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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40885	The narrative of Segnior Francisco de Faria, interpreter and secretary of languages unto Gasper de Abrev de Freitas, late Ambassador in Ordinary from the crown of Portugal, to His Most Sacred Majesty of England wherein is contained the several informations given upon oath before the Right Honourable the Lords Committees, for examinations touching the horrid Popish Plot, and reported to the Lords spiritual and temporal in Parliament assembled, and afterwords to the Commons of England in Parliament assembled.	Faria, Francisco de, b. 1653.	1680 (1680)	Wing F426; ESTC R7380	21,930	46

Ambassador in ordinary from the Crown of Portugal to be assistant to him as his Interpreter and Secretary of Languages in regard he was a Person that understood no other Languages himself than the Portugese Spanish and Italian In which Capacity I continued with him during his Excellencies Stay in England for the Reader is to understand that I had been known to the said Ambassador formerly that is to say when I was first in England fifteen Years before at what time his Excellency was also in England but with the Title only of Envoy extraordinary from the said Crown and then was I a great Companion and Friend of Don Christophoro the Envoys Nephew being a Youth of the same Age with my self and upon that Account familiarly and dayly frequented the said Envoys House Whereupon when the said Envoy came again into England as Ambassador my Father who then resided here and was his old Acquaintance went according to his Obligations to kiss his Excellencies Hand Then it was that the Ambassador enquired of my Father for his Son Francisco meaning my self to whom my Father made Answer that I had been a great Travellour that I was by that means become Master of several Languages that I had been an Officer in the Prince of Oranges Service and was newly arrived in England thereupon the Ambassador was very importunate with my Father to send for me as a person that he thought might be very useful to him When I came the Ambassador tenderly embraced me as one that was heartily glad to see me and presently entertained me in the quality before mentioned by which meanes it will be no wonder that I should have the Opportunity of being privy to those things of which I here give publick Information as being Occurrencies that could not scape my Knowledge because of the confidence which the Ambassador reposed in me and the necessity which he had to converse and discourse with those that did not understand his Language In this Condition I continued with his Excellency all the time of his abode in England which was a Year or thereabouts But before his Departure for Portugal which was in February 1679 80 I was informed by his Excellency from his own Lips that there was a certain Justice of the Peace whose Name I could never learn from him who was a very great Persecutor of the Roman Catholicks in the Country where he lived for which reason there was a Design laid to procure his Death by Assassination After that the Ambassador went away and I heard no more of the Business till the latter end of March or the beginning of April at what time being out of Employment and preparing for new Travels a certain Person came to me by the Name of Wyard who took me into Greyes-Inn-Walks and there telling me I had now a fair Opportunity in my Hands to make my self and my Fortunes for eyer made me several Proposals for the cudgelling which indeed imported no less than the killing a Nameless Gentleman which notwithstanding all his Perswasions I absolutely refused as being an Action that I utterly detested and abhorr'd however upon second Thoughts I communicated the said Wyards Proposals to a particular Friend of mine one Monseiur Camas Some fourteen Dayes after it happened that one John Arnold Esq a Justice of the Peace in the Couuty of Monmouth who was reported to have been very active against the Papists was really and ipso facto Assassinated in Bell-yard near Temple-Bar Whereupon the next Day while the Alarum was hot my forementioned Friend Monseir Camas came in grear hast to me and told me that I must undoubtedly be one of the Bravos that had committed the Fact and therefore advised me as a Friend to take speedy Benefit of his Majesties Proclamation both as to the Reward and Pardon but I being altogether innocent of the Crime by several Protestations and by giving him a faithful Account where I had spent my time all that Day and Night so well cleared my self to my Friend that he remained fully satisfyed and convinced of my Sincerity However being then resolved to go for Flanders to seek Employment and fearing lest if Monseiur Camas should make known the Information I had given him in reference to Wyards Propositions before I did it my self I should not only be stopped in my Journey but that worse might befall me being ill provided for the Expences of a tedious Imprisonment I took the boldness to make my addresses to the Earl of Clarendon as having formerly had the Honour to wait upon his Lordship with my Ambassador as Interpreter between them and gave his Lordship a full Account under my Hand dated the first of May 1680 being Saturday of all that had past between the said Wyard Mounseiur Camas and my self this being done I begun to think again of my Journey but considering better with my self that it would be more convenient for me to stand to my own Justification and upon the perswasion of a Gentlewoman to whom I had communicated the whole Affair who told me I might as well be knocked o' th Head beyond Sea as here for what I had already declared to her suspecting that I might as well declare the same to others as being a Reveng very common among the Partugueses I altered my Resolutions and continued in England Upon the Tryal of Giles who was after this apprehended for the Assassination aforesaid one Mr. Nathaniel Cox my intimate Acquaintance told me that he was going to hear the Tryal of one Giles who had Assassinated a very good Friend of his one Mr. John Arnold a Country Justice I Answered him that I had a great Desire to see Giles for that I supposed I could do the said Mr. Arnold a considerable kindness upon which Mr. Cox carried me to wait upon Mr. Arnold to whom I gave an exact Description of the said Wyard which after I had finished Mr. Arnold told me that he had a very strong Suspicion of a Person exareamly like to him whom I had so described but his Name was not Wyard Thereupon I went and viewed the said Giles my self but did not remember I had ever seen him before however Mr. Arnold desired me to repair to some Justice of the Peace and give him an Account in Writing upon Oath what I knew concerning the said Wyard Whereupon I made the following Deposition before Sr. Phillip Matthews Com. midd The Information of Francisco de Faria of St Giles in the Fields Gent. Taken upon Oath before Sir Phillip Matthews Barronet One of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the said County Assigned this Fifteenth day of July 1680. THis Informant on his Oath saith that about the latter end of March or the beginning of April last past a Gentleman who called himself Mr. Wyard came to this Informant at Will 's Coffe-House in Covenant-Garden and spake very kindly to this Informant and desired this Informant to go to a Tavern drink a

to take in writing the Trial and gave him 20 s for his pains which this Informant delivered to the Ambassador who immediately sent it to the Queen then at Windsor vvith vvhich and a Letter this Informant should have gone to Windsor had he not been very weary And that same Night this Informant vvas sent to Sir George Wakemans in St. Martins-Lane to complement him on the Ambassadors part but he vvas not then come to his Lodging in St. Martins-Lane So this Informant vvent next Morning and found him in Bed vvith his Wife and as this Informant vvas commanded told him from the Ambassador That his Fortune and Estate vvas at his Service and so vvas his Princes and the Prayers of the good Catholicks have prevailed for your delivery and we are all bound to Sir Philip Loyd for his Generosity to you at the Tryal and we are all bound to pray for him Whereunto Sir George Wakeman replied If it had not been for him I had not been saved and so we are all bound to pray for him And I pray return my Lord many thanks for his Offers and that he would wait on his Excellency that very day to give him thanks for his Favours but that he must first go to Windsor to wait on the Queen but at his Return he would wait on his Excellency And Sir George then took this Informant by the hand and said I am sorry Mr. Faria that I had not the happiness to speak with you before For I am Informed what a Man you are and that you could do great Service for the Catholicks But alas it is now too late Thence this Informant went again by Order to the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs to know when my Lord Ambassador should Visit him The Lord Scroggs answered That the Ambassador would do him great Honour to Visit him but he was that day to go out of Town by One of the Clock Wherewith the Ambassador being acquainted he went about Twelve in his Sedan with a Coach of State wherein this Informant was to the Lord Scroggs's in Chancery-Lane The ●●…mplement was in Porugueze and this Informant Interpreted to this effect My Lord I come to Vi●●… you as you are a Minister of State and am sent as Ambassador from the Prince of Portugal to the King of Great Britain and am directed to Visit you and am likewise to thank you for the Justice you have done Yesterday to Sir George Wakeman To which the Lord Scroggs answered I am placed to do Justice and will not be curbed by the Vulgar and so I thank your Prince and yourself for the great Honour you have done me And his Informant father saith That a Portugueze came to him when the Earl of Ossory was to go for Tangeir offering this Informant that he might go with the said Earl as his Interpreter and should have 300 l. per Annum for his pains But this Informant reflecting That the Sum offered was too big for that Service believed this was a Snare to take away his Life The same Portugueze afterwards offered him to go for Planders where Monsieuer Fonsec might prefer him to the Prince of Prama But he looked upon that as a Snare also and therefore refused And this Informant saith that about six Months ago he was assaulted by two unknown Persons with then Swords drawn but he happily escaped from them And further sayeth not Francisco de Faria Colonel Warcupp having taken this Information carryed me a second time to the Lords of the Committee before whom I again attested and Justifyed upon Oath what I had Sworn before the Justice of Peace the 〈◊〉 also observing what I had said concerning Mr. Sauer and Mrs. Seare Commanded the Colonel to take the Examinations likewise which was accordingly done next day and the Depositions carryed up to the Lords who found them agreeable to my Information and this was n● so 〈◊〉 Confirmation of the Truth of what I had Sworn the Depositions Coppied from the Originals in the Hands of the Clerk of the Lords House are these that follow Midd. and Westr The INFORMATION of Richard Salter of St. Clement Danes Milliner taken this 27th of October 1680. before me Edmund Warcupp Esquire one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace in the said County and City by the Command of the Lords Committee of Examination of the late Popish Plot. THis Informant sayeth that Francisco de Faria was as this Informant heard Interpreter to the Portugal Ambassador about February last past at which time he asked this Informant whether he would carry a Letter into Flanders whereunto this Informant replyed he would send a Letter by the Post but Mr. Faria answered he must send it by a Messenger express and himself was suddenly to follow after it and he choose this Informant to carry the Letter because this Informant knew the Country having been there before and could also speak the Language And he proffered this Informant ten Pounds for the Voyage but this Informant refused to go because he had three Horses upon his Hand and one of them was lame but Mr. Faria seemed unsatisfyed with this Informants denyal and added many Prayers and Importunities to his Proffer of the ten Pound but could not prevail and this Informant well remembers that he saw the said Mr. Faria in some kind of Frensical and Melancholy Fitts and threw himself upon the Floor about the Month of March last past and this Informant helped to hold him up and further sayeth not Richard Salter Jurat Die Anno supra dictum coram me Edmond Warcupp The INFORMATION of Mrs. Mary S●alies taken upon Oat● the Day aforementioned by the Command of the said Lords Committee THis informant sayeth That Monseiuer Francisco de Faria about the Months of February and March last past came several times to his Lodgings very Melancholly and disturbed and sometimes was in Frenzical Fitts and in his Sleep and Frenzy would often cry out upon Murderers and did sometimes call out naming Oats and Bedlow and sometimes the Ambassador and once cryed pitty my youthfull Dayes my Lord which Disturbance this Informant observing did at length prevail with him to tell her what the Matter was and he then told her there was a Design to kill Oats and Bedlow and Shaftsbury and a Country Gentleman but who it was he could not tell whereupon this Informant told him there was a great deal of danger in knowing of it and this Informant then perswaded him to say nothing of it lest he fell into Danger and if he should discover it he should get no Credit by it but would be looked upon as a Knave as Oats and Bedlow were by the Company his Informant kept Company with and this Informant did really fear he would come by some Mischief when ever he went abroad and therefore desired him when ever he stayed out late to send this Informant word where he was which he usually did and he charged this Informant to declare if

therein contained relating to part of my Information in Page 29 I have with leave Inserted it at the End of this my Information December 15th 1680. Francisco de Faria I Thomas Buss of the Parish of St. Margerets Westminister Cook and Servant to his Majesty in the Office of a Cook in his own Kitchin as third Cook called by the Name of Groom of the Kitchin and being Master-Cook to their Graces the Duke and Dutchess of Monmouch and in the Year of our Lord Christ 1678 when his Majesty was then in the Month of September at Windsor I the said Thomas Buss then waiting on their Graces as abovesaid was on the 13th or 14th of September being on a Fryday about seven of the Clock in the Morning to buy in such Provisions as was needful for his Graces Family his Grace being then returned from the Battle of Montz I by chance espyed Four of my Acquaintance talking together viz. three Portugals and one of them an English Man and I having not seen the English Man of three or four Years before then Saluted him by the Name of Father Hankinson not knowing his Christian Name in these Words of Father Hankinson May I say by or to you as God Almighty sayd to the Devil Whence came you or how shall I say to you for he and I being acquainted ever since her Majesties first Arrival into England at Portsmouth he the said Hankinson made me no other Answer but You will never leave your Old Drolling but I having him by the Hand all this while said Well then come prethee from whence came you indeed Why I came from Italy and then two of the three Portugals left him and one Portugal with me and did ask him he saying he came from Italy if he had brought over any Bulls or Pardons from his Holiness the Pope whereunto 〈◊〉 did reply You will never leave your drolling and I did ask him when he arrived at the City of London and then the other Portugal named Segnior Anthonio Fernandez turned from our Company over to the Fishermen that sate in the Market which was not above a yard and a half distance from the place where we two then stood still talking their Majesties both being then at the Castle of Windsor I there ask't the said Father Hankison if he did arrive at Windsor on the said Wedensday Night or no and he told me No his Horse did tire and it was late so he stayed in Town all Night and came for Windsor on Thursday the 13th about four or five of the Clock in the Afternoon Then I did ask of him if he and I and three or four more of his old Acquaintance should not drink together before his Departure for he was then in a travelling Posture He told me by no means for he was in great hast for he was going about ten or twelve Miles to a Lords House naming the Lords Name to me but truly I did forget his Lords Name but he told me If he could dispatch betimes to get to Windsor by four or five of the Clock in the Afternoon then his other Acquaintances and I should Drink together and then the said Father Hankison called over to the aforesaid Segnior Antonio Fernandez the Portugal aloud and prayed him for Gods Sake to have a care of those four worthy Gentlemen the Strangers and then I hearing him tell me that he came from Italy thinking they might be four of the Gentlemen of Italy come over to see the Court of England ask't him what these Gentlemen were and he told me they were four Irish Gentlemen and called to the afore mentioned Segnior Antonio Fernandez saying aloud as he did before Segnior Antonio Segnior Antonio for Gods Sake have a great care of those four Gentlemen worthy Gentlemen the Irish Men for they will do our Business in the Grace of God and the said Segnior Antonio answered And Grace of God I will have a great Care of them in the Grace of God fear nothing And so he the said Father Hankison being about to be gone well said I to him it I shall see you no more pray when do you leave England Tomorrow And then said I whether then For Paris and then for Italy again And then I bid him remember me to his Holiness the Pope at which he did laugh and told me you will never leave your Drolling and so we parted and have not seen each other never since nor thinking nothing of it more till I reading Coleman's Papers wherein I heard the Names of four Irish Ruffians named should kill his Majesty and I being his said Sworn Servant and bound by my Oath as his Majesties Servant not to hear any Secret or publick Mischief nor Treason against his most Sacred Majesty but the same to reveal to some of his Majesties Officers the which I did by Name to Sir Steven Fox and he did order me to acquaint the Committee of Secrecy with it and likewise I did acquaint Mr. Vernon as Secretary and Steward to their Graces the Duke and Dutchess of Monmouth and my Superior Officer in their Family and he liked it very well and told me he would inform some of the Committee of Secrecy of it and so he did and I went before them at Serjeants Inn in Fleet-Street and they did like the Information very well for then they did want some to second Dr. Oats's Depositions and at the Tryal of Councellor Langhorn I was fetched by the under-Sheriff from dressing their Graces Dinner to give Evidence against the said Prisoner at the Bar the which Evidence was after Oath taken highly approved on there and this aforenamed Segnior Antonio Fernandez sent for to the Court at the Old-Baily by the Under-Sheriff with me to the Earl of Ossory to Speak to their Majesties that the said Segnior Antonio Fernandez might be brought before the Court at the Old-Bayly and he being brought before the Court the Court ordered Sir George Jefferys to take his Defence for himself he making so weak a one he then being the Recorder of London sent the said Antonio by and with the Keepers to Newgate for the Matter of High Treason against his Majesty where he lay till the end of the next Term and then was Bailed out and I was bound by Sir George Jefferys to prosecute and did Appear on Summons from Windfor at Sir George Wakemans Tryal and never was once so much as called nor a great many more near seventeen or eighteen and when the Court of Justice did rise I asked Dr. Oats whether he or the Court had any other Business with me and he told me no so I returned to Windsor the same Night and never heard more of it till this Sessions of Parliament Thomas Buss Sworn by Order of the Lords Committees for Examinations c. the 10th of December 1680 before me Edmund Warcupp Esqu And now Reader give me leave to admire the Providence of God that I Francisco de Faria should be brought from almost the utmost Parts of the far distant habitable World to be an Instrument here in England to detect or at least more convincingly to prove the truth of those Horrid Treasons and Conspiracies that have been for so long time as wickedly denyed as impiously perpetrated but I am answered when I consider that the Judgements of God are Unsearchable and that there is no Craft or Subtilty of Man can hide or conceale those Impieties and foul Conspiracies which God will bring to Light Francisco de Faria FINIS