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A38819	The depositions and examinations of Mr. Edmund Everard (who was four years close prisoner in the Tower of London) concerning the horrid popish plot against the life of His Sacred Majesty, the government, and the Protestant religion with the names of several persons in England, Ireland, France, and elsewhere concerned in the conspiracy.	Everard, Edmund.	1679 (1679)	Wing E3527; ESTC R4864	11,665	20

I Appoint Dorman Newman Citizen and Stationer of London to Print my Depositions concerning the Plot and none else April 30. 1679. Edmund Everard THE DEPOSITIONS AND EXAMINATIONS OF Mr. Edmund Everard Who was Four years close Prisoner in the TOWER of LONDON Concerning the Horrid Popish Plot AGAINST The LIFE of His SACRED MAJESTY the GOVERNMENT and the Protestant Religion With the Names of several persons in England Ireland France and elsewhere concerned in the Conspiracy Part whereof was five years since made known to persons herein specified and again tendered to the Honourable Committee of Lords sitting in Parliament at Westminster upon Oath and now tendered to the Honourable House of Commons LONDON Printed for Dorman Newman at the Kings Arms in the Poultrey M DC LXXIX This Information of the Plot was five years since given by me to persons herein specified but was suppressed and was again now of late tendered a-new to the Committee of the Lords sitting in Parliament at Westminster upon Oath the 21st of December 1678. And is now tender'd by me to the Commons WHILE I was employed as Agent at the French Court for the English Militia's Concerns one of the Officers brought me at Paris to the acquaintance of my Lady Anne Gourdon Sister to the now Marquess of Huntley in Scotland She after about a years frequentation communicated unto me certain important secrets concerning a Popish Plot against England She 's a Lady of vast correspondence with the Popish Clergy and Nobility almost through all Europe living ordinarily as a free person in Nunneries and was then in a Convent at Paris At a time I surprized her with two of the chief Scotch Seminarists of Paris in a deep and dark discourse of the English Affairs and as soon as my Lady made them understand that I was one of her privatest Friends and Catholickly affected it being fit she should imagine this they begun to speak plain enough to let me perceive that their discourse tended to some sudden design for the subversion of the English Government and Governour and the setting up of Popery here in England But on some day of the Month of November 1673 I enquired of my Lady what those mysterious discourses meaned she had with the Scotch Priest She after long importunities and protestations revealed unto me that which follows I. That there was now a grand Design on foot in England for the setling of the Catholick Faith there publickly II. That there was also a project against the Parliament that made such a stir as she spoke and was their obstacle either totally to dissolve it or to sow some divisions betwixt the King and It where his Majesty also should find potent Adversaries of the Romish Nobility who would cut out work for him III. That there was a very considerable party in England who laboured to make the Duke of York King but that the Scots indeed were more for the Duke of Monmouths being such if means could be made to bring him over to it wherein she conceived I might be an useful Instrument having been employed under him But said I What do they mean to do with the King himself She answered I. That the now King of England would be made away and dispatcht after his Father so that he would not be shortly in a case to annoy any body Then I askt her by what means they thought to bring such matters about and who were the leading-men in the contrivance and who the Under-agents to carry it on She said That all that was too much for me to know at the first time besides that it was then too late at night but that at my return within three days for avoiding of suspition I should be fully satisfied But I insisted That these were grand affairs whereof she spoke for which consequently she needed to have more than common grounds She replied that I ought not to doubt but that she had the best correspondency in England Scotland and France as having on the one part Madam de Gourdon her Aunt one of the chief Ladies with the Dutchess of Orleance which was taken to be of the fittest for Intelligence and Intrigues at the French Court and on the other side that she received Letters almost every week from the eminentest Church-men on this and that side of the sea as also from some of the greatest Nobility of England and Scotland namely from her Brother the Marquess of Huntley my Lord Oxenford of Scotland Mr. Maitland somewhat concerned as she said in the Secretaryship of Ministry of State of Scotland and from the Earl of Roches Chancellor there but she afterwards run out into some of his Love commerce with her so that I leave to others to infer from the premises to which either to Love or the Plot-part or all of this his Letter-Correspondency must be referred And to confirm further the credit I must yeild to her words she drew forth a Bag full of Letters a matter of a Bushel full and shewed some more in a Cabinet saying Are these all about trifles think you She further produced a picture in mignature of the said Chancellor and went about to read one of his Letters of a large and ill-shaped Character methought but withheld referring me till the fore-mentioned three days term I in fine asked how she could avoid suspition if so many Letters were directed to her in her own name She told me she had taken a good care for that because her Correspondents writ to her under several names by which they called her and part of her Letters were directed to Mr. Conne a Scotch-man living at Paris as Agent for the Pope others were addressed to Mr. Dallison her Scotch Physician there some to Father Joseph Prior of the English Benedictines at Paris who was her Confessor II. Now in the interval having before been recommended by Dr. Brien Dr. Molony Priests and others to Colonel Richard Talbot and to his Brother Peter the pretended Archbishop of Dublin for a person that carried on business after the formalities of the Court of France and the Colonel himself having made some tryal of me he on a time desired me to be assistant to his Brother the Bishop not long since come out of England The Bishop desired I should go and complement on his behalf the Marshal Bellefond Grand Steward to the King of France and know when he might be introduced by him to the Kings Audience about the business whereof he treated with the Marshal himself while he was in England as Ambassador in or about the year 1670. The Marshal being then at Court kept at Versaile the Bishop would have one Mr. Moore a Priest and Philosophy-Professor at Paris to accompany us thither on the next day having lain that night at Versaile and the Bishop striving to make us all merry on the good Catholick Causes success I took that opportunity to enquire whether he thought it not fit to communicate unto me the Heads and Grounds of

this affair wherein he was pleased to make me his Speaker and Introducer at Court lest said I any occasion might happen for me to second it The business that I am to represent to the King of France is this I. It is a business said he which mightily concerns the welfare of the Catholicks in England and of those in Ireland especially II. That he was to propose ways to the King of France whereby to relieve them in their present extremities and persecutions and for to undertake their protection and some of his ways was to Arm some Irish and to secure some Sea-Port Town in Ireland for the French III. He said that he had a special good Warrant and Commission for this his Negotiation from some of the greatest persons in England IV. That he was to solicit his Christian Majesty for a Pension or the Arrears payable to himself The next morning I went to the Kings Rising to acquaint the Marshal Bellefond that the Archbishop Talbot was in Town to wait on His Majesty and Him he wish't me to introduce him The Marshal knew him at first sight and imbraced him and acquainted the King with his coming His Majesty receiving him with great civility led him into a private Room where Mr. Moore and I following them he beck'ned to Mr. Moore that had the paper to advance But I from the doorward saw the Bishop present a Letter to the King and other papers which I think were sealed I over-heard he spoke in Italian at first entrance their Conference lasted about half an hour and though that King is somewhat of a Grave and somewhat Morose temper yet he often smiled as at Propositions that pleased him But at our coming out from Court I enquired of the Bishop of the good success of his Negotiation which I told him seemed to be of other or more matters then he acquainted me with No said he 't is but of the same matter I spoke to you of last night whereof he said I should know more seeing he must come to Court again and again about it though the King continued he promised all possible satisfaction and hopes of a good issue So not to increase suspicion by further inquiries I urged him no more but departed from him for that time to Paris Yet note that Mr. Moore did also generally touch unto me the Matters of the aforesaid Articles and Plot having heard it from the said Bishop Peter Talbot and his papers And further observe That one Mr. Conne a Scotch-man who was formerly the Popes Nuncio and then his Agent at Paris had almost every day private Conferences with both the Talbots and went betwixt them their Nuncio then being at Paris and that the Talbots and this Conne came often to my Lady Anne Huntleys though my Lady had also another pretext to see Conne The very same night I did communicate all that past in this Peter Talbot's Negotiation to Sir Robert Welsh as I had done before that other Plot of Lady Huntleys both fearing lest this grand secret might dye with me I having many Enemies daily threatning me then at Paris and for that this Sir Robert was a man that still made much profession of his Actings Sufferings and Loyalty for the King of England in such former discoveries but Sir Roberts truer Character I found out too late However Sir Robert most unfaithfully forthwith discovered all to Colonel Talbot both that of my Lady Huntleys and the Talbots business and that I intended speedily to go for England to accuse both him and his brother Peter the Colonel feigning to keep his bed desires to speak with me at his own Lodging The Circumstances of the message with the Premisses weighed I took one or two along with me to his very Chamber door on another pretext he presently desired to know when I intended for England and when I had seen Sir Robert Welsh But by this much forthwith perceiving I was betrayed I pretended another occasion of that voyage for which besides I seemed not to be very earnest if either in Paris or with the now Dutchess of York then at Paris he would procure me some fit employment of Secretary or Usher And at first he went about to perswade me from coming over into England at all Then began to threaten me manfully and if he heard I did otherwise than I said in stealing away for England on such occasions against them and the Catholicks they would infallibly procure I should be forthwith committed to the Tower of London or the Gate-house at my arrival which accordingly happened according to his spightful prophesie about seven days after I arrived at London That seeing the effect of his threatnings fall out so punctually and not doubting thereupon but that he with Sir Robert Welsh and Correspondents here were the secret Contrivers of my four years close imprisonment in the Tower though a very remote surprise was put in by them for pretext therefore I said I was afraid to charge them much and but warily whilst I was in the Tower fearing to fare the worse by the means of any secret friend of theirs EVIDENCES THE aforesaid Sir Robert Welsh his Evidence now in London may first confirm the truth of this my Information for he being now in London can witness that I disclosed to him all the said Treasons about five years since in or about the Month of November 1673 so that it cannot be imagined that this my Information is some new matter fitted for the times against Papists nor that it is some odious new-coined slander according to the humour and device of some dissenting parties as Papists cavil seeing that by four or five witnesses hereafter mentioned who are none of my Friends it undeniably appears that I discovered this said Plot many years before these times were thought of nay and in such a time when I never had seen England or knew any person there either by Letters or otherwise except such Officers of the Army that were then in France I. I did not know but that Sir Robert Welsh or some other had hinted these matters to some Minister of State II. I began to discover some of these matters to Sir John Robinson at the beginning of my imprisonment but whether it was through any defect of my delivery or that he took such Relations for a devised starting from the only point he would have me confess against the Duke of Monmouth against whom I never conceived the least harm but whatever it was for Sir John made light of my Narration concerning the Lady Huntley and the said Talbots business which I am sure I began to relate to him at the least in substance but how far he suffered me to proceed I cannot now well remember both for that there 's above four years since and for the hard usages wherewith he still troubled my mind whereof neither His Majesty nor the Duke of Monmouth knew their continuance so long as my Lord of