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A67878	A true narrative of the Popish-plot against King Charles I and the Protestant religion as it was discovered by Andreas ab Habernfeld to Sir William Boswel Ambassador at the Hague, and by him transmitted to Archbishop Laud, who communicated it to the King : the whole discoovery being found amongst the Archbishops papers, when a prisoner in the Tower, by Mr. Prynn (who was ordered to search them by a committee of the then Parliament) on Wednesday, May 31, 1643 : with some historical remarks on the Jesuits, and A vindication of the Protestant dissenters from disloyalty : also, A compleat history of the Papists late Presbyterian plot discovered by Mr. Dangerfield, wherein an account is given of some late transactions of Sir Robert Peyton.	Habervešl z Habernfeldu, Ondřej.; Boswell, William, Sir, d. 1649.; Laud, William, 1573-1645.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1680 (1680)	Wing T2805; Wing H164; ESTC R21657	37,577	41

Friend of good Quality and Worth in this place But soon after as soon as they could be put into order were avowd by the principal party and deliver'd me in writing by both together upon promise and Oath which I was required to give and gave accordingly not to reveal the same to any other Man living but your Grace and by your Grace's hand to his Majestie In like manner they have tied themselves not to declare these things to any other but my self untill they should know how His Majestie and your Grace would dispose thereof The Principal giving me withall to know that he puts himself and this Secret into your Grace's power as well because it concerns your Grace so nearly after his Majestie as that he knows your wisdom to guide the same aright and is also assur'd of your Grace's fidelity to His Majesties Person to our State and to our Church First your Grace is earnestly pray'd to signifie His Majesties pleasure with all speed together with your Grace's disposition herein and purpose to carry all with silence from all but his Majestie until due time Secondly when your Grace shall think fit to shew these things to His Majestie to do it immediately and not trusting Letters nor permitting any other Person to be by or within hearing and to intreat and counsel His Majestie as in a case of Conscience to keep the same wholly and solely in his own bosom from the knowledge of all other Creatures living but your Grace until the business shall be clear'd out Thirdly not to enquire or demand the Names of the Parties from whom these Overtures do come or any farther discoveries or advertisements in pursuit of them which shall come hereafter until satisfaction shall be given to every part of them Nor to tell to any Person but His Majestie that any thing of this Nature is come from me For as I may believe these Overtures are veryfiable in the way they will be laid and that the parties will not shrink so I may account that if never so little glimpse or shadow of these Informations shall appear by His Majesties or your Grace's words or carriage unto others the means whereby the business may be brought best unto Tryal will be utterly disappointed And the parties who have in Conscience toward God Devotion to His Majestie Affection toward your Grace and Compassion to our Country disclos'd these things will run a present and extream hazard of their Persons and Lives So easily it will be conjectur'd upon the least occasion given either by His Majestie or your Grace who is the Discoverer These are the Points and Offers which they have prest me to represent more especially to his Grace For my own particular having already most humbly crav'd Pardon of any Errour or Omissions that have befallen me in the managing this business I do beseech your Grace to let me know First whether and in what order I shall proceed with the Parties Secondly what points of these Offers I shall first put them upon to enlarge and clear Thirdly what other Points and Queries I shall propose to them and in what manner Fourthly how far further I shall suffers my self to hear and know these things Fifthly whether I shall not rather take the parties answers and discoveries sealed up by themselves and having likewise put my own Seal upon them without questioning or seeing what they contain so to transmit them to your Grace or His Majestie Sixthly whether I may not insinuate upon some fair occasion that there will be a due regard had of them and their service by His Majestie and your Grace when all particulars undertaken in these general Offers and necessary for perfecting the discovery and work intended shall effectually be delivered to His Majestie and your Grace Upon these Heads and such other as His Majesty and your Grace shall think proper in the Business I must with all humility beseech your Grace to furnish me with Instructions and Warrant for my proceedings under His Majesties Hand with your Grace's attestation as by His Majesties Goodness and Royal disposition is usual in like Cases May it please your Grace to entertain a Cipher with me upon this Occasion I have sent the Counterpart of one here inclos'd If these Overtures happily sort with His Majesties and your Grace's mind and shall accordingly prove effectual in their Operation I shall think my self a most happy man to have any Oblation in so pious a Work for my most Gracious Soveraign and Master More particularly in that your Grace under His Majesty shall be Opifex rerum mundi melioris Origo Which I shall incessantly beg in my Prayers at his Hands who is the giver of all good things and will never forsake or fail them who do not first fail and fall from him the God of Mercy and Peace with which I remain ever more Your Grace's most Dutiful and obliged Servant WILLIAM BOSWELL Hague in Holland Sept. 9. 1640. Stylo loci I have not dar'd to trust this business without a Cipher but by a sure hand for which reason I have sent the Bearer my Secretary Express but he knows nothing of the Contents thereof Superscrib'd For your Grace Endors'd by the Arch-Bishop with his own hand Received Sept. 10 1640. Sir WILLIAM BOSWELL About the Plot against the King ANDREAS ab HABERNFELD's Letter to the Arch-Bishop concerning the Plot revealed to him written by him in Latin Most Illustrious and most Reverend Lord ALL my senses are shaken together as often as I revolve the present business neither doth my Understanding suffice to conceive what Wind hath brought such horrid things that they should see the Sun-shine by me for unexpectedly this good Man became known unto me who when he had heard me discoursing of these Scotch stirs said that I knew not the Nerve of the business that those things which are commonly scattered abroad are superficial From that hour he every day became more familiar to me who acknowledging my dexterity herein with a full breast poured forth the burdens of his heart into my bosom supposing that he had discharged a burden of Conscience wherewith he was pressed Hence he related to me the Factions of the Jesuits with which the whole earthly World was assaulted and shewed that I might behold how through their Poison Bohemia and Germany were devoured and both of them maimed with an irreparable wound that the same Plague did creep through the Realms of England and Scotland the matter whereof revealed in the adjacent writing he discovered to me Which things having heard my Bowels were contracted together my Loyns trembled with horrour that a pernicious Gulf should be prepared for so many thousands of Souls With words moving the conscience I inflamed the mind of the Man he had scarce one hour concocted my admonitions but he disclosed all the secrets and he gave free liberty that I should treat with those whom it concerned that they might be informed hereof I thought

that she departed without attempting further Thus was his Lordship thrice by Divine Providence miraculously preserved from the bloody hands of Papists The Plot being now ripe for Execution and Treasonable Letters ready written to be conveyed into the Custody of such Persons they intended to Accuse and two or more Witnesses prepared to swear the Delivery and Receit of such Letters or Commissions against every man in their black List Dangerfield under the Name of Thomas takes a Lodging in Ax-Yard in Westminster pretending himself a Country-Gentleman where lay one Colonel Mansel whose Chamber he soon made himself acquainted with and therein conveyed about Nine or Ten of the aforesaid Treasonable Letters superscribed to several honest Gentlemen and Persons of Quality some of which were Favourers of the Dissenting Protestants When he had so done he informed some of the Officers belonging to the Custom-House That in that House there was concealed great Quantities of French-Lace and other prohibited Goods desiring them the next Morning to bring a Warrant with them and search the House which they promised At Night he brought one Captain Bedford to lie with him as is supposed that he might be a Witness against the Colonel Next Morning after the Colonel was gone forth came the Officers to search for prohibited Goods Dangerfield was very officious in assisting them to search the Colonel's Chamber and at length from behind the Bed brings forth the before-mentioned Pacquet of Letters upon which casting his Eyes and seeming surprized he cryed out Treason These are all Treasonable Letters Whereupon the Officers carried them away to the Commissioners But the Colonel coming in soon after and being acquainted with all that had past in his absence found means to retrieve them again and when he had so done he made some Enquiry after Dangerfield of whose Quality being well informed he carried the Letters to His Majesty with Protestations of his own Innocency and Dangerfield's Villany Whereupon on the 23. of October the Council ordered Dangerfield to be taken into Custody by a Messenger and after a full hearing of the Business before them Oobct 27. they Committed him to Newgate When Colonel Mansel had thus detected Dangerfield the above-mentioued Captain Bedford came in very generously of himself and confessed several things he was privy to amongst which one was That this Dangerfield would have perswaded him to swear that Sir Thomas Player spoke Treason thereby to have taken away the Life of that honest Gentleman The Letters before-mentioned gave Light enough to perceive what the Design was the Papists were then contriving Whereupon Sir William Waller who has been all along very zealous in discovering the Priests and their wicked Plots notwithstanding their Threats and Attempts to take away his Life understanding that Dangerfield used to lodge at Mrs. Celliers went thither on Wednesday Octob. 29. to search her House and that he might leave no place unsearcht he ordered a Tub of Meal to he emptied which being done at the Bottom thereof was found a little Paper-book tyed with red Ribbons wherein was a List of several Persons of Quality and others to the number of above 500. whom they designed to ruin by this their New Plot. They had set down his Grace the Duke of Monmouth for General of the Army to be raised the Lord Grey Lord Brandon and his Son and Sir Thomas Armstrong for Lieutenant-Generals Sir William Waller and Mr. Blood for Major-Generals c. the Duke of Buckingham Lord Shaftsbury Lord Essex Lord Roberts Lord Wharton and Lord Hallifax were to have been accused for the chief Counsellors and Managers of this Plot. Many other things were contained in these Papers relating to the Management of their Design Upon this Mrs. Cellier was committed to the Gatehouse Their Plot being now sufficiently laid open Dangerfield notwithstanding Mrs. Celliers Encouragement to be constant and firm to the Catholick Cause thought it time to confess the Truth and being brought before the Right Honourable Sir Robert Clayton Lord Mayor of London on Friday Octob. 31. 1679. he made a large Confession which held them from Five of the Clock in the Afternoon untill Two next Morning Part whereof was That he was sent for to the Tower whither he went in disguise where after some discourse with the Lord Powis the Lord Arundel asked him If he were willing to do any thing to advance his Fortune to which he answered he would do any thing Then the Lord Arundel asked him if he would kill the King for a good Reward to which he replyed He would kill any body but the King or his Royal Brother That then the aforesaid Lord asked him the same Question again and he answered No. Then said the Lord Powis No no my Lord Arundel does onely this to try you But my Lord continued he what would you give him to kill the King 'T is worth said the Lord Arundel 2000 l. That then the Lord Powis told him he should have 500 l. to kill the Lord Shafisbury That Mr. Gadbury told him the Lords in the Tower were angry with him as also chiefly the Lord Castlemain for that he would not kill the King when he might easily do it and no hurt befall him That here upon he asked Mr. Gadbury How no hurt should befall him when in his Opinion it could be no less than Death To which Gadbury made answer That he knew he might do it safely for at the Request of the Lady Powis he had Calculated his Nativity and that it was clear from thence That the Lord Castlemain very angrily askt him Why he was so unwilling to do that for which he was released out of Prison and fearing some mischief from him he left him and went and told Mrs. Cellier that the Lord Castlemain was angry to which she replyed That it was his custom to fall out one hour and be good friends the next That his Confessor Sharp told him he must do Penance for denying to serve God as the Scriptures taught That he askt him If they taught him to kill his King To which Sharp replyed Yes if he were condemn'd by them That when he told the Lady Powis and Mrs. Cellier of having been alone with the King in his Closet they both said What an Opportunity have you lost And the Lady Powis added How bravely might you have killed him if you had been provided That he was sent by the Lady Powis to Mr. Webb's at Petterley in Buckinghamshire with a Letter directed For Mrs. Jean which Mrs. Jean he found to be a Priest in Womans Habit. That upon reading the Letter Jean administred the Sacrament to him obliging him thereby to Secrecy and then gave him Papers containing a rough Draught of the Plot against the Presbyterians which he told him were to be drawn up into Particulars by the Lords in the Tower and Mr. Nevil in the Kings-Bench That Mr. Wood told him The Lords in the Tower had consulted that before Mr. Oates wat Indicted

I beseech your Majesty read these Letters as they are Endorsed by Figures 1 2 3 c. May it please your Majesty AS great as the Secret is which comes herewith yet I choose rather to send it in this silent covert way and I hope safe than to come thither and bring it my self First because I am no way able to make hast enough with it Secondly because should I come at this time and antedate the meeting Sept. 24. there would be more jealousie of the business and more enquiry after it Especially if I being once there should return again before that day as I must if this be followed as is most fit The danger it seems is eminent and laid by God knows whom but to be executed by them which are very near about you For the great honour which I have to be in danger with you or for you I pass not so your Sacred Person and the State may be safe Now may it please your Majesty This information is either true or there is some mistake in it If it be true the Persons which make the Discovery will deserve thanks and reward if there should be any mistake in it your Majesty can lose nothing but a little silence The business if it be is extream foul The Discovery thus by God's Providence offered seems fair I do hereby humbly beg it upon my knees of your Majesty that you will conceal this business from every creature and his name that sends this to me And I send his Letters to me to your Majesty that you may see his sence both of the business and the Secrecy And such Instructions as you think fit to give him I beseech you let them be in your own hand for his Warrant without imparting them to any And if your Majesty leave it to his descretion to follow it there in the best way he can that in your own hand will be Instruction and Warrant enough for him And if you please to return it herewith presently to me I will send an express away with it presently In the mean time I have by this Express returned him this Answer That I think he shall do well to hold on the Treaty with these men with all care and secrecy and drive on to the Discovery so soon as the business is ripe for it that he may assure himself and them they shall not want reward if they do the Service That for my part he shall be sure of Secrecy and that I am most confident that your Majesty will not impart it to any That he have a special eye to the eighth and ninth Proposition Sir for God's sake and your own safety Secrecy in this Business And I beseech you send me back this Letter and all that comes with it speedily and secretly and trust not your own Pockets with them I shall not eat nor sleep in quiet till I receive them And so soon as I have them again and your Majesties Warrant to proceed no diligence shall be wanting in me to help on the Discovery This is the greatest business that ever was put to me And if I have herein proposed or done any thing amiss I most humbly crave your Majesties pardon But I am willing to hope I have not herein erred in judgment and in fidelity I never will These Letters came to me on Thursday Sept. 10. at night and I sent these away according to the date hereof being extreamly wearied with writing this Letter copying out those other which come with this and dispatching my Letters back to him that sent these all in my own hand Once again secrecy for God's sake and your own To his most blessed protection I commend your Majesty and all your Affairs And am Lambeth Sept. 11. 1640. Your Majesties most humble faithful Servant W. Cant. The Arch-Bishop's Postscript As I had ended these whether with the labour or indignation or both I fell into an extreme faint Sweat I pray God keep me from a Feaver of which three are down in my Family at Croyden These Letters came late to me the express being beaten back by the wind The Arch-Bishops Indorsement with his own hand Received from the King Sept. 16. 1640. The King's Answer to the Plot against him c. Superscrib'd by the Arch-Bishop For your Sacred Majesty By the King Yours Apostyled Sir William Boswel's second Letter to the Arch-Bishop May it please your Grace THis evening late I have received your Graces dispatch with the enclosed from His Majesty by my Secretary Oveart and shall give due account with all possible speed of the same according to His Majesties and your Graces Commands praying heartily that my endeavours which shall be most faithful may also prove effectual to His Majesties and your Grace's content with which I do most humbly take leave being always Hague Sept. 24. 1640. S. Angelo Your Graces most dutiful and humblest Servant William Boswell The Arch-Bishop's Indorsement Received Sept. 30. 1640. Sir William Boswell his acknowledgement that he hath received the King's Directions in my Letters Sir William Boswell's third Letter to the Arch-Bishop sent with the larger Discovery of the PLOT May it please your Grace UPon receipt of His Majesties Commands with your Grace's Letters of 9 and 18 Sept. last I dealt with the party to make good his Offers formerly put in mine hand and transmitted to your Grace This he hopes to have done by the inclosed so far as will be needful for His Majesties satisfaction yet if any more particular explanation or discovery shall be required by His Majesty or your Grace He hath promised to add thereunto whatsoever he can remember and knows of truth And for better assurance and verification of his integrity he professeth himself ready if required to make Oath of what he hath already declared or shall hereafter declare in the business His name he conjures me still to conceale though he thinks His Majesty and your Grace by the Character he gives of himself will easily imagin who he is having been known so generally through Court and City as he was for three or four years in the quality and imployment he acknowlegeth by his Declaration inclosed himself to have held Hereupon he doth also redouble his most humble and earnest Suit unto His Majesty and your Grace to be most secret and circumspect in the business that he may not be suspected to have discovered or had a hand in the same I shall here humbly beseech your Grace to let me know what I may further do for His Majesties service or for your Graces particular behoof that I may accordingly endeavour to approve my self As I am Hague Octob. 15. 1640. Your Grace's mest dutiful and obliged Servant William Boswell The Arch-Bishop's Indorsment Received Octob. 14. 1640. Sir William Boswell in prosecution of the great business If any thing come to him in Cyphers to send it to him The large particular Discovery of the PLOT and

Treason against the King Kingdom and Protestant Religion and to raise the Scotish Wars written in Latin Most Illustrious and Reverend Lord WE have willingly and cordially perceived that our offers have been acceptable both to his Royal Majesty and likewise to your Grace This is the only Index to us That the blessing of God is present with you whereby a spur is given that we should so much the more chearfully and freely utter and detest those things whereby the hazard of both your lives the subversion of the Realm and State both of England and Scotland the tumbling down of his Excellent Majesty from his Throne is intended Now lest the discourse should be enlarged with superfluous circumstances we will only premise some things which are meerly necessary to the business You may first of all know that this good man by whom the ensuing things are detected was born and bred in the Popish Religion who spent many years in Ecclesiastical dignities At length being found fit for the expedition of the present Design by the counsel and mandate of the Lord Cardinal Barbarini he was adjoyned to the assistance of Master Cuneus Con by whom he was found so diligent and sedulous in his Office that hope of great promotion was given to him Yet he led by the instinct of the good Spirit hath howsoever it be contemned sweet promises and having known the vanities of the Pontifician Religion of which he had sometime been a most severe defender having likewise noted the malice of those who fight under the Popish banner felt his Conscience to be burdened which burden that he might ease himself of he converted his mind to the Orthodox Religion Soon after that he might exonerate his Conscience he thought fit that a desperate Treason machinated against so many souls was to be revealed and that he should receive ease if he vented such things in the bosom of a friend which done he was seriously admonished by the said friend that he should shew an example of his conversion and charity and free so many innocent souls from imminent danger To whose monitions he willingly consented and delivered the following things to be put in writing out of which the Articles not long since tendered to your Grace may be clearly explicated and demonstrated 1. First of all that the hinge of the business may be rightly discerned it is to be known that all those factions with which Christendom is at this day shaken do arise from the Jesuitical Off-spring of Cham of which four Orders abound throughout the World Of the first Order are Ecclesiasticks whose Office it is to take care of things promoting Religion Of the second Order are Politicians whose Office it is by any means to shake trouble and reform the state of Kingdoms and Republicks Of the third Order are Seculars whose property it is to obtrude themselves into Offices with Kings and Princes to insinuate and immix themselves in Court businesses bargains and sales and to be busied in civil affairs Of the fourth Order are Intelligencers or Spies men of inferiour condition who submit themselves to the services of great men Princes Barons Noble-men Citizens to deceive or corrupt the minds of their masters 2. A Society of so many Orders the Kingdom of England nourisheth for scarce all Spain France and Italy can yield so great a multitude of Jesuits as London alone where are found more than 50 Scotish Jesuits There the said society hath elected to it self a Seat of iniquity and hath conspired against the King and the most faithful to the King especially the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and likewise against both Kingdoms 3. For it is more certain than certainty it self that the forenamed society hath determined to effect an universal reformation of the Kingdom of England and Scotland Therefore the determination of the end necessarily infers a determination of means to the end 4. Therefore to promote the undertaken Villany the said society dubbed it self with the Title of The Congregation of propagating the Faith which acknowledgeth the Pope of Rome the Head of the College and Cardinal Barbarini his substitute and Executor 5. The chief Patron of the society at London is the Popes Legat who takes care of the business into whose bosom these dregs of Traytors weekly deposite all their Intelligences Now the residence of this Legation was obtained at London in the name of the Roman Pontiff by whose mediation it might be lawful for Cardinal Barbarini to work so much the more easily and safely upon the King and Kingdom For none else could so freely circumvent the King as he who should be palliated with the Popes Authority 6. Master Cuneus did at that time enjoy the Office of the Popes Legat an Universal Instrument of the conjured society and a serious Promoter of the business whose secrets as likewise those of all other Intelligencers the present good man the Communicator of all these things did revive and expedite whither the business required Cuneus set upon the chief men of the Kingdom and left nothing unattempted by what means he might corrupt them all and incline them to the pontifician party he inticed many with various incitements yea he sought to delude the King himself with gifts of Pictures Antiquities idols and of other vanities brought from Rome which yet would prevail nothing with the King Having entred familiarity with the King he is often requested at Hampton Court likewise at London to undertake the Cause of the Palatine and that he would interpose his Authority and by his intercession perswade the Legat of Colen that the Palatine in the next Diet to treat of peace might be inserted into the Conditions which verily he promised but performed the contrary He writ indeed that he had been so desired by the King concerning such things yet he advised that they should not be consented to lest peradventure it might be said by the Spaniard that the Pope of Rome had patronized an heretical Prince In the mean time Cuneus smelling from the Archbishop most trusty to the King that the Kings mind was wholly pendulous or doubtful Resolved That he would move every stone and apply his forces that he might gain him to his party Certainly confiding that he had a means prepared For he had a command to offer a Cardinals Cap to the Lord Archbishop in the name of the Pope of Rome and that he should allure him also with higher promises that he might corrupt his sincere mind Yet a fitting occasion was never given whereby he might insinuate himself into the Lord Archbishop Free access was to be gained by the Earl and Countess of A likewise Secretary W The intercession of all which being neglected he did flie the company or familiarity of Cuneus worse than the plague He was likewise perswaded by others of no mean rank well known to him neither yet was he moved 7. Another also was assayed who hindred access to the detestable wickedness Secretary Cook he was a