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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47868	The history of the Plot, or, A brief and historical account of the charge and defence of Edward Coleman, Esq., William Ireland, Thomas Pickering, John Grove : Robert Greene, Henry Berry	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1679 (1679)	Wing L1258; ESTC R21508	126,513	94

familiarity with him but that he had seen him often and particularly at Le Fairs at Somerset-House in company with several other Priests and Jesuites upon Irelands bidding him name one Mr. Bedlow named Segnior Perrare I suppose says Ireland if Perrare may be brought hither at which words dispute concerned in the business The Reader may here take notice that the Printed Tryal has this passage in it page 45. Mr. Bedlow askes Mr. Ireland do you know Le Faire and Parrare To which Ireland replies Yes but I never saw you in their Company in Somerset-House in my life but Once or Twice yes says Mr. Bedlow you have Twice at Le Faires Here is a Contradiction in the one part and an Incongruity in the other which neither finding in my own Notes nor any notice taken of it in the Court the Reader is left to judg if it may not be some slip in the Press Mr. Bedlow gave Evidence also of his seeing Mr. Fenwick say Mass at Somerset-House and of another Plot discoursed of upon the lives of certain Noble Persons Knight to kill the Earl of Shaftsbury Pritchard the Duke of Buckingham O Neale the Earl of Ossory and Obrian the Duke of Ormond Dr. Oates informs the Court of a Consult he had forgotten where there was a Plot laid to kill the Duke of Ormond and raise a Rebellion in Ireland declaring that in Ianuary last Fenwick Ireland and Whitebread had the perusal of some Letters from Talbot sent to London which they Communicated to the Society at St. Omers The Letters speaking to this effect that the Catholicks stood fair to do their business in Ireland And the Witness also swears that he saw a Letter under Covert signed by Whitebread Ireland Fenwick c. of thanksgiving for their hopes in Ireland and declaring withal that no stone should be left unturned for the extirpation of that abominable Heresie out of that Kingdom That Fenwick about the 21. of August a little before his going to St. Omers to bring home the Provincial was at a Consult and did there consent to a design upon the Duke of Ormonds life and the moving of a Rebellion after his death and likewise approve of the four Iesuites that were to do the work and of sending Fogarthy over to Talbot in case the four Iesuites should not do their business And also that Mr. Whitebread agreed to it at his coming over as may appear by his Books of Entry for a Letter from Mr. Whitebread dated as from St. Omers about the latter end of August and taxed at but two pence made this Witness suspect that it was written nearer hand In that Letter Whitebread approved of the design upon the Duke and the Witness swears that it was signed with his own hand informing the Court that the said Result might be found in the Book wherein all the Consults are Registred Mr. Iames Bedlow being sworn declareth that he did not know Ireland That he had heard of Pickering and Grove and could say nothing to the Conspiracy against the King but he had heard his Brother talk of the Priests and Jesuites as people that he knew and that many of them visited his Brother That he had fetched many sums from them for his Brother as 50 or 60 l. at a time as he had proved to the Duke of Monmouth the Lord Chancellor and Lord Treasurer from the persons that paid the mony Mr. Iames Bedlow being examined what he had heard his Brother say concerning Mr. Ireland and how long he had known him made answer that he had heard his Brother speak of him but where or in what place he could not tell Mr. Ireland urged that Mr. Bedlow made mention of one place some three years since and that it was at Paris and that if he talked of him so long he must have known him so long whereupon the question being put to Mr. Bedlow how long he had known Mr. Ireland Mr. Bedlow made answer that he had only known him since August last but that a man might talk of people that he never saw in his life Mr. William Bedlow with his Brother did not withdraw and Dr. Oates speaking to the summoning of a Consult did aver that he heard Mr. Whitebread ask Mr. Peters if he had summoned the Consult as he directed him and that Mr. Peters answered him Yes and that he had written into Warwick-shire and Worcester-shire about it There was now a Letter produced from Mr. Peters a Prisoner about this Plot Sir Tho. Doleman declaring in Court that he found it amongst Harcourts papers the hand being likewise sworn by Dr. Oates to be Mr. Peters hand which Letter as it follows was read in the Court. Feb. 23. 1677. These for his honored Friend Mr. William Tonstal at Burton Honored Dear Sir I Have but time to convey these following particulars to you First I am to give you notice that it hath seemed siting to our Master Consult Pro c. to fix the 21. day of April next Stylo veteri for the meeting at London of our Congregation on which day all those that have a suffrage are to be present there that they may be ready to give a beginning to the same on the 24 which is the next day after St. Georges-day you are warned to have jus suffragii and therefore if your occasions should not permit you to be present you are to signifie as much to the end others in their ranks be ordered to supply your absence every one is minded also not to hasten to London long before the time appointed nor to appear much about the Town till the meeting be over left occasion should be given to suspect the design finally secrecy as to the time and place is much recommended to all those that receive Summons as it will appear of its own nature necessary Tertio pro Domino Solovo disco Benefact Prov. Luniensis I am straitned for time that I can only assure you I shall be much glad of obliging you any ways Sir Your Servant Edward Petre. Pray my service where due c. Mr. Whitebread declared that he knew nothing at all of this Letter and Mr. Ireland that it was none of his Letter and that he had not heard of it before in particular Upon this matter Sir Thomas Doleman informed the Court that Dr. Oates gave an account of this Consult to His Majesty and Council four or five days before this Letter was found The Seals were now produced in Court Dr. Oates affirming them to have been seized in the Provincials Chamber and Mr. Whitebread confessing as much The Jury were now dischaged of Mr. Fenwick and Mr. Whitebread upon a tenderness of not screwing up any Evidence to an over rigorous construction so that they were taken from the Bar to attend the event of a farther discovery The Prisoners being now called upon to make their defence with an assurance that their Witnesses should be fairly heard

seen him in his life Whose answer was That in the Stone-Gallery in Summerset House coming from a Consult there he had seen him After this Mr. Bradley the Messenger that seized Mr. Colemans Papers was examined what Papers he seized what he saw and how he disposed of them To which Mr. Bradly rendred this account That by Warrant of Council dated September 29. at six at night for the apprehending of Mr. Coleman and seizing of his Papers he went accordingly and told Mrs. Coleman his business who said he was welcom And her Husband not being at home he desired her to send for him That upon the search he found a great many Papers about the house and put them into several Bags and looking into a private Corner in his own Chamber in a place behind the Chimney he found a Deal Box tacked together with a Nail with Letters in it which he delivered into the Custody of one of his Assistants to take care of it And going then into his own Study he searched his Scritoire and put up all the Papers he could find in Bags without any other Papers among them sealed them up with his own Seal keeping them constantly in his sight and so carried every Paper of them to the Clerk of the Council Sir Robert Southwel and Sir Thomas Doleman were then examined whether or no the Papers then produced in Court were the Papers which were brought by Mr. Bradley the Messenger And first Sir Robert Southwel concerning Mr. Colemans Long Letter whose answer was that he had not seen that large Letter in several days after the Papers were brought to him from Bradley remitting the account thereof to the other Clerks of the Council Sir Thomas Doleman in answer to the same question declared that he found it among Mr. Colemans Papers in a Deal Box that Bradley brought The next point was to prove both by his own Confession and by two Witnesses that all the Papers in question were of his own hand writing Whereupon Mr. Boatman one that had waited upon him five years in his Chamber was first examined who declared that he believed all the Papers then shewed unto him to be of Mr. Colemans writing acknowledging further that a Pacquet of Letters from beyond the Seas was directed unto him two or three days after he was made a Prisoner Confessing also that he had received a Letter for his Master from La Chaise but denying that ever he wrote any for his Master to La Chaise owning also that his Master kept a large Book of Entries for his Letters and News But that he knew not what was become of it and that he had not seen it since two days before his Masters Commitment He declared likewise that he did usually receive News every Post but could not say that any Letters of the two years last past were entred in the aforesaid Book The Prisoner here interposed that all his Letters from the Hague Bruxels France and Rome were before the Council and that these were all he had received One Cattaway a kind of an Amanuensis to him was then examined upon those Papers who positively affirmed them to be of Mr. Colemans writing Sir Philip Lloyd was produced next to prove the Long Letter against him upon his own Confession Who gave Evidence that he received the Papers then shewed him from Sir Thomas Doleman and that the Long Letter was owned by Mr. Coleman to be his own hand-writing It bare date September 29. 1675. subscribed Your most humble and most obedient Servant without a name And it was read by the Clerk of the Crown according to the Order of the Court but being too long to be brought into a Breviate and the whole Letter it self being little more than the deduction of a three years History of former Negotiations for the greater part with Mr. Ferrier the Predecessor of La Chaise it will suffice to give this Brief of the whole Money was the Prisoners great design and the procuring of it by a pretence of more power both in the Church and in the State than effectually he had is in short the drift of that large discourse Towards the end of it he has indeed this bold and dangerous passage Our prevailing in these things would give the greatest blow to the Protestant Religion that ever it received since its Birth To this foregoing Letter was produced an Answer from La Chaise owning the Receipt of it and giving Mr. Coleman thanks for it concerning which Letter Sir Robert Southwel declared that he found it in Mr. Colemans Canvas Bag the Sunday after the papers were seized and that Sir Philip Lloyd examined it This Letter was Read in Court by Sir Robert Southwel first in French and then in English which being a very brief and pertinent proof of the Correspondence in question we shall here insert according to the Translation of it there Exhibited The LETTER SIR Paris Octob. 23. 1675. THE Letter which you gave yourself the trouble to write to me came to my hands but the last night I read it with great satisfaction and I assure you that its length did not make it seem tedious I should be very glad on my part to assist in seconding your good intentions I will consider of the means to effect it and when I am better informed than I am as yet I will give you an account to the end I may hold Intelligence with you as you did with my Predecessour I desire you to believe that I will never fail as to my good will for the service of your Master whom I honor as much as he deserves and that it is with great truth that I am Your most humble and most obedient servant D. L. C. As it was the business of the Prisoners long Letter abovementioned first to procure mony and then by his Interest as he phansied to himself to work a dissolution of the Parliament so in case of attaining that end Mr. Coleman had by him the Draught of a Declaration as from His Majesty shewing the Reasons of that Dissolution promising before the end of the next February to call another Parliament charging all persons to forbear talking irreverently of the proceedings and offering 20 l. to the discoverer of any seditious talker against it unto a Principal Secretary of State This is in short the substance of that Voluminous Declaration and he did not make more bold with His Majesty in this contrivance out of his own head then he did in another Letter of Mr. La Chaise in the name of his Master the Duke of York not only without the order and privity of the Duke but incurring his very great displeasure upon the very mention of his project as he himself confessed before a Committee of the House of Lords that discoursed with him in Newgate to which point Sir Philip Lloyd deposed the truth of what is here asserted he himself being then appointed to

further and there was no blood there neither His breast was bruised his Neck broken as the VVitness believed his Gloves and Stick by him upon the Bank his servant said that it was his Masters Sword and he had both Gold and Silver in his Pocket The Prisoners offered this VVitness no questions The Surgeons were then Sworn that viewed the body and opened it Mr. Skillard informed that he viewed the body at Twelve a Clock the next day after it was found That the Breast was bruised as with blows or stamping on it his Neck distorted two wounds one fell on a Rib and the other past through his body but he never dyed of those wounds and neither his Cloths nor his Wastcoat were pierced his Neck was certainly broken and probably he might be dead four or five days before these wounds were given upon the opening of him it appeared that he began to putrifie Mr. Cambridge another Chirurgeon was Sworn who deposed that he saw the body on the same day with Mr. Skillard the Neck displaced bruised upon the Breast one wound on a Rib and another that past through him under the left Pap which wounds were undoubtedly given him after he was dead Elizabeth Curtis Sir Edmund Godfreys Maid Sworn and Examined Deposing that a matter of a Fortnight before her Masters death the Prisoner there that they called Green was at Sir Edmund Godfreys House in the Morning to inquire for him and first gave him the time of the day in English and afterwards said somthing to him in French Green denying that ever he saw Sir Edmund Godfrey The VVitness persisting in it that he was with her Master about a quarter of an hour and in a darker Periwig then that he wore in the Court and that upon Sunday Morning Hill was there which Hill also denyed the VVitness particularly remembring that she was then doing somthing about the Fire in the Parlour that she gave her Master his breakfast there Hill being with him and then went up stairs and missing her Keys came down again and found them upon the Parlour Table and Hill was yet there in the very Cloths he had on in the court about Nine or Ten a Clock which agreed with Prances Evidence Hill acknowledging that he had not changed his Clothes but objecting that she said in Newgate she never saw him and undertaking to prove that he was elsewhere that morning and about a month after she saw him in Newgate But there was another man that brought a Note for Sir Edmond Godfrey the night before which her Master had and she knows not what became of it The man came on Friday night with a Letter in his hand tyed up and asked for her Master the VVitness telling him that he was at home but Busie So she took the Letter and gave it him the man staying a while and then desiring an Answer the Witness telling her Master as much Prethee tell him said he I don't understand the meaning of it Lancelot Stringer being Sworn declared that he had seen Mr. Prance in Company with Mr. Green Mr. Hill Mr. Fitz Girald and Mr. Kelly at the Plow several times and that he knew Vernat Hill acknowledging as much and that he knew Girald and Hill being charged with denying that he knew Kelly before Hill excused it that he knew him by sight as one that much used the Chappel Stringer was a servant to Vincent the Master of the Plow where he came to live at last Bartholomew Mr. Vincent was Sworn who said that he knew Green Hill and Berry and that they had been at his house with Prance and likewise that he knew Girald Richard Cary Sworn Who Deposed that he was sent for by three Gentlemen to the Queens Head That he went up to them and they examined him if he knew Poplar and one Mr. Dethick and he told them that he thought he knew the Gentleman but that he knew the place very well So they gave him a Letter for George Dethick Esq at Poplar and charged him to be sure to give it to his own hand and not to any other body The Witness carried the Letter and delivered it to the Gentleman telling him whence it came So he lookt upon it and bad the VVitness tell them that he would come to them presently So the VVitness returned and found the Gentleman there still that sent him They gave him a Glass of Wine and paid him and so he went away Cary saying that Prance looked like one of the three and Prance affirming Cary to be the man that was sent Evans a Boy of the Queens Head was Sworn who deposed that some two or three months since there was some Company at his Masters that they read a paper there and that Mr. Dethick came to them That they had a Barrel of Oysters and a Dish of Flounders to Dinner That he heard them name Sir Edmond Godfrey and that one of them found him at the door and threatned to kick him down Stairs Sir Robert Southwel Sworn who deposed that attending the Council December the 24. Mr. Prance was examined about Sir Edmond Godfreys murther and that his information having so many particulars in it of such a Bench such a Corner Room Passage and Gallery The Board not understanding it the King directed the Duke of Monmouth Lord of Ossory and Mr. Vicechamberlain to the Queen to repair to the place and there take Mr. Prances examination and report it to the Board and this VVitness waiting upon the Lords took the Examination and drew it up into a Report which was signed by the two Honourable Lords and read that Afternoon at the Board Mr. Prance shewed the Lords the Bench they sat upon to wait Sir Edmond Godfreys coming the Corner they lugged him unto when they had killed him the Stairs where Berry was to stay a Little Door with a Stair Case at the Stables end a long dark Entry with a door and eight steps that led to Dr. Godwins Lodgings up two steps on the right hand there was a kind of a Closet with a Bed in it and Mr. Prance told the Lords that first they got him thither and left him in Hills charge for two nights the Witness there present and every thing agreeing with Mr. Prances relation to the Council and to what he now delivered in Court only that his Relation was now inlarged and that the Lodgings which he took to be Sir Iohn Arundels were not capable of any person of Quality Mr. Prance went thus far ready and directly but coming to examine the place whither they had carried the body he said it was somwhere by the Garden There is a long dark Entry that opens into the Outer Court he past through that and then over the Quadrangle to the Piazza and then went down a pair of Stairs saying Thus far we are right I am sure There is a large square Court below and there he