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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

to say to me of the former business I answered him Yes Yes although I knew him to be another and Anderson also inquired of me whether his name was not Iohnson I answered Yes then Anderson said That is the man I know At which confident mistake of his I wondred Withall he then said I hope you have not revealed any thing to Iohnson concerning our former discourse I answered I had not Moreover he said he would not have my Lord Shaftsbury know it for all the world So after that discourse Mr. Anderson was speaking concerning the Lords in the Tower how Mr. Rockly had been with some of them and that the Lords were very merry Mr. Anderson said that Mr. Bedlow was the main Evidence against the Lords in the Tower and if they escape we shall all escape Furthermore Anderson said to me as soon as he got out of Prison he would leave England and go into another Countrey I asked him into what Countrey he would go but he did not tell me Some time after that Mr. Anderson had these Conferences with me I informed my Chamber-fellow Mr. Iones of it and shewed him the Heads of it as I had wrote them in my Almanack And further this Deponent saith not William Strode Iurat coram me John Speake In the presence of Tho. Westly Rob. Plimpton Tho. Browne Somerset The Information of William Strode of Shepton Mallet in the County of Somerset Clothier taken upon Oath the 9th day of November 1679. before John Speak Esq one of the Iustices of the Peace within the said County THis Informant saith that about three years since he knew Mr. Willoughby and that whilest Mr. Willoughby was a Prisoner in the Kings Bench he this Informant was very intimate with the said Willoughby whom he was informed by others was also named Dangerfield Some time after Mr. Willoughby was brought in a Prisoner to the Kings Bench he takes me this Informant with him into the Garden and told me he heard I was kept in Prison the longer because I knew something which I must swear concerning the Plot. I answered him If I was kept in Prison for that it was more than I knew But Willoughby said unto me that he knew as much of the Plot as any body And this Informant hath been very often in his Company whilest he remained a Prisoner in the Kings-Bench in his Chamber where most times this Informant found him writing in great sheets of paper seeming to him as if he were Coppying out the writing that lay before him this Informant came into the Chamber of this Willoughby and all the written papers which this Informant saith he saw were just alike Indented and spaces and figures about the same distance left in the papers some of the papers were as if he were drawing Articles for in the Margent I saw Figures 1 2 3. and so on to a considerable number but as soon as the said Willoughby could he conveyed those writings out of this Informants sight Likewise other papers this Deponent hath seen in his Room written in Characters which sometime he left to continue on the Board but I understood them not This Informant hath seen Footmen come to him their Cloaths covered with Campagne Coats so that this Informant could see nothing of their Liveries but only when they were going out of the Chamber Also this Informant hath seen several Women at least seemingly so by their Apparel come unto him most commonly in the Evenings with Masks on This Informant hath sometimes seen Willoughby in the Evenings go into Mr. Andersons Chamber and after he was out upon Bail when he came to the Prison he always went into Andersons Chamber This Informant did tell Mr. William Bedlow in the Kings Bench Garden that he had something to relate unto him concerning himself his brother Bedlow was then there with him and it was his next time of being there after the calling over the Prisoners by his and Dr. Oats's occasion as it was reported And further he informeth not William Strode Iurat coram me John Speake In the presence of Tho. Westly Robert Plimpton Tho. Browne London ss The Examination of William Strode Clothier of Shepton Mallett in the County of Somerset taken before the Right Honourable Sir Robert Claiton Lord Maior of the City of London this 15th day of January 1679. THis Informant first referres to two former Examinations taken before Iohn Speak Esq one of his Majestyes Justices of the Peace for the County of Somerset dated the 19 of November 1679. and now he comes upon a third Examination of what he then omitted which is as follows viz. That in or about the Months of April or May 1679. Mr. Lionel Anderson alias Munson who was then a Prisoner in the Kings-Bench did then invite this Informant to his Chamber and there gave this Informant a quart Bottle of Brandy desiring him to drink a good draught of the same but the said Anderson himself to be Excused from drinking rhereof But immediately after brought forth a bottle of Wine and did desire this Informant to drink of that too then when this Informant had drank Anderson alias Munson told this Informant that he had acquainted Sir Henry Tichburn of the converse which Anderson alias Munson and this Informant had concerning Mr. Bedlow and that Sir Henry Tichburn's Maid-servant had informed him the said Anderson alias Munson that her Master was well pleased with what the said Anderson alias Munson had informed him of which was the Discourse concerning Mr. Bedlow contained in the aforementioned Examinations And also that Sir Henry Tichburn did promise for this Informants Reward an Estate in Hampshire of 100 l. per Ann. for two years to be Rent-free Then this Informant left him and about a quarter of an hour afterwards he returned into the said Anderson alias Munson's Chamber again where he told this Informant that as soon as Mr. Marsh this Informant and others were ready to swear to such Instructions as he the said Anderson alias Munson had formerly said he would give this Informant concerning the subverting Mr. Bedlows Evidence he would send one Mr. Nevill alias Paine to the Right Honourable the Earl of Anglesey whom the aforesaid Anderson alias Munson said was his very good Friend and was sure would get this Informants Pardon for a Crime he then was a Prisoner in two dayes And at the same time the said Anderson alias Munson told this Informant that the Lord Powis Lord Arundel Lord Peters and the rest of the Five Lords in the Tower did intend that is to say after this Informant was prepared with Instructions he was to receive from the said Anderson alias Munson to petition for their Tryals and to Suppena this Informant as a Witness for them This Informant further saith that on the Ninth of March 1679. Anderson alias Munson told him he had made the design for subverting Mr. Bedlows Evidence known to the Duke and Dutchess of York who returned him

ask for an order concerning Mr. Doudal or Mr. Cullumb Mrs. VVright Ralph Carter Mr. Vahan 2. Mr. Iohn Parsons Richard Ganes Mr. Thomas Ffloyd Mr. Ireland aliàs Douting Mr. Cullumb 3. Sr. I am to desire you to call upon me to morrow at the Earl of Powis's house in Lincolnsinn-fields at seven of the Clock in the morning and you will oblige him who is Sr. your affectionate Friend and humble Servant Edward VVood. Now since I have so fair an opportunity it may be meet to let you know what I in my first Narrative omitted And the Reason why I did so is fair for at that Juncture most persons were desirous to know the meaning of my Discovery And I as desirous to satisfie each persons Curiosity 1. In or about the Month of Iune 79. at Powis's House the Countess of Powis and Mrs. Cellier desired me to go to one Nicholas Stubbs who then Lived in Stephens-Alley in Kings-Street Westminster and was as they had been informed Bed-ridden and highly dis-satisfyed in Mind for some false Testimony which he had given against one Gifford a Romish-Priest With this Stubbs I was to treat about the Usage which he received in Prison and to endeavour to bring him to a Denyal of what he had before Affirmed on Oath Which was to this Effect That he being a Dying-Man and touched with a true Remorse of Conscience did on his Death-Bed declare that he knew not any such Man as Mr. Gifford or that there was any such thing as Burning of Houses intended But that when he found himself Impeach't for a Crime of such a Nature and most barbarously Tortur'd in Prison insomuch that his Body could no longer indure the same he was constrained to give those Answers he did as best agreeing to the Questions propos'd But now he pray'd God Almighties Pardon declaring himself truly sorry for what he had done Here I have thought fit for a general Satisfaction to insert an Information taken from Iane Stubbs which is as follows Westm. ss The Information of Iane the Wife of Nicholas Stubbs of St. Stephens-Alley in Kings-Street Westminster taken upon Oath this 13th day of December 1679. before me Edmond Warcup Esq one of His Majesty's Justice the Peace in the said City THis Informant saith That about the Month of June last past Mr. Dangerfeild now present came to this Informant's House when her Husband lay very sick and he then asked whether Mr. Stubbs her Husband had not been much Tortured while he was in Prison about the Fire in Fetter-Lane to which her said Husband answered That while he was in the Dungeon he was hardly used being double-Ironed and Staked to the Board But was well enough used afterwards And the said Dangerfeild enquired into the Condition of this Informant's Husband and gave Five Shillings and promised to get Money to pay the Rent of her House which was Five Pound and promised to return again but came not And asked Whether this Informant knew Mrs. Cellier but this Informant knew her not And the said Dangerfeild said He would acquaint Mr. Oates with the Poorness of this Informant's Condition and would endeavour to get some Subsistance for him And further saith not Jane Stubbs Jurat die Anno Superdict cor me Edmond Warcup Now you are to note the afore-said Denyal was if Opportunity had served to have privately possest him with by promising to take care of his Wife and the many Children he was like to leave behind him if he should dye But when I found the Man under a most violent Feavor and the Wife still present I was discouraged for making any Progress according to Order but rather was inclined to pitty his miserable Condition which both his Wife and Himself began to relate to me After I had stayed some time and asked some Questions and I finding no such Answer as I expected gave him a Crown and promised to bring with me the next time I came Five Pound to pay their Rent as being sollicited to that purpose by them both and in the mean time to make Mr. Oates sensible of his great Necessity according as he desired I returned to the Countess to whom I related the Success I had in that Affair Telling her Ladyship That my opinion was nothing Matterial could be had from Stubbs To which she replyed 'T was no great matter But since 't was her Lord's Advice her Ladyship was willing to make Trial of the same Further adding That the Lords in the Tower did measure out Wit as Pedlers do Juckle and that whil'st they beat their Brains on Things of mean Consequence they let greater slip Then I demanded how that could be Her Ladyship's Answer was That in the time I had been gone to Stubbs she had been inform'd by Person of good Credit that one Mr. Boyce and Mr. Praunce were fallen out and that now there was a fair opportunity for them to come within Praunce at the same time Ordering me to go and Drink with the said Mr. Boyce who as her Ladyship informed me lived in Bell-Savage-Yard on Ludgate-Hill and to endeavour if I found by his Discourse that Praunce and He were separated if he would embrace any opportunity to be Revenged on Mr. Praunce Which if he did according as I should find him inclined I was to make some offer to encourage him Whereupon I did that very Day go to the said Mr. Boyces House after I had first been to Converse with one Mrs. Dorothy Sherborne a Sempstress living near St. Clement's Church in the Strand how to frame a Discourse which might be agreeable to the Difference which was then between Boyce and Praunce For as I was informed by Mrs. Cellier the said Mrs. Sherborne who is Sister to Mr. Praunce's Wife was the Person who first gave notice of this Affair by one Mrs. Mary Quina who then lived in or about Russell-Street near Covent-Garden But when I found Boyce and had prevailed with him to Drink I did enter into some Discourse which appears by this Information which follows relating to Praunce but found no Encouragement to proceed according as the Countess of Powis expected But upon our parting I promised to visit him again Adding when I found no Complyance in that I would employ him to cut some Amber for me And in order to that sometime after I made another Visit or two but never gave him any Amber to cut Nor could I get from him any thing that would amount to the Prejudice of Mr. Praunce So that Designe fell But you may perceive by the Information of Boyce and Mrs. Sherborne that the Scheam thereof was well enough laid had Boyce but performed his Part. Here follows their Informations c. The Information of William Boyce in Bell-Savage-Yard Ludgate-Hill Joyner taken upon Oath before the Right Honourable Sir Robert Clayton Knight Lord-Mayo● of the City of London on Fryday the 30th of Ianuary 1679. THis Informant saith That about the middle of last Summer one

I Do Appoint THOMAS COCKERILL to Print this my Second NARRATIVE and that no other Print the same February 6. 1679 80. THOMAS DANGERFEILD Mr Tho. Dangerfeild'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 LONDON Printed for Thomas Cockerill at the Three Legs in the Poultrey over-against the stocks-Market 1680. To the Right Honourable Sir ROBERT CLAYTON Knight Lord Mayor of the City of London My Lord THough a too prevalent custom has rendred Dedications little more than Complemental Follies wherein Authors first make themselves and next their Patrons ridiculous by extravagant Harangues yet I cannot but be free from all suspitions of such vanity in Addressing these Papers to your Lordships hand whose solid worth is as much above as neglectful of popular Applause I come not to make you a Present but to pay you a Tribute The Loyalty Prudence Justice and Moderation your Lordship exercises in that Honourable but weighty Charge wherewith you are entrusted and the zeal and stedfastness you have shown to the Protestant Religion in these tempestuous times when some that seem'd fixed stars have been found but Blazing Meteors justly intitles you to the Respects and Gratitude of all true Protestants and Englishmen not only in this mighty City wherein under His Majesty whom God long preserve you preside but throughout the Nation too by the influence of your generous Example to other Magistrates Besides which my own private Obligations to your Lordships Candor and Impartial Audience when humbly requested loudly call for some publick Acknowledgments from me who cannot but receive comfort under all Discouragements that have or may happen when I consider That a person of your Lordships Integrity and Merit cannot escape the Frowns shall I call them or rather Snarlings of some little pretenders to the Protestant Interest which really they desert through Ignorance or maliciously endeavour to betray Nor know I how better to Implore your Lordships pardon for the presumption of this Address than by professing in all sincerity That the Motives inducing me to publish this Narrative were principally the Glory of God the Honour and Safety of the King and the preservation of the true Protestant Religion and secondarily in order to those ends the strengthning of all Protestants against a most perverse subtile and cruel Generation who with restless Endeavours seek to overthrow the same Rendred yet more dangerous because some weak unthinking people are too easily deluded to own Countenance and Abet though perhaps unwittingly such their mischievous Designs And lastly That if there be any Papists sincere in their misguided Devotion the horrid practises of the Leading men of that faction nakedly display'd may open their Eyes and convince them so far as to abandon that pernicious Communion and embrace the Truth thereby becoming at once true Christians and good Subjects to their true and natural Prince This being the only scope I am bold to promise my self a Connivence for any imperfections of stile or method my aim herein being Truth not Rhetorick That the Almighty may ever bless your Honour and preserve this Noble City both from the Treacherous Malice and Crafty Insinuations of Romish Incendiaries shall be the daily prayer of My Lord Your Lordships most humble and devoted Servant THOMAS DANGERFEILD Mr. Dangerfield's Second Narrative c. THis age hath produced diverse strange demonstrations of the many Damnable and Horrid Designs such as possess the Roman Catholick Religion which affords such Hellish Principles that the Bloud of Princes Magistrates Destruction of Nations or what Hell it self can invent cannot obstruct them or stand in their way to hinder the promoting their excellent Religion and as a further detection of their villanies I recommend to your consideration this ensuing Narrative which had it taken the effect intended might have proved as dangerous to the Protestant Interest as any for about the month of February 1678. One Mr. Strode being a Prisoner in the K. Bench did after some time enter into a Correspondence with one Lionel Anderson alias Mounson a Dominican Priest and then also a Prisoner there who pretending some better Opinion of Mr. Strode then of others did invite him to his Chamber to drink which favour he readily imbraced and very often but at one time being somewhat overtaken with Drink the said Anderson alias Mounson demanded of him of what Family he was and the manner of his present Condition and also if he was a Roman Catholick to which he answered he was not but was a well-wisher to that Religion then he demanded of him if he would undertake something that would produce him immediate Liberty and his future Happiness and good Fortune he answered he would and desired to know what it was at which he exprest much satisfaction and withall lanched out a discourse relating to the stifling the Evidence of Capt. William Bedloe one of His Majesties Witnesses of this most Horrid Plot which was thus Mr. Strode you are acquainted with one Phillip Marsh who has formerly been a Servant to Mr. Bedloe and have often informed me you held a correspondence with Bedloe now if so I will put you in a way by that means how to create to your self a considerable Interest provided you will follow my directions and to give a general satisfaction to all good Catholicks which Mr. Strode declared a seeming approbation of and that from thenceforward he would be guided by the said Anderson alias Mounson who shewed his rejoycing thereat by imbracing Mr. Strode in his Arms and said Bedloe was a great Villain and had given false testimony against the Lord Powis Lord Arundel Lord Bellasis Lord Stafford Lord Petre and divers other worthy Roman Catholicks but had done it so weekly that it was to be seen through every part And therefore the aforesaid five Lords in particular were willing to use some means to bring Mr. Bedloe on the Stage And then further added that no way could be so proper for accomplishing this Design as for the said Mr. Strode to drink with Philip Marsh and enquire of him about the behaviour of his Master Mr. Bedloe and what Conversation he was of when the said Phillip Marsh lived with him and desired if the said Marsh should of himself or could by the said Mr. Strodes instigation be brought to say any thing material against Bedloe that might any wayes lessen or invalidate his Testimony that Mr. Strode should offer him a reward of money or to that very Effect But Mr. Strode being of better Principles and

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