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A63228	The tryals of VVilliam Ireland, Thomas Pickering, & John Grove, for conspiring to murder the King who upon full evidence were found guilty of high treason at the session-house in Old-Bailye, Dec. 1, 1678, and received sentence accordingly.	Ireland, William, 1636-1679.; Pickering, Thomas, d. 1679.; Grove, John, d. 1679.; England and Wales. Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery (London and Middlesex).	1678 (1678)	Wing T2269; ESTC R33696	62,044	58

THE TRYALS OF VVILLIAM IRELAND THOMAS PICKERING JOHN GROVE For Conspiring to Murder the KING Who upon Full Evidence were found Guilty of High Treason At the SESSION-HOUSE in Old-Bailye Dec. 17. 1678 and received Sentence accordingly Reprinted at Dublin M DC LXXVIII The TRYALS of William Ireland Thomas Pickering and John Grove ON Tuesday the Seventeenth day of December One Thousand Six Hundred Seventy and Eight Thomas White alias Whitebread William Ireland John Fenwick Thomas Picker●●ng ●●nd John Grove were brought from his Majesties Gaol of Newgate to the Sessions-house ●●t ●●stice-Hall in the Old-Baily being there Indicted for High Treason for contriving and ●●ot ●●iring to Murder the King to receive their Tryal and the Court proceeded thereupon ●●s ●●lloweth The Court being Set Proclamation was made for Attendance Thus. Clerk of Crown Cry●●r make Proclamation Cryer O yes O yes O yes All manner of Persons that have any thing to do at this General Sessions of the Peace holden for the City of London Sessions of Oyer and Termi●●er and Gaol Delivery of Newgate holden for the City of London and County of Middlesex draw near and give your attendance for now the Court will proceed to the Pleas of the Crown for the same City and County God Save the King Clerk of Crown Cryer make proclamation Cryer O yes All manner of Persons are commanded to keep Silence upon pain of impri●●onment Peace about the Court. Clerk of Crown Cryer make Proclamation Cryer O yes You Good men of the County of Middlesex that are Summoned to appear ●●ere this day to Enquire between our Soveraign Lord the King and the prisoners that are 〈…〉 shall be at the Bar. Answer to your names as you shall be called every one at the first ●●all and Save your issues The Jurors being called and the Defaults recorded the Clerk of the Crown called for ●●he Prisoners to the Bar viz. Thomas White alias Whitebread William Ireland John Fenwick Thomas Pickering and John Grove and Arraigned them thus Clerk of Crown Thomas White alias Whitebread hold up thy hand Which he did William Ireland hold up thy hand Which he did John Fenwick hold up thy hand Which he did Thomas Pickering hold up thy hand Which he did John Grove hold up thy hand Which he did You stand indicted by the names of Thomas White alias Whitebread late of the Parish of St. Giles in the fields in the County of Middlesex Clerk William Ireland late of the same Parish and County Clerk John Fenwick late of the same Parish and County Clerk Tho●●● Pickering late of the same Parish and County Clerk and John Grove late of the same ●…h and County Gent. For that you five as false Traitors c. against the peace of our So●●raign Lord the King his Crown and Dignity and against the Form of the Stature in ●●hat Case made and Provided How sayst thou Thomas VVhite alias Whitebread art thou Guilty of this H●●gh Treason whereof thou standest Indicted or not Guilty Whitebread Not Guilty Clerk of the Crown Culprit how wilt thou be Tryed Whitebread By God and my Country Clerk of Crown God send thee a good deliverance How sayst thou William Ireland a●● thou Guilty of the same High Treason or not Guilty Ireland Not Guilty Clerk of Crown Culprit how wilt thou be tryed Ireland By God and my Countrey Clerk of Crown God send thee a good Deliverance How saist thou John Fenwick a●● thou guilty of the same High Treason or not Guilty Fenwick Not Guilty Clerk of Crown Culprit how wilt thou be Tryed Fenwick By God and my Countrey Clerk of Crown God send thee a good deliverance How saist thou Thomas Pickering a●● thou Guilty of the same High Treason or not Guilty Pickering Not Guilty Clerk of Crown Culprit how wilt thou be Tryed Pickering By God and my Country Clerk of Crown God send thee a good deliverance How saist thou John Grove art tho●● Guilty of the same High Treason or not Guilty Grove Not Guilty Clerk of Crown Culprit how wilt thou be Tryed Grove By God and my Countrey Clerk of Crown God send thee a good Deliverance You the Prisoners at the Bar those men that you shall hear called and do Personally appear are to pass between o●● Soveraign Lord the King and you upon Tryal of your several Lives and deaths if therefore you or any of you will Challenge them or any of them your time is to speak unto them as they come to the Book to be Sworn before they be sworn Sir Philip Mathews to the Book Sir Philip Mathews I desire Sir William Roberts may be called first Which was granted Clerk of Crown Sir William Roberts to the Book Look upon the Prisoners you shall wel●● and truly Try and true deliverance make between our Soveraign Lord the King and th●● Prisoners at the Bar whom you shall have in your charge according to your Evidence S●● help you God The same Oath was administred to th the Rest the Prisoners challenging none and thei●● Names in Order were thus JURY Sir William Roberts Baronet Sir Philip Mathews Bar Sir charles Lee Knight Edward VVilford Esq John Foster Esq Joshua Galliard Esq John Byfield Esquire Thomas Egglesfield Esq Thomas Johnson Esq John Pulford Esq Thomas Earnesby Esq Richard VVheeler Gent. Clerk of Crown Cryer count these Sir VVillam Roberts Cryer One c Clerk of Crown Richard VVheeler Cryer Twelve Good Men and True stand together and hear your Evidence Clerk of Crown Cryer make Proclamation Cryer O yes If any one can inform my Lords the Kings Justices the Kings Serjeant the Kings Attorney or this Inquest now to betaken between our Sovereign Lord the King and the Prisoners at the Bar let them come forth and they shall be heard for now the Prisoners stand at the Bar upon their deliverance and all others that are bound by Recognizance to give Evidence against any of the Prisoners at the Bar let them come forth and give their Evidence●● or else they forfe●●t their Recognizance And all Jury men of Midd●●esex that have been summoned and have appeared are not sworn may depart the Court and take their eases Cl of Crown Make proclamation of Silence Cryer O yes All manner of Persons are commanded to keep Silence upon pain of imprisonment Cl of Crown Thomas white alias Whitebread hold up thy hand which he did and so of the rest You that are sworn look upon the Prisoners and harken to their Cause You shall understand that they stand Indicted by the names of Thomas White otherwise Whitebread late of the Parish of St. Gyles in the Fields in the county of Middlesex Clerk William Ireland late of the same Parish in the County aforesaid Clerk John Fenwick late of the same parish in the County aforesaid Clerk Thomas Pickering late of the same parish in the County aforesaid Clerk and John Grove late of the same parish in the County aforesaid Gentleman For that they as

false Traytors of the most Illustrious Se●●ene and most Excellent Prince Our Soverign Lord Charles the II. by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. Their supreme and natural Lord not haveing the Feare of God in their hearts nor the Duties of their Allegeance any ways weighing but being moved and Seduced by the instigation of the Devil the cordial love and true due and natural obedience which true and faithful Subjects of our said Soveraign Lord the King towards our said Soverign Lord the King should and of Right ought to bear altogether withdrawing endeavouring and with their whole strength intending the peace and common tranquillity of this Kingdom of England to disturbe and the true worship of God within this Kingdom of England used and by Law established to overthrow and to move stir up and procure Rebellion within this Kingdom of England and the cordial love and true and due obedience which true and saithful Subjects of our said Soveraign Lord the King towards our said soveraign Lord the King should and of Right ought to bear wholly to withdraw vanguish and extinquish and our said Sovereign Lord the King to death and final destruction to bring and put the 24th day of April in the year of the Reign of our said Sovereign L Charles the II by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King defender of the saith c. the 30th at the Parish of St. Gyles in the Fields aforesaid in the County of Middlesex aforesaid falsly maliciously deceitfully advisedly and Trayterously they did propose compa●●e imagine and intend to stir up move and procure sedition and Rebellion within this Kingdom of England and to procure and Cause a miserable slaughter among the Subjects of our said Sovereign L. the King and wholly to deprive depose throw down and disinher it our said Sovereign Lord the King from his Royal State Title Power and Government of this his Kingdom of England and him our said Soveraign Lord the King to put to death and utterly to destroy the Government of this Kingdom of England and the sincere Religion worship of God in the same Kingdom rightly and by the Laws of the same Kingdom established for their will and pleasure to change and alter and wholly to subvert and destroy the state of the whole Kingdom being in all parts thereof well instituted and ordered and to Levy War against our said Soveraign Lord the King within this his Realm of England And to fulfil and bring to pass these their most wicked Treasons and Trayterous designs and purposes aforesaid they the said Thomas White allas Whitebread William Ireland John Fenwick Thomas Pickering John Grove and other false Tr●●ytors unknow●● the said so ●● and Tweentieth day of April in the said 30th year of the Reign of our said Lord the King with force and arms c. at the parish of St. Giles in the Fields aforesaid in the County of Midelesex aforesaid falsly maliciously deceitfully advisedly devillish●●y and traiterously did assemble unite and gather themselves together and then and there falsly maliciously deceitfully advisedly devillishly and traiterously they did consult and agree to put and bring our said Soveraign Lord the King to death final destruction and to alter and change the Religion rightly and by the Laws of the same Kingdom established to the superstition of the Church of Rome and that sooner to bring to pass and accomplish the same their most wicked Treasons and traiterous imaginations and purposes aforesaid they the said Thomas White otherwise Whitebread William Ireland John Fenwick Thomas Pickering John Grove and other false Traitors of our said Sovereign Lord the King unknown afterwards to wit the said 24th day of April in the said 30th year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord the King at the said parish of St. Giles in the Fields in the County of Midlesex aforesaid falsly deceitfully advisedly maliciously devillishly and traiterously they did consult and agree that they the said Thomas Pickering and John Grove should kill and murther our said Sovereign Lord the King And that they the said Thomas White otherwise Whitebread William Ireland John Frenwick and other false Traitors unknown should therefore say celebrate and perform a certain number of Masses then and there agreed on among them for the good of the soul of the said Thomas Pickering and should therefore pay to the said John Grove a certain sum of money then and there also agreed on among them And further that the said Thomas Pickering and John Grove upon the agreement aforesaid then and there falsly deceitfully advisedly maliciously devillishly traiterously did undertake and to the said Thomas White otherwise Whitebread William Ireland John Fenwick and other false Traitors of our said Sovereign Lord the King unknown then and there falsly deceitfully advisedly maliciously devillishly and traiterously they did then and there promise that they the said Thomas Pickering and John Grove our said Sovereign Lord the King would kill and murther And further that they the said Thomas White otherwise Whitbread William Ireland John Fenwick Thomas Pickering and John Grove and other false Traitors of our said Sovereign Lord the King unknown afterwards to wit the said 24th day of April in the thirtieth year of the Reign of our said Soverign Lord the King at the said parish of St. Giles in the Fields in the County of Middlesex aforesaid falsly deceitfully advisedly maliciously devillishly and traiterously did severally plight their Faith every one to other of them and did then and their swear and promise upon the Sacrament to conceal and not to divulge their said most wicked Treasons and traiterons compassings consultations and purposes aforesaid so among them had traiterously to kill and murther our said Sovereign Lord the King and to introduce the Roman Religion to be used within this Kingdom of England and to alter change the true Reformed Religion rightly and by the Laws of this Kingdom of England in this same Kingdom of England established And further that they the said Thomas Pickering and John Grove in execution of their said Traiterous Agreement afterwards to wit the same 24th day of April in the said thirtieth year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lord the King and divers other days and times afterwards at the said parish of St. Giles in the Fields in the said County of Middlesex falsly deceitfully advisedly maliciously devillishly and traiterously they did prepare and obtain to themselves and had and did keep Musquets Pistols Swords Daggers and other offensive and cruel weapons and instruments to kill and murther our said Sovereign Lord the King And that they the said Thomas Pickering and John Grove afterwards to wit the said four and twentieth day of April in the said thirtieth year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lord the King and divers days and times afterwards with force and arms c. at the said

parish of St. Giles in the Fields in the County of Middlesex aforesaid and in other places within the said County of Middlesex falsly deceitfully advisedly maliciously and traiterously did lie in wait and endeavour to kill and murder our said Sovereion Lord the King and further that they the said Thomas White otherwise Whitebread William Ireland John Fenwick and other false Traitors unknown afterwards to wit the said 24th day of April in the said thirtieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord the King at the said parish of St Giles in the Fields in the County of Middlesex aforesaid falsly deceitfully advisedly maliciously devillishly and traiterously did prepare perswade excite abet comfort and counsel four other persons unknown and subjects of our said Soveraign Lord the King traiterously to kill and murder our said Sovereign Lord the King against the duty of their allegiance against the peace of our said Sovereign Lord the King his Crown and Dignity and against the form of the Statute in that behalf made and provided Upon this Indictment they have been arraigned and thereunto have severally pleaded Not guilty and for their Tryal have put themselves upon God and their Country which Country you are Your Charge therefore is to enquire whether they or any of them be guilty of the High Treason whereof they stand indicted or not guilty If you find them guilty you are to enquire what Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements those you find guilty had at the time of the High Treason committed or at any time since If you find them or any of them not guilty you are to enquire whether they did flee for it if you find that they or any of them fled for it you are to enquire of their Goods and Chattels as if you had found them guilty If you find them or any of them not guilty nor that they nor any of them fled for it say so and no more and hear your Evidence Make Proclamation for silence on both sides Which was done Then Sir Creswell Levings one of the Kings learned Council in the Law opened the Indictment thus Sir Cresw Levings May it please your Lordship and you Gentlemen of the Jury These Prisoners at the Bar Thomas White alias Whitebread William Ireland John Fenwick Thomas Pickering and John Grove do all stand indicted of High Treason for that whereas they as false Traytors meaning and designing to disturb the Peace of the Kingdom to levy War within the Kingdom to make miserable slaughter amongst the Kings Subjects to subvert the Religion established by the Law of the Land to introduce the Superstition of the Church of Rome and to bring to death and final destruction and to murder and assassinate our Soveraign Lord the King they did to effect these things the four and twentieth of April last assemble themselves together with many other false Traytors yet unknown in the parish of Saint Giles in the Fields in the County of Middlesex and there being so assembled the better to effect these designs did make agreements and conspire together first that Pickering and Grove should kill the King and that White and the rest of the persons that stand indicted with many other Traytors should say a great number of Masses for the soul of the said Pickering I think thirty thousand and they did further agree there that Grove should have a great sum of mony and upon this agre●●ment Grove and Pickering did undertake and promise they would do this fact and did then and there take the Sacrament and an oath to one another upon the Sacrament that they would conceal these their Treasons that they might the better effect them and that in pursuance of this Grove and Pickering did divers timesly in wait to murder the King and did provide Arms to do it and the Indictment further sets forth that White and Ireland and Fenwick and many other Traytors yet unknown did procure four other persons yet also unknown for to kill the King against the pea●●e of our Sovereign Lord the King his Crown and Dignity and against the form of the Statute These are the heads of those facts for which they stand indicted they have all pleaded not Guilty if we prove them or any of them Guilty of these or any of these facts according to the Evidence you shall have we hope you will find it Sir Samuel Baldwin one of his Majesties Serjeants at Law opened the Charge as followeth Sir Samuel Baldwin May it please your Lordship and you Gentlemen of the Jury the persons here before you stand indicted for High Treason they are five in number three of them are Jesuits one is a Priest the fifth is a Layman persons fitly prepared for the work in hand Gentlemen it is not unknown to most persons nay to every one amongst us that hath the least observed the former times how that ever since the Reformation there hath been a design carried on to subvert the Government and destroy the Protestant Religion established here in England for during all the Reign of Queen Elizabeth severall attempts were made by several Priests and Jesuits that came from beyond the Seas though the Laws were then severe against them to destroy the Queen and alter the Religion established here in England and to introduce Popery and the Superstition of the Church of Rome But the Conspirators from time to time during all the Queens Reign were disappointed as Edmond Camtion and several other Jesuits who came over in that time and were executed did suffer for their Treasons according to Law at length about the lat●●erend of the Queens time a Seminary for the English Jesuits was founded at Valled●●lid in Spain and you know the emyloyment such persons have And soon after the Queens death in the beginning of the Reign of King James several persons came over into England from this very Seminary who together with one Henry Garnet Superior of the Jesuits then in England and divers other English Papists hatched that hellish Gunpowder-plot whereby what was designed you all know but as it fell out these persons as well as those in Queen Elizabeths time were likewise disappointed for their execrable Treasons in the third year of King James were executed at Tyburn and otherplaces This is evident by the very Act of Parliament in 30. Jacobi in the preamble whereof mention is made that Creswel and Tesmond Jesuits came from Validolid in Spain to execute this Gunpowder-Treason with the Poplsh party here in England And Gentlemen after this Treason so miraculously discovered was punished one would not have thought that any future age would have been guilty of the like Conspiracy but it so falls out that the Mystery of Iniquity and Jesuitism still worketh for there hath of late been a sort of cruel bloody minded persons who in hopes to have better success than they had in fo●●mer times during the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James have set on foot as horrid a Design

knew what the business was but he did advise him that he should conceal himself lest the plot by observation should be discover'd We shall likewise produce several other evidences to strengthen and confirm the Witnesses we shall first call our witnesses and enter upon the proof Mr Finch opened the Evidence thus Mr. Finch May it please your Lord ship and you Gentlemen of the Jury before we call our witnesses I would beg leave once more to remind you of what hath already been open'd unto you the Quality of the Offenders themselves and the nature of the offence they stand indicted of For the Offenders they are most of them Priests and Jesuits three of them at the least are so the other two are the accursed Instruments of this Design for the offence it self 't is high Treason And though it be High Treason by the Statute of 27 Elizabeth for men of that profession to come into England yet these men are not Indicted upon that Law nor for that Treason This I take notice of to you for the prisoners sake that they should not fancy to themselves they suffered Martyrdom for their Religion as some of them have vainly imagin'd in their case and for your sakes too that as at first it was Treason repeated Acts of Treason in these men and those proceeding from a principle of Religion too that justly occasioned the making that Law so here you might observe a pregnant instance of it in the prisoners at the Bar That when ever they had an opportunity as now they thought they had they have never failed to put those principles into practice So now Gentlemen as they are not indicted for being Priests I must desire you to lay that quite out of the Case and only consider that they stand here accused for Treason such Treason as were they Lay-men only they ought to die for it though I cannot but observe they were the sooner Traitors for being Priests The Treason therefore they stand indicted of is of the highest nature it is a Conspiracy to kill the King and that too with Circumstances so aggravating if any thing can aggravate that Offence which is the highest that nothing less than the total Subversion of the Government and utter Destruction of the Protestant Religion would serve their turns And really when you consider the Root from whence this Treason springs you will cease wondring that all this should be attempted and rather wonder that it was not done Mischiefs have often miscarried for want of wickedness enough the Horror of Conscience or else the Malice of the Aggressor not being equal to the Attempt has sometimes prevented the Execution of it Here is no room for any thing of this kind This Treason proceeds from principles of Religion from a sense that it is lawful nay that they ought to do these things and every neglect here is lookt on as a piece of Irreligion a want of zeal for which one of the Prisoners did pennance as in the course of our Evidence we shall prove unto you And when we consider too that this is carried on not by the Fury of two or three busie men over zealous in the Cause but by the deliberate and steady Councels of the whole Order and that too under the Obligations of Secresie as high as Christian Religion can lay on them you have great reason to wonder that it did not succeed And yet after all this they have not been able to prevail Not that we can brag of any human policy that did prevent it No all that the Wit of man could do these men had done but 't was the Providence of God 't was his Revelation That Providence that first enlightened his Church and has preserv'd it against all opposition heretofore has once more disappointed their Councells and preserved the King and this Nation in the profession of that true Religion these men have vainly attempted to destroy Gentlemen I will not open to you the particulars of our Evidence that I had rather should come from the Witnesses themselves I shall only in general tell you what will be the Course of it We shall prove unto you That there was a Summons for a Consultation to be held by these men the 24th of April last from the Provincial Mr. Whitebread That they had a Caution given them not to come too soon nor appear much about the Town till the Consultation were over lest oacasion should be given to suspect the Design That accordingly a Consultation was held as they say to send Cary their Procurator to Rome Though we shall prove to you it was for other purposes That they adjourned from their general Assembly into lesser Companies where several persons did attend them to carry Intelligences of their several Resolutions That at these several Consults they did resolve The King was to be killed that Pickering and Grove should do it for which the one was to have 30000 Masses said for his Soul the other 1500 l. That in prosecution of this Design they made several attempts to execute it That they lay in wait for the King several times in St. James's Park and other places And that once in particular it had been done by Pickering if it had not pleased God to have prevented it by an Accident unforeseen The Flint of his Pistol being loose he durst not then attempt it though he had an Opportunity for which neglect we shall prove unto you he underwent the pennance of 20 or 30 strokes That when these men had failed we shall prove to you they hired four Ruffians to murther the King at Windsor and after that at Newmarket Thus they way-laid him in all his privacies and retirements wherever they could think it most convenient to execute their Design And this we shall prove by two Witnesses who though they should not speak to the same Consultations nor the same times yet they are still two Witnesses in Law for several Witnesses of several Overt-Acts are so many Witnesses to the Treason because the Treason consists in the Intention of the man in the Compassing and Imagining the Death of the King The several Overt-Acts which declare that intention are but as so many Evidences of the Treason we will call our Witnesses and make out what had been open'd to you Cl. of Cr. Mr. Oates lay your hand upon the Book The Evidence you shall give for our Sovereign Lord the King against Thomas White alas Whitebread William Ireland John Fenwick Thomas Pickering and John Grove the prisoners at the Bar shall be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth So help you God Mr. Serj. Baldwin Pray Mr. Oates will you declare to the Court and the Jury what Design there was for the killing of His Majesty and by whom Mr. Oates My Lord in the month of December last Mr. Thomas Whitebread did receive a Patent from the General of the Jesuits at Rome to be Provincial of the Order after he had received this

Patent he sent Orders to one George Conyers a Jesuit at St. Omers to preach upon St. Thomas of Canterburys day and by virtue of this Order George Conyers did preach against Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and did in his Doctrine call them Anti-Christian and devillish My Lord in the month of January this Mr. Whitebread did send several Letters to St. Omers in which Letters there was contained Intimation of his Intent to proceed against the Kings Person to assassinate Him which Letters were written to Richard Asby My Lord in the month of February there comes an Order from him as Provincial for several of the Jesuits to make their appearance at London to be there at a Consult to be held the 24th of April Old stile Lord Ch. Just Where was Whitebread then Mr. Oates He was then in London My Lord as I suppose by the dateing of his Letters My Lord from Mr. Whitebread after this Summons we received a second Summons which came the 5th of April New stile and upon the Summons there were Nine did appear at London the Rector of Liege Sir Thomas Prest●●n the Rector of Ghent whose name is Marsh the Rector of Wott●●n whose name is Williams and to one Sir John Harper and two or three more from St. Omers and there was a special Order given us My Lord to keep our selves close lest we should be suspected and so our Design disclosed My Lord upon the four and twentieth of April Old stile we did appear in the Consult The Consult was begun at the White horse-Tavern in the Strand and there they met in several Rooms they came on by degrees and as the new ones came on the old ones those that had been there before them fell off And there was one John Cary appointed to go Procurator for Rome and he was so appointed by the suffrages of the three Prisoners at the Bar Whitebread Ireland and Fenwick It was afterwards adjourned into several Colloquies or little meetings one meeting was at Mrs. Sanders house that butts upon Wild-house a second was at M. Ireland's a third was at Mr. Harcourt's a fourth was at Mr. Grove's and other meeting or meetings there were but I cannot give a good accompt of them My Lord after they had thus met and debated the state of Religion and the life of the King they drew up this Resolve it was drawn up by one Mico who was Secretary to the Society and Socius or Companion to the Provincial L. Ch. Just When was that done Mr. Oates That day my Lord the Resolve my Lord was this as near as I can remember the words It is resolved that Thomas Pickering and John Grove shall go on in their Attempt to assassinate the King whether they used the word Assassinate I can't remember but the meaning was they should make an Attempt upon his person and that the Reward of the one that is Grove should be Fifteen hundred pounds and that Pickerings Reward should be Thirty thousand Masses My Lord after this Resolution was signed by Whitbread it was signed by Fenwick and Ireland and by all the four Clubs I saw them sign it for I carried the Instrument from one to another L. Ch. Just What was it they signed Mr. Oates The Resolve of the Consult L. C. Just What that which was drawn up by Mico Mr. Oates Yes my Lord that which was drawn up by Mico Whitebread Doth he say that he saw them sign it Mr. Oates Yes I did see them sign it Jury We desire he may be asked where he saw them sign it Mr. Oates Mr. Whitebread signed it at that part of the Consult that was at his Chamber Ireland did sign it at that part of the Consult that was at his Chamber Fenwick signed it at that part of the Consult that was at his Chamber Whitebread Were you at all these places Mr. Oates I went with it from place to place but I mention no more now but only these Whitebread You were not at all these places and saw them sign it were you Mr. Oates Yes I did see them sign it at all those places My Lord in the month of May Mr. Whitebread came over as Provincial from England to St. Omers to begin his Provincial Visitation and with him came Cary and his Companion Mico Cary left St Omers to begin his Journy to Rome Whitebread after he had given an Accompt of what proceedings the Catholicks of England had made in order to disturb the peace of the Kingdom what moneys had been gathered what suffrages dispersed what means have been used what Noblemen had joyned in this execrable Plot he did then my Lord order me to come for England L. Ch. Just Whitebread did Mr. Oates Yes my Lord Whitebread did And my Lord the business I was to come into England for was to murder one Dr. Tongue a Dr. in Divinity who had written a Book called The Jesuits Morals that is to say Translated them out of French into English my Lord I came over into England on the the 23th of June New stile I came out of St. Omers that is the 13th in the stile of England on the 24th New stile I took the Packet Boat at Calice the 25th New stile I met with Mr. Fenwick at Dover He was come down with certain youths to send them to St. Omers and had ordered their passage My Lord with Mr. Fenwick and some other persons we came to London in a Coach and six miles as near as I remember it on this side Canterbury at a place called Bolton our Coach was stopt by the searchers and there they did examine a Box that was in the Coach directed for the honourable Richard Blundel Esq this Box when they opened it they found full of Beads Crucifixes Images and other sorts of Trompery that I cannot give a good account of it 's he can give the best Mr. Fenwick went by the name of one Thompson and did personate one Thompson as Living near the Fountain Tavern at Charing-Cross and did order the searcher to write to him there as by the name of Thompson When the Box was seized they being prohibited Goods Mr. Fenwick did say that if they had searcht his Pockets they had found such Letters about him as might have cost him his life but his Letters did escape searching We came that night to Sittenburgh and lay there on Sunday the 26th new stile as near as I remember and I think we staid there till the afternoon We took Coach in the afternoon and came as far as Dartford On Munday morning we came into London and my Lord when we came into London and had continued there some dayes I now return to Mr. Whitebread There came one Ashby to town he had been sometime Rector of St. Omers and was come to England sick of the Gout and was to go to the Ba●●h to be Cured And he brought instructions with him from Whitebread and the instructions contained in them these particulars

to be present you are to signifie as much to the end others in their Rank●●●● 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 le●●t occasion should be given to suspect the design Finally secresie as to the ●●ime pl●●ce is much recomended to all those that receive summons as it will appear o●● it s own nature necessary L. C. J. So it was very necessary indeed Cl. of the Crown There is more of it my Lord. Tertio pro domino solono disco B●●n●●fact Prov. Luniencis I am strai●●ned for time that I can only assure you I shall be much glad of obliging you any ways Sir your servant Edward Peters Pray my service where due c. L. C. J. You know nothing of this Letter Mr. Whitebread Whitebread No my Lord nothing at all L. C. J. Nor you Mr. Ireland Ireland T is none of my Letter my Lord. L. C. J. Did you never hear of it before Ireland N●●t th●●t I know o●● in Particular L. C. J. W●●ll have you do●● with the evidence for the King Mr. Serj. Baldwyn p●●ay Sir Thomas Doleman will you tell my Lord did M●● Oates give in this Testemony of the consul●● to be the 24th of April before this Le●●●● wa●●●●ound L. C. J. How long had you known him before that time S. Paine My Lord I knew him for he came often to our house when I lived at ●● Groves he wa●● the man ●●hat broke ●●pen the Packet of Letters that my Master carri●● about a●… and he ●●ealed all the Packets that went beyond the Seas and he op●●ed them 〈…〉 when the Answers returned back again Ire●●●d Now m●●st ●●l the People of ●●y Lodging come and witness that I was ●● of my Lodging all August last L. C. J. Call them Ireland There is one Ann Ireland L. C. J. Cryer call ●●er Cryer A●● Ireland here she is L. C. J. Come Mistris what can you say concerning your brothers being out of T●● in August A●●n Ireland my Lord on Saturday the third of August he set out to go into Stafford●… L. C. J. How long did he continue there A Ireland Till it was a fortnight before Michaelmas L C. J. How can you remember that it was just the 3d. of August A. Ireland I remember it by a very good circumstance because on the Wed●… before my brother and my mother and I were invited out to dinner we staid the●● night and all Thursday night and Friday night my brother came home and on Saturd●● set out f●●r Staffordshire ●● C. J. Where was it maid that you saw him S. Paine I saw him go in at the door of their own house L. C. J. When was that S Paine About a week before I went with my Lord Chamberlaine to Windsor ●● was a week after the King went thither L. C. J. That must be about the 12 or 13 and are you sure you saw him S. Paine Yes my Lord I am sure I saw him L. C. J. Do you know this maid Mr. Ireland Ireland I do not know her my Lord. L. C. J. She knows you by a very good token You used to break open the Lette●● her masters house and to seal them S. Paine He knows me very well for I have carried several Letters to him that ●● from the carrier as well as those that came from beyond Sea L. C. J. They will deny any thing in the World Ireland I profess I doe not know her Twenty people may come to me and yet ●● know them and she haveing been Mr. Groves servant may have brought me Letters ●● yet my Lord I remember her no●● but here is my mother Elenor Ireland that can testif●● same L. C. J. Call her then Cryer Elenor Ireland Elenor Ireland H●●re L. C. J. Can you tell when your Son went out of Town E. Ireland He went out of Town the third of August towards Staffordshire Ireland My Lord there is Mr. Charles Gif●●ord will prove that I was a week after th●…gining of September and the lat●●r ●●nd of August in Staffordshire L. C. J. That will not doe for she said she saw you i●● London about the 10th or 1●●● August she makes it out by a circum●●ance which is better evidence then if she had 〈…〉 and swore the precise day wherein she saw him I should not have been sati●●fied unl●… 〈◊〉 given me a good account why she did know it to be such a day she does it by circum●●●●ces by which we must calculate that she saw you about the 12th or 13th day She 〈…〉 to my Lord Arlington's at such a day a week after the King went to Windsor and that was about the 13th and she saw you a week before she went to my Lord Arlingtons which must be the 12th or 13th You say you went out of Town the third of August who can swear you did not come back again Ireland All the ●●ouse can testify I did not come to my lodging E. Ireland He went out of Town the third of August and did not return till a forthnight before Michealmas L C. J. Did you lye at his house E. Ireland I did then my Lord L C. J. What all that while E. Ireland Yes my Lord. D. C. J. So did your daughter too did she E. Ireland Yes she did Ireland There are others that did see me the Latter end of August in Staffordshire L. C. J. And you would feign have crampt him up between the 20. and 31. and then ●…ossible you might be in Staffordshire Ireland If I might have been permitted to send in for such witness as I would have ●●ad I ●●ould have brought them Mr. Recorder Why have you not a note of what witnesses you are to call why don't you call them according to that note Ireland I had that but this morning L. C. J. Why did not you send for them before to have them ready Mr. Recorder 'T is his Sister that brings that note of the witnesses that he should call and 〈…〉 they are not here A. Ireland There was one Engletrap and one Harrison had promised to be here that went with him into Staffordshire Mr. Oates My Lord when ever we had a mind to come to Towne we conmmon●●y writ our Letters and let them come to town two dayes after us ●●oe that we might ●●rove by the writing of such Letters if any Question did arise that we could not be at such ●● place at such a time And when we pretended to go into the country we have gon●● and ●●ken a chamber in the City and have had frequent cabal●● at our chambers there Mr. ●●reland writ a Letter as dated from S●● Omers when I took my leave of him at his own ●●hamb●●r which was betwixt the 12th and 24th in London ●● was there and afterwards when I ●●r●… Fenwicks chamber he came thither a ●…ght or ten