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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63140	The tryal and condemnation of Dr. Oliver Plunket, titular primate of Ireland, for high-treason at the barr of the Court of King's Bench at Westminster, in Trinity term, 1681.	Plunket, Oliver, Saint, 1629-1681.; England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.	1681 (1681)	Wing T2139; ESTC R25660	48,436	62

would see they must come between the narrow Seas all along to Vlster and the Rocks and such places would make it very dangerous and by their own confession it was a poor Town and of no strength a very small Garrison which had not been so if it had been a place of any consideration And whereas I had Influence only upon one Province as is well known though I had the Title of Primate of all Ireland as the Archbishop of Canterbury hath of all England yet the Arch Bishop of York will not permit him to meddle with his Province and 't is well known by the Gentry there and those that are accustomed to the place That in all the Province of Vlster take Men Women and Children of the Roman Catholicks they could not make up seventy Thousand This a Jury there my Lord had known very well and therefore the Laws of England which are very favourable to the Prisoner have provided that there should be a Jury of the place where the Fact was committed as Sir Thomas Gascoine as I have heard had a Yorkshire Jury though he was tryed at London And then after my coming here I was kept close Prisoner for six Months not any Christian was permitted to come at me nor did I know any thing how things stood in the World I was brought here the third of May to be arraigned and I did petition your Lordship to have some time for my Tryal and I would have had it put off till Michaelmass but your Lordships did not think sit to grant so long but only till the eighth of this month when my Witnesses who were ready at the Sea side would not come over without Passes and I could not get over the Records without an Order from hence which Records would have shewn that some of the Witnesses were indicted and found guilty of high Crimes some were imprisoned for Robberies and some of the Witnesses were infamous people so I petitioned the eighth of this month that I might have time but for twelve days more but your Lordship thought when the motion was made that it was only to put off the Trial and now my Witnesses are come to Coventry yesterday morning and they will be here in a few days and so for want of time to defend my self in I was exposed to my Adversaries who were some of my own Clergy whom for their debauched Lives I have corrected as it is well known there I will not deny my self but that as long as there was any Toleration and Connivance I did execute the Function of a Bishop and that by the second of Elizabeth is only a Premunire and no Treason So that my Lord I was exposed defenceless to my Enemies whereas now my Witnesses are come that could make all appear I did beg for twelve days time whereby you might have seen as plain as the Sun what those Witnesses are that began the Story and say these things against me And my Lord for those Depositions of the seventy thousand Men and the Monies that are collected of the Clergy in Ireland they cannot be true for they are a poor Clergy that have no Revenue nor Land they live as the Presbyterians do here there is not a Priest in all Ireland that hath certainly or uncertainly above threescore pounds a year and that I should collect of them forty shillings a piece for the raising of an Army or for the Landing of the French at Carlingford if it had been brought before a Jury in Ireland it would have been thought a meer Romance If they had accused me of a Proemunire for the exercise of my Episcopal Function perhaps they had said something that might have been believed but my Lord as I am a dying man and hope for Salvation by my Lord and Saviour I am not guilty of one point of Treason they have swore against me no more than the Child that was born but yesterday I have an Attestation under my Lord of Essex's hand concerning my good Behaviour in Ireland and not only from him but from my Lord Berkley who was also Governour there which the Kings Attorney saw But here I was brought here I was tried and having not time to bring my Witnesses I could not prove my Innocency as otherwise I might So that if there be any Case in the World that deserves Compassion surely my Case does and 't is such a rare Case as I believe you will not find two of them in print that one arraigned in Ireland should be tried here afterwards for the same Fact My Lord if there be any thing in the World that deserves pity this does for I can say as I hope for mercy I was never guilty of any one point they have swore against me and if my Petition for time had been granted I could have shewn how all was prepense Malice against me and have produced all Circumstances that could make out the Innocency of a person But not having had time and being tried I am at your mercy L. C. J. Well you have nothing further to say in Bar of Judgment you have said all you can Plunk I have nothing further to say but what I have said Then Proclamation was made for silence while Judgement was passing upon the Prisoner L. C. J. Look you Mr. Plunket You have been here indicted of a very great and hainous Crime the greatest and most hainous of all Crimes and that is High Treason and truly yours is a Treason of the highest nature 't is a Treason in truth against God an your King and the Country where you lived You have done as much as you could to dishonour God in this case for the bottom of your Treason was the seting up your false Religion than which there is not any thing more displeasing to God or more pernicious to mankind in the World a Religion that is ten times worse than all the Heathenish Superstitions the most dishonourable and derogatory to God and his Glory of all Religions or pretended Religions whatsoever for it undertakes to dispense with Gods Laws and to pardon the breach of them So that certainly a greater Crime there cannot be committed against God than for a man to endeavour the Propagation of that Religion but you to effect this have designed the Death of your lawful Prince and King And then your design of Blood in the Kingdom where you lived to set all together by the ears to destroy poor innocent people to prostitute their Lives and Liberties and all that is dear to them to the Tyranny of Rome and France and that by introducing a French Army What greater evil can be designed by any man I mention these things because they have all been fully proved against your and that you may take notice and repent of them and make your peace with God by a particular Application for Mercy for all these Faults For it seems to me that against God your Prince and fellow Subjects you have behaved