Power True Copies of which Examinations from the Originals as also a True Copy of the Inquisition it his Majesties Pleasure should be forthwith delivered to Sir Roger L'Estrange Knight One of his Majesties Iustices of Peace for the County of Middlesex These are therefore to will and require you forthwith to deliver to the said Sir Roger L'Estrange True Copies of All the said Enformations not omitting any one of them and likewise a True Copy of the said Inquisition by him to be compared with the several Originals And hereof you are not to fail Given at our Court at Whitehall the 28th Day of March 1687. Sunderland P. To Mr. Iohn Cowper one of his Majesties Coroners for the County of Middlesex Upon This Order Mr. Cowper the Coroner deliver'd me the Copies of several Enformations As the Enformation of Ioseph Radcliffe and of Eleanor his Wife Two Enformations of Zachariah Skillarne Two of Iohn Brown the Constable and the Enformations of Nicholas Cambridge Iohn Wilson Tho. Morgan William Bromwell Iohn Walters Iohn Rawson Henry Moor Caleb Winde Richard Duke and Mary the Wife of Captain Tho. Gibbon The foregoing Enformations must be understood according to the Order to Mr. Cowper to be the True Copies of the said Enformations And to be All too Not omitting any one of them And Mr. Cowper Delivered me likewise a Copy of the Order it self by him thus Attested at the foot of the said Order 6th of April 1686. This is a true Copy of the Order above-written Delivered unto Sir Roger L'Estrange Knight by me the Original being in my Custody Jo. Cowper Here are Sixteen Enformations upon Tale and not One Word to the Question of the manner of his Death but upon the Conjecture of the Two Surgeons Mr. Skillarne and Mr. Cambridge Mrs. Gibbon that could have spoken very much says very little and it was not properly an Enformation to the Coroner neither for the Verdict was Over first Moor the Clark that was in Effect a Secretis to the whole Mystery was only Interrogated If his Master went out in a Lac'd Band I do not object to That Question but why That Question and No More to a man that both the Brothers and the Coroner knew to be Privy to the whole Transaction If he went out in a Lac'd Band he was Murther'd but if he had gone out in a Plain Band he had been Felo de se. For whether he Dy'd by the Sword or the Rope or the Linnen Cloth was the Question The Iury sat upon Friday and Adjourn'd 'till Saturday and it was after Midnight when they gave up their Verdict Now the Surgeons Deliver'd their Conjectural Evidence upon Friday but the Iurors being wholly Vnsatisfy'd upon That meeting were Prevail'd upon to Adjourn in order to the Getting of Further and of Better Proofs And what were those Further and those Better Proofs that came in next day but Mr. Radcliffe and Mrs. Radcliffe Caleb Wind and Richard Duke that saw Sir Edmund in the Strand at Twelve or One a Clock the Saturday of his going away after he had taken his Walk in the Fields toward Marybone But These are Points that are Handled in Better Order and more at large in Their Due places After this Care taken for the Finding out of the Truth and for the Methods of Arriving at it All Good men I hope will Acquit me that I have proceeded upon the Conscience of an Honest Man in the very Inclinations of doing it and that in the Zeal of pushing it forward I have no cause to be Ashamed of Owning my self an Officious Lover of Iustice. And I have been no less Tender of usurping upon the Province of my Superiors in keeping my self strictly to all the Measures of Duty and Reverence towards the Government I can fairly Appeal to the Reader now in one Word more that I have taken as much Care to lay open the matter of Fact on the One side as on the Other for where should any Man look for the True and Reasonable Grounds of a Verdict but in the Words and Import of the Evidence To which End I have here exposed the Enformations that were taken by the Coroner I have likewise Impartially Extracted the Uttermost Force of All that was said in Proof of the Murther upon the Tryals And upon the whole Matter I do here submit my self as to the Candor of this Following Discourse to All Indifferent Iudges Let me not be thought Insensible all this while that I Write now against the Stream and that an Integrity of This Standard Labours against Wind and Tyde A stubborn Inflexible Honesty is allmost sure of as many Enemies as there are Men able to do him Mischief that have Sacrific'd to Pluralities upon the Poll Popular Applause Interest and Occasion But my Fortune is made in the Comfort of a Good Conscience and in the Blessing of an Indifference that has cast All these Cares behind it I will have the Vanity too even without Asking God Forgiveness for it to Hope that These Papers may out-live the Envy that This Necessary way of Liberty has brought upon the Composer of them And that After-times shall Thank me in my Grave for the Plain History of many Useful Truths how Odious soever at Present which in all Likelyhood they should never have known without me But to shew now at last that the Officious Zeal of a Pragmatical Observator as the Wit in Mode has it has not Transported him beyond the Terms of Decency and Good Manners I have not so much as skew'd in this Whole Discourse upon Any Person where the Thrid of the Story did not Absolutely Require it I meddle with no Mans Opinion Forreign to this Single point Toleration or no Toleration has nothing at all to do in This Book I support my self from one End of it to the Other upon Evident and Visible Fact I have the Publique and the Solemn Declaration of a Famous Common Lawyer for the Equity and the Legality of my Conclusions as they are drawn from Warrantable Premisses As to the Coroners Iury with a respect to the Verdict I do here make use of several of their Enformations which were Frankly Deliver'd and they are as Faithfully Reported I do not find that there was any Great Stress laid upon the Evidence before Them that spake to the very Pinch of the Question Only upon the First day while Bloud or No Bloud was any part of the Debate they stood it out for they themselves knowing that there was a Great Deal of Bloud would not agree to find him Strangled so long as Bloud was insisted upon as an Argument that he Dy'd by the Sword. But upon the Saturday and after a whole Nights Contest what to make on 't The Bloud that is to say the Demonstrative Proof being quite laid aside the Surgeons continued of Opinion that he was Strangled and the Question being a Surgeons-Matter the Iury resign'd themselves and Agreed upon the Verdict JUst as I was
the Matters of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey If he was Murthered at Somerset-House as Bedloe and Prance swear he was the Iesuits and their Fellows are certainly the Damnedst Fools upon the Face of the Earth But if That story was utterly Impossible to be true the Lord open the Eyes of the Blind and be merciful to the Souls of those that all this while have swallow'd All These Shams for Gospel For the sake of Good Method I have Subdivided this Third Part into Two Other Parts within it self The Former Treats of the Somerset-House Invention with the Circumstances of Time Place Manner Persons And so goes on with the Iaunt from the Stable-Rayles to Primrose-Hill Comparing and Examining Depositions Iournals and Publique Entries 'till in the End it appears upon Demonstration as Infallible as Truth it self that a Man might as well take upon him to bring Heaven and Hell to shake Hands as to Reconcile Prance and Bedloe One to Another or Either of them to the Bare Possibility of a Consistence with Himself It follows now in the Second Part since Sir Edmund was Not Murther'd so and so at Somerset-House in such or such a Place by such and such Hands or for this or that Reason according to the Witnesses Report to Enquire How When Where Why By Whom Or in fine By what Disaster he was brought to his End Upon the Whole I have no more to say then to desire the Reader in the Awe of God and of his Conscience to Ask and to Resolve All these fore-going Questions within Himself There are Three Points of very Great Importance that I have here made the Argument of These Three Treatises of Great Importance I say in the Subject-matter of them In the Credit they have found in the World In the Countenance that has been Given them In the Miserable Consequences that they have Already brought upon the Honour and Peace of the Government even to the Scandal of Religion it self and of the English Nation And of Great Importance else in the Further Operation of These Impostures upon the Generations that are yet to come in Transmitting an Everlasting Infamy upon so many Noble Families and Persons as have been falsely Accused for this Pretended Conspiracy And no way to Encounter the Scandal but by taking the Masque off in Time and bringing the Naked Truth of this Iugling History into a Clearer Light. Such as it is I am now about to Deliver a Third Part of it over into the World partly upon an Impulse of Conscience and Duty and partly as I am a Friend to Plain-Dealing and Common Iustice. But I know very well that Good Dispositions are of Little or no Effect without Necessary Powers and Authorities for the putting of them in Exercise Upon this Consideration before I ever advanc'd One Step or Syllable upon This Design I made it my Humble Suit to his Late Blessed Majesty that he would give me Leave and Commission to make a Warrantable Enquiry into the Forgeries of Otes and to try if I could fairly bring him to Iustice for his Perjuries His Majesty was hereupon pleased to Grant me an Order for the Examining of Witnesses and Comparing Evidences and the Matter succeeded according to the Wish of every Honest Man in the Three Kingdoms So soon as I found that Otes was Fast in the Toyl it was but Reason Methought for Prance to take His Turn too The Bus'ness of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey being the Only Leg the Plot had now left to stand upon Beside that the White-Horse-Consult and the Somerset-House-Murther rested upon the same Bottom Insomuch that the Fall of the Plot Tript up the Heels of the Murther for Bedloe and Prance swearing to Both Alike if there was No Plot they were Consequently Forsworn to Both Alike In few words All the Narratives Depositions and Articles of Otes Bedloe and Prance were so tun'd One to Another that it was Impossible to Touch Either of the Three and the Other Two not Feel on 't I speak of their Agreement in One Common END for they fall foul one upon another every Step they set in the WAY to 't Iâ— Otes was Forsworn so were the Other Two by an Inseparable Complication and Prance's Bus'ness was more then three quarters done in the very doing of Otes's This Consideration was most Dutifully layd before the Late King and not without some sort of Importunity within the Compass of Good Manners for the Honour of His Majesties Leave Order and Commission to see if Prance might not be brought to the Stake as well as Otes and the One Prov'd to be as Rank an Impostor as the Other His Majesty was Graciously pleased hereupon to Encourage and to Appoint such a Scrutiny and to Enable me with All Necessary Powers for an Effectual Enquiry into the True State and Condition of That Affair In pursuance hereof Divers Enformations were Taken the Matter Reported upon and Sir Edmund's Clark found at all hands to have been the Great Confident of the Secret. But he having withdrawn himself into the Isle of Ely and not without some Jealousie upon the Reason of his going out of the way as well as Difficulty to learn where he was His Majesty was pleased to Direct a Special Commission for the strict Examination of him as hereunder follows WHereas His Majesty is given to understand upon the Enformation of Roger L'Estrange Esq That there is one Henry Moor living at present at Little-port or elsewhere in the Isle of Ely who is able to Discover Matters of Great Importance to his Majesties Service These are therefore in his Majesties Name and by his Special Direction and Appointment to will and require you or either of you forthwith upon the Receit hereof to send for the said Henry Moor and him strictly and punctually to Examine upon certain Matters and Things whereof Roger L'Estrange Esq abovesaid shall give you particular Enformation And him having Examined to transmit the said Examination unto the said Mr. L'Estrange And for so doing This shall be your Warrant Given at our Court at Winchester the 8th Day of September 1684. To Iohn Nalson L. L. D. and Iohn Fincham Esq Two of his Majesties Justices of Peace for the Isle of Ely or either of them By a Letter from Mr. Fincham bearing Date Sept. 20. 1684. I understood that these Worthy Gentlemen had Examin'd Harry Moor according to their Order And by Another from Dr. Nalson of the 22 d. I received the Examination it self with an Account from Both how Moor stood upon his Guard and how Dextrously he Manag'd his Point We found him says Mr. Fincham to be very subtle and dexterous in Equivocating His Answers for the most part Study'd and Labour'd and although we took a great deal of Pains with him and used all the Arguments we could to be clear and plain yet we could not prevail However he has confessed enough to confirm Mr. Wynels Enformation and likewise owns Mrs. Gibbons coming to Sir Edmunds House on
not have been brought in as a Party to the Conspiracy rather then for a Bare Misprision For his Royal Highness was made the Causa sine qua non of the Plot it self and the Communicating of These Enformations to the Duke of York would never have been Forgiven him To Conclude if he had Surviv'd he should in All Likelyhood have Suffer'd the Law as a Popish Traytor Whereas by This Intervening Disappointment he has pass'd now these several years for a Protestant Martyr So that in Truth the Parliament were the Papists that He Fear'd which agrees with an Enformation above-mentioned of Mrs. Gibbon Deliver'd upon Oath to a Secretary of State long before ever I saw the Face of her See the Particulars of This Relation Cap. 20. Mr. Wynnel Deposes as Follows That going toward Mr. Goodwins a Councellor at Law with Sir E. B. Godfrey about the Time of the Lords Commitment to the Tower The Enformant was telling Sir Edmund that the Lords could not be such Fools as to Think of such a Thing or What Power had the Pope in such or Such a Case Sir Edmund Replying No He has None The Lords are as Innocent as You or I Coleman will Dye but not the Lords To which This Enformant said If so Where are we then Sir Edmund Replying Otes is Sworn and is Perjur'd This Enformant bad him then Speak the Truth and tell the Meaning on 't Why says Sir Edmund Consults about a Toleration Nothing against the King but there is a Design upon the Duke of York and This will come to a Dispute among them You may Live to see an End on 't but I shall not Mr. Wynnel says further That upon his asking Sir E B. Godfrey some time why he was so Melancholy his Answer has been that he was Master of a Dangerous Secret that would be Fatal to him That his Security was Otes's Deposition that he the said Otes had first Declar'd it to a Publique Minister And 2ly That he came to Sir Edmund by His Direction I could add More Instances but This is a Redundance purely Superogatory for the Case is Clear without it CHAP. V. What did Sir Edmundbury Godfrey's Friends Relations Servants and Acquaintance think was become of him from the time of his going away to the Time when the Body was found RIchard Adams Senior of Lincolns Inne Esquire Deposeth Octob. 4. 1684. That upon the Saturday Morning betwixt Six and Seven being the Day as he conceives Whereupon Sir Edmundbury Godfrey was first Missing He This Enformant went to the House of the said Sir Edmund and Enquiring for him received Answer from some of the House that he was gone abroad Early in the Morning and so This Enformant went from Thence to Westminster from whence he Return'd and call'd at the House of the said Sir Edmund toward Eleven the same Day and Enquiring for Sir Edmund again the People of the House seem'd to be in Great Consternation which gave Occasion to This Enformant to Enquire what the Matter was receiving for Answer that they had Cause to fear that he was made away Mr. Thomas Wynell Deposeth that having been Intimately acquainted with Sir Edmundbury Godfrey the said Sir Edmund made a proposal to This Enformant as on the behalf of a Friend for the buying of some houses of this Enformants in Brewers Yard And they proceeded so far upon the Agreement that they applyed themselves by Consent to Mr. Goodwin a Councellor at Law then living near the Temple-Gate to draw up the Conveyance between them and appointed to Dine together at one Collonel Welden's in York-Buildings on the Saturday the 12. of October 1678. To the best of This Enformants Memory Intending after Dinner to go to Council together to finish the Writings This Enformant saith further that coming to the Place and not finding Sir Edmundbury Godfrey there he desired Collonel Welden to send his Servant to his house for him it being then past Twelve a Clock at Noon The Servant went to call the said Sir Edmund and brought word back that he was not at home After which this Enformant staid for some time Expecting him and then told Welden that he would go himself to his house Whether this Enformant went accordingly And saith further that he This Enformant coming towards the Door of the house saw the Maid-Servant of the House an Elderly Tall Person Leaning upon the Rail without the Door and the Man-Servant which he took to be his Clerk and his Name Moor Leaning against the Door-Post And both of them appearing to This Enformant sad and surpriz'd This Enformant did then Demand of them where their Master was or whether he was at home or No To which they or one of them made Answer that he was gone out about two hours before This Enformant asking them whether he was gone it was Answered that they could not tell Whereupon This Enformant said to them Your Master Promised to Dine with me to Day at Collonel Welden's Will he not be There think Ye To which the Man replyed Truly he could not tell Vpon This the Enformant bad the Servant tell his Master when he came in that he was gone to Collonel Welden's and Expected him There according to his appointment To which the Man Answered Ay Sir when I see him so I will. There appear'd to This Deponent so much Disorder in their Countenances Their Manner of speaking and their Behaviour that it made an Impression of Heaviness upon him Hereupon the Enformant went his way and in less then an hour return'd to Welden's and told him he could not find him and they had best go to Dinner for they said he was gone out and No body knew where he was Sir Edmund's Clerk remembers Mr. Wynel's Enquiring for his Master as above Mr. Thomas Burdet Deposeth That He This Enformant hath often heard Mr. Thomas Wynell speak of the very Great Melancholy and Disorder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey for some short time before he left his House and particularly that upon the very Morning that Sir Edmund went away Mr. Wynell calling at his House saw a Servant or Servants of the said Family in a very sad and Disconsolate Appearance at the said Sir Edmund's Door which gave Mr. Wynell an Apprehension as if some Great Mischief had Befall'n the said Sir Edmund Mary Gibbon the Elder Deposeth That upon the Sunday the Day after Sir Edmundbury Godfrey went from his House Mrs. Pamphlin came to This Enformant and Weeping asked her where Sir Edmund was Vpon Monday the Day following the Two Brothers of the said Sir Edmund came to This Enformant's House and Enquired for their Brother telling her that he din'd with her the Day before and lay there all Night Mr. Michael Godfrey saying I am sure he is here This Enformant Declaring that he was Not and why should she deny it if it were Otherwise The Brother hereupon ask'd This Enformant when she saw him and what Discourse they had so This Enformant told
Death or by What Hand Sir E. B. Godfrey Dy'd The Iury were Divided the First Day for want of Competent Enformation and their Coming to a Resolution the day following Supposes an Additional or a Supplemental Evidence which must be either in Proof of Fact or upon the Force of Fair Inference or Pregnant Presumption so that in a Train of Thought it comes Naturally now to be Enquir'd into what New Inducements or Enformations they received the Second day toward the Presumption of his being Strangled over and above what they had the Day before The Business of the Wounds given after he was Dead the Streak or Circle about his Neck the Setling of his Bloud about the Breast the Wrenching and the Limberness of his Neck No Evacuation of Bloud These were the Circumstances as Appears by the Iurors Themselves that the Surgeons Declar'd to be the Reasons why they Concluded him to be Strangled And it must be with a Napkin or some Linnen Cloth they said to Answer the Breadth of the List about his Neck Now if the Jurors had All This before them on the Friday And that Neither the Opinion of the Surgeons nor the View of the Body nor Both Together could Prevail upon the Iury That Day to find him Strangled the Same Reasons over again Unless otherwise and better Supported cannot be Decently Vnderstood to have had more Power upon their Minds and Vnderstanding upon the Saturday then they had on Friday So that the Iurors are Now to tell us what Wonderful Revelation they had the Day Following to Clear This Mystery Only a Word or Two Previous to That Point William Collins and Thomas Mason Both Jury-Men saw Sir Edmund That Saturday Morning The Former about Nine of the Clock talking with a Milk-woman near Paddington The Other coming from Paddington-Ward toward London about Eleven That Morning We shall now see what it was that Sway'd the Verdict They were mov'd to the Verdict says Mr. Harris by an Oylman and Others that saw him at Twelve They sat Long says Mr. Standever and an Oylman and his Wife shew'd he was come back again Mr. Mason says the same Thing too Now the Question was upon the Evidence before the Jury whether he was Strangled or Kill'd with a Sword. They could not it seems agree upon the Matter 'till they found that Mr. Radcliffe and Others had Seen him about One of the Clock in the Strand near Charing-Cross That day that Collins had Seen him near Paddington in the Morning and from hence they draw a Conclusion he was Strangled And why might they not as reasonably have Inferr'd from the Proof of his Coming back again that he Dy'd by the Sword as by the Linnen Cloth Beside that it was in Every bodies Mouth before ever they came to a Verdict that Several People had seen him in his way toward Paddington back again But we shall have a Better Occasion to look into This Particular when we come to Discourse of the Witnesses that were made use of and of Those that were Not and into the Merits of That Evidence In the Mean While the Iurors were in Effect Totally led by the Surgeons The Surgeons told us so says Mr. Harris The Surgeons Iudg'd him strangled says Mr. Cowsey And so says Mr. Woollams The Opinion of the Surgeons sway'd the Iury says Mr. Standever The Surgeons Opinion mov'd Mr. Fryer Mr. Trotton and effectually All the Rest. But All This had no Effect upon the Iury the First day Nay the Iurors says Mr. Trotton were strongly of opinion that he was kill'd with the Sword 'till the Earnestness of the Surgeons prevail'd with them to give their Verdict Another way Mr. Davies Declares that Neither He nor Any of his Fellow-Iurors were satisfy'd in the Bus'ness But some would have it that he Kill'd Himself Others that he was Murther'd by some body else So much for the Point of the Surgeons leading the Iury and it remains now to Examine the Weight of Those Reasons that Wrought upon the Surgeons which I shall Handle with All due respects to their Abilities to their Integrity and to their Profession Let me be Understood here to Comprehend All Those Persons of Name and of Mark that have Deliver'd their thoughts upon This Subject occasionally and by the By as well as Those Gentlemen that Assisted more Immediately to the Attending of This Office. To say the Plain Truth of the Matter the Surgeons had but half a sight of the Case and Consequently could make but half a Iudgment upon the Thing in Question Nothing is more Ordinary then for Learned and Practical Physicians upon a Consult to say If I had known or seen This or That Accident I should have taken it to have been such or such a Disease and most Undoubtedly as I have Hinted already they would have made quite Another Iudgment upon the Body in the Ditch then they did upon the Table But to give as much as can be Granted or I might have said as much as can be Demanded in the then Present state of Things The very Conjecture or Probability of a Suffocation was as much almost as the Matter would bear And it had need of being very well seconded even to Warrant the Sentence of a Bare Likelyhood As for Instance now There is Great Weight laid upon the Limberness the Twisting or the Wrenching of the Neck as some of the Iurors have worded it or the Dislocating of it according to the Surgeons They All spoke of Greens Twisting his Neck says Prance Tryal fol. 17. And from hence they Infer that he was strangled Now the Fallacy of This Inference lyes so open that Every Nurse and Searcher here about the Town is Infinitely better able to speak to 't upon Experience then the Whole Council of Surgeons Hall can pretend to if they take upon them to speak only by Book Robert White Deposeth that being desired to speak his Observations upon Dead Bodies Concerning the Limberness of their Necks as if their Necks were Broken and whether or No he hath taken Notice of such a Limberness of the Neck in Ordinary Cases He This Enformant maketh Answer That he hath seen several Bodies which upon the First Apprehension seemed to have their Necks Broken and Dislocated but that upon Examination of Evidence He This Enformant hath found the Necks of several Bodies to be very Loose and Limber that have been Destroy'd by Wounds in Other Places Mary Smith and Sarah Moreton Searchers of the Parish of St. Martins in the Fields Ioyntly Depose that These Enformants being asked whether in their Observation of Bodies that Dye a Natural Death they These Enformants find the Necks of such Bodies as aforesaid either Stiff or Limber They make Answer that they find the Necks of such Bodies both Ways some Stiff and some Limber And that they these Enformants in token of the Truth of This their Observation do Ioyntly affirm That it is a Common saying among the Generality of People That
Cross Mediations Votes Jan. 10. 1680. Ibid. Ibid. Votes Jan. 10. 1680. (a) Mar. 24. 1678. (b) Jan. 7. 1681. (c) Oxon. Mar. 26. 1681. Their own Votes and Papers are the best Evidences Address No. 29. 1680. Address Dec. 21. 1680. The Condition of the Association The Conditions of the Address Dec. 21. 1680. Coll. of Debates p. 202. Address No. 29. 1680. Proceedings at the Old-Bayly London upon the Bill of Indictment for High-Treason against Anthony E. of Shaftsbury p. 34. Middle-Temple Declaration See Ob. 106. Vol. 1. Of ADHERENTS and ABETTERS The Intent and Effect of the ASSOCIATION Worthy-MEN and Men-WORTHY Otes Narrative Fol. 58. The Character of the Late E. of Shaftsbury His Manage and Practices Chancellouâ— Shaftsbury's Speech Feb. 5. 1672. A great Stickler for the TEST EXCLUSION c. Growth of Popery p. 39. 40. Inconsistent with Himself Feb. 7. 1673. Address Nov. 3. 1673. More of his Character In Soul and Body In Life In Liberty In Estate In Peace of Mind In Religion In Reputation In Charity Truth And Justice The Case holds betwixt a Cheat at Play and a Cheat of State. Saying and Swearing Mr. Colemans Letters Coleman's Story Godfrey's the Two Stilts of the Plot. A Plot under a Plot. Confusion and Change of Government Design'd The Association Ibid. Nov. 29. 1680. No. 29. 1680. Ibid. The Account of the manner of Executing a Writ of Enquiry c. His Insolencies Encourag'd See Otes'es Narrative fol. 15 64. And Pickerings Tryal fo 22. Otes'es Tryal upon the Consult fol. 77. Otes'es Second Tryal fol. 44. Otes'es Tryal fol. 87. Tryal p. 52. A Villany and a Scandal beyond Example Otes'es Appeal Otes'es Tryal p. 76. The Lewdness of his Life and Conversation Tryal p. 86. Great Sufferers by the Plot. In Respect of the Time. And to the Occasion Objections Answer'd After Otes'es Copy A Horror for the Plot from the Begeginning Preface The PLOT The Miseries that it brought upon us The ASSOCIATION History of OTES SHAFTSBVRY 's Matters No MONY No POWER No Parliamentary Power No Militia No CREDIT No FRIENDS Sir W. Jones Order'd to make a State of the Evidence The Stress of All lies upon Otes'es Credit The Contents of the Five Windsor Letters Objections against the Five Letters The Windsor-Letters a Plain Forgery Not one Comma or Point in them All. They are All Spell'd False the same way All of a Cast for Style Matter Plain Treason to no manner of Purpose All the Marks of Fraud upon them The Design of the Windsor Pacquet spoil'd The Manner of the Disappointment Tonge Examin'd by the E. of Danby about Grove and Pickering The E. of D's Proceeding upon the Matter Tongs Sham of the Ruffians going to Windsor The King believ'd Nothing aâ— all of the Story The Sham of Bedingfields Pacquet The Pacquet Confirm'd to be a Cheat. The Letters Produc'd to the Councill Sr W. Jones Privy to All. And Convinc'd that Otes was an Impostor Notes upon Sir W. Jones'es Final Report Ignorance and Credulity gave the Plot Credit Otes'es Narrative was a Palpable Practice and Sir W. J. knew as much The Methods of a Faction The Irish grounded upon Otes'es English Plot. The Duke of York made the Head of Both Plots Sr W. J. proposes a Declaration to That Effect And a strong Bill of Association The Danger Transferr'd from the Popish Plot to the Religion No Safety without a Bill of Exclusion Notes upon the Westminster Debates The Credit of the Plot lessen'd dayly Only it Mended upon Sir William Jones'es Hand Of Green Berry and Hill. Sir W. J. upon Godfreys Murder Otes Bedloe and Prance Help out one another A Gross â—artiality Sr W. J's Enflaming Speech to the Jury The Whole Intrigue was known to SrW.J. Sr W. J. a Manager against the Lord Stafford He makes all Disbelievers of the Ploâ— to be either Fools or Coâ—spirators The Disbelievers Vindicated Mr. Coleman's Case Sir W. J. Founds the whole Plot upon Otes'es Bottom He blesses God forOtes'es being a Papist when he himself swears he was none He makes All Papistâ— to be Traytors Scandalous Exceptions to Mr Lydcots Evidence for Common Justice done to the E. of Castlemain The whole Stress lies upon Otes'es Probity Notes upon the Exceptions to M. Lydcot The Injustice of the Exceptions laid open in the Honourable Defence and Acquittal of the E. of Castlemain Sir W. J's care to Secure the Execution of my Lord Stafford The Witnesses Clash Sir W. J. had all their Contradictions before him Tong and Otes's Narrative look'd upon as a Cheat. The Five Letters that should have given them Credit Confirm'd the Forgery They were the very Contents of the Plot. They were so Rank a Cheat they durst never bring them in Evidence How the Pretended Popish Plot came to be Started Tong was the â—rojâ—ctor of it and put Otes upon it The Rise and Manner of Promoting it How the Maggot of it came into Tong 's Head. His Stickling to Advance it Tong 's Credit with the House of Commons His Confession that he knew nothing of the Matter Habernfelds discovery Published by Prynne 1643. Resemblance of the Two Plots Papers and Letters about Habernfelds Plot. Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot and Parallel Plot and Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel Plot. Parallel to the Large Discovery The First Opening of Habernfelds Plot. An Abstract of Sir W. Boswells First Letter The Parallel of Tongs Plot and Habernfelds goes on still The Arch-Bishop writes Immediately to the King. An Abstract of his Graces Letter The â—arallel goes on Otes known to his Majesty by a Certain Token The Token iâ— self Habernfelds Plot had Less Credit every day then Other Tongs Plot. Habernfeld's and Tongs Plot much the same Tong an Agent for Popery A Remarkable Practice How Tong and Otes came Acquainted Their Practices together Tongs Plea for Otes'es Perjury He Contradicts Otes upon the Main Point The Plot was a Shamm Otes only Tongs Property Tong sets-up for the â—irst Discoverer Otes'es Contradictions Tong a Confederate quite thorough Otes'es Starving condition in 1677 He Swears for Bread. Tong gives him his Lesson and sends him abroad All Ceremony apart Otes returns from St Omers Tongs Account of the Plot In the Greek Character Tong referr'd by his Majesty to the Earl of Danby The Whole Story a Sham. They go to Fox-Hall The Windsor Letters The Deduction of the Plot. Tong 's Diary of their going to Whitehall An Abstract of Mr Kirkbys Narrative Tong with his Narrative before the Councell L'Estrange falsly Accus'd by Young Tong and Otes L'Estranges First Letter to Young Tong. Tongs Answer A Second Leâ—ter of Tong 's How the Author came by Tong 's Papers Tong 's 〈◊〉 to the Duke 〈◊〉 York Tongs Malice to the Duke of York Otes was only Tong 's Tool The whole Manage of it was Tong 's A Brief Deduction of Tong 's Plot. Otes only Swore to Tongs words Tong 's Method of Pursuing the Plot. Tong 's Sawcy Expostulations with the Late King.