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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70691	The narrative of Col. Tho. Blood concerning the design reported to be lately laid against the life and honour of His Grace George, Duke of Buckingham wherein Colonel Blood is charged to have conspired with Maurice Hickey, Philip le Mar, and several others, to suborn the testimony of Samuel Ryther and Philemon Coddan to swear buggery against the said duke : together with a copy of the information exhibited in the Crown-office against the said Colonel Blood, Hickey, Le Mar, and the rest.	Blood, Thomas, 1618?-1680.	1680 (1680)	Wing N171; ESTC R23268	30,087	35

further say upon Oath that the aforesaid Maurice Hickey otherwise called Maurice Higgins Robert Smith otherwise called Robert Jones John Haley Thomas Curtis Thomas Blood Edward Christian Arthur Obryan Philip le Marr and Jane Bradley Afterwards to wit within the time aforesaid to wit within the seventeenth day of March in the thirtieth year of the King aforesaid and the day of taking this Inquisition at the Parish of St. Martins in the Fields aforesaid in the County of Middlesex aforesaid Falsly unlawfully unjustly wickedly corruptly devillishly and in prosecution of the Conspiracy aforesaid and in Order to fix and secure them the aforesaid Philemon Coddan and Samuel Ryther to perform and execute their malicious devices practices and conspiracies aforesaid have made composed and writ and caused to be drawn and writ a certain false and scandalous writing in Paper The Tenor of which Writing follows in these English Words and Figure following Whereas Samuel Ryther and Philemon Coddan Gentlemen in St. Martins Parish in the Fields do hereby confess and declare That Sarah Harwood of the City of London Gentlewoman did confess before us That the Lord Duke of Buckingham was with his Privy Members as far in both her Privy Parts as he could go with forcible entrance stopping her Breath and that the said Lord Duke of Buckingham hath since conveyed the said Sarah Harwood out of the way by which means the King lost his Evidence And do further declare That since that time the said Duke did order the said Sarah to be murdered and since the time is murdered or sold beyond Sea And do further declare That the said Duke hath committed the said Sin of Sodomy with several more which we are ready to prove when we are required as the Kings Evidence Witness our Hands this 12 day of Jan. 1679. And notwithstanding all and singular the Matters in the said Writings contained were and still are altogether false and scandalous and untrue yet Maurice Hickey otherwise called Maurice Higgins Robert Smith otherwise Robert Jones John Haley Thomas Curtis Thomas Blood Edward Christian Arthur Obryan Philip le Marr and Jane Bradley afterwards to wit within the time aforesaid to wit within the seventeenth day of March in the aforesaid thirtieth year of the King and the day of taking of this Inquisition at the Parish of St. Martins in the Fields aforesaid in the County of Middlesex aforesaid unlawfully unjustly wickedly corruptly devillishly and in prosecution of the Conspiracy aforesaid against the aforesaid George Duke of Buckingham's Life Estate and Honour this writing in Paper to the said Samuel Ryther then and there did produce shew and offer and every one of them then and there unlawfully unjustly corruptly wickedly devillishly and in prosecution of the Conspiracy aforesaid hath produced shewn and offered the aforesaid Note of the aforesaid Samuel Ryther And then and there falsly unlawfully unjustly wickedly corruptly and devillishly in prosecution of the Conspiracy aforesaid did offer and promise to give to the said Samuel Ryther a Purse of Gold containing three hundred pieces of Gold of the value of three hundred pounds and every one of them did then and there promise to give if he the said Samuel Ryther would sign and subscribe the aforesaid Writing with his own Name and Hand which the said Samuel Ryther then and there refused to do All which contrivances conspiracies subornations and unlawful practices of the aforesaid Maurice Hickey otherwise Maurice Higgins Robert Smith otherwise Robert Jones John Haley Thomas Curtis Thomas Blood Edward Christian Arthur Obryan Philip le Marr and Jane Bradley tend to the great hazard of the Life and destruction of the aforesaid George Duke of Buckingham and the manifest perversion of the Justice of this Kingdom of England to the ill example of all others in the like Case transgressing and against the Peace of our Lord the King his Crown and Dignity When Mr. Blood smelt of this Indictment and that for proof of the Contents thereof it was reported that it was given out by Mr. Christian and others concerned that among other Places of consultation The Crown in Ram Alley in Fleestreet and the Bear in Holborn both Victualling Houses were said and nominated and that Mr. Blood and Mr. Christian have consulted in those two places as well as treat the said two Persons with money Treats Junkets and other encouragements and large plights and promises of preferment c. in the Custom-House in order with the more ease to prevail with them to be suborned as Witnesses in this matter He carried with him five substantial people and went to both places for well he might without blush innocent man and directed the said five people to examine whether they knew of Mr. Blood or ever saw him with any body there to which the people reply'd as well they might No Do you know him no said they did you over see this man here said they pointing at Mr. Blood no never in our Lives All which he is ready to justify when need is Besides it is very well known that this Mr. Christian and Blood could never to this day lay up their Horses together as the old saying is so that it is very improbable that he should coact with one in an Intreague of this make to whom he always grudged the civility of drinking either publickly or privately Furthermore if any House in London or England of any good repute can say or give any Testimony that he has ever seen Mr. Blood and these Fellows together in company of Mr. Christian by himself or all three together Mr. Blood will contentedly acquiesce under the severest censure To come to my L. Mayors Warrant when his Lordship Issued it for the apprehending Mr. Blood others of his Crew pursuant to the complaint of Coddan and Ryther it was reported you may immagine by whom that Mr. Blood nor the other Persons of Mr. Blood 's company said to be mention'd therein durst come into his Lordships Liberty for fear of being taken up When the same came to be understood by one of the Parties he presently went into the City and having waited some short time about his Lordships house he was introduced to his Lordship and told his Lordship that hearing it spread abroad that he Issued a Warrant against him he was come to know of his Lordship what it was for I do Replyed my Lord Issue a great many Warrants that I do not remember who they are against Why replied Blood 's Friend reading in the Intelligence that your Lordship had a Warrant against Mr. Blood and Friends I thought it might be my self whereupon my Lord sent his Clerk to know whether by his Entries any Warrant appeared issued against one of that name who went accordingly and brought word that he did not find any and when there is said the Clerk I 'le send word I lodge replied Blood 's Friend at Grayes-Inne and if there be or when there is any thing of this kind

day when she gave in Bail before Sir William Poultney to the value of two Hundred Pounds The meaning of this Passage being mention'd here is this When the two Witnesses came first to Heaven and went up stairs to drink it happened that one of Mrs. Bradley's Acquaintance being a Woman-kind was in the next Room to them who suspecting them to be Bailiffs or such like Fellows for their outward condition made them look no better she accidentally listened to know what they might say or came about By and by one of them said How shall we do this God damn me said t'other we will do this Rogue Blood 's business for him and get Oaths enough to swear against him by that time Sir William Waller comes to Town Upon this Mrs. Bradley's Friend for the present said nothing of the matter to her but told it the next day to another Friend who took no notice of it neither at that time But seeing Mrs. Bradley brought under trouble about a fortnight after as you heard before both came and told her what the two Witnesses said of Mr. Blood when they were above in the Balcony Room and how they swore they would do Mr. Blood 's business and would find Oaths enough against him by that time Sir William came to Town Hereupon Mrs. Bradley had both before a Justice to have them swear the Matter of Fact which they accordingly did which Depositions are to be seen in due time From whence it may be pertinently inferr'd that the said Witnesses were then brewing what they have since broached in the following manner First they frame and contrive that Maurice Hickey aliàs Higgins Robert Smith aliàs Jones John Haley Thomas Curtis Thomas Blood Edward Christian Arthur O-Bryan Phillyp la Mere and Jane Bradley did by unlawful means and ways between themselves conspire to rob the Duke of Buckingham not only of his Honour and Reputation as a Peer of England but likewise of his Life upon a presumption of his committing Sodomy with one Sarah Harwood and in order to the convicting and condemning him the said Duke of the same they did invent that they the said Mr. Blood and Company afore-mention'd did agree with two of the said Dukes Servants namely Philemon Coddan and Samuel Ryther to pay them several hundreds of Pounds upon condition that they would suffer themselves to be prevailed with to come as Evidences and swear when the matter of Fact was brought to a Tryal that they did hear Sarah Harwood declare such and such things against the said Duke meaning Sodomy with her and several others and that besides these several Sums of Money thus invented to be agreed upon to be in hand paid they should engage to secure them the said Coddan and Ryther of considerable Annuities for Life and the Friendship of the best Noble-men in England to vindicate them in whatever they did That previous to all this the said Mr. Blood and the rest of them should be invented to have expended sundry great Sums of Money upon these two Fellows in Junkets Treats and so forth before they could be brought to swear to this subornation against the Duke In manner following viz. That the said Philemon Coddan and Samuel Ryther should Sign a Paper ready drawn wherein they were to certifie that they did hear the said Sarah Harwood confess and declare before them that his Grace the Duke of Buckingham did forcibly enter both her Privities as far as he could go stop'd her Breath and then sent her away by which conveyance the King lost his Evidence That they were further as they contrived it themselves to testifie that the said Duke ordered the said Sarah Harwood to be murthered or conveyed to and sold beyond the Seas and that he had committed the like on several others which they were to be ready to prove when called thereto And that this Instrument should be sent by direction of Mr. Blood and the rest above-mentioned by Maurice Hicky to a certain place in Bloomsberry where he was to meet with the said Ryther and Coddan and being met there to offer both or either of them that came 300 Pieces of Gold provided they Signed the foregoing Instrument and if they did not to stab them but if they did Sign to give them the Gold That Ryther being come alone and offered the Gold and Instrument by Mr Hickey he should desire to have a little leisure of perusing and pausing upon it in the next room and when that to escape and run away to the Duke of Buckingham's Sollicitour and tell him that he was set upon in such a place by Maurice Hickey in the name of himself Mr. Blood and others to sign that Paper which he was to bring with him and take so much Gold for his pains or else to be killed And that upon this escape Hickey thus out-witted was to say when he understood by the Woman of the House that he was gone that he and Partners were undone and so fled And the next day after the better to carry on the Design without suspition to bid 100 l. in the Intelligence to any that could give tydings of this Hickey in the following manner viz. That whereas one Maurice Hickey had tempted one Samuel Ryther a Servant of the Duke of Buckingham's to Sign to a certain Paper meaning the foregoing Instrument containing matters tending to the taking away the Life of his Grace the Duke of Buckingham and that he offered him 300 Pieces of Gold for his condescention thereto and whereas the said Samuel Ryther did not only deny the same but ran away and that the said Maurice Hickey did thereupon fly and could not be heard of then to bid 100 l. in the Intelligence to any that could bring tidings of him to Mr. Whitaker By this any Man may plainly see that these Fellows were not idle in carrying on what they damn'd themselves they would against Mr. Blood when they were over-heard at Heaven where they said we will find Oaths enough to swear against him by that time Sir William Waller comes to Town for when Sir William came home it 's worth the Readers notice to remember how he sent for Mr. Blood presently to the Buffillo-Tavern where these Fellows were how Sir William was prevailed with to press Mr. Blood to give in Bail to answer what they swore against him what hast was made in running him to Prison by laying hold of him first by a Mittimus and then by a Warrant as by the foregoing appears and then to have it declared and cryed about the streets that he was in Prison when he was not and how Mr. Blood was disappointed by those Hands who promised to have them forthwith coming before that Justice of Peace in Westminster that took examination on his behalf to answer what he had to accuse them of but did not for Mr. Blood having examin'd Witnesses before a Justice in the Liberty of Westminster before whom a Conspiracy was proved to be on

Whitaker where he vvas if he listed Coddan might do the same too And being together as Monk and Stringer make it out Hickey might as well then as at the meeting at Bloomsberry kill Ryther if he listed and Coddan too And if Coddan and Ryther were such honest men as Mr. Jenks and Mr. Whitaker said and told Mr. Blood before Sir W. W. they were they would certainly have shewed themselves such by discovering Hickey to Mr. Whitaker gratis without suffering him to be at the charge of so much money as he publickly bid to any that should take him But their ill management of it makes it evidently plain that when the whole matter vvas to be brought to an issue they did hope to make appear that Mr. Blood c. were tampering with these two Witnesses before Sir W. W. to charge a false thing upon the Duke and to make it look the better so to bring in this Hicand others who upon being pardoned which Hickey amongst the rest is said to have attempted the doing of since his confinement were to become the Kings Evidence and swear in Conjunction with the rest that Mr. Blood c. did tempt them to the Fact that they otherwise knew nothing of it that in fine the whole was a Contrivance to bring an odium upon Mr. Blood and his Friends Immediatly upon Mr. Blood 's having them thus cryed after in Mr. Thompsons Intelligence in order to the bringing of them to that Justice of Peace in Westminster before vvhom it vvas proved that they really Conspired against Mr. Blood c. to ansvver the same the said tvvo Persons thought fit about the 16 of February not only to make knovvn vvhere they lay but in a daring Vindictive manner to publish the better to carry on their business that notvvithstanding the many disappointments the Conspirators against the Duke of Buckingham have hitherto met with and the ill success met vvith by Subornation yet that the unvvearied endeavours of the Popish Conspirators seemed to find out a nevv vvay for aspersing the Kings Evidence thereby to fend off the hand of Justice repeating that on the 12th of February Mr. Blood vvith others of his Creatures sent for Mr. Thompson the Publisher of the pretended True Domestick Intelligence and he in his Print offering revvard to a-any that could discover them they thereupon sent a messenger to knovv the revvard and if the revvard should be denyed to acquaint him that they vvere both ready at their Lodgings in Walbrook and had never absented themselves though Mr. Blood charged them therevvith contrary to his ovvn particular knovvledge and that Mr. Blood after divers messengers sent him to take possession of the tvvo Persons sent vvord back that he vvould not trouble himself further in the business nor pay any revvard And that thereupon on the Saturday follovving they vvent to my Lord Mayor vvhere they complained of the abuse done not only to them but the Kings Evidence and prayed His Lordships Warrant to bring Mr. Thompson before his Lordship who being ill and His Lordship being inform'd hovv these 2 Gentlemen for so they call themselves came to be thus unfortunately hunted after vvas pleased on the ensuing Munday to Issue out his Warrant for the apprehending of Mr. Blood and some others of his Companions How unwilling they were to come out of London-Liberty or appear before him who had the keeping of those Depositions at Westminster that were made of these two Fellows having conspired against Mr. Blood is clear for had they done so they well knew that either they must clear that give in bayl for their answering the same or go to Coal and besides that if Mr. Blood had done them any wrong it was equally or more in their Power to have him taken up by Warrant at Westminster where he was every minute to be spoken with at his House than in London where he seldom came but to be taken out of London could not serve their ends for the English of it was they wanted him in London to bring him under the lash of a Fob Action or some such like thing thereby to expose him to the trouble of procuring bail not to be by him there probably obtain'd or to publish that he was in Prison in good earnest to make amends for that false publication thereof that was formerly made when he was said to be in the Gate-house Immediately upon the Neck of this they frame an Indictment against him the said Mr. Blood and several others most of them for Company sake in the Crown Office containing the whole Scene and Intrigue of this Plot wherein Maurice Hickey the better to disguise it has the Honour of having the first Post assign'd him A Copy of which Indictment is for the Readers better information as follows A COPY of the INDICTMENT Hilarii 31. and 32. of King Charles the Second THe Jury for our Lord the King present upon their Oaths That Maurice Hickey late of the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields in the County of Middlesex Gent. otherwise called Maurice Higgens late of the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid Gent. Robert Smith late of the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid Gent. otherwise called Robert Jones late of the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid Gent. John Haley late of the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid Gent. Thomas Curtis late of the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid Gent. Thomas Blood late of the Parish of St. Margaret Westminster in the County of Middlesex Gent. Edward Christian late of the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields in the County of Middlesex Esq Arthur Obrian late of the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields aforesaid in the County of Middlesex aforesaid Gent. Philip le Marr late of the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields aforesaid in the County aforesaid Gent. And Jane Bradley late of the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields in the County of Middlesex Widow The seventeenth day of March In the Year of our Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. The Thirtieth with Force and Arms c. at the Parish of St. Martins in the Fields in the County of Middlesex aforesaid unlawfully unjustly nequitiously devilishly and corruptly by unlawful ways and means between themselves have practised conspired intended and designed to dispoil and deprive his Grace the Duke of Buckingham then and there one of the Peers and Grandees of this Kingdom of England not only of his honour estimation and reputation but also to take his life away and destroy his life and dignity of Dukeship And to cause the said George Duke of Buckingham to be taken arrested and condemned to death for detestable Crimes and Offences of Sodomy and Buggery by him supposed to be committed with one Sarah Harwood and divers other persons against the order of nature And also for inticing or transporting of the said