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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40604	A full answer paragraph by paragraph, to Sir John Fenwick's paper given to the sheriffs, January the 28th, 1696/7 at the place of execution on Tower-Hill by a true son of the Church of England, as establish'd by law.	True son of the Church of England.; Fenwick, John, Sir, 1645?-1697.	1697 (1697)	Wing F2339; ESTC R23318	8,463	26

the unnecessary Trouble and Charge of those Forces drawn down for King James his Descent upon England if he had had any such intire confidence either in the Justice of his Cause or the Smiles of Providence to have introduced him with a bloodless Revolution But perhaps the Interpretation of this Paragraph will bear a fairer Sense Sir John did not go to this meeting Himself to Invite King James over by Force No perhaps there was no occasion for it that Invitation was already made and so Sir John only came to Visit and Complement the Inviter not to make the Invitation And if the Invitation to a forcible Invasion was made by any other Members of that Leaden-hall-street Meeting however Sir John was so Courteous as to come and kiss of the Cup and dip in the Dish with them undoubtedly not over-much disrelisht either with his Company or their Business before them especially when as he told you before his Religion had taught him in his Station to the utmost of his Power to support the Crown in its Lineal descent and consequently such a Forcible Invasion on that very account should have a hearty Well-wisher of Sir John if not as Vigorous a Champion though the last of these seems most agreeable both to Sir John's Martial Education and his Religious Loyalty when as he tells you the utmost of his Power was never wanting in his Station on so good an occasion and 't is very unlikely that he would want a station in such important Service and though he tells you he gave no particular Consent for any such Invasion at least he Confesses his general Consent and though he Charges the Evidence as For-sworn upon the nice Distinction between particular and general Consent 't is very much to be presumed that that Evidence that has hitherto had the Confirmation of dying Acknowledgments and Confessions should not stretch harder upon Sir John Fenwick than upon any other of the Criminals that dyed in the same bad Cause before him I also declare in the presence of God that I knew nothing of King James his Coming to Callis nor of any Invasion intended from thence 'till it was publickly known and the only Notion I had that something might be attempted was from the Thoulon Fleet coming to Brest This Paragraph looks but with an Indifferent Face for where it lays the greatest stress of Sir John's Innocence and consequently the greatest Fa●●ty upon the Evidence against him the Pen-Men of this Paragraph for in Charity I would not willingly believe it his own were mightily mistaken in their point of Time for what he declares in this utterly contradicts or at least clashes with the former For here in no less presence than Almighty God 't is declared that Sir John knew nothing of King James's coming to Callis nor any Invasion intended from thence 'till publickly known which upon our Calculation of publick knowledge was about February 1695 6. An● next that the whole Notion he had that somethin● of that kind might be attempted was from the Tho●lon Fleet 's coming to Brest which was in the Sprin● following 1696. Now here 's an unhappy Dilemma starts up again him The foregoing Meeting at Leaden-hall-stre●● unluckily fell out to be in June 1695. was a 〈◊〉 before the Thoulon Fleets return to Brest and almost 〈◊〉 much before King James his coming to Callis as 〈◊〉 proved at large in the Trial of Sir John Friend p. 1 Capt. Porter My Lord about the latter en● 〈◊〉 May last viz. 1695. or the beginning of 〈◊〉 we had two Meetings one was at the King 's 〈◊〉 ●n Leaden-hall-street the other at Mrs. Mountjoys in St. James's street At the first Meeting there were present my Lord of Aylsbury my Lord Montgomery Sir John Friend Sir William Parkyns Sir John Fenwick Mr. Cook Captain Chernock and my self after Dinner Mr. Goodman came in Now at both those Meetings it was Consulted of and agreed to send Captain Chernock into France to King James ●o desire him to borrow of the French-King 10000 Men to come over hither 8000 Foot 1000 Horse and 1000 Dragoons Captain Chernock ●aid he did not care to go upon a Foolish Message ●nd therefore desired to know what they would ●ave him to acquaint King James with and assure ●im of They all agreed to meet the King when●ver they had notice of his Landing with a Body ●f 2000 Horse of which every one in particular as to bring his Quota where-ever he would ●●point The Result of this Meeting viz. Chernock's going 〈◊〉 to France so Commission'd and to invite King 〈◊〉 to an Invasion was likewise confest by Cher●●●● at his Execution and his knowledge of this In●●●●●n was likewise confest by Sir John Friend at his 〈◊〉 and whether Sir John Fenwick's was a particular or general consent to the Invasion in concert with the whole Club at the Leaden-Hall-street meeting it matters not 't is sufficient we have the very Dying Confessions of the Criminals themselves to own the Measures taken towards an Invasion at which Sir John Fenwick by his own Confession was present and consequently how far more or less consenting could be no stranger to an intended Invasion yet here is no less than God himself call'd to witness he knew nothing of an Invasion intended 'till publickly known nay that the only notion he had that any such thing was upon the Anvil or like to be attempted was from the Thoulon Fleet coming to Brest Nay suppose it in the largest sense viz. the Thoulon Fleet coming to Brest which was in the Spring Ninety Six to be meant their very setting out in order to come hither viz. their first setting Sail that way Yet as 't is notoriously known the Thoulon Fleet stirred not out 'till ours was upon Sail homewards many a long Month after June 95 so still the unhappy Contradiction is the same viz. That he knew nothing of the matter before February 95-96 and yet was privy and consenting to it the June before Nay 't is yet farther to be wonder'd what unaccountable pretended Ignorance this must be of Sir John's knowing nothing of an Invasion 'till publickly known an Invasion which carries the Face of a kind of honourable Hostility when the sequel of the Paper tells you that he was made privy to no less than a base Design form'd against the King's Life the very April before viz. 95. which he tells you he prevented as if the sculking Assassinates durst trust the Keys of their Cabinet their Edge Tools with him and the more generous Invaders durst not trust him with theirs Good Heaven who were the Managers of this dying Gentlemans Conscience that could suffer him to leave such Living Records of Disingenuity behind him And here I cannot but look back to the unhappy Reflections made by Sir John upon the Credit and Truth of the Evidence against him where he utterly denies his being provided with Horse and Arms or Engaged for any number of Men or that he