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A compleat and true narrative of the manner of the discovery of the Popish Plot to His Majesty, by Mr. Christopher Kirkby with a full answer to a late pamphlet entituled (Reflections upon the Earl of Danby) relating to the murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, in a letter to a friend.
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1679
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that Mr. Kirkby would make this business known to the King earnestly requesting him not to acquaint any other person with it which Mr. Kirkby promised And about two of the Clock in the Afternoon went to Whitehall but could not all that Afternoon meet with an opportunity of seeing the King except in Company of His Royal Highness so he returned to the Dr. and advising what to do and how to proceed Mr. Kirkby writ a few lines to present to His Majesty the next morning as He should walk in the Park signifying that if His Majesty would be pleased to give him a quarter of an hours Audience he should make known something that as it was of the greatest Importance so it was only proper for His Royal Ear and not to be delayed without eminent danger And accordingly upon the 13th of August he waited His Majesties coming into the Park and in the outer-Gallery presented it to His Majesty which he read as he went down the Stairs and afterward called Mr. Kirkby to Him and asked him what he had to say who answered that His Majesties Enemies had a design against His Life And therefore humbly pray'd His Majesty to keep himself within His Company for he did not know but that He might be in danger in that very Walk And His Majesty asking how that could be was answered that it might be by being shot at but that a privater place was necessary for a more particular Accompt Thereupon His Majesty commanded him to wait His return out of the Park and in the mean time to go to Mr. Chiffins who would conduct him into His Closet but Mr. Chiffins not knowing his business refused to conduct him thither and therefore he was necessitated to wait His Majesties Return in the Gallery and His Majesty returning into His Bed-Chamber and not finding Mr. Kirkby there was coming out when he espied Mr. Kirkby he called him in commanding him to tell Him what he knew whereupon Mr. Kirkby told His Majesty that there were two men by name Pickering and Grove that were set to watch an Opportunity to shoot His Majesty and that Sir George Wakeman was imployed to poison Him and being asked how he knew this he replyed he had seen it in writing in the hands of his Friends who the day before had acquainted him therewith And that he had then waited an Opportunity to declare it to His Majesty that his friend was neer at hand and ready with the Papers to be brought before Him when His Majesty should command which he was pleased should be between eight and nine of the Clock in the Evening at which time Mr. Kirkby and Dr. Tonge attended on His Majesty and were commanded into the Red Room where the 43 Articles copied out by the Dr. who kept the Original for his own Security were delivered to His Majesty both of them humbly requesting that those Papers might be kept secret and safe otherwise the full Discovery would be prevented and their lives in hazard further proposing that under the notion of Chymists they might have Access to His Person to prevent all suspition To which His Majesty was pleased to answer that He was going the next morning to Windsor but that He would safely transmit the Papers into the hands of one with whom he would entrust both his Life and Crown and with whom he would answer for their lives ordering them to wait upon the Earl of Danby then Lord Treasurer the next morning which accordingly they did But the Lord Dumblaine having been very ill that night and the Lord Treasurer having sate up late with him it was about four of the Clock in the Afternoon before they could be Admitted when being entred his Closet they found him with the Papers in his hand which he said he had received from His Hajesty sealed up and found them to be of the greatest Concern imaginable and then asking the Dr. about them desired Mr. Kirkby to withdraw which he accordingly did Two or three daies after the Dr. received more Informations which Mr. Kirkby copied out and the Dr. carried them to the Treasurer with whom he said he could hardly come to speak but that my Lord had appointed one of his Gentlemen to receive the sealed Papers from him About the 20th of August the Dr. told Mr. Kirkby he had offer'd to bring Pickering and Grove into St. James's Park to be taken there with their Guns about them if it were thought convenient his Informant having assured him he could do it if the King were walking there The 23th of August Mr. Kirkby went to sommerset-Sommerset-House to see Pickering as he attended the Priests at Mass but could not that day see him but the Sunday following he did and the Sunday seven night after shewed him to Mr. Lloyd one of the Lord Treasurers Gentlemen And that week he had been alone to espy out Keins and learn to know him and in Company of the Dr. to enquire after Grove who was to have gone to Windsor if he had not been sick The 26th of August the Dr. told Mr. Kirkby that he had informed the Treasurer how to intercept Letters that came to Grove and the Treasurer being some daies after gone out of Town he was resolv'd to know if any were intercepted And on Saturday the 31th he went to a friend of his Mr. Henry Kirkby by name a Letter-Carrier in the Post-Office and desired to know if any Letters came to one Grove living in York-street in Covent-Garden who promised to enquire of the Letter Carriers for that part of the Town whom he should meet on Monday at the Office and on Tuesday would give him an Account Monday the second of September Dr. Oats came to Mr. Kerby's Lodgings at Fox-Hall where he first saw him or heard him named and there he furnished him with money for his necessary Expences appointing to meet him the day following at the Pheasant in Fullers-Rents to receive farther Informations and to give less suspition by his being often seen in Company of Dr. Tonge and so be all discovered The third of September he met Mr. Henry Kirkby who told him that he had spoken to the Inland and Forein Letter-Carriers who told him that Grove had usually Letters every week amounting to three or four pound and it being insisted on what he had received the day before he promised an Account the day following which accordingly he did by a note that the Foreign Letter-Carrier had delivered to Grove the second then instant four shillings in Letters and that the Inland Letter-Carrier had delivered several Letters but the value he could not tell Mr. Oats having given an Accompt in his Depositions of the Contents of the Letters from Scotland and of the death of Mr Westby being killed there for endeavouring to discover the Plot from thence Mr. Kirkby went to Dr. Oats and having received from him what he had to communicate appointed to meet the next morning at Heaven in the Old Pallace-Yard
Westminster The fourth Mr. Kirkby met Dr. Oats accordingly who told him that Whitebread the Jesuits Provincial was come to Town and had beaten him and charged him with having been with the King and discovering their Plot which he denied as not having been with the King whereupon Mr. Kirkby resolved to go the next day to Windsor and in the evening proposed to Dr. Tonge that seeing Mr. Oats was discovered and in danger it was needful for him so to do and desired Dr. Tonge would be pleased to get Dr. Oats his Information sworn before some Justice of the Peace and the sooner it was done the better and accordingly the Dr. got it effected the sixth of September before Sir Edmundbury Godfrey whom nothwithstanding they would not permit to read the particulars of the Information telling him that His Majesty had already had a true Copy thereof and that it was not convenient that it should be yet communicated to any body else only acquainting him in general that it contained Matter of Treason and Felony and other high Crimes desiring him to attest Dr. Oats Affidavit of the Truth of the Contents thereof whereupon Sir Ed. B. Godfrey rested satisfied without reading them and under writ Dr. Oats his Affidavit that the Matter therein contained was True and at the same time Dr. Tonge made Oath that it had been made known to the King The fifth Mr. Kirkby went to Windsor and presented himself before His Majesty who was pleased not to speak to him that day not the next Mr. Bedingfield having delivered certain Letters mentioned in Dr. Oats his Depositions to the Duke and thereby indeavoured to take away the belief of a Plot. The seventh he went to the Treasurers Lodgings and meeting with Mr. Lloyd he told him that the Informant was discovered and beaten and therefore desired to speak with my Lord Treasurer to take his further directions in that Affair Mr Lloyd went to speak with him and brought Answer that my Lord would hear him but although Mr. Kirkby waited all that day presenting himself before him and offering to speak yet could he not be heard that day nor the next notwithstanding all his solicitations for it and my Lords promise that it should be Monday the ninth of September the Lord Treasurer went to Wimbleton and the King not enquiring of Mr. Kirkby any thing concerning the Plot although he had an opportunity to speak to His Majesty about other business he thought it not necessary to stay longer there but returned home and that Evening met Dr. Tonge and Dr. Oats at the Flying-Horse in Kings-street Westminster whither he had retired after his narrow Escape out of the Jesuits hands Mr. Kirkby advised him to go with him to his Lodgingss at Fox-Hall as well for his security as that he might have Company to chear him in his then sad Condition to which he agreed and so both he and the Dr. remained there with Mr. Kirkby till they were provided for at Whitehall Dr. Oats imploy'd himself to write out Copies of his Information and Dr. Tonge to enquire after the Lord Treasurer whom he sought for at Wimbleton several times to give in the needful and occurring Informations which are now under his hands before the private Committee being all three much perplexed both in regard of the danger they were in and the seeming neglect of the Discovery they had made The 27th at night Mr. Lloyd met Mr. Kirkby at Fox-Hall and told him he was come for Dr. Tonge to go to the Council upon which Mr. Kirkby and the Dr. went along with him but before they got thither the Council was up and they ordered to attend the next morning at ten of the Clock This Evening they Resolved to get the Copies of Dr. Oats his Information sworn the next Morning The 28th they all three went to Sir Edmundbury Godfrey carrying the first Depositions sworn the sixth of September and two Copies written by Mr. Oats to have them also sworn That each might have an Authentick Copy and having the two Copies sworn Sir Edmundbury Godfrey would needs keep one which was left in his hands before which time he had never purused the particulars of the Information and then Dr. Tonge and Mr. Kirkby went to Whitehall to attend the Council and desired Dr. Oats to go to Fox-Hall and stay there till he heard from them Dr. Tonge being called before the Council was Ordered to bring Dr. Oats thither whereupon Mr. Kirkby and he went to Fox-Hall and brought him immediately before the Council who then took care of the business and ordered both Dr. Tonge and Dr. Oats Lodgings in Whitehall THIS Narrative as it is the truth being duly considered and on the other side the Reflections upon the Earl of Danby in Relation to Sr. Edmundbury Godfreys murther thereby examined it will appear to any judicious Reader that the Scribler of that paper which hath shaken your belief doth not so much endeavour to discover the murtherers as to hide the Plot and Plotters if it were possible he would willingly perswade the world that that Monster had its birth from those that discovered it and to whom it was first made known Whereas Dr. Oates never spoke to the Earl of Danby before the 28th of September 1678. That he was examined before the Councel and Dr. Tonge had no Intercourse with him but what tended to give him that information the occurring exigences required as his papers now before the Committee of Secrecy do sufficiently prove and as for Mr. Kirby he never spoke to him at all but once and that by the Kings Immediate command moreover the Scriblers cunning by confounding of the times when the Plot was discovered and to whom with the times of taking the Depositions whereby he builds the Basis of his discourse is easily discovered First It appears not possible that Sr. Edmundbury Godfrey should know any thing of the matter until the Sixth of September when he first took Dr. Oates his Depositions and not much then the contents thereof not being made known to him and Dr. Tongs Deposition being only that the matters therein were made known to the King could not give him any certain knowledge of it Secondly He does acknowledge that His Majesty told the Duke he had been informed of the Plot before His Royal Highness received an account thereof from Sr. Edmundbury Godfrey by Mr. Coleman as this Scribler would suggest but may well be supposed falsely for it is not to be believed he should the second time have so willingly taken Dr. Oates his Depositions if he had made the first known to Coleman and had apprehended himself in danger for what he had before done and had been reprehended for it Thirdly The Scribler as Maliciously as Ignorantly asserts a Correspondence betwixt the Earl and the Doctors by Mr. Kirkbys means Antecedent to the Kings being acquainted with the Plot which is the greatest peice of impudence and untruth in the World and could not proceed from any other than such as endeavour to impose upon all the World when alas they will find themselves caught in their own snares For I will not hope that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 any Protestant remaining so stupid as not to be able to look through their Cobweb-deceits nothing can more fully display to the World their being in love with that Lusts though insignificant Cover to wickedness and deceipt than this Scribler daring publickly to assert a lye when it was in his power if he had bene willing to have been informed of the truth by addressing himself to any of those concerned in the Discovery hence it appears with what it malitious designes those are pregnant who wilfully keep themselves at least pretendedly ignorant of the Truth that they may take an occasion to impose upon the weak and if possible make the strong to fall The Lord in mercy deliver His Majesty His Kingdoms and Dominions from Papists Treachery and Deceits and I doubt not then but we shall remain in peace and quietness Which is the earnest Prayer of Sir your Affectionate Friend and humble Servant J. B.