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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47831	A compendious history of the most remarkable passages of the last fourteen years with an account of the plot, as it was carried on both before and after the fire of London, to this present time.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1680 (1680)	Wing L1228; ESTC R12176	103,587	213

confest there that he did not know Sir George Wakemans hand and only knew the Letter in question to be his Letter by being subscrib'd G. Wakeman Concluding from thence that the Witness would have told more at that examination had he known more To which the Dr. reply'd that he had been so over-toyl'd with watching and searching after persons detected that he was not able to make good his charge Which was also confirm'd by the testimony of Sr. Thomas Doleman But Sir Philip Floyd one of the Clerks of the Council was more express in behalf of the Prisoner who acknowledg'd indeed that Dr. Oates did make mention of Sir Georges undertaking to poyson the King as he had understood by a Letter from Whitebread to Harcourt and that he was inform'd by the same Letter that Coleman had pay'd him five thousand pound of the fifteen thousand pound agreed upon But that being demanded of his own personal knowledge what he could tax Sir George withal he solemnly deny'd that he had any thing more against him To which the Doctor gave the same answer of his extreme weakness and indisposition as before After that Sir George recommended one obser vation more to the Court That in the Doctors Narrative there was not one Letter which came from beyond Sea to which he did not swear positively both as to the date and as to the receipt yet that in the case of life he would not be confin'd to a Month. Concluding with a solemn Imprecation and disclaiming all the Crime in this Matter that had been charg'd against him Corker Rumley and Marshall were charg'd of being privy to the Consult for killing the King and to the carrying on the rest of the grand design toward which they had undertaken the raising and payment of 6000 l. by the Benedictine Monks As to Corker Dr. Oates swore him to be a Benedictine Monk and privy to the promise of the 6000 l. which was to be rais'd for carrying on the design That he gave Le Chaise and the English Monks at Paris an accompt of the Jesuites proceedings in England and that he had a Patent to be Bishop of London which the Witness had seen in his hand and that he dispos'd of several parcels of money for advancing the design That he was privy to the Grand Consult in April and excepted against Pickerings being made choice of for killing the King in regard that he being engag'd to say High Mass an opportunity might be lost in the mean time Mr. Bedlow depos'd against Corker that he had been with him in the Company of others at Somerset-house where he heard him discourse in general concerning the Plot of Letters of intelligence and raising an Army what Agitators the Conspirators had in the Country and what Interests they had made As for Marshall he was charg'd by Dr. Oates with being present when the six thousand pound was agreed upon and that he made the same exceptions against Pickering that Corker had done Mr. Bedlow depos'd against him that he had carry'd several Letters to the Catholick party that were in the design and particularly one to Sir Francis Ratcliff And that he had sent Letters of his own twice to others concerning the subverting of the Government and introducing Popery Rumley was accus'd by Dr. Oates of being privy to the Consult for the raising the six thousand pound and that he pray'd for the success of the Design Corker offer'd in his defence that not knowing his accusations he could not come with Evidences to support his Plea That there was nothing more easie than to accuse an innocent person and that the Circumstances ought to be as credible as the Witnesses of which there was neither to be found in his case using many flourishes to move the Court and the Jury raising his Arguments from Improbability of Witnesses to maintain his Allegations and the more to invalidate the Dr.'s testimony he brought witnesses to testifie that one Stapleton was President of the Benedictines and not himself and that the said Stapleton had so been for many years Marshall threw himself upon the Court whom he besought to manage his cause for him as having had so much Tryal of their Candour and Ingenuity After which he made some flight reflections upon the Kings Evidence and desir'd the Court to consider how little concern'd he was at his being apprehended which was no small sign of his Innocency But the main of his defence lay upon this Stress that Dr. Oates was a stranger to him and had mistaken him for some other person which was evidently made out to the contrary and beside that the Prisoner brought no proof of what he affirm'd in that particular At length the Conclusion of his defence was a smooth harangue ad captandum populum and in justification of the Crimes of them that had already suffer'd which because it was look'd upon as an affront done to the Justice of the Court he was desir'd to forbear his Flowers of Rhetorick which were all to no purpose As for Rumley there being but one Witness against him he did not think it needful to trouble the Court with a defence and indeed it was the opinion of the Court deliver'd to the Jury that they ought to discharge him Upon the whole it was the opinion of the Court that the Defences of the Prisoners were very weak of which the Jury could not choose but take notice The main thing wherein the Court were dissatisfy'd was Dr. Oates's excuse of his own weakness and infirmity for not giving his full charge against Sir George Wakeman at the Council Board Since he might have charg'd him in the same breath that he denied that he had any thing more against him Whether this or any other more prevailing argument over-rul'd them certain it is that the Jury found them all Not Guilty and so contrary to expectation they were all acquitted All this while his Majesty kept his Court at Windsor where in consideration of the many and faithful services perform'd unto him by the Right Honourable George Lord Viscount Hallifax John Lord Roberts and Charles Lord Gerrard of Brandon he was pleas'd to confer upon them the Titles of Earls of this Kingdom creating the Lord Viscount Hallifax Earl of Hallifax the Lord Gerrard Earl of Newberry Viscount Brandon which title was afterward chang'd into that of Macclesfeld and the Lord Roberts Earl of Falmouth Viscount Bodmin And to shew that he took the same care of his Dominions abroad as at home His Majesty order'd recruits to be forthwith rais'd under the commands of Captain George Wingfeild Captain Charles Wingfeild Captain William Langley and Captain William Matthews to reinforce the Garrison of Tangier At home the Fort of Sheerness and the Garrison of Portsmouth had both the Honour to be survey'd by the King himself who to that intent departed upon the 30th of July from Windsor to Hampton-Court attended by the Duke of Albemarle and several of the Nobility

for the County of Stafford Nor is it to be omitted that among the rest of the Discoveries about this time made Lower Comes in Herefordshire was detected to be a Colledge of Jesuites and was let them at a low rent by one Hutton of St. Giles's Merchant for one and twenty years which lease was witness'd by William Ireland Fenwick and Groves The House was contriv'd for the purpose with lodging Chambers and Studies and seated with all the privacy imaginable at the bottom of a rocky and woody Hill There were found in the house several Popish Books a Box of white Wafers stamp'd several Popish Pictures and Crucifixes some Reliques a little Saints-bell and an Incense pot Soon after one Father Lewis was taken near the same place and sent to Monmouth Jail He had couzen'd a poor maid of all the Money she had in the world to the value of 30 l. and made her give him a bond and confess a judgement to him for payment of the said money upon a pretence of praying her Fathers Soul out of Purgatory January 1678. Toward the beginning of this month the Earls of Salisbury and Clarendon were sworn of his Majesties Privy Council Neither do we find the beginning of it signaliz'd with any transaction of remark till the Execution of Ireland and Grove for Pickering had a further reprieve till May 1679. The other two were both hang'd drawn and quarter'd according to the Sentence pronounc'd against them upon the 24th of this Month. The last words of Ireland were mainly taken notice of and there were some whose Charity was almost deluded to believe him hearing those imprecations of Damnation which he made to impose upon the world that he was not in Town all August and consequently that the witnesses had sworn falsly against him Yet after all these solemn Imprecations to advance his own and depress the credit of the Kings witnesses as if his Salvation depended upon his giving a meritorious sparring blow to the Kings Evidence at his departure after all these Imprecations I say that he was absent in Staffordshire from the fifth of August till the fourteenth of September in comes one Mr. Jenison a person of worth and credit and positively deposes upon oath that he saw Mr. Ireland at his Chamber at the Hart in Russel street upon the nineteenth day of August being then newly return'd from Windsor He further depos'd that after a short salute Mr. Ireland ask'd him what news at Windsor and how the King spent his time To which when Mr. Jenison answer'd that the King spent his time in Hawking and Fishing went very thinly and meanly guarded the Old Priest reply'd that then it would be an easie thing to take him off A circumstance so remarkable and consequently so convincingly apparent that many doubters were very well satisfy'd to see it finding the credit of the traduc'd witnesses so well supported and such a slur put upon all the vows and protestations of a sufferer so desperately engaging heaven in the defence of his untruths Much about this time his Majesties Forces that had been recall'd out of Flanders began to return again into England But that which was the nine days wonder of the whole Nation was the dissolution of the second long Parliament which had been continu'd by Prorogations and Adjournments from the eighth day of May in the 13th year of his Majesties reign and was lastly prorogu'd till the fourth of February in the twenty fourth year of his Majesties Government with an intention to have met again By this Proclamation his Majesty did publish and declare his Royal will and pleasure to dissolve the present Parliament and that he did dissolve the same accordingly However to the intent his Majesties Loyal Subjects might perceive his confidence in their good affections and how desirous his Majesty was to meet his people and have their advice by their representatives in Parliament His Majesty was also pleas'd to declare that he would forthwith issue out his Writs for calling a new Parliament to be holden at Westminster on Thursday the sixth of March 1678 9. And thus if it might be thought to be a wound he that gave it at the same time heal'd it and stopp'd as well the Insinuations as the Clamours of disaffected male-contents Toward the latter end of this month the middle Temple happen'd to be fir'd though whether on purpose or by accident is yet undetermin'd this is certain that had it gone on it had destroy'd one of the most stately Piles of Law in the whole world February 1678. January having thus made its Exit February succeeds remarkable in the first place for the change of the Secretaries of State For Sir Joseph Williamson having resigned the Seals of the Secretaryship into his Majesties hands the right honourable Robert Earl of Sunderland was sworn into his room Not long after several Queries were presented to his Majesty in Council by the Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex in order to their proceeding as to Papists and Popish Recusants 1. Whether Foreigners Popish Recusants that are and have long been settl'd House-Keepers following employments for their own advantage as Chirurgions Taylors Perriwig-makers c. but not otherwise Merchants though certifi'd to be Merchant strangers shall be excus'd from taking the Oaths or giving sureties 2. Whether such Foreigners being certifi'd by Embassadours or other foreign Ministers to be their Servants should be excus'd 3. Whether Foreigners Popish Recusants settl'd as House-keepers but neither Tradesmen Travellers or Foreign Ministers Servants shall be excus'd 4. Whether Native subjects of our Soveraign Lord the King that are Menial servants of Foraign Ministers shall be excus'd 5. Whether married women being Popish Recusants but their Husbands Protestants shall be excus'd 6. Whether Popish Recusants that have taken the Oaths found Sureties have appear'd and are convict shall find Sureties or be continu'd over These Queries were by his Majesty referr'd to the Judges who return'd an answer in writing that they had met and consider'd of the Questions propos'd and gave it for their Opinions 1. That Foreigners being Popish Recusants and exercising ordinary Trades but not Merchants were not excus'd from taking the Oaths or finding Security 2. That Foreigners though certifi'd by Embassadors to be their servants except they were their menial servants were not excusable 3. That Foreigners though settl'd House-keepers being no Travellers or Foreign Ministers servants were not to be excus'd 4. That the Kings native Subjects were not excus'd from taking the Oath by being menial servants to Foreign Ministers 5. That they found no Law to excuse a Feme covert being a Papist from taking the Oaths though her Husband were a Protestant 6. That a Popish Recusant having taken the Oaths was not bound to find new Sureties unless upon a new tender of the Oaths he should refuse to take them This report and opinion of the Judges his Majesty was graciously pleas'd to approve and thereupon an Order was