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The discovery of the Popish Plot being the several examinations of Titus Oates, D.D., before the High Court of Parliament, the Lord Chief Justice, Sir Edmund-Bury Godfry, and several other of His Majesty's justices of the peace.
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Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.
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1679
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that William Morgan and Father Lovel were returned out of Ireland that they had given them an account that the Irish was ready to rise at ten days warning with Twenty thousand Foot and Five thousand Horse and would let the French King into that Kingdom if he should come with an Army to land there and that Father Lovel did give an account that Fifteen thousand Foot would rise in the North of Ireland and that the people were patient but very resolute and that the Duke of Ormond now Lievt is in great perplexity to see the Catholick Religion thrive so well in Ireland and that there are persons that have Secretly taken Commissions from the General of the Society of Jesus by virtue of a Breviate from the Pope Dated October 1673. and that they are resolved to cutt the Protestants Throats once again when they rise and in the said Letter the Provincial Summoned a General Council to be holden in London and therefore commanded the Fathers on the other side of the water to be present in which Letter the Deponent did see himself to be Summoned to assist at the Consultation as a messenger from Fathers to Fathers this Letter the Deponent saw in the Moneth of April 28. That in order to this Command on April the 24. 1678. Father Warren Rector of Liege Sir Thomas Preston Barronet Father March Rector of Ghent and Father Williams Rector of Watton and Master of the Novices Sir Jo. Warner Barronet Richard Ashby being sick of the Gout would not go but out of the Seminary of St. Omers went Sir Robert Brett Barronet Father Poole Edward Nevil there were in all with the Deponent about nine or ten who met in London about Consultation with Thomas Whitebread Father Hartcourt Senior and Junior John Fenwick Father Longworth William Morgan John Keines Father Lovel Father Ireland John Blundel Richard Strange Father Micho Father Gray and others to the number of fifty Jesuits met at the White horse Tavern in the Strand where they plotted their designes for the Society and ordered Father John Gray who was always there to go Procurator for Rome all which consultations they held in May 1678. The Deponent was present to attend the consultory and did their concerns from Company to Company some met at Mr. Saunders house in Wildstreet others at Mr. Fenwicks at Mr. Ayres house in Drury Lain others at Mr. Ireland's in Russel-street near Covent-Garden and other places all which though in several Companies did contrive the death of the King in order to which Papers were sent from Company to Company which the Deponent did carry containing their opinion of the business and the manner how it was to be done and within three or four days after the Deponent went to St. Omers with the Fathers who came from the other side of the water 29. Item that on the 10. of June Stilo Novo came Tho. White Provincial of St. Omers and in order to visit his Colledges in Flanders and Germany and in his Chamber of the tenth day when the Deponent with Richard Ashbey were present he told the said Ashbey and the Deponent that he hoped to see the Fool at Whitehall laid fast enough and that the Society need not fear for he that is the King is grown and would hear no complaint against them and if the Duke should see his face in the least manner to follow his Brothers foot steps his pasport was made to lay him asleep 30. Item that the said Thomas Whitebread on the Thirteenth of June did tell the Rector of St. Omers that there was a Minister of the Church of England that had Scandalously and basely put out the Jesuits Morals in England and had indevoured villanously to render them odious to the people and asked the said Rector whether the Deponent might possibly know him and the Rector not knowing called the Deponent who heard these words as he stood at the door wherein being entred the Provincial asked the Deponent if he knew him that was the Author of the Jesuits Morals his Person but not his Name The said Thomas Whitebread demanded then whether the Deponent would undertake to Poyson or Assassmate the said Author which the Deponent undertook to do and to have 500 l. reward promised him by the Provincial and appointed to return to England and the Deponent doth further testify that at the same time the said Provincial did in his Chamber say that he and the Society in London would procure Dr. Stillingfleet to be knockt in the head and also Poole the Author of Synopsis criticorum for writing something against them 31. Item That Richard Ashbey Rector of St. Omers being ill that evening with the Gout and Stone viz the 15. of June he desired the company of the Deponent and did tell him that Father Warren now Rector of the Jesuits Colledge in Leige did when he was Procurator at Paris Reconcile the late Lord Chancelor Hide to the Church of Rome upon his Death-bed which words were occasioned by the Deponents taking notice that the late Dutches of York the Lord Chancelors Daughter dyed a Papist and the Deponent when he heard the said Ashbey speak these words replyed that he never had heard any thing of the return of the Lord Chancellor answer was made that the said Ashbey was certain that the Lord Chancellor was reconciled by the said Warren 32. That the 23 of June Stilo Novo in the afternoon the Deponent had express order presently to repair to Callis and then take the Packet Boat and so away for England to attend the motions of the Fathers in London till he had orders from the Provincial to the contrary and gave the Deponent four pounds for his Charges and promised him 80 l. for service already done for the Society in Spain and elsewhere and the Deponent saith that night he parted for Callis where he met four Jesuits bound for London on Fryday they all took Boat on Saturday they arrived at Dover where they met John Fenwick who had brought Students to Dover to transport them to St. Omers The Deponent saith further that the four Jesuits John Fenwick who went at Dover by the name of Mr. Tompson and himself took Coach and that at Burton six miles this side Canterbury the Coach was stopt and a Box was seized of the said John Fenwicks by the Searchers of the place and when by them opened in it they found Beads Pictures Images and other Agnus Dei which were to be given by Bundles the Catechise to Children to encourage them to come to Catechising School and to be Catechised by him according there was a direction to him fixed on the Box to the Honorable Richard Blundel Esquire in London which Box so seized by the said Searchers and they had searched the Pockets of the said Fenwick they had found such Letters about him as he confessed to the Deponent might have cost him his Life they calling said he the concern in hand but the said Letters
THE DISCOVERY OF THE Popish Plot BEING The several Examinations of TITUS OATES D. D. Before the High Court OF PARLIAMENT The Lord CHIEF JUSTICE Sir EDMUND-BURY GODFRY And several other of His MAJESTY's JUSTICES of the PEACE London Printed 1679. Titus Oates D. D. his Journal and Affidavit of his Discovery of the Conspiracy before Sir Edmund-Bury Godfry Septemb. the 27th 1678. IMprimis Richard Strange Provincial John Keines Bazil Longworth John Fenwick and Mr. Hartcourt Jesuites did Write a Treasonable Letter to Father Sinman an Irish Jesuite at Madrid in the Kingdom of Spain in which was contained their Plotting and Contriving a Rebellion in Scotland of the Presbyterians against the Episcopal Government in order to which they have imployed one Matthew Wright William Morgan and Mr. Ireland to go and Preach under the Notion of Presbyterians and give the disaffected Scots a true understanding of their sad States and Conditions which they were in by reason of Episcopal Tyranny exercised against them and withall to tell them now they had a fair opportunity to Vindicate their Liberty and Religion and that it could be done by no other way but the Sword and that now the King was addicted to his Pleasure that he would and could take but little care of that Concern In the said Letter it was expressed they had gotten an Interest in His Royal Highness but they deal with him as they think fit and that they were resolved by all means to weaken the King of England's Interest by informing his Friends of his intent to betray them into the Hands of Forraign Powers viz. to send them to fall by the Sword in the French King's Service against the Confederate Princes which Letter bares Date April 19 27 1677. 2. That the Persons abovementioned gave the Deponent 10 l. to carry the said Letter to Father Sinman into the Kingdom of Spain to Madrid the said Sinman being the Provincial General for the Kingdom of England and Ireland and in order to which Message the Deponent Embarked himself in the Ship called the Bâ—sca Merchant whereof Luke Bath-Roch was then Master to go for Bâ—lboa and there took Mules for Valladolydd but staying a day at Burgos in Spain the Deponent broke open the said Letter and found these Contents in the same 3. That they of the Society of Jesus in the English Seminary at St. Omers sent a Mission of Twelve Students into the Kingdom of Spain viz. Eight to Valladolydd and Four to Madrid there being English Colledges in both places in order to Study Philosophy and Divinity which Missioners were sent by Richard Ashbey Richard Peter Nicholas Blundel and Charles Peter by the Patents of the several Missioners by which they had power to demand Admission into the respective Colledges to which they were sent which Missioners were obliged by the Jesuits of the Colledges to renounce their Allegiance to His Majesty of Great Britain in the hearing of the Deponent and those of Valladolydd were taught by Daniel Armestrong a Jesuite Minister of the English there That First the Oath of Allegiance is Heretical and Anti-christian and Divellish and that Charles Stuart King of England is no Lawful King but comes of aspurious Rase and 〈◊〉 his Father was a Black Scotch-man and not King Charles the First This was delivered in a Sermon the 29th of Sept. 1677. to the Students there which Sermon the Deponent did hear and in this Sermon the said Daniel Armestrong in plain words did say that the King of England was a Bastard now that Daniel Armestrong goeth in Spain by the Name of Joseph Munford in Spanish by John Montefortio 4. That the said John Munford alias Armestrong did bring Letters from St. Omers to the English Colledge at Valladolydd to the Father there in Latin by reason they were Spaniards in which was expressed and related from the Fathers at St. Omers that the Fathers of the Society of London hath procured one Father Beningfield to be Confessor to His Royal Highness but if they saw that His Royal Highness did not answer their expectation they would dispose of him as they did intend to dispose of His Brother the King which they hoped to effect within a year which Letter bares Date June 1677. and Subscribed by Richard Ashbey alias Shimbleby Rector of the English Jesuites at St. Omers Richard Peter Minister Edward Nevil Prefect of the Studies Ch. Peters Prefect of Sodality John Farmor Prefect of Manors which Letters the Deponent saw in the Month of September 1677. at Valladolydd in the Kingdom of Spain 5. That Father Sinman above mentioned Writ to the English Colledge and the Fathers there said that the King of England was Poysoned to the great Joy of the English Fathers and that they would serve King James so if he did not give them a good assurance of bringing in the Catholick Religion and of rooting out the Protestant this Letter bore Date July the And was seen and read by the Deponent at Valladolydd near the latter end of July 1677. 6. That one Father John Blake alias Cross who went with the Four Students to Madrid did bring Letters from Richard Strange Provincial of the Jesuits and one Father Gray a Jesuit and John Keines to Father Sinman above mentioned in which was specifyed the great diligence was used by the said Richard Strange Father Gray and John Keines to procure such persons to dispatch the King and to put a period to his dayes which Letter bore date June the 10. 1677. Stilo Novo And the Deponent being sent to Madrid in August read it in Father Sinmans Chamber he shewing it also at the same time to James Arch-Bishop of Tuam of the Kingdom of Ireland 7. That the said Father Sinman received another Letter July the 20. 1677. Stilo Novo from Richard Strange Father Gray John Keines Bazill Longworth John Fenwick Father Ireland and Father Hartcourt in which they did manifest they were very sorry for informing him that he might assure himself that the business was done there man William being faint harted could not then do it though he had 15000 l. promised for his pains of which Letters the English Missioners by one information that at Madrid by John Cross alias Blake and those of Valladolydd by Daniel Armestrong Jesuit which Letters the deponent saw in the Chamber of Mr. Synman at Madrid at the same time that he saw the Letters of the _____ June mentioned in the fore-going paragraph or number 8. That on the 3. of November Stilo Novo Father Petro Jeronymo de Cordela Provincial of the Jesuits in New Castle did write to Richard Strange and John Keines that if the business of dispatching of the King of England could be effected they should have 10000 l. which Letter the deponent brought from Valladolydd to Bilboa and imbarked in a Ship within 5 dayes after his Arrival thither and in five dayes more arrived at a little Town near Exeter and in five dayes more at London and delivered