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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02058	His Majesties declaration to all his loving subjects, concerning the treasonable conspiracy against his sacred person and government lately discovered. Appointed to be read in all churches and chappels within this kingdom. By his Majesties special command.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1683 (1683)	Wing C2998A; ESTC R173754	5,452	12

a great Opposition upon the Arrival of the News For which Reason and because they were not then in a sufficient Readiness It was Agreed to be done at Our Return from Newmarket The Place Appointed was the House of one Richard Rumbold a Maiester called the Rye near Hoddesdon in the County of Hertford And it was Resolved That Forty Persons in number who were to be Actors in this Assassination under the Command of the said Richard Rumbold should hide themselves in or near the said House And when Our Coach should come over against them then Three or Four were to Shoot with Blunderbuffes at the Pos●ition and Horses and if they should fail of killing the Horses some were to be ready in the way who in the Habit of Labourers should Turn a Cart cross the Passage and so stop Our Coach Others were appointed to Shoot into the Coach where Our Royal Person and Our Dearest Brother were to be Others to Fire upon the Guards that should be then Attending Us. And it was further Resolved That upon the same Day Many Lords and other Persons of Quality whom they supposed favourable to their Design should be Invited to Dine in Our City of London That they might be the more ready to Appear among the Citizens upon Arrival of the News The Actors in the said Assassination having Contrived the manner of their Escape by a nearer Passage than the usual Road By which means they hoped to get to London as soon as the News could be brought thither They thought it would be Easie upon their Perpetrating this Horrid Fact to possess themselves of the Government presuming upon the Numbers of the Disaffected But left the Blackness of such an Action might Deter any from joyning with them They Prepared to Palliate it as far as they could by some Remonstrance or Declaration which was ready to be Printed and Dispersed in that Confusion to Amuse the People And last Our Officers of State and the Magistrates of Our said City with the Militia thereof and other Our Loyal Subjects should be able to put some Stop to their Carreir They Resolved to follow this Blow with a Massacre wherein they particularly Designed for immediate Slaughter Our Officers of State the present Lord Mayor and Sheriffs and the Magistracy of Our City and other Our Subjects that had been most Emiment for their Loyalty But it pleased Almighty God by His wonderful Providence To Defeat these Councels by the sudden Fire at Newmarket which necessitated Our Return from thence before the time We had appointed Yet these Villains were not thereby discouraged from Pursuing the same Bloudy Design but Resolved to take the first Opportunity for Effecting the same and proposed to themselves That it might be done either in Our Passage from Windsor to Hampton Court or in Out Journey to Winchester or when We should go by Water in Our Barge or under Bedford Garden Wall as We should pass that way or at the Bull Feast which was to be in Red-Lyon-Fields they being informed That We and Our Dearest Brother had Intentions of coming thither And that they might be the better prepared when there should be occasion by having a certain Number of Arms lying always ready for that Purpose Arms for Forty Men were bespoke in all haste vizt Thirty Carbines with Belts and Swivels Thirty Cases of Pistols and ten Blunderbusses which were accordingly Made and Paid for And for the more easie Drawing their Party together against the time of Execution they Contrived to Divide Our Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs into Twenty Parts from each of which they expected Five hundred men to be ready at the first Onset And some Agitators were to give an Account of the men to be furnished in each Division and to give out Orders to them as there should be occasion And to the end the Forces they should Raise might be the sooner Modelled into the Form of an Army there were One hundred Old Officers who had been Engaged in the late Rebellion ready in Town to take the Command of them In the pursuit of which Project they continued till they knew that a Discovery had been made unto Us. During all this time the Principal Conspirators were Managing their other Design for a General Insurrection in both Kingdoms The late Earl of Shaftsbury who had at first pressed them to sudden Rising which he would have had before the seventeenth of November last or upon that day at the farthest sent to the Conspirators at a Meeting appointed by them to know their Resolution and finding they would not adventure without farther Preparation conveyed himself secretly into Holland to avoid the danger he might be in by a Discovery His withdrawing himself from their Councels did not discourage them from pursuing their Design only made them more Cautious Whereupon a new Councel was appointed of Six Persons that were to have the chief Management of Affairs in order to a General Insurrection by a Correspondency with their party in Scotland and several Counties of this Our Kingdom And because a Correspondency by Letters was thought dangerous it was held necessary that some person should be sent into Scotland to invite the Heads of the Disaffected Party in that Our Kingdom to come hither under pretence of Purchasing Lands in Carolina But in truth to Concert with them the best Means for carrying on the Design Joyntly in both Kingdoms and a Treaty was thereupon had with Archibald Campbel late Earl of Argile already attainted of Treason who demanded thirty thousand Pounds at first But afterward agreed to accept of ten thousand pounds for buying of Arms in Holland and making other Provisions necessary for a Rebellion within Our Kingdom of Scotland In the said Councel of six it was Debated whether the Rising in this Kingdom should be first in Our City of London where by reason of the vast Numbers that might readily Unite they thought they might easily master the Guards or rather in some remote parts whereby We should be under a necessity of sending Our Guards to Suppress them and thereby the Rising in Our said City would become more Secure and Effectual But at last it was Resolved as most convenient That it should be in all parts at the same time lest Our City might be Defended by the Militia thereof without the help of Our Guards which We might send for the Suppressing any Insurrection in the Countrey and they did all dispose themselves accordingly for the Compassing their Design which was very near taking Effect But such was the abundant Mercy of Almighty God while they were yet meditating their Execrable Mischiefs against Our Royal Person Out Dearest Brother and the Government a Discovery was made unto Us by one of the Accomplices on the twelfth of June last since which time We have used the best Means We could for the Detecting and Prevention of so Helish a Conspiracy But so it has happened that divers of the Conspirators having notice of Warrants Issued out for their apprehension are fled from Justice Viz. James Duke of Monmouth the Lord Melvin Sir John Cochrane Sir Thomas Armestrong Robert Ferguson who was the Common Agitator Entrusted by all parties in the several Conspiracies Richard Goodenough Francis Goodenough Richard Rumbold the Maltster William Rumbold his Brother Richard Nelthorp Nathaniel Wade William Thomson James Burton Joseph Elby Samuel Gibbs Francis Charleton Joseph Tyley _____ Carstairs _____ Lobb both Non-Conformist Preachers Edward Norton John Row John Ayloff and John Atherton Ford Lord Gray being apprehended made his Escape out of the hands of a Serjeant at Arms and Arthur late Earl of Essex being Committed to the Tower for High Treason Killed himself Others have been Taken and Committed to Custody some of whom Viz. the Lord William Russel Thomas Walcot William Hone and John Rouse have upon their Tryals been Convicted Attainted and Executed according to Law This We thought fit to make known to Our Loving Subjects that they being sensible as We are of the Mercy of God in this great Deliverance may Chearfully and Devoutly joyn with Us in Returning Solemn Thanks to Almighty God for the same For which End We do hereby appoint the ninth day of September next to be observed as a Day of Thanksgiving in all Churches and Chappels within this Our Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed in such manner as shall be by Us Directed in a Form of Prayer with Thanksgiving which We have Commanded to be prepared by Our Bishops and Published for that purpose And it is Our Pleasure that this Declaration be publickly Read in all the said Churches and Chappels as well on Sunday the second of September next as upon the Day of Thanksgiving aforesaid Given at Our Court at Whitehall the eight and twentieth day of July 1683. In the Five and thirtieth Year of Our Reign FINIS