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A61168 A relation of the late wicked contrivance of Stephen Blackhead, and Robert Young, against the lives of several persons by forging an association under their hands written by the Bishop of Rochester. Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713. 1692 (1692) Wing S5046; ESTC R24611 25,909 80

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since I found he had but too much Reason so to do When they had done searching in all those Rooms and in the Hall as they were going out and had taken with them what Papers they thought fit they carryed Me away in the Coach that brought them By the Way we met my Servant Mr. Moor coming from London I call'd out to him Have you any Letters for Me He gave me three or four which I deliver'd to Mr. Dyve to open Who found nothing in them but Matters of private Concernment or ordinary News And so between Ten and Eleven at Night we arrived at Whitehal and I was brought to my Lord Nottingham whom I found alone in his Office My Lord said I I am come upon your Warrant but certainly there must be some great Mistake or black Villany in this Business For I declare as in the Presence of God I am absolutely free from any just Accusation relating to the Government His Lordship told me He himself was much surprized when he heard my Name mentioned I intreated him I might be Examined that Night if any Witnesses could be produced against me He said That could not possibly be because the Lords who had the Management of such Affairs were separated and gone Home But that I was to appear before them the next Day and in the mean time all the Civility should be shewn me that could be expected by a Man in my Condition My Lord said I I hope it being so very late you will suffer me to lie at my own House at Westminster He reply'd You shall do so But you must have a Guard of Soldiers and a Messenger with you A Guard of Soldiers said I My Lord methinks is not so necessary to secure one of my Profession I should rather offer that I may have two or more Messengers to keep me tho' that may put me to greater Charges My Lord said he I for my own part would be glad if I might take your Parole But I must do what I may answer to others and therefore I pray be Content At this I acquiesced only adding My Lord here are divers Papers brought up with me which upon my Credit are but of common Importance yet because they are most of them private Talk among Friends there may be some Expressions which no Man if it were his own Case would be willing to have divulg'd and therefore I desire your Lordship will take Care they may not be shewn to the Prejudice of any He answer'd You have to do with Men of Honour And you shall have no Occasion to complain upon that Account And so I was convey'd Home to Westminster by Mr. Dyve and Mr. Knight the Messenger in the Coach with Me and a Guard attending on each side After we came to the Deanery Mr. Dyve having diligently surveyed my Lodgings and the Avenues to them left Me about Midnight with a strict Charge to the Messenger and Soldiers not to give me any unnecessary Disturbance but to watch carefully at my Bed-Chamber-Door till further Orders which they did The next Day being Sunday May the 8th Mr. Dyve came again to me about Noon to acquaint me That I was to attend the Committee of the Council that Evening by Six o' the Clock And says he My Lord I suppose you have here also at Westminster a Room where you keep the rest of your Books and Papers I told him I had Then said he I have Commission to search there likewise particularly in your Cabinet I shewed him my Library and gave him the Keys He opened all the Presses of Books and viewed particulary every Shelf and examined every Drawer in the Cabinet But finding nothing there of a late date or that might afford any the least shadow of a Trayterous Correspondence he went away without removing any one Paper thence At the time appointed I was brought by the Messenger and Guard to Whitehal where a select Number of the Lords of the Council were assembled at my Lord Nottingham's Lodgings There were present as I remember the Earl of Devonshire Lord Steward the Earl of Dorset Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Nottingham Secretary of State the Earl of Rochester the Earl of Portland the Lord Sydney Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Sir Edward Seymo● When I was enter'd the Room and come to the end of the Table my Lord Nottingham began But now for the greater perspicuity of the whole Proceedings and to avoid the too frequent repetition of said I or said such an one or said they I will henceforth give all the Questions and Answers and the rest of the Discourses in the Name of every Person as they spoke and by way of Dialogue Earl of Nottingham My Lord You cannot but think it must be some extraordinary Occasion which has forc'd us to send for you hither in this manner Bishop of Rochester My Lord I submit to the Necessities of State in such a Time of Jealousie and Danger as this is Earl of N. My Lord I am to ask you some Questions to which we desire your plain and true Answers Bishop of R. My Lords I assure you mine shall be such as I hope I have been always taken for a Man of Simplicity and Sincerity Earl of N. Have you Composed a Declaration for the present intended Descent of the late King James into England Bishop of R. I call GOD to Witness I have not Earl of N. Did you ever draw up any Heads or Materials for such a Declaration Bishop of R. Upon the same Solemn Asseveration I never did Earl of N. Were you ever solicited or apply'd to by any Person for the Undertaking such a Work Bishop of R. I never was Earl of N. Do you hold any Correspondencies abroad in France Bishop of R. I do not hold any Earl of N. Have you ever sign'd any Association for Restoring the late King James Bishop of R. I never sign'd any Earl of N. Do you know of any such Association Or any Persons that have subscribed one Bishop of R. Upon the Word of a Christian and a Bishop I know of no such thing nor of any Person who has subscribed any Paper of that Nature Sir Edward Seymour My Lord Bishop of Rochester We have examined the Papers that were seized in your Closet at Bromley We find nothing in them but Matters of ordinary and innocent Conversation among Friends only we have one Scruple That there are few or no Letters among them witten since Lady-day last Bishop of R. Sir I suppose there may be some of a Date since that Time in the Bundles If I had preserv'd more they would have been of the same Nature with the rest that you have that is concerning common Intelligence and the Talk of the Town not any Secrets of State or against the Government My Lords I hold no Correspondencies of that kind When I am in the Country I desire some Friend or other here to let me know how the World goes that I may