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A51531 The narrative of Lawrence Mowbray of Leeds, in the county of York, Gent., concerning the bloody popish conspiracy against the life of His Sacred Majesty, the government, and the Protestant religion wherein is contained I. His knowledge of the said design, from the very first in the year 1676, with the opportunity he had to be acquainted therewith, ... II. How far Sir Thomas Gascoigne, Sir Miles Stapleton, &c. are engaged in the design of killing the King and firing the cities of London and York, for the more speedy setting uppermost the popish religion in England, III. An account of the assemblings of many popish priests and Jesuits at Father Rishton's Chamber ..., IV. The discovery of the erecting a nunnery at Dolebank in Yorkshire ..., V. A manifestation of the papists fraudulent conveying of their estates, himself being privy to some of them, VI. A probable opinion concerning the Jesuits, the grand instruments in these affairs : together with an account of the endeavours that were used to stifle his evidence, by making an attempt upon his life in Leicester-Fields. Mowbray, Lawrence. 1680 (1680) Wing M2994; ESTC R10191 28,403 35

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to Sir Thomas Gascoign produced a List of Names which he did declare were engaged in and contributaries to the said Design And farther deposeth That the said William Rushton read over many of the Names of the said List in the hearing of this Informant amongst which he mentioned Robert Dolman Esq And this Informant farther deposeth That Dr. Peter Vavosor's Name was in the List aforesaid Capt. jurat coram Richard Shaw Major al 's Lawrence Mowbray County of York and Lancaster The Information of Lawrence Mowbray taken upon Oath the Second of November 1679. before us Henry Marsden and John Ashton Esquires two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said Counties AT an Assembly of divers Popish Priests at Sir Thomas Gascoign's at Barmbow was produced a List of Names who were concerned and Contributors to a Design of killing the King and Establishing the Roman Catholics in England and amongst many others there was the Names of Mr. Sherburn of Stonyhurst Walmesley of Dungney Richard Townley and Francis Townley of Townley Mr. Stephen Tempest of Braughton Richard York and divers others which this Informant doth not at present remember Lawrence Mowbray The rest of our time was spent in executing other parts of the said Commission His Majesty's Officers of Justice assisting us in all places whither we came and accordingly several Popish Trinkets Books and Vestments were taken by us and disposed as the Law directs And the effect of our Journey having been presented to His Majesty at our return was graciously accepted and entertained both by himself and by the whole Council upon confidence of whole favour I count it my Honour as well as Duty to stand ready to observe His Majesty's farther Directions in any thing which may hereafter conduce to the preservation of His Person and the Establishment of the true Protestant Religion amongst us Mention having been made by me of an Assault made upon me the manner of it as it was by His Majesty's Command given in to him by Council is as followeth Upon October 14. 1679. I being to attend upon the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury at the Treasury-Chamber at Whitehall departed from thence about Six or Seven a Clock at night and going over Leicester-Fields towards my Lodgings at the Kings-Arms in St. Martin's Lane but intending in the way to call upon Mr. Bolron at the Bear and Ragged-Staff in Leicester-Fields I was overtaken about the middle of the Fields by a person unknown whom I heard follow me very fast I supposed his speed was to get out of the Rain but as he came up to me being on my left hand he with a Dagger or such like Instrument stabbed me upon my left breast the thrust entering my Coat and Wastcoat and lighting upon the Whale-bone of my Bodice which unknown to the bloody Assailant I did wear for my convenience it prevented his design notwithstanding by continuing his thrust I fell down to the ground being slippery by reason of the Rain the party then ran away supposing that I had been slain But still I not daring to speak or call out lest he should renew his attempt while he was near but presently after his departure I called a Link-boy who was at the other side of the Fields who lighted me to my Lodgings another way Lawrence Mowbray The Conclusion BEcause the Jesuits are justly look'd upon as having a Grand influence on the forementioned designs I shall close this dicourse with a Scholastical velitation which I hope will not be unacceptable to the learned for it is worthy of a Pen far superiour to mine The question I would discusse is this Whether that Order of men in this our Age may be supposed to be at their vertical or highest Exaltation Whether they stand at a stay or verge towards their declension I Take the more boldness to propound such a question because a secular Priest hath led me the way for Watson in his first quodlibet hath these two queries 1. Whether the Jesuits having gone astray from their first institution there be any likelihood of their continuance or if not of their downfall and he inclines perhaps prophetically to this latter Artic. 9. 2. Whether any danger to God's Church to erre and utterly to be Overthrown by the Jesuits ruin if it happen or no danger at all which he resolves in the Negative Artic. 10. I Know the Jesuits are much for Probable opinions wherefore in consideration of their Rise Progress and the Ways and Methods they have taken to advance themselves together with their immoral and unlawful practices I shall propound the reasons why some men suppose that they are at their height or rather declining Arg. 2. Their Original is affirmed by some of their own Church to be by surprize and imposition upon the See of Rome For upon the first coming of Ignatius and his Partners to Rome in the time of Paul the third the Rules of their order being presented to him he committed them to three Cardinals to examine who thought good to refuse them because their Obedience to their General was seemingly Superiour to their Subjection to the Pope for Maffaus speaking of their General says without controversie one must be chosen to whom all must be obedient as if it were to Christ to his word they must swear and esteem his beck and his will as an Oracle of God Lib. 2. vit Ignat. Cap. 9. I pray what greater obedience could the Pope himself claim hereupon being repuls'd they reformed their Rule and made their Obedience to the Pope and their General both alike for these be the words of Ribadeneira who also afterward wrote the life of Ignatius Lib. 2. Cap. 7. The order of these Clarks must be that by their institution they be ready to obey the Pope at a beck and live by such a line as he shall well consider and determine off Upon the insertion of which passage the Pope having as he thought secured his own Authority lent a more favourable ear to them and confirmed their Order yet with some jealousie and with many scruples of Conscience as some of their own Authors speak for at first he allowed them not to exceed the number of Sixty and therefore well may their Constitutions begin with this little Congregation c. To improve this Argument if there be a worm in the Root the verdure of any plant will in time decay An Errour committed in the first concoction is never remedied in the second as Physicians say no marvel then if homebred-jealousies do increase upon this Body of Men now grown numorous if not formidable to the Pope himself ab origine fuit Sic and therefore notwithstanding their pretended submission and vow to the Papal Chair when the Pope Crosses their purposes as Xistus quintus did he incurred their great displeasure and hatred to the shortning as some think of his life After whose death they most Maliciously depraved him and
31. 1679. wrote a Letter to Sir John Nicholas one of the Secretaries to His Majesty's most Honourable Privy-Council then in waiting acquainting him amongst other things that there were divers circumstances relating to this discovery very material which were not inserted in my Information made before the said Justices but should be declared by me when ever the Honourable Council would be pleased to command a full account from me In Answer to which Letter I received the following dated and subscribed as followeth Council-Chamber in Whitehall Sept. 5. 1679. SIR VVHereas by your Letter of the 31th of August last directed to Sir John Nicholas which hath this day been read to the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy-Council you make mention that there are divers circumstances very material relating to the Information you have given that are not therein inserted and that you are willing when ever the Council pleases to give a full account thereof I am by their Lordships command to pray and require you to make your repair hither by the 29th day of this instant September that you may be ready to give their Lordships such farther Information as you have to acquaint them with on the First of October next Their Lordships have promised that care shall be taken for the defraying of the charges of your Journey which being all I have in command to signifie to you I remain SIR Your very humble Servant THOMAS DOLMAN This noble Invitation and Summons was sent unto me by a Messenger on purpose superscribed To Mr. Lawrence Mowbray at his House in York-shire According to the tenor thereof I did as in Duty bound repair to London and by Order gave in a larger Information upon Oath before Edmund Warcup Esq one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex and City of Westminster a Copy whereof is hereunto annexed Middlesex and Westminster The Information of Lawrence Mowbray of Leeds in the County of York Gent. taken upon Oath the Second day of October 1679. before me Edmund Warcup Esq one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in the said County and City THis Informant saith That when he was examined before Mr. Tindall and Mr. Lowther two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in York-shire in August last past he did not discover the whole of what he knew in Relation to the late horrid Conspiracy in regard he had some doubts of his safety in that County amongst those Papists whom he was to detect and who threatned such as they feared would discover the said Designs and for that this Informant conceived the danger he had run by concealment But now this Informant will tell his knowledge of the Plot beseeching His Majesty's gracious Pardon This Informant being now sent for up by Order of His Majesty's most honourable Privy-Council conceiveth himself under their protection hopes they will intercede for his Pardon to His Majesty and on that confidence saith That in the year 1674. he came to Sir Thomas Gascoign's and was with him in his Chamber till January 1676. and in that time he observed Mr. Thomas Addison then Priest to Mrs. Killingbeck and Mr. Fincham Priest to Sir John Savill Mr. Thomas Twhing Senior Mr. Thomas Twhing Junior two Romish Priests Mr. Lodge Dr. Stapleton Brother to Sir Miles Stapleton one Robert Killingbeck and divers other Romish Priests several times to invite and privately to confer with Mr. William Rishton Sir Thomas Gascoign's Priest and this Informant being desired to assist and be as obliging as he could to the said Rishton and to attend him at the Altar at Mass became in great favour with him and was permitted to continue in the said Mr. Rishton's Chamber when the Priests were in private with him And he very often heard them discourse of a Design laid for the setting the Popish Religion uppermost in England and how likely the same was to succeed in regard most of the considerable Papists had undertaken to act for it And that if the said Design was not to be compassed by fair and lawful means then it was to be done by Fire and Sword and particularly they declared That London and York were to be fired and then the same course was to be taken in other places And that being begun the same Design was to be prosecuted with the Sword also and that force was to be made use of for destroying the Heretics and Opposers of this Design And they several times farther said That the King when he was in his Exile had promised to Establish their Religion if ever he were restored but that hitherto he had not performed that promise and therefore he was adjudged a Heretic and was to be killed if he did not suddenly Establish the Catholic Religion which they now dispaired that he would do And this Informant further saith That Mr. William Rishton did one day acquaint Mr. Addison that he had according to agreement given the Sacrament of secrecy to Sir Thomas Gascoign and Thomas Gascoign Esq to Mr. Stephen Tempest and to the Lady Tempest and others in Sir Thomas Gascoign's Chappel and had thereupon communicated to them the whole Design and that they had severally engaged to be secret faithful and active to their utmost powers in carrying on the said Design and would thereto contribute as far as their Estates would permit And required an account of the said Addison and of as many other Priests besides those aforenamed as came to him how far they had proceeded therein who answered the said Rishton That they in the several Families and places they were interested in had given the like Sacrament of secrecy to their several Friends and had thereupon acquainted them with the Design and the ways and means intended to carry it on and that their Friends approved thereof and promised to contribute their utmost Interest Power and Estates for advancement of Catholic Religion And this Informant farther saith That by persuasion of the said William Rishton who was his Confessor he likewise received from his hand the Sacrament of secrecy And this Informant very well remembreth that about Michaelmas 1676. there was an Assembly of many of the Priests afore-named and others whose Names this Informant cannot remember at Mr. Rishton's Chamber where they did all agree and declare that the King should be killed for that the Pope had Excommunicated him and it was not lawful only but meritorious to destroy and kill any Heretic whatsoever and that when the King was killed Fire and Sword was to be imployed against all such as should oppose the advancement of the Catholic Religion in England and that all or most of the Catholics had ingaged themselves in the said undertaking After which discourse the said Mr. Rishton told the said Priests he had a List of many Papists who were engaged in the Design and did produce a List of Names containing about 4 or 5 hundred to the best of this Informant's Observation all whom he said were
number of his Houshold lest forfeitures should grow high upon them taking therefore that occasion I withdrew from that House and a while after undertook a Journey to London about May 1677. long before Mr. Oates had made any publick Discovery of a Plot and yet the Priests and Papists in the North had some jealousie of my constancy in their Religion and being also conscious to themselves that I could discover a great part of their guilt they used many menaces against me even to my very face which I eluded as well as I could Coming to London under the discouragement of many circumstances as my being of small acquaintance at London c. and therefore not capable of making any creditable applications to the Court moreover highly threatned by the Papish Party both in the Country and in London besides juding it ridiculous in me standing alone to appear against so great a Body of Opponents for I then knew of no other evidence but my self I was so far intimidated and disheartened in my undertaking as to return to Yorkshire again reintecta and without making any Discovery at all but still under great inquietude and dissatisfaction because I could not ease my mind in making the Discovery I intended Arriving again in the Country the pricks of my conscience did follow me thither insomuch that I could have no rest till I had wrote up a Letter to a Great Person at Whitehall acquainting him as from an unknown hand with the designed Murther of His Majesty and the Great Danger the Kingdom was in by those underhand machinations the Copy of which Letter in regard it was the Embrio of my Discovery I have here annexed My Lord How long I have concealed the intended and immediate malice of some disloyal and traiterous persons from whose merciless and bloody Design God bless our Soveraign Lord the King It is now full time I think to declare though not in hopes of reward but as a true and loyal Subject to my King the wicked and desperate Design of some Papist Conspirators c. That by an immediate insurrection to proceed with Fire and Sword until they have altered the Government or settled the Crown God bless King Charles the Second upon the head of some other so by consequence the death of the King is conspired and sought for This Conspiracy my Lord is of no little standing but to my knowledge contrived almost this three years ago and now come to the height of a desperate resolution My heart is loyal and true to the King but I must confess that through the perswasion and urging of Father Rishton c. I have my self subscribed to this wicked Design and now am forced as well through Loyalty to my King as to clear my stained conscience from that foul Design it to reveal and will endeavour hereafter to discover and procure a List of these Conspirators which I have seen and subscribed to But I am certain of the after-mentioned persons with many others are subscribed in the List and great Promoters of this Act and are still providing both Force and Arms for their carrying on their Design My Lord I most humbly beg your Lordships pardon for this my boldness intreating your Lordship as a true Royalist to communicate these Lines to whom your Lordship thinks most convenient At present my Lord I dare not subscribe my name for several reasons but at any time upon protection from these Papists being at present within their claws I shall acknowledge the hand and mark subscribed as to proceed from My Lord Your Lordships most faithful and obedient Servant and to the King a Loyal and faithful Subject York Jan. 1. 77 8. These persons names who have subscribed that at present I remember were Inglesby Sir Tho. Gascoigne Tho. Gascoigne Esq Sir Miles Stapleton Barronet c. But the said Letter being sent by me by the Common Post and from one unknown I did therefore doubt whether it might come to the hands of that Noble-man to whom it was directed or if it did how it would be resented in regard of the extraordinary Novelty of the thing wherefore I did not think my self to have sufficiently discharged my conscience in such a Crisis of danger meerly upon the sending of that Letter without seconding the Contents thereof by farther Applications therefore afterwards being encouraged by the appearance of others in this case I did resort to some Magistrates in Yorkshire viz. Justice Tyndall and Justice Lowther before whom I being examined upon Oath made a short Scheme of the said Design as by the Copy of the Examination before them hereunto annexed may appear The Information of Lawrence Mowbray of Leeds taken before us upon Oath this sixteenth day of August 1679. THE Informant saith that in the year 1675. to the best of his knowledg he being at Sir Tho. Gascoignes he the said Sir Tho. ordered the Informant to draw a Conveyance of his whole Estate to Sir Will. Inglesby which Conveyance the Informant saith he drew by the form of a Conveyance of Trust made from Sir Miles Stapleton of his whole Estate to Sir John Dawney The Informant further saith that though he was not witness to the aforesaid Conveyance of Sir Tho. Gascoigne yet he heard from Sir Tho. Gascoigne that there was a Defeasance to the said Deed of Trust and from Rob. Bolron and Matthias Hickeringill that they were witnesses to the said Deed of Trust And further he speaketh not to the Deed of Trust The Informant further deposeth that in the year 1676. to the best of his remembrance about Michaelmas Sir Tho. Gascoigne Tho. Gascoigne Esq the Lady Tempest and William Rishton Priest c. being together in Barmebow Dining-room he the Informant heard them hold several discourses concerning a Design of killing the King firing the Cities of London and York the Lady Tempest seemed to say jeastingly if the Design did not take they would all be poor Gentlemen Tho. Gascoigne her Brother answered her if it did not take effect she would partake of their sufferings being also concerned in it they all concluded it would be a meritorious undertaking and for the glory of the Church and they would venture their Estates in it The Informant further saith there was then in the House one Doctor Stapleton a Priest who coming from another room and finding the Informant at the door went in and desired them in a low voice to forbear their Discourse for there was one at the door Whereupon the Lady Tempest called in the Informant and sent him down to entertain some strangers below The Informant further deposeth that he had heard several Discourses from Sir Tho. Gascoigne and William Rishton of a Religious House or Nunnery was to be established at Dolebank and Sir Thomas would settle ninety pound per annum for their maintenance Taken before us Brad. Tindall Will. Lowther junior This Examination being transmitted by the said Justices to the Council I soon after viz. August