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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

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

to say to me of the former business I answered him Yes Yes although I knew him to be another and Anderson also inquired of me whether his name was not Iohnson I answered Yes then Anderson said That is the man I know At which confident mistake of his I wondred Withall he then said I hope you have not revealed any thing to Iohnson concerning our former discourse I answered I had not Moreover he said he would not have my Lord Shaftsbury know it for all the world So after that discourse Mr. Anderson was speaking concerning the Lords in the Tower how Mr. Rockly had been with some of them and that the Lords were very merry Mr. Anderson said that Mr. Bedlow was the main Evidence against the Lords in the Tower and if they escape we shall all escape Furthermore Anderson said to me as soon as he got out of Prison he would leave England and go into another Countrey I asked him into what Countrey he would go but he did not tell me Some time after that Mr. Anderson had these Conferences with me I informed my Chamber-fellow Mr. Iones of it and shewed him the Heads of it as I had wrote them in my Almanack And further this Deponent saith not William Strode Iurat coram me John Speake In the presence of Tho. Westly Rob. Plimpton Tho. Browne Somerset The Information of William Strode of Shepton Mallet in the County of Somerset Clothier taken upon Oath the 9th day of November 1679. before John Speak Esq one of the Iustices of the Peace within the said County THis Informant saith that about three years since he knew Mr. Willoughby and that whilest Mr. Willoughby was a Prisoner in the Kings Bench he this Informant was very intimate with the said Willoughby whom he was informed by others was also named Dangerfield Some time after Mr. Willoughby was brought in a Prisoner to the Kings Bench he takes me this Informant with him into the Garden and told me he heard I was kept in Prison the longer because I knew something which I must swear concerning the Plot. I answered him If I was kept in Prison for that it was more than I knew But Willoughby said unto me that he knew as much of the Plot as any body And this Informant hath been very often in his Company whilest he remained a Prisoner in the Kings-Bench in his Chamber where most times this Informant found him writing in great sheets of paper seeming to him as if he were Coppying out the writing that lay before him this Informant came into the Chamber of this Willoughby and all the written papers which this Informant saith he saw were just alike Indented and spaces and figures about the same distance left in the papers some of the papers were as if he were drawing Articles for in the Margent I saw Figures 1 2 3. and so on to a considerable number but as soon as the said Willoughby could he conveyed those writings out of this Informants sight Likewise other papers this Deponent hath seen in his Room written in Characters which sometime he left to continue on the Board but I understood them not This Informant hath seen Footmen come to him their Cloaths covered with Campagne Coats so that this Informant could see nothing of their Liveries but only when they were going out of the Chamber Also this Informant hath seen several Women at least seemingly so by their Apparel come unto him most commonly in the Evenings with Masks on This Informant hath sometimes seen Willoughby in the Evenings go into Mr. Andersons Chamber and after he was out upon Bail when he came to the Prison he always went into Andersons Chamber This Informant did tell Mr. William Bedlow in the Kings Bench Garden that he had something to relate unto him concerning himself his brother Bedlow was then there with him and it was his next time of being there after the calling over the Prisoners by his and Dr. Oats's occasion as it was reported And further he informeth not William Strode Iurat coram me John Speake In the presence of Tho. Westly Robert Plimpton Tho. Browne London ss The Examination of William Strode Clothier of Shepton Mallett in the County of Somerset taken before the Right Honourable Sir Robert Claiton Lord Maior of the City of London this 15th day of January 1679. THis Informant first referres to two former Examinations taken before Iohn Speak Esq one of his Majestyes Justices of the Peace for the County of Somerset dated the 19 of November 1679. and now he comes upon a third Examination of what he then omitted which is as follows viz. That in or about the Months of April or May 1679. Mr. Lionel Anderson alias Munson who was then a Prisoner in the Kings-Bench did then invite this Informant to his Chamber and there gave this Informant a quart Bottle of Brandy desiring him to drink a good draught of the same but the said Anderson himself to be Excused from drinking rhereof But immediately after brought forth a bottle of Wine and did desire this Informant to drink of that too then when this Informant had drank Anderson alias Munson told this Informant that he had acquainted Sir Henry Tichburn of the converse which Anderson alias Munson and this Informant had concerning Mr. Bedlow and that Sir Henry Tichburn's Maid-servant had informed him the said Anderson alias Munson that her Master was well pleased with what the said Anderson alias Munson had informed him of which was the Discourse concerning Mr. Bedlow contained in the aforementioned Examinations And also that Sir Henry Tichburn did promise for this Informants Reward an Estate in Hampshire of 100 l. per Ann. for two years to be Rent-free Then this Informant left him and about a quarter of an hour afterwards he returned into the said Anderson alias Munson's Chamber again where he told this Informant that as soon as Mr. Marsh this Informant and others were ready to swear to such Instructions as he the said Anderson alias Munson had formerly said he would give this Informant concerning the subverting Mr. Bedlows Evidence he would send one Mr. Nevill alias Paine to the Right Honourable the Earl of Anglesey whom the aforesaid Anderson alias Munson said was his very good Friend and was sure would get this Informants Pardon for a Crime he then was a Prisoner in two dayes And at the same time the said Anderson alias Munson told this Informant that the Lord Powis Lord Arundel Lord Peters and the rest of the Five Lords in the Tower did intend that is to say after this Informant was prepared with Instructions he was to receive from the said Anderson alias Munson to petition for their Tryals and to Suppena this Informant as a Witness for them This Informant further saith that on the Ninth of March 1679. Anderson alias Munson told him he had made the design for subverting Mr. Bedlows Evidence known to the Duke and Dutchess of York who returned him

therefore desirous to improve such an opportunity to the discovery of the Romish Villany pretendedly but untruly to encourage the said Mr. Anderson alias Mounson to proceed in that design told him no man was fitter to be employed in such an Affair then himself in regard he had known Mr. Bedloe divers years and had during the time of his Imprisonment received divers Letters from him in which he requested him to be true to him as knowing he had or could produce some Papers that would much invalidate his Testimony to prevent which he often had by the said Marsh sent him money and that by Mr. Bedloes means one Mr. Iohnson a Servant to the Right Honourable the Earl of Shaftsbury did often come to request his Testimony against the Lords in the Tower and in order to it offered him divers summs of money all which he had refused to accept of This feigned story so incouraged Mr. Anderson alias Mounson to proceed that he began very hotly to urge Mr. Strode to use his utmost endeavours in Prosecution thereof and accordingly some time after Mr. Strode acquainting him that he had Communicated the said matter to the said Phillip Marsh whom he found was as ready as himself to be directed by him but that to encourage the said Marsh he had promised him some Money Anderson seemed to be very well satisfied therewith and then protested it should be performed both to Marsh and Strode Provided they would when occasion should require be ready to Swear such matter against Mr. Bedloe as he the said Anderson would inform them of which was by Mr. Strode seemingly agreed on Upon the ninth of March following Anderson and Strode meeting the said Anderson desired to know of Mr. Strode if he would be true to him to which he answered he would then said Anderson I can beleive you because I have been imformed you are nearly related to an intimate Friend and Acquaintance of mine of your Name and a person of great Worth and Honour therefore I do assure my self no man of that name can break his Word but notwithstanding that Mounson urged him to take an Oath of Secrecy to be True to him which Mr. Strode seemed unwilling to do but rather then he would lose so probable an occasion to serve his King and Country in making himself capable of detecting so Villanous a Roguery he did on his faith Promise to be true to him which he being satisfied with further to encourage Mr. Strode to proceed therein then promised him five hundred pound and to make him one of the greatest of his name If He the said Philip Marsh and others did so follow his directions that Mr. Bedloes Evidence would be taken off which Mr. Strode pretendedly undertook to do but desired to know how he might be certain of the five hundred pound when the business should be finished to which the said Mr. Anderson desired some time to Consider of In some short time after the said Anderson alias Mounson meeting Mr. Strode in the said Prison requested Strode to follow him into his Chamber where he told Mr. Strode he had made the design of subverting Mr. ' Bedloes Evidence known to some persons of very great Quality by a scheme he had sent them in a Letter of the whole thing who had returned him answer that they were very well pleased with the same and approved thereof and gave him their thanks and also order to give the said Mr. Strode such security as he should approve of for what he had promised and directions where to find the said securities or if Mr. Strode would nominate any Person of Credit and Trust in whose hands the said summe of five hundred pound should be deposited for his use it should be so done and at a convenient time paid him together with what he had promised to Marsh then he ordered Mr. Strode to let the said Marsh and others which were to be imployed with him in that design know that whatever sum they could in reason desire it should be granted and immediately after the business effected Payed In order to the carrying on of this Affair some time after the said Mr. Anderson invited Mr. Strode again into his Chamber where he entertained him with discourse still relating to Mr. Bedloes business but he being very desirous as may very well be supposed to push on the same with all Expedition was resolved to lose no time and the better to incourage Mr. Strode he fetcht forth of his Study a quart-bottle of Brandy and desired him to drink of the same but Mr. Strode being cautious of the Liquor did request him to drink first which he did but a very little and desired to be excused for that his body would not bear drink as Mr. Strodes would who drank a considerable quantity of the Brandy and then Mr. Anderson fetcht a Bottle of Wine and desired him to drink of that too which after some little time he did then the said Anderson alias Mounson told him he had acquainted Sir Henry Tychbourne of the whole business against Mr. Bedloe in as full and ample manner as it really was intended and that Sir Henry's maid-servant had informed him the said Anderson alias Mounson from her Master that he was exceeding well pleased and that he had promised as a farther encouragement he would assign him the said Strode an Estate in Hampshire worth one hundred pounds a year for the space of two years to be Rent free and this Sir Henry would give of his own free will for the good of the Cause and desired he should be informed of such a Reward intended for him but that he might not know from whence it was to come and then Mr. Strode left him Mr. Strode about a quarter of an hour afterwards coming into Andersons Chamber again was promised by Anderson that as soon as Marsh himself and others were ready to receive the directions he had prepared for them to swear against Mr. Bedloe that then he would send one Mr. Nevil alias Paine now a Prisoner at the Kings Bench and Accused of High Treason to a Person of High Quality whom the said Anderson alias Mounson said was his very good Friend and was sure would make way for the said Strodes Liberty in two dayes which when accomplished the five Lords in the Tower did intend to Petition the Parliament for their Tryals and to Subpoena the said Mr. Strode as a Witness in their behalfs but he being as cautious as the matter would bear of Engaging himself too far in such dangerous matters yet very desirous by that Correspondence though to his great hazard to be serviceable to his King and Country and the True Protestant Religion he did continue the dissembling his reality of being an instrument in that Hellish Practice designed But such was Mr. Strodes misfortune in the management of this Affair that whether with cause or without I know not but it s all one with those of that

any thing that may do Mr. Bedloe any harm whom he saith if he durst he could hang I have seen some Guinnies that Johnson hath as he said given him but yet he sayeth that although he hath promised to Io●n with Mr. Bedloe And therefore after his Pardon is got out expects to be Subpoen●'d by Mr. Bedloe he shall before the Lords declare my Lord Shaftsburie's proceedings with him as suborning him to Perjury this is Madam what I think fit that my Lord Shaftsbury for whom as Your La●●ship knows I alwayes have had a great honour and value should know but so as to be ignorant of the Person your Ladiship hath the Intelligence from fo●fear if the Rogue upon knowledge that I have discovered him should invent also some Villany against Madam Your Ladiship 's humble Servant Lionel Anderson Now the Truth is this Letter was designed to be an obstruction to Strode's Pardon for first it was directed to the aforesaid Lady who was to present it to his Lordship as an accidental thing though 't was indeed a contrivance in general amongst Papists as well no doubt as with the said Lady if she were 〈◊〉 ●ere may all good Protestants discover their Romish Villa● For first Strode was to be suborned by them to swear such 〈◊〉 as they should direct though never so false and upon the 〈◊〉 of that he must be hanged stifled poisoned or any ●g to be gotten out of the World rather than they discovered ●●w these Persons who can so easily combine to take away the Life of one private Person to accomplish a part of their Design doubtless would as readily wade through a Sea of Protestants Blood to finish the whole 't is most miraculous that God does suffer the Earth to bear such Vipers Nay to have Accomplished this piece of Roguery how they hoped to insinuate a belief into his Lordship when they had even at the very same time with the greatest Confidence and in the highest nature villified him and no doubt would have been as ready to have taken his Lordships Life as any others which they did afterwards endeavour as much as in them lay had not God of his infinite Mercy prevented my hand from being the instrument thereof can these people call themselves Christians and hold such bloody doctrines or ever think their ramping Priests who 't is plain had dispensations to dye with lyes in their mouths or their Babylonian Midwives hope to bring any more Sham-Plots too Bed in this Kingdom no the whole Nation are well acquanited with and too sensible of such their Treachery as also their Witchcraft dayly exercised on many of the Nobility of the Nation who 't is admired should be induced from a sound Faith to follow such Anti-christian doctrine The Letter I tell you of in my first Narrative I was sent with by the Countess of Powis to the Right Honourable Lord Privy Seal was as I understood by his Lornships answer to pray some favour on the behalf of Anderson But I was sometime after that by the said Ladie 's Order to wait on his Lordship and to represent Strode's Case as Anderson had drawn it up agreeable to that in the afore-recited Letter in order to the stopping the passage of his Pardon as it was intended with the right Honourable the Lord Shaftsbury whose great wisdom easily saw through the design and what the meaning was By which may plainly be seen what Audacious Impudence they Act withal And for your better satisfaction herein that that part they represented to the Lord Privy Seal was not inferiour to the former I have Inserted part of the papers first sent by Anderson to the Lady Powis and by her hand given to me who at the same time gave me her Ladyships Order to carry them immediately to the Lord Privy Seal who ordered me to read the same papers to his Lordship at his house at Kensington which were in Contents thus as they came from Anderson who pretended to have them originally from me and so did still continue them as taken in my Name from Strode viz. May. 11. 1679. Strode did acquaint me that about 15 years since he knew Bedlow who was then but a servant to Alderman Blackwell at Bristoll at which time he scarce had any Stockens or Shooes to his Feet But Strode denyes he ever see Bedlow since till he and Oates came to the Kings-Bench to view the Prisoners which were in about the Plott and once since that Mr. Bedlow came with his Brother who was the Night after wounded He denies the holding of any correspondence with Mr. Bedlow either by Letter or otherwise but sayes that one Philip Marsh who is either a friend or a servant to Mr. Bedlow is his friend that is to say Strodes friend and that they said Philip Marsh has often sent Letters to Strode in which Letters it has been desired that the answers thereto should be left at Bedlows lodging but the Contents of the said Letters either were not worth while to repeat or he was unwilling so to do May the 12. 1679. Strode told me this day that Bedlows occasion of giving him Money was to the intent he should conceal something he knew of Bedlow which if discovered would be of consequence enough to hang him if prosecuted on the same and the summes which Bedlow sent him was the greater for that Strode should take particular notice of the behaviour of the Priests which are here and who they did correspond with which Strode has done and has sent some to follow divers persons which have come to Mr. Anderson which persons and their abodes are as Strode sayes well enough known and hereupon swore Damn his soul if they should not be better known if ever he could obtain his liberty May the 13. Strode acquainted me that his business was either past or in great probability so to be and when he could get his enlargement there were some in the world should soon feel the effects of his fury But amongst the rest Mr. Anderson who as Strode said was very uncertain of ever being so near his liberty but if there ever be any probability for Andersons liberty Strode makes no doubt but to prevent the same By this I find Strodes thoughts to be laden with venom as having been thwarted in his temper by some of the Catholicks and to his power he designs a Revenge on them but for what I know not May the 14. Strode did this day acquaint me that his wife had in a Cabinet at home in the Countrey the original papers which concerned Mr. Bedlow and when he can be at Liberty to go home he will be very brisk in exposing the said matters contained in the said papers to a publick view but whilest he remains in Custody he will not impart the said matters to any person whatsoever for that he will not bring himself under Mr. Bedlows Lash May the 15. Strode did tell me that one Mr. Iohnson a Servant to

ask for an order concerning Mr. Doudal or Mr. Cullumb Mrs. VVright Ralph Carter Mr. Vahan 2. Mr. Iohn Parsons Richard Ganes Mr. Thomas Ffloyd Mr. Ireland aliàs Douting Mr. Cullumb 3. Sr. I am to desire you to call upon me to morrow at the Earl of Powis's house in Lincolnsinn-fields at seven of the Clock in the morning and you will oblige him who is Sr. your affectionate Friend and humble Servant Edward VVood. Now since I have so fair an opportunity it may be meet to let you know what I in my first Narrative omitted And the Reason why I did so is fair for at that Juncture most persons were desirous to know the meaning of my Discovery And I as desirous to satisfie each persons Curiosity 1. In or about the Month of Iune 79. at Powis's House the Countess of Powis and Mrs. Cellier desired me to go to one Nicholas Stubbs who then Lived in Stephens-Alley in Kings-Street Westminster and was as they had been informed Bed-ridden and highly dis-satisfyed in Mind for some false Testimony which he had given against one Gifford a Romish-Priest With this Stubbs I was to treat about the Usage which he received in Prison and to endeavour to bring him to a Denyal of what he had before Affirmed on Oath Which was to this Effect That he being a Dying-Man and touched with a true Remorse of Conscience did on his Death-Bed declare that he knew not any such Man as Mr. Gifford or that there was any such thing as Burning of Houses intended But that when he found himself Impeach't for a Crime of such a Nature and most barbarously Tortur'd in Prison insomuch that his Body could no longer indure the same he was constrained to give those Answers he did as best agreeing to the Questions propos'd But now he pray'd God Almighties Pardon declaring himself truly sorry for what he had done Here I have thought fit for a general Satisfaction to insert an Information taken from Iane Stubbs which is as follows Westm. ss The Information of Iane the Wife of Nicholas Stubbs of St. Stephens-Alley in Kings-Street Westminster taken upon Oath this 13th day of December 1679. before me Edmond Warcup Esq one of His Majesty's Justice the Peace in the said City THis Informant saith That about the Month of June last past Mr. Dangerfeild now present came to this Informant's House when her Husband lay very sick and he then asked whether Mr. Stubbs her Husband had not been much Tortured while he was in Prison about the Fire in Fetter-Lane to which her said Husband answered That while he was in the Dungeon he was hardly used being double-Ironed and Staked to the Board But was well enough used afterwards And the said Dangerfeild enquired into the Condition of this Informant's Husband and gave Five Shillings and promised to get Money to pay the Rent of her House which was Five Pound and promised to return again but came not And asked Whether this Informant knew Mrs. Cellier but this Informant knew her not And the said Dangerfeild said He would acquaint Mr. Oates with the Poorness of this Informant's Condition and would endeavour to get some Subsistance for him And further saith not Jane Stubbs Jurat die Anno Superdict cor me Edmond Warcup Now you are to note the afore-said Denyal was if Opportunity had served to have privately possest him with by promising to take care of his Wife and the many Children he was like to leave behind him if he should dye But when I found the Man under a most violent Feavor and the Wife still present I was discouraged for making any Progress according to Order but rather was inclined to pitty his miserable Condition which both his Wife and Himself began to relate to me After I had stayed some time and asked some Questions and I finding no such Answer as I expected gave him a Crown and promised to bring with me the next time I came Five Pound to pay their Rent as being sollicited to that purpose by them both and in the mean time to make Mr. Oates sensible of his great Necessity according as he desired I returned to the Countess to whom I related the Success I had in that Affair Telling her Ladyship That my opinion was nothing Matterial could be had from Stubbs To which she replyed 'T was no great matter But since 't was her Lord's Advice her Ladyship was willing to make Trial of the same Further adding That the Lords in the Tower did measure out Wit as Pedlers do Juckle and that whil'st they beat their Brains on Things of mean Consequence they let greater slip Then I demanded how that could be Her Ladyship's Answer was That in the time I had been gone to Stubbs she had been inform'd by Person of good Credit that one Mr. Boyce and Mr. Praunce were fallen out and that now there was a fair opportunity for them to come within Praunce at the same time Ordering me to go and Drink with the said Mr. Boyce who as her Ladyship informed me lived in Bell-Savage-Yard on Ludgate-Hill and to endeavour if I found by his Discourse that Praunce and He were separated if he would embrace any opportunity to be Revenged on Mr. Praunce Which if he did according as I should find him inclined I was to make some offer to encourage him Whereupon I did that very Day go to the said Mr. Boyces House after I had first been to Converse with one Mrs. Dorothy Sherborne a Sempstress living near St. Clement's Church in the Strand how to frame a Discourse which might be agreeable to the Difference which was then between Boyce and Praunce For as I was informed by Mrs. Cellier the said Mrs. Sherborne who is Sister to Mr. Praunce's Wife was the Person who first gave notice of this Affair by one Mrs. Mary Quina who then lived in or about Russell-Street near Covent-Garden But when I found Boyce and had prevailed with him to Drink I did enter into some Discourse which appears by this Information which follows relating to Praunce but found no Encouragement to proceed according as the Countess of Powis expected But upon our parting I promised to visit him again Adding when I found no Complyance in that I would employ him to cut some Amber for me And in order to that sometime after I made another Visit or two but never gave him any Amber to cut Nor could I get from him any thing that would amount to the Prejudice of Mr. Praunce So that Designe fell But you may perceive by the Information of Boyce and Mrs. Sherborne that the Scheam thereof was well enough laid had Boyce but performed his Part. Here follows their Informations c. The Information of William Boyce in Bell-Savage-Yard Ludgate-Hill Joyner taken upon Oath before the Right Honourable Sir Robert Clayton Knight Lord-Mayo● of the City of London on Fryday the 30th of Ianuary 1679. THis Informant saith That about the middle of last Summer one

Mr. Dangerfeild came to this Informant's House Scituate in Bell-Savage-Court London afore-said And told this Informant That he came from Mr. Praunce concerning the Cutting of Amber and desired to Drink privatly with this Informant But this Informant being Suspicious of him did request the Man of the House where they drank to come into the Room as often as he could In which Room the said Dangerfeild acquainted this Informant that he understood this Informant had been very kind to Mr. Praunce and serviceable to him but Mr. Praunce spake very unkindly of this Informant behind his back Whereupon this Informant made answer that he had no Reason so to do if he consulted God and his own Conscience And this Informant further saith That on the Morrow the said Dangerfeild came again to this Informant at his own House and they went to drink at the same Place as before At which Place the said Dangerfeild renewed the Discourse that had passed between them the Day before which was as this Informant did then conceive to provoke him to say something that might have ensnared this Informant in regard this Informant had been an Instrument to perswade Mr. Praunce to declare the Truth touching the Murther of Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey But when the said Dangerfeild had found this Informant could not be provoked to Discourse he would have perswaded this Informant to meet Mr. Praunce and him the said Dangerfeild at the Horse-Shoo-Tavern in Drury-Lane at which Place he acquainted this Informant he kept a Clubb and was used to meet there every Night But this Informant refused so to do and more sayeth not William Boyce Dominus die Anno Iurat cor me Robert Clayton Maior Comitt Midd ' Civit. Westm. The Examination of Mrs. Dorothy Sherborne taken on Oath before Sir VVilliam VValler one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex and City and Liberty of Westminster the 31st of Ianuary 79. THis Examinant saith That sometime last Summer she went with some Linnen to Powis House to Mr. Willoughby who as she supposed Lodged there at that time Sometime after this Examinant acquainted the said Mr. Willoughby of a Difference as she was informed that had happened between Mr. Boyce and Mr. Praunce Brother to this Examinant At which time the said Willoughby told this Examinant that he would go and see Mr. Boyce and try to find out by him what the said Praunce had endured in Prison And that not long after the said Mr. Willoughby returned and told this Examinant That he could get nothing out of the said Boyce but that he would go again for the same purpose And not long after returned to this Examinant's Shop and told her that he the said Willoughby had been with the said Mr Boyce and Drank with him but could get nothing out of him And further this Examinant saith not at present Dorothy Sherborne Capit. Jurat die Superdict coram 1. William Waller About the Month of September 1679. when Mrs. Celliers and my self went to visit Mr. Stanford the Duke of Newburgh's Resident whose Lodgings was then in the Hay-Market He Entertain'd us with Discourses to this effect viz. That Dr. Tongue did imploy divers Persons to write and that to be done so warily that no Person knew more than just that Part which he was concerned in Which Mr. Stamford did then promise to acquaint the King's Majesty withal And farther added that he would lay down his Opinion of the said Writing in words to this effect viz. That he did believe the said Dr. Tongue and his Clarks were writing out Directions for Dr. Oates and Mr. Bedloe how to proceed in the Plot against the Roman-Catholicks hoping thereby as I suppose to insinuate a Belief into the King that there was no such thing as a Plot intended by that Party but a Contrived Fiction by some other At another time not long after I went by my self to wait upon Mr. Stamford with that Paper entituled The Cloak in its Colours which was wrote by some if not all the Lords in the Tower as Mrs. Cellier informed me At which time Mr. Stamford bound himself in a Promise and took upon him to say That If ever the Duke of York come to the Crown of England he should have Interest enough to make my fortune there promising at the same time in regard things stood then in so ill a posture for the present he would make such Interest to the Spanish Embassador when he returned from Fl●nders that I should be entertained in his Family and Service adding that my business would be to furnish his Excellency with Intelligence both from City and Countrey as well as other parts for which he doubted not but to procure for my Sallery at least One hundred pounds a year But when I should be in such an imploy Mr. Stamford proposed a way how I might be as serviceable to himself as the Embassador which was to give him the same Intelligence Now this I do suppose was used only as a wheedle to encourage me in the prosecuting the many Affairs I then was engaged in for the good of the Roman Catholick Cause more than a thing really intended by him in regard I never was prefer'd to the said imploy he then proposed but 't was his usual custom when I came to wait on him in a Morning before 10 a Clock to entertain me with a Mass or two before I left him always admonishing me and rather indeed enjoyning me to come and hear Mass with him which I often did where I constantly found a full Congregation for the most part of English people and I doubt not but that he still continues the same exercise Now to let you know why I did not insert the Informations of my many Witnesses in my first Narrative as well as some in this I hope this following Reason may satisfie each Reader for that in as much as I had the most subtile and wary people perhaps of the whole Universe to deal withall I neither could nor yet can think it proper to discover to them the whole strength of my Testimony FINIS