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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63832	Memoires of the life and death of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey, late justice of the peace for Middlesex, who was barbarously murthered by the papists, upon the first discovery of the horrid plot together with a full account of the strange discovery of the murther, the tryal of the murtherers, and the sham-plot of the papists to charge the murther of Sir Edm. Godfrey upon himself, detected.	Tuke, Richard, fl. 1672.	1682 (1682)	Wing T3227; ESTC R40676	44,126	162

And in pursuance of such his Devilish resolves being one time late at night unhappily befriended with an occasion of meeting Sir Edmond-Bury Godfrey in the Street going homewards towards his own House the Barbarous Villain in an inhumane manner assaults him with a Cudgel that he carryed about him perhaps for that purpose and had certainly brained him if Sir Edmond-Bury perceiving his design had not prevented it by a timely defence which he did by drawing out his Sword and therewith Warding the blows that were aimed at him yet without any offensive violence or hurt to his Adversary but only to defend himself which he did till such time as Company coming by and taking notice of the Out-rage Rescued him from the Assault and seized upon the Ruffian who was thereupon Committed to Newgate where he continued till the next Sessions of the Peace holden for London and Middlesex at the Old-Bayly and there besides for this several other Indictments comming in against him for Felony he was Convicted and received Sentence to dye but by the mercy of the Court he was only Transported into some Foraign Plantation where persisting still in his wicked Courses not withstanding these seasonable warnings being Convicted of some Criminal Fact that by the Laws of the Country deserved death he had Judgement of death accordingly passed upon him and was Hanged During all the time of this great and dreadful Sickness Sir Edmond-Bury Godfrey as we have said continued his Station and did worthily that while supply the defect of those that out of a Pusillanimous Phil-auty had deserted their Charges to secure themselves such selfish Principles as theirs were abhorrent from his Generous and Publick Spirit who durst attend his Duty in the Face of the greatest difficulties and dangers And it pleased God as an incouragement to others in the like discharge of their Duties to reward his faithfulness with a singular Protection preserving him from those imminent Perils that he was by his forwardness to be useful continually exposed to that he might continue to be farther serviceable to his King and Country in better times And many years after this it pleased God to continue him to us for a Publick Blessing in which time though we cannot note any great remarkables of him to supply a History yet remarkable it is and worthy note that he was still the same the same Good Useful man that he always was none of the Fleeting Mobile that aspire at Names and to be made the Discourse of the World by their fluctuating and giddy Changes he kept his Station and contented himself with a private and retired acting in that Sphere wherein he had opportunity enough of doing Good and being Useful to the World the greatest thing that he ever aspired to About the Year 1678. Having been by the constant Fatigues and Labours of his Business reduced to a sickliness of Body and Distempers growing upon him he was advised by the Phisicians to go to Montpellier in France the Air of that Country being accounted very Restorative to wasting and decaying Constitutions according to whose advice having setled his Affairs in England for the short time of his intended stay he went over thither and took together with the benefit of that Salutiferous Air a Prospect of several remarkable Places in that Kingdom especially of a Great Work that the French King was then undertaking in making a Navigable River through those Countries into the Levant He continued for some months in that Country in which time it having pleased God to restore him to a good measure of Health the end he went for he returned again to bless his own Country and Relations with his much long'd-for presence And not long after his return it was that the late I fear we have too much reason to say the present Hellish and Damnable Plot of the Papists against the King and Government broke out in England An unhappy Juncture in which his last actings that concluded the Catastrophe of his worthy Life exposed him to an untimely and cruel Death by the hands of those bloudy-minded Papists the Proto-Martyr of those Innocents that were designed by them to a merciless destruction but blessed be God his Death however maliciously designed by them occasioned a prevention of the ill effects of their Malice against others by awakning the Magistrates and generally the whole Kingdom by this early instance of their Treachery to a more narrow watchfulness of them and their proceedings The History of the first beginning and Discovery of this Plot is so generally known and mentioned in so many Narratives and Informations Published of it that it were needless for us to say much of it or more than is necessary to let you know how far Sir Edmond-Bury was concerned about it Dr. Oates Reputed the first Discoverer of this Plot having been beyond the Seas and here in England a long time Conversant with the Managers of it as being Listed one of their Party and privy thereby to all their Designs and Managements Was resolved to make his Discovery of this Mystery of Iniquity and the Intrigues of it upon the first fair opportunity that offered it self to him And having got into some acquaintance with Dr. Tongue a Worthy and Learned Person who had lately before Translated a Book Intituled the Jesuits Morals into English the said Book reflecting so severely upon that Brood of Vipers exasperated them to that height that nothing would satisfie them but his blood the usual Alloy of their merciless Revenges and Dr. Oates then a great Confident of that Party must be the man injoyned thereto by their Provincial Whitebread that should dispatch him Dr. Oates could do no less than accept the service but as it never was in his purpose was so sar from Executing what he had promised that after a little time of acquaintance with the Doctor he Discovers to him not only what they had designed against his own life but the Plot in General with their designs against the King and Government and Protestant Religion Established in these Kingdoms and looking upon the Doctor as he was as a person of approved Trust and Integrity did at the same time Communicate to him the General Heads of this multi-form Treason with the names of the Actors concerned it it But the business being of so Extraordinary Consequence and Mighty Opposition and Difficulty supposed to be met with upon the Discovery of it it was consulted between them what fit Person they should pitch upon to acquaint his Majesty with it And accordingly they agreed upon Collonel Kirby a Person of known Fidelity to the King and Zeal to the Protestant Interest the Collonel chearfully undertakes the Service and taking a convenient opportunity of meeting the King walking in St. James's Park begs his Attention and informs him some heads of the Treason and particularly of the Designs of the Papists to take away His Sacred Life and that Pickering and Grove besides others were Ingaged to Attempt it