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A51831
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An exact and true narrative of the late popish intrigue, to form a plot, and then to cast the guilt and odium thereof upon the Protestants ... faithfully collected by Col. Roderick Mansell.
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Mansell, R. (Roderick)
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1680
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Wing M514; ESTC R20941
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direction he mixed something that was less dangerous which the Maid afterwards told him was so weak that it signified nothing and therefore ordered him to mix somewhat a great deal stronger Mr. Cellier being askt about the Paper of the Nativity saith He read it not himself but that his Daughter read it to him He remembers only something of Prophesie or a Mans Fortune That there were in it the words Horoscope Venus Mercury c. That the man should be hang'd the latter end of his life but he knows no more of it or of whom it was but that he burned the Paper and owns that he is a Roman Catholick and a French Merchant But Mr. Blasden in whose House the Paper was read says it set forth How that his adventure should be very various and that he should come before some judge and be in danger in a Sea-Fight Willoughby asked Cellier if he did not remember when in the presence of his Wife He said he was then come from the Lord Shaftsbury This he denies and also that he heard any Discourse extraordinary between Willoughby and Rigaut but that Rigaut had supped twice at his House and Willoughby and he played at some Game together He denies also That he saw any Dagger in his House or that ever any was hid under his Beds-side He acknowledgeth to have seen the Lady Powis at his House but not six times But Mr. Blasden says He has seen her Ladyships Coach a dozen times which he can see plain from his Shop but does not remember to have seen her Ladyship go into Mr. Cellier's above twice The Lord P. is call'd in and having been told what was objected against him as having encouraged Mr. Willoughby at Gadbury's House to go again to the Lord Shaftsbury and to be sure to dispatch him the third time His Lordship flatly denies any such thing and then in a large discourse Appeals to the known Method of his Life and Conversation his constant Services to the Crown and how little he is concern'd in this matter as being known by all good Men not to be capable of such a thing That as to the Earl of Shaftsbury he came lately over with great expectation of his aid and favour in Parliament touching an unhappy difference arisen with a great Ally meaning his Son-in-Law's Father and that the Earl of Shaftsbury had already testified so much Countenance in this matter that he came over full of Inclinations to do that Lord greater Services than he can well express That before his Daughter was disposed of in Marriage then a very Noble Lady The Lady Powis who had testified very great Inclinations to have her married to her Ladyships Nephew Upon which Obligation he then grew Intimate with the said Lady and being a person that is not wont to forget his friends in their afflictions had often gone to that Lady to give her the best Comfort he could That waiting on her Ladyship when he came lately from Flanders she recommended to him just at parting a very charitable Woman one Mrs. Cellier unto whom the late Dutchess of York was a Debtor in 5 or 600 l. That his Lordship being one of the Duke's Commissioners did promise to further her business That in further recommendation of this Woman the Lady added That she was a great Servant to the Duke and also to the King and also being a Woman of great Understanding and getting acquaintance by her opportunity of being a Midwife into many considerable Families she had wrought about several incensed Persons to be of better Principles and Inclinations both to the King and the Duke and more particularly That this Woman had now found out a man who was very able to discover very dangerous practices against the King That Mrs. Cellier came soon after to his Lodgings That she gave a great Character of one Willoughby who had much improved himself abroad in the Service of the Prince of Orange and under the D. de Villa Hermosa That this man coming over and resorting to the Coffee-houses was much scandalized at the Rebellious discourses that he heard but that concealing his thoughts he grew familiar with the most mutinous who liked him so well that they carried him to their Clubs and private meetings and being admitted to their secrets he found that great and dangerous things were preparing against the Parliament That she desired his Lordship but to procure a Warrant for making a search and that all the whole matter would be plainly discovered but she desir'd that this Warrant might be obtain'd without the Kings knowledge That of all this Information his Lordship gave an account to the Duke who refusing to have any thing acted therein without the Kings knowledge Willoughby came with Mrs. Cellier to his Lodgings where the Duke saw him and he was afterwards handed to the King That when VVilloughby came afterwards to his Lordship he mention'd the difficulty of getting a Warrant and complaining of want of Zeal in the Kings Ministers he said he would yet do his business without a VVarrant and by the Custome-house way That as concerning the Lord Shaftsbury Willoughby told him that there was some woman about the Duke that Writ to the Earl of Shaftsbury all the dangerous things she could invent and to make proof of this came afterwards to shew two Letters which his Lordship presently saw were Written in Sir Rich. Bulstrodes hand and contained nothing touching the Duke but such matters of common intelligence from Bruxells as he himself or any other man might fitly write Whereupon Willoughby pretended to him that there was a third Letter of greater importance which he had lost but as to those two Letters his Lordship says they were given to the King Soon after this Willoughby came to him at midnight and said he was going to Prison to which his Lordship could only say that if he were guilty of any harm he knew not how to help him but if he were to suffer by mistake the Kings Ministers would soon discover it and set him again at liberty His Lordship upon Willinghbies Question did own that he being at Dinner at Lambs Willoughby did there come to him about a meeting to be had at Mr. Gadburies with Sir Robert Peyton and perhaps it might be upon a Letter from the Lady Powis as Willoughby affirms His Lordship doth acknowledge that he gave his Servants charge to admit Willoughby when ever he came and that he did also call him Captain Willoughby but the occasion was that he telling his Lordship that he hoped His Majesty would gratifie him and provide him as good an employment as he had refused from the otherside his Lordship did say Doubtless His Majesty would provide for him and that when ever any forces were sent abroad he need not fear but that he should have a Company That he did not wonder at all at Willoughby's confident words since they have been the best Cards he had to Play for his Life
5000 l to which he answered I will not meddle in it it troubles my conscience and it were but treachery in me if it were done and it is to no purpose to meddle in it for there is a List found out or to that effect Jurat Die Anno supradict coram me Edm. Warcup Jane Bradley Sunday November 2. 1679. At the Council-Board 1. John Gadbury being examined saith he hath seen VVilloughby once or twice at his House with Mrs. Cellier and that he believes he may have cast his Nativity by the name of Thomas at the desire of Mrs. Cellier and two more Nativities for her two Daughters He says that looking upon VVilloughby's Horoscope it prognosticates a bold and adventurous man but does not remember that he said to Mrs. Cellier that he would be hang'd but it 's possible he might That he cast likewise the Lord Powis's Nativity as he doth that of all Persons of Quality the certain time of whose Birth he can be assured of 2. Matthew Hopkinson a Scrivener over against Somerset-House acknowledges that he transcribed a List of Names and a Letter of Mr. VVilloughby's in a Room two pair of stairs high but he does not remember that it was out of a womans hand And the List and Letter being shewed to him he owned them to be his hand-writing 3. Sir James Buttler owned the taking of an Affidavit of Lane about Buggery charg'd upon Mr. Oates and that a woman came with the said Lane to him 4. Thomas Jolly the Taylor being sworn says he carried a Letter from Mrs. Cellier to the Lady Powis and brought back an Answer Mr. VVilloughby being then present That he hath seen Mr. VVilloughby half a dozen times at Mrs. Celliers Upon the full hearing of these several Informations and Examinations we have this publick account of the result of the Council VVhite-Hall November 2. Mr. Thomas Dangerfield aliàs VVilloughby having been examined the 27 th past by the Lords of His Majestie 's Privy-Council concerning certain dangerous and treasonable Papers seised in Colonel Roderick Mansel's Chamber which it appeared to their Lordships had been by him conveyed thither was therupon by Order of the Board committed to Newgate and having since given in an Information to the Lord Mayor of London of several treasonable practises against His Majestie 's Person and Government and of his having been prevailed with by several of the Popish Religion to counterfeit the above-mentioned Papers and Letters by which divers Noblemen and other Protestants were to have been brought under a suspicion of carrying on a Plot against His Majestie 's Government And the said Information being yesterday morning brought to His Majesty by the Lord Mayor and by His Majesty sent to the Council-Board Mr. Dangerfield was sent for and further examined by their Lordships who thereupon the last Night committed the Earl of Castlemain to the Tower and Mrs. Cellier to Newgate and did this day likewise commit Mr. Gadbury to the Gate-house and Mr. Rigaut to Newgate several other Persons accused being in the Custody of His Majestie 's Messengers and their Lordships have appointed the further Examination of this Matter on Tuesday next Novemb. the 2d the same day 1. The Deposition of William Woodman taken upon Oath on the 2d of Novemb. 1679. before the Lords of His Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council Who saith That he hath known Mr. Willoughby at the Lord Powis his House for about Two Moneths time and that he hath seen him and Mrs. Cellier write there very often That he carried a Packet of Letters from Mr. Willoughby or Mrs. Cellier to the Lady Powis at the Tower and that her Ladyship opened the Packet and read some of the Letters and gave others to him the said Woodman who carried them to one Nevile in the Kings-Bench and that he hath carried Letters divers times between Mrs. Cellier and Mr. Willoughby and Nevile William Woodman 2. The Information of Mary Ayray taken upon Oath the 2d day of Novemb. 1679. before the Lords of His Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council This Informant saith upon her Oath That she went with Willoughby and Duddell to Nevile in the Kings-Bench and left Willoughby at a Coffee-house by the way and carried a Sheet of Notes taken at Langhorne's Tryal which Willoughby writ but was given her by Mrs. Cellier to carry to Nevile And she saith she carried a Letter from Nevile to Mrs. Cellier and a Letter from Mrs. Cellier to the Lady Powis she has also seen Singe with Mrs. Cellier and she has seen Willoughby write the Speeches of the Five Jesuites the which Mrs. Cellier did dictate to him And saith also That she has seen Lane at Powis-House who went by the name of Johnson and that Mrs. Cellier ordered him to be called by that Name This Informant also saith that she went with my Lady Abergaveny last Winter to the Earl of Shaftsbury about her being Indicted as a Popish Recusant but has not been at any other time since with the Earl of Shaftsbury but knows nothing of the Earl of Shaftsbury's being threatned to be killed by the Lady Abergaveny And saith That Mr. Nevile did bid her tell my Lady Powis that he would write to his Friend Mary Ayray 3. The Information of Bennett Duddell a Joyner Taken upon Oath before His Majesty in Council Nov. 2. 1679. The Informant saith That he hath wrought at Powis House and hath there seen Mr. Willoughby that he went with Mrs. Ayray to see one in Prison in the Kings-Bench but knew not that his Name was Nevile that Mr. Willoughby stayed in the mean time at a Coffee-house thereby He saith that when they returned they brought some Papers with them and that soon after Mrs. Ayray went to the Tower That he hath at Powis House seen Mr. Willoughby Mrs. Cellier and others often Writing He remembers that one Mr. Lane lay there in the House and that Mrs. Cellier was once in great fear when she thought that Lane was lost He doth remember that Mr. Willoughby did once ask him if he could make a Hand-Press in order to Printing and he made answer he would ask the Lord Powis and his Lady if he might make such a thing He says he went Once or Twice with Mrs. Ayray to the Gatehouse who went with money to the Prisoners But the reason of his being the more with Mrs. Ayray was by the reason of a Match proposed by Mrs. Cellier between him and her That in Powis House there is a private place made by him and by the Lady Powis Order Sworn before the King in Council Bennett Duddell Tuesday Novemb 4th 1679. His Majesty sate in Council in the Afternoon to Examine further into the Discovery made by Thomas Dangerfield alias Willoughby 1. The Lady Powis was called in to whom the Deposition of Woodman being read her Ladyship said That to her knowledge she never had Packet from Willoughby or ever sent a Packet to Nevile That she has had