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A63559	A True narrative of the arraignment, tryal, and conviction of Thomas Dangerfield for high-misdemeanors against His Present Majesty, James the Second, at the King's-Bench-Barr, at Westminster, on Saturday, May the 30th, 1685		1685 (1685)	Wing T2776; ESTC R12568	2,737	2

A TRUE NARRATIVE OF THE ARRAIGNMENT Tryal and Conviction OF Thomas Dangerfield FOR High-Misdemeanors Against His Present Majesty JAMES the Second at the King's-Bench-Barr at Westminster On Saturday May the 30th 1685. THis day being the 30th of May 1685. The Villanies Impostures and Perjuries of Thomas Dangerfield alias Willoughby one of the Evangelists of the late pretended Popish Plot one Second to none except Oates in the most flagitious Rogueries were brought to light by unquestionable Evidences the Proceedings are as follow About Eight of the Clock in the Forenoon my Lord Chief Justice Jefferies with two more of his Brethren being on the Bench the Jury was called being all persons of considerable Estates and Quality against whom Dangerfield brought no exceptions and so it was quickly Impannelled Then the Indictment was read the Sum of which was that he had given into the House of Lords a most Dangerous Seditious and False Accusation against his Royal Highness James D. of York now our present King and used all endeavours to bring hatred and contempt upon him and set him and his Brother at variance by falsly Swearing that our present King gave him Twenty Guineys to Kill his Dear Brother of Blessed Memory and that he the said Dangerfield was Hyred by several persons of Quality to stifle the then Rampant Popish Plot and to throw it upon the Presbiterians the Falsity of all which was proved by undeniable Evidence The Indictment was in few words open'd by Mr. Phips and then Mr. Attorney General began to mannage the Evidence for the King First Mr. Samuel Clark and Mr. Martin proved that that Information was Dangerfields and that he was the Author of the forementioned Libellious Narrative After this was proved they began to make direct Proofs First was called the Earl of Peterborough who gave a large and pertinent Evidence the substance of which was that Dangerfield was recommended to him as a person that could discover great matters concerning the disaffected disloyal Party of England commonly called Presbiterians after he not then knowing his Roguery he was introduced by him to his Royal Highness pretending to make a full discovery of a horrid Plot against the Government and particularly his Royal Highness then pretending great poverty and that he had pawned his Cloaths for the service of the Government the DUKE out of Charity gave him some Ten Pounds which after the Rogue said was for killing the KING and afterwards he got Audience of the K●NG and told the KING the same Flam and got some Forty Pounds but the KING would not hear him privately alone by the DUKE's advice least he might prove a Rogue as it after appeared he was so that he never had Audience of the KING or DUKE alone as was proved by several Witnesses My Lord Peterborrough said that after he had come to Court twice or thrice he began to smell a Rat he likewise Swore in the presence of the Great God that whereas Dangerfield had charged him with contriving a Book that contained the substance of the after pretended Sham Meal-Tub Plot that all was false The next Evidence for the KING was Coll. Halsal who backed my Lord Peterborroughs Evidence by several Circumstances and told the Court how that being asked by the KING his Opinion of Dangerfield he replyed That he looked up on him to be a Pick-pocket Rogue and that he looked upon all that he Swore to be Roguery because he could not produce the Commission he pretended he should have had from Sir William Waller The next Evidence for the KING was Mr. Cellier who gave Evidence that one time Dangerfield came to his house Cursing and Swearing and said that in Case he was not better furnished with Money he would tack about and go from the Evidence he had given against the disaffected Party and become an Evidence for them saying He was sure they would furnish him with Money enough and endeavour to prefer him and procure him a Commission Then my Lady Powis attested that she never heard of Dangerfield till he had Accused her before the Council and whereas he had formerly swore that he had several Papers from her all was False and that he was not able to produce one My Lord Powis attested that he never saw Dangerfield so as to know him from another man and that all was False that he had spoke of Treason concerning his Lordship and that he never came to him with any such Treasonable Message as he pretended much what the same Evidence was given by one Sr. Harvey and Mrs. Hill After this the Kings Council to shew how great a Rogue he was and how little credit he deserv'd produced in Court several Records of former Convictions in several Courts in England First a Record was produced for breaking a House here in or about Lond●n and that he was found Guilty of the Fellony but not of the Burglary Then another Record was produced for his breaking a House in Essex Then three or four Convictions for putting off False Guineys for which he had several times stood in the Pillory at New Sarum in Wiltshire After this Evidence for the King had done Dangerfield began to make his Defence which was just such another Cant as his Brother Oates made in his Tryal viz. That their Evidence was the Prop of the Protestant Religion which made great laughter in the Court that the King was Judge and Plaintiff and began to make Saucy reflections upon several honest men but was sharply reproved by my Lord Chief Justice and kept within his bounds which was observed to put him a little out of his Newgate Rethorick which was nothing but some flourishes upon general matters of the late deceased Popish Plot then he was desired to make a particular defence and he called several Witnesses which all concluded with something against himself as the Salamanca Doctor 's did First One Mr. Cooper the Clerk of Newgate being asked by Dangerfield what Evidence he could give replyed He never saw him and Mrs. Cellier together as Dangerfield said more That he believed him to be a Rogue for he had been three times in their Custody in Newgate Capt. Richardson attested the same and that he knew nothing of an intreague betwixt Mrs. Cellier and Dangerfield Sir Thomas Doleman said he remembered little for he had been since struck with a Palsie Sir John Nicols was called but a peared not then Dangerfield called Thomas Williams William Scarlet and Henry Sherbourn but none of them appeared then one Mr. Blasdel an Apothecary but he proved him to be a great Rogue then he called one William Tilbury but he knew nothing of the Matter only that he Lodged sometimes at his House and Dangerfield pretended Acquaintance with my Lord Powis's Family then were called several more but did not appear Mr. Chiffinch attested the same that my Lord Peterborrough and Coll. Hallsal and nothing to the Prisoners advantage Last of all was called one Mr. Stretch by Dangerfield who instead of doing him service proved that while he said Mr. Stretch was searching Coll. Mansels Chamber that Dangerfield pinned the Seditious Paper upon the Wall The Prisoner having made what pitiful defence he could which as you have heard was nothing to the purpose but to prove himself the greater Rogue My Lord Chief Justice most Elegantly and Succinctly Sumed up the Evidence telling the Jury what a Monster of Wickedness the Prisoner was and how the Honour of the Nation was concerned and in seeing such profligated Rogues brought to Condign Punishment and how that the Evidence was beyond all exceptions so that without going from the Bar the Jury found him Guilty of the Indictment Here 's an end of the Evidence of the once admired Dangerfield who was abetted by the Whiggs to endeavour to Tarnish the Lustre of the Glory of the best and greatest of Princes LONDON Printed by E. Mallet in Black-horse-Alley near Fleet-Bridge 1685.