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A81180	A Cunning plot to divide and destroy, the Parliament and the city of London. Made knowne (at a common hall) by the Earle of Northumberland, Master Solliciter, and Sir Henry Vane. The design is fully discovered in the severall examinations and confessions, of Master Riley. Several examinations and confessions, of Sir Basill Brook. Severall examinations and confessions, of Master Violet. Proclamations from his Majesty. Letters from his Majesty. Letters from the Lord Digby. Letters from Colonell Read.	Northumberland, Algernon Percy, Earl of, 1602-1668.; Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I). Proclamation for the removing of the Courts of Kings-Bench and of the Exchequer from Westminster to Oxford.	1644 (1644)	Wing C7586; Thomason E29_3; ESTC R11898	34,816	59

A CVNNING PLOT TO DIVIDE AND DESTROY THE PARLIAMENT AND THE CITY OF LONDON Made knowne at a Common Hall by the Earle of Northumberland Master Solliciter and Sir Henry Vane The Design is fully discovered in the Severall Examinations and Confessions of Master RILEY Severall Examinations and Confessions of Sir BASILL BROOK Severall Examinations and Confessions of Master VIOLET Proclamations from his MAJESTY Letters from his MAJESTY Letters from the Lord DIGBY Letters from Colonell READ LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Peter Cole at his shop in Cron-Hill right over against Popes-Head Aily neare the Royall Exchange January 16. 1643. The Right Honourable the Earle of Northumberland his Speech MY Lord Maior and you Gentlemen of the City of London the two Houses of Parliament have not of late had any occasion to imploy us hither the reason hath been because that your readinesse and your forwardnesse have upon all occasions prevented any thing that they could ask or desire from you But now at this time we come from command of the two Houses to communicate unto you a discovery that hath been lately made under a fair and specious pretence of desiring peace to raise divisions and to make factions here in the City and between the City and the two Houses of Parliament What hath already passed and come to the knowledge of the Houses they have sent us here to acquaint you with the Papers and the Examinations will be here read unto you and likewise the Sense of the two Houses When you shall heare these read and consider the Instruments that were the Actors and the Persons imployed in this Negotiation you will be best able to judge of the businesse If you please to have the patience to heare these Examinations read these Gentlemen will read them A Narrative of a Designe and Practise upon the City of London lately discovered and some Observation upon it by Mr SOLLICITER MY Lord Mayor and you Gentlemen and worthy Citizens of this City You have heard by this Noble Lord that it hath pleased Almighty God out of his goodnesse within these few dayes to make a discovery to both the Houses of an intended practise upon the Parliament and City and so by consequence upon the whole Kingdome And in respect that the Stage whereupon this designe was to have been acted were the Houses of Parliament and principally this City and that some of the Actors in that Tragedy for so I may call it were members of this Citie And likewise in respect of that neere Conjunction between the Houses and you That as Hypocritus twins they are like to live and dye together Therefore they have commanded me and diverse other Gentlemen of the House of Commons to make known unto you what this designe and practice was But before I tell you either what it was or the dangerous consequence of it I think it will not be amisse that you should heare it from one of themselves who was an Actor and projector of it that is from the Lord Digby who in a letter writ to Sir Basil Brooke concerning this businesse doth professe That since these troubles did begin There was no design nor no practise that was so likely to have taken that was so likely to have produced that good effect as they stile it as this You may very well remember the bloody Designe upon the Parliament and this City discovered about half a yeare since he himselfe said That this is above all that hitherto hath been in agitation This is their sence upon it that were the Projectors and were to have been the Actors in it The thing in brief is thus It was a seditious and Iesuiticall Practice and Designe under the specious pretence of Peace to have rent the Parliament from the City and the City from the Parliament To have severed and disjoyned the Parliament within it self the City within it self Thereby to render up both Parliament and City to the Designes of the Enemy which is not all for the destruction and nulling of this present Parliament was intended as likewise the ingaging our selves in a Treaty of Peace without the advice or consent of our Brethren of Scotland contrary to the late Articles solemnly agreed upon by both Kingdomes to the perpetuall dishonour of this Nation by breach of our publique Faith ingaged therein to that Nation thereby not only utterly to frustrate our expectation of assistance from Scotland but which is worse in all likelihood to ingage the two Nations in broyles if not in a war This in briefe was the design the particulars whereupon it was framed and the parties that were Actors in it I shall likewise discover to you There was one Read who called himselfe Collonel Read a man I suppose well known by name to this City He had been heretofore many yeares since a common Agent for the Papists he was a principall person to whom the Packets and addresses from Rome were made it was he that did disperse them abroad in the Kingdome with whom for the advancing of the Popish Cause continued consultations were held who for advancing of the Catholique Cause as they call it went over into Ireland there fomented the Rebellion having been one of the Plotters of it and was taken Prisoner there and sent hither This was the man who was the principall contriver and Actor in the present businesse Who together with Sir Basil Brooke a known Jesuited Papist a great Stickler in all the Popish transactions and Treasurer of the monies lately contributed by the Papists in the War against Scotland both prisoners having laid the designe here Mr Reads enlargement must be procured that he might act his part at Oxford Sir Basil Brooke must lye ledger here But because so great a businesse required more mannagers therefore one Violet a broken Goldsmith and a Protestant in shew must be brought in as a fit person to go between these Papists and the parties in the City Mr Ryley by reason of his place of Scoutmaster of the City and his reputation amongst the Commoners must be gained who in these respects might be very usefull both in the way of Intelligence between Oxford and them as likewise by promoting it with the Citizens others in the City of principall note amongst the people are dealt withall The first thing Mr Ryley must act is the exchange of Read a prisoner for the Treason and Rebellion in Ireland under the name of Captain Read taken prisoner at Burleigh House in this Kingdome for one of no greater ranke than a Quarter-master That being done a Character of Intelligence was agreed on between Read Ryley and Violet Read to be knowne by the name of Collonel Lee Ryley by the name of The Man in the Moone and Violet by the name of James Morton After Reads going to Oxford the Queene the Dutches of Buckingham and the Lord Digby are consulted with These are the Managers at Oxford with his Maiesties knowledge Reade from Oxford by Letters

but for doing his duty in carrying and delivering those Writs was imprisoned and in an unjust and illegall way Sentenced to die and brought to a place of execution and threatned to be Hanged as at that time another of Our Messengers for no other cause then for doing his duty in the like kinde in carrying Our Proclamations to London was then shamefully Hanged and Murthered an Act so Barbarous as no former age can paralell and We have not yet received any certain and particular information touching the execution of those Writs In pursuance therefore of Our former resolution of removing those Courts from Westminster to Our City of Oxford We do for the present by this Our Proclam●tion authorized under Our Great Seal of England Ordain and appoint and by these presents publish and Declare Our Will and Pleasure to be that Our said Courts of Kings-Bench and Exchequer shall for the next Hillary Terme at the usuall and accustomed time for holding of the same be holden and kept at Our said City of Oxford and not at Westminster and shall be continued and kept there during that whole Terme and afterwards at the severall times and Termes for holding and keeping of those Courts untill Our further pleasure be known and published for removing them from Oxford And We do hereby straightly charge and Command all Our Iudges of Our said Court of Kings-Bench and Our Barons of Our Exchequer and all Officers Prethonotaries Clerkes and Ministers of or belonging to either of those Courts or which are or ought to do or perform any duty or service in either of them That they according to their severall places and duties give their severall and respective attendances at our said City of Oxford and there do and perform their respective Offices and Duties during the Terme and time aforesaid at Our said City of Oxford and not elsewhere And that all such as have any Suit or other occasion to attend in either of Our said Courts in the said Terme of Saint Hillary next coming or which have any cause or command to appear then in either of the said Courts do give their attendances and make their appearances respectively in the said Courts at Our said City of Oxford and not elsewhere And We do hereby farther straightly Charge and Command all Our Iudges of our said Court of Kings-Bench and our Barons of the Exchequer and all officers Prothonotaries Clerkes Ministers and Atturnies of or belonging to either of the said Courts that they presuine not contrary to this Our command in any sort to meet sit or attend at Westminster or elsewhere then at Our said City of Oxford for the holding or keeping or upon pretence or colour of holding or keeping of either of the said Courts for the Terme and time aforesaid or any part thereof or in any sort to proceed in any Action Suite or Plaint or Award make or issue out any Process or do any Act or thing whatsoever proper or belonging to the said Courts or either of them in any other place then at Our said City of Oxford or where We shall hereafter appoint the same as they will answer the contrary at their utmost perills And We do hereby likewise charge and Command all Sheriffes Bayliffes and others that have to do in the execution or return of any Writs Precepts Warrants or Process that for such Writs Precepts Warrants or process as have issued out of either of our said Courts of Kings-Bench or the Exchequer and are not yet returned they make their severall Returnes of the same into the said Courts respectively at Our said City of Oxford and not at Westminster And that they presume not in any sort to obey or execute any Writ Precept Warrant or Process which shall hereafter be awarded made or issued contrary to the Tenor and effect of this Our Proclamation as they will answer the contrary at their Perills Given at Our Court at Oxford the first day of Ianuary in the nineteenth yeer of Our Reigne 1643. GOD SAVE THE KING GEntlemen you may remember that the Kings Letters that hath been read to you was dated the 26. of Decem. the later of them was dated the second of Ianuary and notwithstanding all those expressions that were there given you the Cities of London and VVestminster are in this Proclamation of the second Ianuary as if that they had forgot what they had set out before they are here called the principall Maintainers and Causers of this Rebellion but not only so but as was told you before an endeavour used to lay this Citie as much as in them lay desolate desolate from all traffick as you have had it before by Proclamation desolate from the great Councell of the Kingdom which is the Parliament by carrying it to Oxford desolate now of the Cours of Instice that should be here the life and preservation of all your affaires and businesses and yet this is that which in his Majesties letter you have so many faire expressions of affection and good inclination to settle your peace It is not to be doubted but upon the whole matter you will hereafter learne to understand all such Complements as these are and know how to mannage your Councels and to expresse your affections according to the advice of the two Houses wherein as the Houses are to acknowledge your faithfulnesse and readinesse to comply with them so they likewise have been willing to expose their lives estates and paines and all that lies in them to goe before you in that which may be for your preservation In the former Proclamation there was notice taken that the Major part of the two Houses were of the opinion or would be in all likelihood with the King at Oxford thus much we can declare to you that there is above 200. as I remember 13. score that have already solemnely taken the Covenant with us here and which we are confident of will be so tender of the honour of God and their owne honours and what they have promised in the Covenant that they will pursue that interest they have expressed and that they remaining here make the Major part you may easily judge And for this Proclamation we have Authority to declare to you that such is the care of the two Houses and such is their affection to your selves that they are resolved to establish the Courts of Justice here with fuller power then hitherto they have been that is they will fill the Judges upon the Benches and take care to have all the Courts setled here in a steddie way And all those that shall go to Oxford in compliance with this Proclamation they shall have their estates confiscate and they will proceede in such a course as you shall see the naturall care they have to preserve you in following their advice which all of us by the fundamentall lawes of this Kingdome are bound to do and thus much we have authority to declare unto you There is onely one thing more in this Proclamation which is onely a particular by the bye that gives you notice of that barbarous and unheard of usage of a spie that was here justly condemned by a Councell of war at the instance of the Houses of Parliament by Command from his Excellencie it is told you such a murther was never heard of the murther must now be put upon this when you may very well remember in your owne case how an honest Citizen at Reading was proceeded against with an unheard of murther indeed this being nothing but that necessary Justice which in times of war is to be expected in all such cases The Right Honourable the Earl of Northumberland his Speech MY Lord Major and you Gentlemen of the City of London you have fully heard delivered by these Gentlemen all the proceedings in their late discovery You are now well able to make a right judgement upon the whole matter I am commanded in the name of both Houses to read unto you here their Opinions and the sence that they have delivered and resolved of among themselves That the matter of this report containeth a sedicious and Jesuiticall practise and Designe under the fair and Specious pretence of Peace having its rise and fountain from known Iesuites and Papists to work Divisions betweene the Parliament and City of London to raise Factions in both thereby to render them up to the Designes of the Enemie and tending also to the breach of the Publique faith of this Kingdom unto our Brethren of Scotland engaged by the late solemn Covenant and Treaty entred into by both Nations thereby not onely to weaken us in our united force against our Popish and Common Enemies but to embroyle the two Nations in unhappy divisions FINIS