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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

speak with me I inquired for what but they could not or would not tell me but it seems by their expressions to my Landlord they were with him the day before to inquire for me and they could tell that I had been last Sunday at Morning Prayers at Whitehall and there also seen the same Night amongst others After break-fasting peaceably I went with them to Whitehall not thinking this any Commitment Business I told my Landlord I thought I would be back within an hour The Secretary at my arrival inquiring of my Name told me he would go and speak with the King about me which I know not whether he did so or no but returning soon after spake not one word to me but going into his Clerk he sent out the same Messengers who called me into the Stone Gallery who said they had Orders to carry me to the Tower but for what they could not tell me Sir John Robinson after my Arrival entertained me to Dinner which continued in the company of his Lady and Solicitor in a free and cheerful manner in Discourse of the French Customs and of his Son whom I knew at Paris After Dinner and having had a Nap with his Chaplain who came in Sir John inquired of me Whether I were not a Roman Catholique I told them I had been such but not one of late and whether I was in Orders I told them never inquiring whether I knew for what I was committed I told them no no No more do I said Sir John but in the general afterwards he sent for one Captain Cresset the then Gentleman Goaler he read unto me a Paper he called his Warrant which being but in general words and giving me no Copy of it made no such impression upon me as now to remember the Contents for I thought it was but some Tower formality wherewith others were served as well as I for Sir John never explained nor insisted upon it no more did I but followed Captain Cresset to my appointed Lodging which was convenient enough as also the Diet so that at the beginning I being not lock'd up neither day nor night for a Month or thereabouts and giving my self to reading an English Chronicle that belonged to my Landlord I unconcernedly expected a speedy enlargement after the Duke of Monmouth should come to hear of my Imprisonment unto whom I desired Sir John to give notice of it but I had no return After some Months Sir John sent for me and said he had Order to examine me he inquired What and whom I verily thought were the Causes of my Imprisonment I told him that the Lady Anne Gourdon alias Huntley with Peter Talbot Titular Bilhop of Dublin were assuredly the Causes of it and might well contrive by other Instruments some false Accusation against me for to weaken the testimony I was to give against them of their plotting against England for that the said Lady had informed me of a Design the English Catholiques had against the King's Person his Government and Religion and that she had correspondency with her Brother the Marquiss of Huntley my Lord of Rothes my Lord of Oxenford of Scotland and other Catholiques and Priests this side and beyond Seas That the said Peter Talbot before I brought him to the French King's presence told me That he was to treat with that King from soine very great Person or Persons in England for to raise men in Ireland for the French King and that I had declared these things in France to one Sir Robert Welsh who desired me to acquaint the Duke of Ormond therewith So Sir John being in haste to go to Whitehall took these Heads in his Table-book and said he would acquaint them above with it but bid me not to mention the Duke of Ormond at all for he was a goodman I bring him in onely by occasion said I. Next day Sir John sent for me and desiring to know what other things I could say I began to particularize the forementioned relations of the Plot but he broke me off of that saying That these were but trifles and that we cared not in England what Priests and Women beyond Seas could devise and that he took such Stories from me but as starting-holes from the only point he had to urge against me That unless I would confess other matters against the Duke of Monmouth he would rack me next day and afterwards hang me I said He might do what he pleased but that I neither knew or could confess any such Design And so I was sent back to my Lodging but my forwardness to speak ever afterwards of any Plot against England was well abated by this Storm I desired my Keepers Wife and Child here present to pray for me for that I was to be rack'd the next day I asked my Keeper What a Rack was An Instrument said he to stretch the Body and Limbs out of all joynts sometimes full of Needles and that it was called the Daughter of some Duke I do not now remember which But this Family being weak persons were themselves frightned at this sad and terrible threatnings alledging That none was ever carried to be executed out of their house Sometime afterwards I was sent for to be examined to Whitehall before the Secretary my Lord of Bath of Newport and some others I never saw before They inquired Whether I had been imployed under the Duke of Monmouth And whether I knew some other persons I do not now remember my self with such other Questions out of which I could not yet know certainly the Cause of my Commitment for no body appeared against me as I think at that time one only at the second time So they in a general manner urged me still to confess to confess what evil Design I had in coming to England I said still I had none nor could I confess any And so was sent back to the Tower Some Weeks or Months afterward I was sent for to Whiteball again where one Dallison who was formerly in France entertained by me for writing appeared He there said That I there in France threatned some persons here in England and that he thought that it was the Duke of Monmouth because of non-payment of Arrears I told him That that was a bad inference that because I threatned some body it must be therefore the Duke of Monmouth who had never any ground so to do for that he had signed an Order for payment of me and spoke to Captain Watson and Doctor Goase for it Though I never was yet paid But the pretext or ground from which they took the occasion of this slanderous Allogisme was from the matters of some private quarrels which one Mr. Hampton and the Lady Anne Gourdon would have me vindicate against some of their Rivals which I complimentally was still wont to promise them I would do the better to insinuate my self into their secrets concerning the Plot and other matters The Lady Gourdon would have the Earl of