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A25877	The arraignment, tryal and condemnation of Stephen Colledge for high-treason in conspiring the death of the king, the levying of war, and the subversion of the government : before the Right Honourable Sr. Francis North, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common-Pleas, and other commissioners of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery held at the city of Oxon for the county of Oxon, the 17th and 18th of August 1681.	Colledge, Stephen, 1635?-1681, defendant.	1681 (1681)	Wing A3761; ESTC R15865	159,951	112

I Do appoint THOMAS BASSET and JOHN FISH to Print the Arraignment Tryal and Condemnation of STEPHEN COLLEDGE and that no others presume to Print the same Fr. North. THE ARRAIGNMENT TRYAL AND CONDEMNATION OF Stephen Colledge FOR HIGH-TREASON IN Conspiring the Death of the KING the Levying of WAR and the Subversion of the GOVERNMENT Before the Right Honourable Sr. Francis North Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common-Pleas and other Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery held at the City of Oxon for the County of Oxon the 17th and 18th of August 1681. LONDON Printed for Thomas Basset at the George in Fleetstreet and John Fish near the Golden Tun in the Strand 1681. To the King 's Most Excellent Majesty The humble Petition of Stephen Colledge now Prisoner in Your Majesty's Tower of London Most humbly sheweth THat whereas Your Petitioner being charged with High-Treason is under strait Confinement that he hath not liberty to see or speak with any of his Friends or his Children and being lately informed that it is ordered Your Petitioner shall come to his Tryal at the City of Oxon about the middle of the next Month. Your Petitioner therefore most humbly prayes Your Sacred Majesty That leave may be given for Mr. Thomas Smith and Mr. Robert West to come to him and also to have the use of Pen Ink and Paper in order only to make his Legal and just Defence and also to have the Comfort of seeing his two Children And your Petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray c. A true Copy Francis Gwyn At Hampton-Court JULY 28. 1681. UPon Reading this Day at the Board the Petition of Stephen Colledge Prisoner in the Tower praying that in order to the making his Defence at his Tryal which he hears is to be the middle of the next Month he may be permitted to see his two Children to have the Liberty of Pen Ink and Paper and that Mr. Thomas Smith and Mr. Robert West may come to him His Majesty was pleased to Order That the Lieutenant of the said Tower of London do permit the said Stephen Colledge to have Pen Ink and Paper and to see his two Children and the said Dr. Thomas Smith and Mr. Robert West and to Converse with them as often as he shall desire in the presence and hearing of the Wardour who attends him A true Copy Francis Gwyn To the King 's Most Excellent Majesty and to the Right Honourable the Lords and others of His Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council The humble Petition of Stephen Colledge now a Prisoner in the Tower of London Humbly sheweth THat Your Petitioner having been a close Prisoner ever since his first Commitment is altogether ignorant of the particular matters charged against him and of the Names of the Witnesses who are to prove the same upon his knowledge of both which as well the nature as the manner of his Defence must depend and because upon the consideration of his Case several Matters of Law may arise as well before as at the Time of his Tryal in which Councel will be necessary to assist him and several Matters of Fact preparatory to his Tryal with which under his Confinement he cannot be furnisht without the help of a Sollicitor and he is like to be wholly uncapable of receiving any benefit from the priviledge allowed by Law of peremptory Challenge to several Jurors especially in a Countrey where he is absolutely a stranger unless he may have some knowledge of them before his Tryal In full assurance therefore of the great Justice and Clemency of Your Majesty and this Honourable Board which he hath lately had some experience of and doth with all humility and thankfulness acknowledge Your Petitioner doth humbly beseech Your Majesty and this Honourable Board that he may have a Copy of the Indictment against him or the particular Charges of it That his Councel and Sollicitor may have free access to and private Conference with him and because their own private affairs or other accidents may call away some of his Councel from his assistance that Mr. Wallop Mr. Smith Mr. Thompson Mr. Darnell Mr. West of the Middle Temple Mr. Holles of Lincolns-Inn Mr. Rotherham Mr. Lovell Mr. Rowny of Grayes-Inn Mr. Pollexfin Mr. Ward of the Inner Temple may be assigned him for Councel and Aaron Smith for his Sollicitor and that he may have a Copy of the Jurors to be returned upon his Tryal some dayes before his Tryal And your Petitioner shall ever pray c. A true Copy Francis Gwyn At Hampton-Court AUG 11. 1681. IT is Ordered by His Majesty in Council That the Friends and Relations of Stephen Colledge a Prisoner in the Tower shall have Liberty of Visiting and freely Conversing with him and the Lieutenant of the Tower having first caused their Names to be taken in Writing is to suffer such Friends and Relations to have Access to the said Stephen Colledge without any Interruption from time to time accordingly A true Copy Francis Gwyn THE TRYAL OF Stephen Colledge c. Present the Lord Norreys Lord Chief Justice North. Mr. Justice Jones Mr. Justice Raymund Mr. Justice Levyns On Wednesday the 17 th of August 1681. the Judges and Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol-Delivery met at the Court-House in the City of Oxford and after Proclamation for Silence the Commission of Gaol-Delivery was Read and then the Commission of Oyer and Terminer Proclamation was made for the Sheriff to return the Precepts to him directed The Justices of the Peace of the County of Oxford were called over and the Appearance of the Grand Jury summoned to attend this Commission was taken L. Ch. Just North. GEntlemen You that are returned of the Grand Inquest there has been a Sessions so lately that in all probability there will be no great matter to trouble you with at this time And so I shall not trouble my self nor you to give you any Charge because we know of no business yet that we shall need you for The Court hath recorded your Appearance You will do well to be in the way either in the Town or here about the Court that you may be ready if any thing should happen 'T is necessary for us to have your attendance but we know not of any thing that we have in particular to trouble you with We have an Indictment before us let us proceed upon that Cl. of the Crown Gaoler have you your Prisoner Gaoler We will fetch him presently Then the Prisoner was brought to the Bar. Cl. of Cr. Stephen Colledge hold up thy hand Which he did Thou art here Indicted by the Name of Stephen Colledge late of Oxford in the County of Oxford Carpenter For that thou as a false Traytor against the most Illustrious most Serene and most Excellent Prince our Soveraign Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. thy Supreme and

to conceal it Said he I will not only discover this but a great deal more of their Rogeries that I know very well Said I to him again I will not conceal it nor do you no wrong for if this be true my Lord of Shaftsbury shall know it to night for where there is a design to take away a Peer of the Realm I will not conceal it but if it be false and you have said more then comes to your share Recant it again and we will take no notice of it only say you are a Knave for speaking of it he Swore Dam him it was all true that and a great deal more which he said he knew about Seizing and Destroying the Parliament at Oxon about an Army in the North that was to be Raised about the time of the Sitting of the Parliament at Oxon of a French Army that was to Land in Ireland at the same time that the Duke of York was to be at the Head of them and the intention was to destroy all the Protestants Upon this I was Resolved if I lived to come along with the Parliament and if there was any such Design I was Resolved to Live and Die with them but I had no more then Common Arms a Sword and a Case of Pistols my Cap was a Velvet Cap and nothing else My Lord I had the Honor to be sent for when the Parliament Sat last at Westminster the Sessions in October it was an Honourable occasion and I thank those worthy Gentlemen that sent me for the Honor of it there I begun to be popular as to my Name for from that time they began to call me the Protestant Joyner because the Parliament had intrusted me My Lord Crey was pleased to send his Footman for me to the Crown Tavern behind the Exchange where there were several worthy Lords Peers of the Realm and One Hundred of the Commons that had Dined there that Day it was the Day before they Sat after they had Dined I came to them and the Duke of Monmouth told me They had heard a good Report of me that I was an honest man that understood Building and they did Confide in me to search under the Parliament House they did not really know of any Design but they would not be secure there might be some Tricks play'd them by the Papists tho' we are not afraid of them said the Duke yet we think fit to employ you to search under the Houses and thereabouts whether you can find any such Practices So accordingly my Lord I did go my Lord Lovelace was one of the Honourable Lords and my Lord Herbert that went with me and some of the Gentlemen of the House of Commons and those worthy Protestant Lords were pleased to thank me for my Service and did believe I was Active and Zealous to find out and discover the bottome of the Popish Plot so far as it came legally in my way to do it My Lord upon this occasion there was a great kindness from them to me and I had upon all occasions Testimonies of it and this very man who now Swears Treasons against me which God Almighty knows is all false did Swear in his Affidavit before Sir George Treby the Recorder of London I did never see the Affidavit indeed I was over night at Sir Treby's but he was not then at leisure but he drew it up next day and Swore it that there was a Design to destroy the Parliament at Oxon and there was not only his Oath for it but it was the general belief that some Evil was intended them All men had cause to fear and to suspect the Papists did bear them no great good Will and making use of their own Observations they were generally Armed with a Pistol or a Sword for themselves in case they should be Attack'd by the Papists In order to this I did come down with my Lord Howard my Lord of Clare my Lord of Huntington and my Lord Pagett those four worthy Protestant Lords and it was two days after the Parliament was sat that we came and I went out of Town again with my Lord Lovelace Sir Thomas Player and Sir Robert Clayton and I am sure they were all in so great a Fear that London should be surprized and seized on by the Papists but there was no mortal man that ever heard of the Kings being seised or thought of it till these men come and tell me that I had such a Design and came hither with that purpose but my Lord I declare as God is my Judge I would not have it thought I speak it to save my Life were it as certainly a Truth as 't is most wickedly a Falshood that I had had a design to seize the King I know not of one man upon the Face of the Earth that was to stand by me Parliament man or other persons whatsoever And how it is possible for me to attempt that being a single Person with only a Sword and a Case of Pistols let any man judge And I do declare I know of no Conspiracy nor Design against the King or Government I never spoke one of the Treasonable Words in my Life that is laid against me nor had ever any Thoughts of any such thing God that is my Eternal Judge knows that what I speak is true L. Ch. Just. Well Mr. Colledge will you call your Witnesses for I must tell the Jury as I did at your request concerning Mr. Attorney that as nothing he said so nothing you say is to be believed upon your own Allegation for then no man would ever be guilty if his own Purgation by words were to be believed Colledge My Lord I thank God I know my own Innocency and hope to prove it I have a Soul that must live to Eternity either in Joy or Misery I act according to those principles and I hope I have some assurance of my own salvation when I dye I would not call God to Witness to a Lye to save 1000 lives My Lord this is a villanous Conspiracy against me and if it take place against me it may go a great way God knows how far This is the 17 th or 18 th Sham Plot the Papists have made against the Protestants to get over their own but I hope my Lord God Almighty will never suffer it If they can make me a Traytor they will try it upon others and so hope to sham off their own Treasons but I say I hope God Almighty will never suffer it My Lord I think the first Witness that swore against me was Mr. Dugdale and I must call my Witnesses as I have them here I know no person of them hardly and this that is done for my defence was done abroad My Lord I have been kept close Prisoner in the Tower and none of them suffered to come to me whilst the Popish Lords have had the Liberty and Priviledg to talk with their friends Here are Witnesses I hope