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A57051	The Reputation of Dr. Oates (the first discoverer of the horrid Popish Plot) clear'd in the tryal of Thomas Knox ... and John Lane ... wherein is set forth their endeavours to scandalize the doctor, thereby to invalidate his evidence, and how the lords in the Tower, and others, hired them to do it.		1679 (1679)	Wing R1117; ESTC R36713	3,604	8

THE REPUTATION OF Dr. OATES The First DISCOVERER of the horrid POPISH PLOT CLEAR'D IN THE TRYAL OF THOMAS KNOX Formerly a Servant to the Earl of DANBY and the Lord DUNBLAIN his Son AND JOHN LANE Formerly a Servant to Doctor OATES WHEREIN Is set forth their Endeavours to scandalize the Doctor thereby to invalidate his Evidence and how the Lords in the Tower and others hired them to it LONDON Printed for Robert Harford at the Angel in Cornhill near the Royal-Exchange 1679. THE REPUTATION OF Dr. OATES The First DISCOVERER of the horrid POPISH PLOT CLEAR'D DOctor TITUS OATES having on the 19 th day of November 1679. preferred a Bill of Indictment against Thomas Knox who was formerly Servant to the Earl of Danby and his Son the Lord Dunblain and John Lane and William Osborn both once his Servants The grand Jury found the Bill against the three But Osborn being fled the Court appointed the other two to be tryed on Saturday the 22 th instant upon which day the Jury not filling in time and some other business intervening the Court adjourn'd the said Tryal until Tuesday the Twenty fifth of November At which time the Court being sate there appeared therein a great number of Persons of Honour and Gentlemen of good Quality to see and hear a Tryal of such a nature and a Scrutiny that so much concerned the Honour and Reputation of the Protestant Religion and upon which so much depended the display of Popish Machination The Prisoners being brought to the Bar the Jury sworn whereof Sir John Kirk was Fore-man and the Prisoners arraign'd their Indictment was read to which they severally pleaded not guilty In the Indictment is included in a manner the Sum of their whole Crimes That whereas it had been proved that there was a most horrid Plot carried on by Roman Catholics in and out of the Kingdom against the Life and Government of His most Sacred Majesty and that divers had been deservedly executed for the same and others lay still under Impeachment in the Tower of London and elsewhere for the same Crimes as the Lords Powis Petre Arundel Bellasis Castlemain c. as the said Knox Lane and Osborn well knew Notwithstanding which they the said Knox Lane and Osborn did maliciously and falsely endeavour to stifle the farther Discovery of the Plot as much as in them lay And in favour to the said Impeached Lords and others and for the preventing of Justice and that the said Persons might escape the punishment of the Law did slander and defame Dr. Titus Oates Clerk and William Bedlow Gentleman two of the Discoverers of the said Plot and that in order thereunto Knox did heretofore endeavour to bribe one Mr. Wiggens then Servant to Mr. Bedlow to give him Copies of all his Master's Papers of Secrecy that he should take notice of all such Lords as came at any time to discourse his Master and give him their Names in writing That the said Knox had obliged himself to introduce the said Wiggens and Lane into Company with the Earl of Danby at any hour in the night Season That the Countess of Danby who well approved of what Lane had engaged to endeavour did likewise offer to introduce Wiggens and his Mother to her Lord in her own Coach at any time That Knox had divers Conferences with Lane and Osborn in the Cloyster-walks of the Abby Church at Westminster That upon discovery of this Design in February last Dr. Oates expell'd from his Service the said Lane and Osborn but that then this Knox did hire them Lodgings in obscure places and sometimes lay with them That Knox had forged several Letters as from Lane and Osborn directed to himself therein expressing how perplexed in Conscience they were at the malicious Contrivances of their Master Dr. Oates and Mr. Bedlow against the Earl of Danby and other Lords in the Tower All which Contrivances they were resolved to discover and also make it appear that their said Master was a most vicious and infamous Man and had made many attempts of Buggery upon the Body of Lane In pursuance of which devilish Design they did repair to a Justice of Peace to give in upon Oath their Informations of these forged Crimes against the Doctor which the said Justice refusing to take they drew up one themselves and delivered it unto the Lord Latimer who kept it a few days then delivered it back to be conveyed to the Lord Powis to amend That the Lord Powis did send it to one Mr. Henry Nevil alias Paine a Prisoner in the Prison of the Kings-Bench to enlarge and give colourable Proofs thereunto That the said Papers so enlarged and amended were conveyed unto the Lord Castlemain to do the like From whence they came to the hands of Mr. Thomas Willoughby aliàs Dangerfield who out of them drew Affidavits which the said Lane offered to swear to before he had read them adding that he would swear any thing against his Master so that he might be a gainer That afterwards they did swear these forged and contrived Informations before the Worshipful Sir James Butler one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace That the said Knox did at several times purposely drop or let fall several pieces of Gold called Guinneys and sometimes Silver which they took up as their own That Knox did promise them as from the Earl of Danby beneficial Places either in the Treasury or Customs and promised them as from the other Lords in the Tower Five hundred Pounds in hand and each One hundred Pound per Annum to be setled upon them That after the Design had gone thus far they being in February last apprehended and committed to the Gate-house were examined upon their Oaths by Sir William Waller and Collonel Warcup to whom they confessed that all they had sworn against Dr. Oates was malicious and false and that they were prompted hired and encouraged thereunto by the said Knox and that they did verily believe that the Earl of Danby in confidence of the success of this Design did surrender himself to the black Rod. Soon after this they were brought before a Committee of Lords then sitting in the Lord Privy-Seal's Chamber where also appeared the two Justices who shewed their Lordships the said Examinations which they owned and humbly prayed the mercy and forgiveness of their Lordships and their Master Dr. Oates A few days after which they were discharged from the Gate-house but no sooner had they their liberty but upon the Instigation a second time of the said Knox in behalf of the Lords and other Popish persons but they most impudently and maliciously resumed the prosecution of their aforesaid false and forged Informations against the said Dr. Oates and have also been received and lodged in the House of the Lord Powis and at his charge and with and from the said Lord and other Lords in the Tower had frequent Conferences and Directions That when they lodged at Mrs. Cellier's House they had an allowance of Ten Shillings per Week And this present Term did bring the said false forged and slanderous Papers and Matters into the Court of Kings-Bench thence and thereupon to frame an Indictment against the said Dr. Oates which was by the Jury found Ignoramus and thrown out After all which they now stand here to make Defence to these their villainous Crimes of Forgery and Perjury and slandering the King's Evidence The Doctor had many Witnesses 13 to prove the Indictment against them I. Sir William Waller and Collonel Warcup produced Lane and Osborn's Confession upon Oath in February last as is before-mentioned in justification of Dr. Oates II. Mr. Wiggens and his Mother proved Knox his tampering with them against Mr. Bedlow III. One of His Majesties Warders and Mr. Samuel Oates declared That the said Lane and Osborn confessed to them what great Preferments and Rewards they were to have for their work when done IV. Mr. Dangerfield whose Pardon passed the Great Seal the day before did fully declare how and in what manner he was imployed by the said Lords in the Tower to tamper with and corrupt the said Lane and Osborn with Knox and did clearly make out how the said forged Papers were mended and enlarged by him and them and that the Lady Powis did deliver or cause to be delivered to the now indicted Persons or their Use Ten Shillings per Week which Evidence was strengthened by concurring circumstances from two persons more and besides them other Witnesses which sufficiently proved the Indictment so that the Jury without removing from the Bar pronounced them guilty at which the People gave a great shout And the Prisoners were committed to the Prison of the Kings-Bench His Majesty was graciously pleased to give Dr Oates an Order upon the Lords of his Treasury for the forthwith reimbursing him all such Moneys as the full Charge of this Prosecution hath amounted unto The Judges and Chief Officers of the Court together with the Jury had that Honour and Esteem likewise for the Doctor and were so far convinc'd of the Injury done him by being put to such great and unnecessary Charge that they all forgave him his Fees November 27. Dr. Oates appeared at the Kings-Bench Bar and demanded Judgment against the said Knox and Lane which by reason that the Verdict was not recorded or if recorded that the Record was not filed up or some other formality in Law they could not pass Judgment until the next Term. The Council for the Doctor were Serjeant Maynard The Attorney General The Sollicitor General The Recorder Sir Francis Winnington Mr. Trenchard Mr. Williams Mr. Smith The Council against the Doctor were Mr. Scroggs the Lord Chief Justice's Son With two more FINIS ADVERTISEMENT A True Narrative of the Popish PLOT against King CHARLES the First and the Protestant Religion as it was discovered by Andreas ab Habernfeld to Sir William Boswell the English Ambassador at the Hague and by him transmitted to Archbishop Laud who communicated it to the KING The whole Discovery being found amongst the Archbishop's Papers by Mr. Prynn who was ordered to search his Study in the Tower by a Commitee of the then Parliament May 31. 1643. With some Historical Remarks on the Jesuits and a Vindication of the Protestant Dissenters from Disloyalty Also a Compleat History of the Papists late Presbyterian PLOT discovered by Mr. Dangerfield wherein an Account is given of some late Transactions of Sir Robert Peyton