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A28605 An Abstract of the accusation of Robert Bolron and Lawrence Maybury, servants, against their late master, Sir Thomas Gascoigne, Kt. and Bart. of Barnbow in York-shire, for high-treason with his tryal and acquittal, 11 February 1679/80. 1680 (1680) Wing B3499; ESTC R35766 24,709 16

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Thomas for 21 years and he produced the Deed in Court and said that 4 or 500 l. thereof being in arrear Sir Thomas commenc'd a Suit in Chancery and the Arrears were thereupon paid him and the 900 l. aforesaid which were sent to Mr. Corker were part of the said Mary's Portion who is now in a religious Convent beyond Seas and were return'd by him to her for no other purpose whatsoever he the Deponent having drawn the Acquittances for the same that he was privy thereto and constantly entred the same in his Account-Books That the other Sister Helena was disposed in Marriage and 2000 l. of her Portion was likewise paid not long after That he was likewise privy to Sir Thomas returning 1988 l. to Mr. Mawson and that the same was paid to Mr. Trumbull and Mr. Mauleverer for the Purchase Sir Thomas made of an Estate at Manstone in York-shire that he was at Mr. Trumbulls executing the Conveyance thereof and drew the Acquittance for the said Money That 200 l. more of the said Purchase-money was paid to William Errington and 80 l. more thereof to Widow Coston in pursuance of directions from Sir Thomas That he the Deponent had several Letters by him directing Payments to several of Sir Thomas his Brothers Sisters Children and Grand-children abroad which Payments to his knowledge were made accordingly and that the same amounted to no less than the 6000 l. which Mr. Fishwick deposed he had return'd in so many years and that the said Moneys were paid to no other use than as he had before declared Sir Thomas had many more Protestant Witnesses in and about the Court but by his not hearing from the Mouths of the Parties themselves what had passed either for or against him and especially the interlocutory discourses which in a false accusation ever afford main advantages and by his being dim-sighted so that he could not readily nor methodically follow his Breviate as also tyr'd with long standing and stun'd too with the often hollowing in his Ears he became so amaz'd and confounded that he was wholly unable to help himself Nor was any body suffer'd to call his Witnesses till he had named them and therefore several never appeared Nay the hurry was at length so great in Court that some of them were dismiss'd before they had half done some being call'd too quick after the others that the latter got in first and the former call'd lost admission which the Prisoner not perceiving and his Friends not permitted to re-mind him was a great disappointment in many material occurrences amongst other things those Witnesses which happened to be omitted stood ready to testifie and make out the Thefts of Maybury Others his Cheats and manner of living at London Others the Gold and Medals sold and changed by him Others the ill opinion Sir Thomas and his whole Family had of him and Bolron also especially after their departure much encreased Others how the said Bolron threatned his Wife if she would not joyn to accuse Sir Thomas Others how much he fear'd to be sued and arrested hy his Bonds-men And others of Mr. Thomas Gascoignes being constantly at Paris or on his Journey thither from the 7th of April which was almost two Months before the aforesaid 30th of May till that day of the Tryal which was wholly inconsistant with a moral possibility of Sir Thomas his directing Bolron to his Son Thomas then to assist him in the pretended Proposition of killing the King as Bolrons first Information sworn to did run Those that were called by Mr. Attorney in behalf of the Kings Evidence were first Bolrons Wife who said That her Husband never threatned or endeavoured to force her to swear any thing against Sir Thomas Secondly Bolrons Grand-mother who witnessed that he was a very honest good Man And lastly Fishwick who declared That whilst he the said Fishwick liv'd with Sir Thomas he knew no dishonesty by Bolron Now it seems Fishwick had left Sir Thomas his Service long before the Examinations of Bolrons Accounts and the other matters afterward laid to his Charge were made Mr. Justice James by reason the Lord Chief Justice was gone to try Causes in London summ'd up the Evidence and having done it with the usual Tope of shewing not only the Principles and Practises of the Papists generally supposed to be believed but the positiveness of the two Witnesses Oaths for the King and then discending to some Particulars in behalf of the Prisoner he left the whole matter to the Jury After Mr. Justice Dolbin had remembred him of a thing forgotten in the re-capitulation very considerable viz. That Sir Thomas as had been prov'd by Protestant Witnesses did sue Bolron not only before the 30th of May but just after also and yet he had then as Bolron swore propos'd the killing of the King to him But in Counterpoise to Justice Dolbins Remark Mr. Justice Pemberton offer'd the great tye of Sacramental Secrecy which he said as if neither Life nor Death Heaven nor Hell nor any other provocation could move Catholicks to break or to that effect This done the Jury withdrew being as the Law intends Gentlemen of the Neighbourhood and therefore knowing not only Sir Thomas but his Accusers also they considered that the said Accusers were decayed and necessitous Persons who had left their Master as the whole Country knew upon very ill accounts That they tim'd the Fact in a very unlikely season seeing the Protestants of England were not only long alarm'd and upon their guard against so small naked and distracted a Party but that most of the considerable Papists were retir'd beyond Seas and the rest which were but a handful disarm'd or in Prison or in as low and dejected condition as could be well imagin'd That a Pardon of all past Crimes and an assurance of future Rewards were great temptations to Men of an ill repute That no body of those since accus'd by Bolron and Maybury had ever fled or absconded unless Rushton the Priest who had refus'd to lend Bolron five Pounds in his necessities and was obnoxious to the Law purely on account of his being in Orders and in common sense ought not to appear That Bolron was indebted to Sir Thomas and others of his Family as also sued by him both before and after the 30th of May That he was at the Afternoon till ten at night on the said 30th of May at Shippens House for fear of Bailiffs and yet pretends that at six that afternoon he had the treasonable proposition made him by Rushton and Sir Thomas That both Bolron and Maybury had declared an ill will to their Master and that they would be reveng'd on him and his Daughter Tempest That their very confederacy procuring to make them guilty of the Plot was over-heard by two Protestant Witnesses That they had not only accused all Sir Thomas his Family and near Relations Friends and Servants to render him destitute of all help
that 30th of May with His Majesties Licence or Pass-Port and had continued there ever since in much company Bolron was extreamly surprized in having so unluckily named Mr. Tho. Gascoigne to be his assistant to kill the King at a time when he was not upon the Land nor of so many weeks before had been and which his former Deposition implyed and as he had assured the Lords on Oath and they had found it different Bolron was at a loss but his Brethren had bethought them of a Salvo he confided the Point to others also shews them Copies of all and it was resolved the Redress should be by a second additional Information given in about the end of the said July to reconcile the former and to cover the Artifice of it by a latter Superfoetation of such old and new things as might be proper and seem natural but it 's plain the drift of the said Addition was to make Sir Thomas have spoken to him in these different words from his former viz. If thou wilt undertake to assist to kill the King I will send thee to my Son if in Town who with the rest that are concern'd shall instruct thee how thou shalt assist in it and thou shalt have 1000 l. reward Having sworn thus in his second Deposition and composed the Matter as he thought the Consult advised him to apply now to the greatest difficulty which was to get a second Witness who might confirm what he had already sworn Therefore about the beginning of August he sets out for York-shire and pretending he had many Priests and others concerned in his Plot he obtained Moneys and Commissions to seize and secure all such Papists as he found obnoxious and under this pretence going to Leeds he wonderfully caressed his old Fellow-servant Maybury informs him of the several Proclamations Narratives and other Transactions at London shews him how much the World was mended with him tells him how easie it is not only to get a Pardon for any former Felony Forgeries c. but to make ones Fortunes for ever and also to be reveng'd on all Enemies And that certainly the Lady Tempest Daughter to Sir Thomas Gascoigne could not be deem'd his Friend who had so defam'd him and blasted his Reputation in her noise about her Trunk and the Moneys taken from the Family which in time might have a worse effect and he suffer for 't when too late to repent the loss of this Golden opportunity to destroy her and secure himself Maybury thus won in few days declares himself a Witness notwithstanding he had few days before protested to several who were amaz'd at Sir Thomas his Charge that he believ'd him to be most unjustly accused nay Bolron was so pleased with his new Conquest that he tells a young Woman whom Maybury courted that she might marry him now with satisfaction for that he had ingaged him the said Maybury in a Business against Sir Thomas and that he should be well rewarded out of his Estate and come to great preferment Methods and Circumstances being now fully setled and agreed upon by them Maybury goes to Mr. Tyndal and Lowther Justices of the Peace and acquaints them in short of his business whereupon the 16th of August the said Maybury informs th●m upon Oath and as it appears in his Narrative more at large That Sir Thomas Gascoigne and Sir Miles Stapleton had made Deeds of Trust of their Estates and that about Michaelmas 76. Sir Thomas his Son Mr. Thomas the Lady Tempest and Mr. Rushton being in Barmbow Dining-room he heard them holding several discourses concerning killing the King and firing of London and York c. That there was in the House one Doctor Stapleton who coming from another Room and finding him at the Door went in and in a low Voice desired them to forbear their discourse for there was one at the door And thereupon her Ladiship call'd him in and sent him down to entertain some Strangers and that he heard several discourses from Sir Thomas and Rushton about a Nunnery to be establish'd at Dolebanke and of Sir Thomas his selling 90 l. per Annum for maintaining it Whilst Maybury was hugging himself with Bolron that this Information would suddenly be at the Council-Board he found more than a fortnight passed and no manner of notice taken of him his impatience prompts him the last of that Month to write to Sir John Nicholas that there were divers material Circumstances relating to his Discovery which were not inserted in his first Information before the Justices which should be declared when the Council should command a full account from him Upon this he had a Summons by a Messenger sent him on purpose and a Letter superscrib'd To Mr. Lawrence Mowbray at his House in York-shire and so repairing to London on the second of October following he inform'd Justice Warcup by Order of Council upon Oath that he had not discovered all he knew of the horrid Plot for fear of York-shire Papists whom he was to detect but now would do it conceiving himself under the Protection of the Council and hoping that they would intercede for his Pardon Then he said That in the Year 1674. he came to Sir Thomas and was with him in his Service till January 1676 c. That waiting on Rushton at the Altar he was permitted to be in his private Chamber when other Priests were consulting with him c. as appears more at large in his Narrative and Informations That he took the Sacrament of Secrecy from Rushton and well remembers that about Michaelmas 1676. there was an Assembly of many Priests and others at Rushtons Chamber when they all agreed and declar'd that the King should be kill'd and then Fire and Sword were to be imploy'd against the Opposers of the Catholick Religion and all or most Catholicks were engaged therein That Rushton then produced to the Priests a List of 4 or 500 Names engaged in the Design and he had read many of them and remembers very well that Sir Thomas Gascoigne Sir Miles Stapleton Mr. Thomas Gascoigne the Lady Tempest Thomas Pressick and many others were in the List That Moneys and Arms were collecting and that on the first of January 1677. he wrote a Letter for so he swore and confirms in his Narrative to the Duke of Monmouth at Whitehall which he sent that day by the Post from Leeds to London declaring therein not in hopes of Reward God forbid but as a true and Loyal Subject to the King that some Papist-Conspirators had a wicked and desperate Design against the King and by an immediate Insurrection to proceed with Fire and Sword till they had altered the Government or setled the Crown upon the Head of some other Person So that by consequence the Death of the King was conspired and sought for That this Conspiracy was to his knowledge contriv'd almost three years ago and now was at the height