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A53414	An exact and faithful narrative of the horrid conspiracy of Thomas Knox, William Osborne, and John Lane, to invalidate the testimonies of Dr. Titus Oates, and Mr. William Bedlow by charging them with a malicious contrivance against the E. of Danby, and the said Dr. Oates with an attempt of sodomy wherein are exemplified from the originals I. Four forged letters dictated by Thomas Knox, II. Five false informations, one paper of memorials, and one other information against Dr. Oates for sodomy, forged by Knox in the names of Lane and Osborne, III. The informations, depositions, examinations, and confessions of the said Knox, Osborne, and Lane, taken upon oath before Sir William Waller and Edmund Warcup, Esq., IV. An account of some depositions taken before the Lords Committees of Secresie, relating thereunto, V. The breviates of the councel for the King at the trials of the said Knox and Lane, Nov. 25, 1679, wherein full satisfaction is given to the world of the whole cause, by the particular evidences of the witnesses in behalf of the King / published by the appointment of me, Titus Oates.	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1680 (1680)	Wing O41; ESTC R4560	41,985	38

us all I confess that we are not touch't and healed is not your Majesties fault but our own who lye pining and languishing under our Maladies and perhaps as uncivilly as unjustly complaining of others when we should complain of our own sluggishness that we make not our frequent Addresses to your Majesties Grace and Favour for this divine Medicine 't is past your Majesties Obligations and I believe your Skill too to cure a People whether they will or no 't is but decent we complain to though not of the Physitian that we may learn to prize restored health at greater rates and testifie the gratitude of those that have been at the Shrine of AEsculapius by some Noble Fee which I dare promise you for a through-cure would be the most noble that ever a saved Nation tendered to their Preservers I know not how I am fallen into this odd way of expressing my self I am sure I ought to beg your Majesties pardon that I have imitated those affected modes of expressions which your great Soul does justly scorn But I shall pursue the Humour no further then to represent to your sacred Majesty that as some learned Observators have proved that English Simples are most congenial to English Bodies and work more benignly upon us than all the far-fetcht and dear-bought Drugs of Pontus so the Wholsom Laws and Customs of your own Kingdom duly and properly applyed will work more glorious and admirable effects to the composing all our differences preventing all recidivations and relapses then all your boasted Catholicons of our exotick chymical Empiricks and at once disappoint Hell and Rome and preserve your Majesties Person and our Religion if your Majesty pleases Which is the daily prayers and humble petition to the King of Kings Whitehal Decemb. 4th 1679. Your Majesties Most humble Most loyal Subject and Serant Titus Oates The Introduction 'T Is the great unhappiness of extraordinary surprizing evils that they disarm us at once of Counsel and Self-defence and render our Reasons Tongues and Hands most unserviceable when we have most need of their service As little griefs are querulous and talkative shallow brooks loquacious when great sorrows like deep rivers slide away without noise Such is the posture of our souls in reference to dangers if they be ordinary we know perhaps what to advise upon what to say what to do but if extream we are no longer Masters of Wisdom we lose the freedom of the Tongues to plead our Cause and the use of our Hands to make a just and vigorous opposition against those evils I know not how but so it is our implacable enemies the Papists have got the Gorgons Head or the great secret of the Torpedo that we seem all to be Petrified and turned into sensless Statues whilst they cut our throats and practice at their own leisure our final Ruine Had the Protestants of France burnt the smallest Village had they murdered the meanest Peasant had they attempted the least disturbance of the Civil or Ecclesiastical Government they must not have expected due forms of Law nor the picking out of the guilty Individuals to be sacrificed to Justice but Popish fury had let it self loose in some universal Massacre to the utter extirpation of the name of Hugonots for they that have once done the same thing without the least provocation may be presum'd ready to do it upon a very slighty occasion But they must thank the goodness of our Natures or rather the excellency of our Laws and Religion that we have proceeded with them in other methods and have chosen to oppose Law to violence Patience to fury Moderation and Mercy to malice and cruelty rather than to stain our Religion with the least blot of precipitated Revenge But were I worthy to be their Counsellor I would mildly warn them not to provoke English men any further nor awaken their just indignation with repeated importunities who knows what an exasperated people may do there 's none can be guarranty against the Rage of a Nation blown up to a flame by the bellows of continued and renewed and growing Insolencies It had been happy for us and them too if the unanimous Resolve of the Late House of Commons had reduced the restless Papists to more moderation in their Villanies I will remind them fairly of it May 11. 1679. Resolved Nemine contradicente That this House will stand by His Majesty with their lives and fortunes and that if it shall happen that His Majesty shall be taken away by any untimely death which God forbid this House will avenge the same to the utmost upon the Papists The wisdom justice and reasonableness of which Vote is founded visibly upon that Act of Parliament 27 Eliz. 1. whereby the people are authoriz'd to prosecute with the utmost extremities the bloody Papists who with unwearied endeavours were contriving the Death of that Queen of famous and blessed memory in hopes to better their condition by the succession of one who gave proof to the loss of her Head of her addictedness to the Romish Heresie and Idolatry I meet with nothing in story that can parallel the obstinacy of our Romish Conspirators except perhaps that of the desperate Soldier who laid hold on the Enemies Galley and when his right hand was cut off yet he seized it with the left and when that was also topt off he fastened his teeth to the Vessel resolving tooth and nail to hold his hold till his head taken off too put a period at once to his life and bruitish Courage The Justice of the Nation had already cut off their right hand the Jesuites or at least some of the fingers of the right hand It has not spared their laity the left hand in their bold and bloody Conspiracies and yet they proceed at the same undaunted rates of pertinacy and will do so till the heads of the Faction which influence the whole body with spirit life and activity be separated by the same stroke of exemplary Justice from it That they have formed the most horrid treason against the Person life and government of his Sacred Majesty against the Protestants and the Protestant Religion that they have endeavourd to corrupt all the evidence which providence has summond in to discover their villanies that they have devilishly suborned Knights of the Post to take away the credibility of their testimony and with the same malice peculiar to themselves have now at last attempted to devolve the Odium and Guilt of their abominable villanies upon the innocent Protestants is now so notorious as to be past a Question with all mankind whom either Interest or Impudence has not so far gulled that they are given up to Infidelity And yet amongst all those worthy persons whom God has raised up as Saviours and deliverers to England there is none against whom their poisoned spleen does more swell than ag●inst Him who being the first and fullest Evidence against them had drawn all the lines of their

An Exact and Faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid Conspiracy OF Thomas Knox William Osborne and John Lane To INVALIDATE the TESTIMONIES OF Dr. Titus Oates and Mr. William Bedlow By Charging them with a Malicious Contrivance against the E. of Danby and the said Dr. OATES with an Attempt of SODOMY Wherein are Exemplified from the Originals I. Four Forged Letters dictated by Thomas Knox. II. Five False Informations One Paper of Memorials and one other Information against Dr. OATES for Sodomy forged by Knox in the Names of Lane and Osborne III. The Informations Depositions Examinations and Confessions of the said Knox Osborne and Lane taken upon Oath before Sir William Waller and Edmond Warcup Esq IV. An Account of some Depositions taken before the Lords Committees of Secresie relating thereunto V. The Breviates of the Councel for the KING at the Trials of the said Knox and Lane Nov. 25. 1679. wherein full satisfaction is given to the World of the whole Cause by the particular Evidences of the Witnesses in behalf of the KING Published by the Appointment of me TITUS OATES LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst Tho. Cockerill and Benj. Alsop at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside at the Three Legs and at the Angel and Bible in the Poultrey 1680. I Do Appoint Thomas Parkhurst Thomas Cockerill and Benjamin Alsop to Print this Narrative and that no other Print the same TITUS OATES Decemb. 2. 1679. TO HIS Sacred Majesty CHARLES II BY THE GRACE of GOD OF Great Britain France and Ireland KING Defender of the Faith Great Sr. THe highest Ambition this Address dares pretend to is to Congratulate your Majesties happy Success in the late famous Cause obtained against the Enemies of your Person Crown and Dignity in which Tri●l you have won the Field and carried the day not by the Justice of the Sword but by the Sword of Justice And if the old Roman Consuls rejoyced in these Triumphs decreed to their fortunate Valour by the Senate wherein the Success was commonly better than the Cause your Majesty must needs much more Rejoice to have come off Victor by the Law where you have not the Advantage of the longer Sword but fight your Enemies with equal Weapons where 't is the Glory of your Courts of Judicature that they are Eagle-eyed to discern the merits of the Cause but blind in the favour and respect of Persons Nor will you wonder dear Sir that I have Entituled your Name to what may seem my personal and private Concern since without Vanity I can avow it they that struck at my Credit designed the Blow at your Sacred Life and to Murder the Repute of your Majesties Evidence against the Traytors was indeed but a handsom expedient to atchieve a more horrid Assassination I have therefore fair Hopes your Majesty will graciously Accept this Dedication and give it the Protection of your Royal Purple which will convince the obstinate Unbelief of your Enemies that Papal Principles bear such a Vatinian Hatred against your Person Government and Religion that they abhor the meanest Creature that crosses them in the way of their Conspiracies But I give them free leave to Storme and if the Interposition of so inconsiderable a thing as what I am between your Sacred Person and their Fery might intercept the Effect of their raging Malice I should glory to become your succedaneous Sacrifice and despair ever to place out my cheape Life to better account then to pay it down upon the Nale for the preservation of yours that is of three Kingdoms for seeing I owe a Death to Nature my loyal Heart must interpret it a huge Advantage to swist Martyrdome with Mortality and make so great a Virtue of inevitable Necessity You will easily believe Sir I might have slept out my Dates in inglorious Ease amongst the Crowds of men of no Name or Noyse could I have satisfyed myself to have stood a Spectator in the common Box of those Tragedies they had contrived and laid great Brittan for the Seene of Action but when once Duty and Allegiance had conquered the remainders of slavish Fears worldly Hopes or whatever of self Respects might fright or flatter me out of honourable Danger into a base Retreat to discover their Deeds of Darkness before the Sun I foresaw I must draw the Combined Wrath of that whole Faction upon my self and that all the lines of their Malice would enter at least in the desine of my Destruction who otherwise fly at higher Games and do not use to stoop at so Inconsiderable Quarry I accknowledge it was no small Encouragement to me to see with what Transports your Majesties loyal Subjects there present exprest their inward Joys when the righteous Verdict of the Jury according to full and clear Evidence of the Fact at once proclaimed my own Innocence and the villanous Confederacy of my Popish Enemies but how would that Joy be multiplied if the grand Engineers of all these Mischiefs who sit behind the Curtain and direct these Actors were once brought to a legal Ordeal which in effect would be condigne and exemplary Panishments the rather because all Essays towards settlement all approaches towards satisfaction have proved fruitless and will do so whilst the great Abettors and Fomentors of Treason hug themselves in the prospect of not despayred Success and seem to defy and deride the Justice of the Nation I know well your Majesties excellent Lawes are not like the Spiders Toyls which entangle the lesser Flyes whilst the great Transgressors by power and interest brake through them Nor dare we question but your Wisdom will find a sit juncture of time to let the proudest Delinquents know if they dare offend your Justice will dare to punish That the Sword which the Divine Grace had entrusted you with is sharpe enough to chop off a plotting Head as well as to paire the Nayles of those that would scratch your Royal Honour that your equal and impertial Justice will reckon with these Wholesale Traytors who are in Arrear to the Laws for Talents as well as you have called to account some of the Retayle Offendors which comparatively owed but a few Farthings .. And in this Confidence your Majesties loyal Subjects have waited and still do and shall attend your Royal Leasure resting satisfied that though your Majesty will try you will not dissapoint their Expectations and if you suffer their Hope to Gaspe you will not suffer it to give up the Ghost I am confident there is no Prince in Europe that can Command more real and couragious Hearts then your Majesty may and when you have made a Purchase of their Hearts their Hands and Purses their Lives and Estates are but Appurtinances which go along with and of course are thrown into the bargain only they are so devoted to your Service that as they would have no forreign Prince Pope or potentate govern them so they desire you may be King of and to all your Subjects Whilst

you shall unite them amongst themselves and against your and their common Enemy they are wholy your own and whilst you secure to them their religious and civil Interests the Fruits of both are entirely in your Excheaquer Which Union of your Protestant Subjects your old inveterate popish Enemies dread more than all your Naval and Land Forces who indeed only live by our Divisions and gather Confidence from our Animosites And this work as 't is truly glorious so 't is exceeding easy and I hope reserved as the great blessing which England shall receive from your Royal Hand for you see them all except some few Bigots impatiently waiting till your Majesty shall remove the rocks of offence cunningly by our adversaries laid in the way of our peaceable Coalescence and command us all to write in the grand Truths of the Protestant Religion leaving the lesser punctilio's a fit matter wherein to exercise charity and mutual forbearance which otherwise like fire for want of Fewel to feed it would expire And though those Zealots of all forms and perswasions amongst us who value their little pretentions at a greater rate than that of the publick peace may seem to discour age your pious endeavours this way yet believe it Sr. the discord of a single string or two will be drowned in the Harmony of an universal Jubilee All true Protestants are naturally enclined to peace upon consciencious Terms out of Interest as well as Duty for if we be so mad as to create troubles in England we are not so fond as to expect Peace in Italy If we fire our own houses Rome will never quench them we have no foreign Dependencies or transmarine expectancies where ever our Circumference may be by Trade or Travel we Censor in your desired self though 't is far otherwise with our Catholicks who have a Head at Rome and an Interest distinct form and opposed to that of their Natural King and Native Country Whatever Cruelties and Barbarisms the Papists have acted amonst us may be paralleld by Instances from other Country's and former Ages but still from their own Patterns Their late Ingenious Artifice to divolve the quilt and Odium of their own Treasons upon the innocent Protestants may be sampled in the Powder Treason and the Massacre of Paris In the former of which had it succeeded the Puritans must have born the blame and shame of their Villanies in the latter Instance the Hugonots did actually bear it and Knights of the post were suborned to swear against the valiant Briquemault and gallant Caviagnes that they with the great Admiral Caligni had conspired the Death of the King and the Duke of Guise and accordingly these innocent Persons were Executed so trite a Method is it for our Catholicks to object their own Treasons to their Enemies and it 's evident that they never contrived a Plot for the Protestants but at the same time they designed upon the pretence and under the umbrage a general Massacre of them but now what History can give us an example so contrived we repeated a project to Corrupt if it were possible the Evidence which divine Providence had brought in against their Treasons or to suborn a company of Rake-hels to disparage the Testimony of those who came in as Voluntiers to save a Prince and his People from imprudent destruction I am far from despairing to see your Majesties Kingdoms once more yet happy that is freed from these Pests of all Societies the sworn Enemies to Peace and Truth the Priests and Jesuits without which 't is impossible England should be happy which is no Conclusion hastily and rashly drawn from a solitary or single observation but the uniform experience of all times since this Island was rescued from Romish Slavery by a Miracle of mercy no less glorious than that of the Redeeming Israel from Egypt or Balylon The English Soyl carries the same Antipothy against the Ignatian Fraternity that Ireland bears no venomous Creatures and 't is the happier constitution of the two that we maintain a radicated enmity against the Romish Wolves then that they can boast of the aversion of their Ayr or Soyl to Spiders to Adders and Serpents a temper and natural Complexion which we owe not to any fabulous miroculous power of St. Patrick but to that more powerful Influence of the grace of God which cannot be interpreted a sudden flash or hasty ferment of spirit which will be dash'd in a moment but to the Genius and Interest of the People whose Piety has been their best Policy it being a staple Maxime bequeathed to your Majesty from that Glorious Jacen of eternal and happy Memory that our only way to secure peace at Home was to love none with Rome nor reconciliation with them to be attempted till they shall cease to be what they are and divest them of their imbred Disloyalty History tells us of a Great Prince that habituated his body to the use of poyson till no poyson would work upon him but that which is the Serpents Nature is our Disease If Spain can live with such a Dose of Superstitions and Heresies in its Bowels we cannot but must eternally languish till Nature or the Poyson getteth victory All those convulsive motions all those pangs those gripes and dreadful symptoms that have been found upon us of late are entirely due to some fragments of this Popish Poyson which the Nation has unawares lickt up or has been given it in some plausible Vehicle and all our distortions struglings and commotions in many parts of the body politick are nothing else but the strainings and Pumpings of a strong Constitution to eject the venom that we have unadvisedly contracted I can discern nothing by the pulse of the Nation but that the heart is yet sound for God and the King the vitals are good and perhaps the true old English Spirit may by the strength of its natural Crasis overcome and throw off those ill humours which at present oppress it but yet Nature may want a little help and when she discovers a willingness to discharge that which burthens it those indications are to be observed and her attempts to be encouraged Which your Majesty will have the glory of when you shall consult your Great Colledge of Physitians who proceed upon the solid Principles of Art and listen not to those Empiricks who try conclusions with us and shew tricks upon us to their own shame and the retarding our hopes of a perfect Cure and through-recovery God has honoured your Sacred Majesty with a peculiar Grace to heal that Disease which we commonly call the King's-evil not that he causes it but that he cures it with one Touch of your Royal Hand Sr. we come to you for one Soveraign Touch May it please you but to put your Hand to one Bill humbly tendred to you by your loyal Subjects at their next Session to deliver us from our present Dangers and secure us against future fears and you have healed

the said Lodgings which was four or five days at most the said Osborne and Lane paid to this Examinant two Shillings a-piece and during the time that this Examinant was with them they constantly paid their Club. This Examinant further saith that he hath communicated this business to the Lord Latimere and that he had given the Papers before-mentioned into his hands to be perused which he hath now delivered into our Custody He likewise declares neither to have seen or heard of any body coming to them from the Lords in the Tower or knoweth of their ever having been at the Tower And further this Examinant saith that he never directly or indirectly did supply the said Osborne or Lane with any money or made them any promise of Reward whatsoever only he confesseth that at the Tun-Tavern in S. Martin's Lane he flung down a Guinney on the Table the said Lane saying he had no money and promising to repay it and further this Examinant saith not Tho. Knox. Jurat coram nobis 29. April 1679. William Waller Edmond Warcupp Memorand That after the aforesaid Examination he confessed to us both that he had written a Note this Afternoon being a Prisoner to Mr. Osborne to inform him that he would be examined this afternoon with these other words We always Clubbed and you paid two Shillings at the Sugar-Loaf Tear this He likewise confessed that he had lain in White-Fryers being again examined although before he had denied it William Waller Edmond Warcupp Lane's first Examination The Examination of John Lane Son of Richard Lane at this time one of the Yeomen of the Guard in Extraordinary to his Majesty taken in obedience to an Order of the Lords of the Committee for examining Discoveries relating to the late Horrid Conspiracy before us Sir William Waller and Edmond Warcupp Esq two of his Majesties Justices of the Peace this 29. April 1679. This Examinant saith that he lived with Mr. Oates nine Weeks about the seventh of April last he quitted Mr. Oates his service whilst he lived with the said Mr. Oates he saith he daily sent his Servants to Morning Prayers reserving one only with him to dress him This Examinant saith that whilst he was his Servant he was never charged by Mr. Oates of opening any of his Letters or of any other misdemeanour He further saith that three Informations marked the numbers 1 2 4 and the Memorial marked number 6 were written by Mr. William Osborne and were by this Examinant subscribed none saving the said Osborne being present and three of the Letters marked 2 3 and 4 were written by the said William Osborne and were by this Examinants own hand subscribed John Lane none else being present and thinks that they were truly dated when written This Examinant confesseth that he and Mr. Knox and Mr. Osborne lay privately this day fortnight in White-Fryers from the Tuesday to the Saturday following and from thence they went and lodged in a paved Alley leading out of Chancery-Lane into Lincolns-Inn-fields and there they rested all the next day which was Easter-day and the Night On Monday they removed into Pickadilly to the Sign of the three Sugar-Loaves and there continued till Friday last at which time he was taken These three forementioned Lodgings were taken by Mr. Knox and this Examinant and Mr. Osborne deliver'd their share of Charges from time to time both for Diet and Lodging to the said Mr. Knox and then the said Mr. Knox paid all the expences to the persons to whom it was due but not in their presence This Examinant saith that he Mr. Knox and Mr. Osborne once being at the One-Tun-Tavern in St. Martins-Lane Mr. Knox threw a Guinney on the Table which this Examinant saith he took up and put it into his Pocket Mr. Knox then saying that it should never be said I gave you any money And he further saith that never at any time either Mr. Knox or any other person directly or indirectly gave him either any money or promised him any Reward whatsoever for thus accusing Mr. Oates neither was he by Mr. Knox or any other person ever perswaded to swear for the Lords in the Tower or the Lord Treasurer and further this Examination saith not John Lane Jurat corum nobis Will. Waller Edmund Warcupp Hitherto we find Mr. Lane keeps close to the Cause and stands his ground only the Guinney dropt at the Tun-Tavern in St. Mertins-Lane and by Mr. Lane put into his own Pocket administers some suspicion that there was some practice in the business and especially those words which Knox dropt with the Guinney do greatly confirm it It shall never be said I gave you any money But we are now entring upon those Informations which testifie at once Mr. Lane's relentings though not his repentings and therefore I shall subjoyn two more of Mr. Lane's Examinations which will discover the depths of this Roguery though a little out of time-order Lane's second Examination A further Examination of John Lane Son to Richard Lane at this time one of the Yeomen of the Guard to His Majesty taken by me at the earnest suite and request of the said John Lane this _____ of _____ 1679. This Examinant having been this day brought to the door of the Commitee of Lords in order to a further Examination of what he had formerly deposed being brought back to the Prison without having appeared before the Lords the Committee having by reason of the King 's being come to the House adjourn'd the hearing of the Ex●minant until Fryday morning this Examinant being touched and pricked in his own Conscience with a real and hearty remorse and sorrow for the great Guilt he had contracted in falsely swearing and accusing Mr. Oates and Mr. Bedlow desired one Mr. R●cks one of the Yeomen of the Guard to endeavour to find out Sir Will. Waller to beg his pardon and to let him know that he was now fully convinced of his sin and should confess the whole naked truth though he should expose his own Reputation to ruine rather than encrease his Guilt by justifying of what in his own Conscience he is convinced to be false This Examinant declareth that the first time he ever met Mr. Thomas Knox it was at the Sign of the Hole in the Wall in Duffins Alley in Kings-street and that there Mr. Knox advised him what he should say concerning Mr. Oates in Reference to any discourse either of the King Queen or Lord Treasurer that at this Examinatnt's coming to that House he was not to ask for Mr. Knox but for the Number 3 After some discourse there how they should contrive an accusation of Mr. Oates The said Knox gave this Examinant directions how to do it and it bei●g late they broke up their meeting This first meeting happened to be on the Tuesday or Wednesday before he left Mr. Oates The second meeting was agreed to be at the Owle in King-street on the Sunday following at three of the