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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	duke_n	king_n	queen_n	10,709	5	7.0363	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43096	A narrative, being a true relation of what discourse passed between Dr. Hawkins and Edward Fitz-Harys, Esq., late prisoner in the tower with the manner of taking his confession.	Hawkins, Francis, 1628-1681.	1681 (1681)	Wing H1173; ESTC R569	13,856	13

was published as my act when nothing was more against my Conscience was purposely to save my Life And he said he would have retracted publickly what he had said against the Queen and the Duke and sworn against the Earl of Danby Then I took my leave of him for that time and the same day June the 18th I went to Windsor to acquaint the King or some of the Lords of the Privy Council with what Fitz-Harys had declared to me and at my Lord Conway's Lodgings I related to his Lordship to my Lord Hyde to Mr. Seymour and Mr. Secretary Jenkins all that he had declared and the next day June the 19th I related the same again to the King Before I was dismissed I humbly desired directions what I should do The King was pleased to say he would give no directions in such a case but Mr. Secretaries advised me to assist Mr. Fitz-Harys as a Divine and if he said any thing more to take notice of it and acquaint them with it So on Munday June the 20th I returned to the Tower and as soon as conveniently I could I went up to Mr. Fitz-Harys who had sent for me often in my absence I asked him how he did and pray'd God be his comfort and gave him an account of my journey to Windsor Upon Tuesday the 21st of June in the afternoon Fitz-Harys writ the substance of what he had before declared under his own hand which occasioned my going to Windsor a second time to deliver that Paper to the King in the close of that writing Fitz-Harys begg'd mercy of the King but withal said while he was writing that he did not do it with hopes of having his Petition granted for he was sure he said the King would not forgive him yet he would not omit to ask pardon His Majesty rejected the Petition and so I returned June the 23d and let Fitz-Harys know what I had done in this matter When he understood the Kings answer to his Petition he said he hoped God would forgive him Gods will be done he was not afraid to die Then we discoursed of things of another nature and such as concerned his Soul and we went to prayers and from day to day I was with him twice or thrice in a day sometimes an hour and sometimes two at a time and some days I scarce went from him from morning until night In his Repentance he was free and open hearted to tell me the sins of his constitution and such as by his nature he was most prone to he shed an abundance of tears daily and in his Devotions he was very earnest he made often confessions of his sins to God and was continually turning the Penitential Psalms into Confessions There was one thing undone and which I desired by all means he would do and that was to receive the Sacrament I frequently minded him of it and he would say there was nothing he desired more but he must dispose of the business of his Family first and ever when I put him in mind of Receiving he made me this answer and his wife not coming to him but once and then she stay'd not long and in company of the Warders until the night before he was Executed he did not receive at all on the morning of his Execution he said he hoped God would accept the will for the deed for his desire all along was to receive One day as we were sitting and talking together of the matters contain'd in his Confession for he talked dayly of them he desired me to give him a piece of Paper on which he writ this passage That Captain Check told him before Dr. Burnet that he would appear a Witness against him on the behalf of that he told him in the Boat that he could say nothing against as to the Libel but could sufficiently in other matters I cannot says he charge my Memory that I said such a thing but suppose I did I did not design to impart my mind to him neither did I understand the Libel and the Heads gave me to be the same thing Upon Fryday June 24 he was saying how the Queen R. H. and the Earl of Danby were the Persons chiefly aim'd at and said he Mr. told me that Prince Don Mario Pluti a Prisoner in the Fleet would appear a Witness against the Duke And Fitz-Harys said that to his knowledge Heyns was tampered with to come in against the Queen the Duke and the Earl of Danby And he told me how a considerable Person of his acquaintance whose name he mentioned said to him I prithee Fitz-Harys find me out Men that will Swear the Murder of Godfrey against the Duke and said he to comply with his humour I answered there are Men if there were Money the Person Reply'd find me the Men and the Money shall not be wanting And at another time the same Person declared to Fitz-Harys in the presence of two other Persons that he would not stay a day longer in England than he could Fire a Pistol at the Duke if he were sure the Duke were to come to the Crown This Fitz-Harys told me the same day June 24. He told me moreover that a Paper of Instructions was put into his Pocket in Westminster-Hall wherein he was bid to speak boldly and not to spare the greatest meaning the King if he were present and if he did not speak against the Queen R. H. the Lord Powis and his Lady Lord Arundel Lord Bellasis Lord Peters Lord Danby and the Lord Peterborough all his Friends would forsake him This Paper he said was under-writ by his Wife with these words My Dear these Instructions come from your Solicitor and he said he believed they are written with his hand Upon Sunday June 26 in the evening Mrs. Fitz-Harys and her Maid came to see him and I was with him at the same time when I asked Mrs. Fitz-Harys where that Paper of Instructions was And she told me she knew where the Paper was and could produce it I desired her to take care the Paper were not lost but might be forth coming when there might be occasion for it Upon Munday June 27 he told me that while his Wife was with him overnight she had whispered him how a certain Person whose name he gave me had been with her from a great Lord whose Name also he mentioned to desire her to persuade him to say nothing when he came to dy and they did not value what he had said to me elsewhere and if she could persuade him not to declare any thing against them when he came to be Executed they the Party had promised to continue their allowance to her of Three Guineys a week and to make her the same present of three hundred Guineys that was the Sum he mentioned to me on the day of his Execution which should have been made him on the day of his Trial had he been acquitted Mr. Fitz-Harys desired me to acquaint Mr. Secretary Jenkins with this

Fitz-Harys again and after some discourse concerning his hopes of a better life after death he began to declare how he had been imployed to find out Libels and things of that nature against the King as you have it in his Confession and he further declared how Mr. Everard methodized and put the Libel for which he suffered into form and writ it fair and when he came to Mr. Everard for the Libel he scrupled delivering it unless he could be secured Mr. Fitz-Harys would not betray him So Mr. Fitz-Harys left part of the Libel mentioning those eight heads he said he had of with Everard as a pawn for his fidelity Then Everard gave him the Libel perfected and fair Written with his own hand and Fitz-Harys said he went presently to Court with the Libel but could not deliver it that night In the mean time Sir William Waller whom Everard had made privy to the secret of the Libel with an intent to discover Fitz-Harys goes to a Secretary of State and informs against him as the Author of the Libel who is thereupon ordered to be taken into custody and being brought before a Secretary of State and examined after some interrogatories he took Sir William Waller aside in the Secretaries Chamber and told him that if he designed he should accuse the he was mistaken he would run any hazard before he would betray friendship This I took in short notes as he spoke it and then repeated it to him and asked him whether I understood him right and charged him to say the truth as he would answer it to God and he protested it was true and I have it under his hand What he declared next was the design to seize the King of this he spoke often and said when they the party he always called them had seized the King they would have obliged him to call a Parliament which should sit until the Bill of Exclusion against the Duke was passed all evil Counsellers removed and men of their chusing put into places of trust the Militia setled and the Navy put into good hands all Grievances redressed and all things ordered to their own liking And had this Design succeeded he said the Bishops and others of the Clergy would have suffered severely The Party that were engaged in this Design he said were men of Interest and had 60000 Men at command at very short warning Besides the encouragement mentioned in his confession he told me that himself was to have had a Company of Foot Heyns a Company and one John O' Neil a Company and a person whose name he purposely concealed was to have had the command of a Man of War This I likewise writ down and repeated as before and this way I took in all that he declared unto me and then I demanded of him to speak as a dying man whether this that he had declared concerning the Design to Seize the King were true and he called God to witness that it was every word true Then he went on and declared what happened to him while he was in Newgate how the Secretaries of State came to him to examine him and how he was carried to Whitehall to be Examined before the King about the Libel He told me likewise all that passed between Mr. and himself that Mr. brought him Instructions first by word of mouth and afterwards in writing from Persons whom he named and that he pressed him hard to confirm the Instructions He said moreover what encouragement he gave him if he would confirm them that certain Lords and Commoners about 40 in number met that day at a Club in the City in order to the drawing up an Address unto the King on his behalf and that they would use their Interest when the Parliament sat to get him restored to all his Fathers Estate in Ireland with the Profits thereof since His Majesties Restauration I said he considering the Condition I was in in Newgate Fettered Moneyless and Friendless and could see no Refuge for Life but by complying with them desired to be Examined again by the Secretaries of State but I was still loath to say any thing that might be prejudicial to any man After this he was Examined a third time by the Secretaries of State at which third Examination he said he spoke several things which he had from others as what Father Gough Father Parrey and the Marquess Monticuculi said concerning the King's being to be destroyed and the Roman Catholique Religion to be established in England But the Marquess he said did not impose any Oath of Secrecy upon him nor did he engage him to kill the King but he spoke very unworthily of the King and said it were no matter if the King were made off Then he told me how Mr. came to him with a Token from and the Token was this Tell Fitz-Harys that I to Mr. spoiled a certain Lords going into the withdrawing Room at Whitehall by saying he spoke against the Queen I forbear to mention the Lords Name out of Respect to his Lordship The use of this Token was to assure Fitz-Harys that and Mr. were acquainted and that the Instructions he brought him came from After this he declared how Sir and Sir came to him to Examine him Sir he said did not stay long he only asked him a few Questions and bid him re-collect himself but Sir was with him about three hours and was earnest with him to speake to several heads chiefly to the Murder of Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey and when he came to that of Sir swearing at him I said surely the would not swear But he Answered that he did swear those very words mentioned in his Confession and he vowed it so amazed him to be Hectored to speak against his Conscience that he wished himself dead rather than live to be so used When I had taken this in Writing I read it to him and he affirmed it to be true falling down upon his knees and wishing he might never see the face of God if all this that he had declared to me were not true He declared several times that he was sorry with all his heart for what he had said against the Queen and the Duke and sworn against the Earl of Danby what he Deposed against the Earl of Danby he said he was put upon it and it was purposely designed to stave off his Trial until a Parliament and he desired me when I saw the Earl of Danby next to tell his Lordship he humbly begg'd his Lordships pardon for the wrong he had done him I complyed at the first said he with them meerly to save my life and not being then upon my Oath I did comply but withal considered that before they could make use of me as a Witness they must procure my liberty which so soon as they had done I was resolved to have made my escape beyond Sea and to have sent over a publick Declaration that all that I had declared in that examination which