then an Army to have appear'd to have cut off those that might escape the Massacre that these Consultations were in Staffordshire one at Tixal another at Boscobel at my Lord Aston's and Mr. Gerrard's Also that Mr. Ewers received a Letter on Munday dated on Saturday from Mr. Harcourt which did express and begin thus This very night Sir Edmondbury Godfrey is dispatched with some other words of like Import Then Mr. Prance deposed that he was told by the Lord Butler that one Mr. Messenger a Gentleman of the Horse to the Lord Arundel of VVarder was by him imployed and the Lord Powis to kill the King for a good Reward That Mr. Harcourt in his hearing said that the King was to be killed by several And that Fenwick said Mr. Langhorn was to have a great hand in it That then an Army of 50000 Men was to be raised and governed by the Lords Arundel and Powis to rain the Protestants and settle the Catholick Religion whereof he hath heard Fenwick Ireland and Grove speak at the same time together Then for the Proof of the particular matters of the Indictment Dr. Oates was sworn who deposed That in April 1677 he went into Spain and in September following Mr. Langhorn's Sons came thither the one a Scholar of the English Colledg at Madrid the other of the English Colledg at Valladolid to study Philosophy in order to their receiving of the Priesthood That in November following he returned into England and brought Mr. Langhorn Letters from his Sons which he delivered soon after his Arrival to him telling him at the same time that he believ'd his Sons would both enter into the Society whereat Mr. Langhorn seem'd mightily pleased saying that by so doing they might quickly come to Preferment in England for that things would not last long in the posture they were in That in the latter end of November he returning to St. Omers Mr. Langhorn deliver'd to him a Pacquet to carry thither wherein when it was opened he saw a Letter from him to the Fathers giving them thanks for their care and kindness towards his Sons promising them to repay them their charges of his Son's Journey into Spain which was 20 l. telling them that he had writ to Father Le Chese in order to their Concerns saying that Mr. Coleman had been very large with him and therefore it would not be necessary for him to trouble his Reverence with any large Epistles at that time which Letter he saw not only this account of it That there was in March or April after another Letter from Mr. Langhorn to the Fathers at St. Omers about an extravagant Son of his wherein he also express'd his great care for the carrying on of the Design of the Catholicks and that the Parliament began now to flag in promoting the Protestant Religion and that now they had a fair Opportunity to begin and give the Blow That in April or May when the Consult was to which several of them came over from St. Omers and at which tho Mr. Langhorn was not present yet that he had Orders from the Provincial to give him an account of what Resolutions and Passages and Minutes pass'd and this he did as well as he could telling him who went Procurator to Rome which was one Father Cary that several of the Fathers were to be admonished for their irregular living as they termed it and that it was resolv'd that the King should be kill'd that Pickering and Grove should go on to do it for which Grove was to have 1500 l. and Pickering 30000 Masses upon the hearing of which Mr. Langhorn lift up his Hands and Eyes and prayed God that it might have good Success That then he saw in Mr. Langhorn's Chamber seven or eight Commissions whereof there were about fifty by Virtue of a Breve from the Pope directed to the General of the Society and signed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Johannes Paulus de Oliva those he saw were for the Lord Arundel to be Lord Chancellor of England the Lord Powis to be Lord High Treasurer the Lord Bellasis to be General the Lord Peter to be Lieutenant General the Lord Stafford to be Pay-Master or some such office in the Army Mr. Coleman to be Secretary of State and Mr. Langhorn to be Advocate of the Army That he saw the Answers of Le Cheese and Anderton who was Rector of the Colledg at Rome to Mr. Langhorn's Letters to them and carried the Originals of them to the Fathers who requested them from Mr. Langhorn wherein Le Chese did assure him of his Stedfastness and Constancy to assist the English Society for the carrying on the Cause And that they should not need doubt but the French King would stand by them That Mr. Langhorn was employed as Solicitor for the Jesuits and went with Harcourt Fenwick Keines and Langworth and communicated the Secret to the Benedictine Monks desiring them to stand by them with a Sum of Money for the carrying on the Design upon which as he heard that 6000 l. was promised and that Mr. Langhorn was to receive it which though he could not prove that he had yet that he was sure he was much disgusted that Sir George Wakeman was not contented with 10000 l. to poison the King saying he was a covetous Man that it was in a Publick Concern and that being it was to carry on the Cause it was no matter if he did it for nothing but he was a narrow-spirited and a narrow-soul'd Physician That Mr. Langhorn also did know of 800000 Crowns come to France for England from the Congregation at Rome Then Mr. Bedloe being sworn there was as a Confirmation of what Dr. Oates had deposed concerning the Commissions an Instrument produced found by Mr. Bedloe in searching Mr. Arthur's Study a Papist a good while after Dr. Oates had given his Testimony publickly signed and seal'd just as the Commissions were He then deposed that about three Years since he was sent by Mr. Harcourt and Mr. Coleman with Letters to Le Chese that the Letters were writ at Coleman's House and brought open by Mr. Coleman to Mr. Langhorn's Chamber in the Temple where the Prisoner read and registred them and then Coleman sealing them up gave them to him to carry away The effect of which was to let Le Chese know that they waited only now for his Answer how far he had proceeded with the French King for sending of Mony for they only wanted Mony all other things were in readiness That the Catholicks of England were in safety had made all Places and all Offices to be disposed of to Catholicks or such as they thought would be so that all Garisons were either in their own Hands or ready to be put into them that they had so fair an Opportunity having a King so easy to believe what was dictated to him by their Party that if they slipp'd this Opportunity they must despair of ever introducing Popery into England for having a
Ireland and the other Conspirators were produced and the Convictions of Reading Lane Knox and others were delivered in And the Record of the Attainder of Coleman was read in Latin by the Clerk Which concluding the Evidences in general of the Plot the Court thought fit not to enter upon particular Evidences against the Prisoner till another day Whereupon the Lord High Steward adjoun'd the Lords into the House of Lords and the Commons returned to their House where Mr. Speaker reassuming the Chair the House adjourned to Eight of the Clock the next Morning The Second Day Wednesday Decemb. 1. 1680 about 10 of the Clock the Court being sat and the Prisonet appearing Mr. Dugdale being sworn again appeared to Evidence as to the Particulars against the Lord Stafford who accordingly deposed That he had been some Years acquainted with the Lord Staffordy while he was a Servant to the Lord Aston That in August or September 1678 there was a Consult at the Lord Aston's at Tixal at which the Lord Stafford was and with the rest did consent to a Resolve That it was the best way to take away the Life of the King as the speediest Means to introduce Popery That on a Sunday Morning the Lord Stafford coming to the Lord Aston's to hear Mass as he alight off his Horse he said to the Witness It was a sad thing they could not say their Prayers but in an hidden manner but e're long they should have the Romish Religion established That about Septemb. 20 or 21 the Lord Stafford sent for him to his Chamber and proffer'd him 500 l. to be concern'd in taking away the Life of the King wherein he said he was concern'd himself and that he should go in October to London with him and be under the Care of him and Mr. Ireland in London and in the Country of one Mr. Parson's that knew of the Design And that he should have a Reward in London and he understood that the Duke of York the Lord Arundel Lord Bellasis and others were to give it him and that he should have his Pardon from the Pope and be Sainted That also he saw a Letter from the Lord Stafford to Mr. Ewers expressing that things went all well beyond-Sea and so he hoped they did here for the carrying on of their Design Then Dr. Oates being also sworn again deposed That he had seen several Letters in Spain and at St. Omers singned Stafford wherein were assurances of his Zeal for the promoting of Popery in England That in June 1678 he saw the Lord Stafford at Fenwick's Lodging receive a Commission as he believes to be Pay-master General to the Army which promised to effect and going then into the Country he said he did not doubt but at his return Grove should do the Business And speaking of the King he said there He had deceived them a great while and they could bear no longer But the Lord Stafford denied that he either knew Fenwick or Oates After him Mr. Edward Turbervile deposed That he being under some displeasure with his Relations for not entring himself of the Society he betook himself to his Brother a Benedictine Monk in France where staying a while and refusing to be admitted into that Society also her resolved for England and to that end was recommended to the Acquaintance of the Lord Stafford then at Paris who after some time understanding his Condition and imagining him a fit Instrument he proposed to him a way whereby as he said he might not only retrieve his Reputation with his Relations but also make himself a very happy Man And after having obliged him to Secresy he told him in direct terms it was to take away the Life of the King of England who was an Heretick and consequently a Rebel against God Almighty But he desiring time to consider it avoided the seeing my Lord any more and so came to London and by Applications to the Duke of Monmouth he got into the French Service This was in Novemb. 1675. My Lord then charg'd him with running from his Colours and therefore unfit for such a Service and that he never saw him before And here the Evidence ceasing the Lord Stafford began his Defence complaining of his close Imprisonment for two Years and of his abhorrence of those two great Sins Treason and Murder owning and condemning the Gunpowder Plot and the King-killing Doctrine protesting his own Loyalty and Innocency Not doubting to prove these Witnesses perjured and therefore requesting the use of the Lord's Journal-Book and the Depositions of Dugdale Oates and Turbervile without which he could not make his Defence Hereupon arose some Debate in the Court after which the Lords withdrew and after an hour and an halfs space returned and then the Lord High Steward did tell the Lord Stafford that what-ever Evidence there is before the Court of Peers he was to have but for the others they could not help him thereto and in regard he had complained of his Faintness the Lords intended not to put him upon it to go on to make his Defence but would give him time till to Morrow For which the Lord Stafford thanked the Lords but insisted to request moreover the Depositions of Dugdale but he was told they were in the Journal-Book which he was allowed the use of Then the Prisoner desired he might not appear till ten of the Clock next day because he wanted Sleep writing late or that one days respite might be allowed him which the Lord High Steward seemed inclinable for but was opposed by the Managers for the Commons then Court adjourned into the Parliament-Chamber and the Commons went to their House to whom the Lords soon after sent a Message That they had ordered the Prisoner to the Bar at Ten of the Clock next Morning And then the Commons adjourned so Eight the next Morning The Third Day THursday Decemb. 2. 1680. at Ten the Court being sate the Prisoner was set to Bar and required to go on with his Defence For which end he called Turbervile and asked him when he last saw him who said in Novemb 1675. Whence he made his Plea that he was not within the time limited for prosecution but was informed of his Mastake lesser Crimes being limited to six Months but Treason to no time at all Then Dugdale being called again was by him charged That He had sworn at Sir George Wakeman's Trial that he the Lord Stafford was at a Consult at Tixal in August 1678 and proved it by the Testimony of the Lady Marchioness of Winchester and one Mrs. Howard who affirm'd they heard him though Dugdale denied it and then proved that he was all that Month at the Bath and at the Marquess of Worcester's House by Thomas Bonny Clerk of the Kitchen to the Lord Marquess of Worcester Thomas White his Coachman Richard Bevan his Groom and the Lord Marquess himself and that he came not to Tixal till Septemb. 12. and then had no Converse alone with Dugdale
he should be call'd to an Account for all his Actions for all the World might see that he did resolve to bring in Arbitrary Power and Popery and that unless he would let the Parliament sit at Oxford since he had called them together and put the People to Charges in chusing them and them in coming down he should be seiz'd at Oxford and brought to the Block as was the Logger-head his Father That the Parliament should sit at Guild-hall and adjust the Grievances of the Subject and of the Nation and that no King of his Race should ever Reign in England after him And unless the King did expel from his Council the Earl of Clarendon cunning Lory Hide the Earl of Hallifax that great turn-coat Rogue that was before so much against the Papists a Rascal whom we should see hang'd and all the Tory Counsellors England should be too hot for him That for this End there was in the City 1500 Barrels of Powder and 100000 Men ready at an hour's warning and that every thing was ordered in a due Method against the sitting of the Parliament at Oxford And that he should see England the most glorious Nation in the World when they had cut off that beastly Fellow Rowley who came of the Race of Buggerers for his Grand-father King James buggered the old Duke of Buckingham Railing then at Judg Pemberton saying Let him try Fitz-Harris if he dare I shall see him go to Tyburn for it I hope a turn-coat Rogue That he was for the Plot whilst he was puisne Judg but now he was Chief Justice he was the greatest Rogue in the World even like one of the Pensioners in the Long Parliament That the Prisoner would moreover have put this Informant upon charging the King With the firing of London and the Murder of Sir Edmondbury Godfry telling him that such and suck Lords should live and die by him and that he needed not to fear but that England should espouse his Cause And discoursing then of the Libel of Fitz-Harris The Devil take me said Colledge every individual Word is as true as God is in Heaven and that if the Informant did not join with Fitz-Harris in his Evidence and charge the King home he was the basest Fellow in the World because he made them Slaves and Beggars and would make all the World so and that it was a kind of Charity to charge him home that we might be rid of such a Tyrant He depos'd further That he also receiv'd a blew Ribbond from Mr. Colledge whom meeting after he came from Oxford he asked Where now were all his Cracks and Braggs for that the King had fool'd them who answered That they had not done with the King yet though they could do nothing then for that no Servant no Man living did know whether he would dissolve the Parliament that Day That he was that very nick of Time at the Lobby of the Lords House and there was a Man came in with a Gown under his Arm and every one looked upon him to be a Tailor and no Body did suspect no not his own intimate Friends except it were Fitz-Gerald that he would Dissolve the Parliament that Day But presently he put on his Robes and sent away for the House of Commons and when he had dissolved them before ever the House could get down he took Coach and went away otherwise that the Parliament had been too hard for him for that there was never a Parliament-Man but had divers armed Men to wait on him and that he had his Blunderbuss and his Man to wait upon him The next Witness against Mr. Colledge was Mr. Turbervile who being sworn deposed That when the Parliament sat in Oxford about the middle of the Week he dined with Mr. Colledge Capt. Brown and Don Lewis Clerk of Derby-House at the Chequer-Inn in Oxford After Dinner Don Lewis went out about some Business and Capt. Brown went to sleep and Mr. Colledge and he fell a talking of the Times and he was observing he thought the Parliament was not a long-liv'd Parliament Whereupon Mr. Colledge answered That there was no Good to be expected from the King for he and all his Family were Papists and had ever been such Then said Turbervile the King will offer something or other by way of surprize to the Parliament Said Colledge I would he would begin but if he do not we will begin with him and seize him for there are several brave Fellows about this Town that will secure him till we have those Terms that we expect from him adding That he had got a Case of Pistols and a very good Sword and a Velvet Cap Giving Turbervile a piece of blew Ribbond to put in his Hat to be a distinction if there should be any disturbance Then Mr. Masters was sworn who deposed That he and Colledge had been long acquainted And that a little before the Parliament at Oxford about Christmass after the Parliament at Westminster at Mr. Charlton's Shop the Wollen-Draper in Paul's Church-Yard discoursing with him about the Government he was justifying of the late Long-Parliament's Actions in Forty He said That that Parliament was as good a Parliament as ever was chosen in the Nation and that they did nothing but what they had just cause for and that the Parliament that sat last at Westminster was of their Opinion and so he should have seen it And that another time he calling him in a jocose way Colonel Colledge bid him mock not for he might be one in a little time Then Sir William Jennings being sworn deposed That Colledge gave him one time a Picture and another time he saw him bring into a Coffee-House a parcel of blew Ribbond with No Popery No Slavery wrought in it and sold a Yard of it there to a Parliament-Man as he took him to be for 2 s. who tied it upon his Sword And that on that very Day the Parliament was Dissolved at Oxford he came to him standing in the School-House-yard telling him Mr. Fitz-Gerald had spit in his Face and that he spit in his Face again and that so they went to Logerheads together and that upon Sir William's telling him his Nose bled he said I have lost the first blood in the Cause but it will not be long before more be lost The Evidence for the King here ending Mr. Serj. Holloway briefly explained to the Jury that the seizing the Person of the King was in Law a compassing and intending his Death as it was worded in the Indictment which therefore they ought so to understand Then Mr. Colledge desired to be resolved these Questions upon the Evidence which he had heard 1. Whether any Conspiracy for which his Indictment was had been herein proved 2. Whether there ought not to be two Witnesses distinct to swear words at one and the same time And 3. Whether any Act of Treason done at London shall be given in Evidence to prove the Treason for which he was now
should be any Disturbance for they valued their Riches more than their Cause And at Oxford that he heard my Lord say again He wondred the People of England should stickle so much about Religion if he were to choose a Religion he would have one that should comply with what was apt to carry on their Cause Mr. John Smith deposed That he had often both in publick and private heard the Lord Shaftsbury speak very irreverently and slightly of the King saying He was a weak Man an inconstant Man of no firm or settled Resolution easily led by the Nose as his Father was before him by a Popish Queen which was the Ruin of his Father And that the King should declare That the Earl of Shaftsbury was not satisfied to be an ill Man himself but got over the E. of Essex too And that he was the chief promoter of the Rebellion in Scotland which when it was told him that he should send back word to the King That he was glad that the King saw not his own Danger But if he were to raise a Rebellion he could raise another-guess Rebellion than was that in Scotland One time particularly being sent for to the Lord Shaftsburies expressing his jealousy of the Irish Witnesses being drawn over to the Court-Party and retracting what they had said he order'd him to persuade them from going nigh that Rogue Fitz-Gerald maintain'd by the King and Court-Party to stifle the Plot in Ireland Saying also That when he was in the Tower he told some he saw Popery coming in and that it was hard to prevent it And that if the King were not as well satisfied with the coming in of Popery as ever the D. of York was the D. would not be so much concern'd about it as he was Afterwards having executed my Lord's Order one Mr. Bernard Dennis gave in an Information before Sir Patience Ward Lord-Mayor against Fitz-Gerald that he had tamper'd with him to forswear all he had sworn before the Copy of which Information he brought to the Lord Shaftsbury who when he had read it was very well pleased with it and said Mr. Smith don't you see the Villany of that Man and that factious Party and that the King runs the same steps as his Father did before him for that nothing of this Nature could otherwise be done I says he these are the very Steps that his Father followed when he was led by his Popish Queen and the poor Man doth not see his Danger Another time before the Parliament went to Oxford in discourse my Lord was saying to him That there was great Preparations made and a great many gathered together upon the Road between London and Oxford which he said was to terrify the Parliament to comply with the King's Desire which he was sure they never would for that the King aimed to bring in Popery But said he we have this Advantage of him if he offer any Violence to us for we expect it that we have the Nation for us and we may lawfully oppose him for it has been done in former Times and he will meet with a very strong Opposition for all that come out of the Country shall be well Hors'd and well Arm'd and so we shall be all and as old as he was that he would be one that would oppose to his Power and die before he would ever bring in Popery or any thing of that Nature Then Mr. Brian Haines deposed That he had often heard the Lord Shaftsbury vilify the King And that he and Mr. Ivey going to him one day about the Narrative he made of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey's Death he desired him not to expose his Person to the King's Anger because he was sure he would never grant a Pardon to any Man that impeached the Earl of Danby Says he Do not fear if he does not grant you a Pardon he makes himself the Author of the Plot and says he the Earl of Essex the Lord Maxfield and I we do all resolve if you 'l put in a Writing we will go to the King and beg a Pardon of him for you which if he does not grant we will raise the whole Kingdom against him for he must not expect to live peaceably in his Throne it he doth not grant it and this is the best Pretence we can have in the World we are prepar'd to raise Arms against him And after having heard a Pardon could not be had being begg'd for by the two Mr. Godfries he praying my Lord for a little Mony to help him to go beyond-Sea because he was sure he could not be safe in England My Lord told him the King durst as well be hang'd as meddle with him And one Day he being in Conference and giving my Lord an exact Account of Transactions having been a Traveller he asked my Lord What Model of Government was designed if they pulled the King down Says he Do you think there are no Families in England that have as much pretence to the Crown as any of the Stewarts Says he There is the Duke of Bucks that is descended of the Family of the Plantagenets one of the Edwards by his Mother and in her Right he should have the Barony of Ross and has as good a Title to the Crown of England as ever any Stewart had Then John Macnamarra being sworn deposed That he being with the Lord Shaftsbury after his return from the Parliament at Oxford concerning some Provision for the Witnesses he heard him express himself That the King was Popishly Affected and did adhere to Popery taking the same Methods that his Father before him took which brought his Father's Head to the Block and that they would also bring his thither and that he had told some Persons of Quality that this would fall out five Years before And at the same time that he said the King was a Faithless Man and no Credit was to be given to him and that the Dutchess of Mazarine was of his Cabinet-Council who was the worst Woman-kind And that he deserved to be deposed as much as ever King Richard the Second did Then Dennis Macnamarra deposed That he also heard the Lord Shaftsbury say in March or April in his own House Mr. Ivey being present That the King was not to be believe there was no Belief in him and he ought to be deposed as well a King Richard the Second and that the Dutchess of Mazarine was of his Cabinet-Council and he nothing but by her Consent Then Mr. Edward Ivey deposed That being at my Lord's House soon after the Parliament was dissolved at Oxford he heard him speak against the King saying He was an unjust Man and unfit to Reign and he wondred her did not take Example by his Father before him and that he was a Papist in his Heart and intended to introduce Popery And afterwards being with him with Hains he bid Hains to put what he had to say about the Death of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey into writing
and he should have a Pardon and that if the King did deny it as he durst not they would rise upon him and force him After him Bernard Dennis being sworn gave some account of his first coming into England and how he began his Acquaintance with the Earl of Shaftsbury and was recommended by him understanding him to be a Clergy-Man to Dr. Burnet and afterward to Mr. Ferguson in order to the bringing him over and how my Lord proffer'd him a Benefice And that one time being with him my Lord asked him How many there might be of his Name in his Country and told him that he would have him to advise those of his Name and Friends to be in a readiness when-ever occasion shall serve to stand by and assist the Common-Wealth of England for that they did really intend to have England under a Common-Wealth and would extirpate the King and all his Family as near as they could And said he admir'd at the Irish Nation to be such Fools for that it was very certain that King James Queen Elizabeth King Charles the First and the King that now is does wrong them to very Destruction But that a Common-Wealth would take more pity of them than any do now in this time wherein the King governs Here the King's Evidence ceasing the Jury enquired upon what Statute the Indictment was grounded and whether any of these Witnesses stood indicted To which the Court returning a satisfactory Answer they withdrew and the Court adjourned till three of the Clock When being sat again the Witnesses were all called one by one and examined by the Jury concerning what they had severally deposed Wherein nothing was remarkable but what they examin'd Mr. Secretary Jenkins Whether he heard not a Debate in the House of Commons about an Association And that Booth acknowledged himself to be in Orders tho now not Beneficed Turbervile and John Macnamarra that though they signed the Petition to the Common-Council for some Maintenance and that they were tempted to revoke their Evidence yet never read it nor knew what was in it And that Haynes further said That he heard the Lord Shaftsbury say at a Pastry-Cook's Shop in Iron-Monger Lane that the King had no more Religion than an Horse That when he came came first to England he was inclined to Popery but since he was degenerated from all the Principles of Christianity being just like a perfect Beast The Witnesses being examined the Jury withdrew and took the Statute-Book with them and returned the Bill Ignoramus Upon which the People fell a Hollowing and Shouting which Mr. Attorn Gen. desired might be recorded The Trial of Charles John Count Conningsmark Christopher Vratz Captain John Stern Lieutenant and Charles George Borosky alias Boratzi before the Lord Chief Justice Pemberton At the Old-Baily on Tuesday February the 28th 1681. THE Prisoners then and there appearing were Arraigned for the barbarous Murder of Thomas Thynn Esq And being Foreigners Mr. Vandore and Sir Nathaniel Johnson were sworn Interpreters They pleaded Not Guilty and desired their Jury might consist of half Foreigners which was granted And the Count desired his Trial might be put off a day or two and that he might be tried by himself neither of which were granted Then after some Challenges on both sides the Jury sworn were Sir William Roberts Bar. Moses Charas Gent. Richard Pagett Esq Charles Beelow Gent. George Hocknal Esq Peter Vandenhagen Gent. Walter Moyle Esq Christopher Ripkey Gent. Thomas Henslow Esq Daniel Griggion Gent. John Haynes Esq John Lebarr Gent. To whom the Indictment was read and Mr. Keen and Sir Francis Withens opened the same and then William Cole deposed That on Sunday Feb. 12. about a quarter after Eight at Night his Master Thomas Thynn Esq was coming up St. James-Street from the Countess of Northumberland's and he was walking with a Flambeau in his Hand before the Coach and coming along at the lower end of St. Albans-Street he heard the Blunderbuss go off and turning his Face back saw a great Smoke and heard his Master cry out he was murdered and saw three Horsemen riding away on the right side of the Coach whom he pursued and cried out Murder He ran to the upper end of the Hay-Market till he was quite spent and then turning back again his Master was got into the House whom he understood was wounded One of the Men was upon a little Bay Horse William Ellers deposed That then and there he coming with his Master from the Lady Northumberland's there came three Men riding by the right side of the Coach and as they rid one of them turned about and said Stop you Dog And just as he looked about the Fire was let into the Coach upon his Master and the Men ran away as fast as they could and that he could not know any of their Faces Mr. Hobbs the Chirurgeon deposed That he was with Mr. Thynn about nine or ten a Clock that Night he was wounded and found him shot with four Bullets which entred into his Body tore his Guts and wounded his Liver and Stomach and Gall and broke one of his Ribs and wounded the great Bone below of which Wounds he died and believed there as never a Wound but was Mortal He shewed the Court the four Bullets two of which he thought might be Iron one he found in the Stomach one between the Ribs and the Skin and two were lodged in the Back-bone Then Mr. White the Coroner deposed That on Feb. 13. he sat upon the Body and found four Holes on the right Side behind his short Ribbs as if made with Bullets and he gave order to open the Body and saw Mr. Hobbs take out the four Bullets Boresky being then told what was said replied That he fired the Blunderbuss but did not know how many Bullets there were because he did not charge it but he could tell who did But the Ld. Ch. Justice said that would not be material because his Evidence could charge no Body but himself Then Mr. Bridgman and Sir John Reresby deposed That Borosky Vratz and Stern were examined by them and proffer'd to read their Examinations but the Ld. Ch. Justice would not suffer it because their Evidence could charge no Body but themselves and he would not let the Jury be possess'd by that which is not Evidence And therefore they were only suffer'd to help their Memories by the Examinations and to mention only what they had confessed as to themselves Therefore they said that Borosky then confessed that he came into England at the desire of Count Conningsmark But here the Ld. Ch. Justice interrupted again the Evidence and bid Mr. Bridgman only relate his Confession as to himself which was That he fired the Musquetoon by the Captain 's Order who had before bid him to fire as soon as ever he stopped the Coach Capt. Vratz confessed that he came with a Design to fight Mr. Thynn having sent him Challenges by Post from
the Prisoners Mrs. Gaunt to be burnt and the other 3 to be drawn hang'd and quarter'd which was accordingly executed upon them and Mr. Cornish was hang'd in Cheapside over against Kings-street on Friday October 23 1685. and his Quarters afterwards put up in several Places and his Head upon the Guild-Hall where it stood till the tidings of the Dutch Invasion summon'd it with the other Quarters into the Grave after they had been expos'd in that infamous manner the space of 3 Years The Trial of Henry Baron Delamere in Westminster-Hall before George Lord Jefferies constituted Lord High-Steward on this Occasion on Thursday Jan. 14 1685. THen and there the Court being met the Lord High-Steward's Commission was first read and the Staff being carried between Garter King at Arms and the Gent. Vsher of the Black Rod was with 3 Reverences delivered upon the knee to his Grace and by him redelivered to the Gent. Vsher of the Black Rod to hold during the Service Then Proclamation was made by a Serjeant at Arms for all Persons present except Peers Privy Councellors and the reverend Judges now assistant to be uncovered and for all to whom any Writ had been directed for the certifying of any Indictment before his Grace to bring in the same forthwith After which Sir Edward Lutwich deliver'd in his Writ and Return which were read And then the Lieutenant of the Tower was call'd to bring his Prisoner to the Bar which having done Sir Roger Harsnet Serj. at Arms was called to return the Names of the Peers which he had summoned who were then called over by the Clerk of the Crown and those that appeared were these following who standing up uncovered answered to their Names each making a Reverence to the Lord High Steward Lawrence Earl of Rochester Lord High-Treasurer of England Robert E. of Sunderland Lord President of His Majesties Privy-Council Henry Duke of Norfolk Earl-Marshal of England Charles D. of Somerset Henry D. of Grafton Henry D. of Beaufort Lord President of VVales John Earl of Mulgrave Lord Chamberlain of His Majesties Houshold Aubrey E. of Oxford Charles E. of Shrewsbury Theophilus E. of Huntingdon Thomas E. of Pembroke John E. of Bridgwater Henry E. of Peterborow Robert E. of Scarsdale VVilliam E. of Craven Louis E. of Feversham George E. of Berkley Daniel E. of Nottingham Thomas E. of Plimouth Thomas Viscount Falconberg Francis Viscount Newport Treasurer of His Majesties Houshold Robert Lord Ferrers Vere Essex Lord Cromwell VVilliam Lord Maynard Comptroler of His Majesties Houshold George Lord Dartmouth Master-General of His Majesties Ordinance Sidney Lord Godolphin John Lord Churchill The Lord High Steward then having acquainted the Prisoner with the occasion of this meeting order'd the Bill of Indictment to be read which was done twice at the Prisoner's desire And then the Prisoner deliver'd in his Plea to the Jurisdiction of this Court that he ought to be tried by the whole Body of the House of Peers in Parliament the Parliament still continuing being under a Prorogation and not dissolved and because there was some agitation of the matter concerning this Prosecution upon his Petition in the House of Lords c. To which the Attorny General answer'd that the Plea was not good there never having been so much as any Indictment returned there nor found during the Session of Parliament besides that the Plea was in Paper and English The Prisoner then desired Counsel to put it into Form But it being a Plea against the Jurisdiction no time could be allowed and the Prisoner having no Counsel ready to plead his plea was over-ruled and he pleaded Not Guilty After which the Lord High Steward gave the Charge to the Peers and Sir Thomas Jenner Recorder of London opened the Indictment and Mr. Attorny General the Evidence And then the Lord Howard was first sworn Who gave the same account about the Earl of Shaftsbury's design'd Insurrection as before he had done at the other Trials where he was a Witness to which therefore the Reader is referred The Lord Grey deposed that Cheshire was one of the Places pitch'd upon for the Rising and for that end the Duke of Monmouth went his Progress into those Parts to make his Interest there and that the Prisoner was one he was directed to advise with That after the late King's Death the Duke of Monmouth was at Amsterdam with the Lord Argyle where there was an Account given of the Design that was in Hand of an Insurrection in Scotland and at that time came over to Holland Mr. Crag from Major Wildman to promote and recommend a Reconciliation between the Duke of Monmouth and the Lord Argyle who till that time had acted in separate interests giving some account that Means and Money were prepared This encouraged the Duke of Monmouth to send Capt. Matthews into England to Major Wildman to desire him to acquaint several Persons among whom the Prisoner was one that he was designed to join the Lord Argyle When Crag return'd to the Duke he gave an account that Major Wildman had convers'd with these Persons and that their Opinion was that the Duke should go for Scotland whereby they might know the strength of the Enemy here by their sending to suppress the Rebellion there and also that Major Wildman desired the Duke to bring over with him a Broad Seal to seal Commissions with and to take upon him the Title of King That soon after Crag's return Jones came with a Message to the Duke from England and was sent back shortly after by the Duke with a Letter of Instructions And the Duke intended first to have landed in Cheshire he very much depending upon that County but afterwards considering that the Persons there being of great Quality and Interest in their Country and able to manage it without his Assistance he chose rather to land in the West the Friends he relyed on there not being of that Quality Mr. Nathaniel Wade deposed that at Amsterdam soon after the Death of the late King the Duke of Monmouth and the Lord Argyle had a Consultation together and agreed that at the same time the Lord Argyle made an Insurrection in Scotland the Duke should invade England For which end the Duke sent Capt. Matthews into England to acquaint his Friends among whom he heard the Lord Delamere named to be ready for his Assistance Crag was sent over for Money but could get none and therefore the Duke sent him over again to pawn his Jewels and get what Money he could wherewith he fitted out 3 Ships laden with Ammunition and having before ordered his Friends to repair to their own Countries to be ready he set Sail and landed at Lyme and ordered his March so as that he might most conveniently meet with his Cheshire Friends In pursuance whereof they came to Keinsham Bridge where a Party of the Kings Horse set upon them of whom they took some Prisoners and thereupon thought it advisable not to let the Kings
should never be drawn into Example or Consequence That the Bishops here had done but what became them as Peers and Bishops in the most decent Manner And that unless this humble Petition so presented may be said to be a malicious and seditious Libel with an intent to stir up the People to Sedition the Jury ought not to find my Lords the Bishops guilty upon that Information Mr. Pollexfen next spoke insisting upon the Illegality of the King's Declaration as setting aside all the Law we have in England almost all being Penal Laws not only those before the Reformation but since especially in matters of Religion And therefore the King's Will not being consonant to Law and not obliging nothing can be done with a more Christian Mind than to inform him of it by way of Petition as the Bishops had done Then Mr. Serjeant Pemberton spoke Affirming that the Bishops had done no more than their Duty to God the King and the Church Denying the Dispensing Power as a thing that strikes at the very Foundation of all the Rights Liberties and Properties of the Kings Subjects whatsoever That the King 's Legal Prerogatives are as much for the Advantage of his Subjects as of himself That these Laws he would by his Declaration suspend are the great Bulwark of the Reformed Religion Intended to defend the Nation against false Religions Particularly the Romish Religion which is the very worst of all Religions a Religion no way tolerable nor to be endured here And yet if this Declaration should take effect all Religions would be let in and even that Religion would stand upon the same terms with the Protestant Religion and all the Care and Statutes that had been against it go for nothing That the Bishops have the Care of the Church by their very Function and Office and are bound to take care to keep out all those false Religions that are prohibited and designed to be kept out by Law and therefore could do no less than they did That our Law did allow the King no such Dispensing Power Instancing in that Check the Parliament had given to it in 1662. But here the Ld. Ch. Justice interrupted him as being what had been spoken to already Then Mr. Serjeant Levinz offered to shew that it has been taken all along as the ancient Law of England that such Dispensations ought to be by the King and Parliament and not by the King alone but he was stop'd enough having been offer'd already Therefore the Bishops Counsel proceeded to prove what had been said and to that end was produced and read in Court the Record of Richard the Second wherein the Parliament gave the King a Power to dispense with the Statute of Provisors which was a Penal Law concerning collating and presenting to Dignities and Benefices of the Church only till the next Parliament declaring withal that it was a Novelty and that it should not be drawn into Example Then the Journal of the House of Lords was produced and his Majesty's Speech to both Houses in 1662 read wherein is this Clause That if the Dissenters will demean themselves peaceably and modestly under the Government his Majesty said he could heartily wish that he had a Power of Indulgence to use upon occasion Whereupon there was a Bill in the House of Lords brought in to enable the King to dispense with several Laws which was read and committed but further than that it went not Which Bill was also read out of the Journal Then the Journal of the House of Commons was produced and a Vote read which passed Feb. 25. 1662. That no Indulgence be granted to the Dissenters from the Act of Vniformity With the Commons Address and Reasons for this Vote wherein was declared That the Act of Vniformity could not be dispensed with without an Act of Parliament The Journal of the House of Lords was again produced and the King's Speech to both Houses on Feb. 5. 1672 read wherein he mentions his Declaration for Indulgence The Journal then of the House of Commons was again produced and the Commons Petition and Address to the King Feb. 14. 1672 was read Wherein they thank him for his Speech And tell him They have considered his Declaration for Indulgence dated the 15th of March last And find themselves bound in Duty to inform his Majesty That Penal Laws in Matters Ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by Act of Parliament And do therefore beseech him That the said Laws may have their free Course until it shall be otherwise provided for by Act of Parliament Then his Majesty's Answer to that Reply was read wherein he expresses his trouble that his Declaration has disquieted them That he does not pretend to the Right of suspending Laws wherein the Properties Rights or Liberties of any of his Subjects are concerned nor to alter any thing in the established Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of England But his only Design in this was to take off the Penalties and the Statutes inflicted upon Dissenters To which the Commons replied which was then read out of the same Journal That they found his Answer not sufficient to clear the Apprehensions that may justly remain in the Minds of his People by his Majesty's having claimed a Power to suspend Penal Statutes in Matters Ecclesiastical and which his Majesty does still seem to assert in his Answer to be intrusted in the Crown and never questioned in the Reigns of any of his Ancestors Wherein they humbly conceive him misinform'd Since no such Power ever was claimed or exercised by any of his Majesty's Predecessors And if it should be admitted might tend to the interrupting the free Course of the Laws and altering the Legislative Power which hath always been acknowledged to reside in his Majesty and his two Houses of Parliament With an unanimous Consent they therefore again besought him That he would be pleased to give them a full and satisfactory Answer to their Petition and Address and take such effectual Order that the Proceedings in this Matter might not for the future be drawn into Consequence or Example Then the Lords Journal was turned to wherein it waâ— read how that the King communicated this Address to the Lords and desired their Advice And that on March the 8th 1672 He made a Speech to both Houses wherein he tells them That if there was any Scruple remaining in them concerning the Suspension of Penal Laws he here faithfully promised them That what had been done in that Particular should not for the future be drawn either into Consequence or Example After which the Lord Chancellor imparted to them That his Majesty found some dissatisfaction remaining concerning the Officers to be employed abroad but if that bred any Umbrage the King commanded him to let them know That he resolves to give both his Houses full Satisfaction to their Desires And that his Majesty had last Night in pursuance of what he then intended and declared this Morning concerning the Suspension of
Sacred Majesty for which he had been Arraigned the day before and pleaded Not Guilty And therefore his Jury being Imparinelled and none of them challenged by him the same was read now to them viz. Sir Philip Matthews Sir Reginald Foster Sir John Kirke Sir John Cutler Sir Richard Blake John Bifield Esq Simon Middleton Esq Thomas Cross Esq Henry Johnson Esq Charles Vmphrevil Esq Thomas Eaglesfield Esq William Bohee Esq To this Indictment Sir Creswel Levins Serjeant Maynard and the Attorney General briefly spoke The Attorney General giving this Account why they chose first to bring this Man to trial That it was to convince those who believed all Designs against the King's Person by any Papist was but a Fiction this Man being a Papist and having said these words even since the discovery of the Plot. And for the proof hereof then appeared William Casters who deposed That on the 14th Instant about 11 a Clock in the Day he saw Stayley with another a Frenchman in a Victualling-house who called for a Pot of Ale and a Slice of Roast-Beef which when it was called for his Landlord said it should be brought him He was in another Room opposite to him both the Doors being open Stayley standing at one Door and he at the other his Face strait towards him and within 7 or 8 foot of him and discoursing with the French-man he heard Stayley twice over in French say The King was a Grand Heretick making his Demonstration with his Hand upon his Breast stamping five or six times with his Foot in great fury That the old Man Fromante his Friend said That the King of England was a Tormenter of the People of God and that Stayley answered again in a great fury He is a great Heretick and the greatest Rogue in the World There 's the Heart and here 's the Hand that would kill him And the King and Parliament think all is over but the Rogues are mistaken Then stamping said I would kill him my self I would kill him my self Then Alexander Southerland deposed that he also was there and perfectly saw Stayley while he Apoke those words which presently he writ down in French as they were spoken And then the Prisoner being gone they enquired his Name and where he live and the next day got him apprehended The third Witnes was one Philip Garret who not understanding French could only depose That being with the other two he heard Stayley speak Whereupon his Captain William Casters cam to him in a great passion and said he could not suffer it he would run upon him he could not be quiet To all which the Prisoner made but a weak Defence relating the manner of his Apprehension and saying That his discourse with Fromante was about the King of France and that he said he would kill himself instead of I will kill him my self alleadging his Loyalty and protesting his Innocence and how that the Witnesses after his apprehension would have had him took it up Then the Statue of Decimo tertio was read and Sir John Kirke one of the Jury who understood French attested that Translation of his words to be true Then the Prisoner's Witnesses were called who were one Anselm the Master of the Cross-Keys in Covent-Garden where the Prisoner was brought when he was apprenhended who deposed That they kept him in his House from 8 till 11 without any Constable Which the Witnesses answered was because they could get no Constable to come along with them without a Warrant from a Justice of Peace and that they sent to White-hall and desired a Guard but the Officer said it was the Constables part Another Witness appeared for the Prisoner who testified that he had often heard him declare much Loyalty to his Prince and an aversion to the Jesuits insomuch that if he knew any of the Persons concerned in this Plot he would be their Executioner himself and that he would lose his Blood for the King But the Ld. Ch. Justice reply'd That was his discourse only when he spoke to a Protestant Then the Prisoner having no more Witnesses nor any thing more to say for himself the Ld. Ch. Justice made a Speech to the Jury setting forth the Treasonableness of the Words and the manner of speaking them and the plainness of the Proof with great zeal against the Jusuits and their Tenants whom he look'd upon as the Foundations of all this Mischief excusing his warmness saying 'T was better to be warm here than in Smithfield and that he hoped he should never go to that Heaven where Men are made Saints for killing Kings The Jury then presently brought the Prisoner in Guilty who said he had nothing more to say so Sentence was pronounced against him to be Hang'd Drawn and Quartered and the same was accordingly executed upon him at Tyburn on Tuesday following being Novemb. 26. It was his Majesty's pleasure because of the Prisoner's seeming Penitence and his Relations humble Petition to suffer his Body to have a decent private Burial But his Friends abusing this gracious Favour with a publick and more than ordinary Funeral Pomp his buried Quarters were ordered to be taken up and to be disposed by the Common Executioner upon the Gates of the City The Trial of Edward Coleman Gent. at the King's-Bench Bar on Wednesday Novemb. 27. 1678. HE then and there appearing having been Arraigned the Saturday before his Indictment was read to the Jury viz. Sir Reginald Forster Bar. Sir Charles Lee. Edward Wilford Esq John Bathurst Esq Joshua Galliard Esq John Bifield Esq Simon Middleton Esq Henry Johnson Esq Charles Vmfrevile Esq Thomas Johnson Esq Thomas Eaglesfield Esq William Bohee Esq His Indictment was for endeavouring to subvert the Protestant Religion and introduce Popery and kill the King Whereto he having pleaded Not Guilty Mr. Recorder Serjeant Maynard and then the Attorney General severally spoke opening the Nature and shewing the heighnousness of the Crimes therein charg'd upon the Prisoner After which the Prisoner praying for a favorable Trial and professing that he had confessed all the Truth in the Examinations that had been made of him in Prison and that he gave over his Corresponding beyond-Seas in 75. Dr. Oates was called forth who deposed That in November last he visiting one John Keins his Father Confessor lodging at Mr. Coleman's House in Stable-Yard Mr. Coleman by him understanding that he was going to St. Omers told him That he would trouble him with a Letter or two thither and would leave them with one Fenwick Procurator for the Jesuits in London Which Letters he carried to St. Omers being directed for the Rector there and was at the opening of them The out-side Sheet was a Letter of News and in it Expressions of the King calling him Tyrant and that the Marriage between the Prince of Orange and the Lady Mary would prove the Traytor 's and Tyrant's Ruin In it was a Latin Letter to Father Le-Chese writ by the same Hand giving
him thanks for the 10000 l. which was given for the Propagation of the Catholick Religion and that it should be imployed for no other Intent and Purpose but for that which it was sent which was to cut off the King which Le Chese's Letter dated in August and which he both saw and read and to which this was an Answer positively express'd That Letter was directed to one Strange then Provincial of the Society in London which Mr. Coleman answered because Strange having run a Reed into his Finger had wounded his Hand and Secretary Mico was ill This Letter he delivered into Le-Chese's own Hand who gave him a Letter in answer to it which he brought to St. Omers and was there inclosed in the Letter from the Society to Coleman He further deposed that in April last Old Stile and May New Stile there was a general Consult of the Jesuits held by virtue of a Brief from Rome sent by the Father General of the Society first at the. White-Horse Tavern in the Strand and afterwards in several Clubs wherein the Death of the King was Conspired Grove and Pickering being imployed to Pistol him in St. Jame's Park for which Grove was to have 1500 l. in Mony and Pickering being a Priest was to have 30000 Masses which at twelve Pence a Mass amounted much-what to that Mony to all which Coleman was privy and in one Letter he writ about it express'd his disire to have the Duke trappan'd into this Plot to murther the King And in case this fail'd there was a further Design lay'd to murther the King at Windsor by four Irish Assassinates provided by Dr. Fogarthy and fourscore Pounds were provided by Father Harcourt a Jesuit and Rector of London for their present Maintainance which Coleman saw upon a Table in Wild-House where he was with Harcourt and gave the Messenger who was there ready to carry them after the Ruffians to Windsor a Guiny for expedition saying he lik'd it very well Yea and if this also should fail there were Instructions brought by one Ashby a Jesuit in July last to London from Flanders to proffer 10000 l. to Sir George Wakeman to Poison the King Which Instructions were seen and read by Mr. Coleman by him copied out and transmitted to several Conspirators of the King's Death in this Kingdom of England that were privy to this Plot. He said 10000 l. was too little and therefore he procured 5000 l. more to be added to it which Sir George Wakeman accepted of and receiv'd 5000 l. in hand with a promise of the Rest as soon as he should have done the Work He deposed likewise that a Consult had been held in the Savoy with the Jesuits Benedictine Monks for the murthering of the Duke of Ormond and raising a Rebellion in Ireland the Pope's Right to that Kingdom being asserted and 40000 black Bills provided to be sent thither for the use of the Catholick Party Coleman being privy thereto and the main Agent therein being heard to say to Fenwick that he had found a way to transmit the 200000 l. for the carrying on this Rebellion in Ireland That he saw likewise several Commissions come from Rome in Mr. Langhorn's Chamber among which was one for Mr. Coleman to be Secretary of State the receipt of which he hath since heard him acknowledg The Prisoner then offer'd something against the Informant from his telling the King when he was examin'd before the Council that he never saw him before Which the Informant obviated by confessing that there and then he did say that he would not swear that he had seen him before his Sight being bad by Candle-light and being then wearied and tired out but that when he had heard him speak he could have sworn it was he but it was not then his Business The other Witness then produced against the Prisoner was Mr. Bedloe Who deposed that he heard Sir Henry Tichbourn say that he had a Commission and that he brought one for Mr. Coleman and the rest of the Lords from the Principal of the Jesuits at Rome by order of the Pope to be Principal Secretary of State And that he was imployed by Harcourt to carry Letters to Le-Chese the French King's Confessor and was at a Consult in France where the Plot was discoursed on for killing the King and did bring back an Answer from Le-Chese to Harcourt in London and on the 24th or 25th of May 1677. he was with Harcourt at Coleman's House where he heard Coleman speak these words That if he had a Sea of Blood and an hundred Lives he would lose them all to carry on the Design And if to effect this it were necessary to destroy an hundred Heretick Kings he would do it The Prisoner then asking Mr. Bedlow if he ever saw him in his life He answer'd You may ask that question But in the stone Gallery in Somerset-House when you came from a Consult where were great Persons which I am not to name here that would make the bottom of your Plot tremble You saw me then The Court then proceeded to other evidence which were the Prisoners Papers and proved the manner of finding them by Mr. Bradley a Messenger and that those which were then produced in the Court were his by the Clerks of the Council and his own Servant Ordering them afterwards to be read The first Paper was a long Letter dated Sept. 29. 1675 sent to Le-Chese wherein he gives him an account of the Transactions of several Years before and of the Correspondence between him and Monsieur Ferrier Predecessor to Le-Chese Asserting that the true way to carry on the Interest of France and the promoting of Popery here in England was to get that Parliament dissolved which says he had been long since effected if 300000 l. could have been obtained from the French King And that things yet were in such a posture that if he had but 20000 l. sent him from France he would be content to be a Sacrifice to the utmost Malice of his Enemies if the Protestant Religion did not receive such a Blow as it could not subsist The receipt of this Letter was acknowledged by Le-Chese in an Answer he wrote to Mr. Coleman and was then read in the Court dated from Paris October 23. 1675. wherein he gives him thanks for his good Service and promises his Assistance in order to the promoting the Popish Religion Then was produced and read a Declaration which Mr. Coleman as Secretary had penned in the King's Name shewing his Reasons for the Dissolution of the Parliament Then also was read a Copy of a Letter written to Le-Chese which Mr. Coleman confessed he himself wrote and counterfeited in the Duke's Name and that when he was so bold as to shew it to the Duke the Duke was very angry and rejected it Several other Letters were read of Mr. Coleman's to Monsieur Ferrier and others and particularly one dated August 21. 1674. to the Pope's Internuncio at Brussels
Dr. Tillotson and Dr. Lloyd and that he heard him say he had by him several Witnesses that would swear whatever he bid them and that he laid in Provisions of Fire Coals and Billets behind the Palsegrave-Head Tavern and hard by Charing-Cross to burn the City of VVestminster which he produced one Mr. Palmer to swear and that he lent him Mony as also he had Mr. Speke which was yet unpaid which proved to be 6 s. 8 d. for an Order which was for Mr. Speke's Brother aspersing them with being Eves-droppers multiplying words to little purpose His Defence therefore being Artificial as the Lord Chief Justice told him because nothing to the purpose Nay Mr. Justice VVild told him he disgrac'd his Profession by making so weak a Defence And Bedloe own'd some of the Crimes he bespattered him with as part of the Guilt for which the King had given him his Pardon and farther Depos'd That Mr. Reading was to have 100 l. a Year out of every 1000 l. a Year of Bedloe's Reward The Ld. Ch. Justice summ'd up the Evidence to which the Ld. Ch. Baron added some little and then the Jury after a short recess brought the Prisoner in Guilty And then the Court Adjourn'd for half an hour when being met again and the Prisoner at the Bar The Ld. Ch. Justice Sentenc'd him to be Fined 1000 l. to be imprisoned for the space of a whole Year and to be set in the Pillory for the space of one hour in the Palace-Yard in VVestminster On the Monday following he was Pillored accordingly the Sheriff having a particular Charge of his Person that nothing but Shame and Infamy might befal him to which he had been condemned and did deserve as well as any Man that ever was convicted The Trials of Thomas White alias Whitebread Provincial of the Jesuits in England William Harcourt pretended Rector of London John Fenwick Procurator for the Jesuits in England John Gavan alias Gawen and Anthony Turner all Jesuits and Priests At the Sessions-house in the Old-Baily on Friday June 13 1679. THen and there the Court being met and all the Judges of England present Proclamation was made of Silence and Attention whilst the King's Commission of Oyer and Terminer and of Goal-Delivery were openly read then the Prisoners being set to the Bar James Corker a Priest and Jesuit brought thither to be tried with them presented to the Court a Petition setting forth that he was absolutely surprized and unprepared for his Trial and therefore besought the Court that he might not be tried till the next Sessions To which the Court seemed inclinable enough nor did the Attorney General gain-say it upon condition that he could really make it out that he wanted Witnesses without which he could not make his Defence However it was thought fitting that he should hear the Charge that was against him read to the end he might be able to give the Court an account what Witnesses he had that might avail him in reference to his Defence against it which being done the Indictment being in general for High-Treason in conspiring the Death of the King the Subversion of the Government and Protestant Religion the former Question was put to him again and then he named one Alice Gatton now at Tunbridg as a Witness to prove that he was not in Town upon the 24th of April so that being respited till the next day the Court said nothing farther to him that Sitting Immediately after the Indictment was read VVhitebread represented to the Court that in regard he had been tried upon the 17th of December before upon the same Indictment at what time the Jury being impanell'd and the Evidence found insufficient which came in against him the Jury was discharged without a Verdict he was informed that no Man could be tried and consequently put in Jeopardy of his Life twice for the same Cause For which reason he pray'd for Counsel to direct him upon that Point in matter of Law He urged that his Life was in danger as being deliver'd over in Charge to the Jury and to make it out he alledg'd the Case of Sayer in the 31 Eliz. who having pleaded to a former Indictment for a Burglary was indicted a second time upon which it was the Opinion of the Judges that he could not be indicted twice for the same Fact He likewise desir'd a sight of the Record and that he might be informed whether or no when a Person comes upon his Trial he ought not either to be condemned or acquitted Upon the whole matter and his Motion together the Court declar'd to him that the Jury being discharg'd of him his Life was in no danger For that the Jury being sworn to make a true deliverance or the Prisoners in their Charge their Charge could not be full till the last Charge of the Court after Evidence Moreover he was told that such a Plea as he produc'd could not be supported without a Record and it was certain there was none here because there was no Verdict and besides this was not the same Indictment in regard it contain'd new matter Then Fenwick offered the same Plea his Case being the same appearing before with Whitebread upon his Trial but the Court returning the same Answer to him as to the former they both submitted and so all of them pleaded severally Not Guilty to the Indictment Then the Jury being to be impanell'd they unanimously excepted without naming them aganist all those Persons that had serv'd before as Jury-Men in the same Cause which the Court allowed them as but reason And the Jury therefore that were sworn were these twelve Thomas Harriott William Gulston Allen Garraway Richard Cheney John Roberts Thomas Cash Rainsford Waterhouse Matthew Bateman John Kain Richard White Richard Bull Thomas Cox To whom the Indictment being read Mr. Belwood of Counsel for the King in this Cause open'd the Indictment and Sir Creswel Levinz proved the Charge and then Dr. Oates was first called and being sworn he deposed That Whitebread was made Provincial the last December was twelve Month and by virtue of his Authority order'd one Conyers to preach in the English Seminary upon St. Thomas of Becket's-day that the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy were Heretical Antichristian and Devilish which accordingly was done That in January or February he wrote Letters to St. Omers concerning the State of Ireland of which he had an account from Arch-bishop Talbot who wrote him word that there were several thousands of Irish ready to rise when the Blow by which was meant the King's Murther should be given in England and he hoped it would not be long ere it was given That he sent over two Jesuits into Ireland in January to see how Affairs stood there of whose return he writ an account to St. Omers in April and of the Consult to be that Month at which he was and signed a Resolve at Wild-house that Pickering and Grove should go on in their design to dispatch
Secresy as to time and place it appearing of its own Nature necessary The other was a Letter from one Christopher Anderton dated from Hilton by which was meant Rome Feb. the 5th 1677 8. wherein mention was made of the Patents being sent thence both which Letters the Prisoners strugled much to vindicate by such forced Constructions of the matters they contained as all the Court rejected Against Gavan Dr. Oates deposed That he saw his Name to the Resolve though he could not swear he was at the Consult of the 24th of April That he gave an account from time to time of the Affairs of Staffordshire and Shropshire relating to the Plot and that coming to London he gave the same account to Ireland his own Chamber and talk'd of two or 3000 l. that would be ready for the Design Mr. Prance then deposed that Harcourt had told him above a Year before as he was paying him for an Image of the Virgin Mary that there was a Plot upon the Life of the King Mr. Dugdale deposed against him that it was he who had engaged him in the Plot upon the Life of the King and often perswaded and encouraged him to it That at Ewer's and his Chambers at Boscobel and other places several Consultations had been had about the Death of the King and bringing in of Popery wherein Mr. Gaven was always a great Man being a good Orator to perswade People in the Design That at the same Consultations he had heard the Massacre often discours'd of And that Gaven should say That tho they were but in a low condition themselves yet they would have Men and Mony enough to spare for such a Design That the said Gaven had many times endeavoured to convince him of the Lawfulness if not the Merit of killing any person whatsoever for the Advancement of their Religion As to Turner it was sworn by Dr. Oates that he was at the Consult of Fenwick's Chamber and sign'd the Resolve Mr. Dugdale also deposed that Ewers had told him that Turner was to carry on the Design in VVorcestershire That the said Turner had met with Ewers Leveson and others in several places and had in every one of them given his consent to and assisted with his Counsel in the carrying on of the grand Design of killing the King and introducing of Popery This was the main of the Evidence for the King The Prisoner's defence lay chiefly in seeking to invalidate the Testimony given against them and to prove Oates perjured they produced these St Omers Witnesses who testify'd that he was not in England in April viz. Mr. Hilsley William Parry Doddington Gifford Palmer Cox who differed in his Testimony from all the rest and caused two great Laughters in the Court Thomas Billing Townley Fall John Hall Butler Cooke a Taylor some of which were so positive that they affirmed that Dr. Oates never lay but two Nights out of the Colledg from December till the middle of June And to prove further that he did not come over with Sir John VVarner and Sir Thomas Preston as he had deposed elsewhere one Bartlet a Dutchman Carlier Verron Baillee who spoke by an Interpreter John Joseph and Peter Carpenter appear'd Then Gaven produced two Witnesses to prove him to be at VVolverhampton in Staffordshire at the time of the Consult viz. one Mrs. Kath. VVinford at whose House he there lodged and Mary Poole a Servant in the House the latter of whom was so lame in her Testimony as caused both Laughter and Shouts He produced four more that affirm'd him to be in VVolverhampton the last week in July but none that could speak to the other three weeks in that Month. However he protested his Innocency and desired to put himself upon the Trial of Ordeal Then VVhitebread in his defence offered to prove D. Oates mistaken in his Evidence at Mr. Ireland's Trial which the Court would not allow Harcourt endeavoured to prove Dr. Oates mistaken as to Ireland's being with him in his Chamber in August One Gifford the Lady Southcott Sir John Southcott Mr. Edward Southcott his Son Mrs. Harewel her Daughter Eliz. Keeling Pendrel and his Wife two Mrs. Giffords and one Mr. Bedloe affirming him to have been most of that Month in Saffordshire Fenwick offer'd to invalidate Mr. Bedloe's Evidence from his having been an ill Man c. Then Sir Creswel Levinz of Counsel for the King summ'd up the Prisoners Defence and to clear Dr. Oates's Evidence about Ireland he called Sarah Pain who swore that she saw Ireland in London about the middle of August And for the Proof of Dr. Oates's being in England at the time he said he was Mr. VValker a Minister Mrs. Ives Mrs. Mayo Sir Richard Barker Philip Page Butler his Servants Mr. Smith Schoolmaster of Islington and Mr. Clay a Popish Priest all deposed as to his being seen in April and May 78 to which the Prisoners only opposed the Number and Innocency of their Evidence being most young Boys After which the Ld. Ch. Justice directed the Jury and in summing up the Evidence insisted particularly on Dugdal's Evidence concerning Sir Edmondbury Godfrey's Death as a mighty Confirmation of the Plot. Then an Officer was sworn to keep the Jury who withdrew and the Judges also went off from the Bench leaving Mr. Recorder and a competent number of Commissioners there to take the Verdict and about a quarter of an Hour after the Jury brought them all in Guilty Then the Prisoners were carried back to Newgate and the Court adjourned till eight next Morning And then Mr. Langhorn was tried and found guilty After which they were all six brought to the Bar together and received Judgment to be Drawn Hang'd and Quartered which accordingly was done upon these 5 Jesuits and Priests on Friday June the 20th at Tyburn The Trial of Richard Langhorn Esq Counsellour at Law at the Old-Baily on Saturday June the 14th 1679. HIS Indictment was for conspiring the Death of the King Subversion of the Government and Protestant Religion whereto he pleading Not guilty the Jury were impannelled for his Trial who were Arthur Yong Edward Beeker Robert Twyford VVilliam Yapp John Kirkham Peter Pickering Thomas Barnes Francis Neeve John Hall George Sitwel James VVood Richard Cawthorne To whom the Indictment being read Roger Belwood Esq of Counsel for the King in this cause opened the Indictment and Sir Creswel Levins proved the Charge And Then Mr. Dugdale was first called to give Evidence of the general Design from which afterwards it would be brought down particularly to Mr. Langhorn who therefore deposed that he had been in several Consultations for alteration of this present Government and for the introducing of Popery and Murther of the King that he was to have a Sum of Money to be one of them that should kill the King being put upon it by Mr. Ewers Mr Gavan Mr. Luson and Mr. Vavasor all Jesuits that there was then to have been a Massacre of the Protestants and
King of England so easy and the French King so powerful they must not miss such an Opportunity That about a Year and an half since Mr. Harcourt sent him with another Pacquet of Letters to Mr. Langhorn to Register wherein were two Letters that he before had brought from Spain the one from Sir William Godolphin to the Lord Bellasis the other from the Irish Colledg of Jesuits in Salamanca That the Letter from the Rector did specify That they would have the Lord Bellasis and the rest of the Lords that were concerned and the rest of the Party in England to be in readiness and to have this communicated with all expedition for that now they had provided in Spain under the Notion of Pilgrims for St. Jago some Irish cashier'd Souldiers and a great many of Lay-Brothers to be ready to take Shipping at the Groin to land at Milford-Haven there to meet the Lord Powis and an Army that he was to raise in Wales to further this Design That also he met with Father Keins he brought a Letter from Mr. Langhorn in his Hand which he said was a chiding Letter from the Secretary de propaganda Fide Cardinal Barbarino to Mr. Langhorn and the rest of the Conspirators for going on no faster when they had so fair an Opportunity Then Thomas Buss the Duke of Monmouth's Cook was sworn who being out of the way before now deposed to the Plot in general That he in September last being at VVindsor heard one Handkinson bid one Anthony a Portuguese and the Queen's Confessor's Man who was then drinking in their Company that he should have a special care of the four Irish Gentlemen he brought over with him for that they would do their Business whom since he had seen Coleman's Trial he supposed to be the four Irish-Men that were to kill the King Then this Anthony was sent for by the Court to be took up but Handkinson was return'd beyond Sea Then the Prisoner in his own defence offer'd to the Court that the two Witnesses against him Oates and Bedloe were Parties to the Crime which was laid to his Charge and therefore he desired to know whether they had their Pardon or no Which tho it were sufficiently made out yet the Court for his further satisfaction declared That whether they had or had not yet they were good Witnesses or else they should not have been admitted Whereupon the Prisoner started another Question Whether having had their Pardons they might not fall under the same prospect in Law with an Approver not as being Approvers but as under some equivalence of reason for them From whence he would have inferr'd That if the Approver be pardoned the Appellee ought to be discharg'd To which the Court replied That an Approver was ever allow'd Maintenance and that there ought to be a proof of corrupt Contract or Subornation to invalidate a Testimony Then the Prisoner desired to know whether they had ever received or did not expect Gratifications and Rewards for their Discoveries To which Dr. Oates declared That he was 6 or 700 l. out of Pocket and knew not when he should see it again The Prisoner urged That Mr. Reading had told him that Mr. Bedloe had received 500 l. But the Court inform'd him that was for the discovery of the Murderers of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey Then these little Passes being all put by and he having nothing to answer to the Fact to invalidate the Witnesses he called in the St. Omers Gang which had all been heard and baffled but the day before to prove that Dr. Oates did not come over with those Persons he deposed he did nor at that Time but was at St. Omers in April and May which was the only Months they could answer any Questions about because as one of those Witnesses very honestly confess'd the Question that he came for did not fall upon any other Time Others of them contradicted themselves as to what they had spoke the day before one calling it the 24th of April New-Stile who yesterday call'd it Old-Stile another June who yesterday said July And the Woman of the VVhite-Horse Tavern affirming her House to be little and that there was never a Room therein that could contain near so many as Dr. Oates had deposed had met there at the Consult several in the Court presently contradicted her affirming that Fifty might dine at once in some of her Rooms Then Mr. Langhorne would have urged something against the Witnesses which they had said at other Trials the unreasonableness whereof the Court shew'd him Then several substantial Witnesses being sworn whereof one was a Papist deposed That they saw Dr. Oates in London in April and May 1678. which quite contradicted the St. Omer's Evidence Then Mr. Langhorn urg'd the St. Omer's Testimony notwithstanding against Dr. Oates's Evidence and affirm'd that he had never seen Mr. Bedloe before that day and that it was improbable that one that was in his way of Practice should become a Clerk to register Letters and that there was no proving a Negative disclaiming all Principles of Disloyalty leaving the rest to the Jury Therefore the Ld. Ch. Justice then summ'd up the Evidence and directed the Jury And then a Letter found among Harcourt's Papers five or six days after Dr. Oates had given in his Information to the King and Council was produc'd and read in Court to confirm Dr. Oates's Testimony about the Consult Then an Officer was sworn to keep the Jury who withdrew to consider of their Verdict and the Judges also went off from the Bench. After a short space the Jury returned and brought the Prisoner in Guilty upon which there was a very great Shout Then the five Prisoners cast the day before were all brought to the Bar and received Sentence together To be Drawn Hang'd and Quarter'd Mr. Recorder applying himself first to them in a very handsom Speech Which Sentence after a Month's Reprieve was executed upon him at Tyburn The Trials of Sir George Wakeman Bar. William Marshall Benedictine Monks William Rumley Benedictine Monks James Corker Benedictine Monks At the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily on Friday July 18. 1679. THen and there these Prisoners were Indicted for High-Treason for conspiring the Death of the King subversion of the Government and Protestant Religion whereto they all pleaded Not Guilty Their Jury were Ralph Hawtrey Esq Henry Hawley Esq Henry Hodges Esq Richard Downton Esq John Bathurst Esq Robert Hampton Esq William Heydon Esq John Baldwyn Esq Richard Dobbins Esq William Avery Esq Richard White Gent. William VVayte Gent. To whom the Indictment being read Edward VVard Esq of Counsel for the King in this Cause opened the Indictment and Sir Robert Sawyer opened the Charge And then Mr. Dugdale was first called to give a general Account only of the Plot. Who therefore being sworn deposed That for these seven Years he had known of the Plot and for two Years particularly and that in order thereto the best way was
the Ld. Ch. Justice Scroggs on Wednesday Feb. 11. 1679. THere the Prisoner was arraigned upon an Indictment for High-Treason for conspiring the Death of the King the Subversion of the Government and the Protestant Religion on Saturday January 24 1679. To which he pleaded Not Guilty desiring a Jury of his own Country-Men which was promised him and some Friend to assist him because he was deaf being above 85 Years of Age. On Wednesday Feb. 11 following the Prisoner being brought to his Trial the Jury sworn after several Challenges were Sir Thomas Hodson Richard Beaumount Esq Stephen Wilks Esq Jervas Rockley Esq Robert Leeke Esq William Batt Esq Charles Best Esq John Cross Esq Barton Allett Esq William Milner Esq John Oxley Esq Francis Oxley Esq To whom the Indictment being read Mr. Dormer Serj. Maynard and Mr. Attorn Gen. opened the same And then Mr. Bolron being sworn deposed that he came to live with Sir T. Gascoyne in 1674 as Steward of his Cole-works and in 1675 he being fearful of his Estate lest it might be liable to be forfeited to the King he was a Witness to a collusive Conveyance thereof and saw him colourably receive 1000 l. of Sir William Ingleby he and one Matthias Higgringil helping to count the Money In 1676 he heard the Prisoner say to one Christopher Metcalf that he was resolved to send 3000 l. to the Jesuits in London for the carrying on of the Design and that he would return it by 300 l. at a time to prevent Suspicion by the hands of Richard Phisicke and about the beginning of 77 he heard the Prisoner say that he had returned it and that if it had been a thousand times as much he would be glad to spend it all in so good a Cause In 77 that there was a Consult at Barnbow-Hall in Yorkshire which is the Prisoner's House where was Sir Miles Stapleton Charles Ingleby Esq Esquire Gascoyne the Lady Tempest Thomas Thwing Sir VValter Vavasor Sir Francis Hungate Mr. Middleton Robert Killinbeck a Jesuit and VVilliam Rushton a Priest their discourse was about establishing a Nunnery at Dolebank in hopes that the Plot of killing the King would take effect resolving they would venture their Lives and Estates to further it And the Prisoner concluded to give 90 l. a Year for ever for the maintenance of this Nunnery Upon which they all agreed that after his Death he should be canonized a Saint Accordingly the Prisoner did erect a Nunnery at Dolebank near Ripley where Mrs. Lashalls was Lady Abbess Mrs. Beckwith and Mrs. Benningfield her Assistants Ellen Thwing Eliz. Butcher Mary Root others were Nuns here they were to reside till the King was kill'd and then to remove to Heworth near York and here they did reside near a Year and an half till the Plot was discovered and he had seen several Leters from them to the Prisoner That about March last Esquire Gascoyne and Mr. Middleton got Licences from a Justice of Peace to travel to London and he heard them tell the Prisoner they designed to fly into France and accordingly sold off their Goods the Prisoner approving their Resolution That on May the 30th last the Prisoner bid the Witness go into the Gallery where one VVilliam Rushton his Confessor came to him and discours'd him about his having taken the Oath of Allegiance telling him it was a damnable Sin he having thereby denied the Power of the Pope to absolve him from it but that the Pope had Power to depose the King and had done it and that it was a meritorious act to kill the King and if he would undertake to do it he would assist him and give him Absolution quoting that Scripture Thou shalt bind their Kings in Fetters and their Princes in Chaines concluding that the King was deposed and it was meritorious to kill him and that unless he would turn Roman Catholick the Pope would give away his Kingdoms to another The same day the Prisoner talked with him in his Chamber and inquired of him what Rushton had said to him which he told him and then taking him by the hand the Prisoner told him if he would undertake a design that he and others had to kill the King he would give him 1000 l. but refusing to be concerned in Blood he desired him of all Love to Secresy That in September 1678. he heard the Prisoner tell his Daughter Lady Tempest that he would send 150 l. to Dolebanke in hopes the blow would be given shortly which she seemed to like and he heard a Letter read afterwards from Cornwallis that he had received it but it was too little for the carrying on so great a Design That he was a Protestant when he came first to the Prisoner's Service and turn'd Papist about VVhitsontide 1675. and left his Service in good Friendship July the 1st 1678. and turn'd Protestant again in June 1679. when he first made this discovery Mr. Mowbray deposed that he came to lie with Sir Tho. Gascoyne the beginning of 1674. and used to wait upon him in his Chamber and to be diligent in attending Mr. Rushton his Confessor at the Altar who therefore permitted him to be present in his Chamber where he heard him and other Priests discoursing in 1676 of a Design laid for setting up Popery and how likely it was to succeed most of the considerable Papists in England having engaged to act for it and if it could not be done by fair means force must be used declaring that London and York must be fired and that the King in Exile had promised the Jesuits beyond Sea to establish their Religion whenever he was restored which they now despaired of and therefore he was adjudged an Heretick and was to be killed and Rushton told the other Priests that according to Agreement he had given the Oath of Secresy and the Sacrament to the Prisoner and his Son and Daughter who had engaged to be faithful active and secret That about Michaelmas there was another meeting of these Priests and others where they declared that the King was an Heretick and that the Pope had excommunicated him and all other Hereticks in England Scotland and Ireland and that force was to be made use of And then did Rushton produce a List of about 4 or 500 Names of them that were engaged in the Design of killing the King and promoting the Catholick Religion which Rushton read over among which were the Names of the Prisoner Tho. Gascoyne Esq the Lady Tempest Mr. Vavasor Sir Francis Hungast Sir John Savile the two Townleys Mr. Sherborn and others and he knew the Prisoner's Name to be writ by his own hand They declared also that the Pope had given Commission to put on the Design with speed and had given a plenary Indulgence of 10000 Years for all that should act either in Person or Estate for killing the King and setting up Popery in England besides a Pardon and other Gratifications That the Priests that used
testified that he being to carry Mrs. Pressicks before Justice Lowther Bolron's Wife said she was sorry for it for she believed her to be an honest Woman and had been a good Neighbour amongst them Mary Walker Servant-maid to Mrs. Lassels Thwing's Sister testified that Bolron proffer'd her 10 l. to swear Thwing was a Priest Then William Bacchus said that when he served a Warrant on the two Mrs. Bolron's to go before Mr. Lowther they said they could say nothing against Six Tho. Gascoyne nor any of the Family Cuthbert Hamsworth said that fie heard Bolron swear Revenge against the Lady Tempest for prosecuting a Suit against him Then the Prisoner endeavoured to prove he was not at Barnborow-hall in 1677. by George Twisley Groom to Sir Tho. Gascoyne who could only say that he used to come there but a night or two in a Year Joseph Cooper said that about a Year ago he heard Mowbray say he knew nothing of the Plot and that he believed Sir Tho. Gascoyne was guilty of no such thing for if he had he should have known it as soon as Bolron and he was a Rogue and a Knave for saying any such thing Edward Cooper sen said he then heard Mowbray say he thought Sir Thomas Gascoyne was not guilty of the Plot. Isabel Heyward a Girle that lived with Bolron as a Servant testified that her Master and Mistrifs falling out she said she would not go to London and if he made her go she would swear that what he had sworn against Mrs. Pressicks was out of Malice Alice Dawson testified that the day after New-years-day was twelve-month Mrs. Bolron said she was sorry for nothing but that her Husband had meddled with Mrs. Tressicks One or two Witnesses more were called but nothing to the purpose Therefore Mr. Justice Dolben summ'd up the Evidence and Mr. Baron Atkins proceeded to do the same And the Jury withdrawing for a while brought in Thomas Thwing Guilty and Mary Pressicks not Guilty And on the Monday following Mr. Justice Dolben sentenced him to be Drawn Hang'd and Quarter'd The Trials of William Viscount Stafford in Westminster-hall from November the 30th to December the 7th 1680. before the House of Peers ON Tuesday Nov. the 30th the Right Honourable Henege Lord Finch Baton of Daventry Lord High Chancellor of England being constituted Lord High Steward for the present occasion and all things fitted for the purpose in VVestminster-hall and both Houses being seated and the Commons all bare VVilliam Viscount Stafford was brought to the Bar kneeling till the Lord High Steward bid him rise and a Chair set for him After which making a short Speech to him concerning the occasion of his appearing there the Articles of Impeachment High Treason against him and the other Lords in the Tower by the Commons of England were read which consisted of seven Heads The 1st That there hath for many Years a Plot been contrived c. 2ly Naming the Persons concerned therein and particularly the Noble Lord at the Bar. 3ly That consults had been held and the Murder of the King resolved on therein c. 4ly That consultations have been for the raising of Men Mony Arms c. 5ly That Commissions had been given and received and particularly a Commission for the Lord Stafford to be Pay-master of the Army 6ly That to hide and hinder a Discovery an Oath of Secresy and the Sacrament had been given and taken and Sir Edm. Godfrey murdered 7ly That the Guilt of that Murder was endeavoured to be put upon Protestants c. The Lord Stafford's Answer to which was then also read wherein he put himself upon his Peers for Trial affirming himself Not Guilty After this Serjeant Maynard Sir Francis VVinnington and Mr. Treby being of the Committee appointed for the Management of the Evidence opened the Charge and Evidence in very excellent Speeches And proposed to prove first the Plot in general and the Guilt of this Lord therein in particular And therefore as to the first Mr. Smith being sworn gave a full relation of his Travels and Perversion and of what he had heard beyond Sea and in England concerning this Plot. How Abbot Montague and Father Gascoyne in France and other Priests and Jesuits told him that if he would turn Catholick he should have Employment among them there and afterwards England for that they doubted not but the Popish Religion would come in very soon and that because as the Abbot said they doubted not to procure a Toleration of Religion and because the Gentry that went abroad did observe the Novelty of their own Religion and the Antiquity of theirs and the Advantages that were to be had by it But one Father Bennet and others said they doubted it not because their party was very strong in England and in a few Years they would bring it in right or wrong That it was Cardinal Crimaldi who perverted him about 1671 to the Romish Religion at Provence and that afterwards he lived several Years in the English Jesuits Colledg at Rome where he hath often heard it disputed and preached and exhorted that the King of England was an Heretick and that there was no King really reigning and whoever took him out of the way would do a meritorious Action particularly by Father Anderton Mumford Campion but chiefly Southwel one of the chief of the Jesuits That when he came away thence for England these Fathers for a whole Month were exhorting that the King of England was not to be obeyed and that in all private Confessions all Persons who might be thought capable of any design were to be instructed that they should use all their Endeavours for promoting Popery That while he was at Rome he read Coleman's Letters of Intelligence once a Month and therein how the Duke and the Queen and the chief of the Nobility were of their side how they carried matters several times the ways the Lord Clifford and Sir VVilliam Godolphin did use to effect the work and that they question'd not to get the Lord Danby on their side too That when he return'd into England he found all the Popish Clergy in great hopes of Popery coining shortly in That he knew of Money gathered in the North but refused to joyn therein That as to the Lord Stafford he knew nothing but that Sir Henry Calverley was turned out of Commission of the Peace through Complaint made to my Lord Stafford of his being active against Popery And that he writ to one Smith that he would not make over his Estate as others did for that he expected some sudden Change or Alteration That the Cardinal who perverted him at the same time spoke of great Assurances that Popery would prevail in England that there was but one in the way and tho that Man was a good natured Man yet they could not so far prevail upon him but that to accomplish their designs they must take him out of the way That now he had been a Protestant two
Years and was always bred so till he travelled towards Rome After him Mr. Dugdale was sworn and deposed That he had been acquainted with a Design of introducing Popery about 15 or 16 Years and that he had seen several Letters from beyond-Sea of Mony Men and Arms being ready to Assist That Collections of Mony were made in the Country and 500 l. paid to him so collected which he paid to Mr. Evers to return to London to discharge an Account count of Arms and Things received from beyond-Sea and for carrying on this Design That he himself had given them an Estate of 400 l. Value and because he knew Mony would be wanting had promis'd an 100 l. more as soon as the Lord Aston and he had accounted for this Design and the praying for his Soul That the King of France had promised his Assistance and the Pope allowed some part of his Revenue for the same purpose That of late he had been at several Consultations wherein the Death of the King was discoursed which was intended to be about November December or January 1678. and saw Letters from Paris which advised that it should be thrown upon the Presbyterians who had killed the old King and were likeliest to be thought to have done this and so they might easily get the Protestants of the Church of England to join with the Papists against them to the weakning of Protestantism and accomplishment of their Design That it was agreed that the Lord Aston Sir James Symons and others should go in October 1678. to dispose of Arms to the value he heard of 30000. l. That after the King had been killed an Army was to have appeared to have cut off all that should escape the Massacre which also was designed That he bad been put upon to make Foot-Races to draw People together that they might the better have Discourses together without suspicion That he saw a Letter from the Lord Stafford to Mr. Ewers to shew that things went on well beyond-Sea and hoped they did so here and that particularly the Lord Stafford was by at a Consult about September 1678. with Mr. Heveningham Sir James Symonds Mr. Vavasor Mr. Petre Mr. Howard and the Lord Aston about the Death of the King and that Mr. Heveningham Sit James Symons the Lord Aston Mr. Draycott Mr. Howard and Mr. Gerard did of his knowledge contribute Mony for carrying on the Plot. That he saw a Letter from Whitebread to give Mr. Ewers a Caution to trust only stout and trusty Fellows no matter whether they were Gentlemen or no for killing of the King and another Letter from Harcourt to Ewers dated Octob. 12. and received the 14th 1678 wherein it was said This night Sir Edmondbury Godfrey is dispatched the reason whereof was Ewer's said because he had shewn himself too eager upon Oates's Examination before him and that therefore the Duke of York sending to Coleman to desire him not to reveal what be knew of the Plot Coleman mistrusting Sir Edmonbury sent word back that it would be never the nearer because he had been so foolish as to reveal all to Sir E. Godfrey who had promised to keep it all as a Secret but that now he feared he would witness against him Whereupon the Duke sent word back again That if he would but take care to conceal he should not come in against him And upon this he was quickly dispatched That be had oft been brought to the Oath of Secresy and the Sacrament and particularly when he withdrew on a Monday about the 18th or 19th of November 1678 from the Lord Aston's when he carried all his Papers and burnt them at a Neighbouring-house because he knew they would discover him and others concerned in the Plot But afterwards understanding such his Promises of Secrecy were better broke than kept he came in to make his Discovery Then Mr. Prance deposed That in 1678 he went to one Singleton a Priest at one Hall's a Cook in Ivy-Lane who told him That he did not fear but in a little time to be a Priest in a Parish-Church and that he would make no more to stab 40 Parliament-Men than to eat his Dinner which at that very time he was a doing Then Dr. Oates was sworn and told how in the Year 1676 he was admitted Domestick Chaplain to the Duke of Norfolk being then a Minister of the Church of England Where he became accquainted with some Popish Priests and was told from one Singleton That the Protestant Religion was upon it's last Legs and it would become him and all Men of his Coat to hasten betimes home to the Church of Rome Having a strong suspicion some Years before of the apparent growth of Popery to satisfy his Curiosity he pretended some Doubts and at last a Conviction by she Jesuits because he observed them most able to inform him and accordingly was reconciled on Ashwensday 1676 7. Soon after Strange the then Provincial told him his Ordination was invalid and he must become a Lay-man then he desiring to be of their Order the Fathers upon a Consultation at Wild-House admitted him and because his Years were not suitable to be a novice they proposed travelling to him to go beyond-Sea and do their Business This he accepted and accordingly went April 1677 into Spain to Validolid having their Letters of Recommendation where he found Letters come from England before him and dated in May wherein was expressed That the King was dispatched which caused great joy to the Fathers but afterwards Letters dated the latter end of May came to certify their Mistake and to desire the Fathers to stifle the News Some Letters he opened also by the way wherein was an Account of a Disturbance designed in Scotland and of the Hopes they had for carrying on the Catholick Cause in England That in June Letters came thither expressing That Beddingfield was made Confessor to the Duke of York whom they hoped would prevail much with him in order to this Design and that Letters from St. Omers dated the same Month gave account That Father Beddingfield had assured them of the Dukes willingness to comply with them That travelling through this Country he found that Mony had been there raised and sent to England and particularly that the Provincial of the Jesuits of Castile had advanced 10000 l. promised to be paid in June following That upon some Missioners arriving there in December one Mumford alias Armstrong preach'd That the Oaths of Allegiance and Sumpremacy were Antichristian Heretical and Devilish vilifying and abusing the King's Legitimacy saying That his Religion intitled him to nothing but sudden Death and Destruction In November he return'd for England and coming into Strange's Chamber there was Father Keins lying ill upon Strange's Bed and Keins was saying He was mighty sorry for honest William so they called Grove that was to kill the King for missing in his Enterprize They being more zealous for killing the King after he had refused Coleman the
Dissolution of the Long Parliament He came to St. Omers December 9th or 10th N. S. and carried Letters from the Provincial and other Fathers wherein Strange told them he had great hopes of effecting their Design next Year but as yet they could not That they had Letters from their New Provincial VVhite-bread the same Year to order Conyers to preach on St. Thomas of Canterbury's day saying he would be as zealous for carrying on of their Design as his Predecessor had been In that Sermon Conyers after he had commended the Saint and declared how unworthily he was sacrificed did inveigh against the Tyranny as he called it of Temporal Prince and particularly of the King of England Declaring that the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy were Antichristian and Devilish and that it was fit to destroy all such as would countenance them In January they had Letters from Ireland of the Resolution of the Papists there to let in the French King provided the Parliament should urge the King to break with France and of their Zeal to vindicate their Freedom and their Religion from the oppression of the English as they called it In March Letters from England gave account That there had been a very shrewd Attempt made upon the Person of the King and that the flint of Pickering's Gun was loose and his Hand shaking the King did then escape for which Pickering received a Discipline and Grove a Chiding At the latter end of the same Months 1678 came a Summons to a Consutt to which eight or nine came over whereof the Witness was one It began at the VVhite-Horse Tavern where they consulted about some things of the Society and afterward adjourned into particular Societies where they did debate and resolve the Death of the King and that Grove should have 1500 l. for his pains and Pickering a Religious Man 30000 Masses Presently after he returns to St. Omers and after him the New Provincial who ordered him back again to England where he arrived at Dover June 14 meeting there with Fenwick with whom he came to London the 17th Letters arriving just after them wherein were Proposals to be made to Sir Geo. VVakeman for poisoning of the King and that the 10000 l. promised by the Spaniards and received accordingly at the time in London should be offered him Coleman thought it too little Langhorn too much saying he was a narrow-spirited Soul and that he ought to do so great a piece of Service for nothing There was 5000 l. of it paid him as he saw entred in the Books and Father Ashby in July renewed the Proposal of 15000 l. and Fenwick in August gave an account to the Provincial of it's being accepted of In July Strange coming to Town informed him in discourse how the City was fired and how many of those concerned in it were taken and that they were released by the Duke of York's Guard and that all the Order they had for it they pretended was from the Duke In July he discover'd to Dr. Tongue of which the King had Notice 13th or 14th of August and by the 3d of September he was betray'd and exposed to the Vengeance of the Papists whose Plot he had thus Discovered Then to fortify Dr. Oates's Evidence Mr. Dennis was called who deposed That he saw Dr. Oates at Vallidolid in Spain and related what Discourse they had together and how they came acquainted and how the Doctor lent him Mony to defray the Expence of his Journey and sent a Letter by him to Madrid which he heard read and related the Contents of it That he had both heard of and seen Mony collected in Ireland naming the Collectors thereof in the Year 1668 for the encouragement of the French King to bring in an Army thither acknowledging himself to be now a Dominican Fryer and a Papist Mr. Jennison being sworn deposed That in 1678 he had heard Mr. Ireland and Mr. Thomas Jennison his Brother both Jesuits speak of a Design to get a Toleration by bribing the then Parliament by a great Sum of Mony procured from their Party And of securing the Duke of York's Succession by getting Commissions to be granted out to the Papists to be ready to rise upon the Death of the King saying also their Religion could never flourish till the Government was altered to the French Model In June 1678 he heard Mr. Ireland say in his own Chamber That Popery was like to come into England and there was but one stood in the way that it was an easy thing to poison the King and that Sir George Wakeman might easily and opportunely do it In August after be also was at his Chamber and found Mr. Ireland newly come out of Staffordshire being then drawing off his Boots and discoursing of the suddenness of Popery coming into England he tempted the Witness to be one to go to Windsor to take off the King which he refusing Ireland asked him if he knew any Irish Men that were flout and couragious and upon his naming some he took their Names asking him for 20 l. which the Witness owed him saying he should need 80 l. That he had heard his Brother Thomas Jennison in Discourse use that Expression which Dr. Oates hath in his Narrative If C. R. would not be R. C. he should not be long R. C. Interpreting it thus in Latin Si Carolus Rex non esset Rex Catholicus non foret diu Carolus Rex Asserting further That if the King were excommunicated he were no longer King and it were no Sin to take him off and if it were discover'd who did it two or three might suffer but denying the Fact the Matter soon would be blown over That about two Months after the Mustering upon Hounslow-Heath about the latter end of July and before the Discovery his Brother told him of a Design in which the Queen and the Duke and several Lords were concerned and that a new Army would be raised to bring in Popery but he would not tell him more Particulars till he had received the Sacrament of Secresy He told him that one Mr. Oates also a Person newly come over to them was in this Design which Oates he saw the latter end of April or beginning of May in Mr. Ireland's Chamber About the time of Coleman's Trial he heard also one Mr. Cuffil a Jesuit say at his Sister Hall's in Berk-shire in Shinfield-Parish That he thought Mr. Coleman was infatuated upon the Discovery of the Plot to give notice to Harcourt Ireland and Fenwick and the other Jesuits to burn or secture their Papers and yet not to secure his own Then saying also that Bellarmine did draw this Sentence out of the Scripture to favour the Pope's Authority of Excommunicating Depriving and Deposing Temporal Princes Quod Papa habeat eandem potestatem super Reges quam Jehojads habuit super Athaliam and that there were other corroborating Testimonies among the Fathers for it After tins the Records of the Attainder of Coleman
last Mr. Bulstrode was asked by the Prisoner What Message he brought and what proffer he made from the Court to his Wife But to this he would say nothing only that Fitz-Harris's Wife refused to be examin'd unless the King would speak to her alone The Dutchess of Portsmouth would likewise own nothing concerning him but that she had three or four times spoke to the King for him to get his Estate in Ireland and that what Mony he had had from her was only for Charity After this the Prisoner concluded his Defence complaining of his hard Usage professing his enmity to the French Interest and that Everard knew the Design of that Libel was otherwise concluding that the Jury could not find him now Guilty because of his Impeachment in a Superior Court The Sol. General then summ'd up the Evidence and Serj. Jefferies and the Ld. Ch. Justice gave the Charge to the Jury who desired the Opinion the Court since the Prisoner had been impeached whether they were compellable by Law to give a Verdict in this Case upon him To which The Ld. Ch. Justice said That the Vote of the Commons viz. That the Prisoner should not be tried in any other Inferior Court could not alter the Law and that the Judges of this Court had conference with all the other Judges concerning this Matter and it was the Opinion of all the Judges of England that this Court had a Jurisdiction to try this Man After which Justice Jones was of Opinion That if the Prisoner were acquitted on this Indictment it might be pleaded in Bar to the Impeachment Justice Dolben and Justice Raymond declared they were of the same Opinion The Jury withdrew for half an hour and then brought the Prisoner in Guilty And on Wednesday June 15. 1681. the Ld. Ch. Justice sentenc'd him to be Drawn Hang'd and Quartered Which was accordingly executed upon him together with Plunket at Tyburn on Friday July 1. 1681. The Trial of Dr. Oliver Plunket Titular Primate of Ireland before the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs at the King's-Bench Bar at Westminster on Wednesday June 8. 1681. ON May the 3d. 1681. the Prisoner was there Arraign'd upon Indictment of High-Treason for Conspiring the Death of the King and to levy War in Ireland and to alter the Religion there and to introduce a Foreign Power To which he urged that he had been arraigned for the same Treason in Ireland and at the Day of his Trial the Witnesses against him did not appear But the Court shew'd him the invalidity of that Plea because he had never yet undergone any Trial therefore he Pleaded Not Guilty On Wednesday June 8. following he was again brought to the Bar and still urged for more time because he pretended he had not yet got over all his Witnesses and some Records from Ireland But he having already had five Weeks the Court would not hearken and therefore the Jury sworn were Sir John Roberts Thomas Harriott Henry Ashurst Ralph Bucknall Richard Gowre Richard Pagett Thomas Earsby John Hayne Thomas Hodgkins James Partherich Samuel Baker VVilliam Hardy To whom the Indictment being read the same was opened by Mr. Heath Serj. Maynard and Mr. Attorny General And then Florence VVyer being sworn deposed That he knew there was a Plot in Ireland both before Plunkets time and in his time which was working in 1665 and 1666 but was brought to full maturity in 1677 then Col. Rely and Col. Bourne being sent from the French King into Ireland with a Commission to muster as many Men as they could promising to send an Army of 40000 Men to land at Carlingford on St. Lewis-day to destroy all Protestants and set up the French King's Authority And one Edmond Angle a Justice of Peace and Clerk of the Crown sent for all the Rebels abroad in the North to come up into the County of Longford and they marched into the head Town of the County and fired it the Inhabitants fled into the Castle but Angle being shot the Rebels fled and carried with them all the Papers Angle had in his Pocket Hereupon Col. Bourne became suspected and was imprison'd and Col. Rely fled into France and the Plot lay under a Cloud till the Prisoner came to be Primate which he got by the French King's help upon his promising to prepare things in Ireland for his Interest and that about 10 or 11 Years ago in the first Year of his Primacy when the Prisoner came to the Friery at Armagh he being there one Quine told him That they thought Duffy would have been Primate said he 't is better as it is for Duffy hath not the wit to do those things that I have undertaken to do That he had heard the Prisoner own himself to be made Primate by the Pope and that he writ himself Oliverus Armacanus Primat Metropolitanus totius Hiberniae and had made Warrants sub paena suspensionis for his Priests to pay Mony for to supply the French Army and to let him know how many there were in all their Parishes from sixteen to sixty And that he had seen him going from Port to Port and that he pitch'd on Carlingford as most convenient for the French to land at Henry O-Neal deposed That in August 1678 Bishop Tyrril came with 40 odd Horse-Men to Vicar-General Brady's House where he gave them all the Oath of Secrecy to forward the Plot against the Protestants whom he said they would make an end of from end to end in Ireland in one hour and that he should have an Order for it from the Lord Oliver Plunket and that he and Plunket had sent Mony into France to get Men and to bring them into Ireland Neal O-Neal deposed the same he also being at that time at Vicar Bradey's House being August 21. 1678. Owen Murfey only swore That Lieutenant Baker told him That Mr. Edmond Murfey did discover the Plot to him that there was a Design to bring in the French but of his own Knowledg he could say nothing Hugh Duffy deposed That he had seen several of the Prisoner's Orders to raise Mony and had collected some for him being Curate of Cogham and a Fryer and had by his Order returned him also a list of the Age of every Person in his Parish from 16 to 60 and that he accompanied him when he view'd the Port of Carlingford which he thought most convenient for landing the French and had seen his Letter in France to Cardinal Bovillon that he should prevail with that King not to invade Spain but rather wage War with the King of England who had been an Apostate and help their poor Country that was daily tormented with Heretical Jurisdiction That he was present at a great Consult near Clouds where the Prisoner was Chief and gave special Order for a List to be got of all the Officers in the late Rebellion and that lost their Estates because they would be more forward in this Design That he himself was forward
because he did not prosecute the Papists as he thought sufficiently and that he was as deep in the Plot as any Papist of them all and that he had a hand in Sir Edmondbury Godfry's Death That there was nothing to be expected from the King but introducing of Popery and Arbitrary Government That there was no Trust to be put in him but it was the People we must trust to And we must look to arm our selves and that he would Arm himself and be here at Oxford having several stout Men particularly Capt. Chinton Capt. Browne and one Don Lewis that would stand by him in case there should be a Rising which he expected at Oxford if the King and Parliament did not agree Colledge giving Mr. Dugdale in London before his coming to Oxford as much Ribbon as came to forty Shillings with No Popery No Slavery wrought in it to distribute among his Friends in the Country that they might be known by other Persons that would wear the same And that at London being once in a Coffee-House with Mr. Colledge and with some of the Members of the House of Commons a little before they met talking of the Parliament at Oxford and of some Disturbance that was likely to happen there it was then fully agreed that it would be the best way out of every County where the Parliament had the best Interest in the People to leave one in every County that might manage the People And that at Oxford when Mr. Colledge perceived that the King would not yield to the House of Commons he said Let him begin as soon as he would he did not care how soon for their Party was but an Handful to him and his Party meaning the Dissenters calling them the True Protestants and the Church of England only Protestants in Masquerade And that Day the King went out of Town presently after he went Mr. Colledge said to him in the Barber's Shop that is just within the Angel-Inn that Rowley meaning the King was gone the Rogue was afraid of himself he was shirk'd away Then Mr. Dugdale produced some Papers whereof he affirmed that Mr. Colledg had owned himself to be Author as the Letter pretended to be intercepted to Roger Le Strange the Rary-show and Character of a Popish Successor which were read and explained in the Court. And then one Stevens being sworn deposed % % that he found the first draught of the Rary-show in Mr. Colledge's Bed-chamber when he came to search his Papers by Order of Council and that the Printer that printed the Ballad had told him since he had it from him which likewise Atterbury and Sawel affirmed but the Paper being look'd for in the Court could not be found Then Mr. John Smith was sworn who deposed that he was intimately acquainted with Mr. Colledge and that going to dine with him at Alderman Wilcox's he being a Stranger ask'd what the Alderman was and Colledge told him he was a Man as true as Steel and a Man that would endeavour to root out Popery to which he reply'd that that might be done easily if he could but prevail with the King to pass the Bill against the D. of York he answered No No he was mistaken for Rowley meaning the King was as great a Papist as the D. of York and every way as dangerous to the Protestant Interest as was too apparent by his Arbitrary ruling And afterwards in the Tavern where they dined he asking him the second time before the Alderman came what kind of Man he was he said he was one that lived in his Country-house and gave freely to several People to buy Arms and Ammunition to bring the King to Submission to his People adding that he wondred old Rowley did not consider how easily his Father's Head came to the Block which he doubted not would be the end of Rowley at the last And after dinner all departing Colledge told him if he would go with him to his own house he should see how he was prepared with Arms and Provision And soon after dining with him he shewed him his Pistols his Blunderbuss his great Sword his Armour Back and Breast and his Head-piece which was covered as he remembred with Chamlet and was a fine thing Colledge telling him that these were the things which would destroy the pitiful Guards of Rowley that were kept up contrary to Law and Justice to set up Arbitrary Power and Popery And a little before the Oxford-Parliament met he meeting Colledge again and discoursing several things Colledge told him what Preparations the City were making how they were provided with Powder and Bullets and that he would go down to Oxford expecting a little sport there upon the Divisions that were like to be between the King and Parliament and that he would be one that would seize the King if he should seize any of the Members as he expected he would And again meeting the Prisoner after his return from Oxford he told him that he went thither in expectation of some sport but old Rowley was afraid like his Grand-father Jamy and so ran away like to beshit himself And that Fitz-Gerald and he had had a quarrel at the Parliament door of the House of Lords at Oxford that Fitz-Gerald had call'd him Rogue and made his Nose Bleed but before long that he hoped to see a great deal more Blood shed for the Cause And after this when there was a Discourse of disarming the City and that the Ld. Feversham was to come to do it he said That he was well provided and that if Feversham or any Man nay Rowley himself should attempt any such thing he would be the Death of him before any Man should seize upon his Arms desiring him to get Arms for himself too because he did not know how he might make use of them accordingly he had an Armour from him upon Trial which he said cost him 30 or 40 s. but it proving too big he returned it and bought him a new one Next to him Bryan Haynes was sworn who deposed likewise that he had been acquainted with Mr. Colledge ever since March last before the sitting of the Parliament at Oxford For there being a Warrant against him for High Treason he made his Application to Colledg and desired him to go to a certain Person of Honour in England and ask his advice Whether he might not supersede the Warrant by putting in Bayl and carry the Supersedeas in his Pocket Mr. Colledge told him he would go to this Person of Honour for he would do nothing of his own head and he bid him come to him the next day which accordingly he did and asked him what was the result and what advice he had from that Person of Quality he bid him be of good chear that the Parliament would be and sit at Oxford soon and that he should not value the King a pin for that the King was in a worse Condition than either of them and he should see that
Papers that had been charged upon him that they were none of his nor did he ever own them for his nor could he ever make Pictures nor did he ever in his Life and that that very Person whom Mr. Dugdale said he owned he got it to be printed by had denied it before the King and Council Then Elizabeth Hunt the Prisoner's servant appeared who testified That about 7 or 8 Weeks before the seizure of the Papers a Porter brought three Bundles of Papers for her Master in his absence which lay in a Box in his Counting-house a Week or Fortnight before she told him of them And as to Mr. Dugdale that she going to him for Mony he owed her Master after he was in Prison and he not paying her it as he promised she said to him Sir I think 't is very hard that you should keep my Master's Mony from him and yet go and swear against his Life too he said to her There was a great deal of do about his swearing against her Master more than needs but as he hoped for Salvation he did not believe Mr. Colledge had any more hand in any Conspiracy against his Majesty than the Child unborn Mr. Colledge inform'd the Court that this Maid moreover told him in the Tower before he came away that Mr. Dugdale desired to be remembred to Mr. Smith Colledge's Counsel and told her he had nothing against her Master that could touch his Life or an Hair of his Head and that he knew nothing of a Plot against the King and that if he could help it he had as lieve he had given 100 l. he had never spoken what he had Which she own'd for truth and Dugdale then denied evading it by telling the Story another way Then Mrs. Godwin being called appeared who related concerning the Papers that three Messengers coming to search for them on the Saturday after her Brother's confinement and they not finding them she got her Brother-in-law George Spur to carry them away to his House at Busshie to secure them till they should know what they did concern Then Spur being called did not appear Then the Attorny General called for one John Shirland who appeared to be a Man that lived by his Shifts and had been whip'd in Bridewel who swore that Mr. Bolron would have given him 10 l. and an Horse to go down and swear against Sir Miles Stapleton Which Bolron denied Then Smith deposed likewise against Mr. Bolron that he told him as they were traveling that he had as much to say against Colledge as any Body and that if he would speak for him he would evidence against Sir John Brooks for a discourse at Ferry-Bridge Which Mr. Bolron deny'd likewise Then no more Witnesses being called Mr. Colledge began to make his Observations upon the Evidence to the Court Professing his own Innocency as to what had been sworn against him and upon what had been attested for him owning his Zeal for his King Parliaments Church of England and against Popery Relating how he came acquainted with Haynes and the discoveries he made to him of the Popish Plot and of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey's Murder for which the Court interrupted and reproved him as not to the purpose and then he went on to sum up his own Evidence complaining of his close Confinement so that he could not procure that Evidence he otherwise might have done for himself The Statute of Decimo tertio was read to him and then Mr. Colledge very pathetically recommending himself to the Justice of his Jury concluded his Defence Then Mr. Sollicitor General largely summ'd up the Evidence and Mr. Serjeant Jefferies and the Lord Chief Justice did the same Then the Court called for two Bottles of Sack which the Jury divided among themselves at the Bar for their Refreshment in the presence of the Prisoner After which a Bailiff was sworn and the Jury withdrawing to consider of their Verdict the Court adjourned for half an hour and when they returned the Jury brought the Prisoner in Guilty At which there was a great Shout given whereat the Court being offended one Person who was observed by the Cryer to be particularly concerned in the Shout was committed to Goal for that Night but the next Morning having received a publick Reproof was discharged without Fees Then it being about 3 a Clock in the Morning the Court adjourned to 10. At which hour the Court being sat and first Mr. Aaron Smith having entred into a Recognizance of 500 l. to appear the first day of the next Term at the Court of King's-Bench the Lord Chief-Justice after a short speech directed to the Prisoner pronounced Sentence upon him to be Hang'd Drawn and Quartered which was accordingly executed upon him over against the Gate of the Castle at Oxford on Wednesday August 31. 1681. And his Head and Quarters through his Majesty's Grace were delivered to his Relations and by them brought up to London and privately interred The proceedings at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily London on Thursday November 24. 1681. before his Majesty's Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer upon on the Bill of Indictment for High-Treason against Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury The Grand Jury Sir Samuel Barnardiston John Morden Thomas Papillon John Dubois Charles Herle Edward Rudge Humphrey Edwin John Morrice Edmund Harrison Joseph Wright John Cox Thomas Parker Leonard Robinson Thomas Shepherd John Flavell Michael Godfrey Joseph Richardson William Empson Andrew Kendrick John Lane John Hall THE Lord Chief Justice Pemberton gave the Charge wherein he explained the Nature of Treason particularly from the Statute of the 13th Car. 2. and explained the Validity of two Witnesses and the Jury's present Duty After which a Bill of High-Treason was offered against the Earl of Shaftsbury and Sir Francis Withens moved That the Evidence might be heard in Court Then the Jury desired a Copy of their Oath which the Court granted and then they withdrew After some little time they returned and being called over by their Names The Foreman acquainted the Lord Chief Justice That it was the Opinion of the Jury and they claim'd as their Right that they ought to examine the Witnesses in private But the Lord Chief Justice deny'd that it was their Right but was their Advantage and it was the King's desire it should be publick in which also the Lord Chief Justice North concurr'd and then therefore the Indictment was read wherein the Earl of Shaftsbury was charged with High-Treason for conspiring the Death of the King and subversion of the Government The Jury then desired a List of the Names of the King's Evidence But they were told that they being indorsed upon the back of the Indictment which they were to have out with them it was needless Then they requested to see the Warrant by which the Earl of Shaftsbury was committed but that they being told that the Lieutenant of the Tower kept for his Indemnity could not be granted Then they requested that the Evidence might
Holland for speaking ill of Count Conningsmark who was his Friend and of himself at Richmond and that he could never receive Satisfaction and therefore he came to force him to fight and took the other two with him as his Servants Mr. Thynn being a Gentleman that had always a great many Servants about him to carry-him off in case he should be knock'd on the Head or be hindred from escaping resolving to make a Rencounter of it because Duels he understood were forbid in England Owning that he did stop the Coach but that the Polonian fired by mistake he not bidding him fire unless he should be hindred from fighting or making his escape That Lieutenant Stern confessed that Captain Vratz told him he had a Quarrel with an English Gentleman and that if he would assist him in it he would make his Fortune and gave him Mony to buy the Blunderbuss and he went out with the Captain and Polander on Horse-back about five or six a Clock on Sunday and when they were got into the Pall-mall he heard the Captain say to the Coachman Stop and turning immediately being then nine or ten Yards before the Coach he saw the Shot go off and they riding away he followed them And that before the Polander came over the Captain desired him to get an Italian to stab a Man Then Mr. Frederick Hanson Governour to Count Conningsmark's younger Brother in his Travels deposed That he saw the Count at the Post-house when he arrived which was about a Month since his first Lodgings he took in the Hay-Market where he was about a week incoginto by the Name of Carlo Cusk thence removed to another Lodging though but for a few Days because the Chimney smoked and thence he removed into St. Martin's Lane where he saw him and particularly that Night Mr. Thynn was kill'd where his Physician was with him and Capt. Vratz who came into England with the Count. Then being ask'd about the Message he carried from the Count to the Swedish Resident he very difficultly and shufflingly tho he was shewed his Examination before the Council acknowledg'd that the Count had discours'd to him about calling Mr. Thynne to Account and what the Laws of England would be in case he did and desired Monsieur Lienberg's Opinion concerning it and especially in relation to the Lady Ogle That the Polander was brought to him on the Friday and the next Morning he brought him to the Count's Lodgings and as employed to buy a Coat and Sword for him which he did That the next Evening being Sunday coming from White-hall he call'd of the Count and told him the News of Mr. Thynne's Murder and that the Count asked him what the People said he said the King was heartily sorry and angry at it Then John Wright deposed That the Polander came into England the 10th day of this Month and he brought him the same day to young Count Conningsmark's Lodging at Faubert's Academy to Mr. Hanson who after half an hours Discourse with the Polander desired him to take him back with him again and bring him betimes to him again the next morning because he must dispatch him about his Business He did accordingly and the Polander carried with him his Sea-bed a Portmantle and a Gun with a Wheel-lock and some other things and went to an Ale-house hard by the Academy and the Polander stepping out fetch'd Mr. Hanson who paying him for his trouble he never saw them afterwards Then Dr. Frederick Harder deposed That when the Count came first to Town he sent for him by Capt. Vratz that he found the Count then indispos'd and willing therefore to lie incognito that he might take Physick which he administer'd to him That on the Saturday he brought the Polander to the Count's Lodgings to Capt. Vratz and at the same time shew'd the Count a Letter from Capt. Vratz which he said was only that he should come and speak with the Count That on Sunday night about 9 a Clock he was with the Count again and Mr. Hanson was there and Captain Vratz for a little while but that they knew nothing of the Murder then Thomas Howgood deposed That he sold the Sword on the Saturday to Mr. Hanson Mr. Robert French deposed That the Count lodged at his House 3 or 4 days in the Hay-market where the Doctor and the Captain came oft to him but he did not then know who he was Ann Prince Mr. French's Maid deposed That the Count lodged from Friday to Wednesday at her Masters and that Capt. Vratz used to lodg there too Francis Watts a Boy of about 15 Years old deposed That he was hired to wait upon the Count and was with him eleven days That he saw the Polander with his Master on the Saturday and dined there with the Servants and lodged that Night in the Garret That on the Sunday Morning Mr. Hanson sent a Sword which was given to the Polander That the Count ask'd him that morning if it were suffered for any to ride about the Streets on Sundays That on Sunday morning the Polander went away with this Sword a new Coat and Boots under his Arm and the Doctor with him who being called again said he could not remember whether it was Saturday or Sunday Morning that he fetch'd away the Pole from the Count's That on Monday morning the Boy told the Count one of the Murderers was taken after which a Stranger came in and he never saw his Master afterwards Thomas Watts the Boy 's Father deposed That on Monday Morning the Count's Man deliver'd to him 2 Portmanteau's to carry to Charing-Cross where they were put into a Coach he telling him they were going for Windsor but that he did not see the Count that morning Derick Raynes a Swede deposed That the Count lodged at his House in Rotherith from Monday till Thursday when he went down the River for Graves-end and borrow'd some Clothes of him and said he was afraid of coming into Trouble Richard Chappel deposed That he rowed the Count in a Sculler on Thursday to Deptford whither Raynes went with him and thence the next day to Greenwich and then to Greenhithe and the next day to Graves-end for which he was to have 5 s. every 24 Hours the Count telling him he was a Merchant and had bought Jewels Then Mr. Kid deposed how he and Mr. Gibbons upon information where the Count was went on Saturday to Raynes and thence to Graves-end where they got on Sunday Night and took the Count just as he landed and his Cap and Perriwig then fell off He owned his Name and as they brought him up the Water and discoursing about Mr. Thynne's Murder saying That he had seen the Murderers in Newgate The Count asked him what Lodgings there were in Newgate as if the Captain had a good Lodging and confessed any thing That he told him the Captain confessed some Particulars but that the Polander had confessed and wept mightily Whereupon the Count
you cannot be Private leave the Issue to God To the whole the Prisoner pleaded That the Witnesses had made long Speeches though very little of them relating to him though too much That he was sent for out of Ireland where his Habitation was being a Man of a competent Estate by the Lord Shaftsbury to go Governour to Carolina but it being some while before he came his Lordship gave his Commission to another That being in England the Lord Shaftsbury invited him to go with him into Holland which he did and upon his Lordship's Death he returned to London That he confess'd it was his folly to frequent this Company but it was plain that the Witnesses had sufficiently dipp'd themselves and therefore to save their own Lives they had combin'd to take away his That he did hear a deal of what they had now deposed but never had any hand in it either directly or indirectly and therefore supposed his Crime could be only Misprision of Treason The Jury then desiring he might be asked What he had to say to the Letter he replied That what he had promised he undertook upon his intimacy with Mr. Ferguson by whose means he believed he should have an Interest with the rest That he did according to his Promise give an Account of what he had heard but the King was not pleas'd with him because he did not descend to Particulars which he could not do he having never been at any of their Meetings or Debates nor knew any thing but what he had by a private Hand He then produced one Witness who testified his being ill of the Gout for about three Months but could not certainly tell the Time After this Mr. Sol. Gen. having summ'd up the Evidence the Ld. Ch. Justice gave his Charge to the Jury who after about half a quarter of an hours consideration returned and brought the Prisoner in Guilty The Trial of William Hone at the Old-Baily on Friday July 13. 1683. THen and there the Prisoner appearing having been arraign'd the day before for Conspiring the Death of the King and the Subversion of the Government and for providing himself with Arms to that purpose And after some frivolous Evasions pleaded Not Guilty though he confess'd himself then Guilty of the Conspiracy but not of providing Arms He desired now to retract his Plea and confessed the Indictment though still denying that he had provided Arms but owning that his Deposition before Sir William Turner was true and that he was asked by Mr. Richard Goodenough to go along with him but was not told whither though he understood it was to kill the King and the D. of York But this not being taken for a full Confession Serjeant Jefferies desired he might be tried So the Jury were sworn without any Challenges viz. Nicholas Charlton Christopher Pitts Robert Beddingfield John Pelling William Winbury Thomas Seaton William Rutland Thomas Short Theophilus Man John Jenew John Short Thomas Nicholas To whom the Indictment being read Mr. Jones and Mr. Attorny General opened the same And then Mr. Keeling deposed That he saw the Prisoner at the Dolphin-Tavern where the Arms were agreed upon and the King 's coming from New-Market discoursed on and about the Swans-Quills Goose-Quills Crows-Quills Sand and Ink c. After which he took acquaintance with him and after some time told him he was one of them that was to go down to Rye to Assassinate the King And since at a Coffee-House in Swithen's Alley he told him It would never be well till the Black-Bird and the Gold-Finch were knocked on the Head meaning the King and the Duke of York Mr. West then deposed That he was at the Meeting before-mentioned but that he was sure the Prisoner did not come in till the Discourse was over That he told him then that Mr. Goodenough had spoke to him about a little Job for the Duke That he had seen him often in the Company of Manning who was designed to be another of the Assassinates That being once at his Chamber the Prisoner said to him Master shall we do nothing Adding that if the Duke of Monmouth would be true and appear he could bring fifty or sixty honest Men of t'other side the Water to do the Business either a brisk Push or the two Brothers the Captain and Lieutenant which were the terms they used since the Van-Herring was printed That he thought him a pretty honest Fellow before this Time and that he thought him deluded by Goodenough in the thing Whereupon the Ld. Ch. Justice asked West if be came to justify these things West reply'd That he had been basely deluded and he was sorry for the poor Fellow Which caus'd the Ld. Ch. Justice to tell him that it was unusual for Men in his Condition to use such Expressions in such a Case And being afterwards told by Mr. Serj. Jefferies that he found him not worthy of the Mercy the King had shewn him Then Mr. West reply'd That it was a Word put from him unawares Then Sir Nicholas Butler deposed That he had long known the Prisoner and that he was always ready for plotting such Purposes as were now laid to his Charge For that when Sir Francis Chaplain was Lord-Mayor and the King stood at Mr. Waldo's the Prisoner came to his House and told him that now they had a fair Opportunity to take off the King and the Duke at once To which purpose there were to be half a dozen with Cross-Bows at a Window in Bow-Steeple just opposite to the Balcony That thereupon he acquainted the King and the Duke of York herewith and one Horsel was appointed to search and watch the Steeple but none came and that the Prisoner upon his Examination hereof before the King had confessed all this Capt. Richardson deposed That he was by while Sir Nicholas examin'd the Prisoner as to the Crime he now stood charged with and that he said that Mr. Goodenough came and told him he wanted Labourers and that it was to kill the King and the Duke of York and confess'd that he agreed to be one that would undertake it and that Goodenough promis'd him 20 l. to bu him an Horse and Arms. That at another Meeting he said he was for killing the King and saving the Duke but Goodenough was for both That he told them the Business of Rye which place he knew not but said it was the place where the King was to be murdered To all this the Prisoner said little or nothing only that he did not know the place where nor when it was proposed about the Rye and that he was drawn into it by Goodenough That as to the Cross-Bows he was only told it but never design'd it And being ask'd what Religion he professed he answered That he heard sometimes Baptists sometimes Independents and sometimes Presbyterians After a short Charge the Jury brought him in Guilty without stirring from the Bar. The Trial of William Russel Esq at the Old-Baily on Friday
Mr. John Wright but with Patience we must submit to the Almighty who can as well raise up Instruments to do his Work as change Hearts of which we have so great an Instance in the business of the D. of Monmouth that no Age or History can parallel I am now throughly satisfied that what was printed in the Mondays Gazet is utterly false and you will see it publickly so declared shortly The King is never pleased but when he is with him hath commanded all the Privy Council to wait upon him and happy is he that hath most of his Favour His Pardon was sealed and delivered to him last VVednesday 'T is said he will be restored to be Master of the Horse and be called into the Council Table and to all his other places And 't is reported he will be made Captain General of all the Forces and Ld. High Admiral c. He treats all his old Friends that daily visit him with great Civilities they are all satisfied with his Integrity and if God spares his Life doubt not but he will be an Instrument of much good to the King and Kingdom He said publickly that he knew my Ld. Russel was as Loyal a Subjects as any in England and that his Majesty believed the same now I intend shortly to wait on him my self It would make you laugh to see how strangely our high Tories and Clergy are mortified their Countenance speak it Were my Shesorary to be moved for now it would be readily granted Sir George is grown very humble 'T is said Mr. Sidney is reprieved for 40 days which bodes well Mr. Kedder sat with me sometime this Evening There being no more in the Record The third Letter was then read which was directed for Mr. Edward Gael Linnen-Draper at Ipswich and dated Decemb. the 1st 1683. Mr. Gael This Evening Mr. Kedder came and sat with me when I acquainted him what you and others writ me in reference to himself as also of the Death of Mr. Wright which he was sorry for He protested if he could perswade his Wife he would accept of Ipswich choice notwithstanding all the Discouragement he had met with One more he acquainted me with that had seen a Letter from Mr. Cutliffe to Dr. Clegat extreamly discouraging him from coming to Ipswich where if he did come said would find himself mistaken for that would never enjoy Quietness or Peace notwithstanding his Balsamick Temper c. as he call'd it These things frights Mr. Kedder who I am now perswading so soon as he is up again to go down for a Month or two and then if he doth not like the Place and People he may return hither again This I resolve to press hard on Monday when have promised to dine with me as also Mr. Hodges Be confident I shall think nothing too much to effect this Business though one or other still pulls down as fast as I build up Here is now a door of Incouragement opened for sober Men to come into publick Employment You will undo the Town of Ipswich if you bring not sober Men into play For God's sake consider of it Perswade Mr. Snelling or some sober Men to come in their two Ports-mens places void for other matters I refer you to Sir P. The late change here in publick Affairs is so great and strange that we are like Men in a Dream can hardly believe what we see and fear we are not fit for so great a Mercy as the present Juncture seems to promise The E. of Macclesfield is bringing Actions of Scandalum Magnatum against all the Grand Jury-Men that indicted him at last Assizes And the several Gentlemen that were indicted in Cheshire and Northamptonshire will bring their several Actions at Law against them Acquaint Mr. Snelling we received the two Barrels of Oysters and two couple of Ducks and desire him to take Mony of Buckle for them I rest Yours c. The 4th Letter was directed to Mr. William Cavell at Brightwell near Ipswich in Suffolk and dated London Decemb. the 4th 1683. Only that part of it was read which was in the Record and that was this Contrary to most Mens Expectations a Warrant is signed at last for beheading Col. Sidney at Tower-hill next Friday Great Endeavours have been used to obtain his Pardon but the contrary party have carried it which munch dasheth our hopes but God still governs Acquaint Buckle here is no News of Crafton Hoy notwithstanding the Wind is fair 't is his Practice always to loiter by the wap I rest Your Loving Friend c. To this Mr. Williams of Counsel for the Defendant pleaded that the Letters had no name to them nor was there any Proof of their being published no more than that Sir Samuel did not deny the publishing of them and own'd they were sent to the Post-house winch being directed to a private Friend he left to the Judgment of the Court whether that was publishing a Libel That there was no malice proved to which the Ld. Ch. Justice replied that the thing was Evidence it self c. Then Mr. Williams observed that Records had been mention'd in the Information but not prov'd which not being in Court they were sent for and the Jury were set by the Court going oâ— in some other Causes and about an hour 〈◊〉 half after the Records were brought and tâ—â— Cause was resumed and Mr. Tindal being sworn put in the Records of the Attainder of the Ld. Russel and Col. Sidney part whereof was read and the Counsel for the Defendant having no more to say the Ld. Ch. Justice summ'd up the Evidence with great Bitterness declaring the Letters were factious seditious and malicious and as base as the worst of Mankind though he had all the Provocation that ever could be given a Man to libel another could ever have invented And that they tread very near upon the Borders of High-Treason it self Calling it Cozen-German to High-Treason c. After which the Jury laid their Heads together in the place where they stood and being presently after agreed upon their Verdict The Foreman gave it in That the Defendant was guilty of the Misdemeanour charged on him by the Information The Sentence of Court was That he should pay to the king a Fine of 10000 l. and find Sureties for his good Behaviour during Life and to be committed till the same be performed Proceedings in the Court of King's-Bench against Mr. James Hollaway April 21. 1684. JAmes Holloway of ' Bristol being fled out of England was Indicted for High-Treason for Conspiring the Death of the King and subversion of the Government c. And not appearing to Answer the Indictment was thereupon outlawed and being discovered by his Factor at Nevis to whom he had written about his Effects there was taken at St. Estatia one of the Caribbe Islands by the Deputy-Governour of St. Christophers and sent into England and there Committed to Newgate and upon Monday the 21st of April
Meetings was upon the account of carrying on the Conspiracy and discoursing about the Condition the Conspirators were in As to the intended Insurrection he said If he could but see a Cloud at big as a Man's Hand he would not be wanting to employ his Interest That the Prisoner also had told him that he intended to take an House near the Tower to place Men in in order to surprize it to that end he held correspondence with some Sea-Captains and that he had been with them at Coffee-Houses Mr. Richard Goodenough deposed That being in company with the Prisoner he had heard him approve of the Design and promise to use his Interest in raising Men and not only to be assisting in the Division allotted him but in surprising the City Savoy c. and in driving the Guards out of Town Then the Prisoner called several Witnesses to invalidate Lee's Testimony Sir Robert Adams testified to a false Report of his about beating three Knights Sir Simon Lewis was called to the same purpose but appeared not James Child could say nothing but that Lee was an Honest Man One Baker was also call'd to testify that Lee would have suborned him against the Prisoner to his Prejudice some Years since of which he had made Affidavit before Sir William Turner But Baker not appearing Sir William Turner was desired to give account of it but it being above two Years since he could not remember such Particulars His Clerk Mr. Tomkins remembred such an Affidavit was made in 1682 which mention'd Mr. Lee but to the best of his remembrance it was returned before the King and Council and he could not give any account of the Particulars Mr. Bateman then desiring to know upon what Statute he was Indicted and being assisted by his Son by reason of his Incapacity making little more Defence the Ld. Ch. Justice of the King's-Bench summ'd up the Evidence and other Prisoners were tried and just before the Jury went out the aforesaid Baker being found with much ado it was obtain'd that he should give in his Evidence which was That Lee perswaded him to intrude himself into the Prisoner's Company and some others and to discourse of State-Affairs by which means he would find a way to make him a Man of which he had made Affidavit before Sir William Turner But this the Court interpreted to Lee's Advantage as if he only thereby designed to make a discovery of the Plot and so have got a further Evidence to corroborate his own reflecting on Baker as a broken Fellow c. After which the Jury withdrawing for half an hour brought the Prisoner in Guilty And accordingly he being brought again to the Bar on Friday following Mr. Recorder sentenc'd him to be Drawu Hang'd and Quarter'd which was executed upon him at Tyburn on Friday Decemb. 18th following The Trial of John Hambden Gent. At the Session's-House in the Old-Baily on Wednesday Decemb. 30. 1685. THen and there the Prisoner appearing and the grand Jury for the County of Middlesex call'd over his Indictment was read which was for High-Treason in conspiring the Death of the late King and raising a Rebellion in this Kingdom To which before Mr. Hambden pleaded he intimated his having been tried for the same Fact above two Years ago and withal gave the Lord Chief Justice to understand that he thought he had as much to say in Point of Law for himself as any Prisoner that ever came before him but that he was resolved to pass by all Pleas whatsoever and cast himself wholly upon the King's Mercy The Lord Chief Justice told him his former Indictment was for High-Misdemeanour but this for High-Treason and therefore a different Fact requiring him therefore to plead Then he pleaded Guilty to the Indictment requesting his Lordship's Intercession for him with the King Which was readily enough granted and the Method he was perswaded to take highly approved as answering the Design of giving Life and Credit to the Fanatick Rlot and gratifying the Importunity possibly of some Great Ones However the dismal Sentence of Death was by Mr. Recorder pronounced upon him due to High-Treason yet not without a shew of Tenderness and some encouragement of an Obligation this brave Person had hereby merited with them This getting a Pardon when nothing else must Books lately Printed and Sold by Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lion in St. Pauls Church-yard relating to the great Revolutions in England and Scotland 1688 1689. ☞ AN Account of the Reasons of the Nobility and Gentry's Invitation of the Prince of Orange into England Being a Memorial from the English Protestants concerning their Grievances with a large account of the Birth of the Prince of Wales presented to their Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Orange A Collection of Political and Historical Papers relating to the wonderful Revolutions in England and Scotland in 12 Parts from the time of the seven Bishops petitioning K. James the 2d to the Coronation of K. Willian and Q. Mary A Brief History of the Succession of the Crown of England c. Collected out of the Records and the most Authentick Historians written for the Satisfaction of the Nation Wonderful Predictions of Nostredamus Grebner David Pareus and Autonius Torquatus wherein the Grandeur of their Present Majesties the Happiness of England and Downfall of France and Rome are plainly Delineated With a large Preface shewing That the Crown of England has not been obscurely foretold to their Majesties William the 3d and Queen Mary late Prince and Princess of Orange and that the People of this Ancient Monarchy have duly contributed thereunto in the present Assembly of Lords and Commons notwithstanding the Objections of Men of different Extremes A Seasonable Discourse wherein is examined what is lawful during the Confusions and Revolutions of Government especially in the Case of a King deserting his Kingdoms and how far a Man may lawfully conform to the Powers and Commands of those who with Various Successes hold Kingdoms Whether it be lawful 1 In Paying Taxes 2 In personal Service 3 In taking of Oaths 4 In giving up himself to a final Allegiance A Seasonable Treatise wherein is proved That King William commonly called the Conqueror did not get the Imperial Crown of England by the Sword but by the Election and Consent of the People To whom he swore to observe the Original Contract between King and People An Answer to a Paper Intituled The Desertion Discussed being a Vindication of the Proceedings of the late Honourable Convention in their Filling up the Throne with King William and Queen Mary An Exact Collection of the Debates of the House of Commons particularly such as relate to the Bill of Exclusion of a Popish Successor c. held at Westminster Octob. 21. 1680 Prorogued the 10th and Dissolved the 18th of January following With the Debates of the House of Commons at Oxford Assembled March. 21. 1680. 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Parliaments Julian's Arts to Undermine and Extirpate Christianity c. By Samuel Johnson The Impression of which Book was made in the Year 1683 and has ever since laid buried under the Ruins of all those English Rights which it endeavoured to defend but by the Auspicious and Happy Arrival of the Prince of Orange both They and It have obtained a Resurrection Dr. Gilbert Burnet now Bishop of Salisbury his Tracts in Two Vollumes in which are contained several Things relating to the Affairs of England The Mystery of Iniquity working in the Dividing of Protestants in order to the subverting of Religion and our Laws for almost the space of thirty Years last past plainly laid open With some Advices to Protestants of all Perswasions in the present Juncture of our Affairs To which is added A Specimen of a Bill for uniting of Protestants Liberty of Conscience now highly necessary for England humbly represented to this present Parliament An Enquiry into and Detection of the Barbarous Murther of the late Earl of Essex now under consideration of a Committee of the House of Lords Or a Vindication of that Noble Person from the Guilt and Infamy of having destroyed himself An Account of the Trial of Mr. Papillon To which is added The Matter of Fact in the chusing of Sheriffs in Sir John Moor's Year now under the consideration of the Committee for Grievances A Collection of strange Predictions of Mr. J. P. for the Years 1687 and 1688 about K. James the Second Prince of Wales and the scampering away of many great Ministers of State Arguments against the Dispensing Power in Answer to L. C. J. Herbert The Royal Cards Being a lively Representation of the late Popish and Tyrannical Designs and of the wonderful Deliverance of this Kingdom from the same by the glorious Expedition of William Henry Prince of Orange now King of England whom God long preserve printed in curious Copper Plates Price 1 s. a Pack Mumurers reproved in a Sermon preached by Mr. Hopkins c. England's Call to Thankfulness for her late great Deliverace By Mr. John Olliffe c. Melius Inquirendum Or a further modest and impartial Inquiry into the Lawfulness of taking the New Oath of Allegiance By a Divine of the Church of England A Friendly Debate between Dr. King's-Man a Dissatisfied Clergy-Man and Gratianus Trimmer a Neighbour-Minister concerning the late Thanksgiving-Day the Prince his Descent into England the Nobilities and Gentries joining with him the Acts of the Honourable Convention the Nature of our English Government the Secret League with France the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy c. with some Considerations on Bp Saunderson and Dr. Falkner about Monarchy Oaths c. Written for the Satisfaction of some of the Clergy and others that yet labour under Scruples By a Minister of the Church of England A Brief Vindication of the Parliamentary Proceedings against the late King James the Second Proving that the Right of Succession by nearness of Blood is not by the Law of God or Nature but by Politick Institution With several Instances of deposing Evil Princes shewing that no Prince hath any Title Originally but by the Consent of the People The Dying Speeches of several Excellent Persons who suffered for their Zeal against Popery and Arbitrary Government in the Reigns of King Charles the Second and King James the Second Ireland's Lamentation Being a Short but Perfect Full and true Account of the Scituation Nature Constitution and Product of Ireland With an Impartial Historical Relation of the most Material Transactions Revolutions and miserable Sufferings of the Protestants there from the Death of King Charles the Second to the latter end of April 1689. The Time and Manner of the late King 's Landing there What Men Monies Shipping Arms and Ammunition he brought with him The Manner of his going up and into Dublin His Kneeling to the Host Displacing all Protestants The Strength and Defeat of his Army and what else is of Note To which is added A Letter from a Lieutenant in the Irish Army dated at Dublin May 7. with an Account of Affairs to that Time
had the Assassination gone on these things were to be done The Lord-Mayor and Sheriffs were to be kill'd and as many of the Lieutenancy as they could get and Papillon and Dubois be forc'd to take the Office of Sheriff upon them or else be used as the rest And Sir Thomas Gold Sir John Shorter or Alderman Cornish who was thought the fittest Person be set up for Lord-Mayor The Principal Ministers of State also were to be kill'd the Lord Hallifax the Lord Rochester and the Lord Keeper whom they said they would hang upon the same post that Colledge was hang'd upon for his Murder Sir John Moor was to be kill'd and hung up in Guild-Hall and the Judges to be flead and stuffed and hung up in Westminster-Hall And several of the Pentionary Parliament were to be hang'd up also The King 's Natural Sons they said were good lusty Fellows and would serve for Porters or Water-men and the Lady Ann they would marry to some Country Gentleman for a Breed to keep out Foraign Pretences And that the Prisoner at the Bar was sometimes at these Meetings when these things were discoursed of though not so often as the rest And after the News of the Fire he said he believed God shew'd his disapprobation of the thing desiring to have his Name concealed whereupon Ferguson told him he needed not to be ashamed for that it was a glorious Action and such an Action as he hoped to see publickly gratified by the Parliament and question'd not but they should be fam'd for it and have Statues erected for them with the Title of Liberatores Patriae That he had told some Nonconformists who desired him to forbear but says he they are silly People that do not know how to distinguish between killing a Prince for difference in Opinion about Religion and destroying a Tyrant for preservation of the Rights and Liberties of the People saying it was an Action that would make all the Princes of the World tremble and teach them to use their Subjects kindly That about Christmass Col. Rumsey acquainted him of an Insurrection design'd to be about March carry'd on by the D. of Monmouth Ld. Russel Ld. Grey Ld. Howard Col. Sidney Major Wildman and Mr. Hambden to whom they drew up some things to be done for the People but they were rejected in regard all was to be left to a Parliament That he was at the Salutation where Mr. Nelthrop called Mr. Keeling Culing That there was a Treaty with the Scot's but was broke off as Mr. Ferguson told him because they would not presently declare for a Common-Wealth That at the Young Devil-Tavern he met with the Prisoner and others where Holloway did propose that since the Scotish Business was broken off they should try what Forces could be rais'd here and Mr. Ferguson did say that if 3000 Men could be had he believed the D. of Monmouth and the Lord Russel would appear in the head of them That a Map was brought and the City divided into 20 parts and each 20th part into 14ths and 15ths and one principal Man was to have one 20th Part and that Goodenough reported afterwards that there were 1300 Men out of two of the Hamlets That Mr. Bourn told him he had spoken to one Parson Lobb who said he would try what his Congregation would do That about a fortnight before the discovery Rumbold told him the jealousy he had of Keeling which if he could be satisfied of that he design'd to betray them he would get him into the Country and kill him but upon the Saturday before the Discovery Rumbold and one Gale that was to be one of the Assassinates lent Keeling 100 l. he being in need and they unwilling to discourage him On the Monday after the Discovery they met in the Morning at Capt. Walcot's Lodging where it was agreed to go beyond Sea only the Witness had no mind to go and a Boat was hired and 5. l. given in earnest But understanding the Messengers were abroad and believing the River was beset every Man shifted for himself and the Witness shifted by the means of Mr. Bourne who help'd him to a Conveniency for two or three days That being thus retired they got Mr. Keeling in the City and Rumbold discours'd him in the presence of several Persons who denied that he had discovered wishing a great many Imprecations upon himself That after some discourse of killing him they propos'd to him to go out of Town which he refused That the same Night upon tracing him they found he had called out his Brother and was gone to the Secretary's whereupon it was took for granted that the Discovery was made and that every Man must shift for himself That upon that Mr. VVade said That if the Duke of Monmouth would go into the West they might try a Push for it still And the Prisoner at the Bar said he was satisfied God would deliver the Nation but that he did not approve of the present Instruments Thus the sum of what was fastned on the Prisoner was That he was at several Meetings where the killing of the King and Duke was consulted of that he went down to Rumbold's House to view the Place and undertook to fight the Guards To this he pleaded that he never was at Rumbold's House but once as he travell'd from York by Norwich and so to London And that he was not so natural a Fool to think for him to charge the Guards when another kills the King but that he should be as Guilty as he that kills And that he was ill of the Gout all the while the King was at New-market And for that Assassinating the King it never entred into his thoughts more or less But a Letter was then produc'd under his own hand to Sir Lionel Jenkins Secretary of State purporting His trouble to see himself in his Majesty's Proclamation and his resolution to lay himself at his Majesty's Feet and acknowledg his Crime and discover all he knew relating to England Scotland and Ireland which he supposed might be more than the Original Discoverer was able to acquaint his Majesty with And farther That if his Majesty thought fit he would follow those Lords and Gentlemen who were fled and as soon as he could would inform his Majesty what Measures they intended to take next Otherwise he was resolved to give his Majesty no further trouble but to lie at his Mercy let him do with him what he pleased This letter Mr. Blathwait swore Capt. VValcot owned for his when he was examin'd before the King And Capt. Richardson swore likewise that yesterday his Clerk discover'd a piece of Paper in the Prisoner's Hand which he designed to have given his Son which was a Letter to Capt. Tracy his Landlord to desire him to speak to Col. Rumsey and Mrs. VVest to speak to her Husband to be tender of him have ground enough to serve the King upon other Men and the last words of the Note were If