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A61358	State tracts, being a farther collection of several choice treaties relating to the government from the year 1660 to 1689 : now published in a body, to shew the necessity, and clear the legality of the late revolution, and our present happy settlement, under the auspicious reign of their majesties, King William and Queen Mary.	William III, King of England, 1650-1702.; Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694.	1692 (1692)	Wing S5331; ESTC R17906	843,426	519

and does hereby Dissolve it and from this time excuses your farther attendance here but with his repeated Thanks for your Service hitherto and with the assurance of his Satisfaction in you so far that he should not have parted with you but to make way for this new Constitution which he takes to be as to the Number and Choice the most proper and necessary for the uses he intends them And as most of you have Offices in his Service and all of you particular Shares in his Favour and good Opinion so he desires you will continue to exercise and deserve them with the same Diligence and good Affections that you have hitherto done and with confidence of his Majesty's Kindness to you and of those Testimonies you shall receive of it upon other occasions Therefore upon the present Dissolution of this Council his Majesty appoints and commands all those Officers he hath named to attend him here to morrow at Nine in the Morning as his Privy-Council together with those other Persons he designs to make up the number and to each of whom he has already signed particular Letters to that purpose and commands the Lord Chancellor to see them issued out accordingly which is the Form he intends to use and that hereafter they shall be signed in Council so that nothing may be done unadvisedly in the Choice of any Person to a Charge of so great Dignity and Importance to the Kingdom Names of the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy-Council HIS Highness Prince Rupert William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Heneage Lord Finch Lord Chancellor of England Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury Lord President of the Council Arthur Earl of Anglesey Lord Privy-Seal Christopher Duke of Albemarle James Duke of Monmouth Master of the Horse Henry Duke of Newcastle John Duke of Lauderdale Secretary of State for Scotland James Duke of Ormond Lord Steward of the Houshold Charles Lord Marquess of Winchester Henry Lord Marquess of Worcester Henry Earl of Arlington Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold James Earl of Salisbury John Earl of Bridgewater Robert Earl of Sunderland one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State Arthur Earl of Essex first Lord Commissioner of the Treasury John Earl of Bath Groom of the Stole Thomas Lord Viscount Falconberg George Lord Viscount Hallifax Henry Lord Bishop of London John Lord Roberts Denzil Lord Holles William Lord Russel William Lord Cavendish Henry Coventry Esq one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State Sir Francis North Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Sir Henry Capell Knight of the Bath first Commissioner of the Admiralty Sir John Ernle Knight Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Chicheley Knight Master of the Ordnance Sir William Temple Baronet Edward Seymour Esquire Henry Powle Esquire Whitehall April 11. 1679. HIS Majesty being this day in Council did cause such of the aforementioned Lords and others who were then present to be Sworn Privy-Counsellors which being done they took their places accordingly His Majesty was also pleased to declare that he intended to make Sir Henry Capell Knight of the Bath Daniel Finch Esquire Baronets Sir Thomas Lee Sir Humphrey Winch Sir Thomas Meers Edward Vaughan and Edward Hales Esquires Commmissioners for the Execution of the Office of Lord High Admiral of England And his Majesty being afterwards come into the House of Peers in his Royal Robes and the House of Commons attending his Majesty was pleased to make this Speech My Lords and Gentlemen I Thought it requisite to acquaint you with what I have done now this day which is That I have Established a new Privy-Council the Constant number of which shall never exceed Thirty I have made choice of such Persons as are Worthy and able to Advise Me and am Resolved in all My Weighty and Important Affairs next to the Advice of my Great Council in Parliament which I shall very often Consult with to be Advised by this Privy-Council I could not make so great a Change without acquainting both Houses of Parliament And I desire you all to apply your selves heartily as I shall do to those things which are necessary for the good and safety of the Kingdom and that no time may be lost in it The Message from the King by Mr. Secretary Jenkins to the Commons on the 9th of November 1680. CHARLES R. HIs Majesty desires this House as well for the satisfaction of His People as of Himself to expedite such Matters as are depending before them relating to Popery and the Plot and would have them rest assured That all Remedies they can tender to his Majesty conducing to those Ends shall be very acceptable to him Provided they be such as may consist with preserving the Succession of the Crown in its due and legal course of Descent The Address to his Majesty from the Commons Saturday November 13. 1680. May it please your most Excellent Majesty WE Your Majesty's most Loyal and Obedient Subjects the Commons in this Present Parliament assembled having taken into our most serious Consideration Your Majesty's Gracious Message brought unto us the ninth day of this instant November by Mr. Secretary Jenkins do with all thankfulness acknowledge Your Majesty's Care and Goodness in inviting us to expedite such Matters as are depending before us relating to Popery and the Plot. And we do in all Humility represent to Your Majesty that we are fully convinced that it is highly incumbent upon us in discharge both of our Duty to Your Majesty and of that great Trust reposed in us by those whom we represent to endeavour by the most speedy and effectual ways the Suppression of Popery within this Your Kingdom and the bringing to publick Justice all such as shall be found Guilty of the Horrid and Damnable Popish Plot. And though the Time of our Sitting abating what must necessarily be spent in the choosing and presenting a Speaker appointing Grand Committees and in taking the Oaths and Tests enjoyned by Act of Parliament hath not much exceeded a Fortnight yet we have in this Time not only made a considerable Progress in some things which to us seem and when presented to Your Majesty in a Parliamentary way will we trust appear to Your Majesty to be absolutely necessary for the Safety of Your Majesties Person the effectual Suppression of Popery and the Security of the Religion Lives and Estates of Your Majesties Protestant Subjects But even in relation to the Tryals of the Five Lords impeached in Parliament for the Execrable Popish Plot we have so far proceeded as we doubt not but in a short time we shall be ready for the same But we cannot without being unfaithful to Your Majesty and to our Country by whom we are entrusted omit upon this occasion humbly to inform Your Majesty that our Difficulties even as to these Tryals are much encreased by the evil and destructive Councels of those Persons who advised Your Majesty first to the Prorogation and then to the Dissolution of the last

That the using Torture without Evidence or in ordinary Crimes is contrary to Law That the sending of an Army in a Hostile manner upon any part of the Kingdom in a peaceable time and exacting of Locality and any manner of free Quarter is contrary to Law That the charging the Lieges with Law-burroughs at the King's instance and the imposing of Bands without the Authority of Parliament and the suspending the Advocates from their Imployments for not compearing when such Bands were offered were contrary to Law That the putting of Garisons on private Mens Houses in a time of peace without the consent of the Authority of Parliament is contrary to Law That the opinion of the Lords of Session in the two Causes following were contrary to Law viz. 1. That the concerting the demand of a Supply for a Forfaulted Person although not given is Treason 2. That Persons refusing to discover what are their private thoughts and judgments in relation to points of Treason or other Mens actions are guilty of Treason That the fining Husbands for their Wives withdrawing from the Church was contrary to Law That Prelacy and Superiority of any Office in the Church above Presbyters is and hath been a great and unsupportable Grievance and Trouble to this Nation and contrary to the Inclinations of the Generality of the People ever since the Reformation they having Reformed from Popery by Presbyters and therefore ought to be abolished That it is the Right and Privilege of the Subjects to protest for remand of Law to the King and Parliament against Sentences pronounced by the Lords of Session providing the same do not stop execution of the said Sentences That it is the Right of the Subjects to Petition the King and that all Imprisonments and Prosecutions for such Petitions are contrary to Law That for redress of all Grievances and for the amending strengthning and preserving of the Laws Parliaments ought to be frequently called and allowed to sit and the freedom of Speech and Debate secured to the Members And they do claim and demand and insist upon all and sundry the Premisses as their undoubted Right and Liberties and that no Declarations Doings or Proceedings to the prejudice of the People in any of the said Premisses ought in any ways to be drawn hereafter in consequence and example but that all Forfaultures Fines loss of Offices Imprisonments Banishments Pursuits Persecutions and Rigorous Executions be considered and the Parties seized be redressed To which demand of the Rights and Redressing of their Grievances they are particularly incouraged by his Majesty the King of England his Declaration for the Kingdom of Scotland of the _____ day of October last as being the only means for obtaining a full Redress and remead therein Having therefore an entire Confidence That his said Majesty the King of England will perfyte the Deliverance so far advanced by him and will still preserve them from the Violation of the Rights which they have here asserted and from all other Attempts upon their Religion Laws and Liberties The said Estates of the Kingdom of Scotland do resolve That William and Mary King and Queen of England France and Ireland ●e and Be Declared King and Queen of Scotland to Hold the Crown and Royal Dignity of the said Kingdom of Scotland to them the said King and Queen during their Lives and the longest Liver of them and that the sole and full exercise of the Royal Power be only in and exercised by him the said King in the Names of the said King and Queen during their joynt lives And after their deceases the said Crown and Royal Dignity of the said Kingdom to be to the Heirs of the Body of the said Queen Which failing to the Princess Ann of Denmark and the Heirs of her Body Which also failing to the Heirs of the Body of the said William King of England And they do pray the said King and Queen of England to accept the same accordingly And that the Oath hereafter mentioned be taken by all Protestants of whom the Oath of Allegiance and any other Oaths and Declarations might be required by Law instead thereof And that the said Oath of Allegiance and other Oaths and Declarations may be Abrogated I A. B. Do sincerely Promise and Swear That I will be Faithful and bear True Allegiance to Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary So help me God A Proclamation declaring William and Mary King and Queen of England to be King and Queen of Scotland Edinburgh April 11. 1689. WHereas the Estates of this Kingdom of Scotland by their Act of the Date of these Presents have Resolved That WILLIAM and MARY King and Queen of England France and Ireland Be and Be declared King and Queen of Scotland to hold the Crown and Royal Dignity of the said Kingdom of Scotland to them the said King and Queen during their Lives and the longest Liver of Them and that the Sole and Full Exercise of the Regal Power be only in and Exercised by the said King in the Names of the said King and Queen during their joynt Libes As also the Estates having Resolved and Enacted an Instrument of Government or Claim of Right to be presented with the Offer of the Crown to the said King and Queen They do Statute and Ordain that William and Mary King and Queen of England France and Ireland be accordingly forthwith Proclaimed King and Queen of Scotland at the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh by the Lyon King at Arms or his Deputs his Brethren Heraulds Macers and Pursevants and at the Head-Burghs of all the Shires Stewarties Bailliaries and Regalities within the Kingdom by Messengers at Arms. Extracted forth of the Meeting of the Estates by me Ja. Dalrymple Cls. God save King WILLIAM and Queen MARY The Manner of the King and Queen taking the Scotish Coronation Oath May 11. 1689. THis day being appointed for the publick Reception of the Commissioners viz. The Earl of Argyle Sir James Montgomery of Skelmerly and Sir John Dalrymple of Stair younger who were sent by the Meeting of the Estates of Scotland with an Offer of the Crown of that Kingdom to Their Majesties they accordingly at three of the Clock met at the Council-Chamber and from thence were Conducted by Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies attended by most of the Nobility and Gentry of that Kingdom who reside in and about this place to the Banqueting-House where the King and Queen came attended by many Persons of Quality the Sword being carried before them by the Lord Cardrosse and Their Majesties being placed on the Throne under a Rich Canopy they first presented a Letter from the Estates to his Majesty then the Instrument of Government Thirdly a Paper containing the Grievances which they desired might be Redressed and Lastly an Address to His Majesty for turning the Meeting of the said Estates into a Parliament All which being Signed by his Grace the Duke of Hamilton as President of the Meeting and

examined lately at the Guild-hall London before the Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen upon Suspicion of his being a Conspirator in the firing the City and Suburbs in several parts thereof Thomas Roe and Joseph Harrison having been School-fellows at Eaten Colledge and being thereby acquainted Joseph Harrison hath several times lately been with him and advised him to with-draw his Concerns and remove above twenty miles out of the City for that the City and twenty miles round would be suddenly destroyed and laid wast or to that purpose Whereupon Thomas Roe asked him Whether he were privy to any such Conspiracy or concern'd in its Agitation pressing him with divers Arguments to discover what he was acquainted with of that kind Harrison replied That he had no personal and positive Knowledge thereof Thomas Roe demanded upon what ground then he did thus advise him Joseph Harrison replied That he was sometimes conversant among some Papists and perceived a Plot or Design was carrying on by them against the City of London and the Protestant Religion which Plot or Design said he the Papists call The Game of Trap or do you understand Trap ad Crucem which is the Watch-word amongst them Further Joshua Harrison said that he was informed of those things by some German Protestants and that he had Offers of Fifty Pounds per annum made him by some Jesuits and Papists to turn to their Religion but he had refused it and would not embrace the Romish Religion Thomas Roe further saith That about five Weeks since he walked through New-Cheap-side and from thence into Mark-Lane with Joseph Harrison in company with Mr. Mosely a Gentleman belonging to Bernards-Inn likewise and one of his Acquaintance together with another Man a Stranger to Thomas Roe Upon their first associating Harrison said unto him That he would not discover himself to be an Englishman but pretend himself to be a German or Italian whether of the two he doth not well remember and that he might not detect himself spake in the Company as Occasion offered in Latin But leaving the place where they tarried in Mark-lane going towards Bishopsgate-street Mr. Harrison told Mr. Roe secretly That he believed that Mr. Mosely understood the Game of Trap by some Signs he had observed from him and that he would try him Then going altogether into a house about the end of Thr●adneedle-street Mr. Harrison having by this time discovered himself to be an English-man said Trap and made a Cross over his Face with his Finger directing himself to Mr. Mosely Whereupon Mr. Mosely did also say Trap crossing his Forehead and Face two or three times and with a quick motion drew his Finger over his own Throat Upon which Mr. Roe asked Mr. Mosely what was the meaning of Trap But he refused to tell Mr. Roe urging him again He replied He would not saying You are not of my Religion Then Mr. Mosely asked Mr. Harrison what his Name was for he knew him not by Name he answered Harrisons Mr. Mosely replied I never saw your Name Mr. Harrison made answer It is Don Olanso del Harrisonio if so saith Mr. Mosely I have seen your Name After this Mr. Mosely and the other stranger being parted and Mr. Roe and Mr. Harrison being-alone said Harison I told you Mr. Mosely did understand Trap you may see there is a List of the Trap-Gamesters Now whether Mr. Mosely's Imitation of Mr. Harrison was feigned or real Mr. Roe could not distinguish But as they two were passing through Cheape-side homewards Mr Harrison looking upon the New Buildings said To what purpose do they build this poor city it will be again destroyed at the same time he pointed at two several Persons saying That is a Trap-Gamester and there goes another Trap-Gamester Mr. Roe further Informs That since the last Term Mr. Harrison told him he would write all the Rogueries of the Trap-Game and Gamesters in a Play and that he would undertake to shew him Twenty six Papists Meetings in and about the City and Suburbs of London but said he some of them are very private and if you be discovered not to be a Papist you will peradventure be poisoned or stabb'd Mr. Roe doth further say That when the said Harrison advised him to remove with all his Concerns about twenty Miles from London that the said Roe asked him if Windsor were not far enough it being both their native place and about the distance The said Harrison answered Not reflecting upon the Castle And further Harrison told Mr. Roe That the Jesuits could by a Composition of Ingredients make such a Matter the fume of which would corrupt any Man's Intellects and that he the said Harrison could do it A Faithful Account of the Apprehending of a Scothman some time since by William Colburne at the Cross-keys in Fleet-street as followeth A Scotch-man pretending great Respect he had for William Colburne aforesaid came to him and advised him That by all means he should remove his Goods out of London and dispose of his House William Colburne asked him For what reason The Scotch-man replied Because that he with many others were employed to set the remainder of London on Fire and that they would set it on Fire in several places at one time And Chancery-lane-end which is near the aforesaid Colburne's house they intended to set first on fire Upon which William Colburne apprehended him and being brought to his Trial he was sentenced to stand in the Pillory and did accordingly three times once at the End of Chancery-lane and twice in or about the Old Exchange Much more might be said but that our aim is to be as brief as is consistent with the truth of the Matter of Fact in our Narrative Therefore we refer any that desire further Satisfaction in every particular to William Colburne aforesaid who will fully inform them An Account of the Firing of Mr. Delanoy 's House near Pepper-Alley in Southwark January 1679 ●0 by John Satterthwait a Papist as appears by the Oath of Margaret Clarke then Servant to Mr. Delanoy who was in by the said Satterthwait to assist him in the Burning of her Masters House and suffered Death for the same I Margaret Clark being shortly to suffer Death for that which I have deserved and am much humbled for and desire to lie low before God under the sense of my own Guilt do give the World an Account of the truth of my Case for I would not be guilty 〈◊〉 a Lye now I am to appear before my Judge within a few Minutes Therefore I do say and shall declare the truth of the Matter as I shall answer it before my Lord and Judge Upon the 26th of January 1679 80. John Satterthwait came to me as I was going out of my Master's Gate and did desire me to tell him whether my Master and Mistress were at home And I answered him No. And he told me That he hoped he should have an Opportunity to speak with

me for he had something to say And I answered him If he had any thing to say I should be so civil to give him the hearing when I had time for then I was in haste Then he came the next Day with the same Request and I returned the Answer Then the third time being Wednesday he came again and used great Importunity and expressed some Kindnesses as if he had been a Suitor and prevailed with me to go into the Burrough with him to an Ale-house where were two Men more of his Company And after some little Discourse he propounded to me this wicked and horrid Design which I was to have been engaged in with them that is to let them into my Master's house to set it on fire And for a Reward they promised me two thousand Pounds which Sum I was to receive at the Fleece-Tavern in Holborn enquiring for a Room in the said Tavern called the Figure Nine Then coming out of the Ale-house they would fain have had me away with them saying Come let us take Coach and go into Fleet-street for said they there we have a Priest of ours who lodges at a Grocer's that shall confess you and give you the Sacrament I told him I could not possibly go then So this John Satterthwait went homewards with me almost to my Master's house and as we went along he charged me that I should not divulge it to any Person in the World living for if I did I should certainly die for it and that quickly in this World and be damned in the other Then he came on the next Day and gave me the same Charge to keep it secret And then on Saturday he came and enquired of me the best time that he might come to do this most horrid and devilish Action saying Would not Four or Five of the Clock be a good time And I said Yes Accordingly he came and conveyed himself into the Dye-house or thereabouts while Nine or ten of the Clock that Evening about which time the Fire was discovered Whereupon with the Fear and Dread he had put upon me I did deny it to the Company that came in to quench it but after that he was there whom I saw amongst the rest of the Company But I had much Horrour upon my Conscience and after some short time I confess'd the whole Crime for which I now die And my Examination before Justice Reading and Justice Freeman was all true And this I affirm and do desire all Protestants to believe that John Satterthwait kindled those three Fires in my Master's House First in the Dye-house by the Pump Secondly in the Buttery And Thirdly in the Garret Which last Fire he kindled whilst the People were putting out the other See the large Account of this called A Warning to Servants and a Caution to Protestants Printed in the Year 1680. An Account of the Firing Mr. Robert Bird 's House in Fetter-Lane April the 10th 1679. by the Perswasion of Nicholas Stubbs a Papist ELizabeth Oxley Servant to Mr. Robert Bird upon her Examination saith That about Michaelmas last she was acquainted with Nicholas Stubbs who had several times used many Perswasions to turn her Papist and after her shewing a liking to it and that he supposed she embraced that Perswasion in his Discourse to her at several times he told her that before the 28th of June next she should see all the Protestants destroyed that were in England that the Pope should be King over England that all that would turn to the Popish Religion should live far better than now they did that all the Land were Hereticks and it were a meritorious Act to destroy them and that all such as were Papists should have Marks upon their Hats whereby to distinguish them from Protestants that they might not be destroyed amongst them Adding that the Nation do believe that all things will be over before the 23d Day of June but they would be deceived for all should be destroyed at or before that time That the D. of Y. was the bravest Prince living and that he was gone out of the Kingdom lest the Hereticks should cut off his Head and he would not return till they were destroyed that the Lords in the Tower would not one of them suffer for they would come off well euough being to be tried by the Lords and that the Scaffolds were set up for fashion sake That she telling the said Stubbs that she was hired to live with one Mr. Bird about the middle of Fetter-Lane he used Perswasions to her at several times to set Fire on her Masters house telling her if she would do it he would give her 5 l. and gave her half a Crown and said he would have other Houses in Holborn Fired at the same time by others That she being with the said Stubbs on Sunday before the said Fire promised to Fire her Masters House on Thursday or Friday night following and accordingly on Thursday night she took a Candle and set Fire to her Masters Papers in his Study which were in a kind of a Press and they being on a Light Fire she shut the Doors and went up Stairs into her own Chamber in the top of the House and packed up her own things and undressed her self lest her Master should suspect her and there stayed till a great knocking was at the Door and the Watch-men crying out Fire whereupon she run down Stairs and cried Fire and her Master gave her the Keys to open the Door which done all Hands were employed to quench the Fire And she saith she did not set Fire on her Master's house out of any Malice to him nor with intent to rob him but meerly to carry on the Design which Stubbs had proposed to her and out of hopes of his Reward Nicholas Stubbs upon his Examination owns and sets forth to have used Discourses to the said Elizabeth as she declareth in her Examinations and saith he did perswade her to fire her Masters house and was to give her five Guineas for doing it besides half a Crown in Hand And saith that one Father Gyfford a Priest and his Confessor had put him upon this Business and told him it was no sin to Fire all the houses of Hereticks and Hugonots That he acquainted Flower alias Darby and one Roger _____ another Irish man that Lodged at the Coach and Horses in the same Street That the said Father Gyfford promised him a 100 l. for the same and told him he was to have the Money from the Church That they used to meet the said Gyfford and other two Persons in St. James Fields in the dark of the Evening and to discourse of these Matters and that the several Informations that he had given the said Elizabeth Oxley he had from the said Father Gyfford and saith Flower and Roger _____ told the said Stubbs they would carry on the said Fire and that they had Fire-Balls for that purpose and that they would fire other