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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44589	A true relation of a great discovery intended against Hull sent in a letter by Sir John Hotham to both houses of Parliament ; with a true copy of a letter sent from Master Beckwith, a recusant, to Lieutenant Fooks his son in law, in service at Hull under Sir IohnHotham ; also three proclamations lately sent from the Kings Most Excellent Majestie from Yorke.	Hotham, John, Sir, d. 1645 Jan. 2.; Beckwith, Thomas.	1642 (1642)	Wing H2910; ESTC R28695	4,176	10

A TRVE RELATION OF A GREAT DISCOVERY Intended against HVLL Sent in a Letter by Sir John Hotham to both Houses of PARLIAMENT With a true Copy of a Letter sent from Master Beckwith a Recusant to Lieutenant Fooks his Son in law in service at Hull under Sir Iohn Hotham Also three Proclamations lately sent from the Kings Most Excellent Majestie from Yorke Published by His Majesties speciall command London Printed for F. Coules and T. Bates Iune 4. 1642. Sir John Hothams Letter to a worthy Member of the House of Commons concerning the late Discovery at Hull SIR SInce my last to you It hath pleased the Almighty God out of his great mercy to us here and the Kingdome to preserve us from an eminent danger and ruine plotted against us here which I thought fit to acquaint you with I writ a word of it to the Committee at Yorke but since have made a more ample discovery I have within my Company a Lieutenant his name is Foolks sonne in law to one Master Thomas Beckwith a Recusant at Beverly a good Souldier but poore This man his father in law thought a fit Instrument to worke upon and to that end sent for him to come over to him The Gentleman presently acquaints me with it and asked my leave and advice therein Protesting that both in regard of the honour of a Souldier and a Gentleman nothing should passe but I should know He had formerly beene obliged to me and therefore I gave him leave to go with directions to yeeld to such propositions as should be made him for otherwise being in their power I knew not how they might have used him At his returne he told me that at his first comming after an unusuall kinde welcome that Master Beckwith broke the matter to him That if hee would doe service c. hee should be rewarded in a great measure intimating to him how unable I was to preferre him in any way of subsistance To be short He made a plaine contract with him That if he could betray a Port he should have five hundred pound in hand and two hundred and fifty pound per annum for his life this he willingly accepted Then Beckwith discoursed with him of the meanes how he could doe this he told him that upon Thursday night the six and twenty day of May he had the guard at the North gate and if Alarum were given at another gate called Hessell Gate he could then let them in This thus overnight concluded upon next morning he was brought into the presence of one Trist he was a Papist and commanded Master Percies Troop of Horse at the defeat at Newbourne and one Captaine Courtney and six others some of which his father-in-law told him were Lords disguised These promised him to make good his reward but they doubted unlesse some Captaine might likewise be aiding it might misse of performance and therefore propounded to him to draw his Captain into the businesse Lowanger a Dutch-man a man truely of that faith courage and ability that were I to manage an enterprise of the greatest moment that might be I would not wish a better second they propounded to him that hee should have in reward 1000 pounds 500 pounds for his life and be made a Knight You see Sir whatever the performance would have beene they were not spare in promises Trist told him he had a man of his whom under colour of carrying Armes as a Voluntiere he might imploy as he saw cause Beckwith it appears some time before had an eye to have corrupted Lowanger for he had invited Lowanger to his house and sent him word hee would bestow a Gelding upon him which he presently then acquainted me with and told me he thought there was some ill meant in it and so would not goe He hath exceedingly laboured in the discovery of this being in a great measure sensible of his honour herein Upon Tuesday we caused the Lieutenant to write back to his father-in-law that Lowanger liked well of the businesse but desired some better assurance of his reward then Trist and Courtneyes words and sent a boy with the Letter and that it might appeare to Mr Beckwith 〈◊〉 be carried with more secrecy the boy was caused to put the Letter in his Shooe the return was this Letter inclosed the originall being well known to be his hand I keep to be sent when the Parliament shall command least it might miscarry as some other Letters of his whereby his hand may be knowne I have Trists man in hold who confesseth he was sent hither by Trist under colour to carry Armes to give intelligence and I finde he had endeavoured to send to York divers of my Souldiers This morning I received a Letter from Master Maior of Beverley the Copy of which I send you of divers assembled at Master Beckwiths house Wee had another as I thinke to surprise the Block-house being the strong Fort of the Towne but how that is I have not yet made a full discovery I have sent to the Maior of Beverley to search Master Beckwiths house being a Recusant and to tender them the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy and to know their names If there had beene open warre I could soone have told what to have done in this businesse And truely if I should have let the Plot gone on and given them what they deserved I thinke being they came that way to have taken the Towne I might have justified it before God and man But being loath to be the first letter of bloud I resolved of another course which was To advertise His Majestie of the Plot discovered least some should advise Him upon a designe might prove dishonourable and dangerous to Him This dispatch I sent away last night I shall trouble you no farther but rest Hull 1642. Your affectionate faithfull friend John Hotham The true Copy of Master Beckwiths Letter a Recusant SOnne the Iron is hot I guesse at the sense of your Letter that all is right as was intended for more security in the morning I expect strong here My Sonne went yesternight to Yorke comes with great ones this night Lor I send what I have from you this night thither if it may breed suspition let your friend beleeve well and not come to morrow If I could send safe I would but the trust holds on our part as I shal be advised by your Fathers Master to morrow I must worke yet this Boy is a fine way to come and returne Your Letters are so wasted in his shooe as I guesse at the sense yet send it broken with my exposition for I dare not bogle with promises no doubt is to be made of any thing promised I write more confidently because I know your hand I name none but your selfe hee cannot come to morrow I feare without suspition But I referre all to your selves wishing to see him I meane in the morning it will be better satisfaction to him to all here T. B.