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A53554 A true narrative of the horrid plot and conspiracy of the popish party against the life of His Sacred Majesty, the government and the Protestant religion : with a list of such noblemen, gentlemen and others as were the conspirators, and the head-officers both civil and military that were to effect it / humbly presented to His Most Excellent Majesty by Titus Oates. Oates, Titus, 1649-1705. 1679 (1679) Wing O59; ESTC R26889 44,385 83

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those at Madrid by John Cross alias Blake and those at Valladolyd by Daniel Armstrong Jesuits which Letter of the 20th of July the Deponent saw in the Chamber of the said Suiman at Madrid at the same time when he saw the Letters of the tenth of July mentioned in the sixth paragraph or number Item VIII That on the third of Novemb. Stylo novo Father Pedro Jeronymo de Corduba Provincial of the Jesuits in New-Castile did write to Richard Strange and John Keines that if the business of dispatching the King of England could be effected they should have ten thousand pound for their pains which Letter the Deponent brought from Valladolyd to Bilbao and embarqued in a Ship within five daies after his arrival thither and in five daies more arrived at a little Town near Exeter and in six daies more came to London and delivered the Letter to Richard Strange and when opened it was written in Latin and read by the said Strange and he said that all means should be used to answer Father Pedro's expectation And in the Letter to Strange was one enclosed to this Keines by the name of Juan de Neoporto de la Compania de Jesu which Letter the said Keines offered the Deponent to read but being written in Spanish the Deponent did not well understand the Letter and could make but little of it by reason of the Spanish abbreviations therefore the said Strange did give the Deponent the Letter directed to himself saying he thought the Deponent did understand Latin better than Spanish so that the Deponent read the said Letter and in it the Contents above-mentioned and the said Strange being then ill upon Keines his bed said that he hoped God would strengthen honest William's heart to do his work Now this honest William is a Servant to the Society in London This Strange did then lye at one M rs Saunders house a part of Wildhouse in Wildstreet where the Deponent heard this discourse from the said Strange and Keines Item IX That the said Richard Strange and John Keines Basil Langworth Father Harcourt John Fenwick Father Ireland Father Gray Father Jennison Father Saunders and Father Ecclesdon did write a Letter and subscribed it and sent it to St. Omers to Richard Ashby Rector of the English Seminary there in which he and the rest of the Fathers were given to understand that the King was altogether given to his pleasures and that they had an intent to procure one to stab him at his Court of Whitehall and if that could not be conveniently done they would employ one of his Physicians to poison him for which work they had ten thousand pounds in the hands of one Worsly a Goldsmith in London which mony was procured for them by one Father Leshee a French Jesuit and Confessor to the French King which Letter the Deponent saw and read and saw it subscribed by the persons above-mentioned and carried it to St. Omers He went to Dover by Coach a place in which was taken up for him by the said William their servant whose name indeed is John Groves The Letter that the Deponent carried bore date the beginning of December old Style Item X. That Letters were enclosed in this Letter aforementioned to the said Leshee in which thanks was given him by the said Fathers that had subscribed the said Letter to Richard Ashby for his great Charity to them and his Care for the propagating the Catholick Religion and that all means should be used to destroy the opposers of it both root and branch which Letters bore date either the sixth or seventh of Decemb. and the Deponent carried them inclosed in those of Richard Ashby to St. Omers and from St. Omers to Paris and delivered them into the hands of the said Father Leshee about the 18th of December as near as the Deponent can remember Item XI That other Letters bearing date December the 12th 1677. were sent from Richard Strange and others of the Society in London to those of the Society in the English Seminary at St. Omers and in them Letters were enclosed to Father Leshee in which they told him that they had stirred up the Presbyterians in Scotland to a Rebellion and that twenty thousand would be in Arms if that His Majesty of France would break with the King of England and that a way also was made for the French King 's landing an Army in Ireland And further that the Irsh Catholicks were ready to rise in order to which there were forty thousand black Bills provided to furnish the Irish souldiers withal Which Letters were subscribed by Rich. Strange John Keines and John Fenwick and the out-side Letter directed to Richard Ashby Rector which Letter was shewed to the Deponent at his return from Paris to St. Omers by the said Richard Ashby and told the Deponent that the Letters to Leshee for which the said Messenger had ten Patacoons or Royals of eight as the said Ashby informed the Deponent And the said Messenger was a Drummer in the Town of St. Omers Item XII That in another Packet bearing date Decemb. the 18th 1677. in which was specified that the Father General of the Society of Jesus had written from Rome and had removed Richard Strange from being Provincial and had conferred the Provincialship upon Thomas White alias Whitebread and the said Thomas Whitebread ordered that one Father George Coniers should Preach on St. Thomas of Canterbury's day in the Sodality-Church in the English Seminary against the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and that he should exhort the Fathers to stand by the new Provincial who would be as zealous to promote the bringing in of Catholick Religion into England as ever his Predecessor was and would not leave one stone unturned to promote the same Which said Letter was directed to and received by Richard Ashby and communicated by him to the Deponent about the 24th day of December Item XIII That in another Packet bearing date December the 26th it was ordered by Thomas Whitebread Richard Strange John Keines Basil Langworth John Fenwick Father Gray Father Harcourt Senior Father Harcourt Junior Father Micho Father Bennifield Father Ireland Father Blundell Father Jemison and some others of the Society that Father Leshee should be written unto by Rich. Ashby and the Fathers of St. Omers and informed that the Fathers before-mentioned had met together to contrive the Advancement of the Design of the happy disposal of His Majesty of Great Britain and of His Royal Highness if he should not appear to answer their expectations But the former giving no hopes at all they would endeavour his dispatch with all speed that might be that he might not hinder their Designs in bringing in Catholick Religion And if they could not find an opportunity to take him from his Kingdom they would soon take his Kingdom from him which Letter the Deponent saw in the hands of Richard Ashby and desired to read it but the said Richard would read it to
him in his Chamber on January 2. Item XIV That in the said Letters of December the 26th it was specified that Richard Nicholas Blundell was constituted by Pattent from the Provincial to be Ordinary at Newgate to go and visit the Condemned Prisoners and to reduce them to the Catholick Faith and Religion and to Catechize some Youth in the City of London and every day in the week he hath his several places where he Teacheth the Youth Treasonable and Mutinous Doctrines against the Interest and Person of His Sacred Majesty and giveth certain summs of mony to their Parents if poor to incourage them to send their Children to be thus instructed which passage was contained in the aforesaid Letters and afterwards practised in London ITEM XV. That another Packet came to Richard Ashby to Saint Omers from Thomas White John Keines and others of the Society of Jesus in London in which Letters from them and others were inclosed Letters to Father Thomas Stapleton Procurator at Brussels to perswade the Father Confessor of Duke de Villa Hermosa to inform that his Majesty of Great Britain did not intend to assist his Majesty of Spain but to stand a looker on till he was ruined by the French King which Letter being not sealed was seen and heard read by Richard Ashby then Rector of Saint Omers in which it was further ordered that if the said Father Confessor should not be ready to comply with the said Stapleton that messengers should be forthwith sent to Father Swiman at Madrid to inform his Majesty of Spain of the said concern and to make the same relation of the business to the Arch-Bishop of Tuam in the Kingdome of Ireland now at the Court at Madrid that he the said Swiman and he the said Arch-Bishop might jointly give an account to the King of Spain of the motion made or to be made to the said Father Confessor of Duke de Villa Hermosa and also to advise the Spanish King to seize the estates of the English merchants in the several Factories in his Dominions for that they had endeavoured to transport their Estates and did transport them to England which would tend highly to the prejudice of the Kingdome of Spain and for the confirmation thereof they procured Letters from one Fonseca sometimes an Agent in London to attest the same to which the said Fonseca willingly condescended and sent his Letter to Saint Omers to be sent to the Court of Spain that the Fathers might give their approbation which Letter was long and large attestations therein made against the merchants resident in their several Factories concerning the matter of Fact before-mentioned and also other Letters to Daniel Armstrong at Valledolid and to John Cross at Madrid in the which they were ordered to confirm this affirmation made or to be made by the Fathers in England and of the English Seminary at Saint Omers and of the said Stappleton together with that of the said Fonseca the abovementioned Spanish Agent who now liveth at Bruges in Flanders All which Letters bore date the first or second of January 1678. Stilo Novo and all of them the Deponent saw at Saint Omers and in the two Letters to those two Fathers in Spain viz. Daniel Armstrong and John Cross was contained an especial order that the former if he could not go to Madrid should send his attestations to Don Juan of Austria for the carrying on of which two hundred pounds sterling was transmitted by bills of Exchange to the said father Swiman and the said English Fathers ITEM XVI That when the Letters came from England about the business afore-mentioned to Saint Omers Edward Nevil and Thomas Fermor did say that they would not let this black Bastard go to his grave in peace meaning the King of England for that he had cheated them so often and that now they were resolved to be served so no more But the Deponent standing by said what if the Duke should prove slippery They both replyed his pasport was ready when ever he should appear to fail them These words were heard by the Deponent on the third of January in the afternoon in the Library of the Jesuits of Saint Omers ITEM XVII That on the fourth of January 1678. Stylo novo Letters were sent by Richard Ashby Edward Hall Edward Nevil Charles Peters Michael Constable William Busby James Janon and Thomas Fermor Jesuits of the English Seminary at Saint Omers as also Francis Williams Rector of Watton and Master of the Novices there Sir John Warner Baronet alias Clare Father Sanches alias Ditchling to the Father Confessor of the Emperours Majesty to advise the Emperours Majesty that his Majesty of Great Brittain had treacherously ploted the ruine of the Confederates especially of the German Empire and of his Catholick Princes under him and had under hand stirred up the Hungarian Rebels against his Imperial Majesty and found them money to go on with their rebellion and that his design was not to keep any alliance with his Imperial Majesty but onely in shew that he might advance his Nephew the Prince of Orange and make him absolute and therefore prayed that the States of Holland might be acquainted with it Which Letter was seen and perused by the Deponent it being written in Latine all which Letters were sent away by a Lay-Brother that was a Dutch-man and when these Letters were sending away one of the Lay-brothers whose name was George did say That the Prince of Orange was more fit to rob an Orchard than to be General of an Army ITEM XVIII That Letters bearing date January the first 1678. Spylo novo arrived at Saint Omers January the twentieth from Talbot Arch-bishop of Dublin wherein it was expressed that the Fathers of the Society in Ireland were very vigilant to prepare the people to arise for the defence of their Liberty and Religion and to recover their Estates and that if the Parliament that was to fit in England should joyn with the King in declaring War against France that a place should be open to receive the French Kings Army in Ireland when his most Christian Majesty should think fit to land one there And in the Letter head advised the Fathers of Saint Omers to advertise Father Leshee of the same and other Jesuits that had an interest in the French King And that his Majesty of Great Brittain was brought to that pass that if any Male content amongst them should not prove true to their design his Majestie would never give ear to their information and therefore prayed them to be dilligent for now was the time or never which Letter the Deponent saw and read and in order to the Fathers compliance with the Letter of the said Arch Bishop they dispatched away Letters to Father Leshee to Paris and appointed Edward Nevil and William Busby to carry and deliver them to the said Leshee which Letters were answered with all speed by the aforesaid messengers Jesuits as above the one of