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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51531	The narrative of Lawrence Mowbray of Leeds, in the county of York, Gent., concerning the bloody popish conspiracy against the life of His Sacred Majesty, the government, and the Protestant religion wherein is contained I. His knowledge of the said design, from the very first in the year 1676, with the opportunity he had to be acquainted therewith, ... II. How far Sir Thomas Gascoigne, Sir Miles Stapleton, &c. are engaged in the design of killing the King and firing the cities of London and York, for the more speedy setting uppermost the popish religion in England, III. An account of the assemblings of many popish priests and Jesuits at Father Rishton's Chamber ..., IV. The discovery of the erecting a nunnery at Dolebank in Yorkshire ..., V. A manifestation of the papists fraudulent conveying of their estates, himself being privy to some of them, VI. A probable opinion concerning the Jesuits, the grand instruments in these affairs : together with an account of the endeavours that were used to stifle his evidence, by making an attempt upon his life in Leicester-Fields.	Mowbray, Lawrence.	1680 (1680)	Wing M2994; ESTC R10191	28,403	35

31. 1679. wrote a Letter to Sir John Nicholas one of the Secretaries to His Majesty's most Honourable Privy-Council then in waiting acquainting him amongst other things that there were divers circumstances relating to this discovery very material which were not inserted in my Information made before the said Justices but should be declared by me when ever the Honourable Council would be pleased to command a full account from me In Answer to which Letter I received the following dated and subscribed as followeth Council-Chamber in Whitehall Sept. 5. 1679. SIR VVHereas by your Letter of the 31th of August last directed to Sir John Nicholas which hath this day been read to the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy-Council you make mention that there are divers circumstances very material relating to the Information you have given that are not therein inserted and that you are willing when ever the Council pleases to give a full account thereof I am by their Lordships command to pray and require you to make your repair hither by the 29th day of this instant September that you may be ready to give their Lordships such farther Information as you have to acquaint them with on the First of October next Their Lordships have promised that care shall be taken for the defraying of the charges of your Journey which being all I have in command to signifie to you I remain SIR Your very humble Servant THOMAS DOLMAN This noble Invitation and Summons was sent unto me by a Messenger on purpose superscribed To Mr. Lawrence Mowbray at his House in York-shire According to the tenor thereof I did as in Duty bound repair to London and by Order gave in a larger Information upon Oath before Edmund Warcup Esq one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex and City of Westminster a Copy whereof is hereunto annexed Middlesex and Westminster The Information of Lawrence Mowbray of Leeds in the County of York Gent. taken upon Oath the Second day of October 1679. before me Edmund Warcup Esq one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in the said County and City THis Informant saith That when he was examined before Mr. Tindall and Mr. Lowther two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in York-shire in August last past he did not discover the whole of what he knew in Relation to the late horrid Conspiracy in regard he had some doubts of his safety in that County amongst those Papists whom he was to detect and who threatned such as they feared would discover the said Designs and for that this Informant conceived the danger he had run by concealment But now this Informant will tell his knowledge of the Plot beseeching His Majesty's gracious Pardon This Informant being now sent for up by Order of His Majesty's most honourable Privy-Council conceiveth himself under their protection hopes they will intercede for his Pardon to His Majesty and on that confidence saith That in the year 1674. he came to Sir Thomas Gascoign's and was with him in his Chamber till January 1676. and in that time he observed Mr. Thomas Addison then Priest to Mrs. Killingbeck and Mr. Fincham Priest to Sir John Savill Mr. Thomas Twhing Senior Mr. Thomas Twhing Junior two Romish Priests Mr. Lodge Dr. Stapleton Brother to Sir Miles Stapleton one Robert Killingbeck and divers other Romish Priests several times to invite and privately to confer with Mr. William Rishton Sir Thomas Gascoign's Priest and this Informant being desired to assist and be as obliging as he could to the said Rishton and to attend him at the Altar at Mass became in great favour with him and was permitted to continue in the said Mr. Rishton's Chamber when the Priests were in private with him And he very often heard them discourse of a Design laid for the setting the Popish Religion uppermost in England and how likely the same was to succeed in regard most of the considerable Papists had undertaken to act for it And that if the said Design was not to be compassed by fair and lawful means then it was to be done by Fire and Sword and particularly they declared That London and York were to be fired and then the same course was to be taken in other places And that being begun the same Design was to be prosecuted with the Sword also and that force was to be made use of for destroying the Heretics and Opposers of this Design And they several times farther said That the King when he was in his Exile had promised to Establish their Religion if ever he were restored but that hitherto he had not performed that promise and therefore he was adjudged a Heretic and was to be killed if he did not suddenly Establish the Catholic Religion which they now dispaired that he would do And this Informant further saith That Mr. William Rishton did one day acquaint Mr. Addison that he had according to agreement given the Sacrament of secrecy to Sir Thomas Gascoign and Thomas Gascoign Esq to Mr. Stephen Tempest and to the Lady Tempest and others in Sir Thomas Gascoign's Chappel and had thereupon communicated to them the whole Design and that they had severally engaged to be secret faithful and active to their utmost powers in carrying on the said Design and would thereto contribute as far as their Estates would permit And required an account of the said Addison and of as many other Priests besides those aforenamed as came to him how far they had proceeded therein who answered the said Rishton That they in the several Families and places they were interested in had given the like Sacrament of secrecy to their several Friends and had thereupon acquainted them with the Design and the ways and means intended to carry it on and that their Friends approved thereof and promised to contribute their utmost Interest Power and Estates for advancement of Catholic Religion And this Informant farther saith That by persuasion of the said William Rishton who was his Confessor he likewise received from his hand the Sacrament of secrecy And this Informant very well remembreth that about Michaelmas 1676. there was an Assembly of many of the Priests afore-named and others whose Names this Informant cannot remember at Mr. Rishton's Chamber where they did all agree and declare that the King should be killed for that the Pope had Excommunicated him and it was not lawful only but meritorious to destroy and kill any Heretic whatsoever and that when the King was killed Fire and Sword was to be imployed against all such as should oppose the advancement of the Catholic Religion in England and that all or most of the Catholics had ingaged themselves in the said undertaking After which discourse the said Mr. Rishton told the said Priests he had a List of many Papists who were engaged in the Design and did produce a List of Names containing about 4 or 5 hundred to the best of this Informant's Observation all whom he said were