TITUS OATES D. D. the first discoverer of the Popish Plott A TRUE NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid PLOT AND CONSPIRACY OF THE POPISH PARTY Against the LIFE of His Sacred Majesty THE GOVERNMENT AND THE Protestant Religion With a LIST of such NOBLEMEN GENTLEMEN and others as were the CONSPIRATORS And the HEAD-OFFICERS both Civil and Military that were to Effect it Published by the Order of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in PARLIAMENT Assembled Humbly Presented to His Most Excellent MAJESTY By TITVS OTES D. D. LONDON Printed for Thomas Parkhurst and Thomas Cockerill at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chappel and at the Three Legs in the Poultrey MDCLXXIX Die Mercurii 9º Aprilis 1679. UPon Report made by the Earl of Clarendon from the Lords Committees for Examining Matters relating to the Discovery of the late Horrid Conspiracy That Mr. Titus Oates complains That Mr. Basset hath not given him satisfaction for the Printing and Publishing his Narrative of the said Conspiracy imperfectly and desires that he may Reprint his own Narrative thereof which the said Lords Committees judg to be Reasonable It is Ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled That the said Titus Oates be and is hereby Authorized to Print a Perfect Copy of his own Narrative of the said Conspiracy Jo. Brown Cleric Parliamentor BY virtue of this Order I appoint Thomas Parkhurst and Thomas Cockerill Citizens and Stationers of London to Print this Narrative containing Eighty one Paragraphs TITUS OTES April 10. 1679. TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY CHARLES the II. By the Grace of God Of Great-Britain France and Ireland KING Defender of the Faith GREAT SIR THIS Narrative of the present Horrid Plot against Your Majesty and Government which was first heard and narrowly discussed before Your Sacred Majesty and Council and afterwards by Both Houses of Parliament with universal assent to the power of Truth herein is at last to appear abroad for the satisfaction of these Nations and Europe perhaps touching the mystery and consequence of such Designs I hope I have good equity on my side to presume to dedicate the same to Your Royal Name and Patronage and to no other because I am well assured both the rise and progress thereof hath wholly sprung from an inbred indelible love and loyalty to Your Majesty and Kingdoms as its support and success to be owing under Gods extraordinary and miraculous appearance for his people in its defence to Your Majesties Gracious pardon of several human frailties in the management Great and many are the Arts and Hoverings that have been and may yet be used in vain both at home and abroad to suppress and traduce the Evidence by those who are more zealous and industrious not to be thought or suspected rather than really not to be very Traytors and Rebels against their King and Country whose many past Treasons and Encroachments upon several Princes for these last Thousand years in the World will prove their inclinations for future whereof there are as many tragical instances against Your Majesties own Family and Person within fresh memory and to be made out by new proofs out of their own mouths and Records if need as against any other of Gods Anointing and Appointment Your Grandfather King James though he escaped their Powder is well known not to have escaped their Poyson Your other Grandfather Henry the Fourth of France was basely and villainously stabbed in the Heart which he had designed and bequeathed after his death unto them notwithstanding all the Indulgences and Immunities that the heart of man could wish or desire which he had granted them in his life Who besides these were the first Authors and contrivers of the late unnatural War by their known diabolical art of inflaming Parties and Passions against each other and of Your Royal Fathers unspeakable Sufferings and barbarous Usage It was these that brought Him to His end and fourished Swords and triumphed over his dead Body whom they durst not approach when living What shall I say of Him who then cryed out Now is the Enemy of God and of his Church fallen I believe Your Majesty hath been well-informed of the Trayterous Executioners but hardly at all of the Putney-Projectors who were in most if not all the Councels that contrived his ruine What broke the Vxbridge-Treaty but the Romish Interest and Policy Who continued to baffle all designs of peace and settlement to this Nation and prosperity to Your Majesties Family but those Incendiaries It may not be inconvenient to remind with what zeal and interest they did perswade the Scots in 1650 to impose that upon Your Majesty which Your Royal Law hath forbidden others for the effecting whereof some Thousands of pounds were spent and given by them After Your Majesties escape at Worcester how did they above all men endeavour to betray and sacrifice Your Majesty into the hands of Your Enemies And who was it that was to pay the Thousand pound promised for Your being discovered and taken but Father Joseph Simmonds and Father Carleton Compton both Jesuits It 's true that one or two of the Komish perswasion amongst many loyal and faithful Protestants male and female might then have contributed to Your Majesties deliverance But have not such been well lessened and reproached and called Fools by their own party for this grain of Loyalty more owing to their English Blood than Romish Principles The Popish Lord is not forgotten or unknown who brought a Petition to the late Regicides and Usurpers signed by about Five hundred principal Papists in England wherein was promised upon condition of a Toleration of the Popish Religion here by a Law their joint resolution to abjure and exclude the Family of the Stuarts for ever from their undoubted right to the Crown Who more disheartned the Loyalty and patience of your best Subjects than their confident Scriblers White and others And Milton was a known frequenter of a Popish Club. Who more forward to set up Cromwell and to put the Crown of our Kings upon his head than they Give me leave to tell Your Majesty that his new fangled Government was contrived by a Popish Priest and Lambert a Papist for above these Thirty years Who betrayed Your Majesties Secrets and Councels during your Exile but they even the Benedictine Monks whereof a whole Convent was maintained with a large Annuity by the late Usurper for such use and purpose And he * Manning that was caught and executed by Your Majesties Justice for such treachery was of the same Red-Letter and had Masses sung for him after his death as an usual Reward and Plaister After Your Majesties escape from England what promises did they make to Cromwell to perswade the French King for Your banishment out of France and what interest they made use of in order thereunto can be made appear to their disgrace I shall leave it to Your Majesty to call to mind their usage of your
ITEM XXV That the Fathers of the English Seminary at Saint Omers did oblige one brother George a Day-brother in the said Seminary to go for Ghent in Flanders to the English Jesuits there with a Letter from Saint Omers dated February 26. Stylo veteri In which they had an account of that letter of February 20 Stylo veteri and the said brother George arrived there February 28 Stylo veteri and the Jesuits there advised the Fathers in one of March the first Stylo veteri that the secular Clergy should be treated withal about the business but they finding them then at that time to be men inclined to live in peace and obedience to their Prince the Fathers viz. Thomas VVhite c. answered them in one of March 10 Stylo veteri That the Clergy were a sort of rascally fellows that had neither wit nor courage to manage such a great designe and did pray them of Ghent and them of Saint Omers to be of good Cheer for their designes went on well both in Scotland and Ireland and the fatal blow should be given to the black boy at Whitehal with all the speed that might be Which letters to them at Ghent and from them at Ghent to the Provincial they being brought back to Saint Omers before they went to the Provincial and also these of March 10. the Deponent saw and read ITEM XXVI That there was an attempt to make an assassination upon the person of his sacred MAJESTY in the month of March several days as he was walking in the Park and once as he was going to the Parliament-house by this honest William and Pickering but opportunity did not offer it self for the which the former viz. honest William was chidden and the latter had a Penance of twenty strokes with a Discipline on his Shoulders it being judged by the Fathers the effect of his negligence Which Passage the Deponent saw mentioned in a Letter from Thomas White to Rich. Ashby bearing Date March the 26th 1678. Item XXVII That of the 5th of April Letters came from Thomas White and the Fathers in London to Rich. Ashby and those of the English Seminary at S. Omers in which the Fathers at London did give them of S. Omers an account that Will. Morgan and Father Lovell were returned out of Ireland who gave them to understand That the Irish were ready to rise at ten day warning with 20000 foot and 5000 horse and would let the French King into that Kingdom if he should come to land an Army there and that Father Lovell did give an account that 15000 horse and foot would rise in the North of Ireland and that the people were very patient but very resolute and that the Duke of Ormond now Lord Lieutenant is in a great perplexity to see Catholick Religion thrive so well in Ireland and that there are persons that have secretly taken Commissions from the General of the Society of Jesus by vertue of a Breve from the Pope dated Octob. 1. 1673. and that they resolve to cut the Throats of the Protestants again when once they rise And in the said Letters the Provincial summoned a General Consult to be held in London and therefore commanded the Fathers on the other side of the Water to be present In which Letter the Deponent did see himself summoned to assist at that Consult as a Messenger from Father to Father This Letter the Deponent saw in the Month of April Item XXVIII That in order to this Command on April 24. 1678. Stylo Novo Father Warren Rector of Leige Sir Thomas Preston Baronet Father Marsh Rector of Ghent Father Williams Rector of Watton and Master of the Novices Sir John Warner Baronet Rich. Ashby Rector of the English Seminary at S. Omers being sick of the Gout could not go but out of the said Seminary went Sir Robert Brett Baronet Father Poole Edward Nevill there were in all with the Deponent about 9 or 10 who met in London in Consult with Tho. Whitebread Father Harcourt senior and Father Harcourt junior John Fenwick Basil Langworth Willam Morgan John Keines Father Lovell Father Ireland Father Blundell Rich. Strange Father Mico Father Gray and others to the number of Fifty Jesuits met at the White-horse Tavern in the Strand where they plotted their Designs for the Society and ordered Father John Cary who was also there to go Procurator for Rome At which Consult thus held in the Month of May the Deponent was present to attend the Consulters and delivered their Concerns from Company to Company and then a little after they left the White-horse Tavern and divided themselves into several Clubs or Companies Some met at Mrs. Saunders house in Wild-street others at Mrs. Fenwicks at Ayre 's House in Drury-lane others at Mr. Ireland's in Russel-street near Covent-Garden and in other places all which though in several Companies 5 or 6 in a Company did contrive the death of the King In order to which there were Papers sent from Company to Company which the Deponent carried containing the Opinions of the timeing their business and the manner how it was to be done And within 3 or 4 days after the Deponent went to S. Omers with the Fathers that came from the other side of the Water Item XXIX That on the 10th of June Stylo Novo came Thomas White to S. Omers in order to visit his Colledges in Flanders and Germany and in his Chamber the 11th day where the Deponent was present together with Rich. Ashby Rector he there told the Deponent and the said Ashby That he hoped to see the Fool at White-hall laid fast enough and that the Society need not fear for he that is the King was grown secure and would hear no complaints against them and if the Duke should set his Face in the least measure to follow his Brothers Foot-steps his passport was made to lay him to sleep Item XXX That the said Thomas Whitebread on the 13th of June did tell the Rector of S. Omers That a Minister of the Church of England had scandalously and basely put out the Jusuits Morals in English and had endeavoured villanously to render them odious to the people and asked the said Rector whether he thought the Deponent might possibly know him and the Rector not knowing called the Deponent who heard these words as he stood at the Chamber door of the said Provincial and when the Deponent went into the Chamber of the said Provincial he asked him If he knew the Author of the Jesuits Morals the Deponent answered his Person but not his Name The said Thomas Whitebread demanded then Whether he would undertake to poyson to assassinate the Author which the Deponent undertook to do having 50 l. reward promised him by the said Provincial and appointed to return to England And the Deponent doth farther testifie that at the same time the said Provincial did in his Chamber say That he and the Society in London would procure Dr. Stillingfleet to be knockt on
Discourse about the Design of Killing the King did say that he was a Bastard and did endeavour to rule by the Sword Which Words the Deponent did hear and so did Keines and Fenwick who after one another replied the Bastard should not trouble the World long XLIX Item That on the Tenth of August styl vet the Deponent did meet with John Groves in Wild-street in the Afternoon and as near as the Deponent can remember it was about Five of the Clock and he having made several promises to the Deponent to give him an account of the Fire of Southwark in the Year 1676 the said Groves took the Deponent into Wild-house Garden and thus began He said that he had certain Fire-works made for that very purpose and he with Three Irishmen that were his Assistants went into the Borough and not finding an opportunity nor a fit place went to St. Margarets-Hill where they found an Oyl-shop which the said Groves bragg'd he sir'd The Deponent asked the said Groves how he came acquainted with the said Irishmen He said his acquaintance with them was not much but they were procured by Dr. Fogarthy the Irish Doctor for which the Society Richard Strange then Provincial gave them 1000 l. viz. 400 l. to Groves and 200 l. a piece to the Three Irishmen And the said Groves told the Deponent that the Society got at least 2000 l. by that fire which was also told the Deponent at another time by Richard Strange L. Item That on the Eleventh of August being Sunday the Deponent saw Letters from St. Omers bearing date August 17th New style written by Father Ireland in the Name of the Provincial Thomas White aliàs Whitebread to John Fenwick in which Letter by the Contents thereof there were Letters to John Keines Mr. Jennison and Mr. Blundel and others which the Deponent did not see but in this to John Fenwick it was specified what diligence was used for the destruction of the Duke of Ormond and for the procuring another demonstration of zeal for the promoting the Catholick Religion and Interest in that Kingdom and that which Arguments could not effect the Sword should to the great vexation of the Protestants there and he intimated the great joy that he had that there was yet great hopes that the disaffected Scots would not lay aside their endeavours for and after the Defence of their Liberty and Religion and that the Catholicks of Scotland had promised to use the utmost of their Interest to keep up the Commotions there and the said Father Ireland bad the said Fenwick exhort the Fathers to be earnest in their Designs for now was the time that the English Nation was to be reduced And furthermore ordered in the Name of the Provincial that Letters should be written to all the Society in England that they made it their business to encourage the Friends to braveness of mind for that God had hitherto given them such a hopeful Prospect of things and that no Opportunity on his part was or should be lost and that they in London if they thought it fit to communicate these things should have a care that they did it to no more than to one at a time lest they should be baffled in their Enterprise Which Letter when read by the Deponent the said Fenwick to whom the Letter was directed told the Deponent that it was his Duty to offer up a Mass or two that God would prosper those Holy Endeavours of the Fathers of the Society in promoting Catholick Religion and Faith and told him further That if he the Deponent lived till Christmas he should see a good Change of things either that Forty Eight should be taken from the World or the World especially the little he was concerned in should be taken from him And one that was a Catholick should play such a Game as never was plaid since the Conquest All which the said Fenwick told the Deponent in his Chamber and the Deponent asked the said Fenwick Who this Catholick was And Fenwick said it was the Duke of York And the Deponent saith the Ciphers 48 are put for the King LI. Item That on the said 11th of August in the Evening the Deponent went to the Lodgings of John Keines where he found another Jesuit with him whose Name the Deponent doth not remember in whose presence the said John Keines told the Deponent that the Provincial had taken great care of Keeping Alive the Difference betwixt the Disaffected Scots and Duke Lauderdale and that the Affairs in Ireland went on with great Expedition and that all Means were now used to beget a Difference betwixt the Dutch md the Prince of Orange and if that could be effected there was no question to be made but that the Protestant Interest would fail in Holland and that Forty Eight would not last long in England for it was high time to hinder Forty Nine from being effected That Barly-Broth-Trade should grow dead and Twelve would be Cut off and that Mum and Chocolate should be put down and the Order of Mag-Pies should be turned into their Primitive Institution and Habit. Now the Deponent saith that the words hinder Forty Nine from being effected is an Odd Expression that is amongst them used for the Cutting off the King that he may not live to be compleat Forty Nine Years of Age. And by Barley-Broth is meant the House of Commons which shall be turned out and Sit no more And by Mum and Chocolate is meant the Protestant Peers which if not destroyed shall never have any Vote in the House of Peers more after the Death of this King And by Mag-Pies they understand the Bishops whose Habit in Parliament is Black and White which shall be changed into Purple And by Twelve is meant the Duke of Monmouth Whilst the said Keines with the other Jesuit entertained the Deponent with these Treasonable Expressions Mr. Jonnison came to the said Keines and told him that he had lost a Letter which he had received from Tho-white the Provincial at St. Omers in a Walk he took to Islington and would give ten pounds to any friend that would give it him and was afraid that some Inconvenience might follow if found by some Heretick Which words put the said Keines into such a Consternation that he asked him Whether he had a mind to ruine them all But Jennison bad the said Keines be quiet for none could understand it which words the Deponent did likewise hear LII Item That Mr. Keines on the 12th of August determined to go for Windsor in order to settle some business there in and towards the dispatching Forty Eight which the Deponent saith is by them understood the King at Windsor if the King should go down thither And it was judged that the said Forty Eight would go to Windsor to make his abode there for some weeks but the said John Keines told the Deponent that he might chance to fall short of his Return again These words were spoken by John
Villain the KING should not live to eat any more Christmas Pies and the other Gentleman did lay that he would So that the Deponent saith That Keines told him no more of the Concern of Coniers than the Deponent had heard of the said Coniers before on the 14th of August But the Deponent before he parted from Keines asked him What news about the Town Keines replyed That all the news about the Town was War with the French and Keines did say that if that held true then Have at the Rogues of the House of Commons they should be remembred for all their Long Bills against the Catholicks The Deponent replyed that with submission he thought the Revenge proposed against them would not do the business and therefore not a Resolution consistent with a Catholick Spirit for the Enterprise must be more Noble And withal the Deponent urged that he feared the Death of the King would scarcely do the business and effect the Design unless his R. Highness would pardon those that did the business and stand by them in it To which the said Keines reply'd that the Duke was not the strength of their Trust for they had another way to effect the setting up the Catholick Religion For when they had destroyed the King they had a List of 20000 Catholicks in London that were substantial persons and fit for Arms that would Rise in twenty four hours time and less And if James did not comply with them to Pot he must go also It being late in the Night the said John Kienes prayed the Deponent to come to him the next morning and he would have one hours discourse with him before he went to Mass and being about to take leave of the Deponent asked him What he meant by those Words He could not be guilty of any such thing as to assist in dispatching the King there being no guilt in the Case the Deponent smiled and said He could not be guilty of so much Courage Besides the Deponent saith That he told the said Keines that it was his opinion that it would be more safe to let Sir George Wakeman try his skill and then the People would not apprehend it so much LXI Item That the Deponent went to the Chamber of the said Keines about eight or nine in the morning on the 18th of August but he was gone abroad and ordered the Deponent to call upon him about four in the afternoon and then he would have some discourse with him And the Deponent accordingly went but met with the said Keines in the Mews who told the Deponent that he was to meet with some Fathers in Covent Garden and there would meet them some Dominicans and would have the Deponent go along with him and at the House where they were appointed to meet the Dominicans were already met viz. Mr. Vincent Provincial of the Domiminicans in England Joseph David Keimash Mr. Dominick Mr. Collins Mr. Fedding Mr. Mansel and Mr. Lumsdale as they said in the Name of all the rest of the Order in England to consult and comply with the Fathers of the Society to propagate the Catholick Faith and when John Keines was set with the Fathers of the Society by him all of a side viz. John Keines Father Harcourt Fa. Fenwick Fa. Wright Fa. Blundel the said John Keins propounded to the Dominicans to contribute to the design of killing the King and carrying on the business of England and Scotland The Dominicans replied by their Provincial that they were poor and not able to do much for they had but little or no money but they would let them have their personal assistance and counsel and would procure what Interest they could but as for Mony they could not part with any at all for they were in debt and had scarce 400 l. in stock and the most they could make per annum of their Estate was not above 360 l. At which Consult the Deponent was to and fro and what was more said he cannot tell for he was sent with the Proposals to the Carmelites viz. Dr. Handson Mr. Kimbal Mr. Trevers and they said that they had not one penny in stock nor any In-come besides what the Spanish Embassador allowed them for assisting in his Chappel But they by the Deponent did present their Service to the Fathers met together and bad the Deponent tell them that their Prayers to God and our Blessed Lady should not be wanting All this was acted by Order from the Provincial of the Society LXII Item That the Deponent went to see John Fenwick on August Nineteenth in the afternoon and whilst he was with him in came John Keines and presently after him Mr. Blundel and after a Salutation was passed they asked the Deponent What Newes The Deponent told them he heard none but what was in the Gazett And Blundel said he had been with his Workmen and they wanted Oyle What the meaning of this was the Deponent cannot tell but believes it was Sheeps Fat and the said Blundel would not tell the Deponent his meaning when asked by him The Deponent asked Keines When he was for Windsor He replied The Court was scarcely setled as yet but said that Mr. Conyers and one Anderson was to go down on the morrow Aug. 20. in the morning and if they did any thing as to the business in hand it would hasten his going down and therefore as yet could not be certain when The Deponent asked further How honest VVilliam did Keines replyed that he was troubled with a sore Throat and was very bad with it and so indispos'd that he could not Ride down to VVindsor and that it would be dangerous for him to go by water lest a Cold being by that means Contracted he should be unfit for Service And then the Deponent took his leave of them it being near six of the Clock in the afternoon and went to the Monkes Convent and inquired of one Rumly a Lay-brother of that Order for Mr. Conyers he said he was not within but not far off however not to be spoken withal for he was with some of the Benedictine Fathers about business and would go out of Town to morrow betimes hi the morning And so the Deponent left him and being but a little way from the place met the said Conyers who laughing upon the Deponent told him That the Hill People were Fools to set upon 48. at Windsor because he was seldome in a posture to receive their kindness But he would see his Worship and talk with him in some other Language than in Tormentilio The Deponent asked How He Replied that if the shirt on his back should know he would burn it But if that should not take effect no opportunity should be neglected in order to the dispatch of 48. He further told the Deponent he was in hast and his time was short and his business great but told him also that honest William and Pickering should stay in Town seeing the party concern'd was Hic
ubique never long in one place LXIII Item That on Wednesday twenty first of August a Consult was held by the Jesuits then in London with certain Benedictine Monkes about three of the Clock in the afternoon concerning a Pacquet that came from Talbot Archbishop of Dublin to the fathers of the Society In which they were given to understand that Four Irish Jesuits had undertaken the death of the Duke of Ormond and that upon his death the Irish were ready to rise In this Letter he told them that a Legate was arrived in Ireland and had asserted the Popes right in that Kingdom and that the Kings of England being no longer Catholiques they did cease from being concerned there it being given to them during the good pleasure of his Holiness and therefore did incourage the said Arch-Bishop to contrive and use all means for the recovery of the said Kingdom out of the hands of the English And in the said Letter it was mentioned That if opportunity did not permit the said Jesuits to do their business that then they should send one Doctor Fogarthy now lodging at Mrs. Simmonds the Widow of one Simmonds an Apothecary in Drury-Lane and that he and the Fathers in Ireland together with the said Fogarthy would find out an expedient way for the death of the said Duke And furthermore he did specify that they had procured several Irish to be made Commission-Officers in the Garrisons in Ireland and that he and the rest had dispenced with them to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy And that the Irish who had gotten Commissions by means of the Arch-Bishop had promised to betray their interest into their hands when the business should be ripe and desired the Fathers to be as diligent in England as he and the rest of the Clergy were in Ireland which Letter John Keines did shew the Deponent and was read by the Deponent And Kenies and Blundel gave him an account of the Consult and the said Fogarthy did himself tell the Deponent the same and on the said Twenty first of August did say That he had a great interest in the Court of Ireland LXIV Item That the said Fogarthy is a main Agent in this Hellish-Plot and hath promised That if this Bishop Talbot will make use of him he will do all the service he can which the Deponent is ready to justify to the face of the said Fogarthy who did tell the Deponent that he and Coleman were in the Consult when Wakeman was contracted withal in order to Poyson the KING and said That if he had the interest in the KING as Wakeman had he would have undertaken it himself And all this was told the Deponent on the Twenty first of August in die Chamber of the said Fogarthy And furthermore the said Fogarthy then and there did tell the Deponent That he had hired Four Irish Russians whose Names he did neither tell the Consulters that met on the Twenty first of August nor the Deponent and these Irish Russians were to mind the KING's Postures at Windsor But the Deponent telling the said Fogarthy that he heard the KING was going to Portsmouth he was wonderfully troubled at it and said It did very much impede their Design and nothing would be Attempted so long as he was absent from Windsor LXV Item That the Lord Embassador Sr. William Godolphin at the Court of Spain holdeth great Correspondence with Hierom Swiman the Irish-Jesuit who as beforementioned was Procurator for the Jesuits of the Kingdom of England and Ireland and with the Irish Arch-Bishop of Tuam now at Madrid and is a friend in this business as the said Swiman did inform the Society in one of July the thirtyeth New-style and likewise in one to the Deponent wherein he did specify that Sir William was as industrious as any Man could be to answer the expectation of the Society and that he had but one Protestant-servant then in his House viz. the Cook and the Parson when there made up a goodly Couple And the Deponent knows that Godolphin is a Papist and hath perverted a Kinsman of his own and the Deponent knoweth that the said Embassador is very familier to the said persons the Irish Jesuit at Madrid and the Irish-Arch-Bishop of Tuam And the Deponent doth verily believe that Mr. Hodges sometimes Chaplain to the said Lord Embassador can if required Testify as much and the Deponent doth furthey say That when he was at Madrid the said Chaplain of the Embassador left the employ because of the Embassador's being a Papist and the Deponent hath seen the said Embassador at Mass and he hath a Jesuit that comes to his House who hath Read both Philosophy and Divinity to the said Embassador of which the Deponent was personally informed by the said Hierome Swiman an Irish Jesuit and by the said Irish Arch-Bishop when at Madrid but the Letters of which the Deponent speaks he saw and Read them at Mrs. Saunders House in Wild street the Twenty second of August LXVI Item That on the 22th of August Money was sent from the Society by a Servant of theirs to supply the Expences of the four Irish Russians above-mentioned who were gotten to Windsor on the 21th at night and the sum so sent was Eighty pound which the Deponent saw told And they were written to and informed that if more were wanting they should have it And they were bidden not to be frequent in one anothers Company and always to profess but small Acquaintance one with another Which Order and Money was dispatcht away by Harcourt Rector of London in the name of the Provincial and whole Society LXVII Item That the Deponent went to the Chamber of the said John Fenwick who told him that he was to go to St. Omers with some Students thither about ten or eleven as near as the Deponent can remember and the said Fenwick was to attend the Provincial and was to return as he said within tenor twelve days together with Mico and the rest And whilst the Deponent was with the said Fenwick a Messenger came in viz. John Grove with order from Harcourt Rector of London John Keines Richard Blundell Mr. Jennison Mr. Wright Basill Langworth and four other Jesuits that lay at Somerset house to pray the Provincial that he would write to Leshee the French King 's Confessarius and give him to understand how well the business in Ireland stood and that in his Letters to Leshee he should pray him to certifie the French King thereof The Deponent asked Grove where those Fathers were met Who said they met again at Mrs. Sanders house And the Deponent after he had read the Order or Memorial as indeed the Title was and saw their Names about two in the Afternoon went to the house of Mrs. Sanders where the Deponent saw those Fathers who told him of the said Order and after a short stay took his leave of them and by them was ordered to meet them at four