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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47485	A true history of the several designs and conspiracies against His Majesties sacred person and government as they were continually carry'd on from 1688 till 1697 containing matters extracted from original papers, depositions of the witnesses, and authentick records, as appears by the references to the appendix, wherein they are digested : published with no other design then to acquaint the English nation that notwithstanding the present posture of affairs our enemies are still so many, restless and designing, that all imaginable care ought to be taken for the defense and safety of His Majesty and his three kingdoms / by R.K.	Kingston, Richard, b. 1635?	1698 (1698)	Wing K615; ESTC R3193	131,782	328

of Man About the beginning of May 1689 the Pink called the Lyon of Lancashire Charles Cawson Master being ready to sail Mr. Edmund Thrillfall and two Strangers yet unknown came on board the Vessel shew'd the Master and Marriners the Earl of Derby's Pass and then the Pink with her Passengers and five Marriners and a Boy * Jo. Preston Hen. Knowles Ja. Tompson Jo. Barrowe Ri. Whiteside in the Night time without any Cocket or Certificate from the Custom House or any Lading loosed out of Lune Road near Lancaster and as all the Saylors believed were bound for the Isle of Man * See John Preston's Affidavit sworn before the now Earl of Maclesfeild Jun. 17. 1689. but before they could compass it Mr. Thrillfall propos'd Sayling to Ireland to which the Master readily consented saying he had some Debts to get in there accordingly they went to Dublin and continued there three wekes All which is proved by the Oaths of the whole Ships Company whose Affidavits are to be found in the Appendix Now are the Commissions preparing or the Northern Conspirators Thrillfall and Lunt are brought acquainted and instructed in the Affair they were ingag'd in And Passes provided for each of them under the Hand and Seal of the Lord Melfort one of which was ready to be produc'd at the Tryal at Manchester but Sir W. W. for reasons best known to himself would not suffer it All things being ready in the three weeks time the Pink continued at Dublin Thrillfall and Lunt went aboard the same Vessel there the former carryed with him a Portmantle Trunk cover'd with Hair and a Sword and a pair of Pistols the latter only a pair of Leather Baggs and Sword and Pistols and arrived in Lune * See the Affidavit of the Ships Crew River near Cockram in Lancashire in the beginning of June 1689. As soon as the Pink came to an Anchor Lunt and Thrillfall pressed to be set on Shoar and the Master was no less concerned to be quit of them least they should be seis'd by the Officers of the Customs who come on board every Vessel as soon as it comes into Harbour To escape this Danger the Offenders make such hast that Lunt leaves his two Bags wherein were some Commissions Declarations Blanks and other written and printed Papers behind him in the Ship Which Lunt missing when he landed he desired the Boats Crew to fetch them and bring them to him at Cockram * See the Depositions of Hen. Knowles and Ri. Whitride who rowed the boat ashore but before the Cock-loat could reach the Ship the Officers of the Customs came on board the Pink seised the Papers and finding them of dangerous consequence pursue Thrillfall and Lunt but not overtaking them deliver the Commissions Declarations and the other written and printed Papers into the hand of Authority These Papers being further enquir'd into Charles Cawson conscious of his own guilt absents himself but his Father and the Ships Crew viz Preston Knowles Whiteside Thompson and Barrow being call'd to account they all of 'em deposed either in the whole or in part all that is related in the six foregoing Paragraphs This early and open Design against their Majesties and the Government making no small Noise in Lancashire the Matter came also to be examin'd at Manchester by the then Earl now his Grace the Duke of Devonshire the now Earl of Macclesfeild the Earl of Scarbrough and the Lord Wharton All these noble Peers being at that time in Lancashire to view and regulate the Army And their Lordships all agreed that the Earl of Macclesfeild as Lord Leiutenant of that County should immediatly issue out his Warrant against Lunt and Thrillfall which was done accordingly Thus far you have found Lunt's and Thrillfall's bringing Commissions into Lancashire from the late King substantially and credibly prov'd and where Interest or Prejudice can no way suspect any Collusion I shall therefore proceed in the next Place to shew you how they dispos'd of ' em Thrillfall and Lunt having escap'd the Officers of the Customs they hasten to Mr. Tildesly's of the Lodge * vid John Wilson's Depositions and there divided their Pacquets The Commissions directed to Gentlemen in Yorkshire the Bishoprick of Durham c. were taken Care of by Mr. Thrillfall Who having a Guide provided for him began his Journey thither as soon as he had refresh'd himself The rest of the Commissions appointed for Lancashire Cheshire Staffordshire c. were committed to the Care of Mr. Lunt Thrillfall pursuant to the late Kings Orders having delivered his share of the Commissions and what else he had in charge to the more Northren Gentlemen he privately returned to his own House at Goosner in Lancashire and having notice there that his treasonable Practices were discover'd by Mr. Kelly Mr. Dodsworth and the Commissions left in the Ship he took all imaginable Care to secure himself there till he could find an Opportunity of returning to the late King in Ireland But this Designincounter'd a severe disappointment and he with the Reward of his Treachery For it being whisper'd among the Party that he was return'd it quickly took Air and a Warrant as I said before being out against him from the Lord Lieutenant he was sought after by a Party of the Militia and found by the Corporal in a hollow Place made for that purpose in a Stack of Turffs As soon as he was discover'd the Corporal attempting to seize him Thrillfall violently snatcheth the Musket out of the Corporals hand and knock'd him down with it but the Corporal recovering himself and finding his own Life and the Prisoners Escape in such apparent Danger he drew his Sword and run Mr. Thrillfall through the Body of which wound he died immediatly And what but the Sense of his own Guilt and the Dread of the shameful Death that he knew must attend it could have forc'd him to such a desperate Resistance of lawful Authority For tho' we allow him to be a Man onever so great Courage yet we can not suppose he would have thrown away his Life as he did if he had not known his Crimes were so great and the Proof of 'em so plain that 't was impossible for him to escape the Punishment inflicted for Treason if he should have been apprehended and brought to a Tryal When Mr. Lunt and George Wilson his Guide had deliver'd his * Vid. Lunt's and Wilsons Depositions in the Append. share of the late Kings Commissions to the Gentlemen whose Names and Places of Abode they give you a List of in their Depositions Lunt was sent by the Conspirators to London to buy Arms list Men and send them into Lancashire to be subsisted at the Charge of the Conspirators till they had occasion to imploy them in the Service of the late King And this Lunt perform'd as appears upon the Oaths of the several Persons whose Names are in the * El. Langley Mr.

their cruel Task-Masters or that they dispatch'd any of their Body to compliment the King of Egypt with a free Surrender of their Lives and Fortunes If they had been Guilty of such an unpardonable Stupidity I may be bold to say That they had been so far from deserving such a Country as the Land of Canaan that Lapland it self had been too good for them mutato nomine de te Fabula narratur I will no longer detain the Reader from the History it self wherein if he find by Undenyable Proofs That our Enemies have hitherto been continually designing upon His Majesty's Life and the Ruin of the Kingdom I hope he will agree That what has been already may be again repeated and therefore That we ought not by our own Sloth or Covetousness lead our Enemies into Temptations to attack us unprovided but that we should always have a Defence suitable to our Dangers AN ACCOUNT OF SEVERAL CONSPIRACIES AGAINST His Majesties Sacred PERSON and GOVERNMENT AS nothing of Public Concernment has been so variously discours'd of at home and abroad as the Lancashire Plot and that perpetual Train of Conspiracies that have annually succeeded it some endeavouring to sham the whole by scandalous Invectives against the Discoverers whilst others searching into the bottom of the several Designs are not only convinc'd of the Truth of them but also of the Honour and Integrity of the Government in relation to these Affairs I cannot imagin but that a True and Impartial Account of them will be equally useful and acceptable to the Public and because the Lancashire Plot has had the Honour not only to be the Parent but Companion of all the other Conspiracies I find my self oblig'd to begin tho' the Series of the Narration will not permit me to conclude with it The Contrivance then of this Plot is owing to the Politics of the late King James who finding himself utterly lost in the love and affections of his People and the Crown fallen from his Head by his own mal-Administration yet flattering himself with the vain hopes of regaining by the Sword what he had forfeited by breaking the Laws of the Land and endeavouring to subvert the Constitution He fled into France for shelter till he could put his Affairs into such a Posture as might facilitate his Return and enable him to establish Popery and Arbitrary Power in these Protestant Kingdoms But before he took his Voyage for France to gain Assistance from that potent Monarch 't was concerted by him and those Popish bigotted Friends that had espous'd his Interest that they should also endeavour at the same time to raise a Ferment in England Scotland and Ireland to concur with the Designs that carryed him into France and therefore that some Person of known Experience Courage and Secresy should be dispatch'd on that Errand to imbroyl the three Kingdoms Mr. Bromfeild a pretended Quaker and so dexterous and bold a Counterfeit that he was able to personate the the Disciple of any Sect Member of any Faction or Person of any Quality had this Office assign'd him and from the Earl of Salisbury's by the Name of Thompson advanc'd towards Scotland Not forgetting according to the Instructions given him by the late King to sow such Seeds of Discontent and Jealousy as he pass'd through the North of England as might ripen into an Insurrection and Rebellion at his Return He had not been long in Scotland before he effected his wicked Purposes in laying a Foundation for a Civil War in that Kingdom and from thence sail'd into Ireland on the same Errand Where he acquaints the Earl of Tyrconnel how successful he had been in his Negotiations in Scotland viz. That the Duke of Gourdon had garrison'd Edenbrough Castle and that the Viscount Dundee would be suddenly at the Head of a great Army there and both declare for the late King James but Mr. Bromfeild finding the Earl of Tyrconnel so zealous for the Cause that he wanted no Arguments or Preswasions to make him more active and daring in promoting the late Kings Service he sail'd from thence into Lancashire where he might be more useful intending to make that and the adjacent Countrys the Provinces he would act in When Bromfeild landed in Lancashire he intended for Croxteth the Seat of the Lord Molineux but for fear of being too much observ'd there he alter'd his purpose and took up his head quarters at Mr. Fitz Herberts of Wapra * Vid Mr. Edward's and Wilson's Depositions in the Appendix and sometimes at Mr. Wilson's in Redland where the Jacobites resorted to him in great Numbers to concert what was necessary to be done for the Restauration of their old Master From Wapra he often made Excursions into the neighbouring Countys and through by-ways to Croxteth to confer with the Lord Molineux and his Son and other considerable Persons of the Roman Character And having adjusted Matters there for an Insurrection he return'd into Ireland with his Dispatches and so backward and forward as the Emergency of his treasonable Affairs requir'd Having a safer Conveyance for his Lancashire Pacquets to and Answers from France by the way of Ireland than to hazard them through the several Post-Offices in England This treacherous Imployment was carry'd on by Mr. Bromfeild for some Months the Habit of a Quaker securing him from the Suspition of a Jacobite but at length his Visor dropt off and the trayterous half-fac'd Papist was seen through the demure Looks and canting Dialect of the Quaker The Vessel that Bromfeild bought to transport him to and from Ireland was seiz'd by Mr. Morston for the use of the Government and Bromfeild had certainly been committed to Prison and try'd for his Life had not the means of his Escape out of Lancashire * Vid Depositions pradict been contriv'd by his quondam Host and intire Friend and Confident Mr. Wilson Mr. Bromfeild and his Intelligence being once more landed in Ireland * May. 1689. where the late King James was arriv'd also he acquaints the late King with the Effects of his Travails viz. That his Friends were up in Arms in Scotland and that the Lancashire Papists and others were ready to ingage in his Quarrel in Order to re-inthrone him as soon as they were commissioned by him to undertake it Nor did he forget to acquaint the late King how narrowly he escap'd a Goal and the Gallows at his last being in Lancashire and that since he was too well known there to be sent again into that Country he begg'd some other Person might he imploy'd in carrying over the Commissions desir'd Which the late King comply'd with and as a Reward of these Services made Mr. Bromfeild one of the Commissioners of his Irish Mint in which Post he continued till the Reduction of Ireland by King William If any object that Bromfeild's Agency in Scotland has no Authorities to support it let the Reader know 't is not for want of them they are not produced but for