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A19395	Conspiracie, for pretended reformation viz. presbyteriall discipline. A treatise discouering the late designments and courses held for aduancement thereof, by William Hacket yeoman, Edmund Coppinger, and Henry Arthington Gent. out of others depositions and their owne letters, writings & confessions vpon examination: together with some part of the life and conditions, and two inditements, arraignment, and execution of the sayd Hacket: also an answere to the calumniations of such as affirme they were mad men: and a resemblance of this action vnto the like, happened heretofore in Germanie. Vltimo Septembris. 1591. Published now by authoritie.	Cosin, Richard, 1549?-1597.	1592 (1592)	STC 5823; ESTC S108823	96,463	116

impossible that I should be fit to meddle therin So that here a christian louing answer to his great cōfort is giuē further conferēce by speech is offred the course not so much misliked as the succes only is doubted by reason of his vnfitnes that was to be an actor in it But what resolution herein was also returned from the preachers of foraine parts to this case of consciēce propounded by Coppinger may hereby not vnprobably be gathered Arthington at one of his examinations confessed that Penrie sent a letter vnto him forth of Scotland wherin he signified that Reformatiō for so they speake must shortly be erected in England herein he said that he tooke Penrie to be a prophet Now it is sure that Penrie conueied himself priuilie into England and was lurking about London at the self same time when these other prophets arose in Chepeside attending as seemeth the fulfilling of this his Prophesie al 's by their meanes How duetifully and aduisedly those that be subiects haue dealt which hauing intelligence hereof did conceale it till it burst forth of it selfe with apparant danger to her Maiestie and the whole state may thus be gathered For by this conceit of Coppingers you heare it is pretended and surmifed that a commendable cause a cause to be defended yea the very trueth of God which must preuaile is by the state suppressed and kept vnder that it is the will of God to haue such a reformation that impoachment of it is offered by the Queene Counsell and Nobles that this is a great sinne meete to be repented of by them that they must be brought to this repentance that the penaltie against any of them that refuse to be brought is to be detected as Traytors an offence deseruing death that this must bee done out of hand that the will of God in great fauour for the good of his Church was reuealed to him in this behalfe being a man of much fasting prayer rare gifts a prophet an extraordinarie man with an extraordinarie calling such as was not to be bee iudged of or discerned by meere ordinarie men and whereinto he entred not rashly or on a sudden but after many conflicts with himselfe before his yeelding to Gods extraordinarie motion and calling but submitting himselfe neuerthelesse to haue his gifts and calling tryed and allowed of by the best reformed Preachers and therefore not worthy to bee suspected or discredited that the way to bring them to this repentance was a secret mysterie such as those preachers and others whom he conferred with albeit they helde it a worke to bee wished at Gods hands yet by his talke gathered the maner of bringing it in to be so dangerous as that they feared the successe and refused to bee made accquainted with the particular wayes and meanes which hee had plotted to effect it Thereby making choise rather that Coppinger should venture to put it in practise if he remained resolute herein which they found by him of what dangerous consequence soeuer such a way might be then that they by bewraying of him to authoritie should bee any meanes to breake of and preuent his resolucion or quench his zeale And thus with opinion of safetie to themselues they merchandized the hasard of their friends life or els the rearing of sedition in the Realme with the hope that secretly they nourished to haue the Discipline which they dreame of erected Thus Coppinger remayning still more confirmed and selted in this veyne by his Pue-fellowe Wigginton about Easter terme last being as is aforesayd brought acquainted with Hacket as with a most holy man soone after would needes bring Arthington also acquainted with him as one whom vpon so small knowledge he had obserued to bee a very rare man For this purpose hee sent for Arthington to dinner or supper vnto Lawsons house necre to Paules gate where Arthington met first with Hacket together with another whom he calleth a godly man of whose ordinary talke then had Arthington liked very well but had as he saith at that time no further conference with him After which time Arthington discontinued from the Citie remained in Yorkeshire vntil Trinitie terme leauing Hacket and Coppinger behinde him piotting of their purposes together what purposes they had what counsell they entred into and what conferences they entertained betwixt themselues and with others by the euents ensuing will best bee discouered After this Hacket stayed not long in London but desired Coppingor at his departure to write vnto him what successe I. T. had withall assuring him that whensoeuer he should write for him he the said Hacket would streight way come vp againe Hereupon Coppinger writte vnto him first at the end of Easter terme and after againe very earnestly to be at London three dayes before the beginning of Trinitie terme last but he coulde not bee heere so soone by three or foure dayes When he was come he lodged the first night at Islington but sent his horse downe againe into the countrey as purposing to stay long in London Then after a night or two one of which nights hee lodged at the sayd Lawsons house by Wiggintons direction hee was prouided of a chamber and of his boord at one Ralfe kates house in Knight-rider streete by Coppingers meanes and at his charges for he cost Coppinger there eleuen shillings by the weeke But Kayes waxing weary of him in part for that he feared Hacket was a coniurer or witch in that the Camomill he saith in his Garden where Hacket either trode or sate did wither vp the next night and waxed blacke therfore Coppinger prouided at his own charges like wise an other roome for him at one Walkers house by Broken wharfe where he remained vntill his apprehension Whiles Hacket was at Kayes house he vsed before after meales to pray as seemed most deuoutly and zealously but neuer for the Queenes Maiestie Hacket also tolde Kayes that if all the Diuines in England should pray for raine if hee sayde the word yet it should not rayne The first of the aforesayde letters which Coppinger writte vnto Hacket to mooue him to come vp doeth containe matter of note besides not vnfit to be knowen Brother Hacket saith he the burden which God hath layde vpon mee you being the instrument to make me bolde and couragious where I was fearefull and faint is greater then I can beare without your helpe here though I haue it where you are The workings of his holy spirite in me since your departure bee mightie and great my zeale of spirit burneth like fire so that I cannot conteine my selfe and conceale his mercies towardes mee And a little after in the same letter Master Thr is put off till the next tearme the zealous preachers as it is thought are to be in the Starre Chamber tomorowe the Lord by his holy Spirit bee with them my selfe if I can get in am mooued to be there Note and I feare if sentence with seueritie be

Lords busines which was to be done by himself vpon Coppingers backe telling him the Lord had appointed him to it would stand with him in it Thus farre in this point goeth that discourse But long before this time of their two first acquaintances Coppinger vpon his returne foorth of Kent in Michaelmas terme last had signified vnto Arthington and to one T. Lancaster a Schoolemaster in Shoe-lane both being of his familiar acquaintance and whome he had requested to fast and pray with him for successe in obteining a widow that God had shewed him the said Copp great fauour by reuealing such a secret mystery vnto him as was wonderful being in substance thus much viz. that he knew away how to bring the Queene to repentance to cause al her Councel Nobles to doe the like out of hand or els detect them to be traitors that refused Al they by such repentance meaning vnderstanding as it seemeth the erecting of their fanciful Discipline For this phrase being vsual with them in conferences of this matter he thereby sufficiently declared his mind to thē they wel vnderstood what was meant without further a do Nowe it had bene inconuenient that Coppinger should all this while conceale this mysterie which he imparted vnto them after to Hacket from Wigginton who brought them acquainted together vnto whom he so oft resorted and so highly aboue all other Preachers esteemed for his resolute dealings in Gods matters as he termes them whome he also after aduouched vnto Arthington as an irrefragable witnesse to be perswaded by that would iustifie the trueth of Hackets torments whom he also knew more often busied for attaining of that discipline which himselfe also laboured for then perhaps for heauen it selfe And you see that he had accordingly done it Wigginton not discouraging him therein This proposition so made by Coppinger Arthington saith that he Lancaster misliked as a matter impossible by Copp to be done but by the Lord Iesus onely such whereof the issue could not fall out well any way so put him off for the first time not vnderstanding in what maner by what special meanes Coppinger conceaued that such repentance should be wrought in the Queenes Maiestie in others The maner and other circumstances of the first reuealing of this pretended mysterie Coppinger himselfe at large declareth in a letter written the 4. of Februarie last vnto T. C. in prison the occasion of writing it he there saith was the said T. C. offer to take knowledge by writing from him of such matter as might induce him to suppose himselfe to haue receaued some hope of speciall fauour from God to some special vse but yet without warrant from the worde direction of the holie spirite approbation of the Church he was he said most vnwilling to enter into so great an action The letter is long but to this effect that vpon some extraordinarie humiliation of him he with some other and a guide of their exercise ioyned in a fast their guide in the euening spake of the vse of fastes c. and then willed the others to adde to that which he had deliuered either for the generall or particular causes which mooued them to humble themselues that a great part of the said night Coppinger founde himselfe very extraordinarily exercised c. by such a motiue as he could not well describe partly comforted with a wonderfull zeale which he founde himselfe to haue to set foorth Gods glorie any wayes which lawefully hee might enter into partly cast downe by such a burning fire of concupiscence as in his greatest strength of bodie he had not founde the like that the next day he riding into the Countrey as he ridde fansied to himselfe that there was leaue giuen him to speake to God in a more familiar manner then at any time before and also perswaded himselfe that Gods spirite did giue him many strange directions wherein the Lorde would vse him to doe seruice to his most glorious Maiestie and to his Church Vpon which he had thought to haue returned presently backe and to haue left his intended iourney but going on and after being returned backe he imparted to his former fast-fellowes the worke of God in him and desired they might againe ioyne in the like which he with some other went forward with to their comfort but without their chiefe guide for he refused to ioyne Note Hereupon he saith that he was againe stirred vp to such busines of such importance as in the eyes of flesh and blood were likely to bring much danger to himselfe and vnlikely to bring any good successe to the Church of God hereof he writte to some Preachers out of the Realme and to some in the Realme at length he writte hereof to one in the Citie that was silenced who resolued him that God did yet worke extraordinarily in some persons to some speciall vses Hereupon he obteined this Preachers consent to ioyne with him and about foure others on the Lordes day in a fast which day was chosen that they might not hinder their worldly affaires in the weeke and that they vsed meanes to haue notice giuen to some of the Preachers in prison of the day of their humiliation desiring them to commend to God in their prayers the holie purposes Note which any fearing God should in time attempt to take in hand by seeking to bring glorie to God and good to the Church that in their prayers at the saide fast he and others did beseech God that if he had appointed to vse any of them to doe any speciall seruice to him and his that to that ende he would extraordinarily call them that he would seale vp his or their such calling by some speciall maner by his holy spirite and giue such extraordinarie graces and giftes as are fit for so weightie an action The night following he saith he thought in his sleepe that he was caried into heauen and there being wonderfully astonished with the Maiestie of God and brightnes of his glory he made a loude and most strange noise whereby he awaked his brother that lay with him and some in the next chamber Since which time saith he I finde euery day more and more comfort and suppose that there is somewhat in me which my selfe am not so fit to iudge of and therefore I desire the Church I meane your selfe and such as you shall name vnto me because I cannot come to you without danger to your selfe and me to looke narrowly into me if I be thought to be any way mislead I craue sharpe censuring if I be guided by Gods spirite to any good end as hereafter shall be adiudged I shal be ready to acquaint you and them with generalities and particularities so farre foorth as you they be desirous to looke into At this time the ende of my writing is onely to acquaint you with the occasions of mine entring into this great action and

giuen I shall be forced in the name of the great and fearefull God of heauen to protest against it my desire is that you haste vp so soone as you can your charges shall be borne by mee And some what after thus If his most holy Spirit direct you to come come If not stay but write with speede and conuey your letter and inclose it in a letter to him who brought you and mee acquainted vz. Wigginton put not your name to it for discouery direct your letter thus To my louing brother in the Lord giue these my letters I put to no name but the matter you know which sufficeth Pray that the Lord may reigne and that his subiects may obey that all instruments whatsoeuer that shall be vsed may bee furnished with such giftes and graces as euery one haue or shall haue neede of that it may appeare that the action now in hand is his owne and therefore he will prouide safety for his holy ones and destruction for those who are vessels of wrath who haue accomplished the number of their sinnes which call for vengeance from heauen These letters Hacket caried to Pamplin scholemaster of Oundell to be read vnto him for that himself could neither write nor reade but I haue not yet heard that he complained thereof to any in authoritie When Arthington also about the midst of Trinitie terme last was returned to London Coppinger hearing therof came to his lodging and then with many words extolled and magnified Hacket vnto him for the holiestman that euer was Christ only excepted one that trauailed together with him for the good of the Queene the land but after an extraordinary maner and not both by one meanes And albeit Arthington as now he saith desired them to keepe their secrets to themselues and not to trouble him with them who had other businesse to attend yet Coppinger importuned him so as hee coulde not auoyde but yeelde to heare Hacket pray before them as a man of a singular spirit albeit vtterly vnlearned of the booke The first prayer of his that Arthington heard was about foure or fiue weekes before their apprehension All which prayers conceiued by Hacket euen since his apprehension the sayde Arthington praysed to be so diuine sweete and heauenly that thereby he was drawen into a great admiration of him In all the praiers that Hacket made in his presence Arthington obserued this difference from other mens that he vsually therein desired the Lord to confounde him if he did not seeke onely his honour and glorie in all things which Arthington marking from time to time in him and seeing him still to be so perfitly sound and very wel was thereby drawen together with Coppingers wordes and experience of him to recken and esteeme of him as of a most holy man This lesson of wishing themselues confounded his sayde two schollers by imitation did so perfitly learne of him that to the great astonishment and horror of such that afterward examined them they vsed this execration wishing themselues confounded and damned if they said not the trueth in euery matter whereof they made any asseueration and wherein they desired to be credited thinking as Arthington confesseth that whatsoeuer the spirit as he fansied tolde him was a trueth he was bound to binde it vpon his saluation or damnation These being ioyned with the relation of certaine extreme torments which Hacket had signified vnto them that he suffred not onely outwardly by the instigation of certaine noble and worshipfull persons as he vntruely made them beleeue but more grieuously a great deale hee sayde by suffering whatsoeuer either Deuils in hell Sorcerers or Witches in earth could practise against him all which he pretended to haue endured for triall and proofe that the Gospell was the true Religion against Poperie and all other sects did so deepely astonish or rather infatuate them that after great fasting and prayer vsed which fasting they vsually performed on the Sabboth dayes they all did resolutely conclude that if Hacket indured in trueth all these torments and practises against him for so holy an ende no doubt hee was a man which shoulde not onely establish the Gospell in all kingdomes but all Kings and Princes should also yeelde their scepters vnto him and hee shoulde bee established chiefe king ouer all Europe Reasoning thus with themselues that surely the Lord had some great good to be done by him that had indured so much for his sake Nowe this was the opinion which to haue firmely planted in them two as in deede it was first in Coppinger and afterward in Arthington was the mayne scope and drift as may seeme of all Hackets cunning counterfaiting of so much holinesse pietie zeale and religion To worke this he handled his actions so warily with them that Coppinger seriously once auouched vnto Arthington how himselfe had by good experience found that God would denie vnto Hacket nothing which he prayed for or desired and namely protested that Hacket begged of God in a drought that was not long afore their apprehension a showre of rayne and that it was presently sent in good aboundance Coppinger also so firmely beleeued Hacket that he tolde his owne man Emerson how Hacket being imprisoned the boltes would often fall off his heeles miraculously But for proofe that such incredible torments were in deede susfered by Hacket he appealed herein to some of the Nobilitie and to diuers others both of worshippe and good credite This did Coppinger further confirme vnto Arthington saying that Master Wigginton also did iustifie the trueth of the torments that Hacket suffered and could doe it with a hundred honest witnesses moe if neede required And Arthington himselfe also once heard Wigginton pitifully tell how great and extreme torments Hacket had indured But being asked by them why hee was so tormented and how these could tend to proue the Gospel to be the onely true religion Hacket answered them thus that his tormentors the better to colour their lewde purposes and malice gaue out and surmised him to be out of his wits but the trueth was sayde he that being once at table with one G. H. an obstinate Papist and reasoning which was the true religion I defending this which we now professe to be the trueth against Poperie and all other sectes amongst other speaches I protested vpon my damnation that this was the trueth and withall prayed that I might sinke presently downe into hell if it was not so and that if he the said G. H. would say so much for his religion if hee did not sinke presently into hell then would I take Poperie to be the true religion But he refusing so doe and being greatly mooued thereby against me complotted with a Knight a neere kinseman of his and with another gentleman being a Papist and with sundry others who found such meanes as that they procured Deuils to be raysed Sorcerers witches and Enchaunters all which sayde hee I knowe and can name and minde one

their names with this addition Late L Ch. or late L. Tr. as if they were already disautorised and in their steads they had nominated and set downe certaine others in trueth very honorable and worshipfull persons that should be counsellors of whome euery honest man neuerthelesse is perswaded that they detest both these and all other such vile seditious and fanaticall persons and courses Coppinger not long afore their rising as it seemeth penneda letter to haue bene sent to the one of the aforesayde honorable personages In this letter he chargeth a great worthy Counsellor vsing onely his Christian name and sirname that he together with his hellish and infernall companions for so he raueth had comitted treason in the hiest degree against her Maiestie He desireth that honorable personage to effect that the said Counsellor himselfe and two others of the Lords messengers may be brought before the Queenes Maiestie and if he be not prooued a traitor to God and her then let me saith he for my pride and presumption be hanged at the Courtgates Then he exclaimeth against another great Counsellour terming him but by his bare name likewise to whō he had sent letters copies to haue bin shewed to her Maiestie and there sheweth himselfe greatly offended with him because hee was not as he hoped brought to her Royal presence adding thus therto but he the rest saith he of her wicked Counsellers Note vngodly magistrats shal be forced to acknowledge what they are worthy to haue the Lord pardō their soules for in their outward man they must be punished though they repent a litle after thus I doe aduise also that euery one of her Counsell be cōmanded to keepe their house or chamber for feare of stirre or danger Then he doth appoint to her Maiestie a new Counsel aduising that Wigginton a man in more fauour he saith with God then any man of his calling whatsoeuer be cōmanded to be neere her highnesse to pray to God or to preach priuatly By the like resolute vaine Arthington also chargeth the sayde Counsellor as deepely and vpon the like greater penaltie to himselfe in a supplication penned by him to haue bene sent to her Maiestie But I will giue you a taste how friuolously vpon what fond proofes he groundeth his accusation to the end it may appeare that this was but a colourable pretense wherein they reposed to great suretie of successe but hoped at length thereby to haue brought themselues and Hacket to her Maiesties presence The issue he tendereth is this That if in her Maiesties presence he prooue not the saide Counsellor to be the most dangerous enemie that was discouered since her highnesse reigne then let his body and soule be for euer damned Prouided alwaies that if her Maiestie cannot by his euidence iudge him the said Counsellor to be so bad as he makes report of him yet that she would giue him the saide Arthington leaue in her sacred Presence to fight the combat of praier with him Newe Triall by combat in prayer wherin if it please him saith Arth. I wil first begin to pray against my selfe that if he be not as deepely guiltie as I haue charged him then that Gods vengeance may presently consume me both body soule into hell for euer which if it come to passe the victorie shal be his he returne an innocent But if he see me leape vp for ioy as one that hath discouered him to be a traitor then if he dare fal down in like sort make the same praier that the like vengeance may fal vpō himself if he be so deepely gilty as I haue charged him if Gods vengeance fall not vpon him before he depart out of her presence let me be hangd drawn quartred for laboring to empeach a Counsellors credit but if he dare not thus enter the listes with me before her Maiestie let him be holden guiltie Their last most damnable designment of al was the depriuatiō of her sacred Maiesty frō her Crown dignity the destructiō of her Royal person whom the eternal God in mercy long preserue to the confusion of all seditious wretches her enemies of all sorts The very particular principall meanes how these diuelish purposes were meant to be effected by them Arthington now saith that they were not opened vnto him pretending that though the other two seemed willing to haue imparted some of their secretes vnto him yet himselfe was alwayes vn willing to heare any of them But for the speciall meanes that Coppinger had plotted to bring the Q. Maiestie Counsel to repentance he saith that this was a secret mystery as Hacket Coppinger affirmed to him which they would keepe to themselues were so enioyned of the Lord. But whether soeuer the way to effect these was ment by some open violence or secret practise sure it is that popular tumult was not the least meanes they trusted of to bring them to passe which they hoped to stirre vp by their pretence of so great holinesse with calling the Realme to repentance in the open streetes of London by offering ioyes and mercie to the penitent and by their Proclamation also then made in Chepeside as hereafter commeth to be declared Now that these their two last purposes were in deede the principal maine ends which they propounded to themselues besides that which by the way is noted already that which comes hereafter to be mentioned let these fewe proofes ensuing suffice First for the alteration of the whole gouernment Ecclesiasticall and erecting of the new Discipline It is confessed that Coppinger Arthington the two counterfeit prophets on the 16. of Iuly last being Friday and the selfe same day that they arose in Cheapeside tolde Wigginton in the morning these words amongst many others vz. That reformation the Lords Discipline should now forthwith be established therefore charged Wigginton in the Lords name to put all Christians in comfort that they shoulde see a ioyfull alteration in the state of Church-gouernment shortly To which wordes Wigginton made no reply nor further demaund as of any matter strange vnto him how it was so shortly to be compassed Wherein may also be obserued that these kinde of persons doe recken and terme onely those Christians that will take comfort andioy at such an alteration So that by their opinions it skilleth not what be attempted or done against all others being but as Heathens and Paynims or at least Idolalaters Thus much with their seditious purposes also is plainely implied in a dangerous letter written by the said Coppinger since Easter last vnto one Iohn Vdale a condemned man for Felonie in the White Lyon in Surrey for writing of the booke termed the Demonstration of Discipline that letter beginneth thus Right reuerend Sir my forbearing to visite you and the rest of the Saints who suffer for righteousnesse sake doe giue you all cause to thinke that I haue forsaken

my first loue and haue embraced the God of this world But my conscience beareth mee witnesse of the contrary the reason of mine absence being so great and so weightie that hereafter when they shal be examined by your selues who are indued with the spirit of wisdome and discerning of spirits I doubt not but you will allowe of my not cōming Note which might bring you into more trouble and danger then it would do me good or breede me comfort And afterward thus You haue care conscience to further the building of the Lords house which lieth waste and to seeke the finall ouerthrow of Antichrists king dome which being the Lords owne worke hee will blesse it and all the actors in it And this I dare be bold of mine own knowledge to report that in this great worke he hath diuers that lie hid and are yet at libertie who are hammering their heads busying their braynes and spending their spirits in prayers to God as much as you or any of you that are in prison Note and hope in short time to he brought forth into the sight of their and your enemies to defend the cause you stand for And againe afterward in this wise I beseech you cheere vp your selues in the Lord for the day of our redemption is at hand and pray that the hand of the Lord may be strengthened in them Note whom he hath appointed to take part with you in this cause and beseech him that blessing may be vpon Sion and confusion vpon Babel Pardon my long letter I beseech you and impart mine humble sute to all the rest to whom I neither dare write nor offer to see I neither put to my name nor make subscription the bringer can report who sendeth the letter and let that suffice Furthermore that they hated deadly and maligned her Maiestie as a principall obstacle to their innouation and kingdom and therefore sought to depriue her highnes of her Soueraigntie and life may be gathered by their owne words and actions for Hacket confessed before the other two that at a sermon of one Egertons preaching in the Blacke Friers whither they vsually resort he the sayd Hacket remayned vncouered all the sermon tyme vntill the preacher came to pray for her Maiestie but then hee sayd that hee put on his hat And when Arthington demaunded why he did so Copping streight way answered thus There is a matter in that Likewise when as in their priuate praiers among themselues Arthington vsed to pray for the Queene Coppinger would sundry times tell him that his so doing did much grieue Hacket adding that in the beginning himselfe did also pray for her but Hacket had now drawen him from it saying there was a cause why which Arthington knew not but should know hereafter For saieth he you doe not know this man meaning Hacket who is a greater person then shee and in deed aboue all the princes in the world And when as on the very Sundry before their rising for so themselues haue since termed that action it hapned that Arthington prayed againe for the preseruation of the Queenes Maiestie Hacket not digesting this suddenly with indignation turned his face away from him but when hee prayed for other matters then Hacket cast his countenance towardes him agayne which he perceiuing that Arthington also marked by him and purposing as it seemeth to salue vp this matter agayne least Arthington happely might yet haue fallen from them therefore when they had ended their prayers Hacket tooke him with his armes about the middle in very kind sort affirming that hee loued the Queene as well as either of them and desired him not to bee offended for the Lord had commaunded it adding further that there was a matter in it that Arthington as yet knew not Hereupon Coppinger being in hearing thereof sayd that she might bee prayed for in generall termes but not so specially as Arthington did whereby Hacket was grieued nor yet to bee prayed for as a Soueraigne for sayd hee shee may not raigne as Soueraigne Note but this man Hacket and yet saieth hee shee shall liue better then euer shee did albeit shee must bee gouerned by another thereby also meaning Hacket And to the intent they might the more assuredly retaine Arthington without suspicion of their poisonfull malice wherein they boyled against the Queenes highnesse Hacket himselfe once after this time verie subtilly prayed for her Maiestie For proofe that they also meant to depriue her of life the seuerall confessions of Arthington at sundrie examinations may bee alleaged Whereby vpon that which hee heard and knew is confessed that hee is verilie perswaded Hacket meant her Maiestie should haue bene depriued both of kingdome and life which hee also gathered by Coppingers letters albeit hee denieth that hee was euer made acquainted by what speciall meanes it should be done Thus hauing in some part described the qualities perswasions in opinion familiaritie inducements vnto mutuall crediting one of another exercises and designments of these persons it resteth to goe on with the narration of the rest of the action for better persiting vp of this historie Hacket on a time recounting vp vnto the other two his torments which hee pretended to haue endured told how amongst others one Pigge a preacher did so beate him with rods at a place in Hartfordshire whiles hee lay bound there in a sinke hole that this cost him the sayd Hacket more deare then all the rest of his torments because thereby hee was enforced to suffer for all hypocrites also adding thereunto that all their best preachers so they terme such as thirst after and perswade innouations were no better in very trueth then Hypocrites neuerthelesse hee would hee sayd daily heare them preach Hereupon Arthington tooke occasion to tell him that hee could prooue all such preachers to bee Hypocrites and Idolaters both albeit of ignorance because they doe yeeld in some sort to the commaundements of the gouernours and vnto the lawes of this Church that they may be tollerated to preach This pleased Hacket so exceedingly well as that he beganne highly to esteeme of Arthington and hereby the rather he thought good that Arthington should be made acquainted with their letters For about tenne dayes before their rising Arthington saieth that Coppinger did greatly importune him to read the letters which he and Hacket had written if it were but to see the stile assuring him they tended to nothing else but to make a way to acquaint her Maiestie with their secrets So that when Arthington sawe so great Counsellors so resolutely thereby charged with matter of so high qualitie by Coppinger especially her Maiesties sworne seruant hee was induced to beleeue it and to thinke they had some very good ground thereof Arthington also with great contentment vnto Hacket framed certaine Syllogismes I beleeue in a lewd Moode and in an vnperfect and fond Figure to prooue forsooth one of the sayd honourable Counsellors whom hee and Coppinger