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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

of the Mine had the promise of Secrecy bin valid must have discover'd his Complices nay we find in the said Treatise that he hufft in the beginning like a Scaevola and declar'd he would confess nothing laying all the blame upon himself which the wise Lords of the Counsel laught at knowing that the Gentleman being in Hold they would for all his Bravadoes find presently and so it happen'd the depth of the whole Intrigue 'T was the knowledg of this I mean that in a discover'd Treason there is no Reliance on Oaths that made Winter with both t●e Wrights upon Fawkes his Apprehension post out of town as he confess●s they did for had they not bin desperate and without further hopes of secrecy and faith they would never have run to seven or eight Gentlemen suppos'd then in Armes who had now up against them both King and Kingdom to their own particular knowledg Nor coul'd Tresham himself escape you see though he still continued as How tells us about the Court that he might thereby seem wholy free and innocent In fine their own Declarations were such that the Publisher of the Proceedings against them in the very Epistle say's That Justice pass'd on the several CONFESIONS of all the Capital Offenders which they openly CONFES'D and confirm'd at their Arraignments in the hearing of multitudes of People And by the way be pleased to remember that no Catholick ever denied this Treason only some question whether Protestant History it self dos not shew us that Cecil to ruin the Party drew those fiery men into it by his subtil Tricks and Artifices This one would think were more than enough to show you how you are by ill men deceiv'd and we abus'd but because no present Pretence shall be left untoucht I will speak a word of the two Examples which our weak Enemies deem so strong and pertinent to prove this Calumny The first is of one Curphy an Irish Papist who being condemn'd they say in his Countrey for Burglary deny'd it with great Asseverations at his Execution but the Rope by chance breaking before he was quite dead he thankt God confessing the Fact and then in spight of the Sheriffs great Intercession was again hanged by the Judge's special Order and Command The next is of the before mention'd Tresham who protested as they will have it in writing upon his Salvation and this just before his death That he had not seen Garnet in 16 years whereas Garnet and Mrs Vaux did both confess that they had been often since that time together As to Curphy then though truly I know not why any Christian or Pagan should be responsible for every Atheist or Libertine of his Pro●ession give me leave to ask first how our Adversaries can think this so Nicking a Blow for since they themselves must acknowledge him already to have been an impudent Lyar and an ill man why may it not be as possible nay as probable also and then how is the Argument convincing that seeing he could not save his Life by asserting a TRVTH he now hop'd to work on the Judge by attacking him with a LYE on the other hand for the denying of a Fact to death never pleases him that gave sentence especially if the Evidence be in the least questionable nor was the said Curphy's Expectations it seems wholy frustrated since the Sheriff and others did as you see earnestly intercede for him Now for Tresham the Case is plain and at most but a poor simple womans Project and Mr. Att. Cook cannot but confess it in the aforesaid Speech for there he tell 's us That Tresham's wife understanding with great Concer●ment that he had confest all against Garnet got him a little before his death even when he could not WRITE himself to dictate the PROTESTATION to her servant so that 't is no wonder since the meer changing of a Word nay a Figure might do it if there were an Error as to the number of years in question But my Lords and Gent if both the Examples were as our Adversaries would have them what Resemblance or Analogy has the Action I beseech you of a single man once in a Century to Twelve that dyed together who were not only free from the least matter or Circumstance that could make them suspected besides the Testimony of most nefarious Persons but had also LIFE add PREFERMENT offer'd them upon their bare CONFESSION Besides do they that thus charge us think their Religion so harmless or us so ignorant that we can show no Precedents against them of this nature Certainly we can and as I suppose much more to the purpose Nay witnest also by Protestants themselves For does not first that most learned New-Gate-Divine declare in the before mention'd Treatise That in his late Experience as Ordinary there he knew some Malefactors condemn'd for Murther and Burglary to have gone out of the World with a Notorious asserting their Integrity although they had twice or thrice confest to him with some seeming remorse that theywere justly condemn'd for the said Crimes so that here Reader we have not only Protestant Penitents denying the truth at their death but a Protestant Confessarius revealing secrets and such another or one at least very like him Hind the famous Robber met with at Worcester being there convicted and hang'd by the evidence of his spiritual Guide But what do you think of a far more eminent Example to wit that of my Lord Castle haven who as all the Writers of King Charles's Reign will tell you was after a Netorious ill life Charg'd and condemn'd at last for prostituting his Daughter in Law for holding his own Wife whilst his servant forc'd her and lastly for Sodomy it self and yet though these Crimes were proved by several plain Circumstances by his wife and daughters Testimony and lastly by Brodway and Patrick his abus'd Patizans who were both hang'd for the facts and own'd the Committing of them to the last he at his Execution most solemnly deny'd all dying as Sanderson affirms not only a true Protestant but assisted also by his Chaplain's to wit the Dean of St Paul's and Doctor Wickham Thus then you see besides the former evident and unanswerable Reasons that we are not only free from this Imputation our selves but that the Protestant Doctrine is guilty of it if the Actions of some few men are sufficient to determine and adjudge the Point In fine then was it not very pertinently askt by the Author of the New Plot That seeing the Councel of Trent has positively declar'd No Absolution available which is not preceded by Detestation of the sin committed and seeing it is impossible freely to do a thing and at the same time to detest it how could it be imagin'd that the late executed Catholicks should hope for any benefit by such an Absolution as is pretended or be thought with the least appearance of Reason to make use of so wretched

the express Oath of one Witness should go Scot-free for want of a Second Now the Consequence of Mr. Fenwick's Argument tended to this that if the Law were so a Man thus accus'd might possibly never be freed though Innocent seeing he might be remanded from one Trial to another and so in infinitum on pre●ence of more Witnesses a power which many Lawyers think the freedom of England can by no means allow The Dispute thus ended and the Prisoners having all pleaded Not Guilty Oates began the Charge the main of which was to this effect That Mr. White having order'd preaching at St. Omers against the Oaths and given them an account how ready the Irish were to rise He summon'd a Consult which began April Twenty Four 78. at the White-Horse Tavern in the Strand where they pitcht upon Cary to go to Rome and resolv'd the Paper being afterward signed by some at Mr. White 's Chamber others at Mr. Harcourt's others at Mr. Ireland's and others at Mr. Fenwick's that the King should be Kill'd as aforesaid Moreover he affirmed That Mr. White did about the beginning or middle of July send from St. Omers Instructions by Mr. Ashby concerning Ten T●onsand Pounds for Sir George Wakeman to Poyson the King and a Commission for Sir John Gage c. That in July or August but he thinks 't was at the latter end of July he saw Mr. Gaven in Mr. Irelands Chamber and though he had seen Letters from the said Gaven in June about the affairs of Stafford-shire and Shrop shire yet he never saw him Write till then for he there drew a Bill of Exchange upon Sir William Andrews and that between the Eighth and Twelfth of August Mr. Ireland took leave of them as if he were to go to St. Omers As for Harcourt and Fenwick he affirm'd they were with Blundel and others on the Twenty First of the said Month at Wild-house where lay before them the Eighty Pounds for the Windsor● Russians and that Coleman coming in gave the Messenger a Guinny That a day after as he thinks there was held a Consult at the Benedictines where Hartcourt and Fenwick were present and there they understood of the Conspiracy against Ormond by Bishop Tal●ot's Letters who also desir'd Commissions and Money That on the Fourth of September White being return'd Oates went to him but was beaton and reviled by him for the Jesuits suspected he had hetray'd them they having understood that one in such cloathes as Oates's had been with the King yet the said White told him he would be friends with him if he gave an account of the Party and Minister that went to his Majesty Then declaring he had no more to say against the Prisoners at the Bar except it were concerning the additional 5000. l. which by Letter from Flanders Mr. White offer'd Sir George Wakeman and rejoyet at the acceptance of it heends with this That he remembred not perfectly that Gaven was at the Consult of April though he remembers he saw then his subscription but as for Turner he could positively say he was there at the lesser Clubs or Colloquies to wit in Fenwicks Chamber Dugdale follow'd Oates and said he had very liitle acquaintance with Mr. White but had seen him at my Lord Astons about two or three Years ago That White did send a Letter enclos'd in Groves's to Ewers That he should Choose trusty stout and desperate Men to Kill the King no matter whether Gentlemen or no That Mr. Whites name was to it That he knew it was his hand because he had seen him once write a Letter when he was at my Lords as aforesaid That Mr. Ewers Letters were all directed to Dugdale That he intercepted this Letter and read it the words Killing the King being in it and that the said Letter was sent by the ordinary Post which seeming strange and wonderful to the Chief Justice and all the Court He salv'd it by a far madder Answer viz That the Letters being directed to him if they were intercepted he should be hang'd and they sav'd He further said That he had bin at several Consults in his own and in Ewer's Chamber about this matter That Gaven was the Orator to perswade people That my Lord Stafford was at one about the Twenty second of September That he the said Dugdale himself was then Chosen out for the Assassination That he heard of the Kings Death two years before Gaven often encouraging him to it and upon his giving them 400 l. to pray for his Soul and promising them 100 more to go on with the Work the said Gaven assur'd him he should be canoniz'd for a Saint That an Army was to come from beyond Seas That the Massacre was to be put upon on the Presbyterians That the Killing of Kings was a thing which Gaven endeavor'd to prove out of Scripture but that he could not call now the Text to mind That he saw a Letter from Harcourt to Ewers on Monday the 14. of October and in it were these words This very Saturday night Sir Edm. Godfrey is dispatch'd whereupon he the said Dugdale told Ewers that he would be hang'd if that Action did not overthrow their Design That the next day he went to an Alehouse and askt there if they had heard of a Knights being kill'd at London now that this demand of his was true he could prove by Mr. Chetwin who being called in attested that one Sandbidge told him on that very Tuesday that being at the said Alehouse in the morning a Girle told him that Dugdale had reported there the Killing a Justice of Westmi●ster besides the said Chetwin attested that he discoursed with Dugdale about this Letter c. when he came to London to be examin'd by the Council That going out of Town he understood at his return that the said Dugdale was no witness though his Evidence had been very material at the Trials of Hill Green and Berry Dugdale having ended with this Account against White Hartcourt Gaven and Turner for he said Turner did in Mr. Ewer's Chamber about two Years ago assent to the former Treason and was to carry on the design in Worcestershire Prance stood up next and said That having made an Image for Mr. Harcourt which was sent to Mary-Land in the Portugal's Countrey the said Mr. Hartcourt as he paid him for it about a Year ago told him There was a Design of Killing the King But when afterwards Mr. Hartcourt askt him earnestly thus Can you say that I ever spoke to you about such a Business Yes answer'd he with an Asserveration and one Tompson came with you when you paid me for Four Candlesticks which either Contradicts his former Evidence or the Image must be turned into Candlesticks Then he proceeded and said That Mr. Fenwick in Mr. Ireland's Chamber talk't of Fifty Thousand Men which should be raised