disposing of a Person whom the Deponent supposes to be himself Their Words were these This Man hath Betrayed us and therefore we will give a Coach-man Twenty Pound to take him up and Carry him directly to Rochester to Esquire Lees House who lives near the Town and from thence to Dover by some By-way because he is acquainted at Sittingburn and said that if they could but get him on the other Side of the Water they would torment him till he had confessed to them who it was that had been with the KING and Informed Him of the business When the Deponent heard these Words he went down the Stairs with all the speed he could make and durst not return to his lodgings that night but lay in another place LXXX Item That the Deponent on the Seventh of September at night returned to his lodging where he intended not to lye but only to take some Necessaries for his use the next day but meeting with one Grigson a Papist at whose house he had formerly lodged near the Red-Lyon in Drury-Lane who told him the Jesuits were displeased with him because he had not answered their Expectations in being true to them and that the Jesuits were dangerous persons and would ruin him the Deponent if they could And the said Grigson said further That he had known their Roguery these Twelve or Fourteen Years And the Deponent being through Discourse detained by the said Grigson was forced to lye in his lodging in Drury-Lane and when he was lain down in his bed one Stratford a Person utterly unknown to the Deponent and whom he never discoursed or any way provoked endeavoured to break open the house where the Deponent lay and did break down a door to get into his lodging but was forced to Retreat because he law himself observed by some of the servants of the house And when he saw he could not come to Assassinate him as the Deponent verily believes he Reviled him and broke several Quarries of Glass in a Window under the lodgings of the Deponent And therefore being verily perswaded that the said Stratford was Imployed by the said Jesuits to do him a mischief made his escape thence early on Sunday Morning and did not return thither again because the said Stratford threatned to Kill him Now the house in which the Deponent lay Was a School where the within-mentioned Blundel used to Catechize every Sunday in the Afternoon LXXXI Item The Eighth day being Sunday whilst that the Deponent was going to attend the publique Worship of God in the City a Papist who goes by the Name of Nevil as the Deponent remembers met him in the Strand and told him That there was a very great Murmuring amongst the Jesuits against him because of a Complaint that was made against them by some Persons of whom they suspected him to be one And said further That the Deponent must either destroy the Jesuits or the Jesuits destroy the Deponent And told him Moreover That the Bishop of Rochester was made acquainted with the Complaint and would lead them such a dance as they never followed since the Fool their Founder appeared in the World To which the Deponent made no Reply suspecting this Person to be a Trappan and when at parting he asked the Deponent Where he Lodged the Deponent gave him not that account as he desired A List of such Noble-men and Gentry as are in this Conspiracy whose Names occur at present LOrd Arundel of Wardour Lord Chancellor Lord Powis Lord high Treasurer of England Sr. William Godolphin Lord privy Seal Coleman Secretary of State Stafford The Sea-Officers were named to the Deponent but their Names being most French and some Irish occur not Militia Lord Bellasis Lord General Lord Peters Lieutenant General Sr. Francis Radcliff Major General John Lambert Adjutant General Langhorn Advocate General Mr. Arundel of Wardour Commissary General All these had their Commissions or Patents stamped by the General of the Jesuits Johannes Paulus d' Oliva and sent from Rome to Langhorn and were delivered to them with pleniary Indulgences sent also from Rome and additional Patents stamped by the Provincials Strange or VVhite VVhite and his Seal are taken Collonels Who have their Commissions from the Provincial Lord Baltimore Collonel of Horse at whose Lodgings Five Hundred Case of Pistols c. were found as is reported Collonel Thomas Howard deceased confessed he had received and accepted his Commission Lassels Roper VVinter or VVitter received their Commissions from the Deponent and accepted them Captains Roper Son to the Collonel afore-named Radciff Esq Medburn the Player Penny Caryl Junior Townly did also receive their Commissions from the Informant and accepted them Sir George VVakeman Physitian to the Army Irish Officers Lord Legate Bishop of Cassal in Italy Peter Talbot Lord Chancellor Richard Talbot Esq Lord General Viscount Mountgarret Lieutenant-General His Office to be Executed by Mr. Butler his Son John Pipard Esq Collonel Note That the Major Part of the Collonels appointed for the English-Army are also Irish Note also That Mr. Pierson Secretary to the Lord Powis did in the Informant's Presence promise on the Behalf of his Lord that he should raise and furnish Three Hundred Horse and had Three Hundred Armed Men ready to rise in less than Twenty Four Hours These Words were spoken a little aster the Consult to White the Provincial at Wild-House The said Lord Powis hath also Contributed Three Hundred Pound towards the Jesuits Design Note That Lord Stafford is a principal Officer of State and a chief Conspirator having Contributed several Sums of Money not remembred by the Deponent The Names of the Conspirators Benedictines Mr. Howard at Doway Mr. Hitchcock at Doway Mr Reaves at Doway Mr. Anderton in England Mr. Conyers in England Mr. Rumly in England Mr. Corker in England Mr. Skinner in England Mr. Crosby in England Carmelites Dr. Handson in England Mr. Trevers in England Mr. Kimball in England Franciscans Dr. Armstrong Mr. Napper Dominicans David Joseph Keimash in England Mr. Dominick in England Mr. Collins in England Mr. Vincent in England Mr. Fidding in England Mr. Mansell in England Mr. Lumsdale in England Mr. Bingly in England Mr. Cooper at Rome Mr. Munson in England Jesuits England Tho. White Provincial England Rich. Strange late Provincial England Rich. Ashby alias Thimbleby England Mr. Harcourt England Mr. Jennison England Mr. Keines England Mr. Wright England Mr. Blundel Mr. Pennington in England Mr. Gray Mr. Pool in England Mr. Mico in England Mr. Bennyfield in England Mr. Simmons in England Mr. Langworth in England Mr. Morgan in England Mr. Rich. Peters in England Mr. Dorrington in England Mr. Lacy in England Mr. Vanghan in England Mr. Ewry in England Mr. Conyers in England Jo. Peters in England Mr. Wilkinson in England Mr. VVolf in England Sir Tho Preston at Leige Mr. Saunders at Leige Sir Jo. Warner at Watton Mr. Williams at Watton Mr. Eggleston at Watton Mr. Janion at Watton Mr. Crane at Watton Sir
Pob Bret at St. Omers Tho. Stapleton at St. Omers Tho. Fermour at St. Omers Tho. Ditchling at St. Omers Edw. Hall at St. Omers Mr. Cannel at St. Omers Charles Peters at St. Omers Mr. Nevile at St. Omers Mr. Constable at St. Omers Mr. Sabrand at St. Omers Mr. Walter at St. Omers Mr. Roper at St. Omers JESUITS Mr Marsh at Ghent Mr Blake alias Gross in Spain Mr Mundford Vore in Spain Armstrong Mr Cary at Rome English JESUITS in SCOTLAND Mr Lovel Mr Saunders Mr Moore Twelve Scotch JESUITS lately gone into Scotland whose names I know not but I know their persons Secular Persons Dr Fogarthy Sir George Wakeman Mr Coleman John Groves Four Irish Ruffians Lay-Brothers Pickering Smith These Fourteen Secular Priests I have only by Information from Thomas Whitebread Mr Perrot In England Mr Morgan In England Mr Wilmot In England Dr Godden In England Mr Jones Senior In England Mr Jones Junior In England Mr Gerard In England Mr Henrique In England Mr Fisher In England Mr Jackson In England Mr Pinchard In England Mr Sharp In England Dr Bettam In England Mr Wolf in France at the Sorbon Other Persons Archbishop Talbot Archbishop Lynce Hierom Swiman Sir William Godosphin Lord Ambassador in Spain Titus Oates Clerk maketh Oath That the Information set down in these Papers containing Eighty One Articles all Written and subscribed by his own Hand are true in the whole and every particular thereof that is to say that such Particulars as he hath set down to be seen heard done or known by him he knows to be true and what he hath set down only to be heard by him and related to him were so heard and related as he hath set them down and he believes to be true Witness his hand the 27th day of Sept. 1678. TITUS OATES SEPTEMBER 27. 1678. Sworn before me Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey one of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex Edm. B. Godfrey Witnessed Ez. Tonge Chr. Kirby The General Design of the POPE Society of JESVS and their Confederates in this PLOT is the REFORMATION that is in their sense the Reduction of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND and all His Majesties Dominions by the Sword all other wayes and means being judged by them ineffectual to the Romish Religion and Obedience To effect this Design 1. THe Pope hath Entitled himself to the Kingdomes of England and Ireland 2. Sent his Legate the Bishop of Cassal in Italy into Ireland to declare his Title and take possession of that Kingdom 3. He hath appointed Cardinal Howard his Legat for England to the same purpose 4. He hath given Commission to the General of the Jesuites and by him to White their Provincial in England to issue and they have issued out and given Commissions to Captain Generals Lieutenant Generals c. namely the General of the Jesuites hath sent Commissions from Rome to Langhorn their Advocate-General for the Superiour Officers And White hath given Commissions here in England to Colonels and inferiout Officers 5. He hath by a Consult of the Jesuits of this Province Assembled at London condemned His Majesty and ordered Him to be assassinated c. 6. He hath Ordered That in case the Duke of York will not accept these Crowns as forfeited by his Brother unto the Pope as of his Gift and settle such Prelates and Dignitaries in the Church and such Officers in Commands and places Civil Naval and Military as he hath Commissioned as above extirpate the Protestant Religion and in order thereunto ex post facto consent to the assassination of the KING his Brother Massacre of His Protestant Subjects firing of his Towns c. by pardoning the Assassins Murderers and Incendiaries that then he be also poysoned or destroyed after they have for some time abused His Name and Title to strengthen their Plot weakned and divided the Kingdoms of ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND thereby in Civil Wars and Rebellions as in His Fathers Time to make way for the French to seize these Kingdoms and totally ruine their Infantry and Naval Force Besides this Papal there appears also another French Plot or Correspondence carried on by Sir Ellis Layâ—â—on Mr Coleman and others More particularly 1. The Royal Family of the STUARTS are condemned to be Cut off Root and Branch and namely the KING Duke of YORK and Prince of Orange because that Family hath not answered their expectations nor have they any hopes that any of them will comply fully with this their bloody design when fully discovered to them 1. The King person which stands in their way they more especially and in the first place design to remove with all possible speed by Dagger Pistol or Poyson To Stabb Him Conyers and Anderton Benedictine Monks and Four Irish Ruffians are employed To Shoot Him Groves and Pickering are furnished with joynted Carabines To Poyson him Five Thousand pound hath been told out entred in their Books and affirmed to be paid to Sir George Wakeman in part of Fifteen Thousand pound upon a Contract made with him in presence of Doctor Fogarthy and Mr. Coleman 2. The Duke of York notwithstanding they acknowledge his sincerity and affection to their Religion and the Society and his demonstration thereof by his taking Bedingfield a Jesuit for his Confessor they design to dispose of him as is abovesaid 3. The Prince of Orange is also condemned and designed against by Name and Twelve Missioners sent into Holland have in charge to put that People in Mutiny against his Person and Government 4. The Conquest and subduing of his Majesties Dominions is designed and contrived in this manner I. The Conquest of Ireland and subduing it to the Tyranny of the Pope and French 1. By a general Rebellion and Massacre of the Protestants as formerly which they term another Demonstration of Zeal for the Catholick Faith This to be done immediately upon the Assassination of the Duke of Ormond as the Watch-word for which four Jesuits are employed 2. By the Popes Nuntio sent thither and Commissions there given out by the Provincial of the Irish Jesuits c. to a General Lieutenant-General c. 3. By Arms and Money already sent whereof Eight hundred Thousand Crowns by the Pope 4. By Traiterous Officers who are dispensed with by the Archbishop of Dublin and the Clergy there to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy upon promise to betray their Garrisons and other Trusts 5. By the Assistance of the French Forces to be landed there and received by Twenty five thousand Irish ready to joyn with them II. England and Scotland are to be divided weakned wasted and exhausted of their Infantry Naval Force and Wealth by Civil War Rebellion c. and finally exposed to forreign Force of French c. To attain to this Design they apply themselves and Agents 1. By impudently Questioning and Denying the Kings Legitimation and consequently his present Right and Title to his Crown and so exposing him as a Tyrant without Title 2. By Confuting and Weakening as much as possibly they can the Obligation of the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy causing them to be Renounced rendring them very Odious as Blasphemous and Heretical and terrifying all of their Communion from Writing for them offering Money to have Berry the Priest murdered for writing in favour of them III. By Disaffecting the Kings best Friends at home and abroad and Subjects against his Person and Government 1. Charging him with Tyranny and Designs of Oppressing Governing by the Sword and without Parliaments and exposing his mod faithful and valiant Subjects to be wasted and slain in foreign service 2. By aspersing deriding exposing and declaiming against his Person Counsels and Actions in Parliament and elsewhere and particularly scoffing at his Security and Confidence in them and by this means animating and encouraging their Party and Assassins especially to attempt upon his Life and to hasten his Ruine 3. By disclosing the Kings Counsels to France by Coleman Smith and others 4. By mis-reporting and raising false Newes of his Affairs c. 5. By disaffecting his Majesties Allies Holland Spain the German Emperour and Princes by false Intelligence c. 6. By disturbing Trade 7. By seditious Preachers and Catechists set up sent out maintained and directed what to Preach in their own or other private or publick Conventicles and Field-meetings 8. By setting up pretended false Titles to the Succession of the Crown and animating different Parties one against another on this or such like false pretences to Arm and put the People in Blood upon the Kings Death 9. By Firing and Plundering our best Cities and Towns by Irish French Lay-Brethren and others disguised in Frocks and otherwise directed by Order under the Provincials hand how to carry on these Designs 10. By Poysoning and Assassinating by pickt Quarrels or otherwise those whom they suppose to be ready or able to detect or otherwise obstruct their Designs of whom they keep Catalogues in their Books 11. By horrid worse than Jewish Interest Transportation of Trading People Stock and Money adulterating Money and Plate To which ends they have Bankers Brokers Merchants Goldsmiths and other Traders whom they stock and set up with Money of their Society of which they boast to have a Hundred thousand pound Cash c. 12. By suborning Felons condemned by Blundell their Newgate Ordinary through hopes of Pardon or Transportation to turn Papists and then putting such as they find fit and desperate on Firing Houses Plundering and other wicked and mischievous Designs FINIS
ubique never long in one place LXIII Item That on Wednesday twenty first of August a Consult was held by the Jesuits then in London with certain Benedictine Monkes about three of the Clock in the afternoon concerning a Pacquet that came from Talbot Archbishop of Dublin to the fathers of the Society In which they were given to understand that Four Irish Jesuits had undertaken the death of the Duke of Ormond and that upon his death the Irish were ready to rise In this Letter he told them that a Legate was arrived in Ireland and had asserted the Popes right in that Kingdom and that the Kings of England being no longer Catholiques they did cease from being concerned there it being given to them during the good pleasure of his Holiness and therefore did incourage the said Arch-Bishop to contrive and use all means for the recovery of the said Kingdom out of the hands of the English And in the said Letter it was mentioned That if opportunity did not permit the said Jesuits to do their business that then they should send one Doctor Fogarthy now lodging at Mrs. Simmonds the Widow of one Simmonds an Apothecary in Drury-Lane and that he and the Fathers in Ireland together with the said Fogarthy would find out an expedient way for the death of the said Duke And furthermore he did specify that they had procured several Irish to be made Commission-Officers in the Garrisons in Ireland and that he and the rest had dispenced with them to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy And that the Irish who had gotten Commissions by means of the Arch-Bishop had promised to betray their interest into their hands when the business should be ripe and desired the Fathers to be as diligent in England as he and the rest of the Clergy were in Ireland which Letter John Keines did shew the Deponent and was read by the Deponent And Kenies and Blundel gave him an account of the Consult and the said Fogarthy did himself tell the Deponent the same and on the said Twenty first of August did say That he had a great interest in the Court of Ireland LXIV Item That the said Fogarthy is a main Agent in this Hellish-Plot and hath promised That if this Bishop Talbot will make use of him he will do all the service he can which the Deponent is ready to justify to the face of the said Fogarthy who did tell the Deponent that he and Coleman were in the Consult when Wakeman was contracted withal in order to Poyson the KING and said That if he had the interest in the KING as Wakeman had he would have undertaken it himself And all this was told the Deponent on the Twenty first of August in die Chamber of the said Fogarthy And furthermore the said Fogarthy then and there did tell the Deponent That he had hired Four Irish Russians whose Names he did neither tell the Consulters that met on the Twenty first of August nor the Deponent and these Irish Russians were to mind the KING's Postures at Windsor But the Deponent telling the said Fogarthy that he heard the KING was going to Portsmouth he was wonderfully troubled at it and said It did very much impede their Design and nothing would be Attempted so long as he was absent from Windsor LXV Item That the Lord Embassador Sr. William Godolphin at the Court of Spain holdeth great Correspondence with Hierom Swiman the Irish-Jesuit who as beforementioned was Procurator for the Jesuits of the Kingdom of England and Ireland and with the Irish Arch-Bishop of Tuam now at Madrid and is a friend in this business as the said Swiman did inform the Society in one of July the thirtyeth New-style and likewise in one to the Deponent wherein he did specify that Sir William was as industrious as any Man could be to answer the expectation of the Society and that he had but one Protestant-servant then in his House viz. the Cook and the Parson when there made up a goodly Couple And the Deponent knows that Godolphin is a Papist and hath perverted a Kinsman of his own and the Deponent knoweth that the said Embassador is very familier to the said persons the Irish Jesuit at Madrid and the Irish-Arch-Bishop of Tuam And the Deponent doth verily believe that Mr. Hodges sometimes Chaplain to the said Lord Embassador can if required Testify as much and the Deponent doth furthey say That when he was at Madrid the said Chaplain of the Embassador left the employ because of the Embassador's being a Papist and the Deponent hath seen the said Embassador at Mass and he hath a Jesuit that comes to his House who hath Read both Philosophy and Divinity to the said Embassador of which the Deponent was personally informed by the said Hierome Swiman an Irish Jesuit and by the said Irish Arch-Bishop when at Madrid but the Letters of which the Deponent speaks he saw and Read them at Mrs. Saunders House in Wild street the Twenty second of August LXVI Item That on the 22th of August Money was sent from the Society by a Servant of theirs to supply the Expences of the four Irish Russians above-mentioned who were gotten to Windsor on the 21th at night and the sum so sent was Eighty pound which the Deponent saw told And they were written to and informed that if more were wanting they should have it And they were bidden not to be frequent in one anothers Company and always to profess but small Acquaintance one with another Which Order and Money was dispatcht away by Harcourt Rector of London in the name of the Provincial and whole Society LXVII Item That the Deponent went to the Chamber of the said John Fenwick who told him that he was to go to St. Omers with some Students thither about ten or eleven as near as the Deponent can remember and the said Fenwick was to attend the Provincial and was to return as he said within tenor twelve days together with Mico and the rest And whilst the Deponent was with the said Fenwick a Messenger came in viz. John Grove with order from Harcourt Rector of London John Keines Richard Blundell Mr. Jennison Mr. Wright Basill Langworth and four other Jesuits that lay at Somerset house to pray the Provincial that he would write to Leshee the French King 's Confessarius and give him to understand how well the business in Ireland stood and that in his Letters to Leshee he should pray him to certifie the French King thereof The Deponent asked Grove where those Fathers were met Who said they met again at Mrs. Sanders house And the Deponent after he had read the Order or Memorial as indeed the Title was and saw their Names about two in the Afternoon went to the house of Mrs. Sanders where the Deponent saw those Fathers who told him of the said Order and after a short stay took his leave of them and by them was ordered to meet them at four