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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63112	Truth vindicated, or, A detection of the aspersions and scandals cast upon Sir Robert Clayton and Sir George Treby, Justices, and Slingsby Bethell and Henry Cornish, Esquires, sheriffs of the city of London, in a paper published in the name of Dr. Francis Hawkins, minister of the Tower, intituled, The confession of Edward Fitz-Harris, Esq., &c. the coppy of which paper is herewith printed for the readers clearer judgment in the case.	Treby, George, Sir, 1644?-1700.; Fitzharris, Edward, 1648?-1681. Confession.	1681 (1681)	Wing T2107; ESTC R11729	17,499	36

had for secret Service and advised me to go to the Lord Clarendon or Hyde but before I could do this I was taken As for that part of the Libel which I left with Everard as a Pledge to assure him I would not betray him I received it of the Lord Howard And the Money I received from the King was for bringing a Libel called The King Unvail'd and the Lady Portsmouths Articles I call God to witness I never had a Farthing charity from the King I do further confess and declaere That the Lord Howard told me of a Design to seize upon the King's Person and to carry him into the City and there detain him till he had condescended to their Desires Heyns and my self were privy to this Design and had several Meetings with the Lord Howard and as an Encouragement the Lord Howard assured us of breaking the Settlement of Ireland taking off the Additional Revenue of the Bishops Forty nine-men and Grantees whose Estates were to be shar'd amongst the Party I do confess and declare That while I was in Newgate the Sheriff's Bethel and Cornish came to me with a Token from the Lord Howard which I knew to be true and brought Heads with them from Everard wherein he accused me of being a Court Emissary or Yorkist put on by the King to put the Libel into Protestants houses to trepan them But I declare upon my death I had no such intent nor do I know any such thing The Sheriffs likewise told me I was to be tried within three or four days that the people would prosecute me and the Parliament would impeach me and that nothing would save my life but discovering the Popish Plot. And then the Sheriffs aforesaid gave me great Encouragement from my Lord Howard that if I would declare that I believed so much of the Plot as amounted to the introducing the R. C. or if I could find out any that could criminate the Queen R. H. or make so much as a plausible story to confirm the Plot that the Parliament would restore me to my Fathers Estate with the Prosits thereof since His Majesties Restauration I sinding my self in the condition I was in Newgate Fettered Moneyless and Friendless my Wife ready to Lye in without any subsistence my Children in a miserable condition and must needs be in a worse by my death and I could see no other Refuge for life but complying with them so not with ambitious intent but to save my life I did comply The Sheriffs brought Instructions which they said came from the Lords and Commons who met that day in order to Address to the King in my behalf if I should confirm the Instructions and they made use of the Lord Shastsbury's name and others what Advantage I might have thereby At the first I made a formal story concerning the Plot which was not prejudicial to any body but most relating to general Heads known publickly upon which Mr. Cornish told me These were things cryed about the Streets two years ago I replied I could say no more Mr. Sheriff said He was sorry for me with all his heart but thought I could say more if I would and pressed me hard to speak to several Heads unto which unless I spoke he said there was no hopes of life The Heads I was to speak to is what the Examination taken by Sir Robert Clayton and Sir George Treby contains and a great deal more that I did not say then relating to the Queen R. H. Earl of Danby declaring French Pensioners Lords Hallifax Hyde Clarendon Feversham Seymer and others the burning the Fleet Forts and Governments in Popish hands Meal-Tub-Plot Prentices Plot the contrivance of the Libel on the Lady Portsmouth being a French Designe to destroy Protestants These and many other Heads were brought me by the Sheriffs I do farther confess declare That Sir Rob. Clayton and Sir George Treby coming to me to examine me Sir Rob. Clayton asked me what I could say concerning Godfrey's Murder I answered Something He replied It may be I was in a confusion recollect your self And what I said concerning Father Patrick was forced out of me and what I said concerning him is not true Sir George Treby was with me three hours or thereabouts and pressed to say concerning Godfrey's death and said Vnless I could speak to that Murder I could say nothing Whereupon I said something I had from others He asked me if I could say no more I replied Is not this enough to save my Life Am I not Rogue enough The Recorder hereupon swore Gods wounds what were you ever but a Rogue Then the Recorder entred upon the Heads of the Examination which being done he told me All this would not save my Life unless I would speak to the Libel which was a Court-trick and it was not for nothing that I had been so often seen at the Lady Portsmouth's The Lord Shaftsbury said You know more of these matters than any man Sir George would have me speak to the Consult that the Duke was at it the Lords Bellasis Arundel and Powis were at it You have seen them go to it at St. James's without doubt they were there Do you but say it we have those that will swear it I do further declare and confess That what I said against the Queen the Duke I was put upon in the matter of Sir Edmunbury Godfrey's Murder And do further declare That what I swore against the Earl of Danby the threatning words that were uttered I did to the best of my remembrance hear but whom they concern'd I could not well know by what my Lord himself said And what de Puis told me concerning my Lord of Danby I do believe was spoken out of ill will and what I said against him was to stave off my Tryal till a Parliament and they were the more desirous to accuse the Lord Danby of Godfrey's Murder because the Crime of Murder is not inserted in his Pardon I am sorry for what I said against the Queen his Royal Highness and the Earl of Danby I desire God to forgive me the wrong I did them and do heartily beg their Pardon I do further declare and protest That this Confession and Declaration of mine I own sincerely as a dying man and not to save my life and I call God and all his Angels to witness the Truth of it and I renounce Mercy at the Hands of God Almighty if this be not true And I do further declare and protest as a dying man unto James Walmesly Edward Pattel and Mary Walmesly That I have made this Confession and Declaration unto Doctor Hawkins freely and of my own voluntary accord without any manner of promise made or hopes given me by him from the King of saving my life by this Confession I having given him to understand before-hand they were matters of consequence and such as chiefly concern'd the good of the King and Kingdom I give the Doctor my hearty Thanks for all his Prayers Counsel and Charitable Offices he hath done me and I pray God to bless him for ever for it I forgive all the World and desire all the World to forgive me and the Lord have mercy on my Soul EDWARD FITZ-HARYS This Protestation was made by Mr. Fitz-Harys July 1. between the hours of 7 and 8 in the morning in the presence and hearing of us whose Names are hereunder written James Walmesly Edward Pattel Mary Walmesly I Do hereby declare That Mr. Fitz-Harys before he began to write any part of this Narrative was more than once assured by me that there was no hope of his life that I know of whatever he should say nor of his Salvation if he should say any thing that he knew to be false of which he being throughly sensible and perfectly convinced proceeded to write the Narrative aforesaid And I continuing to admonish him upon every point that was material not to say any thing but what was exactly true he took occasion at several periods of his Narrative to kneel down and solemnly to protest the truth of every word therein contained And this I do again declare upon the Faith of a Christian and the word of a Minister of the Gospel Francis Hawkins FINIS

should upon pretence of his private Conference with a Papist Attainted of Treason publish in Print to the whole world for Truth That two Justices of the Peace and Two Ministers of Justice High-Sheriffs of the City of London have combin'd with certain Lords and Commons of the Parliament in a horrid Conspiracy against the Queen Duke of York and many Privy-Councellors and in wicked Practices against the Papists and endeavoured to prevail with Fitz-Harris to perjure himself by forming a plausible Story to confirm the Popish Plot. We say again That a Dr. of our Church should cause to be sent into all Kingdoms and Countries such black Scandals of so many Persons of Quality and Authority in our Kingdom to render them as much as in him is more infamous and odious than words can express at this we were struck with horror and so much the more when we consider that the Doctor was not ignorant that these pretended Words or Confessions of Fitz-Harris were contrary to his most solemn Oaths Sworn before the King's Ministers as well as before those Justices and that all the Commons of England in Parliament had by Order caused what he had so Sworn to be Published And the Doctor could not be ignorant that the whole scope of that Mock Confession was to throw the Odium of a Plot against the King's Person upon some Protestants and to discredit and prevent the prosecution of the Popish Plot. The Doctor also might with very little pains have satisfied himself by undoubted Evidence of the Falshood of several of the matters of Fact in the Confession and surely his Function as a Divine his Duty as a Neighbour and much more as a Christian required that he should in some kind have heard at least some of the parties accused in their own behalf to whom he might have had easie access before he had proclaim'd them to the world to be guilty of such infamous Crimes He cannot excuse himself for want of Time this Mock Confession was taking and forming as we can prove a Week at least before Fitz-Harris's Death And we have reason to think that the miserable deluded man understood many things in it as they were modell'd as little as he did the Doctrine of the Four General Councils which he owned for his Faith whosoever put it upon him But the Doctor took care that none of the parties accused might see the arrows intended to wound them till their good names should feel them and therefore kept his Confession in secret until the poor wretch was dead and cold that would perhaps have shewed the fraud with his last breath if he had been absolutely certain that it was to be his last but that the Doctor assured him of the contrary even very near his last hours in due time will be proved The Sheriffs at the Gallows remembred Fitz-Harris of his promise made to each of them in Newgate That if they did put him to death before he could discover to the Parliament what was yet undiscovered of the Popish Plot which he said he reserved for them he would leave it behind him in writing He answered them That he had left it with Dr. Hawkins The Sheriffs demanded of the Doctor that it might be read to the people whilst the man was living to own it but the Doctor only refused it not the Man how he was awed we know not then the Sheriffs demanded a Copy of it from the Doctor as their due as what belonged to Fitz-Harris but after some shuffling answers that he had it not about him and that a Great man had it he promised them a Copy but either he thought he was not bound by his promise or else he made no conscience of breaking the Bond. We doubt not but time will bring to light the whole contrivance of obtruding upon the world this Mock-confession and make it appear that Dr. Hawkins or Hawksworth knew that Fitz-Harris never intended it should pass for a true and real Confession if he died for the Treason And perhaps for that reason there was no one person of Quality or Authority about the Tower or any other of eminency and integrity called in all the days of its contrivance before whom Fitz-harris might own any article of the Confession though doubtless if there had been only fair dealing the Doctor must needs have desired it for his own safety and credit nor is it accountable why it was not done it may be also those two obscure men and the woman whose names are set to the Printed Paper as Witnesses knew no more what the Confession and Declaration was which Fitz-Harris protested to them he had made to Dr. Hawkins freely than the Sheriffs knew what the further discovery was of the Popish Plot which he also told them with his dying breath he had left with Dr. Hawkins no shadow of any such discovery having yet been produced by him but on the contrary this odious Sham-confession to perswade the world that the noise of Popish Plots hath been from the wicked practises of some Protestants We have only left to pray That the God of Truth may bring to light all the hidden works of darkness that no wicked device form'd against the Protestant Religion his Majesty and the Kingdom may ever prosper and let every good man say Amen FINIS The Confession of Edward Fitz-harys Esq I Edward Fitz-harys having been indicted of High-Treason for endeavouring to dethrone the KING was thereupon found guilty and Sentence of death passed upon me I the aforesaid Edward Fitz-harys do voluntarily and freely without any hopes to save my Life but as a dying man and to discharge my Conscience towards God and for the better satisfaction of the world make this Declaration following in the presence of God and unto Dr. Francis Hawkins Chaplain of the Tower of London I do profess and declare my Religion in the general to be that which hath been truly and anciently delivered in the first Four General Councils and in particular my Belief is that true Faith of a Christian briefly contained in those Three Creeds commonly called The Apostle's Creed St. Athanasius's and The Nicene Creed And I die a Member and in the Communion of Christ's Holy Catholick Church hoping for Mercy through the alone Merits of the Passion of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ I do also confess and declare as to the Crimes which I die for I was no further concerned in the Libel than as employed to give the King notice of what Libel or other Accusations there were against him and to this intent and no other I endeavoured to get this Libel which at length I did from Mr. Everard all written under his own hand and carried it to Mrs. Wall by whose means I conveyed all matters of this or the like nature to the King I told her I had a business of great consequence to acquaint the King with but she answered me That my Lord Sunderland being out there would be no Money