upon bail / written by his own hand.	Dangerfield, Thomas, 1650?-1685.; Prance, Miles, fl. 1678-1689.; Bedloe, William, 1650-1680.; Cellier, Elizabeth, fl. 1680.; Powis, Elizabeth Somerset Herbert, Duchess of, d. 1691.; Stamford, Mr.	1680 (1680)	Wing D193; ESTC R20874	26,539	34

Edmundbury Godfrey's Murther Mrs. Cellier gave him a Note desiring him to shew the same to all his Acquaintance which Note was as follows viz. The Execution of Henry Berry He made no farewel-Speech but he had prayed a long while The Ministers were very Importunate with him to make a publick Confession of his Sins then he said as follows I must confess I am a great Sinner but as for what I am brought hither and Suffer I had no more to do with it then the Child newly born I cannot but blame my Judge and Jury for they have dealt wrongfully with me I do not Condemn but I cannot but blame them for they have wronged me I pray God forgive them and I do truly forgive them God bless the King and Queen and the whole Kingdom Amen Then he and the Ministers prayed a long while when they had done they left him to the Mercy of God As the Cart was drawing from under him he spake these last words I die as I was born and bred a Protestant and beg of God to be mercyful to me as I am Innocent And then she the said Mrs. Cellier imployed him to go to Newgate for the Coppie of the Commitment of one Mr. Willoughby which was the Name I went by and from thence address himself to Mr. Recorder taking Bayl with him to offer in the behalf of the said Willoughby Mrs. Cellier promising at the same time to make such an Interest with the Recorder that it should be easily Accomplished whereupon Mr. Williamson did accordingly make his Address but was then Refused In regard as he supposed the Person who was to pray that Favour had not been to wait on Mr. Recorder then he advised with Mrs. Cellier who ordered him to go a second time saying Mr. Willoughby must be had out whoever remained and ordered him to allow some reasonable time for the Recorder to be treated with which he did and the Bayl he offered was accepted and Mr. Willoughby's Discharge Granted Then Mr. VVilliamson went to the Prison to visit there Mr. VVilloughby for whose Enlargement Mrs. Cellier was so earnest but Mr. VVilliamson at his return to Mrs. Cellier amongst other discourse happened to say he had been to see Mr. VVilloughby who he thought was a brisk Man to which Mrs. Cellier replyed in these words if he was not so he would not be fit for our business in a short time after Mr. VVilloughby was discharged who soon crept in between Mr. VVilliamson and the business he had so long been imployed in Not long after Mr. VVilliamson waited on Mrs. Cellier with his Bills to be paid amongst which he received four Pounds for Mr. VVilloughby's Enlargement from the Hands of Mrs. Cellier At which time he saith there arose between him and Mrs. Cellier some discourse concerning the Murther of Sir Edmundbury-Godfrey To which she answered in these Words 't is laid on us now but it will appear it was done by the Presbyterians adding that if any change were That is to say if ever Popery came uppermost which God of his great Goodness prevent for at that time undoubtedly they had a fair Prospect to that Effect whatever they have now there would be more Favour found from the Papists then they now found from the Presbyterians And so ended their Correspondence The Information of Thomas Williamson of the Parish of St. Brides Merchant-Tayler and Citizen of London taken upon Oath before the Right honourable S. Robert Clayton Knight Lord Mayor of the City of London this twentieth sixth day of January 1679. This Informant saith that about the tenth day of February in the year 1678 one Mrs. Cellier came to his house to imploy him to Bail Papists out of several Prisons for which she promised this Informant 15 s. each person besides an allowance for all extraordinary expences which business this Informant did readily undertake and was by Mrs. Cellier encouraged with 10 s. earnest some time after when this Informant had bayled on t diverse Papists the said Mrs. Cellier did at her house in Arundel-Street say to this Informant as follows viz. these are but small things which you have yet done but I will put you upon great things if you will be just for which you shall be well rewarded some time after the said Mrs. Cellier sent her Nurse for this Informant to come to her house which he did where she called him into her Lodging-room and acquainted him that she had a business of consequence to imploy this Informant in for which he should be well rewarded then this Informant demanded what it was she the said Mrs. Cellier replyed it was thus viz. if he this Informant could help her to two men of undaunted Spirits that would swear to some directions that she had drawn up to shake off the Evidence of Prance hopeing thereby to save the Convicting of Berry Hill and Green for which she the said Mrs. Cellier promised this Informant that the said persons which he should procure should have for their rewards the Sum of 40 l. or thereabouts and that this Informant was desired by the said Mrs. Cellier to tell the said persons they should not fear a Prison for if it should so happen she would make such Interest that they should only be Prisoners in the Fleet-Prison where they should have by this Informants hand paid duly 40 s. per week which was to be given first to this Informant by the said Mrs. Cellier who gave this Informant 5 s. in earnest to go about the said business but this Informant did not perform his promise to Mrs. Cellier in that respect but some time after this Informant was by Mrs. Cellier employed to bayl out of Prison one Mr. Willoughby she being very earnest with this Informant saying that the said Willoughby must be gotten out whoever remained and then she promised this Informant to make such an Interest to the Recorder that it should be easily accomplish'd as this Informant affirms was done soon after for which business the said Mrs. Cellier paid this Informant the summ of 4 l. or thereabouts but before Mr. Willoughby was discharged this Informant told Mrs. Cellier he having first seen the said Willoughby that he was a brisk man to which Mrs. Cellier replyed if he were not brisk he would not be fit for our business and this Informant further on his Oath affirmeth that he had not been at any time conversant with the said VVilloughby in any other thing whatsoever c. And this Informant saith that upon discourse with the said Mrs. Cellier about the murder of Sr. Edmondbury Godfrey she said it is laid on us but it will appear it was done by the Presbyterians And further added that if any change were there would be more kindness found from the Papists than the Presbyterians Thomas VVilliamson These that follow are Copies of the Papers sent to Williamson by Mrs. Cellier of her own hand-writing 1. Go to Sr. Iohn Nicholas Clark and

the Right Honourable the Earl of Shaftsbury did often come to visit him and bring him Guinneys in order to the prevailing with him for to joyn Evidence with Bedlow but Strodes answer was as he informed me that he would not perjure himself for ten thousand worlds May the 16. Iones Strodes Bedfellow did inform me that he had this day seen in Strodes hands some papers which did contain the whole matter of the Popish plott in a more plain manner than either Oats or Bedlow could make out And that the Earl of Shaftsburies servant whose Name was Mr. Iohnson came often to Strode to court him to give his Testimony against the Lords in the Tower and had offered Strode most considerable sums of money if he would do the same May the 17. Iones did tell me Strode had in some discourse informed him that Bedlow in the time of his padding was entertained at Strodes house and particularly when there had been a Robbery committed but a day before and at the same time a Hue and Cry all over the Country to apprehend him And that it is not long since that Strode sent to his wife at Shepton Mallet in the County of Somerset for the Copyes of some Writings which were in her custody which said writings are the original of those he shewed Iones May the 18. Iones sayes Strode has often prayed his advice what to do in a matter of such weighty Consequence as was to be made out from the aforesaid papers Iones answered him that in regard he was in Reversion of a good Estate and had divers good and honorable Relations to support him it would perhaps be much more both for his Credit and advantage to be silent in things of such a nature than to stir unless he could make every particular thereof visible by a Lively Testimony Upon which Advice Strode did promise to let it fall rather than run the hazard of disobliging his Relations and Friends and become altogether obnoxious But for your more full satisfaction in these matters I do not only think it proper to referre you to my former Narrative so far as it concerns these particulars but also to the Examination of Mr. Strode and others Which I hope will not only give a full satisfaction to the good Protestant Reader but a full Conviction of the Romish Reader In order to which I will shew you the Essential parts of the matters herein contained as they were severally delivered upon Oath that it may not be said to be the Device of my self to insinuate a good Opinion in the people without just Cause Somerset The Information of William Strode of Shepton Mallet in the County aforesaid Clothier taken upon Oath the 19th day of November Anno Regni Caroli secundi nunc Angliae c. xxxi Annoque Dom. 1679. before John Speake Esq one of his Majesties Iustices of the Peace for the County aforesaid THis Informant saith that about the middle of February last past Philip Marsh came to the Kings Bench Prison in Southwark to see me viz. this Deponent and one Welsh a Prisoner there after the said Marsh his going from the Prison Welsh informs the Prisoner That Philip Marsh was a Servant to Mr. William Bedlow and that he knew that they had been long acquainted Immediately after Lionel Anderson alias Munson asked me viz. this Informant how long I had known Philip Marsh I replyed that my first acquaintance with him was in Winchester Prison a little before I was removed to the Kings Bench also Anderson alias Munson asked me if I knew Philip Marsh to be a Servant or Companion of Mr. Bedlow's I answered that I knew no such thing Then Anderson replyed I must needs know the said Marsh to be acquainted with the said Mr. Bedlow as well as Welsh and at that time Anderson enquired when Philip Marsh came to see me again I told him I knew not Upon the 26th day of February last past the said Anderson offered me viz. this Examinant 500 l. Sterling to subvert Mr. Bedlowes Evidence and to make me the greatest of my Name Some time afterwards and before the Ninth of March last past Philip Marsh came to see me again and after Philip Marsh was gone Anderson enquired of me whether I had discoursed with Philip Marsh any thing concerning Mr. Bedlow I answered No Whereupon I asked what I should say unto Philip Marsh Anderson replyed To enquire of him what he knows of Mr. Bedlows Concerns relating to the Plot I told him I knew not how to begin unless he would give instructions Then Anderson asked of me whether the Fellow meaning Philip Marsh would drink I told him I knew not for in his Visits here he never spent at one time above a Groat to his own part So Anderson desired me to drink the fellow up said he If you have no mind to drink your self here be those in the house that would be glad to do it and cost what it will come to me and I will pay it and when you find his Temper come to me and I 'le further instruct you But Marsh at that time drank little and so took his leave On the ninth of March or thereabouts Mr. Anderson said to me Will you be true to me And I viz. this Deponent said I would I can believe you said Anderson because you have told me you were a neer Relation to Collonel Strode Governour of Dover Castle who is as honest a Gentleman as any in England and I know said Anderson no man that is of that name can be worse than his word However swear that you will be true to me I asked him How I must swear to him Anderson answered Swear by your Faith and I said By my Faith I would be true And on the said Ninth of March or thereabouts last past Anderson offered me viz. the Deponent 500 l. and to be made the greatest of my Name for to hire Philip Marsh and others together with my self to subvert Mr. Bedlows Evidence And that he the said Anderson had sent to the Duke of York and the Dutchess of York to acquaint them of this his design And Anderson said that they had returned him thanks Also Anderson further told me he had provided Security for the 500 l. which was offered me or would lay it in any mans hands whom I should Nominate and whatever summe the other Subverters please to have he was ready to serve it unto them but 500 l. he would give upon his own account I asked Anderson what we should all do for this 500 l. His answer was it was to subvert Mr. Bedlows Evidence In a short time after there came two young men out of the City to see me one of them his name was Trist. Anderson seeing them two with me inquired of me quick and very earnest whether one of them pointing at Trist was not a servant to the Lord of Shaftsbury I considering his earnestness imagined with my self he had more