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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46751	The narrative of Robert Jenison of Grays-Inn, Esquire containing I. a further discovery and confirmation of the late horrid and treasonable popish plot against His Majestie's person, government, and the Protestant religion, II. the names of the four ruffians, designed to have murthered the King, III. the reasons why this discovery hath been so long deferred, by the said Robert Jenison, IV. an order of His Majesty in Council touching the same ... : together with a preface introductory to the said narrative.	Jenison, Robert, 1648-1688.	1679 (1679)	Wing J561; ESTC R11080	31,524	50

September the 8th 1679. I Do appoint Francis Smith Thomas Basset John Wright Richard Chiswel and Samuel Heyrick to Print this my Narrative and further Discovery of the Plot And that no other Person presume to Print the same nor any part thereof Robert Jenison THE NARRATIVE OF Robert Jenison Of Grays-Inn Esquire CONTAINING I. A further Discovery and Confirmation of the Late Horrid and Treasonable Popish Plot against His Majestie 's Person Government and the Protestant Religion II. The Names of the Four Ruffians designed to have Murthered the King III. The Reasons why this Discovery hath been so long deferred by the said Robert Jenison IV. An Order of His Majesty in Council touching the same Together with other Material Passages Letters and Observations thereupon Together with A PREFACE Introductory to the said Narrative LONDON Printed for F. Smith T. Basset J. Wright R. Chiswel and S. Heyrick MDCLXXIX To the Right Honourable The EARL of SHAFTSBVRY Lord President of His Majestie 's most Honourable Privy Council Right Honourable AS your Lordship is known to have been a Signal Instrument for the Re-Establishing his Majestie on the Throne of his Kingdoms so your Zeal for the Preservation of the Protestant Religion and of His Majestie 's Person and Government thus restored in great part by the Wisdom and Activity of your Honour's Counsel may Justifie my Election in Entitling your Lordship before any other to the Patronage of this Small Tract Little indeed for Bulk but if I mistake not considerable in its Vse in regard it strengthens the former Discoveries of Others at such a Juncture of time when some foyl and damp was endeavoured to be cast upon Them by the subtle Contrivances of the adverse Party I have observed all along in the Progress of this matter That when the Evidence for the King hath seemed to be at a Bay as discouraged by the Power or Policy of Malevolent Persons Then by Divine Providence another Witness hath started up to retreive and confirm what before seemed to be at a Loss Thus after the aspersions and prejudices cast on Mr. Oates Mr. Bedlowe and Mr. Dugdale came in to assert and carry on the Truth of his Testimony endeavoured to be shaken by the addition of their own And when the matter seemed not fully to bear and to be made out as to the Murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey then God raised up Mr. Praunce to make a plain Discovery of that Horrrid and Bloody Fact Moreover when at and since the Tryal of Sir George Wakeman and the Rest wherein I also appeared some Discouragements not yet fully enquired into were cast upon the Witnesses for his Majestie yet I was so far from being deterred by that otherwise disheartning Circumstance that I am rather animated thereby to prosecute my Evidence with greater Vigour as conceiving it a Crisis wherein Truth stands in need thereof Neither do I doubt but Others also may succeed me with their seasonable Reliefs of this Kind in case Falshood should make any further Attempt to over-ballance and weigh down the Truth Which hope of Mine is in part verified already by the additional Testimony of Mr. Smith hereafter mentioned And I am persuaded that both His and Mine will receive future Confirmation by the Astipulations of Others at present not publickly known if need shall require That so it may be said of our Opposers Though they will not see yet they shall see and be ashamed I know your Lordship will allow me to use that Scriptural Expression because the band of God to those who seriously consider it is more than ordinarily seen in these matters That none of these Providences of the Almighty may be Lost upon this Nation but be mutually Improved both by Prince and People to an Humble Acknowledgment and a Thankful Obedience is the Prayer of My Lord Your Honour 's Most humble Servant Robert Jenison THE Publisher to the Reader Serving As an Introduction to the ensuing Narrative THE Name of Robert Jenison Esq the Author of the Narrative ensuing hath been formerly mentioned in many Prints especially in that Narrative of his Depositions and Informations annexed thereunto Collected by Charles Chetwind Esquire and published by Order of His Majestie 's most Honourable Privy Council July 16. last past 1679. Besides the Gentleman is further notified by his appearance as a Witness for the King in the late Tryal of Sir George Wakeman Corker and the rest Nevertheless because his Name was then used by others though with his own consent it is thought convenient in this Preface to the following Narrative to give a more particular Account of Him and of his Family to which he hath already been and further yet may be so great an Honour That so the unquestionableness of his Extraction may advance him above the common exceptions of Lowness and Plebeity which inferiour Testimonies are subject to Born he was of an Ancient Family residing at Wallworth in the County Palatine of Durham A place so considerable that King James was pleased to Honour their Mansion-House then in the possession of his Auncestors with his Residence and his Retinues for a Night Baker's Chron. in King James at his first coming into England His Father John Jenison Esquire yet living in the same House is a Gentleman of a fair Estate and of an unblemished Reputation save what may be thought to reflect upon him for his former adherence to the Romish Religion His Elder Brother Mr. Thomas Jenison now a Prisoner in Newgate on the account of the Plot having taken Orders in the Church of Rome and in one of their most obnoxious Sodalities That of the Jesuits hath thereby rendred himself according to the known Laws of England uncapable to inherit And thus Divine Providence so Ordering it he hath opened a Door to this Gentleman to the Inheritance of a fair paternal Estate of several Hundreds by the Year Which Consideration notwithstanding hath been so far from cancelling in him the natural Obligations to Brotherly Friendship or to influence him in the least towards the making this Discovery That in his Addresses to His Majestie on this Occasion he hath not without success interceded for the Indempnity of his Brother and of others of his Relations as well as for his Own as by the Order of Council inserted into this ensuing Narrative may appear The Education of the aforesaid Mr. Robert Jenison of late years hath been in the Honourable Society of Grays-Inn where his Pains have been commendably bestowed in the study of the Law and his Repute untainted amongst the Prime Gentlemen and all others of that House But his Youthful institution he received at Doway in Flanders in the strict Principles of the Papal Religion and in the English College of Secular Priests there where to give that Order of Seculars their due I never heard him affirm That he imbibed any Principles either of Immorality in point of Conversation or of Treasonableness in point of Loyalty from