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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66478	An historical review of the late horrid phanatical plot in the rise, progress, and discovery of the same.	F. N. W.	1684 (1684)	Wing W28; ESTC R6864	41,811	36

Committed to the said place for the Treasons aforesaid whether under a Sense of his own Guilt or the Utter Despair of his Royal Master and Benefactor 's Mercy whom he had so highly wronged prevented the Sentence of the Law and laid Murdrous Hands on his Life by Cutting his own Throat several others were taken and Committed amongst whom the Lord William Russell Algernoone Sidney Esq Thomas Walcot John Rouse and William Hone whose Cases we now come more particularly to Treat of which is the Second part of that Method I proposed and wherein I shall Glean only what was materially Witnessed against them and is proper for the further parts of this History whereby the way and from what has been before said I would entreat the Reader to take Notice that there were Two several Designs on foot the one The Murther of the King and the Utter Destruction of the Government in which the Three latter were concerned the other Singly against the Government in which was the Two first But these Two like Sister-Springs rose both from one of the same Corrupt Fountain and tho the Channels in which they wandred were for sometime different yet at last they were both designed to Meet and Embrace each other in the wide Ocean of Anarchy and Confusion At the Tryal of Captain Walcot the 12th of July 1683. for the said Treasons Evidence was given by Collonel Rumsey to the following Purport That about the latter end of October or the beginning of November he was with the late Earl of Shaftsbury who acquainted him the D. of M. the Lord Russell Lord Grey and Sir Thomas Armstrong were at Mr. Shepheards the Merchants House to whom he desired him to go and know what they had done about the Raising Arms at Taunton who Answered him when he came there to them That Mr. Trenchard had failed them about Men and they could proceed no further at that time which Answer being conveyed to my Lord he said There was no dependance on those Gentlemen and that he would leave England after which a Meeting was had by several of the Conspirators Goodenough Wade and others Captain Walcot being then in Holland where it was proposed No good was to be done by a general Rising but the surest way was taking off the King and the Duke to which End they sent a Letter to Mr. Ferguson without whose Aid they could not carry the same on to Holland who thereupon coming over Captain Walcot came with him on Ashwednesday in February after which several Meetings were had about the same matter wherein it was Concluded at His Majesties coming from Newmarket a Party should Kill the Postilion others the Coach-Horses whilst Rumbald Charged the Coach wherein His Majesty and Royal Highness were to be and Walcot the Guards to which End they were to meet at Hokesdon aforesaid and in Case their Blunderbusses mist they were by their Swords to finish the same But this was put off on the Kings unexpected return thence on occasion of the Fire their Men being unprepared tho the same was laboured in by Mr. Ferguson and Captain Walcot undertook to go down and ask But this Design being then for that time prevented they Agreed to Raise Money to provide Arms Captain Walcot being present Mr. West undertook the Arms Mr. Ferguson the Money Goodenough and Rumbald to provide Men for the like intent against His Majesties Person as He came from Windsor to Hampton-Court or at the Play-House as opportunity should serve and a general Rising was intended to which end the City was to be divided into several parts and accounts were taken of the numbers of Men in the several Devisions by Goodenough and others This was the sum of Colonel Rumseys Evidence The next that appeared was Mr. Keeling whose Evidence was That some time before the King went to Newmarket he was at the Sun Tavern with Richard Rumbald and Richard Goodenough c. That Goodenough called him aside and asked him what Men he would procure to go down to Newmarket to Kill the King and the Duke he answered him he thought none But the Question being renewed several other times he had in the mean while some Discourse with one Burton and Thompson Burton told him one Barber would be concerned and Tompson also the Fryday after being the Day which the Fire happen'd in at Newmarket Rumbald came to his House to see those Men he could Procure and the next day he met him and asked whether they were willing to go down to the Rye meaning his House there being as he said no better convenience for the Design then that in England it being a House intire to it self and very remote from Neighbours besides the Advantage of a Court or Wall using this as an Argument to prevail with those Persons That it would be keeping one of the Commandements in Killing the King and the Duke for if it be not done there will be otherwise a great deal of Blood shed In the Afternoon they met at the Dolphin Tavern in Bartholomew Lane Rumbald West Goodenough and Hone where West asked Rumbald whether he heard the King would come home that Night which he Answered that he did but hoped it would not be till Saturday that being the day appointed to go to Rye to meet the King and Duke But if they should says West hovv many Swan-Quils Goose-Quils Crow-Quils vvith Sand and Ink must you have Six says Rumbald of the first Tvventy the Second and Twenty or Thirty of the last by these Canting Terms did they disguise the Names of Blunderbusses Muskets Pistols Powder and Bullets but vvhat concerned the Prisoner only vvas That he see him at the Salutation-Tavern vvhere there vvas a Discourse by Mr. West concerning the Name of Keeling saying it signified in Dutch Culing and that he vvas their English Culing adding that he hoped to see him at the Head of as good an Army in Wapping as Culing vvas then at Colen This vvas the chief part of Mr. Keelings Evidence only something was added touching Goodenoughs Instructions to try the Temper of some of his Neighbours in those Divisions about him by Questions at a distance such as those In Case of an Insurrection or French Invasion how are you prepared Or whether you would be willing to Join therein Telling him withal In Case the Assassination went forward they would lay the same on the Papists as a Branch of the Popish Plot and that a Declaration was prepared to ease the Cautious People of their Burthens and especially Chimney-Money I proceed next to the Evidence of Zachary Bourne who Testified That he came to be acquainted with Captain Walcot by the means of Mr. Ferguson who was his Lodger and whom the Captain used to Visit that he afterwards met him at the Dragon-Tavern upon Snow-Hill with several others where the Result of the Business was A speedy Design to Raise Men and dividing the City in Twenty Divisions Seizing the King and Duke of