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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43957	The History of the whiggish-plot, or, A brief historical account of the charge and deefnce [sic] of [brace] William Lord Russel, Capt. Tho. Walcot, John Rouse, William Hone, Captain Blague, [brace] Algernoon Sidney, Esq., Sir Sam. Barnardiston, John Hambden, Esq., Lawrence Braddon, Hugh Speak, Esq. together with an account of the proceedings upon the outlawry against James Holloway, and Sir Thomas Armstrong : not omitting any one material passage in the whole proceeding : humbly dedicated to His Royal Highness.	Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50.	1684 (1684)	Wing H2190B; Wing T3309_CANCELLED; ESTC R41849	81,748	75

That he expected the noise would be such that he should not be heard and therefore he had set down in Writing what he thought fit to leave behind him protesting his Innocency of any Designs against the King's Person or of altering the Government He then told the Sheriff that he had been Informed That Captain Walcot had spoken some things concerning his Knowledge of the Plot and therefore desired to know whether the Report were true To which the Sheriff Answered That he did not hear him so much as Name his Lordship His Lo●●●hip reply'd He hop'd he did not for that to his Knowledge he had never seen or spoken with him in his Life and then in the words of a Dying Man he professed He knew nothing of a Plot either against the King's Life or Government But that he had done with the World as going to a better that he had forgave all the World heartily and thanked God he Dyed in Charity with all Men. He wi●hed all the Protestants might love one another and not make way for Popery by their Animosities Then kneeling his Lordship prayed to himself after which Dr. His behaviour before he lay down Tillotson kneeled down and prayed with him and then he prayed a second time by himself which being done after he had made himself ready and ordered the Executioner after he had layn down a small moment to do his Office without a Sign he layed himself down upon the Block And then it was that the Executioner missing his first stroke though with the first stroke he took away Life at two more he severed his Head from his Body which was ordered by the Sheriff to be delivered to his Lordships Friends and Servants as being given them by His Majesties favour and bounty The substance of the Paper Delivered to the Sheriff was this In the first place he bless'd God for the many Blessings which he had besto●ed upon him through the whole Course of his Life That he was Born of worthy good Parents and had had the advantage of a Religious Education which for many Years had so Influenced and poss●ssed him that he felt the effects of it in his present Extremity That as he had liv'd so he dy'd a true and sincere Protestant and He dyed a Protestant of the reformed Religion in the Communion of the Church of England though he could never yet comply with or rise up to all the heigths of some People That he had always lov'd his Country much more than his Life and never had any Design of changing the Government which he valu'd and look't upon as one of the best Governments in the World and would have suffered any Extremity rather then have consented to any Design to take away the Kings Life Neith●r had any Man the Impudence to propose a thing so base and barbarous to him And that he look'd upon it as a very unhappy and uneasie part of his present Condition that there should be so much as mention of so vile a Crime That for the King he wished him well and sincerely prayed for Him He prays for the King That the Protestant Religion the Peace and Safety of the Kingdom might flourish under his Government and that he in his Person might be happy both here and hereafter That as for th● share which he had in the prosecution of the Popish His Opinion of the Popish-Plot Plot he proceeded in it in the sincerity of his Heart as being fully convinced that there was a Conspiracy against the King the Nation and th● Protestant Religion That as for his present Condition he had no Repineing in his Heart at it That he freely forgave the World and those that were concern'd in taking away his Life conjuring his Friends never to think of Revenge He denyed himself privy to any Design to seize the Guards but confessed he had heard some general Discourse of that Nature at the Lord Shaftsburies but that he fl●w out into Exclamations against it But when he came to speak of the Sentence of Death that was pass'd upon him he reflected upon the Witnesses as if they had done him wrong and spoke more undecently of the Judges the Kings Council and the Jury then became a Person under his Circumstances which did not a little offend the Soveraign Authority and justly blemish his last Exit THE Charge and Defence OF Algernoon Sidney ESQVIRE UPON the 7th of November 1683. Algernoon Col. Sidney brought to the Bar. Sidney Esq was by Writ of Habeas Corpus brought up from the Tower to the Bar of the Kings-Bench Court where after he had held up his Hand he was Charged with an Indictment of High-Treason The general Heads of his Charge were For Contriving with others to disturb the Peace of the Kingdom Conspiring and Compassing the Deposing and Death of the King and the Subversion of his Conspiring the Death of the King Government For the fulfilling and perfecting which wicked Treasons he had met several of the Conspiraters at sundry Consultations for carrying on their Trayterous Designs That he had sent Aaron Smith into Scotland to invite divers of the King's Subjects in that Kingdom Sends Aaron Smith into Scotland into the Conspiracy and to come to London to Consult of aid and assistance to be given by them That he had compos'd and written or caus'd to be made and written a certain Trayterous and Seditious Libel wherein where these Words The Power Originally in the People of England is delegated to the Parliament He meaning his present Maj●sty is subject as a Man to the People that makes him King in as much as he is a King the Law sets a measure to that Subjection and the Parliament judges of the particular Cases thence arising He must b● content to submit his Interest to theirs sinc● he is no more then any one of them in any other respect than that he is by th● consent of All rais'd abov● any other If he does not like this Condition he may renou●ce his Crown but if he receive it upon that Condition as all Magistra●es do the Power th●y rec●ive and swear to perform it he must ●xpect that the performance will be exacted or revenge tak●n by those he has betrayed And in another place these words We may therefore change o● take away Kings without breaking any Yoke or that is made a Yoke which ought not to be one the Injury therefore is in ma●ing and imposing and can be none in breaking The Charge being read and Colonel Sidney urg'd to plead Guilty or Not Guilty he objected first against the Validity of the Indictment which he said was a heap of Crimes put together distinct in Nature one from another and distinguished by Law and therefore the Indictment being erroneous was not to be Answered to He added farther That there were in the Indictment some Treasons or reputed Treasons that might come within the Statute of the 13th of this King the

Shaftsbury went into H●ll●nd That about Christmas Colonel Rumsey told him There were some Lords and Gentlemen intended to make an Insurrection That the persons were the Duke of Monmouth the Lord of Essex the Lords Howard and Russel the Prisoner at the Bar and Mr. Hampden Junior That sometime after the said Colonel told him that the said persons had altered their measures and were resolved not to venture upon an Insurrection in England till they had a Concurrency in Scotland That Mr. Nelthorp told him That the Prisoner at the Bar had Aaron Smith s●nt into Scotland sent Aaron Smith into Scotland and had given him a sum of Money to bear his Charges and sent Letters to some Scotch Gentlemen to invite them to Town That the Letter bore a Cant of setling business in Ca●olina that really it was about coming up in order to the Insurrection That afterwards Mr. Smith returned and some Scotch Gentl●men And that Mr. Ferguson gave an Accompt of that Affair How that the Scots propos'd That if they might have 30000 l. in ready Money they would undertake to make an Insurrection in Scotland without the Concurrence of England which Proposal he said was agreed to that the Money would be soon ready and that Mr. Shepheard would return the Money That the Armes were ready bought and that the Earl of Argile would go into Scotland and head the Scots That The Earl of Argile to head the Scots when things were thus settled some difference arose about raising Money but that at last the Lord Grey offer'd to raise 10000 l. out of his own Estate if the rest would pay their proportion That then the Scots came down to less but were not comply'd with That the places for Rising were Bristol Taunton York Chester Exeter London That there had been some debates whether they should begin at London or other places and that at last it was resolv'd they should begin at London with the rest of the places That this was the Accompt of the Matter in Ge neral which he had from Mr. Ferguson who farther added That the Prisoner at the Bar and Major Wildman were very Instrumental in working of the agreement with the Scots because Mr. VVildman and the Prisoner at the Bar instrumental in working of the agreement with the Scots they could not agree upon the Declaration to be made upon the Insurrection For that the English were for a Common-wealth but that the Scotch Gentlem●n answered it might come fairly to it in time but that the Nobility there would not agree to it at present That as to the Prisoner himself he knew nothing of him in particular nor did ever speak with him till since the Discovery The next Witness was Colonel Rums●y who declared That Col. Rumsey gives his testimony about the latter end of October or beginning of November he was desired by the Earl of Shaftsbury to go to Mr. Shepheards to know of the Gentlemen that were met there what was done about the Rising intended at Taunton Who Answered That Mr. Trenchard had fail'd them and that it must cease for that time That after that he met several times in March April and May at Mr. Wests Chamber and other places with Captain Walcot Mr. West the two Goodenoughs Mr. Bourn and Mr. VVade where they had divided the City into twenty parts of seven parts of which Mr. Good●nough brought an Accompt but said nothing of the other thirteen because he had not spoken with those who were to tell him how many Men they would afford for the Insurrection Being ask'd who he met at Mr. Shepheards He Answered There was the Duke of Monmouth the Lords Grey and Russel Who were at Mr. Shepheards Sir Thomas Armstrong Mr. F●rguson and Mr. Shepheard Being ask'd who was to manage the Rising He Answered That Mr. VVest and Colonel Rumsey told him That there was Who were the Council of six a Council which where the Duke of Monmouth the Earl of Essex the Lord Howard Colonel Sidney Mr. Hambden and the Lord Russel Here Colonel Sidney press'd the Court to consider whether it were an usual thing to examin Men upon Indictments of Treason concerning him that he never saw or heard of in his Life To vvhich vvhen the Lord Chief Justice reply'd That all that Evidence did not effect him and that he likevvise told the Jury so the Prisoner Ansvver'd That hovvever it prepossessed the Jury Mr. Keeling being then call'd and Svvorn vvas demanded in Mr. Keeling Sworn gives a general testimony general vvhat he knevv of the Rising to have been last Spring vvho declared That some time the last Summer Mr. G●odenough came to him and brought him three Papers number'd on the back side Of vvhich vvhen the Witness ask'd the meaning the other told him that one vvas for himself and that he vvas to deliver t'other tvvo to vvhom he could trust in the tvvo Divisions That the VVitness ask'd Mr. Goodenough vvhat the Design vvas vvho said To raise Men. That thereupon the VVitness ask'd him vvhether he Design'd a General Insurrection To which the other reply'd That if he did not if the King was taken off this would do well for then the People would know how to have recourse to a formidable Body Lastly That he had heard the said Goodenough say That Colonel Sidney whom he knew Col. Sidney had a considerable part in the Plot. not had a considerable part in the management of that Affair The Lord Howard being next Sworn and desired to acquaint the Judge and Jury what transactions there had been with the Prisoner about the Affair of a general Rising declar'd That about the middle of January last it was considered by some of those that met together That it was very necessary to an Enterprize that had then been long in hand and at that time fallen A Cabal to be set up by the Conspirators flat that it should be reviv'd by some select Cabal that should be set up to give it Life and govern its motions That the first movers of this for ought he knew were the Duke of Monmouth Colonel Sidney and himself Where it was farther agreed That they should think of some few not to exceed five or at the most seven Which agreement being at first between them three the Duke of Monmouth undertook to engage the Lord Russel and the Earl of Salisbury and the Prisoner at the The Prisoner undertakes to engage the Earl of Essex and Mr. Hambdon Bar undertook to engage the Earl of Essex and Mr. Hambden who being presently put together constituted a little Cabal of as many as were intended That between the middle and latter end of January as he the Witness was told the said Persons agreed to enter into a Conjunction of Counsels and met accordingly The first meeting of the Cabal at Mr. Hambden's House at Mr. Hambden's House whither he was also invited That when he came to Mr. Hambdens

House which ranges in the same Row with Southampton House he found there the Duke of Monmouth the Earl of Essex the Lord Russel Colonel Sidney and Mr. Hambden That Mr. Hambden took upon him to open the Mr. Hambden opens the Sessions Sessions and in his Discourse recapitulated some Design that had been chiefly carryed on before by the E. of Shaftsbury before that time Dead He also took notice of the ready disposition of the minds of Men to go on with it and gave one instance of his Judgment of it That being a Design Communicated to so many there had not so much as a whisper gone about it From whence he took an Occasion to tell the rest That it was absolutely necessary that there should be some Council which should be as a Spring a little to govern the motions of the rest there being divers things which if not taken care of by particular persons the whole would miscarry That from thence the said Mr. Hambden made a Transition to some particular things which were principally to be taken care of The time when the places where and the persons by whom these things were to be carryed on which lead into a particular consideration of some of those Heads For the time that it should be shortly least the minds of Men should chil and then as to the place where whether in the City or Country or both joyntly In which some Opinions were given but not settled to any Resolution being committed to all their thoughts to Consult of afterwards They were also to consider what Magazines were to be got and with what they should be gotten and that was Money Upon which there was a considerable sum propounded to be rais'd to which purpose the Duke of Monmouth to the best of the Witnesses remembrance propounded the raising of twenty five or thirty thousand Pounds after which it was considered how this Money should be rais'd without drawing Observation and Jealousie That these were the heads then agreed upon to be afterwards considered But the Resolutions taken at present were How to make A Coalition with Scotland debated a Coalition of Counsels with Scotland for which purpose some fit Persons was to made choice of to be sent thither That these were the debates of the first Meeting That about a fortnight or three weeks after all the same Persons met again at Southampton-House at the Lord Russels where it was warmly urg'd by Mr. Hambden though at that time thought unseasonably That since they were now united into such an undertaking it could not be expected but that it would be a Question put to many of Some things unseasonably urged by Mr. Hambden them To what end all this was where they intended to terminate and into what they intended to resolve That they were Questions which he meaning Mr. Hambden met with and every one would meet with from those Persons whose asistance was to be expected and that if there were any thing of personal interest design'd there were but very few of those whose Hearts were with them but would fall off and that therefore they were to resolve themselves into such Principles as should put the Liberties and Properties of the People into such hands as should not be easily invaded by such as were intrusted with the Supream Authority of the Land and that at length it was mentioned to resolve all into the power of a Parliament That this being propounded All to be resolved into the Power of the Parliament which sounded harsh to some of the rest by Mr. Hambden sounded a little harshly to some of the rest However it was consented to that it was nothing but a publick Good which all intended That after this the Council debated about sending into Scotland and settling a Correspondency with the Earl of Argile That other Gentlemen were nam'd as the Lord Melvin Sir John Cockram and the Cambells Which Col. Sidney undertakes to send into Scotland being propounded it was offer'd by Colonel Sidney that he would take care of the Person and that he had one in his thughts whom he thought to be a fit Person Being ask'd by the Attorny General what Aaron Smith was to The Duke of Monmouth undertakes to bring up the Lord Melvin do the Witness made Answer That there was no particular deed for him more then to carry a Letter That the Duke of Monmouth undertook to bring the Lord Melvin hither because he had a particular dependency upon him but that to Sir John Cockram a Letter was to be sent under the Disguise of carrying on some business of Carolina which Letter as he thought was wrote by the Lord Russel as being personally known to him an● none of the rest of the Cabal Being ask'd to what purpose those Gentlemen were to come up he Answered To acquaint them how they found Scotland tempered and what Opportunities there were of putting them into a Commotion how Men might be rais'd how they would fall under Argile and also to keep time and place with England That after this he was with Colonel Sidney when he was going Col. Sidney puts a parcel of Guineys in his pocket for Aaron Smith into London at what time he took out about sixty Guineys as he thought and put them in his Pocket which he said were to give Aaron Smith but whether he gave them or not he could not tell However after that he was sent in pursuance of their debate as Colonel Sidney told him upon Inquiry and withal that he had not heard of him but once in three Weeks vvhen he Aaron Smith sent in purs●ance of the ●ebates vvas at New-Castle That after this his Occasions call'd him into the Country and aftervvards he vvent to the Bath The Lord Howard having thus concluded the Court demanded of Colonel Sidney vvhether he had any Questions to ask the Witness vvho reply'd that he had no Questions to ask him Upon vvhich the Attorney General reply'd Silence You knovv the Proverb After vvhich Sir Andrew Foster and Mr. Atterbury vvere called The Scotch Gentlemen prov'd to be in London to prove that the Scotch Gentlemen came up presently after Aaron Smith vvas sent and first Sir Andrew declared That about the end of the Spring or beginning of Summer Sir John Cockram Commissionary Monro and the tvvo Cambells Father and Son came up hither That he did not see the Senior Cambell but the Younger he saw upon the Day of the Lord Russels Tryal but that he saw the other two as he thought a little before the Discovery Being ask'd what they pretended to come about He made The pretence of their coming Answer That Sir John Cockram and Manro pretended they came about making a purchase in Carolina and shew'd him a Commission to that purpose from the Persons said to be concerned in the Design Being ask'd what became of those Gentlemen upon the rumour of the Plot He Answer'd That Sir John Cockram absconded