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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

for the County of Stafford Nor is it to be omitted that among the rest of the Discoveries about this time made Lower Comes in Herefordshire was detected to be a Colledge of Jesuites and was let them at a low rent by one Hutton of St. Giles's Merchant for one and twenty years which lease was witness'd by William Ireland Fenwick and Groves The House was contriv'd for the purpose with lodging Chambers and Studies and seated with all the privacy imaginable at the bottom of a rocky and woody Hill There were found in the house several Popish Books a Box of white Wafers stamp'd several Popish Pictures and Crucifixes some Reliques a little Saints-bell and an Incense pot Soon after one Father Lewis was taken near the same place and sent to Monmouth Jail He had couzen'd a poor maid of all the Money she had in the world to the value of 30 l. and made her give him a bond and confess a judgement to him for payment of the said money upon a pretence of praying her Fathers Soul out of Purgatory January 1678. Toward the beginning of this month the Earls of Salisbury and Clarendon were sworn of his Majesties Privy Council Neither do we find the beginning of it signaliz'd with any transaction of remark till the Execution of Ireland and Grove for Pickering had a further reprieve till May 1679. The other two were both hang'd drawn and quarter'd according to the Sentence pronounc'd against them upon the 24th of this Month. The last words of Ireland were mainly taken notice of and there were some whose Charity was almost deluded to believe him hearing those imprecations of Damnation which he made to impose upon the world that he was not in Town all August and consequently that the witnesses had sworn falsly against him Yet after all these solemn Imprecations to advance his own and depress the credit of the Kings witnesses as if his Salvation depended upon his giving a meritorious sparring blow to the Kings Evidence at his departure after all these Imprecations I say that he was absent in Staffordshire from the fifth of August till the fourteenth of September in comes one Mr. Jenison a person of worth and credit and positively deposes upon oath that he saw Mr. Ireland at his Chamber at the Hart in Russel street upon the nineteenth day of August being then newly return'd from Windsor He further depos'd that after a short salute Mr. Ireland ask'd him what news at Windsor and how the King spent his time To which when Mr. Jenison answer'd that the King spent his time in Hawking and Fishing went very thinly and meanly guarded the Old Priest reply'd that then it would be an easie thing to take him off A circumstance so remarkable and consequently so convincingly apparent that many doubters were very well satisfy'd to see it finding the credit of the traduc'd witnesses so well supported and such a slur put upon all the vows and protestations of a sufferer so desperately engaging heaven in the defence of his untruths Much about this time his Majesties Forces that had been recall'd out of Flanders began to return again into England But that which was the nine days wonder of the whole Nation was the dissolution of the second long Parliament which had been continu'd by Prorogations and Adjournments from the eighth day of May in the 13th year of his Majesties reign and was lastly prorogu'd till the fourth of February in the twenty fourth year of his Majesties Government with an intention to have met again By this Proclamation his Majesty did publish and declare his Royal will and pleasure to dissolve the present Parliament and that he did dissolve the same accordingly However to the intent his Majesties Loyal Subjects might perceive his confidence in their good affections and how desirous his Majesty was to meet his people and have their advice by their representatives in Parliament His Majesty was also pleas'd to declare that he would forthwith issue out his Writs for calling a new Parliament to be holden at Westminster on Thursday the sixth of March 1678 9. And thus if it might be thought to be a wound he that gave it at the same time heal'd it and stopp'd as well the Insinuations as the Clamours of disaffected male-contents Toward the latter end of this month the middle Temple happen'd to be fir'd though whether on purpose or by accident is yet undetermin'd this is certain that had it gone on it had destroy'd one of the most stately Piles of Law in the whole world February 1678. January having thus made its Exit February succeeds remarkable in the first place for the change of the Secretaries of State For Sir Joseph Williamson having resigned the Seals of the Secretaryship into his Majesties hands the right honourable Robert Earl of Sunderland was sworn into his room Not long after several Queries were presented to his Majesty in Council by the Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex in order to their proceeding as to Papists and Popish Recusants 1. Whether Foreigners Popish Recusants that are and have long been settl'd House-Keepers following employments for their own advantage as Chirurgions Taylors Perriwig-makers c. but not otherwise Merchants though certifi'd to be Merchant strangers shall be excus'd from taking the Oaths or giving sureties 2. Whether such Foreigners being certifi'd by Embassadours or other foreign Ministers to be their Servants should be excus'd 3. Whether Foreigners Popish Recusants settl'd as House-keepers but neither Tradesmen Travellers or Foreign Ministers Servants shall be excus'd 4. Whether Native subjects of our Soveraign Lord the King that are Menial servants of Foraign Ministers shall be excus'd 5. Whether married women being Popish Recusants but their Husbands Protestants shall be excus'd 6. Whether Popish Recusants that have taken the Oaths found Sureties have appear'd and are convict shall find Sureties or be continu'd over These Queries were by his Majesty referr'd to the Judges who return'd an answer in writing that they had met and consider'd of the Questions propos'd and gave it for their Opinions 1. That Foreigners being Popish Recusants and exercising ordinary Trades but not Merchants were not excus'd from taking the Oaths or finding Security 2. That Foreigners though certifi'd by Embassadors to be their servants except they were their menial servants were not excusable 3. That Foreigners though settl'd House-keepers being no Travellers or Foreign Ministers servants were not to be excus'd 4. That the Kings native Subjects were not excus'd from taking the Oath by being menial servants to Foreign Ministers 5. That they found no Law to excuse a Feme covert being a Papist from taking the Oaths though her Husband were a Protestant 6. That a Popish Recusant having taken the Oaths was not bound to find new Sureties unless upon a new tender of the Oaths he should refuse to take them This report and opinion of the Judges his Majesty was graciously pleas'd to approve and thereupon an Order was

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