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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25386	An account of the late horrid conspiracy to depose Their present Majesties, K. William and Q. Mary, to bring in the French and the late King James, and ruine the city of London ... also, some brief reflections on the trials of the Lord Preston, Major Ashton, and Mr. Elliot, who were chiefly concern'd therein, and found guilty / by a gentleman who was present at their trials.	Gentleman who was present at their trials.	1691 (1691)	Wing A313; ESTC R957	15,103	32

him there was so little Love ever lost Further if it should come to a Battle the very place was agreed on where they should fight the English not so high as last Summer near the Beachy but rather in the Chaps of the Channel And all this with the landing of the French and the publick defection of his Traytors at home who were immediately to come in to their assistance to be put in Execution as soon as possible after the departure of the King for Holland a Proclamation being prepared perhaps with as much as Coleman's Declaration for dissolving the Parliament to the same effect with what was discours'd in the Consult before mentioned setting all the Varnish possible on the Cause the Protestant Religion to be as surely established and defended as it was before they only to have the Government and all the poor harmless Catholicks to be left to nothing but their Devotions The Dispensing Power and Prerogative to be left where it was before that Controversie begun all Persons being also required to come under the French Standard and turn Traytors by such a day on pain of being used as if they were so In order to effect which Designs and carry on a Correspondence with the Enemies of the Nation several particular Cants being invented under which to cover their Treasonable Practices Some of the Letters were writ on pretence of Trade advising their Correspondents by all means to chuse such Factors as were bold and Industrious to fix probable ends and chuse fit means to bring them to an issue which they added was the life of Trade as well as Government Above all to be quick and expeditious as possible in their Resolutions and Actions the Sea being now open whereas a few Months hence 't would be very dangerous sailing Others were disguised in a Story of Tenants or Landlords acquainting the Person to whom 't is writ that many of the Freeholders were dissatifyed with their usage c. Others related to a Law-Suit as has been already mentioned some were Letters of Civility and Compliment as from one acquaintance to another assuing them that their Elder Brother and most of their Family were their true Friends and would continue so enquiring for their little Daughter whom tho' they had not yet seen they had heard described very pretty and Witty All this under seigned Names To Mr. Reading and Mrs. Reading Mr. Charleton and others Besides these they had several Characte●s and Keys affixed to them the more covertly to carry on the main business one wherein all the Letters of the Alphabet were made use of to signifie Persons and things one Letter standing for the K of France another for K. James a 3d. for the K. of England the Duke of Luxemburgh the Marquess with them Duke Powis and his Dutchess England Scotland Ireland Holland Dunkirk c. the Marquis of Carmarthen the Lord Devonshire the Lord Clarendon Lord Preston and several other great Persons both their Friends and Enemies But this was observable in most of their Letters that although they began with some of those sorts of Cants already mentioned and carried on the Humour pretty well yet before the Conclusion they used generally such high and profound expressions of respect and veneration as could agree to none with any common propriety of Speech but those of the first Quality and such as they thought their Soveraigns One good Man being so zealous in the Cause as to protest he could venture his hopes of Heaven upon it or an expression little below it if not the very same But after all that could be written said or done London still sticks in their Stomachs whose Citizens or Clergy they could by no means be pleased with the Clergy being as the significant memorandums express it almost all stark naught and the very worst of the whole Nation I wonder wherein have the Clergy of London obliged the Lord Preston so highly that he 's pleas'd to do them the honour of so ill a Character Not that 't is a new thing for Malefactors to give thofe who detect and prosecute 'em ill Names while they stile none Honest Fellows but such as are as great Villains as themselves In the mean time it seems all the Luidores yet receiv'd are not sufficient Money is the Life of the Cause all the World over which the Jacobites want as well as we and those Horse-leeches still cry Give Give without being ever satisfied Poor King James must he pay Pensions still when he himself is but a Pensioner The mischief is his Brass Money won't go in England nay would be out of fashon in Ireland had the Teagues any other among them So thick are the Complaints and so bold the Beggars that one may easily conclude their King can't live without them nor they without him My Lord will acquaint you with my occasions I have told my Lord my occasions The B●arer knows how I have been prest How well I have deserv'd and much more to the same purpose which the World will shortly see in the printed Tryals After all this people may chuse whether theyl'l believe any such thing as a Plot they may say and swear and yet not be perjur'd that this is as great a Sham as the Popish Plot in 78 and all those who dye for it as ●●rand Martyrs as Coleman and as innocent as the Jesuits nay had not all this been so strangely discover'd things had run on in the same current and the great Agitators but got safely off with their Papers or but got them dispos'd of safely into the bottom of the Sea had all this happen'd and the French Fleet according to appointmnet appear'd on our Coast as they did the last Summer who dared have dreamt of a Plot in 't any more than the last time or that they came for any thing else but to fish for a few Herrings on our Coast or make fine Lines across the Channel in a Sunshiny day And here I should have closed the account of this cursed Design had not a new and strange accident given us new confirmations thereof No longer since than the last Week were taken two Gentlemen coming ashore from France in a small Sloop near Lewis in Sussex Sir R. P. who by the greatness of his Genius and meer strength of his own natnral Reason both of 'em as weighty Motives as the Jesuits Arguments left the Protestant Religion for the Roman in the Reign of the late King James and would fain have had his Children Educated the same way had not their virtuous and prudent Mother placed them out of his reach The other Collonel M. and old experienced Officer Both going to a great Papists House in those parts One of these a Man of Interest and Money might have done excellently well lying there Perdue till the Plot had ripen'd then to have rais'd Forces for advancing the design and the other of more Brains and Experience when rais'd to have commanded them With these

the Bridge wish'd heartily 't would fall down and crush 'em all to the bottom But 't was the same thing the Bridg was as stubborn as the Captain was before and stood still in the same place where it has been this two or three hundred year while the Pinnaces were tugg'd lustily and soon brought their Fare to Whitehall where just as they were stepping out of the Boat my Lord Preston clapt some Mony into the Hands of two of the Smack's Men who were brought up with them bidding 'em when examin'd say That the Ship was bound for Flanders not for France No sooner were they landed here but Captain Billop waited on my Lord Nottingham with the Packet which he had seiz'd which he having open'd and look'd over deliver'd all of 'em to the Captain again who carried them to the Lord President the Marquess of Caermarthen who also opening and marking 'em carry'd 'em to the King after which my Lord Sidney had them in his Custody wherein appearing Treason enough to have hanged all the Plotters in England my Lord Preston was sent back to the place from whence he came so lately before the Tower of London and the other two likewise committed 'T was not long after this before they were acquainted their Tryal was coming on and time given 'em accordingly to prepare for the same The Bill was found against 'em with little hesitation on Thursday January 15th and the next day they were arraigned at the Old-Baily my Lord's Petition to have the Tryal put off till Monday not being granted him For indeed 't was already more than time to let the Enemies of the Government know that it could be angry and dared both bring 'em to Justice for their Treasons and punish 'em for the same Besides Delays in this case might on many accounts be dangerous and would serve only to encourage the Accomplices of these Traytors and dishearten the true Friends of the King and Kingdom On his Arraignment my Lord Preston insisted on his fruitless Peerage he being only a Knight in England though a Viscount in Scotland which had been prejudged in an higher place the House of Lords having before thrown it out and which there was no great likelyhood should ever be allowed him since his Patent was dated at St. Germains after King James his Abdication and had it been allowed for good here 't is certain those who had done it could not have cleared themselves from such consequences as would have been most pernicious and invideous to themselves and the Nation However this took up some time and about an hour or two's Argument was employed therein but after all it was over-ruled by the Bench as any one would easily guess it could be no otherwise He moved also for a Copy of his Indictment and brought Presidents but those were answered and his Request not granted but a Copy of the Pannel he had according to custom The next day being the 17th of January Ann. Dom. 1691. he came to his Tryal at which was a vast Concourse of all degrees present particularly besides the Lords Chief Justices and their Brethren several Noble Lords of the Garter several Lords of their Majesties most honourable Privy-Council and others my Lord President Lord Sidny c. And here I would not be mistaken in what short Reflections I intend to make on the Tryals of the petsons then accused and now convicted of this Conspiracy as if my Intent were to forestal the publick Accounts which will shortly be given of the same Were this an Age like such as we have seen which would not bear Truth and the Tryals such as wou'd force any one who saw or read 'em to wonder how so many Mad-men broke out of Bedlam and got possession of the Bench and accordingly had we no expectation of a true Account of matter of Fact then indeed something of that Nature tho' from a private hand might be both necessary and grateful But now all things have been managed as becomes a Court of Justice not as formerly with the Decency of a Bear-garden no doubt but the publick will be soon gratified with a true and exact History of the Tryal of the persons lately convicted which make so much noise in the World All I pretend to here is from my own personal observation and knowledg to compare a little these Tryals with those of the former Reigns and to shew the vast difference in the management of the whole in respect both of Court Bar and Evidence In the opening the Evidence here was no affected Exaggeration of Matters nor Ostentation of a putid Eloquence one after another as in former Tryals like so many Geese cackling in a row here was nothing besides fair matter of Fact or natural and just Reflections from thence arising What few Witnesses the Prisoners had were not affronted or cross-bitten in their legal Evidence The Prisoners themselves were treated with that Humanity ever due to those who are unfortunate though the most criminal persons in the World There was so much Reason upon the Bench that they had no need of Rayling and those at the Bar had such usage as if they came thither to be tryed for their Lives not baited to death As for the Evidence t was the clearest and highest the Nature of the thing cou'd possibly bear Plain Proof undeniable matter of Fact a desperate Plot at home Correspondence with Enemies abroad inviting them hither shewing 'em where to fall upon us betraying the Strength of the Nation to 'em our Ships and Forts corrupting and seducing those at home and taking whatever measures could possibly be thought on for our common Ruin And this seized in the very Bosoms of the grand Conspirators in their own undeniable Hand-writing nay their Seals even their double Seals together with it These Men had fairer play than Noble Sidny c. who were hanged by help of a Marginal Note for controversial Papers of twenty years standing to which they made both Keys and Characters abused the Court as much as Dryden's Poem and by a rare new Law-figure for 't wou'd puzzle one to find it in all Vossius his Rhetorick called Innuendo extreamly obliged the late King Charles by turning him into a Tarquin No Art nor Trick was there used to make them plead guilty as with n nor one Murder committed to facilitate another as with the great and unfortunate Earl of Essex whose Blood even yet in vain crys for Vengeance Every thing here was in its due place and order the Patriots on the Bench and the Malefactors at the Bar not quite contrary as we have seen formerly when the Persons Arraigned have as far and as visibly out-weighed the Judges in Sense as in Probity and Honour The Juries here were neither frighted nor surprized nor such as would be so the Defence made by the Prisoners for the most part so weak and enervate and so much below themselves that it plainly appeared the fruitless Effort of a Guilty Mind and 't was easie enough to read their Sentence in their Foreheads pronounc'd by a Judge within greater than those who fill'd the visible Tribunal On the whole my Lord Preston was after a fair Hearing on a long and full Evidence found Guilty about Seven in the Evening of the same day he was Tryed Major Ashton after a Defence which took up more time on the Monday after being Jan. 19. And on the same day Elliot's Tryal was put off until another time but whether any of them will obtain or deservk their Lives by an ingenuous Discovery of all the Particulars of a Plot so wide and deep as this will appear to whoever hears or reads the Letters which give an Account of it a little longer time will very probably decide Till when here has been sufficient already brought to light as to the reality of the Plot it self the horrid and desperate Designs thereby to be perpetrated the manner of its management and strange Discovery enough I should think to satisfie all persons who in this point really want satisfaction and are not themselves either Well-willers to the Design or actually concerned therein FINIS