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A63228	The tryals of VVilliam Ireland, Thomas Pickering, & John Grove, for conspiring to murder the King who upon full evidence were found guilty of high treason at the session-house in Old-Bailye, Dec. 1, 1678, and received sentence accordingly.	Ireland, William, 1636-1679.; Pickering, Thomas, d. 1679.; Grove, John, d. 1679.; England and Wales. Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery (London and Middlesex).	1678 (1678)	Wing T2269; ESTC R33696	62,044	58

parish of St. Giles in the Fields in the County of Middlesex aforesaid and in other places within the said County of Middlesex falsly deceitfully advisedly maliciously and traiterously did lie in wait and endeavour to kill and murder our said Sovereion Lord the King and further that they the said Thomas White otherwise Whitebread William Ireland John Fenwick and other false Traitors unknown afterwards to wit the said 24th day of April in the said thirtieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord the King at the said parish of St Giles in the Fields in the County of Middlesex aforesaid falsly deceitfully advisedly maliciously devillishly and traiterously did prepare perswade excite abet comfort and counsel four other persons unknown and subjects of our said Soveraign Lord the King traiterously to kill and murder our said Sovereign Lord the King against the duty of their allegiance against the peace of our said Sovereign Lord the King his Crown and Dignity and against the form of the Statute in that behalf made and provided Upon this Indictment they have been arraigned and thereunto have severally pleaded Not guilty and for their Tryal have put themselves upon God and their Country which Country you are Your Charge therefore is to enquire whether they or any of them be guilty of the High Treason whereof they stand indicted or not guilty If you find them guilty you are to enquire what Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements those you find guilty had at the time of the High Treason committed or at any time since If you find them or any of them not guilty you are to enquire whether they did flee for it if you find that they or any of them fled for it you are to enquire of their Goods and Chattels as if you had found them guilty If you find them or any of them not guilty nor that they nor any of them fled for it say so and no more and hear your Evidence Make Proclamation for silence on both sides Which was done Then Sir Creswell Levings one of the Kings learned Council in the Law opened the Indictment thus Sir Cresw Levings May it please your Lordship and you Gentlemen of the Jury These Prisoners at the Bar Thomas White alias Whitebread William Ireland John Fenwick Thomas Pickering and John Grove do all stand indicted of High Treason for that whereas they as false Traytors meaning and designing to disturb the Peace of the Kingdom to levy War within the Kingdom to make miserable slaughter amongst the Kings Subjects to subvert the Religion established by the Law of the Land to introduce the Superstition of the Church of Rome and to bring to death and final destruction and to murder and assassinate our Soveraign Lord the King they did to effect these things the four and twentieth of April last assemble themselves together with many other false Traytors yet unknown in the parish of Saint Giles in the Fields in the County of Middlesex and there being so assembled the better to effect these designs did make agreements and conspire together first that Pickering and Grove should kill the King and that White and the rest of the persons that stand indicted with many other Traytors should say a great number of Masses for the soul of the said Pickering I think thirty thousand and they did further agree there that Grove should have a great sum of mony and upon this agre●●ment Grove and Pickering did undertake and promise they would do this fact and did then and there take the Sacrament and an oath to one another upon the Sacrament that they would conceal these their Treasons that they might the better effect them and that in pursuance of this Grove and Pickering did divers timesly in wait to murder the King and did provide Arms to do it and the Indictment further sets forth that White and Ireland and Fenwick and many other Traytors yet unknown did procure four other persons yet also unknown for to kill the King against the pea●●e of our Sovereign Lord the King his Crown and Dignity and against the form of the Statute These are the heads of those facts for which they stand indicted they have all pleaded not Guilty if we prove them or any of them Guilty of these or any of these facts according to the Evidence you shall have we hope you will find it Sir Samuel Baldwin one of his Majesties Serjeants at Law opened the Charge as followeth Sir Samuel Baldwin May it please your Lordship and you Gentlemen of the Jury the persons here before you stand indicted for High Treason they are five in number three of them are Jesuits one is a Priest the fifth is a Layman persons fitly prepared for the work in hand Gentlemen it is not unknown to most persons nay to every one amongst us that hath the least observed the former times how that ever since the Reformation there hath been a design carried on to subvert the Government and destroy the Protestant Religion established here in England for during all the Reign of Queen Elizabeth severall attempts were made by several Priests and Jesuits that came from beyond the Seas though the Laws were then severe against them to destroy the Queen and alter the Religion established here in England and to introduce Popery and the Superstition of the Church of Rome But the Conspirators from time to time during all the Queens Reign were disappointed as Edmond Camtion and several other Jesuits who came over in that time and were executed did suffer for their Treasons according to Law at length about the lat●●erend of the Queens time a Seminary for the English Jesuits was founded at Valled●●lid in Spain and you know the emyloyment such persons have And soon after the Queens death in the beginning of the Reign of King James several persons came over into England from this very Seminary who together with one Henry Garnet Superior of the Jesuits then in England and divers other English Papists hatched that hellish Gunpowder-plot whereby what was designed you all know but as it fell out these persons as well as those in Queen Elizabeths time were likewise disappointed for their execrable Treasons in the third year of King James were executed at Tyburn and otherplaces This is evident by the very Act of Parliament in 30. Jacobi in the preamble whereof mention is made that Creswel and Tesmond Jesuits came from Validolid in Spain to execute this Gunpowder-Treason with the Poplsh party here in England And Gentlemen after this Treason so miraculously discovered was punished one would not have thought that any future age would have been guilty of the like Conspiracy but it so falls out that the Mystery of Iniquity and Jesuitism still worketh for there hath of late been a sort of cruel bloody minded persons who in hopes to have better success than they had in fo●●mer times during the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James have set on foot as horrid a Design

as that of the Gunpowder-Treason I can resemble it to no other Plot or Design or Treason in any other time and truely it does resemble that in many particulars I may say it doth at least equal it if not exceed it I shall mention two or three particulars in which this Plot doth resemble that First that horrid Design was to take away the Life of the then King to subvert the Government to introduce the Popish Religion and to destroy the established protestant Religion in England and so Gentlemen we think our prooff will make it out that in each of these particulars this design is the same that that was Secondly the great Actors in that design were Preists and Jesuits that came from Valedolid in Spain and other places beyond the Seas And the great Actors in this Plot are Priests and Jesuits that are come from St. Omers and other places beyond the Seas nearer home then Spain Thirdly That plott was chiefly Guided and mannaged by Henry Garnett Superiour and provincial of the Jesuits then in England and the great Actor in this design is Mr. Whitebread Superiour and provincial of the Jesuits now in England so that I say in the several particulars it does resemble the Gun Powder plot Gentlemen In this plot of which the Prisoners now stand Indicted several Persons have several parts some of these persons are imployed to keep Correspondence beyond the Seas of which more hath been said in another place and so I shall not speak of it here Others were to procure and prepare Aid and Assistance here in England who were to be ready when there should be Occasion to use it But the great part these persons the prisoners at the Bar were to Act in this conspiracy was to take away the life of our Soveraigne Lord the King on whose preservation the safety and welfare of three nations and Millions of men does depend Now the facts for which the five prisoners stand Indicted I shall open thus First they are here Indicted for Conspireing the Death of his sacred Majesty They did agree to take away the Kings life and entring into such an agreement They hired some persons amongst them to doe it and this Agreement was made the 24th of April last 1678. Secondly There is another fact they likewise stand Indicted for That they did Endeavour and contrive to change and alter the Religion Established in the Nation and introduce P●●pery in tho room of it The manner how to Effect this was thus if my information be right you shall hear that from the Evidence Mr. Whitebread being resident here in England and superiour of the Jesuits did in February last think fit being impowred by Authority from Rome to give summons to the Jesuits abroade at St. Omers and other places beyond the Seas That they should come over here into England to be ready at London on the 24th of April the day laid in the Indictment and which is the day after St. Georges day and their design was as will appear by the proof to contrive how they may take away the life of the King for if that were once done they thought in all other things their design would easily be accomplished after the summons were out they were so Officious for the Accomplishing of this great end that between 40. and 50. Jesuits did appear here at London at the time for thither they were summoned and there the meeting was appointed to be at the White-horse Taverne in the strand they were to meet first but being so great a number that they were likely to be taken notice of if they came all together it was so Ordered they should come but a few at a time and go off in small numbers and others should succeed them till the whole number had been there And there were directions given and a Course taken that there should be some person to tell them whither they should go from thence After they had met there at several times in the same day they were appointed and adjourned to be at several other places some of them were appointed to be at Mr. Whitebreads Lodging and that was in Wild-street at one Mr. Sanders house Others were appointed to go 〈…〉 Lodging which was in Russelstreet and this Mr. Ireland was Treasurer of the Society an●● others were to meet at Mr. Fenwicks Chamber in Drury-Lane and he was at that time Procurator and Agent for that Society Others were appointed to meet at Harcourts Lodging and others at other places When they came there they all agreed to the general design of the first meeting which was To kill the King Then there was a paper or some instrument to be subscribed This was done and the Sacrament was taken for the concealment of it After that Whitebread Ireland Fenwick and others did agree that Mr. Grove and Mr. Pickering should be imployed to Assassiaate the King One of them Mr. Grove being a lay Brother was to have 15 hundred pounds a great sum the other as a more suitable reward for his pains was to have 30. Thousand Masses said for his Soul Mr. Whitebread Mr. Ireland and Mr. Fenwick were all privy to this design this was the 24th of April In August after they being appointed to kill the King but it not taking effect either their Hearts misgave them or they wanted opportunity there was another meeting at the Savoy where the Witnesses will tell you ●●our Irish persons were hired for to Kill the King And this was ordered in case the other design took not Effect There was fourscore pounds sent down to them to Windsor where they were to have done the fact After this other persons were appointed to do the Execution and they were to take the King at his Mornning Walk a●● New-Market These persons are all disappointed in their design But you shall hear what was the Agreement how it was carried on and what rewards were given to carry it on We shal acquaint you likewise that for the bottom of this design when so many Jesuits should come over when they should have so many Consultations and when they should resolve to Kill the King there could be no less then the altering of Religion and introduction of Popery here in England And that time at the first meeting they had Ordered that Mr. Cary a Jesuit as their Procurator and Agent should go to Rome to Act their concern there All which things and more will be made out to you by Witnesses produced There are likewise some other Circumstances that will be material to confirm those witnesses We shall produce to you a letter written in February last about that time that Mr. Whitebread sent over his summons for the Jesuits to appear here This letter was written by one Mr. Peters a Jesuit now in Custody and t is Written to one Tunstall a Jesuit to give him notice that he should be in London about the 21th of April and be ready on th●● 24th of April That he