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A61154
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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
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Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713.
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1685
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Wing S5029; ESTC R18024
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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 oâ— 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
COPIES OF THE INFORMATIONS AND Original PAPERS Relating to the Proof of The Horrid Conspiracy Against the Late KING His Present MAJESTY AND THE GOVERNMENT As they were Order'd to be Published by His late Majesty In the SAVOY Printed by Thomas Newcomb One of His Majesties Printers and are to be sold by Sam. Lowndes over-against Exeter-Change in the Strand 1685. THE INFORMATION OF Josiah Keeling OF THE Parish of St. Butolph without Aldgate In the County Of Middlelsex Salter Taken the 12th of Iune 1683. THis Informant Deposeth and saith That some time before that His Majesty went last to Newmarket about a Fortnight or Three Weeks as he remembers Mr. Richard Goodenough under-Sheriff to Mr. Bethel and Mr. Cornish late Sheriffs of London did at the Sun-Tavern behind the Royal-Exchange take this Informant aside and ask him how many Men he this Informant could procure to take away the Life of the King and Duke of York He having begun his Discourse with this Informant by telling him that we meaning thereby himself this Informant and other Citizens of London were like to be in Slavery and to lose our Charter To which Question this Informant answered to the best of his Remembrance That he could not procure any to do that work This Informant further saith That meeting the said Goodenough a second time while His Majesty was yet at Newmarket he told this Informant That the only way to prevent Shedding of Blood was to take off the King and Duke privately and renewed his Former Request to me this Informant to procure what Men I could towards the Effecting of it and upon this Occasion he met me often in London and came down to my House This Informant further saith That he at the Solicitation of the said Goodenough and others did speak to divers Persons that Mr. Goodenough had told this Informant there were several Men that would be Concerned in taking off the King and the Duke and they wanted more to make up their Complement which were to be Forty in number Among the Persons that this Informant spoke to there were Three viz. Iames Burton of Wapping White Chappel Cheese-Monger William Thompson Carver of the same and Andrew Barber Instrument-maker of the same That Meeting by Appointment at the Mytre-Tavern within Aldgate with one Richard Rumball a Malster-man living at a place called The Rye if this Informant mistakes not the Name within two miles of Hoddesden in the County of Hertford or thereabouts did agree on the Saturday next before His Majesties Return from Newmarket last to go down to the Rye being the House of the aforesaid Rumbal and there to effect their Design of taking off the King and the Duke The manner whereby they proposed this should be Effected That the said Rumbal's House where they were to meet being by the High-ways side they that were to be Actors in the Fact were to hide themselves under a Wall or a Pale and when His Majesties Coach should come over against the said Wall or Pale Three or Four were to Shoot with Blunderbusses at the Postilion and the Horses and if the Horses should not drop then there were to be Two Men with an empty Cart in the Lane near the place who in the Habit of Labourers should run the Cart thwart the Lane and so to stop the Horses besides those that were to shoot the Postillion and Horses there were several appointed to shoot into the Coach where His Majesty was to be and others to Shoot at the Guards that should be attending the Coach This Informant further saith That meeting with Mr. Robert West of the Middle-Temple Barrister they went to the Dolphin-Tavern in Bartholomew-Lane behind the â—â—yal Exchange where they met the said Rumball and one Hone of Southwark as this Informant believes he was either a Carpenter or a Joyner and they discoursing together when His Majesty would come home from Newmarket Mr. Rumball said He heard that he would come that night Mr. West said he had heard that His Majesty would not come till Munday and said he I hope he will not come till Saturday that is the Saturday come Sennight To which Rumball replyed I hope so too If he do not said Mr. West to Rumball why then how many Swan-Quills how many Goose-Quills and how many pair of Crow-Quills will or must you have Whereto Rumball answered Six Swan-Quills twenty Goose-Quills twenty or thirty the informant doth not exactly remember which pair of Crow-Quills with Ink and Sand proportionable This Informant asking either the said West or else the said Rumball what was meant by those several sorts of Quills Was answered That by the first were meant Blunderbusses by the second Muskets by the third Cases of Pistols by the Ink and Sand Powder and Bullet This Informant seeing Rumball the same Week that His Majesty returned Home told him he had seen the King passing by his House and that if he had but Five Men with him he could have done his Business and the Dukes for that there were but Five Life-Guard-men with them This Informant further saith That the said Geodenough about a Fortnight ago came to this Informants House and going from thence to the Coffee-House he told him after he had pulled out some Papers that he this Informant must take one of the said Papers who asking the said Goodenough what he must do with it he the said Goodenough answered that he must take to his assistance nine or ten Men such as he could trust to the end they might consult all the House-Keepers Journey-men and Apprentices to see what number of men might be raised upon occasion either to justifie the Act if the King and Duke should be taken off or if not what strength could be made up in Case of an Insurrection or a Rebellion And he being told by this Informant that we were well indeed better than any other Nation that is much happier if we could be quiet otherwise we should involve the Nation in Bloud and Confusion He replyed That he was clearly for taking off the King and the Duke and then there should be quickly an end to it And this Informant further saith That the two Papers now produced by him were delivered to him by the said Goodenough and that the Paper beginning with these words viz. 4. From White-Chappel Southeast and ending Round Goodmans Fields was Written with Goodenoughs own hand as this Informant believes And this Informant saith That he had received a Third Paper from the said Goodenough which he gave into the hands of one Ioseph Helby a Carver of Limehouse who put it into his Pocket but said he would not meddle in it This Informant further saith That the said Goodenough told him he had divided the City and Subburbs into Twenty Parts and shewed this Informant the Names of the Divisions in Writing having as he said taken it out of the Map In the Company of the said Goodenough and this Informant was one William Rumball the