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A47831	A compendious history of the most remarkable passages of the last fourteen years with an account of the plot, as it was carried on both before and after the fire of London, to this present time.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1680 (1680)	Wing L1228; ESTC R12176	103,587	213

made That the Justices of the Peace in their several precincts should in the execution of their duties touching these particulars take notice of the Judges opinions and conform themselves thereto And whereas his Majesty had receiv'd a complaint in Council that several Justices of the Peace in several Counties Cities and Liberties notwithstanding the many Proclamations issu'd forth for the security of his Majesties person against the Plots of the Papists did refuse and neglect to put the same in execution It was therefore about this time order'd in Council That all his Majesties said Justices of the peace should with all care and diligence pursue his Majesties commands in the execution of the premises with further directions also to the Lord Chancellor forthwith to put out of Commission all such as should refuse or neglect their duty as persons disaffected to his Majesties Government and the Protestant Religion Yet notwithstanding all this publick diligence the Papists were still in the very face of countermanding Authority no less active to undermine the very Plot it self and utterly to extirpate the very proofs and evidence of the discovery For one James Nettervile formerly a Clerk in the Court of Claims in Dublin being at this time a prisoner in the Marshalsea sent for an acquaintance of his one Captain John Bury an Irish Gentleman and there communicated to him a great design of the Papists to turn the Plot another way that is to say to turn the Plot upon the Protestants for the destruction of the Papists To effect this the said Nettervile propos'd to the Captain that he would swear to such and such heads as should be drawn up for him to discredit and invalidate the testimony of Dr. Oates in reference to the Plot and that for his reward he should have 500 l. to be deposited in a third hand by one Russel for better security to be paid him immediately upon his doing the business This design was manag'd by the same Russel a rank Papist and an Irish man But it seems they made their addresses wrong For such was the fidelity and loyalty of the Captain to his Prince that he made a timely discovery of the contrivance and so spoyl'd the Market of those Traders in Subornation What this piece of subtilty meant may be easily conjectur'd but this was more observable that a little before this discovery several persons by these very people appointed were at the houses of certain eminent Presbyterians in London to pray their charitable Contributions toward the maintenance of Mr. Oates and Mr. Bedlow falsly pretending that the Kings allowance was not sufficient for their support But the parties to whom they made their application smelling the cheat slighted their charitable diligence and sent them away empty And indeed who knows what use they might have made of it had those persons encourag'd their design In the mean time that is to say upon the fifth of this month Robert Green Henry Berry and Lawrence Hill were brought to their Tryals at the Kings Bench Bar for the Murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey The names of the Jury were Sir William Roberts Sir Richard Fisher Sir Michael Heneage Sir Thomas Bridges William Avery Charles Umphrevile John Bathurst Richard Gowre Thomas Hensloe John Sharp John Haynes Walter Moyle Esquires The general Indictment was for the murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex the manner of which Murther has been already related as also the reasons for which they did it The stress of the Evidence lay upon Mr. Praunce who swore in general that he met the Murtherers in reference to the carrying on their work several times at the Plough Ale-house near Somerset-house that Girald and Kelley seduc'd him and inveigled him into the Conspiracy That Hill Girald and Green dogg'd him all Saturday from his first going out That at night they lodg'd him in a house in St. Clements That at his coming out from thence Hill ran before and gave the rest notice and then went and stay'd for his coming by That it was Hill that perswaded him to follow him into the yard under pretence of a quarrel That it was Green who threw the twisted Handkerchief about his neck and that then Hill Girald and Kelley came in to Green's assistance pull'd the Gentleman down and help'd to throttle him while Berry and Praunce watch'd the avenues into the yard And that Green afterwards for the more sure dispatch wrung his neck round That after the Murther was done all the six actors carried the body into Hills Lodgings That when the body was to be remov'd from Somerset-house which was on the Wedsnesday night following Praunce and Girald were the first that carry'd the Sedan and were reliev'd by Green and Kelley That at Soho Hill met them with the horse that there they all mounted the dead body by forcing the leggs open upon the said horse that Hill rode behind and that Green Kelley and Girald walk'd by till they came to the place where the body was thrown It was farther sworn by Mr. Praunce that after all this Girald met several persons at Bow namely Luson Vernatti Dethick and one more and there rejoyc'd together for the cleverness of the Murther committed and the good fortune they had had for the disposal of the Body Mr. Bedlow swore That after the said Sir Edmundbury Godfrey was murther'd he met one Le Faire a Priest in the Cloysters of Somerset-house by appointment and that the said Le Faire carry'd him into a Room where were several persons looking upon the body by the help of a Candle and Lanthorn and that at that time he also among the rest saw Sir Edmundbury Godfrey lye dead and that he knew him as he lay This Evidence was also fortifi'd by several other circumstances By the Constable who found the body in the same posture they themselves reported they had left it By the master of the Plough and his servant who confirm'd the several meetings of the Murtherers at the same house And by Sir Edmundbury's maid who sware to the enquiries made for her Master at his house by Green and Hill In answer to these facts thus made out Hill defended himself by affirming that Mr. Praunce had perjur'd himself by denying or recanting what he had sworn before the King but that was over-ruled by the Court for that Mr. Praunce's first Impeachment of the Conspirators was done upon oath and his recantation but only a bare denyal Green brought his witnesses to prove that he was constantly at home by nine of the clock at night and never stirr'd after that out of the house and that such a thing could not be done in the house but they must know of it but because they did not exactly make out what they averr'd there was no credit given them The most considerable testimony was that which Berry produc'd which was that of the Sentinels who kept the Guard one of which

careful of himself Thus much for the Preliminaries which give a fair insight into the Age and Series of this detestable Contrivance It will now be requisite to embody the Design and to display the whole Mystery that thereby the Crimes of every Malefactor for I cannot in Conscience call them Martyrs that has hitherto been justly Executed may more clearly appear The grand and general Design then of the Pope the Pious and Zealous Society of Jesuits and their Accomplices and Associates in this as disingenious and raskally as unchristian Conspiracy was to have reduc'd the flourishing Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland to the Romish Religion and under the Papal Jurisdiction To accomplish this the Pope had Entitl'd himself by way of Confiscation and Forfeiture to the Kingdoms of England and Ireland He had sent the Bishop of Casal in Italy into Ireland to make out his Title to that Kingdom and to take Possession in his behalf and had constituted Cardinal Howard his True and Lawful Attorney for the same intent and purpose in England But these fair Vineyards could not be enjoy'd so long as the right owner liv'd and had pow'r to defend his own Inheritance Therefore was the King himself by his Holiness impiously condemn'd and by the Consults of the Jesuits and Priests at London applauded and encourag'd by the Birds of the same Feather abroad dispos'd and destin'd to a lewd Assassination And to make good the Attempt the Papal Force in both Nations was to be Armed and that under Officers and Commanders commissionated by St. Peter's Authority given to the General of the Jesuits at Rome and by him convey'd to the Provincial of the same Order in England In this somewhat mannerly that the King was not to fall alone but to be attended by some of his nearest Relations and choicest Peers of which number was his own Brother if he did not fully answer their Expectations the Prince of Orange the Duke of Ormond and the Earl of Shaftsbury Into Scotland twelve Scotch Jesuits were sent by Order from the General of the Society and had a Thousand Pound given them by Le Cheese the French King's Confessor to keep up the Commotions in Scotland and had Instructions given them to carry themselves like Nonconformists among the Presbyterians the better to drive on their Design The Conquest and Subduing of Ireland was contriv'd and design'd by a general Rebellion and Massacre of the Protestants in that Kingdom for which the Actors had a late Precedent to go by For the carrying on whereof the Pope had been so liberal as to disburse Eight Hundred Thousand Crowns out of his own Treasury And for fear their own Power might not be sufficient there was a French Plot cunningly and a-la-modely interwoven with their English Conspiracies to bring in Foreign Assistance and Correspondencies held for that purpose between them and the King of France's Confessor at Paris But Heaven that saw and with indignation beheld the dark and infernal Practices of them that by acting contrary to all Piety and Virtue were bringing a Reproach and Scandal upon Heaven and Christianity it self would no longer suffer them to proceed in such an Execrable Tragedy A Crime that had it come to Execution Hell would have blush'd and the Devils in union among themselves might have had a prospect of some probability of Mercy beholding men more wicked then they The Discovery then being fully resolv'd upon in the Breast of Dr. Oates he makes his first Applications to Dr. Tongue both for his Advice and Assistance Who upon Monday the 13th of August 1678 acquainted Mr. Christopher Kirkby with the detection of a Popish Conspiracy against the King's Sacred Person and the Protestant Religion shewing him withall the Three and Forty Articles as he had receiv'd them in Writing from Dr. Oates and requesting him not to make the business known at first to any other person then the King himself Many difficulties shew'd themselves in the Management of this Affair which requir'd the more wariness in proceeding So that Mr. Kirkby not finding an Opportunity to speak in private with the King that Afternoon prepar'd a certain Paper to put into his hands the next Morning as he went to walk in the Park His Majesty having receiv'd and read it call'd Mr. Kirkby to Him who then only gave him this short Account That his Enemies had a design against his Life and therefore besought him to have a care of his Person for that he knew not but that he might be in danger in that very Walk which he was about to take desiring withall a more private place for a more particular Account Thereupon his Majesty commanded him to wait his return out of the Park At what time calling Mr. Kirkby into his Bed-chamber he commanded him to declare what he knew Mr. Kirkby thereupon inform'd the King that there were two persons that were set to watch an opportunity to Pistol him That his Friend was at hand and ready with his Papers to be brought before him when his Majesty should command In answer to this his Majesty appointed between the hours of Eight and Nine in the Evening at which time Mr. Kirkby and Dr. Tongue attended and being commanded into the Red Room deliver'd the Forty Three Articles or rather Heads of the Discovery to his Majesty who being to go to Windsor the next Morning was pleas'd to promise that he would transmit the Papers into the hands of the Earl of Danby then Lord Treasurer upon whom they were likewise order'd to attend the next day after That day about four of the Clock in the Afternoon they were admitted into the Treasurer's Closet who read the Papers and found them to be of the greatest Concern imaginable The third of September Mr. Kirkby went to Dr. Oates and having receiv'd from him what he had to communicate appointed to meet him the next morning Accordingly the next morning being the fourth of September Mr. Kirkby and Dr. Oates met at what time the latter told the former that Whitebread Provintial of the Jesuites was come to Town and had strucken him and charg'd him with having been with the King and with the discovery of the Plot which he deny'd it being true that he had not seen the King Upon this it was concluded that seeing the discovery was smoak'd Dr. Oates's Information should be sworn before some Justice of the Peace which was accordingly the first time done before Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey the sixth of September who nevertheless was not permitted to read the particulars of the Information it being alledged that his Majesty had already had a true Copy thereof and that it was not convenient that the business should be communicated to any body else as yet So that Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey was satisfied without reading them and only underwrit Dr. Oates's Affidavit That the Matters therein contain'd were true Dr. Tong at the same time making Oath that they had been made known to the King In