Charges of the Government and that whereas they were asâ—ured by the then Marquis of Huntley that they begun pretty well in Scotland and that if four Hundred Thousand Pound Per annum were setled in England upon the King your Brother and his Heirs for Ever that then your Brother would stand no more in need of this Peevish Parliament and when that he was Dispatcht their would be something for a Successor to come to therefore they prayed you in these Letters that you would Perswade the King your Brother to move in Parliament for an Additionall Revenue for such an Additionall Revenue for him and his Heirs Upon your sight of this Letter you did Prevail with the King to move it in Parliament and what became of the Motion we all well know for though your Pensioners were willing to often to grant the King a sum of Money yet for fear of becoming as useless to themselves as they had been Dangerous to their Countrey they fairely denied him such a Revenue but the Jesuits when they found their Expectation Defeated did Write to these Lords that notwithstanding the unwillingness of the Parliament to settle such a Revenue that they questioned not but to find a Sufficient Revenue for the Successor without the help of a Parliament which Letter you saw and was much pleased that the Jesuits were concerned for the support of the Successor 10. That when your villanous Conspiracy was Discovered the said Lord Arundel of VVardour in your presence did chide Justice Godfrey and told him that he had been to forward in taking my Depositions which did put Godfrey into great feares as he told me but a Week before he was missing and that he told him in your Presence the Day before the King went to New-market that the said Justice Godfrey would finde the Parliament would give him no thanks for his paines LORD POWIS It is time to hasten to this Noble Lord and put you in mind how far he was Ingaged with you in your mighty Work that you had upon your Hand and you must own him as necessary a Traytor as you had in the whole bunch therefore to ingage him to you he had your Countenance and in return of such a favour he was as Obsequious as any of them all Therefore 1. You may remember that at your direction he Intertained in his House one William Morgan one of the Consult held in April 1678 and that this Lord Powis knew him to be such for by his then Secretary which was Mr. Peirson he sent a note to speake with Mr. Morgan in which he said he hoped that they had come to a Resolution in the affair it being four of the Clock in the Afternoon by this Peirson the Lord Powis received his Commission to be Lord High Treasurer of England from Feâ—wick and Ireland and this Peirson delivered to them a Letter from the Lord Powis and 300 l. for the use of the Society in which Letter he said that he would venture his Life and Fortune in the affairs and give me leave to tell you that I saw the Commision before that Ireland and Fenwick had it at Langhorn's Chamber in the Temple 2. That there was a Commission from Rome that the Government of the Nation should be in the Hands of the Lord Powis and the Lord Belasys but the Lord Arundel of Wardour who was alwayes to preside in their councels and by the way of Coleman you were to have an account of their Resolution and by the way I pray observe that Powis and Arundel of Wardour had Negotiated between you and the Pope for Eight Years and that Powis and Belasys was also to Execute all such orders that they received from the Generall of the Jesuits and the French King with which you were also acquainted from time to time by Mr. Coleman and some times by the Father Generall himself and from Lachaise on the behalfe of the French King and from both those that you might not appear least the evil that fell upon Coleman might have been your Portion 3. Further to oblige you the good Lord Powis bred up his Soâ— at the Jesuits Colledge at Paris and in order to his better Reception there you recomended him to the care of Father Lachaise and in his Letter to his Son there was one sent to Father Lachaise in which he and the rest of the Popish Lords engaged with you in the Conspiracy against the Religion and Government earnestly importune the aid and assistance of the French King which Letters bore date about the latter part of December 1677 and in his Letters to the Fathers at St. Omers of the same date in which his Lordship protested his Prudence in the managing the design there on Foot and that he had distributed the 2000 Tickets amongst the Catholick Party in the West that were then Well-wishers which were to be their Protection from the Rage of those who were to come from France to Suppress the Protestant Party and that he had a good Friend that had a great authority in Wales and the bordering Counties that would Joyn in with the Catholick Party and in a Particular manner promised that the Militia in Wales should not be in any posture to give them any Opposition and that he had procured severall to be made Deputy Lieutenants by the favour of his good Friend that had promised to appear for the Catholick Party when the Design should take effect and that it did become them to bear a Signall respect to his Friend which he Named but I will not but your old Friend Mr. Arnold can for a need for he hath been an Excellent Friend of his the cleane contrary way and how the said Lord gave a great Incomium of Sr. Politick Fring Mr. Arnold's Friend for that he had made several worthy Justices in those parts that were hearty Men in the cause what ever the World thought of them 4. That in other Letters of more Ancient Date to the Fathers at St. Omers he the said Lord Powis did write to the Jesuits that he had procured severall forward Fellowes to be turned out of the Commission of the peace Particularly Mr Arnold and Mr. Scudamore and others did but Bark against the Catholicks and you told them that you were pleased that a Lieutenancy through out all England should be constituted of such as should be True Men and further assured them that there was great summs would be Expended as soone as you should receive that summ of 300000 l. from the French King to enable you and these Letters bore date 1675. And another of 1675 And furthermore told the Fathers in that of 1675 that great numbers were dayly converted to the Faith and obedience of the Roman Catholick Church 5. In his Letters of June 1678 he the said Lord Powis acquainted the Fathers that Mr. Coleman was to open in his business and did desire the Fathers to admonish Mr. Coleman to be more close and stick more to
that related to yourself and that was put in by trusty Ned your own Secretary after that you had perused the Memorial with whom you had been very rash with him about an affront he had put upon Sir Allen Apsly in relation to Religion of which he had complained to you for Coleman was as Impudent on the one hand as you were short in your Judgment on the other which many times did much prejudice your Design and truely it was his impudence and your Folly that helped to deliver the Nation 2. That this Lord Arundel of Wardour did give Money to pervert several of the Subjects of England under the notion of Charity which was distributed by Fenwick and Ireland for the use of Poor Converts and no other need I did see the Mony distributed to several Persons perverted as the Lord Arundel's mony in the Month of December 1677 and in the Month of June 1678 in Drury-lane at Fennicks Chamber that Money in June 1678 was 160 l. that was given to about 80 People that Fenwick had Perverted to the Church of Rome 3. That the Lord Arundel of Wardour was privy to the Consult held in April and May in which the Death of the King your Brother was determined for in the beginning of May this Fenwick gave that noble Lord a full account of the unanimous Resolution of the Fathers of the Society in that Point and it was at the same time this noble Lord signed a Bill of 250 l. for the use of the Societies in carrying on their Design 4. This Lord Arundel as mighty as you appear to be had the chief managing of the Affairs of the Popish Party and the Negotiations between you and the French King both as to War and Peace and between the Pope and you in reference to Religion was manag'd by him and you could never have Obtained the Kingdom till that in the Month of June 1678 you had engaged to the French King and the General of the Jesuits who acted with you on the behalf of the Bishop of Rome to take the Kingdom upon the termes the Pope and the French King would allow of and then you fully complied and Arundel was made choice of and was to have been your chief Minister of State and your trusty and well beloved Cuckold and Councellour was to have had a Cardinals Hat with which Sir I suppose you will at this time be content and be glad if you can come of so fairly 5. The Lord Arundel of VVardour did take a Commission from the General of the Jesuits to be high Chancellor of England which was delivered to him by one of Langhorn's Son and to my Knowledge he owned the Receipt of the said Commission in Colemans presence and also by a letter to Fenwick who shewed me the Letter by which the World may see what a Dogs-turd of a King you were like to be for you durst not for your Ears have granted that Commission therefore to Skreen you from the imputation of a Traitour and the French King of an Invader you and he agreed to put it upon the General of the Society who with some difficulty undertook the Province and was on the Popes behalf to choose your Officers both Civil and Military and the Dignities of the Church had not the Design been Discovered which made all of you that did not suffer the Justice of the Nation to alter your Measures 6. That your Servant Coleman having held a long Correspondency with the See of Rome and finding that the Pence he Received did not answer his expectation he began to flag and complain of the same to the Lord Arundel of Wardour but the Lord Arundel was resolved that Coleman should not be discharged and therefore the Lord Arundel writ to the Fathers of the Society and complained of the slowness of the Court of Rome of remitting Mony to England and in the Letter to the Fathers of St. Omers was one inclosed to Cardinal Howard of which there was answer that the Cardinal did not question but that he should obtain a good Pension from the Pope for Coleman and after some time did obtain the said Pension for honest Ned and then he went on briskly and you know that at that very time your Pacquet went a Copy of which Coleman Communicated to the Fathers in London which I had the opportunity of seeing and it did farther appear to me by the constant Correspondence that they held with the Jesuits at St. Omers in the Year 1675 76 77 1678. that he had been a great support to Coleman in those his Correspondences with the General of the Jesuits and Lachaise 7. This Lord Arundel of VVardour by your especial Direction did acquaint the Fathers at St. Omers in what awe you kept the Justices of Wiltshire insomuch they durst not appear to put the Laws in Execution against the Roman-Catholicks and told some that they were more forward than they had thanks for their Paines and that they must expect that if they were more mild they would find that which was Sauce for a Goose was Sauce for a Gander and in that Letter expressed much Joy that there was every day a fine increase of the number of Roman Catholicks especially in VVales Herefordshire and Staffordshire 8. This Lord Arundel of VVardour told Mr. Fenwick at his Chamber in my hearing that he did not question but to have Berwick upon Tweed put into the Hands of the Scotch Roman Catholicks and that it would be a good refuge for the Scotch Party which Scotch Party you know a parcel of Scotch Highlanders Cut-Throats that were to molest all the North Parts of England and the Fife in Scotland and that the Castle of Edenburgh was to be put into the Hands of the then Marquiss of Huntly so that you were sure of doing your business in the North without much Opposition you by your Tool Lauderdale having brought that Kingdom intosuch Slavery that the Poor Protestants had but little hopes of Recovering their Liberties and I do believe they would have chosen rather to have fallen into the Hands of the Popish party than to have continued under that Slavery they groaned under by the Tyrany of Lauderdale and his Villanous Scotch Prelates but how they could have mended their Condition by falling into their Hands I am yet I confess to learne 9. That the Lord Belasys the Lord Arundel of VVardour the Lord Powis the Lord Stafford and the Lord Baltimore met and held a Committee at VVild-House and this Lord Arundel was in the Chair and Mivo the Jesuit sat Secretary to them at that time and a letter was drawn up to Coleman to Communicate to you and the Import of the said Letter was this that whereas Peter Talbot the Arch-Bishop of Dublin had informed them that the Duke of Ormond then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland would endeavour to raise the Revenue of Ireland to be two Hundred thousand Pounds Per annum for ever over and above all the
Nation the Poor Cavalier party under the persecution of their adversaries the Parliamenteers lived quietly upon that part of their Estates which was permitted them after their composition and there was a face of Religion in the Nation whereas upon your return all sortâ— of men even some professors themselves did too much imitate the prodigality and luxury of the Court which scarce entertained any but upon these terms then to Crown all to humour the King your Brother the publick Theatres were stuffed with the most obscene and filthy actions and interludes one would have thought that Laude had been raised from the dead and his Brother Mazarine to have written Books on the behalf of these proceedings to prove that for the King's comfort they might be more obscene to justifie that two Priests had the management of the Play-house and to grace the business had engaged their new Gracious Master to be present at the first opening those Scenes of filthiness persons brought to such a degree of prophaneness and ungodliness came in little time to be of no Religion whatever their profession was before and therefore indifferent to seem to be of any further than Interest and Temptation should incline them so no man will have much list or any considerable propensity to be of that Religion that shall condemn those practices they are resolved upon now it is evident that there is no perswasion in the World that so much countenanceth debauchery and prophaneness as the Religion of the Church of Rome and so you had the success you expected in debauching the Nation for how many turned Papists to gratify their own and your lusts at once but enough of this in the sixteenth Article 2. The second step you took was a wicked Oath you imposed upon the Nation the Oath was in these words I A. B. do declare and believe that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King and that I do abhor that Traiterous position of taking Arms by his Authority against his person or against those who are Commissionated by him so help me God Truly Sir you are a pretty Gentleman I pray let me have you pretty picture with this Oath coming out of your Mouth and I do believe it would make a pretty show and if I should be so happy as to see such a sight I would say that this well contrived Test was of the first impression for I never met with any of our antient Laws that ever obliged any to swear to an opinion or belief for I humbly conceive not without some reason that if swearing could determine all Controversies and beliefs all learning reasonings and instruction would be at an end I wonder therefore our Prick-eared Priests would ever ascend a Pulpit or our Bishops in Charles s time took so much pains in the alterations and additions of that useful Book that takes up its quarters so near the Bible in the Churches if swearing to beliefs and opinions was of such use in your Brother's Government since he that swore the most had the Mastership of more Logick and Religion than his non-swearing Brethren you designs could not well have gone on till you had sworn the members of Corporations not to give your Crew any opposition for they had been so often beaten by the Non-swearers of those times that they never love fighting and because they were a parcel of cowardly fellows they were resolved to forswear fighting and that they might not meet with such rugged exercise from others they instead of fighting made them take up this more gentle trade of swearing that they would not fight and when you had tied up their hands from that sort of practice by this new Oath you go to work to destroy us believing that none would give you any opposition since they had so lustily promised to be quiet by this pretty Oath they had taken and in time Sir you had improved the point to such a pitch that a Member of Parliament could scarce enter upon any debate of any expedient for the defence of the Laws and Liberties of his Country but his Nose was wiped with this Oath and looked upon as criminal if he should vote for an Act of Parliament to borrow the Militia of the King it looking like entering into an actual War against the King you and your Traiterous party thought to have done wonders with this Oath and truly they went a great way with it but it never did a Tyrants business yet nor never will For do but remember that there was a Test that passed the Convocation in the short Parliament that met in April 1640 to preserve the Hierarchy of the Church of England your Companions you have with you will tell you that it did not for the very next Parliament within the compass of a Year dismiss'd the Bishops sitting in the House of Lords at which some of them gnashed their Gums they having no Teeth to exercise that gift withal for which they caged a goodly Troop of them in the Tower with his Majesty's Lyons not for their Lamb-like carriage in the high Commission Court or their Dove-like behaviour in the Star Chamber nay the poor Deans and Arch-deacons they had a share in their favour for the Parliament eased them of all Temporal Jurisdiction nay here was worse than all this England and Scotland entring into Covenant to extirpate that order of Men the Covenant that was crowded out by the engagement the engagement made its exit upon the Protector 's assuming the Government truly a Man that had but an Irish understanding might have thought that Men had sworn so long till they cared not what they swore or to whom Old Monk before he came out of Scotland caused all the Scots to renounce and abjure your whole Family and so he did the Irish Brigade at his coming to London nay the abhorring and detesting of your Family was a great part of the last Speech and Confession of the dying Rump and within a short time in came your Family with several squadrons of Oaths as if your Government had been to have been supported with those Forces truly you made them serve to adorn your Government but this little Whipper Snapper of an Oath was to be its sweet Anchor but it did not do the business for though you had taken that Oath to your Brother it proved no antidote against his being poisoned nor you from being walked out of the Kingdom by your high Church Crew but to give you your due you and your Popish crew went as far with this Oath in your Conspiracy against the Lives and Liberties of England as Men could do for all men you judged were to obey and not to resist therefore you would give all diligence to secure the point to Pox us all with your French Power and Romish Religion there were several other Tests not worth the notice of any Man 3. A third Step you made to effect your design was the
thrive since you had the benefit of such admirable assistance so that reasonably you could expect nothing less than the extirpation of the Protestant Religion and the total overthrow of England's Liberties 4. You had a certain Queen that had received very great affronts from you know who her Bed invaded and defiled by a parcel of Whores and it was high time for her to declare her resentments by engaging her self in the Conspiracy especially since Mother Church was to be advanced and Heresie which had so long domineered in these Northern Countries to be extirpated she knew what assistance you had from aboard and therefore Good Lady she would not be behind hand at home especially since she could no otherways be revenged for all the wrong that had been done her She was brought upon the Stage for it but he that was most concerned thought he could do no less in point of Honour to preserve her though it was from the publick Justice of the Nation 5. You had your Female Companion which was pinn'd upon the Nation by the Advice and Counsel of Lewis your Ally who in order to secure your Brother and you to his Cause and Interest adopted her a Daughter of France and was to pay her Portion she was a main instrument to encourage Popery and Slavery and what intercourse there was between you and the See of Rome upon the Marriage with that hopeful piece of Houshold-stuff I have already shewed you in my first memorial the band of Pensioners had such a foresight of the sad consequences of that Marriage that they made many Votes and did Address the King your Brother to prevent the consummation thereof as appears in the Journals of the said Parliament and her carriage when she was Dutchess of York and when she wore the Name Stile and Title of Queen was a sufficient proof of her intentions to advance the design of subverting our Religion and changing the Government and murthering the King the Jesuits your trusty friends can well tell to this day 6. You had the standing Court-Whores that were engaged with you for this let me tell you that whoring and consuming the Treasure of the Nation were Crimes that were to be pardoned but their being State-Whores was the thing that rendered them in their day to be a greater grievance to the Nation for they were put upon your Brother to betray his Councils to Rome and France and it was by their aid and assistance that you compleated that mighty part of converting these Kingdoms by poysoning him for though he was a Papist yet not Papist enough to hold the Throne and what steps you took in his time you took by their assistance and sometimes you met with unexpected delays so that you could not preserve alive the work that was upon your hands and therefore it was resolved that he must dye that the work of the time might go on without contradiction or delay your Jesuits resolved upon it in the years 1676 1677 and 1678 the Whores agreed to it in 1677 8 upon the Marriage of the Prince of Orange with your Daughter 7. You had your Brother engaged with you in the whole design but that of his own life and I suppose you could not expect his consent to that part of the Conspiracy and therefore to prevent his Jealousie of that you forged a plot upon the Dissenting party and began with the Lord Claypoole who was committed to the Tower and you had two of your Popish Cut-throats ready cut and dried to have sworn him out of his life and several others so that you might destroy the King and lay his Death at the door of the Dissenting Protestants and in this Sir you happily failed when I appeared to take your Cause and Design and laid it before the Parliament who were willing to save your Brother's Reputation if it had laid in their power and his Life if he himself had been pleased graciously to consent to it but he would not and therefore through the blessing of God you did his business as effectually as if Sir George Wakeman had done it himself This I put down to shew you that since he would not let the Parliament preserve his life the destroying of which was one of the two good things that ever you did the other was your running away 8. You had our high Church brokers that through their folly and madness against poor Dissenters turn'd Pimps for nay prostituted themselves and their Cause to Rome and France rather than the Honest Party of England should escape the gracious Vengeance you designd for them Did they not to serve your Cause and Interest preach Sedition and villiâ—ie the Reformation promote Popery assert Popish Principles decry the Popish Plot and turn'd the same upon the Protestants and endeavour'd to subvert the Liberty and Property of the Subject and the Rights and Privileges of Parliaments In a word many of these Devils brokers they appear'd to all sober thinking men a very scandal and reproach to their Function And that I may clear this point I will instance in some of them by Name that the World may see these sort of Rogues how they help'd on Popery and Arbitrary Power to which they were by your Brother and you engaged and for the doing of which they had your Brother's Countenance and yours 1. The first I shall bring upon the Stage was old Sheldon a whoring wicked Fellow and in his younger days was as lewd as his Gown could make him It is well known that there was none greater than he and your Servant Coleman none more ready to satisfie your former Dutchess that she might turn Papist without any danger to her Soul This Sir was at your instance And to him 2. We joyn Morley that wicked Bishop of Winton that urged the Dutchess with the necessity of obeying her Husband and that there was but little difference between the two Religions and he hoped to live to see an Accommodation between the Church of Rome and the Church of England 3. Your old Friend Gunning he was a Fellow of rare Principles and of him I shall say nothing he having shewed himself in his own colours in the House of Lords in his time 4. Let me add old Cosins that met with his Friend a Papist after the Meeting at the Savoy upon the Return of your Brother and you to the ruine of the Nation and swore God damn me Old Boy we have sav'd Bell and the Dragon and we will not be long before we make your Church and ours to meet that we may be revenged of these Fanatick Rogues And 5. I will instance in Guy Carlton the Bishop of Chichester that said at the Bishop of Ely's Table in the hearing of Bishop Gulston and Gunning He had rather have Poperty than Presbytery in England for the Difference between the Church of England and the Church of Rome might be composed but it was impossible that ever the Presbyterians and the Church of