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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61154	Copies of the information and original papers relating to the proof of the horrid conspiracy against the late king, his present Majesty, and the government	Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713.	1685 (1685)	Wing S5029; ESTC R18024	133,469	144

any of her Letters As to the long Letter marked Numb 3. he protests he cannot Decipher it nor can positively say for whom it was to have been directed yet thinks it was to have been carried by Castarres to Fergusn and by him to the chief men concerned in the Design Upon inquiring what is become of the parcel of Books which are the Printed Case of the Earl of Argile and in what method they were brought over from Holland he confessed that they had been shipped on board of a Vessel called to the best of his memory the Success of Colchester bound for London and that Spence was afterwards to come in the Passage Boat designed to have come to Graves-end but that the wind having been very cross he came on shoar at or somewhat near Harwich from whence he came by Land to London Upon asking what was meant by the Figures 80 and 81 in the Letters marked Numb 5. he said he did not well remember but when I told him that I knew by the Cypher Money was meant by 50 and Officers by 51. he confessed that it was so whereupon I did observe to him that as the late Earl was to have had Money so he was to have been furnished with Officers for the carrying on the Rebellion in Scotland which also he confessed but said withal that this Letter was intended for his Lady which he knew by a mark on the back and shewed it to me The Examination of Robert Blaney of the Middle Temple Esq 29 June 83. THis Examinant Deposeth and saith That this Deponent was invited about Christmas last on Wednesday the 27th day of December last as near as he can remember by Iohn Row late Sword-bearer of the City of Bristol to Dine with Collonel Iohn Rumzey at his House in Soho Square where were present the said Colonel Romzey Robert West Richard Goodenough Ioseph Tyley of Lincolns Inn Esq Christopher Battiscomb Gent. and the said Iohn Row and this Examinant where being together after dinner and much Wine and other strong drink drank in the said company a Discourse was began but by whom this Examinant cannot remember about the times being very bad and dangerous for Sober Men and what Remedies were fit to redress Grievances and rid our selves of Arbitrary Power or to that effect and it was there likewise discoursed and said but by whom in particular this Examinant cannot exactly remember it being so long since that we should never be well till we were rid of two people by whom as this Examinant did apprehend were meant His Majesty and his Royal Highness the Duke of York And it was likewise said That if the Great People did but agree to Joyn and Rise or words to that effect it might be done for the Countries were all willing and ready then as this Examinant doth remember by some one it was in the said company proposed and as he verily believes by the said Mr. West that either a Deed of Bargain and Sale or Lease and Release one of them it was should be executed to bar both Him in Possession and Him in Remainder by which as this Examinant did then apprehend was meant the taking off His Majesty and his Royal Highness and so he believes the rest of the said company did also And a glass of Wine did pass round the said Table as a Health to the Executing of the said Bargain and Sale or Lease and Release which he cannot tell but one o● them it was And this Examinant further saith that he never was present at any other Consultation with the before-named persons or any others about the Death of the King or his Royal Highness or the raising of any Rebellion that this Examinant can remember except that being very frequently as a familiar Acquaintance with the said Mr. West he hath often asked him and the said Colonel Rumzey whether the great Men would do any thing and whether any business would be done or he used words to that effect but they did constantly as this Examinant remembers answer him No that nothing would be done and the said Colonel Rumzey seemed as this Examinant did apprehend to be very shy of him this Examinant and much like Discourse this Examinant hath had with the said Goodenoughs but never was as he remembers acquainted with the prosecution or particulars of such a Design in the least And one Nathaniel Wade also this Examinant hath had some such Discourse with about freeing our selves from Arbitrary Power and Popery by a general Rising but any particular ways and methods for the same or otherwise this Examinant never knew of or was privy to And further at present this Deponent cannot recollect Robert Blaney 29 Jun. 83. Iurat coram me L. JENKINS The further Examination of Robert Blaney July 1. 83. WHo saith That he saw Ferguson since the Earl of Shaftsburies death in the House of one Bourne a Brewer living in Queen-street over against the Lord Keepers that it was about a quarter of a year since that Ferguson was in a Night-gown and therefore he believes he lay in that House that the Discourse they had was about the Earl of Shaftsbury and his death This Examinant saith that about three weeks after the Earl of Shaftsbury had concealed himself he saw him at a Merchants House whose name he remembers not but the House is in Woodstreet near St. Albans Church the corner House having a little Yard before it next door to a House that was one Mr. Biddolphs He saith he knows nothing of the manner of the Earl of Shaftsburies Escape nor of Fergusons nor knows no other places but the above-mentioned where either of them were at any time concealed He remembers that he was twice or thrice at the Sign of the Sugar-loaf near the Devil Tavern with Ferguson and once with another person who he thinks was young Shute about the time the Earl of Shaftsbury absented himself but that Ferguson was not then disguised but in the Habit he used commonly to wear which was a Russet colour Campane Coat and a brown short Perewig Thomas Lee Dyer of Old-street his Confession 1 and 2 July 1685. I Having been often in the Company of Mr. Iohn Atherton he told me about May last that Mr. Goodenough must speak with me and Mr. William Thomas We went to the Salutation Tavern in Lumbard-street Mr. Goodenough came to tell us and then drew out some Papers but I saw not what was in them and there told us that our Rights and Priviledges were Invaded and that some Gentlemen had taken into consideration how to retrieve them or words to that effect and did then ask us whether we were willing to assist and then told us that the City and Suburbs were divided into Twenty parts and did desire us to see what men we could get and told us that we must discourse with them about a Forreign Invasion at first and if that took then we might know of them whether they would

forfeit the opinion was had of them that I must be allowed the ●iberty to discourse with them about it and till then to suspend as well my Censure of them as the Resignation of my self to him in the matters propounded by him upon these terms I parted from him promising to see him again within a day or two The next day I went to Moor-Park where the Duke of Monmouth then was and in short acquainted him with what I had heard as well concerning himself as the Lord Russel c. He absolutely denied that he or as he believed my Lord Russel had ever made any such appointment with my Lord Shaftsbury that they were altogether Ignorant of what was doing by the said Earl who for some time upon what Capricio he knew not had withdrawn himself from them and acted upon separate Councils of his own grounded as he feared upon the hasty Conceptions of some Hot-headed Men who might lead him into some untimely undertaking which in all probability would prove fatal to himself and all the Party For prevention of which he said he would be glad if he knew where to give him a Meeting and to resettle a better understanding with him Having had this Account from the Duke I made a s●cond Vis●t the next day being Thursday the 3d or 4th of October to the said Earl to whom I communicated what had passed the day before betwixt the Duke and me and thereupon took occasion to strengthen my self with Arguments of the absolute necessity of a speedy Con●erence betwi●t him and the other Lords as well for the removing the present misapprehensions they had of each other as also for the Consolidating them into such an Union and Concert of Councils as might render them all joyntly helpful to the Common Interest by an harmonious and uniform Acting to the same end in which they did all agree however they might differ in the means This I urged upon him with all the vehemency that the nature and importance of the thing required but he still persisted in a refusal of a Meeting saying with some more than ordinary warmth That he had long discovered in the Duke a backwardness to Action by which they had lost great opportunities that he had cause to suspect that this artificial dilatoriness of the Du●e procee●ed from a private agreement betwixt his Father and him to say●●●ne another That People so he termed that Imaginary Army in the City were impatient of longer delays having advanced so far already that they could not safely retreat The intention of an Insurrection being commnnicated to so many that it was morally impossible to keep it from taking Air if it was not speedily brought into Act that one of his Friends whom I afterwards understood to be Rombald had drawn almost an Hundred Horse into London by small and unobservable Parties a little before Michael●as Day who after they had c●ntinued here a good while at their Expence were again retired to their respective places of Abode That such frequent Disappointments would weary the Party and flat their Spirits and make them at last resolve to sit down in a total Despondency But it was much to be feared the Duke acted with a Prospect very different from theirs he designing nothing more than the Advancing himself whilst they could not hope that ever their Liberties should be well secured for the future but under the Government of a Commonwealth That for these Reasons he was fully determined to be no longer expectant upon the Duke's Motions but would pursue his former intentions of Attempting the deliverance of his Country by the help of an honest Brisk party in the City with whom if the rest of the Lords would be co-operating they might share with him in the glory of so honourable an Undertaking but if they would not he hoped he should be able to effect the Work without them Howard Iuly 11. 83. This was the Substance of the second Confere●ce I had wit● him which I reported the next day to the Duke who desired me to make one Assay more to procure an Interview This occasioned my going to the said Earl a thi●d time upo● Saturday the 5th or 6th of October at which time I did preva●● with him to give me a promise of meeting the Duke and ●y ●ord R●ssel the next day in the Evening but in stead of coming he sent his Excuse both to the Duke and me the next Morning by Colonel Romz●y and streightway removed to another Lodging where he continued to secret himself till the time of his departure out of England During the time of his Concealment divers intimations were given some to me by Captain Walcot others by others to the Duke of Days appointed for their intended Insurrections One appointment was about the later end of October at which time the Kings return from Newmarket was expected but this was prevented by the Duke who prevailed with them to put it off to a longer day in expectation of a Concurrence of the Country with them This Adjournment as I remember was for a Fortnight at which time returns from the Country gave Discouragement to the proceedings After this the second of November was made a day peremptory as I have been informed but that also was put off I know not upon what Disappointm●●t which often Failures caused the said Earl to take Resolutions of Conveying himself beyond the Seas which he did accordingly Whilst these things were in Agitation I have several times had some dark Hints given me from Captain Walcot from Goodenough from West from Ferguson of Striking at the Head of shortning the Work by removing two Persons by which I did apprehend that there was a design of making some Attempt upon the King and the Duke or one of them but when and where and by whom and in what manner and place this was to be acted I never saw This ends the Transactions during the Life of the Earl of Shaftsbury the rest shall be made a Second Part. Howard Iuly 11. 1683. A Continuation of my former Narrative AFter the Death of the Earl of Shaftsbury it was considered That as there had appeared both in City and Country a very prompt and forward disposition to Action so it might justly be feared that either the minds of Men might in time stagnate into a dull Inactivity unless proper Acts were used to keep up the fermentation or which was equally dangerous that the unadvised Passions of a Multitude might precipitate them into some rash and ill-guided undertakings unless they were under the steering and direction of some steady and skilful hand For prevention of both these Evils it was thought necessary that some few persons should be united into a Cabal or Council which should be as a concealed Spring both to give and to guide the motion of the Machine The persons designed to this general Care were the Duke of Monmouth the Lord Russel the Earl of Essex Mr. Algernoon Sidney Mr. Hambden Junior