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A36359	Mr. Tho. Dangerfield's second narrative wherein is contained a faithful charge against the Lady Powis, Mr. Stamford, (the Duke of Newburghs resident) and Mrs. Cellier relating to the murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey and the late plot made by the papists, to be cast upon the Protestants : wherein is I. A true account of methods used to invalidate the testimony of Captain William Bedloe and Mr. Prance, II. An account of the several papists imprisoned, and their crimes, with the charges it cost them to get out upon bail / written by his own hand.	Dangerfield, Thomas, 1650?-1685.; Prance, Miles, fl. 1678-1689.; Bedloe, William, 1650-1680.; Cellier, Elizabeth, fl. 1680.; Powis, Elizabeth Somerset Herbert, Duchess of, d. 1691.; Stamford, Mr.	1680 (1680)	Wing D193; ESTC R20874	26,539	34

I Do Appoint THOMAS COCKERILL to Print this my Second NARRATIVE and that no other Print the same February 6. 1679 80. THOMAS DANGERFEILD Mr Tho. Dangerfeild's SECOND NARRATIVE Wherein is Contained A FAITHFUL CHARGE AGAINST THE Lady POWIS Mr. STAMFORD the Duke of Newburghs Resident and Mrs. CELLIER Relating to the Murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey AND The late PLOT made by the PAPISTS To be Cast upon the PROTESTANTS WHEREIN IS I. A True Account of Methods used to Invalidate the Testimony of Captain WILLIAM BEDLOE and Mr. PRANCE II. An Account of the several PAPISTS Imprisoned and their Crimes with the Charges it cost them to get out upon Bail Written by his own Hand LONDON Printed for Thomas Cockerill at the Three Legs in the Poultrey over-against the stocks-Market 1680. To the Right Honourable Sir ROBERT CLAYTON Knight Lord Mayor of the City of London My Lord THough a too prevalent custom has rendred Dedications little more than Complemental Follies wherein Authors first make themselves and next their Patrons ridiculous by extravagant Harangues yet I cannot but be free from all suspitions of such vanity in Addressing these Papers to your Lordships hand whose solid worth is as much above as neglectful of popular Applause I come not to make you a Present but to pay you a Tribute The Loyalty Prudence Justice and Moderation your Lordship exercises in that Honourable but weighty Charge wherewith you are entrusted and the zeal and stedfastness you have shown to the Protestant Religion in these tempestuous times when some that seem'd fixed stars have been found but Blazing Meteors justly intitles you to the Respects and Gratitude of all true Protestants and Englishmen not only in this mighty City wherein under His Majesty whom God long preserve you preside but throughout the Nation too by the influence of your generous Example to other Magistrates Besides which my own private Obligations to your Lordships Candor and Impartial Audience when humbly requested loudly call for some publick Acknowledgments from me who cannot but receive comfort under all Discouragements that have or may happen when I consider That a person of your Lordships Integrity and Merit cannot escape the Frowns shall I call them or rather Snarlings of some little pretenders to the Protestant Interest which really they desert through Ignorance or maliciously endeavour to betray Nor know I how better to Implore your Lordships pardon for the presumption of this Address than by professing in all sincerity That the Motives inducing me to publish this Narrative were principally the Glory of God the Honour and Safety of the King and the preservation of the true Protestant Religion and secondarily in order to those ends the strengthning of all Protestants against a most perverse subtile and cruel Generation who with restless Endeavours seek to overthrow the same Rendred yet more dangerous because some weak unthinking people are too easily deluded to own Countenance and Abet though perhaps unwittingly such their mischievous Designs And lastly That if there be any Papists sincere in their misguided Devotion the horrid practises of the Leading men of that faction nakedly display'd may open their Eyes and convince them so far as to abandon that pernicious Communion and embrace the Truth thereby becoming at once true Christians and good Subjects to their true and natural Prince This being the only scope I am bold to promise my self a Connivence for any imperfections of stile or method my aim herein being Truth not Rhetorick That the Almighty may ever bless your Honour and preserve this Noble City both from the Treacherous Malice and Crafty Insinuations of Romish Incendiaries shall be the daily prayer of My Lord Your Lordships most humble and devoted Servant THOMAS DANGERFEILD Mr. Dangerfield's Second Narrative c. THis age hath produced diverse strange demonstrations of the many Damnable and Horrid Designs such as possess the Roman Catholick Religion which affords such Hellish Principles that the Bloud of Princes Magistrates Destruction of Nations or what Hell it self can invent cannot obstruct them or stand in their way to hinder the promoting their excellent Religion and as a further detection of their villanies I recommend to your consideration this ensuing Narrative which had it taken the effect intended might have proved as dangerous to the Protestant Interest as any for about the month of February 1678. One Mr. Strode being a Prisoner in the K. Bench did after some time enter into a Correspondence with one Lionel Anderson alias Mounson a Dominican Priest and then also a Prisoner there who pretending some better Opinion of Mr. Strode then of others did invite him to his Chamber to drink which favour he readily imbraced and very often but at one time being somewhat overtaken with Drink the said Anderson alias Mounson demanded of him of what Family he was and the manner of his present Condition and also if he was a Roman Catholick to which he answered he was not but was a well-wisher to that Religion then he demanded of him if he would undertake something that would produce him immediate Liberty and his future Happiness and good Fortune he answered he would and desired to know what it was at which he exprest much satisfaction and withall lanched out a discourse relating to the stifling the Evidence of Capt. William Bedloe one of His Majesties Witnesses of this most Horrid Plot which was thus Mr. Strode you are acquainted with one Phillip Marsh who has formerly been a Servant to Mr. Bedloe and have often informed me you held a correspondence with Bedloe now if so I will put you in a way by that means how to create to your self a considerable Interest provided you will follow my directions and to give a general satisfaction to all good Catholicks which Mr. Strode declared a seeming approbation of and that from thenceforward he would be guided by the said Anderson alias Mounson who shewed his rejoycing thereat by imbracing Mr. Strode in his Arms and said Bedloe was a great Villain and had given false testimony against the Lord Powis Lord Arundel Lord Bellasis Lord Stafford Lord Petre and divers other worthy Roman Catholicks but had done it so weekly that it was to be seen through every part And therefore the aforesaid five Lords in particular were willing to use some means to bring Mr. Bedloe on the Stage And then further added that no way could be so proper for accomplishing this Design as for the said Mr. Strode to drink with Philip Marsh and enquire of him about the behaviour of his Master Mr. Bedloe and what Conversation he was of when the said Phillip Marsh lived with him and desired if the said Marsh should of himself or could by the said Mr. Strodes instigation be brought to say any thing material against Bedloe that might any wayes lessen or invalidate his Testimony that Mr. Strode should offer him a reward of money or to that very Effect But Mr. Strode being of better Principles and

the Right Honourable the Earl of Shaftsbury did often come to visit him and bring him Guinneys in order to the prevailing with him for to joyn Evidence with Bedlow but Strodes answer was as he informed me that he would not perjure himself for ten thousand worlds May the 16. Iones Strodes Bedfellow did inform me that he had this day seen in Strodes hands some papers which did contain the whole matter of the Popish plott in a more plain manner than either Oats or Bedlow could make out And that the Earl of Shaftsburies servant whose Name was Mr. Iohnson came often to Strode to court him to give his Testimony against the Lords in the Tower and had offered Strode most considerable sums of money if he would do the same May the 17. Iones did tell me Strode had in some discourse informed him that Bedlow in the time of his padding was entertained at Strodes house and particularly when there had been a Robbery committed but a day before and at the same time a Hue and Cry all over the Country to apprehend him And that it is not long since that Strode sent to his wife at Shepton Mallet in the County of Somerset for the Copyes of some Writings which were in her custody which said writings are the original of those he shewed Iones May the 18. Iones sayes Strode has often prayed his advice what to do in a matter of such weighty Consequence as was to be made out from the aforesaid papers Iones answered him that in regard he was in Reversion of a good Estate and had divers good and honorable Relations to support him it would perhaps be much more both for his Credit and advantage to be silent in things of such a nature than to stir unless he could make every particular thereof visible by a Lively Testimony Upon which Advice Strode did promise to let it fall rather than run the hazard of disobliging his Relations and Friends and become altogether obnoxious But for your more full satisfaction in these matters I do not only think it proper to referre you to my former Narrative so far as it concerns these particulars but also to the Examination of Mr. Strode and others Which I hope will not only give a full satisfaction to the good Protestant Reader but a full Conviction of the Romish Reader In order to which I will shew you the Essential parts of the matters herein contained as they were severally delivered upon Oath that it may not be said to be the Device of my self to insinuate a good Opinion in the people without just Cause Somerset The Information of William Strode of Shepton Mallet in the County aforesaid Clothier taken upon Oath the 19th day of November Anno Regni Caroli secundi nunc Angliae c. xxxi Annoque Dom. 1679. before John Speake Esq one of his Majesties Iustices of the Peace for the County aforesaid THis Informant saith that about the middle of February last past Philip Marsh came to the Kings Bench Prison in Southwark to see me viz. this Deponent and one Welsh a Prisoner there after the said Marsh his going from the Prison Welsh informs the Prisoner That Philip Marsh was a Servant to Mr. William Bedlow and that he knew that they had been long acquainted Immediately after Lionel Anderson alias Munson asked me viz. this Informant how long I had known Philip Marsh I replyed that my first acquaintance with him was in Winchester Prison a little before I was removed to the Kings Bench also Anderson alias Munson asked me if I knew Philip Marsh to be a Servant or Companion of Mr. Bedlow's I answered that I knew no such thing Then Anderson replyed I must needs know the said Marsh to be acquainted with the said Mr. Bedlow as well as Welsh and at that time Anderson enquired when Philip Marsh came to see me again I told him I knew not Upon the 26th day of February last past the said Anderson offered me viz. this Examinant 500 l. Sterling to subvert Mr. Bedlowes Evidence and to make me the greatest of my Name Some time afterwards and before the Ninth of March last past Philip Marsh came to see me again and after Philip Marsh was gone Anderson enquired of me whether I had discoursed with Philip Marsh any thing concerning Mr. Bedlow I answered No Whereupon I asked what I should say unto Philip Marsh Anderson replyed To enquire of him what he knows of Mr. Bedlows Concerns relating to the Plot I told him I knew not how to begin unless he would give instructions Then Anderson asked of me whether the Fellow meaning Philip Marsh would drink I told him I knew not for in his Visits here he never spent at one time above a Groat to his own part So Anderson desired me to drink the fellow up said he If you have no mind to drink your self here be those in the house that would be glad to do it and cost what it will come to me and I will pay it and when you find his Temper come to me and I 'le further instruct you But Marsh at that time drank little and so took his leave On the ninth of March or thereabouts Mr. Anderson said to me Will you be true to me And I viz. this Deponent said I would I can believe you said Anderson because you have told me you were a neer Relation to Collonel Strode Governour of Dover Castle who is as honest a Gentleman as any in England and I know said Anderson no man that is of that name can be worse than his word However swear that you will be true to me I asked him How I must swear to him Anderson answered Swear by your Faith and I said By my Faith I would be true And on the said Ninth of March or thereabouts last past Anderson offered me viz. the Deponent 500 l. and to be made the greatest of my Name for to hire Philip Marsh and others together with my self to subvert Mr. Bedlows Evidence And that he the said Anderson had sent to the Duke of York and the Dutchess of York to acquaint them of this his design And Anderson said that they had returned him thanks Also Anderson further told me he had provided Security for the 500 l. which was offered me or would lay it in any mans hands whom I should Nominate and whatever summe the other Subverters please to have he was ready to serve it unto them but 500 l. he would give upon his own account I asked Anderson what we should all do for this 500 l. His answer was it was to subvert Mr. Bedlows Evidence In a short time after there came two young men out of the City to see me one of them his name was Trist. Anderson seeing them two with me inquired of me quick and very earnest whether one of them pointing at Trist was not a servant to the Lord of Shaftsbury I considering his earnestness imagined with my self he had more