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A63162	The tryal and conviction of Thomas Knox and John Lane for a conspiracy to defame and scandalize Dr. Oates and Mr. Bedloe thereby to discredit their evidence about the horrid popish plot : at the Kings-Bench-Bar at Westminster, on Tuesday the 25th of Novemb. 1679 ... : where upon full evidence they were found guilty of the offence aforesaid.	Knox, Thomas, 17th cent.; Lane, John, 17th cent.; England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.	1680 (1680)	Wing T2165; ESTC R21831	50,627	72

I Do Appoint Robert Pawlett to Print the Tryal of Thomas Knox and John Lane and let no other person presume to Print the same WILLIAM SCROGGS THE TRYAL AND CONVICTION OF THOMAS KNOX and IOHN LANE FOR A CONSPIRACY To Defame and Scandalize Dr. OATES and Mr. BEDLOE Thereby to Discredit their Evidence about the Horrid Popish Plot At the Kings-Bench-Bar at Westminster On Tuesday the 25 th of Novemb. 1679. Before the Right Honourable Sir WILLIAM SCROGGS Knight Lord Chief Justice and the other Judges of that Court Where upon full Evidence they were found Guilty of the Offence aforesaid LONDON Printed for Robert Pawlett at the Bible in Chancery-Lane near Fleetstreet M. DC LXXX THE Tryal and Conviction OF THOMAS KNOX and IOHN LANE FOR A CONSPIRACY To Defame and Scandalize Dr. OATES and Mr. BEDLOE Thereby to discredit their Evidence about the POPISH PLOT ON Tuesday the 25 th day of November 1679 at the Kings Bench Bar at Westminster Thomas Knox and Iohn Lane were tryed for the Misdemeanour and Offence herein after in the Indictment expressed and which Tryal was in manner following Proclamation being made in usual manner for Information and the Defendants called to their Challenges the Jury were sworn whose names follow The JURY Sir Iohn Kirke Thomas Harriot Henry Iohnson Simon Middleton Hugh Squire Francis Dorrington Iohn Roberts Rainsford VVaterhouse Thomas Earsby Ioseph Radcliffe Iames Supple Richard Cooper Who being numbred the Clerk of the Crown charged them with the Indictment thus Clerk of the Crown Gentlemen you of the Jury that are sworn hearken to your charge you shall understand that the Defendants stand Indicted by the Oaths of twelve honest and lawful men of the County of Middlesex by the names of Thomas Knox of the Parish of S. Margaret's Westminster in the County of Middlesex Labourer and Iohn Lane of the same Parish and County Labourer for that whereas Edward Coleman William Ireland and Iohn Grove and other false Traitors against our Soveraign Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King defender of the Faith c. to the Jurors aforesaid unknown the 24 th day of April in the 30 th year of the Reign of our said Soveraign Lord the King at the Parish of S. Margarets Westminster in the Country of Middlesex Traiterously amongst themselves had conspired consulted and agreed to bring and put to death and destruction our said Soveraign Lord the King and war against our said Soveraign Lord the King within this Kingdome of England to stir up and the Religion in the said Kingdome of England rightly and by the Laws of the said Kingdome established to the superstition of the Romish Church to change and alter and the Government of the said Kingdome of England to subvert for which their said most wicked Treasons and Traiterous conspiraries consultations and agreements they the said Edward Coleman William Ireland and Iohn Grove in due manner and according to the Laws of this Kingdome of England were afterwards attainted and underwent the pain of death for the same And whereas William Earl of Powis William Viscount Stafford Iohn Lord Bellasis Henry Lord Arundel of Wardor William Lord Petre and Sir Henry Tichbourn Baronet the 30 th day of Nov. in the 30 th year of the Reign of our said Soveraign Lord the King aforesaid at the Parish of St. Margarets Westminster aforesaid in the County of Middlesex aforesaid of the Treasons aforesaid were lawfully accused and thereupon according to due form of Law were committed to the Tower of London being the Prison of our said Soveraign Lord the King there safely to be kept to answer for the Treasons aforesaid whereupon they the said William Earl of Powis William Viscount Stafford Iohn Lord Bellasis Henry Lord Arundel of Wardor and William Lord Petre were in Parliament impeached by the Commons in the same Parliament Assembled And whereas Thomas Earl of Danby afterwards to wit the said 30 th day of November in the 30 th year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid of certain Treasons and other Misdemeanours was lawfully accused and thereupon according to due Form of Law was committed to the said Tower of London there to be safely kept to answer for the Treasons and Misdeanours aforesaid of which said Treasons and Misdemeanours he the said Thomas Earl of Danby is impeached in Parliament by the Commons in the same Parliament Assembled that they the said Thomas Knox and Iohn Lane well knowing the said William Earl of Powis William Viscount Stafford Iohn Lord Bellasis Henry Lord Arundel of Wardor William Lord Petre and Thomas Earl of Danby to be accused of the Treasons and Misdeameanours aforesaid and they the said Thomas Knox and Iohn Lane being Devillishly affected towards our said Soveraign Lord the King their Supream and natural Lord and devising and with all their strength intending the peace and tranquillity of this Kingdom of England to disturb and to hinder and stifle the discovery of the said Treasons by the said VVilliam Earl of Powis VVilliam Viscount Stafford Iohn Lord Bellasis Henry Lord Arundel and VVilliam Lord Petre as aforesaid supposed to be committed and as much as in them lay to elude the due course of Law and the prosecution of Justice against the said VVilliam Earl of Powis VVilliam Viscount Stafford VVilliam Lord Petre Iohn Lord Bellasis Sir Henry Tichbourn and Thomas Earl of Danby to retard they the said Thomas Knox and Iohn Lane afterwards to wit the 30 th day of April in the 31 th year of the Reign of our said Soveraign Lord the King at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid falsly maliciously and unlawfully did consult and agree among themselves Titus Oates Clerk and VVilliam Bedloe Gentleman who Informations of the Treasons aforesaid had given and whom they the said Thomas Knox and Iohn Lane the day and year aforesaid well knew to have given Information of the Treasons aforesaid against them the said VVilliam Earl of Powis VVilliam Viscount Stafford Iohn Lord Bellasis Henry Lord Arundel and VVilliam Lord Petre to scandalize and upon the tryal of the said William Earl of Powis William Viscount Stafford Iohn Lord Bellasis Henry Lord Arundel and William Lord Petre to represent them to be persons of evil conversation and Witnesses not deserving credit And that he the said Thomas Knox afterwards to wit the said 30 th day of April in the 31 th year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid in the names and with the consent and agreement of the said Iohn Lane and one VVilliam Osborn to disgrace the Information of the said Titus Oates and VVilliam Bedlow against them the said VVilliam Earl of Powis VVilliam Viscount Stafford VVilliam Lord Petre Iohn Lord Bellasis and Henry Lord Arundel for our said Soveraign Lord the King to be given falsly maliciously subtilly and advisedly did Write and cause to be Written three Letters and those Letters so written

falsly craftily unlawfully and advisedly did direct and cause to be delivered to himself the said Thomas Knox by which said Letters falsly craftily and deceitfully it was declared that they the said Iohn Lane and VVilliam Osbourn were greatly troubled in their Consciences by reason of certain things which they well knew and had concealed concerning the nnjust contrivances of the said Titus Oates and William Bedloe in accusing the said Thomas Earl of Danby to be guilty of the Treasons and other misdemeanours aforesaid and that the said Titus Oates was a person of a wicked and vitious Life and made an assault upon the said Iohn Lane and with the said Iohn Lane to commit that detestable sin called Sodomy before that time had endeavoured And that he the said Thomas Knox the sooner and more effectually to perswade the said Iohn Lane and VVilliam Osbourn falsly to accuse the said Titus Oates and VVilliam Bedloe that they the said Titus Oates and VVilliam Bedloe unjustly and against all truth had accused the said Thomas Earl of Danby of the Treasons and other misdemeanours aforesaid and so to affirm against the evidence of our said Soveraign Lord the King upon the Trial of the said Thomas Earl of Danby for the Treasons and other Misdemeanours aforesaid to be had afterwards to wit the said 30 th day of April in the 31 th year of the Reign of our said Soveraign Lord the King aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid falsly advisedly corruptly and against the duty of his Allegiance unlawfully gave to the said Iohn Lane and William Osborn divers great sums of money and also further falsly advisedly corruptly and against the duty of his Allegiance the day and year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid did promise unto the said Iohn Lane and William Osbourn that they the said Iohn Lane and VVilliam Osbourn within a certain time by the said Thomas Knox to the said Iohn Lane and William Osbourn propounded divers other great sums of money and other great rewards therefore should have and receive against the Duty of their Allegiance to the great retarding obstructing and suppressing of Justice in manifest contempt of the Laws of this Kingdome of England to the evil and pernitious example of all others in the like case offending and against the peace of our said Soveraign Lord the King his Crown and Dignity to this Indictment the said Thomas Knox and Iohn Lane by their Attorney plead that they are not Guilty nor either of them is Guilty of the offence aforesaid and further withal put themselves upon the Country and the Kings Attorney likewise And your charge is to inquire if they are Guilty or not Guilty c. Clerk of the Crown Make an O yes Cryer O yes If any one will give Evidence on the behalf of our Soveraign Lord the King against Thomas Knox and Iohn Lane of the Misdemeanours and offence whereof they stand indicted let them come forth and give their Evidence Then Trenchard Esq of Counsel for the King in this Cause opened the Indictment thus Mr. Trench May it please you Lordship and you Gentlemen of the Jury Thomas Knox and Iohn Lane stand indicted for a great and high Misdemeanour and the Indictment sets forth that whereas Coleman Ireland Pickering and Grove and other false Traitors did conspire to destroy the King and change the Religion established by Law to levy War against our Soveraign Lord the King and to introduce Popery and for these Treasons were convicted attainted and executed and further sets forth that the Lord Powis Lord Arundel of Warder and others were accused of the said Treasons and were committed to the Tower and afterwards were impeached for the same by the Commons in Parliament Assembled as also that Thomas Earl of Danby was impeached of High Treason and other Misdemeanours that the Defendants knowing Mr. Oates and Mr. Bedloe had given Information of these Treasons to stifle the Evidence and to scandalize them did falsly conspire to represent them as wicked persons and men of no credit And the Indictment further sets forth that the Defendant Knox with the agreement of Lane and one Osbourn did cause several Letters to be writ in which it was contrived to accuse the said Oates and Bedloe that they had conspired falsly to accuse the said Earl of Danby and that Oates was a person of a vitious conversation and had a design to attempt an assault upon the person of the said Lane with an intention to commit that detestable sin of Sodomy the better to effect which wicked designs the said Knox gave several sums of money to Osbourn and Lane and had offered great rewards unto them To this Indictment they have pleaded not Guilty and you are to try whether they are Guilty or not of this Misdemeanour Then Sir Iohn Maynard the Kings eldest Serjeant at Law persued the charge thus Mr. Serj. Mayn May it please your Lordship and you Gentlemen of the Jury this cause is of great consequence and my Lord I desire the Jury to observe that their question this day is not to inquire whether the Lords or the other persons accused and impeached in Parliament are Guilty or not but the question before them is whether the persons that stand here indicted are guilty of wicked and vile endeavours to discountenance and suppress the Evidence and scandalize their persons who were to give Evidence against these Lords we are not to give Evidence against the Lords but against these persons L. Chief Iust. You are right Brother Mr. Serj. Mayn Gentlemen something I must observe to you that is an inducement to this matter that there hath been an horrid and abominable Conspiracy against the King the Nation the Religion and the Law appears my Lord by the proceedings in Parliament wherein the Lords and the Commons have several times joyntly declared and I think 't is so publick that no body will doubt there is such a thing who is guilty that is another matter L. Cheif Iust. This Court must take notice of that because some have been tryed convicted and condemned for it by this Court Mr. Serj. Mayn Your Lordship says right But my Lord the first discovery of this Conspiracy came from a single person one that stood single and discouraged a long time and that there were endeavours to discourage his further discovery that will appear My Lord when it stood so it happened that Sir Edmondbury God frey had taken his Examination and these things will be material in the end of the Cause Sir Edmondbury Godfrey having taken the Examination of Oates then the endeavour was to suppresse this Examination that he had taken and that by no less a wickednesse then the barbarous murder of that honest Gentleman whom you all knew and they not only took away his Life but they did strive to baffle and defame him when he was dead and that will appear too and is publick and known My

Lord all this while stood Oates single it fell out by the Mercy of God that a further discovery was made by Bedloe he was examined and it is publickly known and publick Justice hath gone upon it The next attempt was to corrupt the testimony of Bedloe with Bribes and Rewards and by other ways and the person that transacted it Reading is attainted of it Scelere tutandum est scelus when men have invented and designed any great wickednesse they are forced to enter upon others to cover and conceal the former My Lord it proceeded now and comes to that which will be the Question this day Having gone all these wayes now they return again to see if they can disgrace and baffle the Evidence Oates and Bedloe had given and the way to that is by disparaging and scandalizing them with foul offences especially Dr. Oates and that was thus as we shall prove to your Lordship Lane had been a servant with Oates and the other was one of the like condition and he was tampered with to accuse Dr. Oates of that horrid sin of Sodomy and I think if he were such an one little credit were to be given to such a man This was the design they were to accomplish And we shall prove to you in order to it there were Letters written and contrived by Knox indeed written by Osbourn who is not now before you but a contrivance of them all And my Lord there must be a pretence for in truth these persons had been Examined and had charged him with this offence but upon further Examination they had renounced their discovery L. Chief Iust. Had they all given Evidence or who did Mr. Serj Mayn No my Lord pardon me I am not speaking of their Evidence but only of their Examination before the Lords L. Chief Iust. What was it that was there witnessed Mr. Serj. Mayn Then they pretended this matter that they were touched in Conscience and now they repent and must discover the truth for the truths sake that themselves were false in the making of the charge and this my Lord must be furthered with Bribes and Rewards as we shall prove to you We shall make out the particulars by Witnesses and then we think we may leave it to your Lordship and the Jury to determine In truth my Lord it happens in this case as it did long ago when the first discovery was of a like design and as is told us by the Historian Multi ob stultitiam non putabant multi ob Ignorantiam non videbant multi ob pravitatem non credebant non credendo conjurationem adjuvabant Then Sir Creswel Levins His Majesties Attorney General further opened the Evidence thus Mr. Attorn Gen. May it please your Lordship and you Gentlemen of the Jury I am of Counsel for the King in this Cause whose Suit it is The Evidence hath been opened fully by Mr. Serjeant I shall only say this that this is a Counter-part of Mr. Readings case only it seems in this to differ that the Counter-Part exceeds the Original for I think that it is of a further extent then his was It hath been told you by Mr. Serjeant and I know the Court will tell you that it matters not whether those persons that are accused of the Plot and impeached for it were guilty or not it is sufficient that they are accused and that by these persons For any body to endeavour to suppresse and withdraw the Kings Evidence or to disgrace the Kings Evidence that is not lawful be the Crime what it will be but it is a much greater Crime in a case of this nature of High Treason where the Life of the King the Government of the Kingdome the Religion and the true Worship of God Established in it and the Laws of the Nation are in danger Some of these persons are Guilty for Mr Coleman and several others have been found Guilty and have been Executed for it The design in this case that lies before you Gentlemen to try was to throw a disparagement upon the testimony of those persons by whose Evidence those Traitors were principally attainted and executed This is Gentlemen to affront the justice of the Nation and indeed to cast a disparagement upon it and that sure is as great an offence as can be the matter of the Evidence hath been opened to you I shall only acquaint your Lordship and the Jury that it hath been designed a great while and so long designed that one of the persons here accused Mr. Lane one of Oats's Servants had the opportunity to get into his Masters secrets thereby the more effectually to betray him and as it will appear by Witnesses did carry on the design till it was discovered and by that discovery prevented as to any success Mr. Recorder Your Lordship is pleased to observe in the Indictment that is now to be tried there are but two persons that stand Indicted that is Lane and Knox. I presume the Gentlemen that are on the other side for each of the Prisoners for I perceive those that are for the one are not for the other may expect that there should be proof made of what is laid as inducement in the Indictment and will not tend immediately to that which will be the Question in this Case for there is recited in the Indictment the Conviction of Coleman in this place and others in other places for the High Treason the Evidence whereof these persons are Indicted for scandalizing we have here the Records ready to prove it Lord Chief Iust. I suppose they will admit that Mr. Recorder If they will not we have that which will prove it Mr. Withins My Lord we shall not stand upon that Sir Francis Winnington We are ready if you did Mr. Serjeant Maynard And you will admit that Doctor Oates and Mr. Bedloe were witnesses upon those Trials Mr. Withins Yes and gave evidence very considerable Mr. Recorder Then my Lord we must hint to you that Lane who is one of the persons taken notice of in the Indictment was a Servant to Doctor Oates Knox was not in his service but Knox is a man that made use of Lane as a handle to the matter he had designed therefore Letters are prepared but by whom that we shall give you an account of was by the direction of Knox though the Letters that will be produced are directed to Knox himself Lord Chief Iust. Your Indictment says so Mr. Recorder But we shall give you an account that he was director of those Letters himself but as your Lordship may observe there are not only Letters but some accusations or informations We shall prove to your Lordship whose hand-writing they were and who dictated those Informations for I think that Mr. Knox is pretended to have the most brains and I believe Mr. Knox in the consequence will appear to have the most malice And we shall prove in the next place that inasmuch as it would be natural in the