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A54635	Britannia languens: or, A discourse of trade shewing, that the present management of trade in England, is the true reason of the decay of our manufactures, and the late great fall of land-rents; and that the increase of trade, in the method it now stands in, must proportionably decay England. Wherein is particularly demonstrated, that the East-India Company, as now managed, has already near destroyed our trade in those parts, as well as that with Turky, and in short time must necessarily beggar the nation. Humbly offered to the consideration of this present Parliament.	Petyt, William, 1636-1707.	1689 (1689)	Wing P1947; ESTC R218978	144,323	343

little notice of it at that time but afterwards hearing of the Plot and that the King was to have been kill'd at Windsor he began to reflect upon these former words more seriously and related them to his Father and one Mr. Smith his Fathers Confessor being then at Wallworth his Fathers Mansion-house in the Bishoprick of Durham This and some other Depositions confirming the same with the true Copy of the said Letter have since been published in print and Mr. Jennison publickly attested the same at Wakeman's Tryal the horror and detestation of this hellish Plot carried on by the Romanists having induced him to quit their Communion Three days after the Execution of Whitebread and the other four Jesuits viz. 23 June was Apprehended by Captain Rich one of His Majesties Justices of Peace for Surry one Caryl alias Blunden supposed to be a Popish Priest at Lambeth-Marsh at the House of one Mr. Woodinbrook formerly an Haberdasher of Small Wares in the Burrough of Southwark in whose Chamber was found the following Letter prepared to give an Account thereof to their Correspondents beyond the Seas wherein 't is observable what liberty they take to scandalize the proceedings of Justice and invent so many palpable notorious Lies as that of the Reprieve being brought to the Gallows c. to keep up their Reputation with their Party The words of the Letter were as follow onely in the Margent we have added some necessary Observations IHS MR. 23 June 1679. My Dr. C. ON the Thirteenth of June being Friday Mr. Whitebread Mr. Harcourt Mr. Turner Fenwick and Gaven of the Society and Mr. Corker were brought to the Bar in the Old-Bailey Mr. Corker moved the Court for a longer time being onely warned the night before whereas the other Prisoners had eight days warning to prepare themselves whereupon he was re-manded to prison till the next day Then was the Indictment read against the Five above-named Jesuits for conspiring the Kings Death Subversion of Government and Protestant Religion Then Mr. Oates swore that on the Twenty fourth of April there was a Consult held in London where the Kings Death was Conspired and that he carried this Resolve from one to the other for their subscribing and swore particular Circumstances against each To Corroborate this Testimony other Witnesses Bedloe Prance Dugdale and Chetwine came in with Overtures to the matter sworn by Oates Then did the Prisoners after a most solemn and Religious Protestation of their Innocence and ignorance of any Conspiracy against His Majesty desire that their Witnesses might be heard which could demonstrate that Mr. Oates was actually at St. Omers in all April and May and most of June when he swears he was in London at the Consult To prove this about twenty Witnesses were produced who did shew evidently by several remarkable passages how Oates was at St. Omers all the whole time But the Judge Scroggs asked each Witness as he did appear of what Religion he was of and upon answer that he was a Catholick the whole Court gave a shout of laughter Then the Judge would say to them Well what have you then been taught to say and by many scoffing Questions which moved the Court to frequent laughter he did endeavour to take off the Credibility of their Witnesses Then the Butler Taylor and Gardiner of St. Omers offered to swear that they saw Mr. Oates all that time at St. Omers when he swore he was in London After this the Prisoners at the Bar produced Sixteen Witnesses more that proved Oates forsworn in Mr. Irelands Tryal because he was in Shropshire when he attested be was in London Then did Gaven one of the Prisoners with a great deal of clearness and Eloquence and with a cheerful countenance draw up their justification shewing the force of their Evidences and how fully their Witnesses had proved Mr. Oates perjured then he did lay open the improbabilities of such a Plot and how unlikely that Mr. Oates should be entrusted in delivering Commissions to Persons of Honour and Estates whom he never as he acknowledges had seen before or since This was delivered by Mr. Gaven with a Countenance wholly unconcered and in a voice very audible and largely and pertinently exprest The Judge was incensed at this Speech in which he often interrupted him but Gaven still urged My Lord I plead now for my Life and for that which is dearer to me than life the honour of my Religion and therefore I beseech you have a little patience with me After this Plea of Mr. Gaven's the Judge made his Harangue to the Jury telling them that what the Prisoners had brought was onely the bare assertions of Boys who were taught it as a point of their Religion to lye for the honour of their Religion whereas Mr. Oates Bedloe and others were upon their Oaths and if Oaths were not to be taken no Courts could subsist Then Mr. Oates brought forth four Witnesses which he had kept in reserve an old Parson in his Canonical Gown an old Dominican Priest Proh Pudor Dolor and two old women that swore they saw Mr. Oates in the beginning of May 1678. At this the whole Court gave a shout of laughter and hollow that for almost a quarter the Cryers could not still them Never was Bear-baiting more rude and boisterous than this Tryal Vpon this the Judge dismiss'd the Jury to consider and bring in their Verdict who after half an hours absence brought in the Five Prisoners at the Bar all guilty of High-Treason Thereupon the whole Court clapt their hands and gave a great hollow It being now eight at night the Court adjourned till next day at seven of the clock which was Saturday I was present from five in the morning till the Court broke up The Prisoners comported themselves most Apostolically at the Bar not the least passion or alteration appeared in them at the Invectives of the Judge or at the Clamours of the People but made a clear and candid defence with a chearful and unconcerned countenance and as a Stander-by said if they had had a Jury of Turks they had been quitted I was with them both before and after their Tryal and had the honour of being in my Function serviceable to them which I look upon as that God favoured me in I hope for my future good Next day Mr. Langhorne a Lawyer Sir George Wakeman Mr. Corker Mr. March Mr. Rumbly the three last Benedictines were brought to the Bar where the Indictment being read against them for conspiring the Kings death c. they pleaded all Not guilty Then was Langhorne first tryed whose Tryal held so long that they had not time to try the other four and the Commission by which they sat expiring that day the Judge adjourned the Tryal of the other four till the 14th of July and then the Judge commanded the Keeper to bring the five Jesuits whom

onely defence Mr. Langhorn could make was like that of the rest of his Party by stout denyals and endeavouring to invalidate the credit of the Witnesses by intrapping or confronting them in point of time or place 1. He would make Doctor Oates an Approver as having been pardoned for the same Crime and alleadged that the Witnesses had received Rewards and gratifications for Swearing against them But to this the Court answered That it could not be supposed the King would Bribe his Witnesses and unless he could prove any reward to be given by Contract or subornation it was no Objection for that allowance of sustenance was usually given of old to Approvers c. 2. He mustered up again their baffled Evidence from St. Omers of whom one being askt how he came to take notice of Mr. Oates being at St. Omers all April and May and not in June and July as well plainly answered being not well instructed or more simple than the rest It was Because the Question he came for did not fall upon that time Which gives more light to the suspicion that they came with their Lessons in their Mouths to save these mens Lives and their Churches sinking Credit not to speak truth but only right or wrong confront the Kings Evidence but in vain for Dr. Oates sufficiently asserted his Testimony by seven Witnesses who now again proved as they had done the day before his being in London at the time controverted 3. Then Mr. Langhorn produced the Woman at the White-horse Tavern where Mr. Oates had said the Consult was held and she boldly averred that there was never a Room in her House would hold above a dozen people and therefore there could not meet 50 or 18 or 20 persons at a time This was an Objection Doctor Oates could not fore-see not thinking any body would have had the confidence to alleadge it and so was not provided with any Witnesses to confute it but as Providence ordered it no less than three several strangers stood up in Court that knew the House well and being sworn Attested The first that he had known sixteen to dine often in one Room of that House the second that he knew two Rooms one backwards and the other forward where Thirty might Dine at a time and the third that at a Wedding he knew of above Twenty that Dined together in one Room next the street Nay farther there was a Gentleman of good Quality in Court who declared there have been Fifty in a Room there so that this Evidence by such a peremptory falshood did but add to the suspicion already too apparent on the rest of his Witnesses The matter being thus plain the Jury did not find any difficulty that might require a tedious Consultation and therefore returning after a short retirement into Court pronounced the prisoner Guilty and then Whitebread and the other Four Convicted the day before being brought to him to the Bar Mr. Recorder proceeded to pass Sentence of Death upon them all Six But Mr. Langhorn either in consideration of the affairs of others in relation to his Practice which it might be convenient to adjust or rather in hopes he might have been wrought upon to make some ingenuous Confession was Reprieved for a Month and then Executed on Munday the Fourteenth of June persisting in the most solemn and studied expressions of his Innocence which that they might be home and full and consequently the more taking with the people he had written down in a paper whether of his own penning or prescribed unto him by some Priest is uncertain and this he delivered to the Sheriff referring himself thereunto as the last Expressions of his mind and desiring it might be seen CHAP. XX. The Occasion and manner of Mr. Robert Jennison's first Discovery and the Apprehension of one Caryl alias Blunden and his Letter beyond the Seas concerning the Execution of Whitebread c. WE have before related how Mr. Ireland insisted that he was in Staffordshire when Dr. Oates Mr. Bedloe and one Sarah Pain attest upon their Oaths that they saw him in London And this he not onely alleadged at his Tryal and brought Witnesses to prove it but made solemn Asseverations at his death That he never was in London from the 5th of August to the 14th of September And knowing that such a failure in circumstance of time and place if they could get it believ'd would much depretiate the Evidence they not content with what had pass'd revive it again at Whitebread's Tryal as you have heard offering fresh people to confirm it And though the contrary was sufficiently attested by three Witnesses on Oath enough to convince an impartial Jury or any body else that considers the nature of a Papists Religion and how far he may lawfully nay is bound to stretch his private Conscience when it may be for the publick Emolument of their Church yet it pleased Providence as well for the vindication and further illustration of Truth as to shame these false dissemblers and expose their fallacious dealings soon after to make a further discovery and detect their Lyes in this behalf by one that had been no small Zealot of their Party For presently after that Tryal Charles Chetwind Esq upon some discourse concerning the same was accidentally inform'd That one Mr. Robert Jennison of Grays-Inne a person of good Quality and formerly a strict Romanist had affirm'd That he was with the said Ireland about the middle of August in Russel-street in Covent-garden whereupon Mr. Chetwind resolv'd to enquire further after it being thereunto encouraged by the Earl of Shaftsbury to whom he had communicated what he had heard Then tracing the business he went to Robert Bowes Esq who own'd that Mr. Jennison had signified so much to him formerly in a Letter from Reading dated the 19th of December Hereupon several of these Gentlemen repaired to Mr. Jennison who after some unwilling Evasions ingenuously owned the same and testified it upon Oath before Edmund Warcup Esq one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex viz. That coming up from Windsor on the 19th of August he went to visit the said William Ireland with whom for some time he had been well acquainted as being Related unto him and found him at his Lodging in Russel-street who told him he was then newly arrived by Post from Wolverhampton in Staffordshire and in discourse enquired how his Majesty and the Court were diverted To which Mr. Jennison replied That he heard his Majesty took much delight in Hawking and Fishing but chiefly in the latter which his Majesty follow'd early in the mornings accompanied onely with two or three Lords Whereupon Ireland replied He wondred his Majesty should be so thin guarded he were easily taken off or removed or words to that effect At which Mr. Jennison saying God forbid Ireland began to qualifie it saying I do not say it is lawful and some such Expressions which made him take