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A36353
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The nevv plot of the papists by which they design'd to have laid the guilt of their hellish conspiracies against His Majesty and government, upon the dissenting Protestants.
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J. D. (John Dormer), 1636-1700.
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1679
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Wing D1923A; ESTC R215291
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circumstances of Guilt that the council ordered her from the gatehouse to Newgate One Mr. Rigault a Virginia Merchant inhabiting in the City but a Frenchman born was also accused for being in confederacy with her and Examin'd and afterwards committed to Newgate The Earl oâ— Castlemain being under Bail on a former accusation was likewise accus'd examind and Committed to the Tower On Sunday at Four of the clock the Council being again Assembled Danger field Mr. Cellier and Mr. John Gadbury the Astrologeâ— were all Three brought and Examin'd Mr. Gadbury was charg'd as a Confederate with the former that he had cast the Nativities of His Majesty and his Royal Highness and had from thence drawn Treasonable Conclusions with divers other Matters of a High Nature for which he was sent to the Gate-House These Plotters had contrived a Scheme of Government wherein they had placed the Prime of His Majesties most Faithful Nobility at the Helm of Government by the old Name of Conservators of the Liberties of England And so in other Employments and Qualifications such other Worthy persons as were most opposite to their Interest intending thereby their utter Extirpation and the Ruin of the Government and Protestant Religion The Papers containing the Model of their Plot was found by Sir William Waller in Mr. Celliers House in the bottom of a Meal-Tub under Meal where no doubt they thought them safe enough from being seized but the diligence of Sir William Providence directing found them out to their no small Amazement and Confusion Within a day or two after Sir William Waller seized in a House near the Arch in Lincolns-Inn Fields leading into Duke-Street several Habits Vestments Crucifixes Reliques and several other Popish Trinckets all very rich and of considerable value as also divers Trunks and Boxes stuff'd full of Books and Papers which as it is said belonged to Father Harcourt lately executed and contain matters of great Importance to the farther discovery of the Plot and confirmation of the King's Evidence They were discovered by means of a Bricklayer who was mending the Tiles of the Housâ— and perceiving them to be lodged in that obscure place said nothing till he had finished his work but then informed Sir William thereof who coming with the Bricklayer and some other Assistants searched the House but could find no such place i so much that he began to suspect some fraud in the Bricklayer which put the Bricklayer in such a rage that he got upon the House and until'd it The Tiles were no sooner laid open but they discovered what they came for and being got the wrong way into the Room they soon found the right way out again From that House they leaded a full Cart-load of the concealed goods beforementioned part of which consisted of some hundreds of Books very well bound in large Octavo called the difference between Sprituâ—â—'s and Temporals being the Translation of a Spanish Jeuit by Sir Vivian Molineux Dedicated to the present Queens Majesty of England and Printed in the year 1672. with many I opish Catichisms and School-Books to corrupt and poyson the Youth of the Nation By the Time since these Books were Printed the vast quantities which have been by Sir William Waller and other gentlemen already Seized and burnt by the quantities which may be certain are still concealed and by the vast Numbers which we may easily conceive are already scattered and dispersed into private Hands and Families we may readily calculate to what a Lofty Stature Popery would have grown in a few years more by such careful Waterings of the Tender English Plants as these if not thus in every thing by a Miraculous Providence prevented Books are no less Criminal than men in regard they intend the same Destruction of the Soul as the other to the Body And therfore it is as necessary to bring Books to condign punishment as any other sort of malefactors whatsoever These howsoever had the happiness to accompany their Lord and Master Antichrist the rise and source of all Europe's Calamities condemned by the people to those Flames to which he had condemned the whole Kingdom To which purpose on the Fifth of November last in the Palace-Yard at Westminster a great Bonefire was made which proved the Funeral Pile of all these venomous Seducements of Popery and several Copes and other Vestments and Habits Beads and other Trinkets belonging or at least in the custody of Father Harcourt who had the impudence to avouch his innocency and allegiance with all this Trumpery and Testimonies of Rebellion at the same time committed to his keeping Among these baubles was found one piece of great antiquity and by computation of time almost 800 years old It was a Cross of Gold weighing about Four ounces upon which on the one side was engraven these words Defendite Gentes-hanc partem Crucis Omnipotentis in English Defend O ye Nations this part of the Omnipotent Cross On the other side were engraven the Arms of Alfred King of England who dyed in the year 901. Besides which Engraveing it was empail'd with divers precious Stones of a considerable value Within this Cross was another Cross of Ebony to which the Gold one seemed to serve only for a Case and as if it had been a little Nest of Serpentine Idolatry the Ebony Cross was inlaid with another Cross of a quite dâ—fferent Wood which it is supposed their superstition believed to be a piece of the Cross upon which our Saviour suffered There was also a Gold Ring with a Motto wrap'd up in white Paper upon which was written The Ring of the Bishop of Glascow with several other curiosities which are as yet preserved The cross was presented by Sir William to His Majesty who said he would keep it for its Antiquity Soon after was seized one Mr. Curtis who is reported to have been formerly a clark to Sir William Bucknal one of the Farmers of Excise after that a servant to mr Henry Nevil and lastly to a worthy member of Parliament from whose service he betook himself to a debauched course of Life and falling into the acquaintance of Dangerfield and the rest of that Gang appears to have been designed for one of the eight witnesses that were to have sworn in confirmation of this New Mockplot He was first examined by Mr. Warcup and sent a Prisoner to the Gate-house and afterwards was sent for before the Council where doubtâ—ess he confessed somthing of Importance not yet fit to be made publick whereby he obtained the favour of Bail which was granted him accordingly As for the Lady P. it is said she has confessed all she has been charged with save only that she was not privy to any Design to murder His most Sacred Majesty And indeed that Lady was so brisk at her first Examination as to deny that ever she knew or had seen Mr. Dangerfield to which he reply'd that she had sufficient Testimony in her own breast to convince her that she knew him which words he was afterwards forc'd to explain no way to the advantage of the Lady One Mr. Bedford being fallen into the Gang was design'd to have been a Witness with Mr. Dangerfield against Sir Thomas Player for Treason which Dangerfield had ready drawn up as if spoken by Sir Thomas in the nature of an affidavit for him to set his Hand to All Dangerfield put him to before went down well 'till this writing appear'd at which he boggld And this being put to him in the very interim of Colonel Mansell's discovery of the cheat Bedford fairly came in and confess'd all he was privy to which being back'd with several Evidences more against Dangerfield was the first occasion of his Commitment who though at first as all Maâ—â—actors do he thought to have blinded the Eye of Justice by a brazenâ—â—ced denial yet such has been his discovery since and so well attended â—ith circumstances and credible evidence besides something consideraâ—â—e of matter of Fact also that His Majesty and Council have thought â—â—t to grant him his pardon as they have done to one Mr. Sergeant a Seâ—â—lar Priest lately come from Holland with Mr. Sidney His Majesties Embassad our to that State who has given His Majesty an account of the proceedings of the Papists abroad in order to the accomplishing their designs against His Person and Government at home which God of his infinite mercy preserve Thus we may observe a Counterplot carried on by the same partie that is to say the Jesuits and their accomplices designed to cover their own dishonourable Guilt by accusing the Innocent and endeavouring to incense His Majesty against his own Subjects in hopes thereby to disable and enervate the strength of his Kingdom manag'd with a malice sutable to the Crimson cogitations of Rome but with such a precipitation as hath utterly defiled the Fame of Jesuitical Craft and shewed them rather actuated by the violent Springs and Resorts of Necessity and Revenge then by the regular rules of Knavery or rather enforced by providence to farther confusion and hastily driven forward with such a choise of Instruments that must for ever Obliterate the Scandals of those infamous Libels which have endeavoured to invalidate the Kings Evidence by the Glamorous reproches of poverty and perjury who were themselves so impiously contriving to blow up the Loyalty integrity and innocence of so many persons of indelable worth and Honour and with them he Reputation of so considerable a part of the People with a conâ—ineed series of the perjuries and false Testimonies of debauchâ—ry impiety as if St. Omers Colledge were at such a low â—bb that it must beholding to our College of Newgate for dexterity of Execution in the Canonâ— of Popish Contrivances FINIS