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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

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proper to begin in London or in the Country or both at one Instant To which it was said in the Country the Duke of Monmouth giving it as a Reason that it was impossible by a rude Rabble hastily got together to oppose a Formed Methodiz'd and well Governed Force and therefore whatsoever Numbers could be gathered in the City would be quickly suppressed before they could Form themselves that in the Country they might without the same fear they would be here Subject to and that being likewise remote from Town it would put the King on the Dilemma that he must send his Forces to Reduce them or not if he did the City was left nake would give them opportunity to Rise and come back upon the Kings Forces if not they might have time to form their Numbers and be better ordered it was further considered what Arms was necessary to be got and how disposed what Towns were most disposed to Action that it would be necessary to have a Common Bank of 25 or 30000l to answer the occasions of such an undertaking but the last and greatest was to draw in Scotland to consent with them which at the next meeting the same Persons being all Six there where at my Lord Russel's own House it was resolved some Persons should be sent to my Lord Argyle to settle an understanding with him and others to Scotland to invite some Persons hither who best understood the State and could give Account thereof the Persons agrreed were Sir John Cockram Lord Melvill and one Campbell and accordingly Aaron Smith was agreed to be sent and Colonel Sidney to take Care of the Affairs This was the Tenour of my Lord Howards Evidence which together with what was before repeated was the sum of what was proved against the Prisoner to which his Exceptions were first in general against the Evidence for that they were concerned in this matter by their own shewing and then particularly against my Lord Howard that before he came as a Witness against him he had declared to the Earl of Bedford in the hearing of my Lord Anglesey who Testified the same in the behalf of the Prisoner that the said Earl had a wise Son and a worthy Person one that could not be in such a Plot as the same was or suspected for it and that his Lordship might expect a good Issue in that Affair his Son being then Committed and that concerning him he knew nothing against him or any Body else The same words at another time spoken or the like Effect were Testified against him by Mr. Howard and Dr. Burnet to the same Purpose only adding some Imprecations his Lordship had made to confirm what he sa●d to which objection my Lord Howard replyed That the Circumstances he was under obliged him to outface the matter Several other Witnesses were brought to prove the Prisoners Reputation and Sobriety of Life but the Evidence was so plain and undeniable against him and the Consequence so great that all good Men abhorred his Crime at the same time they had Compassion on his Circumstances and even then when by their Oaths and Consciences the Jury were bound to find him Guilty they pittied his Misfortunes I now proceed to the Tryal of Collonel Algernoon Sidney which tho the same doth not fall in order of time yet its necessary to give the Account thereof it being the close of the Evidence touching the main Plot who came to be Arraigned the 17th of November last and Tryed the 21th wherein I shall pretermit all such Testimony as was given in general and which is before touched previous to what most concerned him by West Rumsey and Keeling as also the former and introductory part of what my Lord Howard Testified which I have taken notice of in the preceeding Pages That which cheifly concerned the Prisoner was the two Meetings and Consultations afore mentioned at Mr. Hambdens and my Lord Russel's as also the business of Scotland debated in the latter to which Colonel Sidney propounded that he would take Care of the Person and that he had one in his thoughts and named Aaron Smith who was look't on as a Proper Person and was accordingly sent by him as he himself told the Lord Howard and that he gave him about 60 Guineys to supply his Charges and had received a Letter from him on his way to Newcastle A Second part of the Evidence against the prisoner were several Papers found in his House which were by three Witnesses proved to be of his own hand writing by Persons that were conversant with the same in which Papers there was a continued Thread of Argument laid down not in one single Proposition but a whole Series of Reasoning in which were these Positions That the King derives all his Power from the People That 't is Originally in the People and that the measure of Subjection must be Judged ly the Parliament and if the King does fall from doing his Duty the People will exact it And this he lays down as no ways prejudecial to him for says he The King may refuse the Crown if he do not like it on these Terms But if he does accept it he must expect the performance will be exacted or revenge taken by those he hath betrayed then he sets up an Objection and argues against it Ay! but shall the People Judg in their own Cause which he thus Answers it must be so for is not the King a Judg in his own Cause How can any Man else be tryed and Convicted of any Offence if the King may not be Judg in his own Cause for to Judg by a Mans self or his Deputy is the same thing and so a Crime against the King cannot be Punished and then he takes notice of it as a very absur'd Position the King should Judg in his own Cause and not the People That would be to say the Servant entertained by the Master should Judg the Master but the Master shall not Judg the Servant and after this sort of Argument he comes to this setled Position We may therefore says he change or take away Kings without breaking any Yoke or tho 't is made a Yoke the injury therefore is in imposing the Yoke and there can be none at all in breaking it But he goes on in the said Papers by way of Answer to an Objection that if there be no Injury yet there may be an Inconvenience if the beadless multitude should shake off the Yoke But says he I would fain know how the Multitude comes to be headless and there gives you instances in story and from Foreign Nations comes home to the English and tells you how all Rebellions in latter Ages have been headed and tells you the Parliament is the Head or the Nobility and Gentry that Compose it and when the King fails of his Duty the People may call it the Multitude therefore is never headless but they either find or create a Head so that upon the whole