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A63228	The tryals of VVilliam Ireland, Thomas Pickering, & John Grove, for conspiring to murder the King who upon full evidence were found guilty of high treason at the session-house in Old-Bailye, Dec. 1, 1678, and received sentence accordingly.	Ireland, William, 1636-1679.; Pickering, Thomas, d. 1679.; Grove, John, d. 1679.; England and Wales. Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery (London and Middlesex).	1678 (1678)	Wing T2269; ESTC R33696	62,044	58

false Traytors of the most Illustrious Se●●ene and most Excellent Prince Our Soverign Lord Charles the II. by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. Their supreme and natural Lord not haveing the Feare of God in their hearts nor the Duties of their Allegeance any ways weighing but being moved and Seduced by the instigation of the Devil the cordial love and true due and natural obedience which true and faithful Subjects of our said Soveraign Lord the King towards our said Soverign Lord the King should and of Right ought to bear altogether withdrawing endeavouring and with their whole strength intending the peace and common tranquillity of this Kingdom of England to disturbe and the true worship of God within this Kingdom of England used and by Law established to overthrow and to move stir up and procure Rebellion within this Kingdom of England and the cordial love and true and due obedience which true and saithful Subjects of our said Soveraign Lord the King towards our said soveraign Lord the King should and of Right ought to bear wholly to withdraw vanguish and extinquish and our said Sovereign Lord the King to death and final destruction to bring and put the 24th day of April in the year of the Reign of our said Sovereign L Charles the II by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King defender of the saith c. the 30th at the Parish of St. Gyles in the Fields aforesaid in the County of Middlesex aforesaid falsly maliciously deceitfully advisedly and Trayterously they did propose compa●●e imagine and intend to stir up move and procure sedition and Rebellion within this Kingdom of England and to procure and Cause a miserable slaughter among the Subjects of our said Sovereign L. the King and wholly to deprive depose throw down and disinher it our said Sovereign Lord the King from his Royal State Title Power and Government of this his Kingdom of England and him our said Soveraign Lord the King to put to death and utterly to destroy the Government of this Kingdom of England and the sincere Religion worship of God in the same Kingdom rightly and by the Laws of the same Kingdom established for their will and pleasure to change and alter and wholly to subvert and destroy the state of the whole Kingdom being in all parts thereof well instituted and ordered and to Levy War against our said Soveraign Lord the King within this his Realm of England And to fulfil and bring to pass these their most wicked Treasons and Trayterous designs and purposes aforesaid they the said Thomas White allas Whitebread William Ireland John Fenwick Thomas Pickering John Grove and other false Tr●●ytors unknow●● the said so ●● and Tweentieth day of April in the said 30th year of the Reign of our said Lord the King with force and arms c. at the parish of St. Giles in the Fields aforesaid in the County of Midelesex aforesaid falsly maliciously deceitfully advisedly devillish●●y and traiterously did assemble unite and gather themselves together and then and there falsly maliciously deceitfully advisedly devillishly and traiterously they did consult and agree to put and bring our said Soveraign Lord the King to death final destruction and to alter and change the Religion rightly and by the Laws of the same Kingdom established to the superstition of the Church of Rome and that sooner to bring to pass and accomplish the same their most wicked Treasons and traiterous imaginations and purposes aforesaid they the said Thomas White otherwise Whitebread William Ireland John Fenwick Thomas Pickering John Grove and other false Traitors of our said Sovereign Lord the King unknown afterwards to wit the said 24th day of April in the said 30th year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord the King at the said parish of St. Giles in the Fields in the County of Midlesex aforesaid falsly deceitfully advisedly maliciously devillishly and traiterously they did consult and agree that they the said Thomas Pickering and John Grove should kill and murther our said Sovereign Lord the King And that they the said Thomas White otherwise Whitebread William Ireland John Frenwick and other false Traitors unknown should therefore say celebrate and perform a certain number of Masses then and there agreed on among them for the good of the soul of the said Thomas Pickering and should therefore pay to the said John Grove a certain sum of money then and there also agreed on among them And further that the said Thomas Pickering and John Grove upon the agreement aforesaid then and there falsly deceitfully advisedly maliciously devillishly traiterously did undertake and to the said Thomas White otherwise Whitebread William Ireland John Fenwick and other false Traitors of our said Sovereign Lord the King unknown then and there falsly deceitfully advisedly maliciously devillishly and traiterously they did then and there promise that they the said Thomas Pickering and John Grove our said Sovereign Lord the King would kill and murther And further that they the said Thomas White otherwise Whitbread William Ireland John Fenwick Thomas Pickering and John Grove and other false Traitors of our said Sovereign Lord the King unknown afterwards to wit the said 24th day of April in the thirtieth year of the Reign of our said Soverign Lord the King at the said parish of St. Giles in the Fields in the County of Middlesex aforesaid falsly deceitfully advisedly maliciously devillishly and traiterously did severally plight their Faith every one to other of them and did then and their swear and promise upon the Sacrament to conceal and not to divulge their said most wicked Treasons and traiterons compassings consultations and purposes aforesaid so among them had traiterously to kill and murther our said Sovereign Lord the King and to introduce the Roman Religion to be used within this Kingdom of England and to alter change the true Reformed Religion rightly and by the Laws of this Kingdom of England in this same Kingdom of England established And further that they the said Thomas Pickering and John Grove in execution of their said Traiterous Agreement afterwards to wit the same 24th day of April in the said thirtieth year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lord the King and divers other days and times afterwards at the said parish of St. Giles in the Fields in the said County of Middlesex falsly deceitfully advisedly maliciously devillishly and traiterously they did prepare and obtain to themselves and had and did keep Musquets Pistols Swords Daggers and other offensive and cruel weapons and instruments to kill and murther our said Sovereign Lord the King And that they the said Thomas Pickering and John Grove afterwards to wit the said four and twentieth day of April in the said thirtieth year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lord the King and divers days and times afterwards with force and arms c. at the said

parish of St. Giles in the Fields in the County of Middlesex aforesaid and in other places within the said County of Middlesex falsly deceitfully advisedly maliciously and traiterously did lie in wait and endeavour to kill and murder our said Sovereion Lord the King and further that they the said Thomas White otherwise Whitebread William Ireland John Fenwick and other false Traitors unknown afterwards to wit the said 24th day of April in the said thirtieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord the King at the said parish of St Giles in the Fields in the County of Middlesex aforesaid falsly deceitfully advisedly maliciously devillishly and traiterously did prepare perswade excite abet comfort and counsel four other persons unknown and subjects of our said Soveraign Lord the King traiterously to kill and murder our said Sovereign Lord the King against the duty of their allegiance against the peace of our said Sovereign Lord the King his Crown and Dignity and against the form of the Statute in that behalf made and provided Upon this Indictment they have been arraigned and thereunto have severally pleaded Not guilty and for their Tryal have put themselves upon God and their Country which Country you are Your Charge therefore is to enquire whether they or any of them be guilty of the High Treason whereof they stand indicted or not guilty If you find them guilty you are to enquire what Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements those you find guilty had at the time of the High Treason committed or at any time since If you find them or any of them not guilty you are to enquire whether they did flee for it if you find that they or any of them fled for it you are to enquire of their Goods and Chattels as if you had found them guilty If you find them or any of them not guilty nor that they nor any of them fled for it say so and no more and hear your Evidence Make Proclamation for silence on both sides Which was done Then Sir Creswell Levings one of the Kings learned Council in the Law opened the Indictment thus Sir Cresw Levings May it please your Lordship and you Gentlemen of the Jury These Prisoners at the Bar Thomas White alias Whitebread William Ireland John Fenwick Thomas Pickering and John Grove do all stand indicted of High Treason for that whereas they as false Traytors meaning and designing to disturb the Peace of the Kingdom to levy War within the Kingdom to make miserable slaughter amongst the Kings Subjects to subvert the Religion established by the Law of the Land to introduce the Superstition of the Church of Rome and to bring to death and final destruction and to murder and assassinate our Soveraign Lord the King they did to effect these things the four and twentieth of April last assemble themselves together with many other false Traytors yet unknown in the parish of Saint Giles in the Fields in the County of Middlesex and there being so assembled the better to effect these designs did make agreements and conspire together first that Pickering and Grove should kill the King and that White and the rest of the persons that stand indicted with many other Traytors should say a great number of Masses for the soul of the said Pickering I think thirty thousand and they did further agree there that Grove should have a great sum of mony and upon this agre●●ment Grove and Pickering did undertake and promise they would do this fact and did then and there take the Sacrament and an oath to one another upon the Sacrament that they would conceal these their Treasons that they might the better effect them and that in pursuance of this Grove and Pickering did divers timesly in wait to murder the King and did provide Arms to do it and the Indictment further sets forth that White and Ireland and Fenwick and many other Traytors yet unknown did procure four other persons yet also unknown for to kill the King against the pea●●e of our Sovereign Lord the King his Crown and Dignity and against the form of the Statute These are the heads of those facts for which they stand indicted they have all pleaded not Guilty if we prove them or any of them Guilty of these or any of these facts according to the Evidence you shall have we hope you will find it Sir Samuel Baldwin one of his Majesties Serjeants at Law opened the Charge as followeth Sir Samuel Baldwin May it please your Lordship and you Gentlemen of the Jury the persons here before you stand indicted for High Treason they are five in number three of them are Jesuits one is a Priest the fifth is a Layman persons fitly prepared for the work in hand Gentlemen it is not unknown to most persons nay to every one amongst us that hath the least observed the former times how that ever since the Reformation there hath been a design carried on to subvert the Government and destroy the Protestant Religion established here in England for during all the Reign of Queen Elizabeth severall attempts were made by several Priests and Jesuits that came from beyond the Seas though the Laws were then severe against them to destroy the Queen and alter the Religion established here in England and to introduce Popery and the Superstition of the Church of Rome But the Conspirators from time to time during all the Queens Reign were disappointed as Edmond Camtion and several other Jesuits who came over in that time and were executed did suffer for their Treasons according to Law at length about the lat●●erend of the Queens time a Seminary for the English Jesuits was founded at Valled●●lid in Spain and you know the emyloyment such persons have And soon after the Queens death in the beginning of the Reign of King James several persons came over into England from this very Seminary who together with one Henry Garnet Superior of the Jesuits then in England and divers other English Papists hatched that hellish Gunpowder-plot whereby what was designed you all know but as it fell out these persons as well as those in Queen Elizabeths time were likewise disappointed for their execrable Treasons in the third year of King James were executed at Tyburn and otherplaces This is evident by the very Act of Parliament in 30. Jacobi in the preamble whereof mention is made that Creswel and Tesmond Jesuits came from Validolid in Spain to execute this Gunpowder-Treason with the Poplsh party here in England And Gentlemen after this Treason so miraculously discovered was punished one would not have thought that any future age would have been guilty of the like Conspiracy but it so falls out that the Mystery of Iniquity and Jesuitism still worketh for there hath of late been a sort of cruel bloody minded persons who in hopes to have better success than they had in fo●●mer times during the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James have set on foot as horrid a Design

Englands as the Protestant Religion Here Whitebread would have interrupted him My Lord I am so well satisfied in their denyalls that I cannot but believe they who can give a dispensa●●ion and have received the sacrament to kill a King and destroy a whole Kingdom doe not scruple to give a dispensation for a little lye to promote such a design for so much ●●s this Expiates any lye or greater Crime Sir Cr. Levines Pray Sir will you be pleased to tell your whole knowledge concerning the Prisoners at the B●●rr Mr. Bedlow The first le●●er ●●●●rr●●e●● wa●● from Mr. Harcourt at his house next door to the Arch in Dukes-street He hath been Procurator for the Jesuits about 6. years H●● employed me first and sent for me ov●●r for I was the●● L●…nt in Flanders and coming home to receive my pay that was due to me L. C. J. How long is it a goe Mr. Bedlow Michaelmus last was 4. years when I came to Dunkirke I went to visit the English N●●nnery there the Lady Abbesse finding me very plyable inclineable made very much of me and I did adhe●●e to her sh●● k●●pt ●● 6. we●●kes in the covent afterwards when I went away recommended me to Sir John Warner as an instrument fit to be employed in the carrying of letters or doing any th●●ng that would promote the design against England He kept me at S. Omers a forthn●●g●●t and a●… me to Father Harcourt to be instructed in my employment It was th●●n win●●● the next spring he sends me into England with divers letters whereby Mr. Harcourt I was empl●●yed to carry several letters to Morton and Doway and o●●her places that summe●● I was s●●nt into England without an answer but afterwards in 76 which was the ●●xt summer I was to carry another Pacquett of l●●t●●s to the Monks at Paris who s●●nt it to other English Monks in France L. C. J. Who sent that pacquet of letters in 76 M●● Bedlow I had it from mr Harcourt and it was written by Harcourt Pritchard Carry L. C. J. To whom Mr. Bedlow To the Engl●●sh Monk●● i●● France and in it there was a letter ●●o ●● Ch●●se Upon the receipt of these l●●t●●ers at Paris ●● Ch●●se had a co●●sul●●tion with the M●●nk●● 〈…〉 a French Bishop or two about them I did not then speak French ●●●ugh to ●…d what it was they said but it was interpreted to me by mr Stapleton an English Monk who told me that it was a letter from my Lord Bellasis and others of the Catholick Religion English Gentlemen who were contrivers of the Plot here to satisfie them in what state things stood in England as to Popery I was sent back again with a pacquett of letters directed to mr Vaughan of Courtfield in Monmouthshire L. C. J. From whom was that Mr. Bedl●●w From the English Monks at Paris From that consultation I went to Ponthois I there received other letters to carry into England I had a course to open their letters and read what was in them and in those letters was contained That the Prayers of that house were for the prosperity of that design and they would not fail to be at the consultation at of Warwickshire Gentlemen I fell sick at Monmouth and Mr. Vaughan sent to me a Iesuit to confess me but I was well before he came and so was not confessed by him I now come to the later times L. C. J You must speak it over to the Jury that they and the prisoners may hear you Mr. Bedlow The 25th of May 77. which was last year I was sent over with an other Pacquet of Le●●ters I had no letters of consequence forward and therefore did not call then at Wotton but I called upon the Lady Albesse at Dunkirk and I went thence to Bridges and to Ghent where I had some letters for the English N●●nns which I delivered to them When I came to Doway I found there that the Monks were gone that was Sheldon Stapleton and Latham but the letters were directed to Paris and therefore I made hast and at Cambray I overtooke them And the letters were to give an account of the consultation held in the Gallery at Sommerset-house all tending to the destruction of the Protestant Religion and killing the King but I doe not think fit to declare here who were the persons that were present at that consultation At Cambray they were very joyful that there was so good a proceeding in England At Paris when the letters were shewed there was a letter written in a language which I did not understand but as I was told in that letter they were charged in Paris by my Lord Bellasis that they did not proceed according to their promise to them in England But said Mr. Stapleton to me my Lord Bellasis nor the society in England need not to write thus to us for We are not so backward but we can lend men and money and Armes too and will upon occasion From thence they sent me to Spain with a letter to an Irish Father I did overtake him at Sa Mora. From thence I went with another letter to the Rector of a Colledge of Irish Jesuits in Salamanca by their contrivance I was sent to St. Jago in Spain where was another Colledge of Irish Jesuits There I staid till I had an answer to Sir Willi Godolphin and when I had the answer to that Letter I went for the letter from the Rector at Salamanca the Jesuits there told me they would take care to send their own answer another way And when they had made me that promise I came away for England and landed at Mill-ford-haven All this reaches to none of these persons in particular But what I now shall say shall be about them only it was necessary I should speak of what I have said L. C. J. The meaning of all this is only to shew the Jury and satisfie them that he was an Agent for these men and hath been employed by them for five years together and he names you the particular places whither he hath been sent to shew you the reasons of his knowledge in this matter and upon what account he comes to be informed of this design Mr. Bedlow Having received the Newes of that country I did there take water and landed againe at P●●nsans and when I came to London I gave the Letter to Mr. Harcourt What was in that Pacquet I cannot particularly tell for I was not so inquisitive a●● to look into the contents of it but I know it was tending as all the rest did to the carrying on of this Plot Afterwards I was employed by Mr. Harcourt and Mr. Coleman to go to ●●me parts of England to communicate the letters to some of the popish party L. C. J. Now turn to the Jury Mr. Bedlow The Summer was past in the doing of that in the beginning of August last there was a Consultation and a close one at Mr. Harcourts Chamber so as