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B17222	The arraignment, tryal, and condemnation of Sir William Parkins Knt. for the most horrid and barbarous conspiracy to assassinate His Most Sacred Majesty King William, and for raising of forces in order to a rebellion, and encouraging a French invasion into this kingdom: who was found guilty of high-treason, March 24 1695/6 at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily: together with a true copy of the papers delivered by Sir William Parkins, and Sir John Friend to he sheriffs of London and Middlesex, at the time of their execution.	Parkyns, William, Sir, 1649?-1696.; Friend, John, Sir, d. 1696.; England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex)	1696 (1696)	Wing A3760; ESTC R11595	77,090	51

Mr. Sh. Buckingham I do know you and would have you be fair in your Practice Mr. Baker The Enquiry is made because a false Copy is put upon him you might have had a true Copy if you had applied your self right Burleigh I sent to Mr. Farringdon for it L. C. Just Holt. The Sheriff delivered it the Secondary who is the proper Officer Mr. J. Rokeby Sir John Friend said he had it from him yesterday Burleigh But he had one before how he came by it I can't tell nor whence those came that were brought to me Mr. J. Rokeby If you will not take care to go to the right place it is no body's fault but your own if you suffer by it Burleigh I was with my Lady and delivered a Petition for this Trunk L. C. Just Holt. But it seems it was under the Conuzance of the Secretary and direction was given to go thither some care or other must be taken in it and shall but go on now to Arraign the Prisoner Cl. of Arr. Hold up thy hand which he did Thou standest Indicted in Middlesex by the name of Sir William Parkyns late of the Parish of St. Paul Covent Garden in the County of Middlesex Kt. for that whereas an open and notoriously publick and most sharp and cruel War for a long time hath been and yet is by Sea and by Land had carried on and prosecuted by Lewis the French King against the most Serene most Illustrious and most Excellent Prince our Sovereign Lord William the Third by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. During all which time the said Lewis the French King and his Subjects were and yet are Enemies of our said Lord the King that now is and his Subjects You the said Sir William Parkyns a Subject of our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is of this Kingdom of England well knowing the Premises not having the fear of God in your Heart nor weighing the Duty of your Allegiance but being moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil as a false Traytor against the said most Serene most Clement and most Excellent Prince our said Sovereign Lord William the Third now King of England c. your Supreme True Natural Rightful Lawful and Undoubted Sovereign Lord the cordial Love and true and due Obedience Fidelity and Allegiance which every Subject of our said Lord the King that now is towards him our said Lord the King should bear and of right ought to bear withdrawing and utterly to extinguish intending and contriving and with all your strength purposing designing and endeavouring the Government of this Kingdom of England under him our said Lord the King that now is of Right duly happily and very well Established altogether to Subvert Change and Alter as also the same our Sovereign Lord the King to Death and final Destruction to put and bring and his Faithful Subjects and the Freemen of this Kingdom of England into intolerable and most miserable Slavery to the aforesaid French King to Subdue and bring the first day of July in the Seventh year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is and divers other days and times as well before as after at the Parish of St. Paul Covent-Garden aforesaid in the County aforesaid falsly maliciously devilishly and traiterously did compass imagine contrive purpose design and intend our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is then your Supreme True Natural Rightful and Lawful Sovereign Lord of and from the Regal State Title Honour Power Crown Command and Government of this Kingdom of England to Depose cast Down and utterly to Deprive and the same our Sovereign Lord the King to Kill Slay and Murther and the aforesaid Lewis the French King by his Armies Soldiers Legions and Subjects this Kingdom of England to Invade Fight with Conquer and Subdue to move stir up procure and aid and a miserable slaughter among the Faithful Subjects of our said Lord the King throughout all this whole Kingdom of England to make and cause and that you the said Sir William Parkyns to the aforesaid Enemies of our said Lord the King that now is then and there during the War aforesaid Traiterously were adhering and aiding and the same most abominable wicked and devilish Treasons and traiterous compassings contrivances intentions and purposes of yours aforesaid to fulfil perfect and bring to effect and in prosecution performance and execution of the traiterous adhesion aforesaid you the said Sir William Parkyns as such a false Traytor during the War aforesaid to wit the same first day of June in the year abovesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid and divers other days and times as well before as after there and elsewhere in the same County falsly maliciously advisedly secretly and traiterously and with Force and Arms with one Robert Chernock late of High-Treason in contriving and conspiring the Death of our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is duly convicted and attainted and with divers other false Traytors to the Jurors unknown did meet propose treat consult consent and agree to procure from the aforesaid Lewis the French King of his Subjects Forces and Soldiers then and yet Enemies of our said Lord the King that now is great numbers of Soldiers and Armed men this Kingdom of England to Invade and Fight with and to levy procure and prepare great numbers of Armed men and Troops and Legions against our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is to rise up and be formed and with those Enemies at and upon such their Invasion and Entrance into this Kingdom of England to join and unite Rebellion and War against him our said Sovereign Lord the King within this Kingdom of England to make levy and wage and the same our Sovereign Lord the King so as aforesaid to Depose and him to Kill and Murder And further with the said false Traytors the same first day of July in the year abovesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid Traiterously you did consult consent and agree to send the aforesaid Robert Chernock as a Messenger from you the said Sir William Parkyns and the same other Traytors unknown as far as and into the Kingdom of France in parts beyond the Seas to James the Second late King of England to propose to him and desire of him to obtain of the aforesaid French King the Soldiers and Armed men aforesaid for the Invasion aforesaid to be made and Intelligence and Notice of such their Traiterous Intentions and Adhesions and all the Premises to the said late King James and the said other Enemies and their Adherents to give and exhibit and them to inform of other things particulars and circumstances thereunto relating as also Intelligence from them of the said intended Invasion and other things and circumstances concerning the Premises to receive and them to you the said Sir William Parkyns and the

less he came back again and brought an account of his Message to those Gentlemen that sent him This was in May or June last and so the further prosecution of the Design ceast at that time But Gentlemen the last Winter it was revived again and attempted and carried on very near to the obtaining a fatal Success And you will hear that the Prisoner at the Bar Sir William Parkyns has had too great a hand and been a very great Instrument in both the Parts of this wicked Conspiracy and Treason not only in the Invasion which he with others sent the Messenger over to pocure but also in the other part the blackest part even the Assassination of the King's Person About January last Sir George Barclay a Lieutenant of the Guards to King James in France was sent over into England to ingage Persons to joyn in the Conspiracy and Assassination and for his Assistance there were sent over with him and before and after him some 20 Troopers of the late Kings that were his Guards in France And Sir George Barclay to incourage the Persons that were to joyn and whom he had brought over with him pretended an Authority to justifie it that is a Commission from the late King James and he Communicates this Design to Mr. Chernock Mr. Porter and several others and amongst the rest to the Prisoner at the Bar Sir William Parkyns having a great Confidence in him and did acquaint him he had such a Commission and he shewed it him and that Commission was to levy War against the King's Person which they took to be a sufficient Authority for them to Assassinate the King's Person Gentlemen in order to the accomplishing this horrid Conspiracy there were several Meetings and Consultations had at which the Prisoner at the Bar was present and very active Sometimes they met at Capt. Porter's Lodgings at another time at the Naggs-head in Covent-Garden at another time at the Sun in the Strand and another time at the Globe in Hatton-Garden in order to accomplish this Design And at these Meetings you will hear they did propose several ways and methods for the execution of it and several Persons particularly one of them that have suffered the Punishment of the Law for this were appointed to go and view the Ground where the King's Person might most conveniently be assaulted Mr. King that was Executed for it was one Capt. Porter was another and one Knightly was the third and these did go to see the Ground And the day before they went there was a Meeting at which was present the Prisoner at the Bar and others wherein 't was concluded upon that they should go and they went accordingly to see the most convenient place for it They went to Brentford and afterwards to the other side of the Water to Richmond and survey'd all the Ground and the Place they pitch'd upon as the most proper for their purpose was when his Majesty should Return from Hunting to do it in the Lane betwixt Brentford and Turnham-Green And accordingly when they return'd in the Evening they came by appointment to the place where the rest of the Accomplices were to meet at the Nagg's-head Tavern in St. James's and gave an account of ther Proceedings and at that Meeting likewise was Sir William Parkyns the Prisoner at the Bar Mr. Chernock and several others and upon the Report of Capt. Porter and Mr. King's Expedition they did Resolve the thing should be done in that place and that it should be done in this manner Sir George Barclay with about 8 or 10 in his Party who were to be chosen out of all the other Parties were to assault the King's Coach and endeavour to kill the King and all the rest that were in the Coach with him whilst the others in two Parties were to attack the Guards the number in all was to be about 40. This was fully agreed upon And Gentlemen the first time that they Resolved to put this Traiterous Design in Execution was the Fifteenth of February which was a Saturday the usual day that the King was wont to go a Hunting in but it hapned by great Providence that the King did not go abroad that day They had contrived further to make the thing sure that there should be two Persons whom they called orderly Men who should be placed at Kensington to give Notice when the King went abroad and Chambers was one and Durance that was a Fleming was another and Durance was likewise imployed to view the Inns about Turnham-Green and Brentford for the lodging of their Men who were to be placed two or three in an Inn that they might not be observed Gentlemen the first Day appointed for the accomplishing this Design which was the 15th of February being over and they disappointed yet they did afterwards resolve to go on and execute it And the next Saturday which was the 22th of February was pitched upon for the time of Execution and accordingly on Friday the 21th of February the day before there was a Meeting at the Nag's-head in Covent Garden and there was present Sir George Barclay Capt. Porter and several others and amongst the rest the Prisoner at the Bar was there they had at first some Discourse among them that they were in doubt because of the first Disappointment whether there had not been some Discovery but that Doubt was soon over for it was said it could not be so for then they should not have been there together That seemed probable and the Disappointment was imputed to some Accident and that gave them new Assurance to go on and they were resolved to do it in the same manner as they had formerly resolved on the next Day which was Saturday Gentlemen at that Meeting Mr. Porter acquainted them that he had the Misfortune to have some of his Horses fallen sick or lame and he acquainted the Prisoner with it and Sir William Parkyns was careful to supply him with other Horses and told him he could get a Note from one Lewis who I think is Major of the Horse to my Lord Feversham to get three Horses and accordingly he did send a Note for three Horses to Mr. Lewis Upon the 22th of February in the Morning which was the time for the Execution of this bloody Conspiracy they had met together and resolved to go on with it and put it in Execution and they had Notice from Chambers that the King did go a Hunting that Day and there was great Joy among them all thinking themselves sure and so they ordered all things to be got ready But afterwards about One a Clock there came other News that the King did not go abroad but the Guards were all come back in great haste their Horses being all of a Foam and the King's Coaches were sent back to the Mews then they began to be in a great Consternation and they thought the thing had taken Air and was discovered This Gentlemen is a short Account

the Gown of his Infirmities his Age and his Family Arguments of Pity I am very unfit to give an Answer to and should be very unwilling to extinguish any Motions of it but this I must observe even by way of Answer to that Argument That the Time was when he should have pittied himself and not engaged in such an Abominable and Merciless a Design That he should have had Pity upon his Countrey which he Plotted to bring under the greatest Confusion and Desolation That he should have had Pity upon the best of Kings and the best of Men but then there was no Pity when they thought they had laid their Designs so that they had him in their Power but they resolved Barbarously to murder him and persisted in the Resolution of Assassinating him after they were once Disappointed That it seems did not discourage them but they undertook it a Second Time and it does not appear that they ever had any Remorse at last for it but the Plot broke out and so their whole Design was frustrated My Lord This is the Sum I think of his Defence I have as well as I was able given an Answer to the Objections made to it and I must now leave it with you Gentlemen of the Jury And though these Considerations that I have mentioned may not quite remove all Compassion yet they may serve to confirm you in a Resolution of doing the King and Kingdom and your Selves Justice and that is all we ask of you L. C. J. H. Gentlemen of the Jury Sir William Parkyns is Indicted of High Treason for Designing Imagining and Compassing the Death of the present King There have been several Witnesses produced that have given Evidence upon this Indictment The first of them is Mr. Porten who has been a Witness heretofore against several upon the like Occasion and he gives you this Account That about 〈…〉 of May o● the beginning of June last there was a meeting of diver Persons at the 〈…〉 ngs-Head Tavern in Leaden-Hall-street in the City where they dined together and there was Sir William Parkyns Captain Porter himself Sir John Fenwick Sir John Friend and divers others that he has mentioned to you At that meeting they did consult together which way the late King James might be Restored and it was thought very necessary that there should be a French Force sent over hither to join with others for his Restoration And they did among themselves agree and determine what number of Forces might be convenient for that Purpose they did propose Ten Thousand Eight Thousand Foot One Thousand Horse and One Thousand Dragoons And that a Message should be sent over to King James to perswade him to sollicit the French King to furnish him with such a Number of Men to be sent over into England Mr. Chernock that was then in the Company and was the Person agreed upon among them to be the Messenger to be sent upon this Errand which Imployment he did undertake upon their Promise that they would raise among themselves Two Thousand Horse for to meet the late King at his Landing This being at that time determined and Mr. Chernock having accepted this Imployment he did make preparation to go upon this Errand In some time after a Week or a Fortnight or thereabouts there was another Meeting at which were several of the same Persons that were present at the former and among them Sir William Parkyns was one And this Meeting was at one Mrs. Mountjoy's that keeps a Tavern in St. James's street where they did discourse of what they had formerly agreed upon and did again consider whether they should proceed to send Mr. Chernock with that Message to which they all agreed that Mr. Chernock should go and he accordingly went and Captain Porter met him about five or six Weeks after the Meeting at Mrs. Mountjoy's and Chernock told him he had been in France and that since his return he had been with the several persons who had sent him and had acquainted them with the Answer of King James which was that at that Juncture of time the French King had such occasion for his Forces that he could not then spare them or furnish him with so many to come over here This is the first matter that Porter gives you an account of But then Captain Porter tells you further how the Design of Assassinating the King was set on foot about the latter end of January or the beginning of February last About which time Sir George Barckley was sent over with a Commission from the late King James which seems to have given great incouragement to that Party of Men for Sir George Barckley Captain Porter and Sir William Parkyns with divers others had several Meetings at the Globe Tavern in Hutton Garden the Nags Head Tavern in Covent Garden the Sun Tavern in the Strand and other places And at these Meetings they entred into Consideration what was the best way to Restore the late King James to the Throne and it was agreed among them King William which they resolved to undertake and at these Debates and Resolutions Sir William Parkyns the Prisoner at the Bar was present Captain Porter being askt whether Sir William Parkyns at these Consults did consent to the King's Murder he said they did all agree to the Assassination of the King and Sir William Parkyns said he thought it was very necessary to be done to facilitate the Restoration of the late King Gentlemen This Design of the Assassinating the King being thus Resolved upon the next thing Considered among them was how it might be effected there were several ways proposed one was by an Ambuscade for the King having a House in the Country by Richmond His Majesty used to go once a Week a Hunting thereabout and to return at night and therefore an Ambuscade on that side of the Water near the House was proposed then another Proposal was made to fall upon the Guards on this side the Water and at the same time that the King's Coach was to be set upon And these two places being proposed there was some difference of Opinion among them whereupon it was agreed that some Persons should be sent to view the Ground on both sides the Water which Persons were Captain Porter King that was Executed and one Knightley and so some days before the 15th of February they did go on both sides the Water and viewed the Ground and returned in the Evening to the Nags Head Tavern according to agreement where were met together Sir George Barckley Mr. Chernock and the Prisoner at the Bar Sir William Parkyns And there they made their Report done of their view of the Ground and upon which both the Proposals were Debated and at last they did all agree that the Attack should be made upon the King on this side of the Water in a Lane that was between Brentford and Turnham Green and the Attack upon the Guards was likewise to be made

for the satisfaction of all others that hear this Tryal My Lord Sir William Parkyns has truly divided his Indictment into two Parts the one that accuses him of being concerned in the Assassination and the other that accuses him of being concerned in Inviting the French into the Kingdom and Ingaging to meet them with an armed Force My Lord As to the first part I must do Sir William Parkyns that Right that there is but one positive Evidence as to the Assassination but that Evidence tells ye he agreed to it at several Meetings nay that he was one who said it was necessary to be done in order to the other Design he was Ingaged in the facilitating the Landing of the French and King James his Descent and Restauration There is I say indeed but one Witness of that Matter but the Evidence of that one Witness is confirmed by many concurring Circumstances by his sending for Horses to Town the Day before the first Saturday when this Exercrable Treason was to have been Executed by sending them out of Town again that Day upon the Disappointment by sending for them again the Friday before the second Saturday that the King was to have been Assassinated by his having more Horses than were usual with him that Day by his taking care then of three Horses that were none of his own and one of them brought very suspiciously from Somerset-House and that all these eight Horses should be immediately hurried and carried away upon the Disappointment the second Saturday and nothing ever heard of them afterwards I say one of them was brought very suspiciously for my Lord you observe it came from Somerset-House and sent by Lewis according to the Prisoner's Promise to Captain Porter which Lewis it is apparent by all the Witnesses of this Matter was privy to this Design My Lord There is another Circumstance besides this which I think has not been observed and that is his sending for Sweet up to Town before the second time that the King was to have been Assassinated he came up indeed before both the times The first time he was told by the Prisoner he had once designed to have used him in a Business but upon second Thoughts he had Compassion for his Family And when he came the second time he was first ask'd what Condition he had left his Family in whether he had provided them Money He said No and thereupon new as Chid And the Prisoner said he might then as well have staid at home All these Circumstances besides the one positive Evidence savour strongly of his having a great Hand in the Design of Assassinating the King But then my Lord As to the other Part his Inviting the French and preparing to meet them that is possitively proved by two Witnesses Captain Porter tells you That the Prisoner was at the two Meetings in Leaden-hall-street and St. James's street where it was expresly resolved by all that were present and the Prisoner among the rest to send Chernock over to invite the French to invade this Kingdom and to promise to meet King James at his Landing with Two Thousand Horse He Swears That Sir William Parkyns did particularly agree to what was so Resolved upon at both the Consults And Sweet tells you that he had prepared for the same Design for that Sir William Parkyns told him the King would Land he had his Word for it and he himself had a Troop of Old Soldiers My Troop does consist he spoke it in the present Tense for it being a Doubt Sir William Parkyns did himself that Right as to examine the Witness again and he repeated it as his Words My Troop consists of Old Soldiers or is composed of Old Soldiers And he was to have several Volunteers that had been Officers My Lord These Two positive Witnesses are Evidence that goes to the same Species of Treason nay to the same Design the raising a Rebellion and the Deposing the King which is Killing him in his politick Capacity I say these Two go home to the same Design And my Lord This Evidence upon this branch of the Indictment is corroborated too by very strong Circumstances There is a Journey to Leicester which Sweet speaks of that Sir William Parkyns told him he would undertake This Journey it is proved by his Servant that he did undertake that he met there with several Persons and came back and made his Report to Sweet of the Success of his Journey and how well Disposed the King's Friends were by which Name he always meant King James for when he spoke of our present King he called him the Little Gentleman or sometimes King William and sometimes as the Witness at last said positively the Prince of Orange But when he spoke of the King without any thing else he always meant King James and besides he spoke of a King that was beyond Sea at Christmas last which could not be King William who was then and had been in England so long before My Lord the Prisoner in his Defence says That this Servant of his that went with him into Leicestershire had been formerly Chernock's Servant and was sent by Chernock with the Message to Kensington and not by him Yet I must observe that the Evidence swore positively he was sent by Sir William Parkyns his Master and brought the Note in the Almanack back to the Person to whom he was directed to carry it who lodged at the Confectioners House and when he had so done that the Person that Lodged at the Confectioners did not remit him to Chernock but to his Master Sir William Parkyns with a Message that he would be at Home and stay there ready whenever he should have occasion for him and this was upon the very Saturday the King was to have been Assassinated My Lord Sir William Parkyns has complained that if he could have had his Evidence here he could have proved the Arms had been two years in his House and that he found them there when he came thither first If we should admit that Matter we might Confess and avoid it for it is apparent that these Arms were on this Occasion put up in a suspicious manner in Boxes and sent to Haywood's who is a Suspicious Person by reason of his Relation to Chernock upon whose Letter and Recommendation they were received and concealed till the Plot was disappointed and then they were carried away from that place and buried in Sir William Parkyns's own Garden This was just after the breaking out of the Plot and they were buried for the better securing them as choice Goods And whereas the Prisoner says they were old and rusty when he found them it now appears they were clean and new-furbish'd Arms and the Hilts were off the Swords and pack'd together My Lord he has Recourse to another Argument in the last Place the most moving I must confess of all and that is the Argument of Pity He has spoke of his Education in the Profession of