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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

them being the Prefect of Studies and the other Procurator for the Seminary and by them wrote Letters to Thomas White Provincial and to the Rector of Saint Omers viz. Richard Ashby Of that to the Provincial the Deponent can give no account but of that to Ashby the Deponent saith that there was in it expressed that the Father General of the Society of Jesus would contribute eight hundred thousand Crowns to be paid in the moneth of June next ensuing and that his Holinesse the Pope would not be wanting to supply them when they had made some progresse in that glorious attempt ITEM XIX That another Packet arrived at Saint Omers directed to Richard Ashby Rector of the English Seminary there The Date of which is not well remembred by the Deponent but as near as he doth remember it was about the beginning of the Parliament for there came the Speeches of the King and Lord Chancellour and the Votes of the Parliament which were put into ridiculous phrases in contempt of the King and both Houses of Parliament for the Fathers and Scholers to laugh at and then translated into the French Tongue and presented to the Governor of Saint Omers who sendeth them to the French King his Master and in the Packet was contained an account of the attempt of one Pickering a lay Brother that waits upon the Jesuits lying at Somerset house to shoot the King as he was was walking in Saint James park when he was at some distance from his Nobles and Attendants but the Flint of his Pistol being somewhat loose he did defer the action till another opportunity and if he had done it and had suffered he should have had thirty thousand Masses said for the health of his soul Which Letters were signed by Thomas White alias Whitebread Provincial which Letters when read the Fathers in the English Seminary were in great trouble for the negligence of the said Pickering and the Deponent saw and read them in the latter part of January and the Votes put into such mock Phrases as also the Speeches of the King and Lord Chancellor in the moneth of February ITEM XX. That the Deponent went on the nine and twentieth of January to know of his Confessarius whether he might keep the thirtieth of January as a fast the Confessor replyed that the account with them was on the ninth of February because the account of England did differ from the account on that side the Water The Deponent asked him whether then he might keep the ninth of February as a day of Fasting The Confessor asked him why The Deponent replyed because of the Martyrdome of the late King the Confessarius answered that the late King was no Martyr but an Heretick and withal added that he was none of King James Son but a Bastard begotten upon the body of Anne of Denmark by her Taylor This Confessarius is a Jesuit and his name Charles Peters Prefect of the Sodality ITEM XXI That Letters bearing date February the first Stylo novo from Thomas Whitebread John Keines John Fenwick Father Ireland and Father Micho to Richard Ashby Rector of Saint Omers then ill of the Gout and to the English Fathers there did let them understand that they had sent William Morgan into Ireland to see how affairs stood in that Kingdome and expected his return by the end of March next and that he set out the six and twentieth of January and that they had given him instructions to order the affairs in hand and to encourage the Irish Natives to defend their Religion and Liberty And his Companion was one Father Lovel who was to go into the North of Ireland to see the Fathers of the Society there and carried two thousand pound to supply their present wants and to promise them four thousand pound more in case there should be any action ITEM XXII That another Pacquet came from Thomas White alias Whitebread Father Micho Father Ireland Father Harcourt and others of the Society in London bearing date February the seventh 1678. Stylo novo In which was contained an account of the Fathers progress in Berkshire Oxfordshire and Essex in perswading the Catholicks that were Votaries for the order of Saint Ignatius to contribute for the Irish rebellion and maintaining a Civil War in that Kingdome in case the French King should break with the King of England And also that they had received Letters from Scotland in which they were informed that the people would rise to oppose Duke Lauderdale and the Royal party in that Kingdome and also that they would endeavour by themselves their Agents and their Purse to provoke the Scots against the English and withal told the Fathers of Saint Omers to whom this Pacquet was directed and by whom it was received that they should be glad to effect such a design Which Pacquet the Deponent saw and read Letter by Letter ITEM XXIII That the Fathers of Saint Omers viz. Richard Ashby Rector Edward Hall Edward Nevill and others of the English Seminary did write to Thomas Whitebread and other Fathers in which was expressed that it was now apparent that the Catholick Religion was to be brought in the same way that they had used for the destruction of the Father of this King and as that could not be effected till much blood was spilt on both sides so this must be effected by effusion of blood And withal prayed them to prosecute their design in taking away the King and if his Royal Highness should not comply with them to dispatch him too for they did fear that never any of the Stuarts were men for the effecting of their ends and purposes And in this Letter instructions were given to the Fathers to feel how his Royal Highness stood affected Which Leter bore date February the tenth Stylo novo and was signed by the persons abovenamed in the presence of the Deponent who did compose these Letters for them according to direction given him by them Which Letter was to the Deponents knowledge carried into England by one Father Every who then went for England ITEM XXIV That an answer of the aforesaid Letters of February the tenth Stylo novo dated February the twentieth Old style came from Thomas White John Keines and Basil Langworth Richard Peters John Fenwick Father Ireland Father Harcourt Father Blundel Father Matthew VVright and Father Thomas VVright Father Jennison and one Father Simmons who some time belonged to Somerset House who also signed with the rest the said answer which told the Fathers at Saint Omers viz. Richard Ashby to whom the Letter was directed and the rest that they had found that although the Duke was a good Catholique yet he had a tender affection to the King and would scarcely be engaged in that concern and if they should once intimate their designs and purposes unto him they might not only be frustrated of their design but also might lose his favour Which Letter the Deponent saw and read in the month of February