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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46701	A letter from an ignoramus to his correspondent, December 6th, 1682	W. J.	1682 (1682)	Wing J51; ESTC R1517	4,907	4

A LETTER FROM AN IGNORAMUS TO HIS CORRESPONDENT December 6th 1682. Honoured Sir I Make no doubt but you have the News of the Commitment of Mr. John Wilmer Citizen and Common-Council-man of London to the Tower among others and no less Crime laid to his charge than High Treason for conspiring the Death of the King and to deprive him of his Imperial Crown and Dignity which are the Words specified in the Warrant directed to the Lieutenant of the Tower where he was confined close for near six weeks and suffered not to see or speak to any Friend or Relation other than his Wife who with great Labour and Trouble obtained the favour to be confined with him After the time abovesaid by Friends Liberty was obtain'd for him to walk in the Tower for his Healths sake and in that state he was farther a Prisoner nine weeks odd days which makes in all fifteen weeks during which time he was not permitted the use of Pen Ink or Paper at the end of which he with others was by Habeas Corpus carried up to the Kings Bench and there was admitted to Bail to appear the next Term his Bail and himself entering into a Recognizance of 9000 l. In all this time there hath not been the least Prosecution neither saw he or knows any person that hath sworn against him The day he was taken up he had a violent Ague and Fever upon him which seized him near a week before but on the day of his caption a vehement vomiting and loosness also seized him to such a degree that his Apothecary and Friends about him did dispond of his Life In this Condition he had notice near an hour before the Messengers came to his house that they were waiting for him so that with help of Friends he got on his Cloaths and his Vomiting and Loosness left him yet so weak that his Friends concluded him in great Danger of his Life as he was but if the Messengers removed him they concluded it would certainly destroy him And notwithstanding his Apothecary would have made Qath of this before a Magistrate yet nothing would avail but away they hurried him into a Coach near Charing-Cross to the Messengers house one Mr. Atterbury's where he was kept from that afternoon which was Saturday until Monday morning and then was hurried to Hampton-Court where the Council sate and without seeing the face of any Accuser was by Warrant from the Council committed to the Tower where he lay as abovesaid and notwithstanding his ilness could not be admitted in fourteen days time after in the Tower to have either Doctor or Apothecary to come to him but God who is always good was very Gracious to him and was better than all Means and Helps for he healed him and helped him up even to a Miracle Thus have I given you in brief the state of his Case hitherto now it 's possible being at this distance you may be desirous to know the Reason of this Imprisonment for the old Proverb is There is no smoke but there is some fire but I may truly say this Proverb doth not always hold true I am sure it doth not in his Case as I have often heard him say and will be proved as far as Negatives can prove it if ever it comes to that I shall as briefly as I can give you the Conjectures of the Town both as to his Confinement and the rest of the Protestants A more certain account you may expect when we have a Parliament and not until then and when that will be God and the King only knoweth The Common Enemy to all Protestants the Papists you know are always at work to bring about our Ruine and Confusion and they have ever since the Reformation been contriving of it but God hath hitherto disappointed them and I trust he will still But since the plain Discovery of their General Plot in 1678. which hath been owned by the King and four successive Parliaments and so many of the Party taken into Custody and some executed and most of the rest being by the Parliament looked upon as Confederates with them They looked upon themselves as quite lost and the most favour they could expect was to have Liberty to stay here with the loss of their Estates and some of the chief Heads of them to suffer as Traytors and so be utterly incapacitated to disturb the Government any more But the Jesuits their chief Councellors and Polititians were loth to give up so fair a Game therefore presently they set their Wits to work to prevent the further Discovery of this their Real Plot by forging Sham-Plots of which by their means and the Devils helping of them we have had of one kind or another I think no less than a dozen and I think this their last was more dangerous to us of this Nation than all the rest and I take this last to be thus That their Design was laid two ways that either might serve their turn The Plot by them laid was to be a Protestant Plot and the persons to carry it on and be engaged in it was this City and the last House of Commons at Oxford The matter to be sworn what these were engaged to do was That if the King would not pass such Acts as they would have him then that they should seize upon his Person and keep him in Custody until such time as he should do it The Witnesses to prove this plot are some of the same both English and Irish that proved the Popish Plot which by their great poverty with frowns here and not seeing any likelihood of a Parliament have by the working of the Jesuits and their Friends been suborned to retract their Evidence of the Popish Plot and to swear this Protestant Plot which if it took effect they doubted not but at least to gain an Act of Oblivion if it did not gain their first purpose even to do all their Work Now they bring their Plot on the Stage and first swear against my Lord Howard of Escrieck and he is committed to the Tower the next against my Lord Shaftsbury as the head of the Party then against one Stephen Colledge after him John Rowse and Edward Whitaker all these were committed to the Tower It was now time to begin Prosecution of some of these to see what Execution that would do before any further Attempt should be made in taking up more The first they begun with was my Lord Howard of Escrick and preferred an Indictment against him before a Grand Jury of Middlesex the Jury consisting of nineteen the Witnesses to swear against him were Mrs. Fitzharris the Wife of Edward Fitzharris a grand Irish Papist and then under Condemnation for High Treason and Mrs. Fitzharris her Maid or Strumpet going by the name of Terresia Peacock These swore as I am informed much to the heads as above There were brought in to glose the business two persons more but they swore nothing of significancy