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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25929	Articles of impeachment of high treason, and other high crimes and offences, against William Earl of Powis, William Visount Stafford, Henry Lord Arundel of Wardour, William Lord Petre, and John Lord Bellasis, now prisoners in the Tower		1680 (1680)	Wing A3843; ESTC R38536	3,200	4

Articles of Impeachment of High Treason and other high Crimes and Offences against William Earl of Powis William Viscount Stafford Henry Lord Arundel of Wardour William Lord Petre and John Lord Bellasis now Prisoners in the Tower THat for many years now last past there hath been contriv'd and carryed on a Traiterous and Execrable Conspiracy and Plot within this Kingdom of England and other places to alter change and subvert the ancient Government and Laws of this Kingdom and Nation and to suppress the true Religion therein established and to extirpate and destroy the Professors thereof which said Plot and Conspiracy was contrived and carryed on in divers places and by several wayes and means and by a great number of Persons of several Qualities and Degrees who acted therein and intended thereby to execute and accomplish the aforesaid Wicked and Traiterous Designs and Purposes That the said William Earl of Powis William Viscount Stafford Henry Lord Arundel of Wardour William Lord Petre and John Lord Bellasis together with Philip Howard commonly called Cardinal of Norfolk Thomas White alias Whitebread commonly called Provincial of the Jesuits in England Richard Strange late Provincial of the Jesuits in England _____ Vincent commonly called Provincial of the Dominicans in England James Corker commonly called President of the Benedictines Sir John Warner alias Clare Barronet William Harcourt John Keines Nicholas Blundel Pole Edward Mico Thomas Bedingfield alias Benifield Bazill Langworth Charles Peters Richard Peters John Conyers Sir George Wakeman John Fenwick Dominick Kelly _____ Fitz-Gerralt _____ Evers Sir Thomas Preston William Lovell Jesuits Lord Baltamore John Carrel John Townley Richard Langhorn William Foggarty Thomas Penny Matthew Medburn Edward Coleman William Ireland John Grove Thomas Pickering John Smith and divers others Jesuits Priests and Fryars and other persons as false Traytors to his Majesty and this Kingdom within the time aforesaid have Trayterously consulted contrived and acted to and for the accomplishing of the said wicked pernicious and Trayterous Designs and for that end did most wickedly and Traterously agree conspire and resolve to Imprison depose and murther his Sacred Majesty and to deprive him of his Royal State Crown and Dignity and by malicious and advised speaking writing and otherwise declared such their Purposes and Intentions And also to subject this Kingdom and Nation to the Pope and his Tyrannical Government And to seize and share amongst themselves the Estates and Inheritances of his Majesty's Protestant Subjects And to erect and restore Abbies Monasteries and other Convents and Societies which have been long since by the Laws of this Kingdom supprest for their Superstition and Idolatry and to deliver up and restore to them the Lands and Possessions now invested in His Majesty and his Subjects by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm And also to Found and Erect new Monasteries and Convents and to remove and deprive all Protestant Bishops and other Ecclesiastical Persons from their Offices Benefices and Preferments and by this means to destroy His Majesties Person extirpate the Protestant Religion overthrow the Rights Liberties and Properties of all His Majesties good Subjects subvert the lawful Government of this Kingdom and subject the same to the Tyranny of the See of Rome That the said Conspirators and their Complices and Confederates trayterously had and held several Meetings Assemblies and Consultations wherein it was contrived and designed amongst them what means should be used and what Persons and Instruments should be employed to murder His Majesty and did then and there resolve to effect it by poysoning shooting stabbing or some such-like ways and means and offered Rewards and Promises of Advantage to several Persons to execute the same and hired and employed several wicked Persons to go to Windsor and other places where His Majesty did reside to murder and destroy His Majesty which said Persons or some of them accepted such Rewards and undertook the perpetrating thereof and did actually go to the said places for that end and purpose That the said Conspirators the better to compass their Trayterous Designs have consulted to raise and have procured and raised Men Money Horses Arms and Amunition and also have made application to and treated and corresponded with the Pope his Cardinals Nuncios and Agents and with other Foreign Ministers and Persons to raise and obtain Supplies of Men Money Arms and Amunition therewith to make levy and raise War Rebellion and Tumults within this Kingdom and to Invade the same with Foreign Forces and to surprize seize and destroy His Majesties Navy Forts Magazines and places of strength within this Kingdom Whereupon the Calamities of War Murders of Innocent Subjects Men Women and Children Burnings Rapines Devastations and other dreadful miseries and mischiefs must inevitably have ensued to the ruine and destruction of this Nation That the said Conspirators have procured accepted and delivered out several Instruments Commissions and Powers made and granted by or under the Pope or other unlawful and usurping Authority to raise and dispose of Men Money Arms and other things necessary for their wicked and trayterous Designs and namely a Commission to the said Henry Lord Arundel of Wardour to be Lord High Chancellor of England to the said William Earl of Powis to be Lord Treasurer of England Another Commission to the said John Lord Bellasis to be General of the Army to be raised and the said William Lord Petre to be Lieutenant General of the said Army and a Power to the said William Viscount Stafford to be Pay-master of the Army That in order to encourage themselves in prosecuting their said wicked Plots Conspiracies and Treasons and to hide and hinder the discovery of the same and to secure themselves from Justice and punishment the Conspirators aforesaid and Confederates have used many wicked and Diabolical Practises viz. They did cause their Priests to Administer to the said Conspirators an Oath of Secrecy together with their Sacrament and also did cause their said Priests upon Confessions to give their Absolutions upon condition that they should conceal the said Conspiracy And when about the Month of September last Sir Edmundbury Godfrey a Justice of Peace had according to the Duty of his Oath and Office taken several Examinations and Informations concerning the said Conspiracy and Plot the said Conspirators or some of them by Advice Assistance Counsel and Instigation of the rest did incite and procure divers persons to lye in wait and pursue the said Sir Edmundbury Godfrey several dayes with intent to murther him which at last was penetrated and effected by them for which said horrid Crimes and Offences Robert Green Henry Berry and Lawrence Hill have since been attainted and Dominick Kelly and _____ Gerald and others are fled for the same After which Murther and before the Body was found or the Murther known to any but the Complices therein the said persons falsly gave out that he was alive and privately married and after the Body was found dispersed a false and malicious Report that he had murthered himself Which said Murther was committed with design to stifle and suppress the Evidence he had taken and had knowledge of and to discourage and deter Magistrates and others from acting in the further discovery of the said Plot and Conspiracy for which end also the said Sir Edmundbury Godfrey while he was alive was by them their Complices and Favourites threatned and discouraged in his proceedings about the same And of their further malice they have wickedly contrived by many false suggestions to lay the imputation and guilt of the aforesaid horrid and detestable Crimes upon the Protestants that so thereby they might escape the Punishments they have justly deserved and expose the Protestants to great scandal and subject them to Persecution and Oppression in all Kingdoms and Countries where the Roman Religion is received and professed All which Treasons Crimes and Offences above mentioned were contrived committed perpetrated acted and done by the said William Earl of Powis William Lord Viscount Stafford Henry Lord Arundel of Wardour William Lord Petre and John Lord Bellasis and every of them and others the Conspirators aforesaid against our Soveraign Lord the King his Crown and Dignity and against the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom Of all which Treasons Crimes and Offences the Knights Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament assembled do in the Name of themselves and of the Commons of England Impeach the said William Earl of Powis William Viscount Stafford Henry Lord Arundel of Wardour William Lord Petre and John Lord Bellasis and every of them And the said Commons by Protestation saving to themselves the liberty of exhibiting at any time hereafter any other Accusations or Impeachments against the said William Earl of Powis William Viscount Stafford Henry Lord Arundel of Wardour William Lord Petre and John Lord Bellasis and every of them and also of replying to the Answers which they and every of them shall make to the Premises or any of them or to any other Accusation or Impeachment which shall be by them exhibited as the Cause according to course and proceedings of Parliament shall require do pray that the said William Earl of Powis William Viscount Stafford Henry Lord Arundel of Wardour William Lord Petre and John Lord Bellasis and every of them may be put to answer all and every of the Premises and that such Proceedings Examinations Tryals and Judgments may be upon them and every of them had and used as shall be agreeable to Law and Justice and Course of Parliament Resolved that the said Articles be ingrossed