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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38819	The depositions and examinations of Mr. Edmund Everard (who was four years close prisoner in the Tower of London) concerning the horrid popish plot against the life of His Sacred Majesty, the government, and the Protestant religion with the names of several persons in England, Ireland, France, and elsewhere concerned in the conspiracy.	Everard, Edmund.	1679 (1679)	Wing E3527; ESTC R4864	11,665	20

Northampton told me III. And since my enlargement at the very beginning of this Parliament I yet went to the Tower to desire Sir John to second me for the discovering of the said matters but he at my first speaking rejected my proposal referring me to the Secretaries And truly I would as heartily have applied my self to the Secretaries as to any but that I feared lest of some errors which might be found in my carrying on this business they would be more likely to charge me therewith as parties for the King and Laws than any other chief Parliament-members who would be more fit to intercede for me and more at leisure to sue out a pardon for me if need were IV. In fine Col. Justin Maccarty being then at Paris when these matters were vented out of Sir Robert of my accusing the Lady Huntley and the Talbots he I say with some of his Officers can testifie that such a Report came out then some years since if they would speak truth V. Nay and one Capt. Barret with several other Officers that were beyond seas told me about a fortnight ago that the report went amongst the Irish That the Talbots were committed upon my Information though I never spoke of them these four years till now but that by a fore-boding guilt they knew perfectly and heard I had grounds enough wherewith to accuse them so that the Irish Catholicks here did threaten me alledging me to be an abettor of Mr. Oate's Informations against them which he neither needs nor did I ever see him but in publike before I gave in this Information nor Bedlow Besides that it appears I made the discovery of the Plot and the aforesaid matters before they had I not had some of the Trojan Prophetesses ill fortune yet in time I hope I shall be able to recollect more of the particulars of the matters and persons herein mentioned EDMUND EVERARD Jurat coram me 4 April 1679. WILLIAM WALLER The Information of Mr. EDMOND EVERARD taken upon OATH before Sir WILLIAM WALLER one of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex and City and Liberties of Westminster this Fourth of APRIL 1679. THE true Contrivers of my Imprisonment were the Talbots and Lady Huntley who for discovering of their Plotings threatned me in express words That if ever I came over into England on that Design I would be secured in the Tower or Gate-House or if I remained in France they would get me laid fast enough They put these Threatnings into Execution for though both they and I were seemingly reconciled yet they made such a Search for me in Paris that I was faign to change Lodgings very often into remote and by-places and when I was on my Journey for England one or two of my own servants whom I dismist at Paris seeing me take Coach privately carried them word of it and for some pretence or other they sent one Mr. Perrig who was their acquaintance and Huntley's chief friend in post to apprehend me whereof Sir Edward Hungerford of this Honourable House can testifie from a Friend of his who heard the same from Perrig's mouth that is now dead And it 's to be remark'd that he could not pursue or apprehend a stranger in France but in a concern against the King of that Countrey who rather gives protection to strangers that are pursued on any other Account Before the Talbots fell out with me and when I first determined in my own mind to come over privately into England I inquired of one of the Talbot's servants who was my Countreyman where one might take cheap and friendly Lodgings in London till one were in fit Equipage I having never been in England before he directed me to one Kenedy's House at the Pall Mall or to another Countreyman's House of his in St. Martin's Lane at the Sign of the Patrick the first night and hour I came to that House I told them my Name and Imployment from the Duke of Monmouth and that it was fit I should go and wait on him immediately lest he should take it ill and desned my Landlord to send for some Link-boy that knew his Grace's House where I repaired forthwith but not finding his Grace at home I acquainted some of the servants of my Arrival to notifie to his Grace The next day I came he also was abroad earlier than ordinary on some Riding or Recreation Account I But unto Gentlemen of his Chamber Mr. Champins and St. Giles I told I would gladly come to kiss his Grace's hand and confer about Business in whatever company he were in so that Captain Watson and Mr. Vernon were not present who were my Enemies on private Accounts and would move his Grace doubtlesly against me not to grant me my Request which partly was some Arrears or an Imployment The next day I being ill was let blood and kept my Chamber a day or two I think the Sunday morning I went to visit Lieutenant Collonel Trelany who meeting accidently a day or two before I came to re-visit on this Sunday morning who at my first sight found more than ordinarily disturbed and courteously desired to know my Lodgings and whether I had seen the Duke I told him of the sorry Dwelling I had taken up for a little time and that I would gladly see his Grace without the side enemies and with him He desired me to accompany him to Whitehall Chappel where I might at the least be seen of his Grace Thither we went But the Collonel desiring me to stay about the Chappel Door thronged in with great haste without coming out to me afterwards In the mean time hearing of Organs and Children singing in Surplusses as I had seen and heard in the French Kings Chappel where I perceived some of the English Nobility come as freely as here I did not know what to think whether I had not been too forward in speaking of any Discoveries against that Religion which might be perhaps of late changed in England for that I had not heard or seen such things in the French Church at Charenton where I only took my Idea of Protestanism but this erronious state of things that I now know to be indifferent did however make me pause in my Discoveries but whilst in these thoughts Captain Watson stept out of the Chappel who looking on me a-squint went down the Privy Stairs in one end and the other Watson his Nephew speaking a word or two to me more coldly than ordinarily went out through the Guard Hall to the other Stairs and presently follows in the King's company the Duke of Monmouth who eying me only past by at all which passages of indifferency from former friends I was astonish'd But I was in Scarlet Breeches and Stockings so that I could be easily discerned and dogg'd to my Lodgings where I went presently from Chappel Within two days after two men brought a Paper to my said Lodging signed by the Secretary whereupon he said he must needs