Lordships Person He waited on his Lordship by the Name of Day and went armed with a Dagger which he received from Mrs. Cellier to whom three or four were brought by Mr. Rigaut To perform this Murther he was promised 500 l. by the Lords Powis and Arundel the Lord Arundel giving him then 10 Guineys and encouraged by the Lady Abergaveny Lady Powis Mrs. Cellier and others and his Confessor Sharp conjur'd him to stab him with all possible speed After his first disappointment they advised him to tell the Earl that he was in danger of being Impeached for High Treason and that from Letters under his own hand and that when he should find himself in the Tower he would have cause to repent that he had refused to hear what he had to tell him These Instructions he followed and told his Lordship that his Servants had Copied out his Letters from whence would be drawn Matter to form an Impeachment But the Earl would not be Wheadled by this to give him a private Audience and thereby administer to him an opportunity of taking away his Life but askt him which of his Servants they were that had Copied out his Letters To which Dangerfield replyed That he knew not Then the Earl answered That he knew that all he said was false for that if his Letters were made known to all the World there would not be found Matter sufficient to endanger the least Hair of his Head much less to form an Impeachment Whereupon Dangerfield told him That if that was his Lordships Opinion he would take his leave and so departed leaving his Lordship a little jealous of his Intentions The Lady Powis would have perswaded him upon a Third Attempt which he refusing she struck him gently on the Hand with her Fan calling him Cow-hearted Fellow telling him she would do it her self but Mrs. Cellier told her that should not be for She would perform it In order to which the very next day she went armed with a Dagger to wait upon his Lordship who received her very civilly but being made more wary than formerly by Dangerfields last carriage he strictly observ'd her and perceiving her fumbling about her Pocket betwixt Jest and Earnest he clapt his hands upon hers and there held them pleasantly drolling with her till she was ready to depart but she was not gone so far as the Door before she offer'd to return which his Lordship observing stept to her again and clapping his hands upon hers quite dasht her out of Countenance so 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 Colonelâ— 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 be emptied which being done at the Bottom thereof was found a little Paper-bodâ— 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 others 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. Cellierâ— 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
A TRUE RELATION OF THE POPISH-PLOT AGAINST King CHARLES I. AND THE Protestant Religion IF there be any professing the Protestant Religion within His Majesties Dominions who are yet so wilfully blinded as not to believe the Reality of the late Conspiracies or that it has not been a long time carrying on to extirpate the Protestant Religion reestablish Popery and inthral the People in all the Three Kingdoms let them but advisedly fix their Eyes and Minds upon the Ensuing Letters and Discoveries and they will easily find Papistical Plots have been no new things in this Nation To omit their attempts upon King Edward Queen Elizabeth and King James these Papists make it evidently out that the same Design and the same Contrivances were on foot in the Reign of oâ—â— late Sovereign Charles the First of Blessed Memory a True Narrative whereof these Sheets contain as they were found in the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury's Study in the Tower May 31. 1643. The first who discover'd it was an Actor in it sent hither from Rome by Cardinal Barbarini to assist Con the Pope's Legat in the pursuit of it and privy to all the particulars who being touch'd with remorse of Conscience for being guilty of so detestable a Crime reveal'd the whole Mystery to Sir William Boswell the King's Leiger Embassador at the Hague who gave private notice of the same to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury by whom it was declar'd to the King himself Sir WILLIAM BOSWELL's first Letter to the Arch-Bishop touching this Plot. May it please your Grace THe Offers whereof your Grace will find a Copy here enclos'd toward a farther and more particular Discovery were first made to me at the second hand and by word of mouth by a 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 sit 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 〈◊〉 to any Person but His Majestie that any thing of this Nature 〈◊〉 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 Opisex 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 I have not dar'd to trust this business without a Cipher but by a sure band for which reason I have sent the Bearer my Secretary Express but he knows nothing of the Contents thereof Hague in Holland Sept. 9. 1640. Stylo loci Superscrib'd For your Grace Endors'd by the Arch-Bishop with his own hand
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 most 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 Illusirious and Revcrend 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 inseriour 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 acknowlegeth 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
means it is thought meet to defer it till hereafter 9. That there is a ready means whereby the Villany may be discovered in one moment the chief Conspirators circumvented and the primary Members of the Conjuration apprehended in the very act 10. That very many about the King who are accounted most faithful and intimate to whom likewise the more secret things are intrusted are Traytors to the King corrupted with a Foreign Pension who communicate all secrets of greater or lesser moment to a Foreign Power These and other most secret things which shall be necessary to be known for the security of the King may be revealed if these things shall be acceptable to the Lord Arch Bishop Likewise they may be assured that whatsoever things are here proposed are no Figments or Fables nor vain Dreams but such real Verities which may be demonstrated in every small tittle For those who thrust themselves into this business are such men who mind no gain but the very zeal of Christian Charity suffers them not to conceal these things Yet both from His Majesty and the Lord Arch-Bishop some small exemplar of gratitude will be expected All these premises have been communicated under good Faith and the Sacrament of an Oath to Mr. Leiger Embassadour of the King of Great Britain at the Hague that he should not immediately trust or communicate these things to any mortal besides the King and the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Subseribed c. Present c. Hague Com. 6. Sept. 1640. In the Style of the Place The Arch-Bishops own Indorsement Recieved Sept. 10. 1640. The Plot against the King The Arch-Bishop of Canterburies Letter to the King concerning the PLOT with the King's Directions in the Margin written with his own hand 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 Ye had reason so to do and bring it my self First because I am no way able to make has t 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 It is an unanswerable Dilemma 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 I concur totally with you in opinion assuring you that no body doth or shall know of this business and to shew my care to conceal it I received this but this Afternoon and now I make this dispatch before I sleep Herewith I send his Warrant as you advise which indeed I judge to be the better way 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 consident that your Majesty will not impart it to any That he have a special eye to the eighth and ninth Proposition I like your answer extreme well and do promise not to deceive your confidence nor make you break your word 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 I have sent all back I think these Apostyles will be warrant enough for you to proceed especially when I expresly command you to do so 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 In this I am as far from condemning your judgement as suspecting your Fidelity 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 Your Majesties most humble faithful Servant W. Cant. Lambeth Sept. 11. 1640. 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 Superscrib'd by the Arch-Bishop For your Sacred Majesty 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. York Sept. C. R. 13. 1640. 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
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 no delay was to be made about the things The same hour I went to Sir William Boswell the King's Leiger at the Hague who being tied with an Oath of Secrecy to me I communicated the business to him I admonished him to weigh these things by the Ballance neither to defer but act that those who were in danger might be speedily succoured He as becomes an honest Man mindful of his Duty and having nearer looked into the business refused not to obey the Monitions Moreover he forthwith caused that an Express should be dispatched and sent word back again what a most acceptable Oblation this had been to the King and your Grace for which we rejoyced from the heart and we judged that a safe and favourable Deity had interposed it self in this business whereby you might be perserved Now that the verity of the things related might be confirmed some principal heads of the conspiracy were purposely pretermitted that the knowledge of them might be extorted from the circumvented Society of the Conspirators Now the things will be speedily and safely promoted into act if they be warily proceeded in at Bruxels By my advice that day should be observed wherein the Packet of Letters are dispatch'd which under the Title of To Monsieur Strario Arch-Deacon of Cambray tyed with one cover are delivered to the Post-Master such a Packet may be secretly brought back from him yet it will be unprofitable because all the inclosed Letters are written Characteristically Likewise another Packet coming weekly from Rome which is brought under this superscription To the most Illustrious Lord Count Rossetti Legat for the time these are not to be neglected To whom likewise Letters writ in the same Characters are included That they may be understood Reade is to be consulted with The forenamed day of dispatch shall be expected In Reade's House an accumulated congregation may be circumvented which succeeding it will be your Graces part to order the business The intestine enemy being at length detected by God's Grace all bitterness of mind which is caused on either side may be abolished buried in oblivion deleted and quieted the enemy be invaded on both parts Thus the King and the Kings Friend and both Kingdoms neer to danger shall be preserved and delivered from eminent danger Your Grace likewise may have this injunction by you if you desire to have the best advice given you by others That you trust not overmuch to your Pursevants for some of them live under the stipend of the Popish Party How many Rocks how many Scilla 's how many displeased Charybdes appear before your Grace in what a dangerous Sea the Cock-boat of your Graces lise next to Shipwrack is tossed your self may judge the Fore-deck of the Ship is speedily to be driven to the Harbour All these things I whisper into your Grace's ear for I know it bound with an Oath of Secrecy therefore by open name I would by these Presents become known to your Grace Your Graces most observant and most officious Andrew Habernfeld Hague Sept. 14 S. N. 1640. Superscribed by Andreas ab Habernfeld a Noble Bohemian Dr. of Physick to the Queen of Bohemia Illustrissimo ac Reverendissimo Dom. Domino Gulielmo Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi Primati Metropolitano totius Regni Angliae Dom. meo The Arch-Bishops Indorsement with his own Hand Received Octob. 14. 1640. Andreas ab Habernfeld His Letters sent by Sir William Boswell about the discovery of the Treason I conceive by the English Latin herein that he must needs be an Englishman with a concealed and changed name And yet it may be this kind of Latin may relate to the Italian Or else he lived some good time in England The Declaration of this Treason I have by His Majesties special Command sent to Sir W. Boswell that he may there see what proof can be made of any particulars The general OVERTURE and DISCOVERY of the PLOT sent with Sir William Boswell ' s first Letter and written in Latin The King's Majesty and the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury are to be secretly informed by Letters 1. THat the King's Majesty and the Lord Arch-Bishop are both of them in great danger of their lives 2. That the whole Common-wealth is by this means endangered unless the mischief be speedily prevented 3. That these Scotch Troubles are raised to the end that under this pretext the King and Arch-Bishop might be destroyed 4. That there is a means to be preseribed whereby both of them in this case may be preserved and this Tumult speedily composed 5. That although these Scotch Tumults be speedily composed yet that the King is endangered and that there are many ways by which destruction is plotted to the King and Lord Arch-Bishop 6. That a certain Society hath conspired the Death of the King and Lord Arch-Bishop and Convulsion of the whole Realm 7. That the same Society every Week deposits with the President of the Society what Intelligence every of them hath purchased in eight days search and then conser all into one Packet which is weekly sent to the Director of the Business 8. That all the Confederates in the said conspiracy may verily be named by the Poll. But because they may be made known by other