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A31231	The compendium, or, A short view of the late tryals in relation to the present plot against His Majesty and government with the speeches of those that have been executed : as also an humble address, at the close, to all the worthy patriots of this once flourishing and happy kingdom.	Castlemaine, Roger Palmer, Earl of, 1634-1705.	1679 (1679)	Wing C1241; ESTC R5075	90,527	89

as also of their never having such Hopes since the Dayes of Q. Mary with the like Rhetorical Flowers Mr. Coleman being then found Guilty upon the account of his Letters for my Lord Chief Justice told him as I already mention'd † That the Cause hung not on the Matter he insisted upon to wit on the Consult of August which Oates pretends him to be at He was next day Condemned at the same Bar where he declar'd with all the Execrations imaginable That he told the House of Commons all that he knew of this Business That he never heard of Proposition or knew of any to Supplant the King or Government by Invasion Disturbance or the like That he thought 't is true by Liberty of Corscience Popery might come in and that every Body is bound to wish all People of the Religion be professes with much more to the same Purpose Then being carryed back to Prison where his Wife had only private Admittance he was on Tuesday the Third of December brought to Tyburn where he made the following Speech Mr. Coleman's Speech IT is now expected I should speak and make some Discovery of a very great Plot I know not whether I shall have the good Fortune to be believed better now than formerly if so I do here solemnly declare upon the words of a Dying Man I know nothing of it And as for the raising of Sedition Subverting the Government stirring up the People to Rebellion altering the known Laws and Contriving the Death of the King I am wholly Ignorant of it Nor did ever I think to advance that Religion which People think I am so Zealous of hereby I thank God I am of it and declare I dye of it nor do I think it prejudicial to King or Government But though I am as I said a Roman Catholick and have been so for many Years yet I Renounce that Doctrine which some say the Remish Church doth usher in to promote their Interest That Kings may be Murder'd and the like I say I abominate it Here Mr. Coleman being interrupted by being told that if he had any thing to say by way of Confession or Contrition for the Fact he might proceed otherwise it was unseasonable to go on and spend time with such like Expressions Mr. Coleman then reply'd No! But he thought it was expected then being told to the contrary he concluded with these few words following I do say I had no intention to subvert the Government or to act any thing contrary to Law but what every Man of a contrary Religion would do in a peaceable manner if he could And if I may be believ'd the Witness that Swore against me did me wrong and that Witnesses that swore He was with me in Sommerset-House-Gallery upon the words of a Dying Man I never saw his Face before Being afterwards ask'd if he knew any thing of the Death of Sir Edmund Bury Godfrey He also declared on the words of a Dying Man he knew nothing of it Concerning Mr. Ireland Grove and Pickering WIth these three Mr. White the Provincial and Mr. Fenwick Procurator of Saint Omer's held up their Hands at the Old Baily on the Seventeenth of December and though they were charg'd home by Oates yet Bedlow had so little against the said Mr. White and Fenwick that after a Tryal of several Hours they were for want of two Witnesses as the Law requires in Treason remanded to Newgate where we will leave them till by and by being now only to treat of the others Oates then not only repeats the beforementioned April Consult at the White-Horse-Tavern his comming over with Sir John Warner Sir Thomas Preston Fa. Williams Nevil Hildesley and others his lying close in the time of the said Consult at Groves's when as the Prisoners attest that he was then actually at Saint Omers but he further deposes that Mr. Ireland was caballing in Mr. Fenwicks Chamber about a Fortnight or ten Days in August and that the said Mr. Ireland gave him particularly on the first or second of September twenty Shillings Then He sayes that two Jesuits were sent into Scotland to stir up the Presbiterians there That at the aforesaid April meeting there was a formal Resolve drawn up by Mico their Secretary signed by at least Forty and entered into a Book or Register That Grove and Pickering should go on with their Attempt to Kill the King and that the first should have 1500 l. and the other 30000. Masses That it was to be done by long Pistols something shorter than Carbines and that the Bullets were Silver which Grove said he would champ that the wound might be uncureable That Pickering had mist an opportunity in the preceding March by reason his Flint was loose for which he underwent a Penance of twenty or thirty stroakes with a Discipline That the Duke was also to be deposed if he were not vigorous for the Cause That he saw in their Entry book that Sir George Wakeman had accepted of 15000. l. to poyson the King if the others fail'd That he perus'd the Entry-book of the Peter-pence which Grove and Smith had gathered That Grove told him that he fir'd Southwark and that his the said Oates's business of comming now over was to Kill Doctor Tongue for Translating the Jesuits Morals Bedlow being called acknowledges the Entry-book and adds that Mr. Langhorn was the Register That the Earl of Shaftsbury the Duke of Buckingham the Earl of Ossory and Duke of Ormond were to be kill'd That Mr. Ireland was at Mr. Hartcourts Chamber in the latter end of August where it was agreed the other Plot not succeeding Coniers should go with Pickering and Grove to New-Market to kill the King in his Morning-walk there That Pickering Grove were also present in the said Chamber that his Brother James Bedlow heard him often talking of the Prisoners and as one acquainted with Priests and that he brought him as the said James attested Fifty and Sixty pòunds at a time from the Jesuits The Charge was solemnly deny'd by them all and besides their own constant Loyalty they alledg'd that of their respective Relations who had been great Sufferers both in their Lives and Fortunes for the King and Pickering as to his particular protested he never Shot off a Pistol in his Life which by his very mine and looks seem'd not very improbable to the Spectators Then Mr. Ireland after Answers to the several other particulars affirm'd That he was constantly out of London from the third of August till above a week after the beginning of September which he prov'd by three Witnesses got together by chance by his Sister He also urg'd that he had Witnesses that there were more Witnesses but that he and the rest were kept so strict that they were not permitted to send for any body nay that he was

Nation that has so eminently as ours refused ever since the very Reformation the Preferments to which their great Birth and Quality gave them pretences or more Heroically underwent the Rage and Fury of all the other Lawes when one Halt or one false Step would have put them within the capacity of their Birth-right Have not all our Protestant Parliaments ownd this ●mplicity by the penal Acts which from time to time they have made for he that denies it makes them worse than Gotams since every body now knows that no Cuckow can be hedg'd in that has wings to fly over the Enclosure Nay did they not explicitly also confess it when in the next Session after the Act passed for putting Catholicks out of Offices they publicly congratulated the success of the Test and then went on to new Rigors Are not these then invincible Arguments that there can be jugling with us in Religion And do not they also amply prove that we are as I first hinted the persons that stand most on Principles seeing there was not one man of any one party here besides our selves that left the least Employment upon the score of the said Test though it commanded not only a Kneeling at the Communion and a Compliance with several other Popish Ceremonies as they are call'd but contained also some speculative Points which many of the Church of England themselves thought very new and thwarting Besides this I appeal to any man of Fashion or Credit that has bin of our Religion and you may assure your selves he will not be over partial whether he has heard that a Catholick without Mortal Sin and any ill man may do it at that rate can deny the least point of Faith or whether we do not look upon every Church Papist or any one else That for by-ends and other pretences defer's to reconcile himself to be in a far worse spiritual state and condition let him be never so kind and advantagious to us by underhand Favours than an open Protestant following the Dictates of his Conscience and Reason If then we are so se●●re in their life time with the Nicodemus's and Dissemblers in Religion notwithstanding all the Good they can do us what shall we be with those that sin at their Death even by calling God as Witness to a Ly We have therefore Reason certainly to complain of our late Usage when thirteen Christian men of great probity even among all their Protestant Friends should be decry'd as most infamous Lyars because with their last breath they solemnly asserted an Innocence which was never question'd or blasted but by the now Testimony of four Execrable Persons who did not urge the least circumstance matter or thing against them that depends not wholly on their bare Word and Credit Nay was there ever Imputation more weak and silly than this that the Expression in their last Speeches As Innocent as the Child Unborn was misterious and design'd and yet every body knows it to be the common Phrase of the Kingdom and that Eighteen out of twenty will certainly use it when they are to assert either their own or anothers Innocence Is it not also pleasant that there could be a Dispensation for Dissembling Lyes when these poor Men on the one side with their blood disown the Power both in the Pope and Church and we on the other deny it also with the loss of our Liberties and Estates seeing we could save both in any storm if Water-men like we could look one way and and row another In the name of Jesus let us not impose such Fanatical Nonsense on our Countrey for if you see that no person is at any time out of the reach of Law but some young or LooseMan that owns himself to the whole Nation a Convert and Desertor where is the benefit of these Dispensations if we had them But perchance his Holiness is never thus Indulgent you 'l say but when a Plot of State is to be concealed and if so I wonder first how he knows that no weak Brother in hopes of life will discover the Design and Stratagem For take but twelve Protestants casually and they perchance will hardly find many Sureties that all of them shall rather choose the Gallows than the Alcora● and yet Christianity is a far plainer Doctrine than the Pope's power of Dispensing even in the Opinion of any Jesuit No my Lords and Gentlemen there is nothing but Innocence can make us thus Resolute and Constant Nay Humane Nature it self is too impotent and feeble for such an Enterprise it being impossible that any number of Conspirators in the hands of Justice should all upon the strength of Fancy or their mutual Promises prefer Death to Confession especially when besides Self-preservation which their respective Tempers and Passions are still suggesting each of them may reasonably fear the weakness of his Companion and consequently deem it madness to be longer obstinate and behind hand In the next place May I not truly say of this pretended Fortitude of ours what Doctor Pierce once fondly said of our Religion Non fuit sic abinitio It was not formerly thus for does not Judge Cook the then Attorney in his famous Speech against Garnet acknowledg that all the Treasons against her Majesty viz. Squire 's William's York's c. were freely CONFES'T by the parties themselves under their own hands and that they remain'd yet extant to be seen How easily in the beginning of King James's Raign might the two Priests Watson and Clerke had the present Doctrin bin true have sav'd the danger or at least the Scandal which was to fall on their Party for being drawn you know into that Protestant Conspiracy by the Lord Grey Cobham Rawleigh c. the Queen 's old Favourites who dislikeing this new Prince fancy'd a couple of Priests sufficient to get them the Assistance of Spain and the other Catholick Princes it had then bin but swearing they were Innocent and taking it upon their Death that these their formerly known Enemies had thrown the Calumny on them to discredit their Friends and Religion with the King at his first Coming I say it had bin but doing thus at least I am sure if their Consciences could have dispens'd with so horrid a thing there was matter enough for Pretences but on the contrary how far were they from it when they both publickly and humbly confest their Crime against his Majesty and when Watson also acknowledged that infamous death to be a just Judgment for his former factious Writings and Designs as may be seen in Father Moors History Again who had seal'd up their Plot with deeper and solemner Oaths than the Gunpowder Traytors and if their Religion could permit them upon a sober consideration to be obstinat and to forswear themselves what needed Fawkes to have made so particular a Confession and Discovery as is printed in King James his Works for there was no necessity that his Imprisonment or the finding out