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A summary account of the proceedings upon the happy discovery of the Jacobite conspiracy in a second letter to a Devonshire gentleman.
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1696
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Lord Chandois Lord Ferrers Dr. Sprat Bishop of Rochester Dr. Watson Bishop of St. Davids Their Lordships have also ordered Letters to be sent to these undernamed Peers who are in the Country to attend the House and their subscribing is not doubted The Dukes of Beaufort and Richmond Earls of Rutland Derby Bristol Lord Viscount Weymouth The Lords Fitz-Water Leigh Lempster Osulston Willoughby Coventry Rockingham The House of Commons having as I told you agreed upon the above-written Association ordered it to be engrossed to be Signed by their Members and near 400 of that August Assembly which consists of 513 have already with great Alacrity subscribed it But some at present hesitate some others refuse it their Names are underwritten Berks Sends 9. Members WIlliam Jennyngs Simon Harcourt Bucks 14. Alexander Denton Mountague Drake Sir James Etheridge Cornwall 44. Henry Lord Hyde John Manley Daniel Eliot Henry Fleming Francis Buller John Tredenham Seymour Tredenham Sir William Coryton John Mountstevens Bernard Granvile Charles Lord Cheney * Francis Gwyn Cheshire 4. Sir Thomas Grosvenor Derbyshire 4. Sir Gilbert Clarke Devon 26. Francis Courteney * Sir Edward Seymour John Granville Dorsetshire 20. * Thomas Strangways Thomas Freke * Richard Fownes Chor. 30. * Robert Byerly Sir Mannaduke Wivill Sir Michael Wentworth Essex 8. Sir Eliab Harvey Glocester 8. Robert Payne William Frye Richard How John How Herefordshire 8. Robert Price Huntington 4. Anthony Hammond Kent 18. * Sir John Banks Lancashire 14. Leigh Banks Thomas Brotherton Sir Roger Bradshaw Peter Shakerley Lincolnshire 12. George Lord Castleton Sir John Bolles Norfolk 12. Sir John Wodehouse Northampton 9. Thomas Cartwright * Gilbert Dolben Northumbecland 8. * William Foster Oxford 9. * Mountague Lord Norris * Sir Robert Jenkinson Heneage Finch Sir Edward Norris Thomas Rowney James Bertie Sir Robert Dashwood Salop. 12. * Edward Kynaston John Kynaston * Andrew Newport * George Weld Somerset 18. Sir John Trevillian * Edward Berkley * John Sandford Sir Charles Carterett Sir John Smith Southampton 26. Henry Holmes * Thomas Done Staffordshire 10. * Robert Burdett Sir John Leveson Gower * John Grey * Sir Henry Gough Surrey 14. John Parsons Sussex 28. * Sir William Morley John Lewknor Sir Thomas Dyke William Stringer Warwickshire 6. William Bromley Andrew Archer George Bohun * Lord Digby Francis Grevill Westmoreland 4. Sir William Twisden * Sir Christopher Musgrave Wiltshire 34. Robert Bertie William Harvey Henry Pynnill Thomas Bennet William Daniel Worcestershire 9. Samuel Swift * Henry Parker Wales 24. * Edward Jones Jeffery Jefferies * Sir Richard Middleton * Edward Brereton Sir John Conway * Thomas Mansel In all but 93 Dissenters Pardon me Sir that I forgot to insert the name of Wi Williams who you may remember Spew'd Sir Robert Peyton out of the House of Commons for corresponding with the late King when Duke of York And who told King Charles II. That the Commons were not given to Change but it is now evident that some of their Quondam Speakers are On Tuesday the House ordered that their absent Members as they come to the House do come up to the Table and sign the Association or in their Places declare their Refusal so to do and On Thursday it was ordered that the Association and the Subscriptions thereunto be entred upon the Journal of the House and Resolved that it be presented to His Majesty by the Speaker and the whole House before the end of the Session It was also the same day ordered that such Members who have not already shall by Monday Fortnight Sign the Association or declare their Refusal and I do on as good Ground as Gadbury foretold the Plot predict that the Body of Refusers in this Honourable House will scarce at the summing up amount to the number of one hundred Permit me now Dear Sir to Recreate my self a little in remarking on what I have laid before you As the Doubting Lords are but few so of the twenty six Members of your Large and Rich County of Devon you find but three Dissenters and but one I include not their Bishop of the eighteen in the Spacious County of Kent No more than one out of twelve in another of the largest Counties of England I mean Norfolk To augment their Number Essex another of our greatest Counties furnishes one out of eight Cheshire one out of their four Derbyshire one out of four also and Herefordshire such another one out of eight The Diminutive but Opulent County of Huntington has lent them another out of four and that Honest County of Surrey one out of fourteen but I assure you it is a very Sorry One You find not one of the sixteen Members for the Cinque Ports in this Non-Association and the twelve Counties of Wales have of their twenty four Members but eight Refusers of whom one is now His Majesties Counsel and was of King James's Counsel against the Bishops Indeed they have a Recusant Bishop to head them of King James's own making but unless I misremember he was not one of the seven golden Candlesticks You want Sir in the above-written List eleven of our English Counties which are these Bedfordshire Sends 4 Members Cambridgshire 6. Cumberland 6. Durham 4. Hertfordshire 6. Leicestershire 4. London Middlesex and Westminster 8. Monmouthshire 3. Nottinghamshire 8. Rutland 2. Suffolk 16. Of which Number being 67 I tell you for their Honour there is not one Recusant I farther observe to you that in the seven old Associated Counties viz. Essex Suffolk Norfolk Cambridge Huntington Bedford and Hertford there are but 3 Recusants and you will find above 4 times that Number of Associating Lords there In London and the contiguous Counties viz. Middlesex Bucks Berks Wiltshire Hantshire Surrey Sussex Kent Lincoln and Northampton which make another 11 Counties and send no less than 172 Members you will find upon review of the foregoing List that there had been but 19 Refusers had not Mr. Done and Mr. Parsons added two to their Number Now to detain you no longer in discoursing of the House of Commons let this assure you that the City of London had like to have been as unanimous as the first 11 Counties A Common Council was this last Week summoned where the foregoing Association being proposed it was agreed unto and signed by every Member present that whole Body consisting of 234 one only excepted whose name may not be forgot it is Lawrence Cole a Man of little Note before he was one of honest Mr. Bateman's Jury I hope Sir this pleasant Scheme of the Kingdom and its Affairs will in some measure relieve you from the Panick fear into which you say Gadbury and Partridge had put you Now for the Service of the Government you have my free consent to shew this to your Honest Neighbours especially to our Friends of Exeter and Totness Nay to any Man for tho as you know I pay a Deference to Sir E. Seymour and a far greater to the Nations Representatives I am confident I shall not in this Juncture incur their displeasure by naming a squeamish Conscienced Gentleman who after 7 years Apprenticestip will not go the Length to avow K. William's Right to the Crown When a Town is on Fire the blowing up a House is surely justifiable Our Neighbour Nation once upon a time told a bigger Man than Sir E. S. that a King for some Crimes might Forefault and had Sir E. been thrown out of the House last Week I should not have laid it to Heart I have long agoe resolved to run a Muck against all the Enemies of this Government and know by Consequence that I am to expect no Quarter when it is overturned which makes me now as fearless of being called to a Reckoning as I am of this Plot but should that betide me I wish it may be before the present Commissioners for Accounts I have Sir been so prolix that I cannot now enter into the particulars of this Diabolical Conspiracy but for your Comfort it is happily discovered and most miraculously disappointed Admiral Russell now blocks up the French Fleet about Calais and I hope to tell you by the next that he has destroyed them The Tower of London was to have been delivered up to the French Cut-Throats and they say by Major Hawley an Officer there it is certain he is secured Take Heart my Friend for our Enemies will not easily get possession of the Powder there and I am confident all the Salt-Petre in Devonshire should 200 Tuns be discovered in any Vault there will not supply enough to blow up this Government For my part come what will I resolve never to be bribed into the Jacobite Party no tho I should be tempted with the value of such a Cargo which Sir E. S. well knows is not less worth than 12000 l. You must not expect a License to this for Sir Roger L'Estrange had last Night the Mishap to be committed Close Prisoner to Newgate I am Sir Yours sincerely B. J. P. S. Sir I esteem my self obliged to beg pardon that I have here repeated the Name of Worthy Mr. Cartwright of Northampton-shire 〈…〉 yesterday upon second Thoughts signed the Association and I question not but the rest will fellow the good Example he has set them
A Summary Account OF THE PROCEEDINGS Upon the HAPPY DISCOVERY of the Jacobite Conspiracy In a SECOND LETTER to a Devonshire Gentleman London March 3. 1695. Dear Sir JUST now is come to Hand yours of the 27th past calling for my Answer to that of the 18th which I hope is now with you for I sent it by the last Post and also a Duplicate thereof as you desired under cover to our Friend at Totness However lest those should be intercepted I here give you a Transcript of it with the addition of some things which since occur omitting the Minutes which you requested me to hand to you of Gadbury's and Partridge's Predictions of this Hellish Plot having sent you their Almanacks and also that of Woodward's by the Exeter Carrier which I know is a safe way Mine told you that on Monday the 24th the King came to the House of Lords and in a Speech acquainted both Houses That he was come on an extraordinary Occasion which might have proved fatal if it had not been disappointed by the singular Mercy and Goodness of God That he had received several concurring Informations of a Design to assassinate him and that our Enemies were very forward in their 〈…〉 for a sudden Invasion of the Kingdom That His Majesty had not been wanting to give the necessary Orders for the Fleet and that he hoped there was a Strength of Ships and in such a Readiness as would be sufficient to disappoint the Intentions of our Enemies That he had dispatched Orders for bringing Home such a Number of our Troops as might secure us from any Attempt and exhorted them to do every thing which they should judg proper for our Common Safety c. Upon this astonishing News the House of Commons Nemine Contradicente resolved to address His Majesty to congratulate his happy Deliverance and to give him their Thanks for imparting the Horrid Design to the House and to desire His Majesty to take more than ordinary Care of his Royal Person assuring him that they will stand by assist and defend His Majesty with their Lives and Fortunes against the late King James and all other His Enemies both at Home and Abroad and that in case His Majesty should come to any violent Death which God forbid they would revenge the same upon all his Enemies and their Adherents c. The House of Lords also unanimously agreed upon an Address to His Majesty to which they desired the Concurrence of the Commons who made some Amendments thereunto to which the Lords agreeing The same Evening both Houses attended His Majesty therewith You have here a Copy thereof WE your Majesty's most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled having taken into our serious Consideration what your Majesty hath been pleased to Communicate to us this day think it our Duty in the first place to give Your Majesty most Humble Thanks for having acquainted Your Parliament with the great Danger Your Sacred Person hath been so nearly expos'd to and the Design of an Invasion from our Enemies Abroad We heartily Congratulate Your Majesty's Happy Preservation and thankfully acknowledge the signal Providence of God in it and at the same time Declare our Detestation and Abhorrence of so Villanous and Barbarous a Design And since the Safety and Welfare of Your Majesty's Dominions do so intirely depend upon Your Life We most Humbly Beseech Your Majesty to take more than Ordinary Care of Your Royal Person And we take this Occasion to Assure Your Majesty of our utmost Assistance to Defend Your Person and Support Your Government against the late King James and all other Your Enemies both at Home and Abroad hereby Declaring to all the World That in case Your Majesty shall come to any Violent Death which God forbid we will Revenge the same upon all your Enemies and their Adherents And as an Instance of our Zeal for Your Majesty's Service we will give all possible Dispatch to the Publick Business And we make it our Desire to Your Majesty to Seize and Secure all Persons Horses and Arms that Your Majesty may think fit to Apprehend upon this Occasion To which His Majesty gave a gracious Answer to the effect following viz. My Lords and Gentlemen I Thank you heartily for this kind Address On my Part you may be assured that I will do all that is within my Power for the Conservation of this Kingdom to which I have so many Obligations I will readily adventure my Life for the Preservation of it and recommend my self to the Continuance of your Loyalty and good Affections The House of Commons also the same day resolved upon the following Association to be signed by their Members WHereas there has been a Horrid and Detestable Conspiracy Formed and Carried on by Papists and other Wicked and Traiterous Persons for Assassinating his Majesty's Royal Person in Order to Incourage an Invasion from France to Subvert our Religion Laws and Liberty We whose Names are hereunto Subscribed do Heartily Sincerely and Solemnly Profess Testify and Declare That his Present Majesty King William is Rightful and Lawful King of these Realms And we do Mutually Promise and Engage to stand by and assist each other to the utmost of our Power in the Support and Defence of his Majesty's most Sacred Person and Government against the late King James and all his Adherents And in case his Majesty come to any Violent or Vntimely Death which God forbid We do hereby further Freely and Vnanimously Oblige our Selves to Vnite Associate and Stand by each other in Revenging the same upon his Enemies and their Adherents and in Supporting and Defending the Succession of the Crown according to an Act made in the First Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary Intituled An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown There is also an Aâ—â—â—â—iation agreed upon by the House of Lords which was carried by a Majority which will appear to be of a Comfortable Importance Their Lordships Association differs so little from that of the Commons that I do not transcribe it but shew you how they vary Instead of the Words King William is RIGHTFVL and Lawful King their Lordships insert That His present Majesty King William hath A RIGHT BY LAW to the Crown of this Realm and that neither the late King James nor the pretended Prince of Wales nor any other Person hath any Right whatsoever to the same c. Ninety six of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal have already subscribed their Association and others who were at first absent come in daily it hath been refused only by 15 whose Names lying in a narrow Compass I here give you Marquiss of Hallifax Marquiss of Normanby who when King James Abdicated we knew by the Title of Earl of Mulsgrave Earls of Nottingham Chesterfield Thanet Winchelsea Scarsdale Earls of Craven Feversham Aylesbury Lord Jeffries