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A47485	A true history of the several designs and conspiracies against His Majesties sacred person and government as they were continually carry'd on from 1688 till 1697 containing matters extracted from original papers, depositions of the witnesses, and authentick records, as appears by the references to the appendix, wherein they are digested : published with no other design then to acquaint the English nation that notwithstanding the present posture of affairs our enemies are still so many, restless and designing, that all imaginable care ought to be taken for the defense and safety of His Majesty and his three kingdoms / by R.K.	Kingston, Richard, b. 1635?	1698 (1698)	Wing K615; ESTC R3193	131,782	328

only Witnesses enough to take away all the Prisoners Lives but these Witnesses were good ones and very Honest Men and being told by Mr. * See Mr. Wybrands Depositions in the Appendix Wybrand that it look'd like a Contradiction or an Impossibility to save Mens Lives accused of High Treason and that Treason by his own Confession proved against them by several creditable and substantial Testimonies Taffe alias O Mullen reply'd it was no matter for that if the Gentlemen would give him Money to make his Fortune he would contrive a way to do it Again if Conscience had been the Motive why did he go so far in it Why was he so active in seizing of Arms and apprehending the Conspirators If he knew it to be a Piece of Roguery he must know it to be so from the Beginning for he introduc'd Lunt to the Earl of Bellemont read Lunt's Depositions taken before Mr. Secretary Trenchard And knew the Transactions of the whole Matter why then did he not relate it before Why did he not declare it to the Lord Bellemont Mr. Secretary Trenchard Mr. Attorney General Mr. Aaron Smith or some other proper Officer This had been the honestest and easiest Way to have put a Stop to all Proceedings And had been fair candid and upright Dealing as well on the behalf of the Government as the Gentlemen But alass this would have quite spoil'd the making of his Fortune Again if what Taffe says in relation to Mr. Lunt's Evidence had any kind of Truth in it it no way answers the End for which it is design'd for the Truth of the Plot does not as I have said before depend only upon Lunt's single Evidence but upon the Discovery of Mr. Kelly Mr. Dodsworth Mr. Robinson Mr. Cawson and the Ships Company the Custom-house-Officers and several Persons of Quality and others in Lancashire whilst Lunt was acting in it nor was the Discovery from Manchester the Act of any single Person who might be liable to be impos'd upon but the premeditated Act of the whole Bench of Justices at their Sessions in Manchester as appears by the Letter to his Grace the Lord Duke of Shrewsbury which was also seconded by several others of his Majesties Justices of the Peace in their Session from other * See the Letter from Middleton in the Appendix Parts of the County as well as from many private Gentlemen So that Taffe must say something to disprove all these Matters of Fact attested by so many Honourable Persons and others of known Reputation before he or any of that Party can hope to gain Credit to what they said against Lunt But this was the subtile Trick of the Conspirators and their Multinominal Friends to leap over all former Discoveries and fall foul upon Lunt and endeavour to perswade the World that he invented and contriv'd the Plot in May and June 1694. Whereas Lunt and all the rest of the Kings Evidences depose the Plot begun in the latter end of the Year 1688 and in the Year 1689 and by several Progressions continu'd till 1694. So that what Taffe says must of necessity be false both as to the Fact and Time Besides What Taffe says without reflecting upon his former vile and lewd Conversation in being a Renegado Irish Popish Priest changing his Name and being manifestly guilty of Felony and Perjury is only his own naked Affirmation procured by Bribery but what Lunt has sworn as to the Plot in general nay almost in every Particular is confirm'd by the best and surest Testimonies in the World But since what Taffe had the Impudence to affirm has made so much Noise abroad and seem'd the only Reason why Sr. W. W threw up the Tryal I will sum up both their Evidences and leave the Reader to judge which of them is most reasonable to be believ'd among the sober and unprejudic'd Part of Mankind Father Vincent * All these Names be went by alias Thomas O Mullen alias John Taffe says but not upon his Oath There was no Truth in the Plot but that the Whole was a Contrivance between him and Lunt in or about May 1694 but has no Evidence or Circumstance to confirm what he so boldly affirms nor has any thing to say further in the Whole Mr. Lunt deposeth that he follow'd the late King James into France and from thence into Ireland and confirms it by a * Which is now among the rest of the Papers in the Custody of the Clerk of the Parliament Pass under the Hand and Seal of the Lord Melfort Lunt deposeth that in France and Ireland he was acquainted with Bromfeild who negotiated Affairs in Order to a Rebellion between the late King James and the Lancashire Gentlemen But being discover'd the Vessel he had bought taken and himself in great Danger he thought it not safe to go any more thither but having brought word that the Gentlemen had embrac'd the late Kings Commands and only wanted Commissions the Carriage of the Commissions was to be perform'd by Mr. Thrillfall and himself and this he confirms by the Oaths of Mr. John Edwards See their several Depositions in the Appendix George Wilson John Wilson Elizabeth Langley Elizabeth Hearst and the Master of the Vessel and five Seamen Lunt deposeth that in or about June 1689 he and Mr. Thrillfall of Goosner in Lancashire sailed from Ireland in Mr. Cawson's Ship landed at Cockram in Lancashire brought over several Commissions to the Lancashire Gentlemen some of which were left in the Ship and taken by the Officers of the Customs and are now in the Hands of the Government this is prov'd by Mr. Cawson the Master of the Ship that brought Lunt and Thrillfall out of Ireland all the Seamen in the Ship and by the Officers of the Customs that seized the Commissions besides the Noble Peers aforenamed that examin'd the whole Matter in Lancashire and the Commissions themselves seen by Mr. Robinson and are now in the Custody of the Clerk of the Parliament Mr. Lunt deposeth that after he delivered the Commissions above named the Lancashire Gentlemen having formed a Rebellion employ'd him and others to list Men and send them into Lancashire which he did and subsisted them at the charge of the Gentlemen accused in order to be ready for the Service of King James when called for and this is prov'd by the Affidavits of John Wilson Lawrence Brandon Robert Bradly Elizabeth Hearst Elizabeth Langley and many others as also virtually confirm'd by the Letter from the Quarter Sessions at Manchester sign'd by eight Justices of the Peace See the Letter in the Appendix dated 18th October 1689 where they desire his Grace the Duke of Shrewsbury to acquaint the Kings Majesty That there hath been some modelling of Officers and Men preparatory to their hopes of an Invasion or Insurrection and tho' our Goals say they are full of Irish Papists yet we have frequent Account of many others at Popish Houses Mr. Kelly in his

Thomas Yarnol Mayor of Evesham in the County of Worcester Richard Earl Bellemont Sir James Rushout William Bromly Edmund Letchmore and Richard Doldswel Esquires Justices of the Peace for the County of Worcester viz. That there was a design on foot to raise a Rebellion against the King and Queen in Lancashire That divers Persons in that and the adjoyning Counties had receiv'd Commissions from the late King to raise two Regiments of Horse two Regiments of Dragoons and three Regiments of Foot that great numbers of Irish Souldiers and Arms for them were privately kept in divers Places in that County Particularly that Mr. Thomas Tatlock of Simmondswood * Ferguson in his Letter to the Lord chief Justice Holt Printed 1694. near Sefton did harbour above threescore Men for the Service of the late King And that Arms for them were hid in that Wood. That Mr. Molyneux of Marborow did harbour above twenty Irish Souldiers for the same Service And that Arms Saddles Bridles Holsters and other Necessaries for them were hid in a Cellar under a Tower at the Entry of the House of Mr. Blundel of Ince in the Parish of Sefton That John Holland of Prescot and his Partner and a Sadler in Legh made Saddles and Holsters for them and were privy to the Design And that he saw and heard read a Letter in the Hands of the Lord Molyneux 's Son from the late King James 's Queen incouraging the Insurrection intended in Lancashire and giving Assurance of Assistance from the French King of Men and Arms. This Information caus'd many of the Lancashire Papists to be Imprison'd but others who tacitly confest their Guilt by flying and were look'd upon to be dangerous Persons absconded * See the Justices Letter from Middleton and would not be found till they had also prevented the Punishment by removing Kelly into another World I suppose by private Murther for as soon as it was known that Mr. Dodsworth had also discovered the Conspiracy that the King might not have two Witnesses to prove the Treason Kelly was made away and could never be heard off to this time His Fate continues a Mystery but whether he was kill'd or carry'd away 't is certain the Conspirators from that very time began to resume their Courage which was extreamly sunk upon the notice of Mr. Dodsworth's discovery And that these were the Artifices by which they conceal'd the Plot so long and frighted others from discovering it for fear they should meet the like Fate is too plain to he deny'd In December 1689. the Lancashire Plot was discover'd also by Mr. Dodsworth to his Kinsman Roger Kirkby of Kirkby Loinsdale Esq and Governour of Chester Castle and on the 27th of March 1690 to the Right Honourable the Earl of Macclesfeild which his Lordship laying before One of his Majesties Principal Secretaries of State Mr. Dodsworth was sent for to London to declare his Knowledg of the whole Matter and on May the 16th 1690. gave Information upon Oath of this Conspiracy before the Lord chief Justice Holt. And the Clamour that was made upon several Persons of Note being seised and Search made after others brought it to be examin'd before the Honourable the Commons assembled in Parliament The substance whereof was That certain Roman Catholic Gentlemen and others in the County Palatine of Lancashire and Parts adjacent of whose Names and Dwellings he gave a List into the House of Commons where the Original still remains were entred into a treasonable Conspiracy to make War against the King and Kingdom with design to reinthrone the late King James and in order to accomplish these Designs had receiv'd Commissions from the late King James brought over from Ireland by Mr. Thrillfall to raise some Regiments of Horse and Dragoons To furnish which Ammunition was provided Arms and other Necessaries bought and hid in divers Places by the confederated Collonels Which Troops were to be joyn'd by the late Kings Forces from Ireland whilst the French that were to be landed in Cornwal gave the King Diversion there and the Duke of Berwick in Scotland And all to be kept close and still till the late King arriv'd in Lancashire which according to the late Kings Promise should be in a Month or two at the farthest With this Discovery the Honourable House of Commons were so well satisfied that they recommended Mr. Dodsworth to the King for a Reward of his Service to the Public His Majesty gratify'd him with a present Reward in Money and recommended him to the Lords Commissioners of his Treasury for what Employment he was capable of but Mr. Dodsworth being a Papist and consequently uncapable of any Place under his Majesty was too long forgot and had no other Reward but what was given him by the Jacobites to stop his Mouth for ever viz. Murthered for as soon as that Party who have their Spies and Intelligencers in all Places heard there was a Correspondence between Dodsworth and Lunt and that it was whisper'd that Lunt would also discover Mr. Dodsworth was Murther'd by Mr. Deane a known and profess'd Jacobite Mr. Edward Robinson also made a Discovery of this Conspiracy on the 17th day of March 1690 before Richard Wright Esq One of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Lancaster in Substance thus That Mr. Fitzakerly at Spello House in Lancashire shew'd this Deponent a Commission from the late King James for the raising Men for his Service and Arms wrap'd up in Straw and hid under the Tyles of the House That Mr. Fitzakerly had promis'd all his Tenants that would serve under him in the Service of King James that upon the Death of any of them he would renew their Leases to their Children That they heard from the late King James very often and that he had sent them Word by a Servant of the Lord Molyneux 's that he would be with them in two Months That John Harrington of Egboth Esq told this Deponent that he also had receiv'd a Commission to be a Captain under King James and that Mr. Moore then in the House who had been a Captain of Dragoons in the late Irish Army was to be his Lieutenant Thus have I proved without any help from Mr. Lunt Mr. Wilson or Mr. Womball that there was a Conspiracy against the King and Government form'd by Mr. Bromfeild and the Lancashire Papists his Confederates as early as the latter end of the Year 1688. That Commissions were sent from the late King James to the Conspirators in June 1689. That Arms were provided and Souldiers listed and maintained by the Lancashire Papists to be ready at the Invasion in August 1690. That at the same time the Duke of Berwick was to invade Scotland and the French England and give the King Diversion in the West while the late King was doing the like in the North. And now he that disbelieves the Lancashire Conspiracy after he has seen it thus separately and singly prov'd by Persons at

Commons when the Plot was examin'd there I can also aver that when I was concern'd as one of the Commissioners for the forfeited Estates in several Counties of Ireland he on Oath gave in his Name to be John Taffe but since going into Ireland and making Enquiry after him there are several Hundreds that will make Affidavit that his Name is Thomas O Mullen William Wybrand A Letter from Three of Their Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Lancaster Dated at Middleton April 9. 1690 and directed to a Minister of State My LORD WE have received your Lordships of the Fifth Instant and make bold to acquaint you that at the same time that we sent out our Warrants for Byra● Burton Boardman and Ellam who are now in Lancaster Castle we did also send our Warrants for apprehending of Mr. Molyneux Mr. Standish young Townly John Holland Edward his Partner and Mr. Blundel of Ince for High Treason and ordered them to be carried to Lancaster Castle but none of the last mention'd Persons can as yet be apprehended as we are inform'd though search'd for and will still be searched for with what diligence we can we indeed much question the apprehending most of them they having been search'd for by the Militia for mear Twelve Months past and have notwithstanding so conceal'd themselves in this County or elsewhere that they could never yet be apprehended We have also sent out our Warrants for many of the Persons mention'd in Kelly's Information for High Treason which are judg'd by us to be dangerous Papists and also against others to bind them to the Assizes who are not positively charg'd with High Treason in the Examinations and upon apprehending any of the Great Ones We shall impart the same to your Lordship and in all things demonstrate our willingness to be Serviceable to Their Majesties and their Government to our Power and to approve our Selves Middleton Apr. 9th 1690. My Lord Your Lordships most Faithful and Obedient Servants Ralph Ashton Jos Horton Jos Yates A Letter from May Melfort to Clinch Crosby Dated March 30. 1694 and should have been inserted in the Body of the History after Crosby's Scheme for the Invasion Page 97. at the End of the first Paragraph MR. Crosby having now Collected the Sentiments of the whole Party is by the late King James's Order commanded to hasten into France with the Scheme before recited as appears by the following Letter from the Lord Melfort Dated March 30. 1694. SIR The Affair you went about being near done it is Mr. Kemp 's K. James positive Order that you return immediately hither that he may consider what further will be fit for him to do upon such Information as you can give him which he desires may be as full as you can get them I shall be glad to see you And am SIR Your most Affectionate Servant Ja. May. A Letter to Mr. Crothy while he was a Prisoner in Newgate directed to Mr. Hutchinson in Bishops Gate-Street London 'T IS impossible to express the great 〈…〉 are in here upon the Notice of your Person and your Papers falling into the Hands of our Enemies Mr. Vandeleur King James and his Queen and Mrs. Kemp are so sensibly afflicted with it they refuse all Comfort and almost despair of Success in any Attempt for the Future Elizabeth Francklin French Court. reads our Discontents in our Faces though we don't declare our Misfortunes by our Words for fear they should quite desert us seeing we are betray'd in all our Projects And truly such a Blow was never given to our Manufactory as this that at once has discover'd the Secrets of our Trade and confin'd the best of all our Factors We have now but one Project more left and if that miscarry also we must give up our Hopes of supplanting the Interlopers and wait with Patience till they ruin themselves by dividing their Interests and their Stock● in setting up for themselves singly as they have once done already All Care here shall be taken to supply your Wants and our Friends with you must use all endeavours to delay your Audit for in that particular lye our Hopes and your Safety God Almighty Comfort you and grant the hearty Wishes of SIR your c. J. M. Dated August 12. 1694. and directed to Mr. Clynch under Mr. Hutchinsons Cover Having now I hope sufficiently Prov'd what I promis'd in the Preface and shew'd my Vouchers for all I have related in the Body of the History I thought fit before I take my leave of the Reader to acquaint him That if this Undertaking gives Satisfaction to the Public another Volum of the most secret Intreagues and Letters of Correspondence between our English Jacobites and those at St. Germains and other Places shall speedily be Printed and put into his Hands as the best Answer I could think of to the Argument against a standing-Army FINIS ERRATA PAg. 4. Lin. 11. instead of preswasions read perswasions p. 64. the last lin for come r. came One of Mr. Crosby's Letters which should have been inserted at the bottom of pag. 97. being omitted by the Printer is put in the last Page of the Appendix Pag. 119. in the Margent for depition r. deposition P. 145. l. 11. after more r. to p. 207. l. 18 for next r. Rest In the Appendix p. 225. last line for Cyre r. Eyre P. 254. l. 15. for Mneoy read Memory P. 255. last lin after he r. the.