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A69734	A narrative of the depositions of Robert Jenison Esq with other material evidences, plainly proving that Mr. William Ireland, lately executed for high treason, was in London the nineteenth of August, 1678, notwithstanding his condfident denial thereof both at his tryal and execution / collected by Charles Chetwind, Esq.	Chetwind, Charles.; Jenison, Robert, 1648-1688.	1679 (1679)	Wing C3792; ESTC R9115	25,253	18

him then at a Scriveners at the Sign of the White-hart in Russel-Street in Covent Garden which relation he confirm'd with several other notable circumstances Mr. Chetwind having heard this went to Whitehall and there attending on the Right Honourable the Earl of Shaftsbury Lord President of his Majesties Privy Council acquainted his Lordship with what Mr. Griffith had told him upon which the said Earl of Shaftsbury told Mr. Chetwind that it would be very considerable if it could be made out Mr. Chettwind thus encouraged by the said Earl did by his order make it his business the next morning being Tuesday June the 16th to find out Sir Michael Warton and coming to the Coffee House in Covent Garden where Sir Michael used to be when in Town Mr. Chetwind met there with Mr. Ralph Marshal Secretary to the Earl of Craven who upon discourse told Mr Chetwind that Sir Michael lived at Hampstead this Summer Mr. Marshal understanding something of the business for which Mr. Chettwind enquired after Sir Michael said that Sir Michael had often related to him and he was sure he would justifie it that the said Mr. Jenison of Grays-Inn who was lately come over to the Protestant Religion a person of considerable quality and Heir to a good Estate his elder Brother being a priest and in Newgate told him the said Sir Michael in the presence of several other Gentlemen of Quality presently after the execution of Ireland the severall following particulars which they had hitherto taken no care to discover because they expected not that the evidence given in the Triall against him the said Ireland would after his execution come into question or debate The Particulars were these That in the month of August 1678. when His Majesty was at Windsor Mr. Jenison going to Windsor on Saturday the 17th of August and returning the 19th immediately upon his return that night he went to give Mr. Ireland the same person who was afterwards executed a visit and found him at the Sign of the Hart in Russel-Street in Covent Garden and after a Salute Mr. Ireland asked him several Questions as What newes from Windsor how his Majesty spent his time and what recreations he followed and whither he walked abroad much and how guarded to which Mr. Jenison answered that his Majestie delighted much in Hawking and Fishing but most in the latter which his Majesty followed early in the morning with some few persons attending him upon which Mr. Ireland replyed I wonder his Majesty is no better guarded he were easily taken off whereupon Mr. Jenison said God forbid or words to that effect which made Mr. Ireland stop his discourse Mr. Marshal reporting this to Mr. Chetwind in presence of Mr. Ash and Mr. Spicer two persons of unquestionable reputation Mr. Ash replied that he was last night in company with Mr. Griffith and Mr. Booth Son to my Lord De la More where he heard them discourse of this very Business Mr. Booth saying that he heard Mr. Jenison speak the same things whereupon Mr. Marshall undertook to go that very Day to Hampstead to Sir Michael Warton and give Mr. Chetwind an account of it the next Morning Mr. Ash and Mr. Spicer also before Mr. Chetwind and they parted having promised to go to Mr. Booth met him who justified every syllable of what he had said and withall remembred very well that when Sir Michael Warton took some particular Notice of it Mr. Jenison seemed to be surprised and was sorry he had uttered those Words and began to recall them as to the time only of Ireland's being in Town But says Mr. Bowes who was there present a Person of Quality of Grayes-Inn and well esteemed in your House Jenison you cannot retract your Words for I have a Letter under your own Hand which will put you in mind of the Time and repeats the very same thing The Fryday following being the 20th of June Mr. Booth and Mr. Bowes met with Mr. Jenison and discoursed the matter with him who then owned all the Questions which Ireland asked him namely What News at Windsor how his Majesty spent his time c. But says he I desire a days time to consider that I may be exact as to the Day when they were spoken for several Persons have told me of a great many out of Staffordshire who upon the Tryal of the 5 Traitors Whitebread c. had proved Mr. Ireland to be in Staffordshire from the 5th of August to the 7th of September and therefore I must seriously consider what time it was that I saw him in London upon which they appointed to dine together on Saturday following being the 21 of June Which Day being come there met Sir Michael Warton Mr. Jenison Mr. Bowes Mr. Booth Mr. Griffith and Mr. Marshall and there they shewed Mr. Jenison his Letter which he acknowledged to be writ by his own Hand and further told them that upon the 15th of August he came to London from Tunbridge that upon the 17th he went to Windsor and upon the 19th he returned to London again and either that Night or the next Day he had this Discourse with Mr. Ireland at the Sign of the Hart in Russel-street in Covent Garden further he related that on the 4th of September following he went from London into the North returning back to London in the ensuing November and so presently after removed to Reading from whence he writ the forementioned Letter of Mr. Bowes This Confession of his Mr. Marshal took in Writing at that very Time when they dined together all of them being present as also a true Copy of his Letter writ from Reading both which he brought to Mr. Chetwind the same Night immediately upon which Mr. Chetwind and he carried them to my Lord of Shaftsbury his Lordship the next Day being the 22d of June communicating them to my Lord Chancellor and several others of his Majesties Privy Council The following Day viz. June23d Mr. Chetwind brought Mr. Bowes and Mr. Marshall with the Original Letter to the Earl of Shaftsbury before whom Mr. Jenison acknowledged the Letter to be his own with the circumstances thereunto referring concerning Time and Place These things will receive a sufficient Confirmation if we do but seriously peruse all the ensuing Informations taken before one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex as you will see by his Subscription at the Close as also the Subscriptions of those that gave the Informations The Information of Sir Michael Warton Knight About the month of February last Mr. Bowes and Mr. Burnet of Grayes-Inn and my self went to dine together at the Mirmaid at Grayes-Inn Gate in Holborn whither Mr. Jenison an Acquaintance of Mr. Bowes accidentally came into the Room so that we dined together and upon general Discourses at Dinner we were talking of Mr. Irelands Tryal or Execution whereupon Mr. Bowes begun the discourse of a Letter he had from Mr. Jenison which he thought if

AT THE Council Chamber WHITEHALL the 16th of July 1679. PRESENT Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Lord Chancellor Lord President Lord Privy Seal Marquess of Worcester Earl of Bridgwater Earl of Sunderland Earl of Essex Viscount Fauconberg Viscount Halifax Lord Robarts Mr. Secretary Coventry Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer IT was this day Ordered by their Lordships in Council That the Depositions and Letter of Robert Jenison Esq with the Attestations of Sir Michael Warton George Booth Robert Bowes William Burnet Esquires and Ralph Marshal Gentleman together with the Narrative of Charles Chetwind Esq relating to William Ireland lately executed Be Printed by such Persons as Mr. Chetwind shall appoint the same having been examined and approved by Mr. Treby late Chairman to the Secret Committee of the House of Commons John Nicholas By virtue of this Order I do appoint Henry Hills Thomas Parkhust John Starkey Dorman Newman Thomas Cockeril Thomas Simmons and Jacob Tonson to Print this Narrative and that no other presume to Print the same July the 17th 1679. Charles Chetwind A NARRATIVE OF THE DEPOSITIONS OF Robert Jenison Esq With other Material Evidences plainly proving THAT Mr. William Ireland Lately Executed for HIGH TREASON Was in London the Nineteenth of August 1678. Notwithstanding his Confident DENIAL thereof both at HIS Tryal and Execution Collected by CHARLES CHETWIND Esq LONDON Printed for Henry Hills Thomas Parkhurst John Starkey Dorman Newman Thomas Cockeril Thomas Simmons and Jacob Tonson 1679. The Publishers PREFACE IT is not unknown to all considering and judicious Persons in this Kingdom that upon the happy Discovery of the late horrid Popish Plot against his Majesties Person and Government and the Establisht Protestant Religion and upon the Apprehension Arraignment Trial and Condemnation of several of the Conspirators many Artifices have been used by Persons of the same Persuasion to defame the Witnesses produced for the King and to invalidate their Testimonies in order whereunto several Witnesses have been procured first at the Trial of Ireland and after at the Trial of White alias Whitebread c. many of them Scholars belonging to the English Seminary at St. Omers instructed no doubt and sent over to act viis modis for the preservation of their Conducters and Leaders to testifie that Dr. Titus Oates one of the principal Witnesses for his Majesty was at St. Omers at the same time when he upon his Oath affirms himself to have been in London other Witnesses have been also produced to prove that Mr. Ireland lately Executed was in Staffordshire at those days and times when Dr. Oates Mr. Bedloe and one Sarah Pain attest upon their Oaths that they saw him in London as by the Printed Trials of Ireland and Whitebread c. does appear such a failure in Circumstance of time and place is of so great consequence in this case that if made out it would render the said Persons unworthy the names of just and lawful Witnesses and for that reason their Adversaries put so much stress upon it that not contented with the determination of the matter at the Trial and Condemnation of Ireland they again resume it at the Trial of Whitebread c. and by their St. Omers Youths endeavour to fasten falsehood on Dr. Oates and by consequence to impeach the credit of his Testimony and the justice of their Condemnation As to the first particular concerning Dr. Oates his Testimony is justly secured and he himself indubitably proved to have been in London at the times by him mentioned and deposed by the concurrent evidence of divers creditable Persons given in upon Oath at the Trial of Whitebread so that the Stratagem which his Antagonists did use to destroy or at least depretiate his Testimony hath by a gracious emergency of Divine Providence turned to a strong confirmation thereof and for ever set him as to this point Rectus in curia a good and lawful Witness in reference to all the Evidence already given and which hereafter may be given by him in any future Trials Their design failing herein their next attempt was to entrap him and the rest in relation to Mr. Ireland whom the Witnesses they produce affirm to have been in Staffordshire and other places out of London all the Month of August from the fifth of August to the fourteenth of September whereas Dr. Oates Mr. Bedloe and Sarah Pain depose that they saw him in London within that time To clear the Truth of this Particular and to justifie the Evidence of Dr. Oates and the rest the Testimony of Mr. Jenison is a pregnant demonstration which I thought truly to deserve my utmost dilligence to bring to light and in order thereunto communicated the same to the Right Honourable the Earl of Shaftsbury and by his appointment to Justice Warcup before whom Mr. Jenisons Depositions and the Attestations of the worthy Gentlemen hereafter mentioned were taken and in whose hands if not transmitted by him to the Clerk of his Majesties Council the Originals of the ensuing Papers are to be seen and whose joint endeavours for the Discovery of the Truth in this as well as other particulars relating to the Plot deserve an honourable mention The occasion of what is here publisht arising from several passages in the Trials of Ireland and Whitebread c. those passages are here extracted and presented to the Readers view that having the case before him he may apply this evidence thereto whereby his judgment will be clear The Reader will find this short discourse divided into three parts The First relates the means and manner of obtaining the Letter and Depositions of that worthy Person Mr. Jenison The Second exhibits the Letter and Depositions The Third some observations thereupon for the full satisfaction of all unbiass'd minds in the matter Controverted THE NARRATIVE UPon the 15th of June in this present year 1679. Charles Chettwind of Westminster Esq had occasionally some discourse with a Gentleman till then unknown to him to wit Mr. Griffith of Grayes-Inn Barrister at Law concerning the five Traitors that had been condemned the Saturday before and their attempt to prove Mr. William Ireland alias Ironmonger lately executed for High-Treason to have been in Staffordshire and on his Journey thither from the 5th of August 1678 till the 7th of September following and not to have been within that time in London which as Mr. Oates and others had upon his Tryal affirmed him to be there about the 12th of that Month and to be returned thither again about the beginning of September whereupon the said Mr. Griffith told Mr. Chetwind that Sir Michael Warton of Beverly in the County of York Knight a Worthy Member of the Honourable House of Commons in the last Parliament told him that since the execution of Ireland Mr. Jenison a Gentleman of very good Quality and a Student in Grays-Inn who was a Romanist till about January last affirmed that Mr. Ireland was in London about the middle of August and that he was with