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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46751	The narrative of Robert Jenison of Grays-Inn, Esquire containing I. a further discovery and confirmation of the late horrid and treasonable popish plot against His Majestie's person, government, and the Protestant religion, II. the names of the four ruffians, designed to have murthered the King, III. the reasons why this discovery hath been so long deferred, by the said Robert Jenison, IV. an order of His Majesty in Council touching the same ... : together with a preface introductory to the said narrative.	Jenison, Robert, 1648-1688.	1679 (1679)	Wing J561; ESTC R11080	31,524	50

of darkness hate the light to Admiralius Murmelius King of Morocco Matth. Paris then also enjoying a great part of Spain the messengers are named by the Historian whereof one a Clergy-man Strange That Salt should lose its savour proffering upon condition of his aid and assistance to resign his Kingdom to him and to become his Tributary King John was well skilled in trucking of Kingdoms having done the same to the Pope before and withal to renounce the Christian and receive the Mahometan Religion from Him the Vantage given in was more worth than the bargain The Moorish Amin told the Embassadors That he himself had lately been reading the Epistles of S. Paul wherein he found many things that liked him well only one thing he blamed in him that he followed not that Religion in which he was brought up but for his part he was so far from perswading him our King John to change his Religion that if he himself had been without one he would have chosen His only he thought it was every mans duty to persist in the Religion under which he was born And so in great dislike dismissed his Embassadors I alledge this story to denote the power and force of Custome which is most tenaciously adhered unto in things of the mind I know True Christians have a better Rule and that no Custome can justly prescribe to Christ and his Apostles or the True Followers of them both whose Doctrine ought to be the Standard by which Ours is to be rectified and reformed I shall not embarque in the particular Controversies agitated betwixt Rome and the Reformed as being but lately initiated in their perusal but thus much I have already learned That no error and abuse ought to plead Antiquity for its priviledge hoary hairs are no Crown but when they are found in the way of righteousness but by lawful Authority grievances of this nature may be rectified and that in a corrupt state of Ecclesiastical affairs and a separation therefrom 't is not he that taketh but that administreth the occasion who is the true and proper Schismatick But to return 6. My Brother Thomas Jenison's activity in these affairs comes next to be taken notice of as far as I have been necessitated to bring him on the stage Here I confess I have great tenderness for though he communicated many things to me yet I was loth to discover them till the very last and not then neither till upon assurance of Indempnity for Him as well as my self I was here once in wavering circumstances and somewhat divided betwixt hope and fear being willing to save my own Brother yet not to endanger the Father of my Countrey but at last the best scale weighed down the other having this consideration cast into it That the safety of my Brother Self or Family were not worthy to be named the same day with that of His Majesties The particular Method which I took to save my Brother harmless though I knew him to be so guilty as I have declared I shall not scruple to subjoin First of all I presented a Petition to His Maiesty against the single Testimony of Mr. Oates then his only Accuser of which intimation is given before it being indeed indited out of pure Zeal for my Brothers preservation Finding little advantage thereby the Sunday before the Order of Council for both our Indempnities to be mentioned by and by was obtained I went to some Lords of the Council and had assurance from Them in the Name of His Majesty that my Brother and other Relations should not be prejudiced by my Informations before which encouragement neither of my Two Informations were given in but purposely suspended till such assurance given after which a private Council was called on purpose to receive them to whom they were accordingly presented The Lords having also given a promise before That at the sitting of the next full Council effectual Orders should be obtained from the Board for the full ascertaining of the said Indempnities which promise the Noble Lords concerned were pleased punctually to perform to my great and signal encouragement The Copy of the said Order follows AT THE COURT AT Hampton Court This 7th Day of August 1679. Present The Kings Most Excellent Majesty Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Lord Chancellor Lord President Duke of Monmouth Duke of Lauderdale Marquess of Worcester Earl of Bridgewater Earl of Sunderland Earl of Essex Earl of Bath Earl of Hallifax Earl of Radnor Viscount Fauconberge Lord Cavendish Mr. Secretary Coventry Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sr. William Temple Mr. Powle RObert Jenison of Grayes-Inn Gent. this day attending His Majesty in Council to make very considerable Discoveries in relation to this Horrid and Damnable Popish Plot against His Majesty and the Government and fearing that what he should now or hereafter declare would prejudice his Father his Brother his Sisters and one Mr. John Smith His Majesty for his greater encouragement to proceed in so good a work was pleased to Declare That whatever he should at this or any other time in the course of his said Evidence reveal which may any way touch or relate to any of his said Relations should not be made use of to their prejudice upon any Account whatsoever But that His Majesty would take some Order with the Advice of His Council for the Indempnifying of the said Persons therein And was further pleased to declare That if the said Persons or any of them should come in and discover their Knowledge also of these matters That He would grant unto them or any of them as full and ample a Pardon as the said Robert Jenison himself should now have or that any others have or ought to have had for their Discoveries of this matter And he would take the said Robert Jenison into His Royal Protection And was further pleased to order That a Memorial of this Declaration be entred in the Register of the Council Causes for the more Publick and ample Manifestation thereof This is a true Copy of the above Declaration remaining in the Council Office in my Custody this 13th day of August 1679. Thomas Dolman THough a Text Royal such I esteem an Order of his Majesty in Council to be is a Comment to it self I mean doth sufficiently illustrate and honour the subject it dilates upon yet 1. I should be guilty of great Ingratitude a Crime abhorrent to my Nature if I should not thankfully accept his Majesty's Grace and Favour and publish my Obligations thereupon to the whole world for thereby of one obnoxious to his Laws and in the Eye thereof an Enemy to his person in concealing the Treasonable actings of others besides the guilty accession of my own Crime as far as I have before acknowledged I am restored and rendred to be Rectus in Curia and further incouraged by his Royal Protection to pay him the greatest service and duty I am able to perform 2. And the truth is there is some necessity of

September the 8th 1679. I Do appoint Francis Smith Thomas Basset John Wright Richard Chiswel and Samuel Heyrick to Print this my Narrative and further Discovery of the Plot And that no other Person presume to Print the same nor any part thereof Robert Jenison THE NARRATIVE OF Robert Jenison Of Grays-Inn Esquire CONTAINING I. A further Discovery and Confirmation of the Late Horrid and Treasonable Popish Plot against His Majestie 's Person Government and the Protestant Religion II. The Names of the Four Ruffians designed to have Murthered the King III. The Reasons why this Discovery hath been so long deferred by the said Robert Jenison IV. An Order of His Majesty in Council touching the same Together with other Material Passages Letters and Observations thereupon Together with A PREFACE Introductory to the said Narrative LONDON Printed for F. Smith T. Basset J. Wright R. Chiswel and S. Heyrick MDCLXXIX To the Right Honourable The EARL of SHAFTSBVRY Lord President of His Majestie 's most Honourable Privy Council Right Honourable AS your Lordship is known to have been a Signal Instrument for the Re-Establishing his Majestie on the Throne of his Kingdoms so your Zeal for the Preservation of the Protestant Religion and of His Majestie 's Person and Government thus restored in great part by the Wisdom and Activity of your Honour's Counsel may Justifie my Election in Entitling your Lordship before any other to the Patronage of this Small Tract Little indeed for Bulk but if I mistake not considerable in its Vse in regard it strengthens the former Discoveries of Others at such a Juncture of time when some foyl and damp was endeavoured to be cast upon Them by the subtle Contrivances of the adverse Party I have observed all along in the Progress of this matter That when the Evidence for the King hath seemed to be at a Bay as discouraged by the Power or Policy of Malevolent Persons Then by Divine Providence another Witness hath started up to retreive and confirm what before seemed to be at a Loss Thus after the aspersions and prejudices cast on Mr. Oates Mr. Bedlowe and Mr. Dugdale came in to assert and carry on the Truth of his Testimony endeavoured to be shaken by the addition of their own And when the matter seemed not fully to bear and to be made out as to the Murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey then God raised up Mr. Praunce to make a plain Discovery of that Horrrid and Bloody Fact Moreover when at and since the Tryal of Sir George Wakeman and the Rest wherein I also appeared some Discouragements not yet fully enquired into were cast upon the Witnesses for his Majestie yet I was so far from being deterred by that otherwise disheartning Circumstance that I am rather animated thereby to prosecute my Evidence with greater Vigour as conceiving it a Crisis wherein Truth stands in need thereof Neither do I doubt but Others also may succeed me with their seasonable Reliefs of this Kind in case Falshood should make any further Attempt to over-ballance and weigh down the Truth Which hope of Mine is in part verified already by the additional Testimony of Mr. Smith hereafter mentioned And I am persuaded that both His and Mine will receive future Confirmation by the Astipulations of Others at present not publickly known if need shall require That so it may be said of our Opposers Though they will not see yet they shall see and be ashamed I know your Lordship will allow me to use that Scriptural Expression because the band of God to those who seriously consider it is more than ordinarily seen in these matters That none of these Providences of the Almighty may be Lost upon this Nation but be mutually Improved both by Prince and People to an Humble Acknowledgment and a Thankful Obedience is the Prayer of My Lord Your Honour 's Most humble Servant Robert Jenison THE Publisher to the Reader Serving As an Introduction to the ensuing Narrative THE Name of Robert Jenison Esq the Author of the Narrative ensuing hath been formerly mentioned in many Prints especially in that Narrative of his Depositions and Informations annexed thereunto Collected by Charles Chetwind Esquire and published by Order of His Majestie 's most Honourable Privy Council July 16. last past 1679. Besides the Gentleman is further notified by his appearance as a Witness for the King in the late Tryal of Sir George Wakeman Corker and the rest Nevertheless because his Name was then used by others though with his own consent it is thought convenient in this Preface to the following Narrative to give a more particular Account of Him and of his Family to which he hath already been and further yet may be so great an Honour That so the unquestionableness of his Extraction may advance him above the common exceptions of Lowness and Plebeity which inferiour Testimonies are subject to Born he was of an Ancient Family residing at Wallworth in the County Palatine of Durham A place so considerable that King James was pleased to Honour their Mansion-House then in the possession of his Auncestors with his Residence and his Retinues for a Night Baker's Chron. in King James at his first coming into England His Father John Jenison Esquire yet living in the same House is a Gentleman of a fair Estate and of an unblemished Reputation save what may be thought to reflect upon him for his former adherence to the Romish Religion His Elder Brother Mr. Thomas Jenison now a Prisoner in Newgate on the account of the Plot having taken Orders in the Church of Rome and in one of their most obnoxious Sodalities That of the Jesuits hath thereby rendred himself according to the known Laws of England uncapable to inherit And thus Divine Providence so Ordering it he hath opened a Door to this Gentleman to the Inheritance of a fair paternal Estate of several Hundreds by the Year Which Consideration notwithstanding hath been so far from cancelling in him the natural Obligations to Brotherly Friendship or to influence him in the least towards the making this Discovery That in his Addresses to His Majestie on this Occasion he hath not without success interceded for the Indempnity of his Brother and of others of his Relations as well as for his Own as by the Order of Council inserted into this ensuing Narrative may appear The Education of the aforesaid Mr. Robert Jenison of late years hath been in the Honourable Society of Grays-Inn where his Pains have been commendably bestowed in the study of the Law and his Repute untainted amongst the Prime Gentlemen and all others of that House But his Youthful institution he received at Doway in Flanders in the strict Principles of the Papal Religion and in the English College of Secular Priests there where to give that Order of Seculars their due I never heard him affirm That he imbibed any Principles either of Immorality in point of Conversation or of Treasonableness in point of Loyalty from