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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47485	A true history of the several designs and conspiracies against His Majesties sacred person and government as they were continually carry'd on from 1688 till 1697 containing matters extracted from original papers, depositions of the witnesses, and authentick records, as appears by the references to the appendix, wherein they are digested : published with no other design then to acquaint the English nation that notwithstanding the present posture of affairs our enemies are still so many, restless and designing, that all imaginable care ought to be taken for the defense and safety of His Majesty and his three kingdoms / by R.K.	Kingston, Richard, b. 1635?	1698 (1698)	Wing K615; ESTC R3193	131,782	328

Thomas Fox a Servant to the said Mr. Standish was appointed to go with the said Rigby as a Guard to the said Mr. Townley's of Townley And this Informant further saith that about the Year 1691 or beginning of the Year 1692 there came to the said Standish-Hall one who went by the Name of Mr. Green in public Company but privately in the said Mr. Standish's Family was call'd Coll. Parker who kept two Servants his Gentleman who went by the Name of Gandy a French-Man and one Thomas Merrick his Groom and further saith that he hath several times seen in Company together at the said Standish Hall the Lord Molyneux's Son Sir William Gerrard's eldest Son William Dickinson of Wrightington Esq Mr. Blundell of Crosby Mr. Townley of Townley the said Mr. Green or Coll. Parker the said Mr. Standish and divers others and heard it discours'd amongst them that they would all be ready upon King James 's landing in England with Men and Arms to serve him And this Informant further saith that he knows John Womball very well and hath seen him several times at Standish-Hall aforesaid amongst the Gentlemen last mention'd who seem'd to be very familiar with him and hath heard it discours'd at the said Standish-Hall that the said Womball us'd frequently to carry Arms from London to the said Standish-Hall for the Roman Catholic Gentlemen in Lancashire And this Informant further saith that the said John Sharp Servant to the said Mr. Standish was imploy'd by his said Master Standish and others to list Men for the late King James 's Service and the said Sharp in pursuance of his said Orders did List several Men for the said Service at Preston Legh Wiggan the said Standish Town and other Places gave them one Shilling to each Man listing Money and promis'd them half a Crown a Day when they serv'd under the respective Officers they were listed under and the Men so listed us'd frequently to meet the said Sharp at the said Standish Town And this Informant further saith that about the 24th June 1695 one Roger Emer of Standish told this Informant that he had then in his Custody several Swords Pistols and Saddles and two Kettle Drums which Drums were brought to the said Emer by Thomas Smith of Park Brooke in the said Parish of Standish all which Arms Saddles and Kettle Drums were Mr. Standish's of Standish aforesaid and remov'd from Standish-Hall for fear of being seiz'd by some of the Kings Messengers when the Lancashire Gentlemen were taken up about two Years since And this Informant further saith that in or about November last a little after he had given in an Information before Coll. Kirby and two other of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the said County of Lancaster the said John Sharp came to this Informant who was then a Prisoner in Lancaster-Castle and seem'd to be very angry with him and told this Informant that he had discover'd some of their Designs to a deal of Rogues but before May last either the late King Jam's or some one else would come into England and then this Informant and all the Rogues else should be cut off And this Informant further saith that in August 1695 at the Assizes then held at Lancaster-Castle at which Assizes Mr. John Lunt Wilson and Womball were try'd upon an Information of Perjury and this Informant seeing one Thomas Hatton in the said Castle-Yard a little before the said Tryal ask'd him how he thought the Tryal would go Who answer'd that all Things would go very well for that Sir John Fenwick who as this Informant was told was then in Lancashire would take Care that Lunt Wilson and Womball should all be convicted of Perjury and the Lancashire Gentlemen all clear'd And this Informant further saith that within 3 or 4 Days after he had given in his Information before three Justices of the Peace as aforesaid there came to him into Lancaster-Castle he being then a Prisoner there for Debt one John Rigby an Inhabitant of the said Parish of Standish and told this Informant that the Gentlemen naming no particular Person had taken Care that his Debts should be Paid and be released out of Prison provided he would go with him to such a private Place as the Gentlemen would appoint where this Informant his Wife and Children might privately live out of the Way and the Gentlemen would take Care they should be well maintain'd to the intent he might not be found by the Government to justify what be had upon his Oath deposed in the said Information And that he had brought a Horse for this Informant for that purpose aforesaid And this Informant further saith that the said Rigby further told this Informant that he had a Letter from one Mr. John Haddock a Rich Quaker in the said Standish Parish who us'd to supply the said Mr. Standish and others with several Sums of Money upon Purchase and Mortgages to his Friend one Henry Coward a Shop-keeper in Lancaster the Purport of the Letter as the said Rigby told this Informant was to let Rigby have what Money he pleas'd in order to give this Informant in case of his Acceptance of the Gentlemens said Offer but this Informant denying to go with the said Rigby who staid three Days in Lancaster for the said purpose within two Hours was immediately after his so denying put in Fetters by the Gaoler of the said Lancaster-Castle that now is And this Informant further saith that in December 1694 when the Lancashire Conspiracy was under Examination before the House of Commons he was sent for by the said Mr. Standish of Standish who desir'd this Informant to go to London with some of his Servants who were to be Evidence in the said Affair before the Parliament to the intent he might Coroberate what they said Withal telling this Informant that he needed not be any ways afraid what he said in the House of Commons in the said Matter for that he was not to be upon his Oath And this Informant further saith that a little after the House of Commons sent a Messenger for the said Mr. Standish he the said Standish told this Informant that his Wife had given the said Messenger a Mare and Money so that the said Messenger was return'd to London without effecting his Message Edward Brown The Information of Mr. John Lunt given the Fifteenth Day of June 1694. THIS Informant upon his Oath saith That when King James left the Kingdom upon the Arrival of the Prince of Orange in the Year 1688 he this Informant went then immediately after him into France and upon his Arrival at St. Germains was introduced to kiss his the said King James's Hand in his Closet by the Lords Thomas and George Howard that from thence he was about the beginning of March then next following ordered with the rest of his Guards to go for Dublin that immediately upon his Arrival there about the latter end of May 1689 one Dr. Bromfeild came

their cruel Task-Masters or that they dispatch'd any of their Body to compliment the King of Egypt with a free Surrender of their Lives and Fortunes If they had been Guilty of such an unpardonable Stupidity I may be bold to say That they had been so far from deserving such a Country as the Land of Canaan that Lapland it self had been too good for them mutato nomine de te Fabula narratur I will no longer detain the Reader from the History it self wherein if he find by Undenyable Proofs That our Enemies have hitherto been continually designing upon His Majesty's Life and the Ruin of the Kingdom I hope he will agree That what has been already may be again repeated and therefore That we ought not by our own Sloth or Covetousness lead our Enemies into Temptations to attack us unprovided but that we should always have a Defence suitable to our Dangers AN ACCOUNT OF SEVERAL CONSPIRACIES AGAINST His Majesties Sacred PERSON and GOVERNMENT AS nothing of Public Concernment has been so variously discours'd of at home and abroad as the Lancashire Plot and that perpetual Train of Conspiracies that have annually succeeded it some endeavouring to sham the whole by scandalous Invectives against the Discoverers whilst others searching into the bottom of the several Designs are not only convinc'd of the Truth of them but also of the Honour and Integrity of the Government in relation to these Affairs I cannot imagin but that a True and Impartial Account of them will be equally useful and acceptable to the Public and because the Lancashire Plot has had the Honour not only to be the Parent but Companion of all the other Conspiracies I find my self oblig'd to begin tho' the Series of the Narration will not permit me to conclude with it The Contrivance then of this Plot is owing to the Politics of the late King James who finding himself utterly lost in the love and affections of his People and the Crown fallen from his Head by his own mal-Administration yet flattering himself with the vain hopes of regaining by the Sword what he had forfeited by breaking the Laws of the Land and endeavouring to subvert the Constitution He fled into France for shelter till he could put his Affairs into such a Posture as might facilitate his Return and enable him to establish Popery and Arbitrary Power in these Protestant Kingdoms But before he took his Voyage for France to gain Assistance from that potent Monarch 't was concerted by him and those Popish bigotted Friends that had espous'd his Interest that they should also endeavour at the same time to raise a Ferment in England Scotland and Ireland to concur with the Designs that carryed him into France and therefore that some Person of known Experience Courage and Secresy should be dispatch'd on that Errand to imbroyl the three Kingdoms Mr. Bromfeild a pretended Quaker and so dexterous and bold a Counterfeit that he was able to personate the the Disciple of any Sect Member of any Faction or Person of any Quality had this Office assign'd him and from the Earl of Salisbury's by the Name of Thompson advanc'd towards Scotland Not forgetting according to the Instructions given him by the late King to sow such Seeds of Discontent and Jealousy as he pass'd through the North of England as might ripen into an Insurrection and Rebellion at his Return He had not been long in Scotland before he effected his wicked Purposes in laying a Foundation for a Civil War in that Kingdom and from thence sail'd into Ireland on the same Errand Where he acquaints the Earl of Tyrconnel how successful he had been in his Negotiations in Scotland viz. That the Duke of Gourdon had garrison'd Edenbrough Castle and that the Viscount Dundee would be suddenly at the Head of a great Army there and both declare for the late King James but Mr. Bromfeild finding the Earl of Tyrconnel so zealous for the Cause that he wanted no Arguments or Preswasions to make him more active and daring in promoting the late Kings Service he sail'd from thence into Lancashire where he might be more useful intending to make that and the adjacent Countrys the Provinces he would act in When Bromfeild landed in Lancashire he intended for Croxteth the Seat of the Lord Molineux but for fear of being too much observ'd there he alter'd his purpose and took up his head quarters at Mr. Fitz Herberts of Wapra * Vid Mr. Edward's and Wilson's Depositions in the Appendix and sometimes at Mr. Wilson's in Redland where the Jacobites resorted to him in great Numbers to concert what was necessary to be done for the Restauration of their old Master From Wapra he often made Excursions into the neighbouring Countys and through by-ways to Croxteth to confer with the Lord Molineux and his Son and other considerable Persons of the Roman Character And having adjusted Matters there for an Insurrection he return'd into Ireland with his Dispatches and so backward and forward as the Emergency of his treasonable Affairs requir'd Having a safer Conveyance for his Lancashire Pacquets to and Answers from France by the way of Ireland than to hazard them through the several Post-Offices in England This treacherous Imployment was carry'd on by Mr. Bromfeild for some Months the Habit of a Quaker securing him from the Suspition of a Jacobite but at length his Visor dropt off and the trayterous half-fac'd Papist was seen through the demure Looks and canting Dialect of the Quaker The Vessel that Bromfeild bought to transport him to and from Ireland was seiz'd by Mr. Morston for the use of the Government and Bromfeild had certainly been committed to Prison and try'd for his Life had not the means of his Escape out of Lancashire * Vid Depositions pradict been contriv'd by his quondam Host and intire Friend and Confident Mr. Wilson Mr. Bromfeild and his Intelligence being once more landed in Ireland * May. 1689. where the late King James was arriv'd also he acquaints the late King with the Effects of his Travails viz. That his Friends were up in Arms in Scotland and that the Lancashire Papists and others were ready to ingage in his Quarrel in Order to re-inthrone him as soon as they were commissioned by him to undertake it Nor did he forget to acquaint the late King how narrowly he escap'd a Goal and the Gallows at his last being in Lancashire and that since he was too well known there to be sent again into that Country he begg'd some other Person might he imploy'd in carrying over the Commissions desir'd Which the late King comply'd with and as a Reward of these Services made Mr. Bromfeild one of the Commissioners of his Irish Mint in which Post he continued till the Reduction of Ireland by King William If any object that Bromfeild's Agency in Scotland has no Authorities to support it let the Reader know 't is not for want of them they are not produced but for