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A summary account of the proceedings upon the happy discovery of the Jacobite conspiracy in a second letter to a Devonshire gentleman.
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B. J.
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1696
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Wing J4; ESTC R27443
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Lord Chandois Lord Ferrers Dr. Sprat Bishop of Rochester Dr. Watson Bishop of St. Davids Their Lordships have also ordered Letters to be sent to these undernamed Peers who are in the Country to attend the House and their subscribing is not doubted The Dukes of Beaufort and Richmond Earls of Rutland Derby Bristol Lord Viscount Weymouth The Lords Fitz-Water Leigh Lempster Osulston Willoughby Coventry Rockingham The House of Commons having as I told you agreed upon the above-written Association ordered it to be engrossed to be Signed by their Members and near 400 of that August Assembly which consists of 513 have already with great Alacrity subscribed it But some at present hesitate some others refuse it their Names are underwritten Berks Sends 9. Members WIlliam Jennyngs Simon Harcourt Bucks 14. Alexander Denton Mountague Drake Sir James Etheridge Cornwall 44. Henry Lord Hyde John Manley Daniel Eliot Henry Fleming Francis Buller John Tredenham Seymour Tredenham Sir William Coryton John Mountstevens Bernard Granvile Charles Lord Cheney * Francis Gwyn Cheshire 4. Sir Thomas Grosvenor Derbyshire 4. Sir Gilbert Clarke Devon 26. Francis Courteney * Sir Edward Seymour John Granville Dorsetshire 20. * Thomas Strangways Thomas Freke * Richard Fownes Chor. 30. * Robert Byerly Sir Mannaduke Wivill Sir Michael Wentworth Essex 8. Sir Eliab Harvey Glocester 8. Robert Payne William Frye Richard How John How Herefordshire 8. Robert Price Huntington 4. Anthony Hammond Kent 18. * Sir John Banks Lancashire 14. Leigh Banks Thomas Brotherton Sir Roger Bradshaw Peter Shakerley Lincolnshire 12. George Lord Castleton Sir John Bolles Norfolk 12. Sir John Wodehouse Northampton 9. Thomas Cartwright * Gilbert Dolben Northumbecland 8. * William Foster Oxford 9. * Mountague Lord Norris * Sir Robert Jenkinson Heneage Finch Sir Edward Norris Thomas Rowney James Bertie Sir Robert Dashwood Salop. 12. * Edward Kynaston John Kynaston * Andrew Newport * George Weld Somerset 18. Sir John Trevillian * Edward Berkley * John Sandford Sir Charles Carterett Sir John Smith Southampton 26. Henry Holmes * Thomas Done Staffordshire 10. * Robert Burdett Sir John Leveson Gower * John Grey * Sir Henry Gough Surrey 14. John Parsons Sussex 28. * Sir William Morley John Lewknor Sir Thomas Dyke William Stringer Warwickshire 6. William Bromley Andrew Archer George Bohun * Lord Digby Francis Grevill Westmoreland 4. Sir William Twisden * Sir Christopher Musgrave Wiltshire 34. Robert Bertie William Harvey Henry Pynnill Thomas Bennet William Daniel Worcestershire 9. Samuel Swift * Henry Parker Wales 24. * Edward Jones Jeffery Jefferies * Sir Richard Middleton * Edward Brereton Sir John Conway * Thomas Mansel In all but 93 Dissenters Pardon me Sir that I forgot to insert the name of Wi Williams who you may remember Spew'd Sir Robert Peyton out of the House of Commons for corresponding with the late King when Duke of York And who told King Charles II. That the Commons were not given to Change but it is now evident that some of their Quondam Speakers are On Tuesday the House ordered that their absent Members as they come to the House do come up to the Table and sign the Association or in their Places declare their Refusal so to do and On Thursday it was ordered that the Association and the Subscriptions thereunto be entred upon the Journal of the House and Resolved that it be presented to His Majesty by the Speaker and the whole House before the end of the Session It was also the same day ordered that such Members who have not already shall by Monday Fortnight Sign the Association or declare their Refusal and I do on as good Ground as Gadbury foretold the Plot predict that the Body of Refusers in this Honourable House will scarce at the summing up amount to the number of one hundred Permit me now Dear Sir to Recreate my self a little in remarking on what I have laid before you As the Doubting Lords are but few so of the twenty six Members of your Large and Rich County of Devon you find but three Dissenters and but one I include not their Bishop of the eighteen in the Spacious County of Kent No more than one out of twelve in another of the largest Counties of England I mean Norfolk To augment their Number Essex another of our greatest Counties furnishes one out of eight Cheshire one out of their four Derbyshire one out of four also and Herefordshire such another one out of eight The Diminutive but Opulent County of Huntington has lent them another out of four and that Honest County of Surrey one out of fourteen but I assure you it is a very Sorry One You find not one of the sixteen Members for the Cinque Ports in this Non-Association and the twelve Counties of Wales have of their twenty four Members but eight Refusers of whom one is now His Majesties Counsel and was of King James's Counsel against the Bishops Indeed they have a Recusant Bishop to head them of King James's own making but unless I misremember he was not one of the seven golden Candlesticks You want Sir in the above-written List eleven of our English Counties which are these Bedfordshire Sends 4 Members Cambridgshire 6. Cumberland 6. Durham 4. Hertfordshire 6. Leicestershire 4. London Middlesex and Westminster 8. Monmouthshire 3. Nottinghamshire 8. Rutland 2. Suffolk 16. Of which Number being 67 I tell you for their Honour there is not one Recusant I farther observe to you that in the seven old Associated Counties viz. Essex Suffolk Norfolk Cambridge Huntington Bedford and Hertford there are but 3 Recusants and you will find above 4 times that Number of Associating Lords there In London and the contiguous Counties viz. Middlesex Bucks Berks Wiltshire Hantshire Surrey Sussex Kent Lincoln and Northampton which make another 11 Counties and send no less than 172 Members you will find upon review of the foregoing List that there had been but 19 Refusers had not Mr. Done and Mr. Parsons added two to their Number Now to detain you no longer in discoursing of the House of Commons let this assure you that the City of London had like to have been as unanimous as the first 11 Counties A Common Council was this last Week summoned where the foregoing Association being proposed it was agreed unto and signed by every Member present that whole Body consisting of 234 one only excepted whose name may not be forgot it is Lawrence Cole a Man of little Note before he was one of honest Mr. Bateman's Jury I hope Sir this pleasant Scheme of the Kingdom and its Affairs will in some measure relieve you from the Panick fear into which you say Gadbury and Partridge had put you Now for the Service of the Government you have my free consent to shew this to your Honest Neighbours especially to our Friends of Exeter and Totness Nay to any Man for tho as you know I pay a Deference to Sir E. Seymour and a far greater to the Nations Representatives I am confident I shall not in this Juncture incur their displeasure by naming a squeamish Conscienced Gentleman who after 7 years Apprenticestip will not go the Length to avow K. William's Right to the Crown When a Town is on Fire the blowing up a House is surely justifiable Our Neighbour Nation once upon a time told a bigger Man than Sir E. S. that a King for some Crimes might Forefault and had Sir E. been thrown out of the House last Week I should not have laid it to Heart I have long agoe resolved to run a Muck against all the Enemies of this Government and know by Consequence that I am to expect no Quarter when it is overturned which makes me now as fearless of being called to a Reckoning as I am of this Plot but should that betide me I wish it may be before the present Commissioners for Accounts I have Sir been so prolix that I cannot now enter into the particulars of this Diabolical Conspiracy but for your Comfort it is happily discovered and most miraculously disappointed Admiral Russell now blocks up the French Fleet about Calais and I hope to tell you by the next that he has destroyed them The Tower of London was to have been delivered up to the French Cut-Throats and they say by Major Hawley an Officer there it is certain he is secured Take Heart my Friend for our Enemies will not easily get possession of the Powder there and I am confident all the Salt-Petre in Devonshire should 200 Tuns be discovered in any Vault there will not supply enough to blow up this Government For my part come what will I resolve never to be bribed into the Jacobite Party no tho I should be tempted with the value of such a Cargo which Sir E. S. well knows is not less worth than 12000 l. You must not expect a License to this for Sir Roger L'Estrange had last Night the Mishap to be committed Close Prisoner to Newgate I am Sir Yours sincerely B. J. P. S. Sir I esteem my self obliged to beg pardon that I have here repeated the Name of Worthy Mr. Cartwright of Northampton-shire 〈…〉 yesterday upon second Thoughts signed the Association and I question not but the rest will fellow the good Example he has set them