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A34178	The Compleat statesman demonstrated in the life, actions, and politicks of that great minister of state, Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury : containing an account of his descent, his administration of affairs in the time of Oliver Cromwell, his unwearied endeavours to restore His Most Sacred Majesty, his zeal in prosecuting the horrid Popish Plot, several of his learned speeches during his being Ld. Chancellor, his two commitments to the Tower, the most material passages at his tryal, with many more considerable instances unto His Lordships going for Holland.	Dunton, John, 1659-1733.	1683 (1683)	Wing C5658; ESTC R35656	48,139	160

Gentry a learned Clergy and an understanding worthy People but yet we cannot think of England as we ought without reflecting on the condition thereof They are under the same Prince and the influence of the same Fav●…urites and Councils When they are hardly dealt with can we that are Richer expect better usage For 't is certain that in all absolute Governments the poorest Countries are always most favourably dealt with When the ancient Nobility there cannot enjoy their Royalties their Shrievaldoms and their Stewardies which they and their Ancestors have possessed for several hundreds of years but that now they are enjoin'd by the Lords of the Council to make deputations of their Authorities to such as are their known Enemies can we expect to enjoy our Magna Charta long under the same persons and Administration of Affairs If the Council-Table there can imprison any Nobleman or Gentleman for several years without bringing him to Trial or giving the beast Reason for what they do can we expect the same Men will preserve the Liberty of the Subject here My Lords I will confess that I am not very well vers'd in the particular Laws of Scotland but this I do know that all the Northern Countries have by their Laws an undoubted and inviolable Right to their Liberties and Properties yet Scotland hath out-done all the Eastern and Southern Countries in having their Lives Liberties and Estates subjected to the Arbitrary Will and Pleasure of those that govern They have lately plundered and harased the richest and wealthiest Countries of that Kingdom and brought down the barbarous Highlanders to devour them and all this almost without a colourable pretence to do it Nor can there be found a Reason of State for what they have done but that those wicked Ministers designed to procure a Rebellion at any rate which as they managed was only prevented by the miraculous hand of God or otherwise all the Papists in England would have been armed and the fairest opportunity given in the just time for the execution of that wicked and bloody design the Papists had and it is not possible for any man that duly considers it to think other but that those Ministers that acted that were as guilty of the Plot as any of the Lords that are now in question for it My Lords I am forced to speak this the plainer because till the pressure be fully and clearly taken off from Scotland 't is not possible for me or any thinking man to believe that good is meant us here We must still be upon our guard apprehending that the Principle is not changed at Court that those men that are still in place and Authority have that influence upon the mind of our excellent Prince that he is not nor cannot be that to us that his own Nature and Goodness would incline him to I know your Lordships can order nothing in this but there are those that hear me can put a perfect cure to it until that be done the Scottish Weed is like death in the pot Mors in Olla But there is somthing too now I consider that most immediately concerns us their Act of Twenty two thousand men to be ready to invade us upon all occasions This I hear that the Lords of the Council there have treated as they do all other Laws and expounded it into a standing Army of Six Thousand Men. I am sure we have Reason and Right to beseech the King that that Act may be better considered in the next Parliament there I shall say no more for Scotland at this time I am afraid your Lordships will think I have said too much having no concern there but if a French NobleMan should come to dwell in my House and Family I should think it concerned me to ask what he did in France for if he were there a Felon a Rogue a Plunderer I should desire him to live elsewhere and I hope your Lordships will do the same thing for the Nation if you find Cause My Lords Give me leave to speak two or three words concerning our other Sister Ireland Thither I hear is sent Douglas's Regiment to secure us against the French Besides I am credibly informed that the Papists have their Arms restor'd and the Protestants are not many of them yet recovered from being the suspected Party The Sea-Towns as well as the In-land are full of Papists That Kingdom cannot long continue in the English hands if some better care be not taken of it This is in your Power and there is nothing there but is under your Laws Therefore I beg that this Kingdom at least may be taken into consideration together with the State of England for I am sure there can be no safety here if these Doors are not shut up and made sure Some few daies after this Speech the King was pleased to make a great Alteration in his Council and to appoint the Right Honourable Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury President thereof About the 18th of April 1679. His Majesty was pleased to declare the Dissolution of the Late Privy Council and for Constituting a New one The Lords of the Council not to exceed Thirty besides the Princes of the Blood which His Majesty may at any time call to the Board being at Court and the President and Secretary of Scotland which are uncertain The Names of that most Honourable Council were His Highness Prince Rupert William Lord A. B. of Canterbury Heneage Lord Finch L. Chancellor Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury Lord President of the Council Arthur Earl of Anglesey Lord Privy Seal Christopher Duke of Albermarle James Duke of Monmouth Master of the Horse Henry Duke of Newcastle John Duke of Lauderdale Principal Secretary of Scotland James Duke of Ormond L. Steward of the Houshold Charles Lord Marquess of Winchester Henry Earl of Arlington L. Chamberlain of the Houshold James Earl of Salisbury John Earl of Bridgwater Robert Earl of Sunderland one of His Majesties Principal Secretaries of State Arthur Earl of Essex first L. Commissioner of the Treasury James Earl of Bath Groom of the Stable Thomas Lord Viscount Falconberg George Lord Viscount Hallifax John Lord Bishop of London Daniel Lord Roberts Henry Lord Hollis William Lord Russel William Lord Cavendish Henry Coventry Esq one of His Majesties Principal Secretaries of State Sir Francis North Knight L. Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Sir Henry Capell Knight of the Bath first Commissioner of the Admiralty Sir John Ernby Knight Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Chicheley Knight Master of the Ordnance Sir William Temple Baronet Edward Seymour Esquire Henry Powle Esquire This great Change put men upon various Discourses and Apprehensions suitable to their respective Dispositions and Inclinations but the most sober both of the Parliament and others hoped now to see the Popish Plot wholly Eradicated especially considering the daily fresh Discoveries that were brought before the Council and Parliament the last of which was of no long continuance for about June 1679.

Shaftesbury answered to this Effect My Lords I have presumed to present two Petitions to this Honourable House the first your Lordship mentions I do again here personally renew humbly desiring that I may be admitted to make that Submission and Acknowledgement your Lordships were pleased to Order And that after a Twelve-months close Imprisonment to a man of my Age and Infirmities your Lordships would pardon the folly or unadvisedness of any of my words or actions And as to my second Petition I most humbly thank your Lordships for acquainting me with the Resolution and Declaration in that point and though Liberty be in it self very desirable and as my Physician a very Learned man thought absolutely necessary to the preservation of my Life Yet I do profess to your Lordships upon my Honour that I would have perisht rather than have brought my Habeas Corpus had I then apprehended or been informed that it had been a breach of the Priviledge of this Honourable House It is my Duty it is my Interest to support your Priviledges I shall never oppose them My Lords I do fully acquiesce in the Resolution and Declaration of this honourable House I go not about to justifie my self but cast my self at your Lordships Feet acknowledg my Errour and humbly beg your pardon not only for having brought my Habeas Corpus but for all other my VVords and Actions that vvere in pursuance thereof and proceeding from the same Errour and Mistake One Blany was then called into the House who had delivered a paper to the Lord Treasurer Danby pretending to give a relation of some words spoken by the E. of Shaftesbury in the Court of Kings-Bench at the time when he moved for his Habeas Corpus but though this whole Transaction were no longer since than the last Trinity Term yet the said Mr. Blany could not affirm that what was written in the said paper was in part or whole really spoken by the Earl of Shaftesbury so that the Lord Treasurer being able to make nothing of Mr. Blany's paper which was a hard case the House of Lords proceeded to a Resolution in what form the Earl of Shaftesbury should make his submission and acknowledgment which being drawn up in words importing much the same with what the Earl had before declared which being read to him by the Lord Chancellor the Earl of Shaftesbury repeated the same at the Bar of the House and then his Lordship withdrew The House then ordered that the Lords with white staves should wait upon His Majesty to give His Majesty Account that the House had received satisfaction from the Earl of Shaftesbury in the matter of the Habeas Corpus and the other contempt for which he stood committed and are humble Suitors to his Majesty that he would be pleased to discharge him from his Imprisonment And that their Lordships do acquaint the House to morrow what they have done in this matter Die Martis 26 Feb. 1677. The Lord Treasurer reported to the House That the Lords with white slaves had waited on his Majesty according to the Order of this House To which His Majesty was pleased to give this answer That he will give Order for the Earl of Shaftesburys discharge Thus was this great heat whereby some of this worthy Peers Enemies thought then to blast his Loyalty and Integrity and endeavoured to foment the disgusts of the House against him at last extinguished and the Earl a little after saw this Parliament first prorogued and soon after dissolved Now was that Diabolical Plot of the Jesuits and Papists discovered by the great care and fidelity of Dr. Titus Oats which convinced both the King Lords and Commons and all the Nation in General of a damnable treasonable popish design to murther our Protestant King with the chiefest of the Nobility and Gentry and to reduce a Protestant Church to Romish Idolatry and the State to a Catholick slavery The seventh of March 1678. A Parliament met at Westminster and chose the Honourable Edward Seymour Esq their Speaker who had been Speaker of the last long Parliament This Parliament did like noble English Patriots endeavour to give check to the bloody popish Designs on foot and passed many excellent Votes for that purpose many Members acquitting themselves in their Speeches like Men of high sense of the Miserie 's the Nation was like to be involved in This House carried up the Impeachment to the House of Lords against William Earl of Powis William Viscount Stafford Henry Lord Arundel of Wandour William Lord Peters and John Lord Bellasis for High Treason and other high crimes and misdemeanours But this having been at large published to the World in divers other prints with divers Instances how this Noble Peer was personally struck at in that hellish Design I shall refer the Reader for more full satisfaction to the several Narratives and Discoveries of the popish Plot printed by Authority And shall now come to give you an Account of a Speech said to be delivered by this Honourable person in the House of Lords on the 25th of the Instant March Anno 1679. You are appointing of the consideration of the State of England to be taken up in a Committee of the whole House some day the next vveek I do not know how well what I have to say may be received for I never study either to make my Court vvell or to be popular I always speak what I am commanded by the dictates of the Spirit vvithin me There are some other considerations that concern England so nearly that vvithout them you vvill come far short of Safety and Quiet at home VVe have a little Sister and she hath no Breasts vvhat shall vve do for our Sister in the day vvhen she shall be spoken for If she be a VVall vve vvill build on her a Palace of Silver if she be a Door vve vvill inclose her vvith Boards of Cedar VVe have several little Sisters vvithout Breasts the French Protestant Churches the tvvo Kingdoms of Ireland and Scotland the foreign Protestants are a VVall the only VVall and Defence to England upon it you may build Pallaces of Silver glorious Pallaces The protection of the Protestants abroad is the greatest povver and security the Crovvn of England can attain to and vvhich can only help us to give check to the grovving Greatness of France Scotland and Ireland are two doors either to let in good or mischief upon us they are much weakned by the Artifice of our cunning Enemies and we ought to enclose them with Boards of Cedar Popery and Slavery like two Sisters goe hand in hand somtimes the one goes first somtimes the other in a doors but the other is always following close at hand In England Popery was to have brought in Slavery in Scotland Slavery went before and Popery was to follow I do not think your Lordships or the Parliament have Jurisdiction there It is a Noble and Ancient Kingdom they have an Illustrious Nobility a Gallant

my Lord Shaftesbury's Closet to which Mr. Gwin replied that there was nothing Mr. Secretary Jenkins witnessed that that was the Paper he had of Mr. Blithwayt Some things I am forced for brevity to omit My Lord Chief Justice said Now it appears this was the Paper taken in my Lord Shaftesbury's Closet And the Paper was Read which contained the words of that commonly called The Form of an Association When it had been Read Sir F●…n Withins said This Paper was very plausibly penn'd in the 〈◊〉 and runs a great way so but in the last clause but one there they come to perfect Levying of War for they do positively say They will obey such Officers as either the Parliament or the major part of them or after the Parliament is Dissolved the major part of them that shall subscribe this Paper shall appoint The Foreman of the Jury enquired what Date that Paper was of and whether there were any hand to it to which Sir Francis answered that it was after the Bill for Exclusion of the Duke of York for it says that way failing they would do it by force as to the having a name to it Sir Francis said there was none at all The rest of the Evidence were John Booth John Macknamara Edward Turbervill Dennis Macknamara John Smith Edward Joye Bryan Haynes Bernard Dennis Booth deposeth That in January last he was introduced into my Lord Shaftesbury's acquaintance by Captain Henry Wilkinson in order to get a Commission and Plantation in Carolina That the first time he went to my Lord there was my L. Craven and Sir Peter Colliton who are of the Proprietors of that Collony that after this acquaintance he had been there between Christmas and March four or five times and that he found great difficulty in his Accession to his Lordship who was cautious of what company were admitted to him that the said Earl used to inveigh sharply against the Times and look upon himself as not so valued nor respected nor in those Places and Dignities as he expected seemed discontented Particularly that the Earl of Shaftesbury should say that the Parliament would never grant the King Money nor satisfie him in those things that he desired unless he first gave the People satisfaction in those things that they insisted on before and particularly the Bill of Excluding the Duke of York from the Crown Another was the Abolishing the Statute of the 35th of Elizabeth The third was giving his Royal Assent for the passing a New Bill whereby all the Dissenting Protestants should be freed from those Penalties and Ecclesiastical Punishments that they are subject to by the present Establish'd Law That he had Established fifty Gentlemen persons of Quality that he believed would have men along with them that they were to come to Oxford at such a time that if there were any Violence offered to any of the Members by the King's Guards or the Retinue of the Court that then these men with others that other Lords had appointed should repel his force by greater force and should purge the Guards of all the Papists and Tories that Captain Wilkinson was Intrusted with the Command of these men and that these men should be ready to Assist himself and those of his Confederacy to purge from the King those Evil Councillors that were about him That particularly there were named the Earl of Worcester Lord Clarendon Lord Hallifax Lord Feversham Lord Hide which persons were lookt upon to be dangerous and gave the King Evil Advice That those Lords should by Violence be taken from the King and the King brought to London where those things should be Establisht which they designed for their Safety in those two Respects for the preserving the Protestant Religion and likewise for the defending and keeping us safe from Arbitrary Power and Government And likewise that the said Booth had provided Arms and a good Stone-Horse for himself and Arms for his Man before the Parliament Sate at Oxford That the Thursday before the Parliament was Dissolved Captain Wilkinson told him he expected that very week to be called up to Oxford with those men that were Listed with him but Saturday bringing News of the Dissolution of the Parliament it had no further Effects This was the most material of what Booth said for being straitned in Room I am forced to render it as short as I can Turbervil declared That about the beginning of February waiting on my Lord Shaftesbury to have his advice how he might come by some Monies and to gain his Lordships Letter in his behalf to the President of the Council the Earl should say there was little good to be expected from the King as long as his Guards were about him that his Lordship should say the Rabble about Wapping and Aldersgate were of that side that the rich men of the City would vote for Elections but it could hardly be expected they should stand by them in case of a disturbance for they valued their Riches more than their Cause and that at Oxford he had heard the Earl say he wondred the People of England should stickle so about Religion if he were to chuse a Religion he would have one should comply with what was apt to carry on their Cause Smith said that one time being sent for by my Lord Shaftesbury by one Captain Manly his Lordship should tell him that Mr. Hetherington had told him he was afraid the Irish Witnesses would go over to the Court Party and retract what they had said formerly that he advised him to persuade them not to go near that Rogue Fitz-Girald that great Villain that is pampered up and maintain'd by the King and the Court party to stifle the Plot in Ireland and that the Earl had further said That if the King were not as well satisfied with the coming in of Popery as ever the Duke of York was do you think the Duke of York would be so much concerned for the bringing in of Popery as he is That a little before my Lord went to Oxford he should tell the said Smith there were great preparations made and a great many gathered together upon the Rode be tween London and Oxford and Smith asking his Lordship what it might mean my Lord should answer that it was only to terrifie the Parliament to comply with the Kings desire which he was sure the Parliament would never do That they were now more resolute than ever That they clearly saw the Kings aim was to bring in Popery That they had the Nation for them and might lawfully oppose him and he would meet with very strong opposition for that all that came out of the Country should be well Hors'd and armed and so they should all be That the City had resolved to bear the charge of their Members and send so many men to wait on them and that he would be hang'd before he would ever bring in Popery or any thing of that nature Bryan Hains deposed that among

Shaftesbury and of any Design against His Majesty he gave the same Answer to them as he had done to the former Attackers that he knew nothing great Arguments were used but he could give no satisfactory Answer as he conceived was expected In a little time His Majesty came into the Office and was pleased to say to the Captain that His Majesty knew him well that the Captain had served his Father and His Majesty faithfully and he hoped the Captain would not decline his Obedience To which the Captain answered that he never deserved to be suspected His Majesty was pleased further to tell him he had not had the opportunity to serve his Friends but hoped he might His Majesty was pleased to promise to consider him for his sufferings Then after an excellent Exhortation in which His Majesty told him that the kindness was intended was not with design to speak a word but Truth it self and if he knew the Captain or any other person did he would never endure them His Majesty demanded what he knew of a Design against his Person and Government he answered he knew nothing of any Design against His Majesties Person or Government that he admired why one that had so faithfully served His Majesty and Royal Father both in England and beyond Sea and was so Instrumental to His Majesties Restauration should be suspected But some persons had possessed His Majesty that the Captain was deep in some Design against the Government and knew much of my Lord Shaftesbury At length after much pressing His Majesty told him if he would say As he hoped to be saved he knew nothing of any Design against his Person that then His Majesty would believe him which the Captain having said in the very words His Majesty seemed to be much surprized at it and left him to the management of the Secrery who used such Arguments as he thought fit At last the Captain declared that he knew his Duty to his Soveraign and would never draw his Sword against him but could freely do it against some of the Court who were Enemies both to His Majesty and his Friends So he was taken into another Room where were His Majesty Lord Chancellor Lord Hallifax Lord Hide two Secretaries of State and Lord Chief Justice Pemberton Mr. Graham Booth and Baines were present My Lord Chancellor would not believe but that he must be guilty of knowing great things against the Lord Shaftesbury he told them if he could not be believed on his word there if they pleased to bring my Lord Shaftesbury to his Tryal he should declare in open Court upon his Oath what his knowledge was without any hopes of gain or Advancement the Lord Chancellor wittily replied there were two sorts of Advancements and he was like to come to his own Tryal first before the Lord Shaftesbury My Lord Chancellor demanded if he had no Commission for this New Service against His Majesty to which the Captain answered No. Then the Chancellor told him he was to have a Troop to consist of Fifty Men the Capt. said that was a small Troop he hoped if ever he had Command of a Troop it should be a better than that But the Captain desired to know who gave that Information The Lord Chancellor told him Mr. Booth who was by and Listed under him Captain Wilkinson desired Booth to tell him whether he had given this Information upon Oath Booth answered Yes and it was true At all this the Captain was not concerned so much doth glorious Innocence triumph over the Forgeries and Impious Designs of Evil men and out-braves them even in Death it self That which is very observable in Captain Wilkinsons Information is That at that very time when Booth had sworn he was to have commanded a party of Horse at Oxford his whole Family Wife Children and Servants making about the number of 37 persons were all on Board his Ship bound for Carolina and all lying at his proper charge but when he thought himself most in readiness for his intended Voyage he found himself strangely entangled that he could not stir some Debts he was bound for for others and more of his own fell upon him and he was committed to the Kings-Bench which put a stop to the designed Voyage and he hath often since concluded there was a Divine hand in it I have thought it proper to insert in this place the Testimony of Major Jervas James whose Loyalty and Integrity to his Majesty hath been sufficiently known having most faithfully and as a true Subject served His Majesty both beyond the Sea and at home and declares is still ready with all chearfulness when his Majesty shall please to command him to serve him to the last drop of his Blood He acknowledgeth himself a Son of the Church of England as is it by Law established and hath without scruple taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy He stiles the acquaintance he hath with so deserving a person as Captain Wilkinson a great Happiness and acknowledgeth himself obliged to him for so timely entrusting him with so notable a secret being a stranger to the said Captain which trust Major James lookt upon as a great Adventure and the Discovery to endanger the Lives both of the Earl of Shaftesbury and Captain Wilkinson He likewise declares before God and Man that he believes all the Captains Information to contain nothing but the truth of what he had from Booth Bains and Mr. Graham For he lent him the convenience of his Chamber to write the whole business and saw him write it with his own Hand as may also be witnessed by Mr. Robert Bennet who is an Officer in Leaden-Hall-Market and transcribed it for the Captain He hopes his Majesty is and will be well satisfied that those who faithfully and truly serve His Majesty and his Subjects are the persons both to be believed and relied upon and desires that this may have credit according to its Truth and Reality both in the heart of his Majesty and all his loyal Subjects The Information of Jervas James Gentleman I Jervais James Gentleman do declare that the above named Captain Henry Wilkinson came to me upon Tuesday the 11th of Octob. 1681. in the Evening and did then and likewise every day from time to time afterwards make me acquainted with the several Treaties and Transactions between him the said Captain Henry Wilkinson and Mr. Booth Mr. Bains and Mr. Graham and the several other Persons in this his Information mentioned and that they were the very same in substance with what he hath herein set forth declared for at his Request for my own satisfaction I kept a daily Journal during the time of their Treating All which shall be attested upon Oath when required This forementioned Information was published by Captain Henry Wilkinson during the time of my Lord Shaftesbury's confinement in the Tower and was of very great use to satisfie all loyal and honest minded men of the base