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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76729	Englands deliverance or, The great and bloody plot discovered, contrived against the kings majesty, the queen, the duke, and all the royal progeny, Parliament, and kingdom. VVith a list of all their names now in the Tower of London and other prisons, their wicked invention, with hand granadoes, to murder burn and slaughter which way they went, which far surpasseth the gunpowder treason, or Spanish invasion. Together. VVith the speedy tryal of Sir John Lenthal one of the Olivers kts now in the the Tower: and also of one Tench which made the engine to draw his late majesties head down to the block in case of refusal, who will ere long have his just reward for the same.		1660 (1660)	Wing B2958; Thomason E1846_2; ESTC R209706	4,207	16

ENGLANDS DELIVERANCE OR The Great and bloody Plot discovered Contrived against the Kings Majesty the Queen the Duke and all the Royal Progeny Parliament and Kingdom VVith a List of all their names now in the Tower of London and other Prisons their wicked Invention with hand Granadoes to murder burn and sl●ughter which way they went which far surpasseth the Gunpowd●r-treason or Spanish Invasion TOGETHER VVith the speedy Tryal of Sir John Lenthal one of Olivers Kts now in the Towers And also of one Tench which made the Engine to draw his late Maj●sties head down to the Block in case of refusal who will ere long have his just reward for the same Printed for T. Vere and W. Gilbertson 1661 The great and bloody Plot Discovered against his Majesty the Queen the Duke and Royal Progeny c. O England stand amazed and wonder and sée what base and notorious actions spring from thy bowels even enough to give a Kingdom a vomit but however lest my pen should slip I here commit my mind in general unto you and all which was private in Traytors hearts now will be séen obvious to the Kingdom That upon the fifth of December last one thousand six hundred and sixty were several Traytors assembled together as we have had the true Relation from those whom have been concerned in the discovery Notwithstanding the remarkable Execution of many of their Ancient Compettitors at Charing Cross the thirtéenth of October 1660 these persons whose names are here underneath subscribed have in a most G●and and H●rrid Conspiracy Acted Compassed and Invented the Basest Barbarous and Notorious Plot ●hat ever mortals could contrive or rather ascri●e it to the Séed of the Divel having far surpassed the Gunpowder-treason The first who began this Horrid and Detestable Plot was one Major White formerly an Officer under Lamb●rt and Major General Overcon under the same Command and once Governor of Hull but a notorious Traytor both to King and Kingdom with thirty eight more of that cursed Gang Viz. Francis Elstone John Hargrass El. Hunt Gabaiel Hopkins Wil. Kirk Francis Booth C. Bagster C. Babington Wil. Wright Anthony Barnsh●w Thomas Millard Tobias Hill Rich. Dillings Peter Thompson Tho. Simcock Frederick Barnwel Rich. Daniel Rich. Shoopel Iohn Lucan Wil. Howard Tho. Nicols Henry Limpick Francis Gavel Tobias Hill Iames E●●●field Ieffery Hookings S●m Iepp I●aac B●nton Rich Young Iohn Steward Iohn Ward Tho. Butler Rich. Glover George Thomas Iam. Sanford Robert Harker Rich. Burt. Iohn Decks Owen Davis These with many more did Compass and Contrive first to begin with fire upon the Kings Stables then after to jump violently upon white hall on purpose to murder his Majesty and all the Dukes with the R●yal Progeny To break upon the Foundations of England and make Law lawless so to Raign like Wolves among a flock of Shaep and glut themselves with the ruines of a Nation For which they had seduced and inticed several numbers of the late Disbanded Souldiers who having neither house nor home to go to were easily incombred amongst these Barbarous Traytors which being acted the fifth of December kept themselves private both in London and the near adjacent places especially in Holburn near the Filds Covent Garden and innumerable back Allies having provided Hand-Granadoes and many other base and inhumane Instruments to kill burn and slaughter which way they went like cruel Tyg●rs and merciless Tyrants whose bowels entertained not the least drop of compassion but rather like Bores to surfet themselves with blood of Innocents and harmeless people So barbarous and unnatural were these bloody Tray●ors in their horrid and detestable desig●es that even surpasseth the Spanish Invasion or the Gunpowder-treason And the thirtéenth of December was det●rmined the da● or night for the Executi●● of their Bu●chery and Massacre But th●ough the Providence of the Almighty like the Gunpowder-treason before that the match took fire it was discovered and publickly divulged by a strange and une●pected accident For this aforesaid Major VVhite on the twelfth of December met with a Porter which formerly had béen a Souldier of his in whom he reposed a great deal of confidence whereof he immediately told him that if he would go along with him to his Lodging where he lay which was then in Horburn he had some things to relate to him which accordingly agréed and together they went being come to his Chamber he told him that he had some necessary occasions for him in which he was able to perform and that he should receive a great Reward if he would be vigilant and kéep his counsel The Porter in much duty promised him he would Whereupon this Major White related in this manner My friend I have very many weighty matters and things of concernm●nt wherein you must be careful and dilligent and before Christmas day I will make a m●n of thee For we are a confiderable number of friends in town whereby we must daily have r●courfe one to another for we do intend the thirteenth of this moneth to assemble our selves together being well provided with Arms and to seize upon the Muse and on all the Kings H●rses then to set fire on 〈◊〉 and murder and destroy the King and all his N●bility to cut off Root and Branch and make a Mutenie in the City which being done we shall have help enough so raise up our selves to our former condition and heartily revive up the good old Cause he then immediately drew up a Scroll of parchment wherein was a List of all the names of the grand Traytors and chiefe Actors in this horrid and notorious treason then he gave him some papers to carry unto Overton and many others of the traytors Lodgings Now when the Porter had béen at several of these Traytors Lodgings and séen many of them face to face he presently posts to White Hall and there acquainted his Grace the Duke of Abermarle in full Relation of all the story in general who immediately prefer'd it to the Councel who could no less wonder and stand amazed to hear the hainousness of these Notorious bloody Traytor●s who presently drew up a W●rrant and sent the Life-Guard and on the 15th of December the very night before their wicked Conspiracy was to be effected th● chief of them were apprehended and the rest disp●ersed in a moment of time The names of these notorious traytors you have had mentioned before in a List but here is another grand traytor the Major General Ludlow who made his narrow escape from his Lodging in Westminster out of his bed the shéets being warm when the Guard came in for to search for him Collonel Okey a nother grand traytor by Proclamation made his escape from his Lodging in Covent-Garden and all the rest of the Traytors that were excluded out of the Act of Indemnity were concerned in this wicked and bloody design and supposed to be in town Whereupon the Lord Mayor for the surest apprehending of them hath secured all

the Inns and Stables within the City of London hearing a relatirn that fiftéen dundred of Disbanded Troopers lyes up and down about the City and every man compleatly Arm'd Something of which was specified in Major Whites Confession being examined before his Grace the Duke of Abermacle who requested him to discover the rest of the Traytors Who answered that if his Grace would sue out his pardon he would reveale the whole design in general and give him a list of all their names Whereupon immediately his life was granted then forth with he confessed that they were in number fixed for their Design five hundred Horse and as many Foot whereof Ludlow Oakie Overton and himself were to have béen prime Commanders and the fiftéenth of December at midnight they were to execute their barbarous intention thinking to increase both in strength and number having so fitt an opportunity now at the Disbanding of the Army and that many of the Sectary Phanaticks that are in London were ready to acquiesse in this Design with them and would surnish them with Arms of an hours warning So when he had ended his Confession he was then immediately conveyed unto the Tower but he had his life granted him upon his Discovery which was a great deal more then the Porter could declare Collonel Overton was secured by the Constable and his Watch with some few more of the Life Guard he lay at one Mr. Phelps in Leg. Alley néer New-street this Phelps was one of the Clerks to the pretended High Court of Iustice and one Broughton his fellow Clerk both in the house with Overton but not in the same Chamber They denyed the opening of the Door to the Constable so that by force of Armes they were forced to break open the Doores before they could get to Overton when that they came up one of the Life Guard with a Pistol to his breast asked him if he was Overton VVho answered yes Then said he I apprehend you in the Ki●gs name Then Sir said Overton I am your prisoner So forthwith they carried him a●●y and kep● him on the Guard all night at White-Hall and being examined on the morrow h● con●●st not any thing to the purpose so at six clock at night he was brought in a Coach strongly guarded unto the Tower of London Boyes running about the Coach and people in whole multitudes with great Acclamation crying hang him hang him all the way he went The same day there were several others brought to Newgate who no sooner had entred the Prison but they began to rebuke and revile one another with lewd and peremptory language for being seduced into so great an Error Many more were the same day taken and brought to the Gate-house at VVestminster It is a great suspition that some Disbanded Souldiers was linked in this Conspiracy yet some take it to be an aspertion cast on them Nevertheless his Majesty hath intended a Proclamation to this purpose That all Disbanded Souldiers shall depart the City twenty miles distant and not to stay within the Presincts of London at their peril except they can shew some good sufficient reason which may be justifiable for their residence Now these Prisons being sufficiently fortifyed with Grand and Notorious bloody Traytors the Tower Newgate and the Gate-house there let us leave them till the Sessions and then bequeath them into the hands of Esquire Dun the Hangman who can better satisfie them then the ruines of a Kingdom We have done already with the Trators of October now so much of this for the Trators of December One thing more here I have which is a remarkable piece to be noted that is the carriage and behaviour of one of Olivers late Knights by name Sir John Lenthal son to the Grand Dée Speak●r to the Rump that is not only to br●ak his Allegiance and prove Traytor to his Majesty and slander the Kingdom with lewd and profane carriage but néeds he must Countarfeit the Broad Seal of England and imitates the Office of High Chanselor besides so to contrive and make up his piece of pollicy he sends for a Tobacco-Pipe ma●er promising h●m a great Reward if he would draw the Resemblance of the Kings Great Seal in a piece of Clay thinking the fellow had hi● a second Shemei but he proved after a second Mordecai wherein he discovered the baseness of his mind that Olivers Knight was soon apprehended and very gently brought to the Tower where there he remains for his spéedy tryal But we must not for get the grand ingenuity and crafty workman-ship of the Hanibal Teanch who was pregnant in such a trade that never before was used in England being one of Peters Congregation and followed his Text To bind his King in Chains of Iron But Dun will not be at such a charge for Teanch shall be bound in a Hempen Rope but as for the presen● he remains in the Gatehouse for the Fellons in Newgate scor us to be troubled with such a treacherous and dirty companion October is gone December is come And brought more work for Esquire Dun. FINIS