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A53414	An exact and faithful narrative of the horrid conspiracy of Thomas Knox, William Osborne, and John Lane, to invalidate the testimonies of Dr. Titus Oates, and Mr. William Bedlow by charging them with a malicious contrivance against the E. of Danby, and the said Dr. Oates with an attempt of sodomy wherein are exemplified from the originals I. Four forged letters dictated by Thomas Knox, II. Five false informations, one paper of memorials, and one other information against Dr. Oates for sodomy, forged by Knox in the names of Lane and Osborne, III. The informations, depositions, examinations, and confessions of the said Knox, Osborne, and Lane, taken upon oath before Sir William Waller and Edmund Warcup, Esq., IV. An account of some depositions taken before the Lords Committees of Secresie, relating thereunto, V. The breviates of the councel for the King at the trials of the said Knox and Lane, Nov. 25, 1679, wherein full satisfaction is given to the world of the whole cause, by the particular evidences of the witnesses in behalf of the King / published by the appointment of me, Titus Oates.	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1680 (1680)	Wing O41; ESTC R4560	41,985	38

about the Earl of Danby and Dr. Oates He confesses the writing the Letters and informations That they often shifted lodgings that Knox bore their expences and promised them great rewards That Lane being taken Knox sent my Lord Duneblanes Coachman with a hackney-Coach for him that in that Coach they went to Whitefriers where Knox acquainted him that the taking of Lane would expedite the buisiness That Knox gave him money That when Osborne was in the Gate-house Knox sent him a Note to this purpose you will be examined this afternoon we alwayes clubbed and you paid two shillings at the Sugar-leaf Tare this which note Knox has confessed and upon his Examination acknowledged he threw down a Guinny upon the table which Lane took up but to colour the business said it was only lent him but even this gives just ground of suspition to the design and now what will the whole world think and say of the Impudence of these men that after all these disappointments and bafflings after their own confessions retractions yet that they should be buoyed up to that height of confidence as to make a farther attempt upon the Doctors reputation And yet this they did for upon the nineteenth day of this instant November 1679. John Lane had mustered up so much of his declined courages as to prefer an Indictment against Dr. Oates for an attempt to commit upon him the horrid and Abominable sin of Sodomy Which Indictment being brought to the Grand Jury the Incoherence and slightness of his evidencence caused them to return an Ignoramus Dr. Oates not willing to suffer his Good name and the Credit of his Testimony to depend upon the throwing out of that bill brought an Indictment for the King against the said Knox and Lane for Osborne had withdrawn himself which came to be openly tryed at the Kings-bench bar November twenty five 1679. An account whereof the whole Nation does expect and wherein satisfaction shall be now given Novem. 25 1679. Dominus Rex versus Thomam Knox Johanem Lane For the King The Indictment sets forth that whereas Edward Coleman William Ireland and John Groves and other false Traytors to the Jury unknown 24th of April in the thirtieth year of the King that now is at the Parish of Saint Margarets Westminster did trayterously conspire consult and agree amongst themselves to kill and destroy the King and to raise War against his Majesty within this Kingdome and to change the Religion by Law established to the Superstition of the Church of Rome for which Treasons Trayterous Conspiracies Consultations and Agreements the said Coleman Ireland and Groves were afterwards attainded and put to death for the same And whereas William Earl of Powis William Viscount Stafford John Lord Bellasis Henry Lord Arundel of Wardour William Lord Petre and Sir Henry Tichbourn Baronet the thirtieth of Nov. last at Westminster were accused of the Treasons aforesaid and thereupon according to due forme of law were committed to the Tower of London to be there safely kept to answer the said Treasons whereof the said Earl of Powis and the other four Lords were by the Commons in Parliament assembled Impeached And whereas Thomas Earl of Danby afterwards that is to say the thirtieth of Nov. last at Westminster was in lawful manner accused of certain Treasons and other misdemeaners and thereupon according to due forme of law was committed to the Tower there to be safe kept to answer the Treasons and misdemeanours aforesaid of which said Treason and misdemeanours the said Earl of Danby is Impeached by the Commons in Parliament assembled And that the Defendants knowing the said Lords to be accused of the Treason and misdemeanours aforesaid and the said defendants being diabolically affected towards the King their natural Lord and contriving and endeavouring with all their might to disturb hinder and stifle the discovery of the said Treasons by the said Earl of Powis Viscount Stafford Lord Bellisis Henry Lord Arundel William Lord Petre supposed to be committed as aforesaid and as much as in them lay to elude the due Course of law and retard the prosecution of justice against the said five Lords Sir Henry Tichbourn and Thomas Earl of Danby They the said Defendants the thirtieth of April last past at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid falsely maliciously and unlawfully amongst themselves did consult and agree to scandalize Titus Oates Clerk and William Bedlow Gent. Who had given informations of the Treasons aforesaid and whom the said Defendants knew to have given Information of the Treasons aforesaid against the Earl of Powis Viscount Stafford Lords Bellasis Arundel and Petre and to represent them upon the Trial of the said five Lords to be persons of evil Conversation and Witnesses not to be believed And that the Defendant Knox afterwards that is to say the 30th of April last at Westminster aforesaid in the Names and with the consent and agreement of the Defendant Lane and William Osborne to villifie the Information of the said Titus Oates and William Bedlow to be given for the King against the said five Lords last mentioned falsly maliciously subtilly and advisedly did write and cause to be written four Letters and those Letters so written falsly c. did direct and cause to be delivered to himself the said Defendant Knox by which said Letters it was falsly craftily and deceitfully declared that the said Lane and Osborne were very much troubled in their Consciences by reason of certain matters which they well knew and did conceal concerning the unjust contrivances of the said Titus Oates and William Bedlow in accusing the said Earl of Danby to be guilty of the Treasons and other Misdemeanors aforesaid And that the said Titus Oates was a person of a wicked and vicious Life and did make an assault upon the said John Lane and did endeavour to commit with him the said Lane Sodomy And further that the Defendant Knox the sooner and effectually to perswade the said Lane and Osborne falsly to accuse the said Titus Oates and William Bedlow that they the said Titus Oates and William Bedlow had unjustly contrary to all Truth accused the said E. of Danby of the Treasons and other Misdemeanours aforesaid and so to affirm against the Kings Evidence against the Trial to be had of the said Earl of Danby for the Treasons and Misdemeanors aforesaid afterwards the 30th of April last at Westminster falsly advisedly corruptly and against the duty of his Allegiance did give to the said Lane and Osborne divers great summs of Money And did promise to the said Lane and Osborne within a certain time by the said Defendant Knox proposed that they the said Lane and Osborne should have and receive other great summs and other rewards for the same to the great delay obstruction and suppression of Justice c. To this the Defendants pleaded not Guilty The Names of the Jury Empanelled and Sworn were as followeth Sr. John Kirke Knight Thomas Harriot

took him by the Privy-Members and said that he would be Friends with the Informant and at the same time when Mr. Oates's hand was in the Informant's Breeches and held him by the Members the said Mr. Oates unbutton'd the Informant's Breeches with the other hand and commanded and forced with an angry Countenance with his hand the Informant to lye down upon his Belly upon the Bed and the said Mr. Oates lay'd down by the Informants side and told the Informant that he had a mind to see whether his back-side were flea'd enough and when he saw that it look'd red he took the Informant about the middle and kiss'd him in a lascivious manner and at the same time the said Mr. Oates thrust his Belly against the said Informant's side and did with his naked Privy-Members press the said Informant's Body hard and the said Informant doth further upon his Oath declare had not a VVoman that was sweeping the next Room kept a noise which made him think the rest of the Servants were come from Prayers he would grievously have abused the Body of the Informant and would certainly have bugger'd him and the Informant durst not cry out for fear of being seiz'd by the Sentinels as aforesaid and this the said Informant doth swear he had tempted to do several other times before John Lane I do believe this to be Lane's hand Tho. Knox. The Information subscribed by Lane as Knox testifies under his own hand was after some time made upon Oath before Sir James Butler for so Lane himself confesses before the Council Novemb. 4. 1679. for which see Col. Mansell's Narrative p. 64. and Sir James Butler himself owns the taking an Affidavit of Lane about Buggery charg'd upon Mr. Oates November the second see the same Narrative pag. 50. In which Information Lane acted both maliciously against Dr. Oates and warily for himself for though he had a great mind the Doctor 's Person and Evidence should be soundly disparaged yet he loved himself too well to be hang'd and therefore he lays the Crime not to be committed which would have stretch'd his own Neck but only attempted which was enough to throw Dirt upon the Doctor 's Conversation and blemish his Testimony Now because a Crime of so high and horrid guilt so contrary to Nature and above the common Standard of Villanies would never gain credit amongst those who knew the former method of the Doctors Conversation they had drawn the Information with so good advice that there was an Answer insinuated to the common Objections that might be made against the truth of it As first why did not Lane cry out for help upon the Attempt made upon him to this you are furnish'd with an Answer it was this The Informant durst not cry out for fear of being seized by the Sentinels It seems he was more afraid of the Sentinels than of the Gallows But it might be asked Why was not the Fact committed as well as attempted to this he hints a fine Answer that had not a Woman that was sweeping kept a noise which made him think the rest of the Servants were come from Prayers he would grievously have abused the Body of the Informant This old Woman was indeed handsomely contrived and so the Poets introduce some God from Heaven to salve all Difficulties when their own Plots have render'd matters intricate but should we ask Lane how the Doctors severe whipping and lashing him with Cords was a proper inducement to Lane's yielding to his Lust which certainly would have raised other passions and why he did not swear that Dr. Oates gave him Sweet meats rather than such severe Penance I know not what he would answer but that it was an errour and they will rectifie it in the next Information It is now time having exemplified all the Letters Informations and Memorials which were drawn up by themselves and kept ready to serve the occasion to proceed to those Informations which were taken upon Oath before some or other of his Majesties Justices for the Peace only I must leave this Advertisement That the four Letters the six Informations and the Paper containing three Memorials all of them here transcribed and compared were by Knox delivered into the hands of Sir William waller and Mr. Justice Warcup as he owns upon his Oath before the said Gentlemen The Examination of Thomas Knox lately Servant to the Lord Dumblane before us Sir William Waller and Edmund Warcup Esquire two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex and City and Liberties of VVestminster taken by us by Vertue of an Order of the Committee of Lords This Examinant saith That on the 1st of April walking in the painted Chamber W. Osborne came to him and told him that he being informed that he had lived in the E. of Danby's Family for some time he had something of moment to communicate to him which might be a means to save the Lord Treasurer whereupon this Examinant walked with the said Osborne into the Abby being in the Abby Osborne delivered Papers drawn up by way of Information being five in number none of them bearing any date and one Paper of several Memorials of John Lane and William Osborne The next day they brought him to the Cloysters in Westminster-Abby several meetings they had afterwards and four Letters they wrote to him About the fifth of April they went together to Mr. Cheyney at Chelsey one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace but he told them the business being of an high nature and matter of State he desired to be excused About a fortnight after this Examinant went to Mr. Dewe upon the same Errand and received the like Answer as Mr. Cheyney had done not long after he went likewise to Mr. Secretary Coventrey who told him that he being a Member of the House of Commons by whom the said Lord Treasurer had been Impeached he could not meddle in that business None of the forementioned Gentlemen his Majesties Justices of the Peace had a sight of any of the Papers but only upon the Information which this Examinant made in his own Name they and Mr. Secretary Coventrey made the same Answer This Examinant being something scrupulous in medling in the business they told him that they had been with Captain Thuar formerly and had acquainted him with this business and that he had advised them it being a nice business to let it alone till the heat of the Parliament should be a little over About a fortnight after that Will. Osborne and John Lane had communicated these matters to the Examinant they complaining that they knew not where conveniently to lodge this Examinant told them he would endeavour to find them Lodgings and the very same day by the direction of the Lord Dunblain's Coach-man went to the Sugar-Loaf in Pickadilly and took Lodgings on his own account for himself and two of his Friends and lay there with them At the time of their going from

Lordships for the heinous Crime he stands guilty of John Lane Coram William Waller A third Examination of John Lane taken by me this third of May 1679. This Examinant having recollected himself further saith that the very day the Lord Treasurer came into the Black Rod Mr. Knox made this Examinant and William Osborn swear they would stand to what he had instructed them to write and said that if they should not the Lord Treasurer would die and that he would not have come in but for them hoping they would swear as they had been by the said Knox directed This Examinant further saith that on Monday last the Nurse belonging to the Goal came to him and told him he should do well to stick to Mr. Knox and that a Gentlewoman very well habited came to the Prison and bid her tell this Examinant that he should be sure to stick to Mr. Knox and not be daunted and what monies foever he should require tho it were a thousand pounds he should have it Whereupon this Examinant asked the Nurse who this Gentlewoman was to whom she replyed she would not discover her name because she would not have her name brought in question and further this Examinant saith not John Lane Coram William Waller Mr. Lane seems now to be a Penitent to have by these two last recanted his first Examination but we must not flatter our selves too much with his sincerity let us have but a little patience and we shall hear him deny what ever he has now owned and justifie what in his first Examination he had justified He has degorg'd himself in those last Papers but resolves to lick up his vomit again and tho he seems to have become a Convert will ere long prove himself an Apostate Whether he thought he should make his Fortune better by telling lyes for his Great Master than by telling truth for the Doctor or what other Reason may be assigned Certain it is that Nov. 4. 1679 before the Lords of the Council being ask'd Whether he had not made two contrary Affidavits before the House of Lords he acknowledged that out of fear he did so but that the first drawn by Willoughby as Mr. Nevil had directed was true and the other false And being flesht in Wickedness and hardened to his own ruin he proceeds to Indict Dr. Oates at the Kings Bench Bar of the horrid and abominable Crimes mentioned in the foregoing Depositions tho the Wisdom of the Jury upon the slightness and Inconsistency of his Evidence threwit out and brought in an Ignoramus I shall now present to the Reader a true Coppy of the Examination of William Osborn which opens much of this accursed design against Dr. Oates and Mr. Bedlow which tho full of now proved Truth yet the Examinant it seems desperately resolved to take his part of shame and punishment with his beloved Accomplices and is since fled from his own Oath and the Justice due to Perjury The Examination of William Osborn of Cullumpton in the County of Devon Vintener taken upon Oath in obedience to an Order of the Lords Committees for examining of Discoveries relating to the late horrid Conspiracy before Sir William Waller Baronet and Edward Wareup Esq two of His Majesties Justices of the Peace this 29th day of April 1679. Middlesex and Westminster This Examinant saith that he served Mr. Titus Oates from the tenth of December last to the latter end of March past That the said Mr. Oates paid this Examinant his Wages very honestly and his usage was civil but he sometimes corrected this Examinant for Misdemeanors at which this Examinant was offended but never intended any mischief to Mr. Oates for it And this Examinant farther saith that Mr. Oates was a passionate man yet very Religious and every morning sent all his Servants to the Kings Chappel to prayers only ordering some one of them to stay at home to dress him and he further saith that he never heard Mr. Oates say he had any design to accuse the Lord Treasurer or any ways to destroy him nor did this Examinant ever hear any discourse between Mr. Bedlow and Mr. Oates tending to any Accusation against the Lord Treasurer but this Examinant did 〈◊〉 the Information that Mr. Bedlow gave against the Lord Treasurer which Mr. Wiggins Mr. Bedlow Clerk shewed to this Examinant after the same was sworn publickly And this Examinant further saith that he never heard Mr. Oates say that he had any acc●●●●ion to make against the Queen or had made any and the worst word he ever heard him speak of the Queen was where is our Dame going which was when he saw the Guard drawn out in the Yard to attend her Majesty And this Examinant further saith that one day at Dinner when Mr. Wharton Mr. Oates his Father Dr. Jones and others were present some discourse happen'd between them about Sir John Robinson and sometime after the naming of him Mr. Oates did say these words We have not gone to bed sober these four years which Mr. Thurston Mr. Lane and this Examinant did think to be spoken of the King but this Examinant cannot say 't was spoken of His Majesty in regard he can give no reason why to apply it so And he further saith that he cannot remember or call to mind that he ever heard Mr. Oates speak any undecent words of any passages between His Majesty and Mr. Cheffinch and this Examinant further saith that he hath layen several nights with Mr. Oates but never found he afford the least lascivious or undecent action to this Examinant but did exhort this Examinant from time to time to lead a good course of Life free from doing evil and often made this Examinant to read Sermons and other Books by him And this Examinant further saith That upon the first of April last Mr. John Lane now Prisoner with this Examinant in the Gatehouse and formerly fellow servant with this Examinant to Mr. Oates brought this Examinant to Mr. Knox in the painted Chamber who thence went to the Cloysters in the Abbey with this Examinant where he discoursed about the Earl of Danby and Mr. Knox proposed then to this Examinant That if this Examinant would swear That Mr. Bedlow came to Mr. Oates his Chamber and there said that he had been with the Earl of Danby and that the Earl of Danby had promised him money to go beyond Sea and that this was a contrived story between the said Mr. Oates and Mr. Bedlow to take away the Earl of Danby's Life that in such case this Examinant should have enough to maintain this Examinant and a Footboy to attend him And this Examinant saith that he met Mr. Knox in the same Cloysters afterwards twice they two being alone when he alwayes continued his discourse and promises of what great rewards this Examinant should have if he would swear that Mr. Bedlow and Mr. Oates in this Examinants hearing contrived the design against the Lord Treasurer whereby to prove

in daily trouble and fear of our lives lest those our honest intentions should come to the ears of Mr. Oates and Mr. Bedlow whose tempers we know so well and the revenge of whose minds are so great that they would study all the ways imaginable to ruine us and take away our good names rather than so true a matter as we have already declared to you should be proved against them we therefore once more intreat the favor of you since you are the onely person we dare trust to do us the justice of a meeting and we are sure if you have any kindness for my Lord Treasurer you will not deny it us and we shall then with the same care that we have done before endeavour to clear our Consciences to you of all the matter we know spoken either against His Sacred Majesty the Lord Treasurer or any other person whatsoever which is all at present from Your faithful Friends William Osborne John Lane Pray do not fail to meet us at the Cloysters this afternoon at 4 a clock Apr. 4. 1679. I do believe this to be Lane 's and Osborne 's hand Tho. Knox. An Endorsement to the foregoing Letter Memorand That I met with Mr. Lane and Mr. Osborne according to the contents if this Letter and they there told me that Mr. Oates and Mr. Bedlow were to sup at the Palsgraves-head All this while Mr. Knox must seem to keep great state and to hold off from intermedling in an affair of so high a nature and therefore Osborne and Lane resolve to attaque him with a third Letter wherein they express the trouble of their minds for which they can find no ease till they have revealed to some person of Honour and Secresie what they knew against Mr. Oates and Captain Bedlow that so they might not draw the guilt of innocent blood upon their own heads which they must inevitably do if they suffer the Earl of Danby to perish when they understood so much of the Conspiracy of Mr. Oates and Mr. Bedlow against him as being revealed would make him appear to all the world to be innocent Numb 3. Superscribed To Mr. Knox these Apr. 6. 1679. SIR SInce our last meeting we have not any thing new to communicate unto you by reason that we had suggested all that we formerly knew into those Papers which at our first meeting we shewed unto you And as we are sure there is nothing contained in those Papers and Memorials but what is really true and what we may with a safe Conscience swear to so lest you should suspect our fidelity and stedfastness in this Affair we do now make it our request unto you that we may be speedily brought before some Person of Honour and Secresie to take our Oaths of what we have already related And I hope you will pardon us if we once again press your hastening of this matter because if it should chance to come by any accident to Mr. Oates and Mr. Bedlows ears we are confident they would with as much malice contrive our Ruine as they have already done my Lord Treasurers but we hope God will preserve us from their mercy and the Nation from believing them which is all at present from Your true Friends William Osborne John Lane Pray meet us at six a clock at the Cloysters for we have a great desire to see you and pay the Bearer I do believe this to be Lane 's hand Tho. Knox. Mr. Knox yet thought not these Letters which he had dictated to be sufficient to clear him from all suspicion of Practice and Confederacy unless he had also contrived this fourth wherein the main Artifice lay to answer an Objection why they had not revealed this great Secret to some other person long before this to which he invents an Answer for them that they had already discover'd it to one Mr. Thuer of the Guard but he being a prudent and wary person as well as Mr. Knox advised them to Secresie for their own sake but that indeed their Consciences were so clamorous that they must needs obey its dictates The Letter is as follows Numb 4. Superscribed To Mr. Knox these SIR THat you may be the better satisfied that what we have related to you is all truth and what we have done we have been urged to by our own Consciences we must needs tell you that we did reveal this matter before we ever saw you to Captain Thuer of the Guard who if you are acquainted with him would give you an account that what we say to you we had formerly told him of though at the same time he advised us to Secresie for our own sakes but our Consciences were so troubled that we could not contain it and therefore chose you who Mr. Wiggins told Mr. Lane was a very honest young man and loved my Lord Treasurer and he was sorry he was brought to trouble by him but that it was his Master Mr. Bedlow made him do it Therefore I hope you think we have no design upon you but that we will clear you and our selves whenever it shall please God that we shall be called to justifie what we have already declared Your faithful Friends William Osborne John Lane Apr. 10 1679. at 10 a clock in the morning I do believe this to be Osborne and Lane's hand Tho. Knox. HAving given a true Copy of those Letters it will be requisite to let the Reader into the inside of this Conspiracy Know then that Mr. Knox and his Crew had beaten their brains long and used better brains than their own to draw up certain Informations of the wickedness of Mr. Oates and Mr. Bedlow which they kept ready in bank against the good time they should meet with some Justice of the Peace that would serve the Design They went to Mr. Justice Cheyney at Chelsey and humbly prayed him to take their Informations upon Oath but he desired to be excused alledging that it seemed a matter of State and that it was not proper for his Cognizance They make an attempt also upon Mr. Justice Dewy who used the same Plea but yet turning every Stone they got an Affidavit lodged at last with Sir James Butler who owned before the Council-Board Novemb. 2. 1679. that he took an Affidavit of Lane about Buggery charged upon Mr. Oates and that a woman came with the same Lane to him These Informations were the life and soul of the whole Intrigue into which they had emptied whatever of malice they had conceived against the Doctor or of affection to their grand Patron the Earl of Danby and that I may not be wanting to the full satisfaction of the Inquisitive I shall give them a view of all those Informations which they kept ready cut and dryed for service upon all occasions Numb 1. The Information of Thomas Knox sworn before me this _____ day of _____ 1679. THIS Informant doth upon his Oath declare that on the first of this present April there