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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

from heauen of exceeding great mercie that Christ Iesus was come c. as aboue is sayde with whome Arthington also cryed the same wordes aloude following him along the streetes from thence by Watling streete and Olde Change towards Cheapeside they both adding beyond their Commission these wordes Repent England Repent But surely either their Commission was deliuered them at one time or other more largely then the one of them now reporteth or else they went beyond and exceeded it in many other materiall poynts besides this For after they both had thus come with mightie concourse of the common multitude as to such a noueltie of hearing two new prophets in these dayes arisen was likely with an vniforme crye into Chepeside neere vnto the crosse and there finding the throng and preasse of people to encrease about them in such sort as that they could not well passe further nor bee coueniently heard of them all as they desired therefore they got them vp into an emptie cart which stoode there and out of that choise pulpit for such a purpose made their lewde and trayterous preachment vnto the people wherein they stoode not onely vpon the wordes of their former crye but so neere as I could learne from so common an Auditorie and in so confused an action they reading something out of a paper went more particularly ouer the office and calling of Hacket how he represented Christ by partaking a part of his glorified body by his principall spirit and by the office of seuering the good from the bad with his fanne in his hande and of establishing the Gospell in Europe which as it seemeth they tooke to be all the world or else supposed that all Europe did professe Christianitie and of bringing in that Discipline which they so often bable of and which they meane by the terme of Reformation and the holy cause that he was now come and all these things were presently to be performed by him telling also the people where they saw him where he lay and remained that they were two Prophets the one of Mercy the other of Iudgement sent and extraordinarily called by God to assist him in this great worke and were witnesses of these things confirming the same vpon their owne saluation and wishing themselues confounded and damned for euer if these things they spoke were not true And thereupon the one of them pronounced Mercy great comfort and vnspeakeable ioyes to all that should repent presently be obedient and embrace this acceptable message and opportunitie offered and the other denounced terrible Iudgements if they repented not which should euen presently also fall vpon them and especially vpon that Citie of London affirming that all that beleeued them not were condemned body and soule This iudgement against London as Arthington the pretended Prophet of Iudgement sayth hee gathered out of Hackets historie was that men should there kill and massacre one another as Butchers doe kill swyne all the day long and no man shoulde take compassion of them There was then and there further deliuered by them or by the one of them that Hacket was King of Europe and so ought to be obeyed and taken and that all Kings must holde of him and that the Queenes Maiestie had forfaited her Crowne and was worthie to be depriued Which most trayterous poynt amongs others Hacket enioyned them to publish as in the one of his Inditements is contayned Lastly in very vnmannerly and sawcy tearmes they prayed to God to confound two great Lordes of her Maiesties Counsell for these two together with a certayne Knight they then and there openly and most lewdely accused in generall tearmes of treason This outrage was done the sixeteenth day of Iuly aforesayde about ten of the clocke or something after in the afore-noone By which their proclamation beeing layde together with their former conferences Letters and purposes against the Queene and Counsell and for aduauncing of Hacket and for altering the State with the very time when so many souldiers were about the Citie it is euident to any who hath but halfe an eye to see with that they intended and hoped to moue tumult and sedition that by many handes of the common multitude which they bragge of saying they are already inflamed with zeale they might haue brought all their purposes at length to a sure and speedie conclusion which designement for their pretended Reformation this sorte of people doe greatly lament so long to haue bene frustrated after so many other seuerall kinde of meanes in vayne attempted by them But God who stayeth the raging of the waters and the madnesse of his people did frustrate them herein of their purpose and expectation his Name be alwayes praysed therefore And whereas they had purposed to haue gone with the like crye and proclamation through other the chiefe partes of the Citie the preasse not of Officers to take them but of common people to gaze and woonder at them was so great as that they were forced to goe into a Tauerne in Cheapside at the signe of the Mermayde the rather because a Gentleman in a white doublet beeing of his acquaintance plucked at Coppinger whiles hee was in the Carte and rebuked him for his strange and lewde demeanour and speeches Whereupon though Arthington were offended with the sayde Gentleman for touching a Prophet of God in so rough a sorte as hee sayde yet they were both contented to steppe aside into the sayde Tauerne with him where when they had remayned a space Coppinger was perswaded by one of the aforesayde Lawsons men that stayed there at that time for auoyding the wondering and preasse of the people to steppe ouer into Woodstreete and from thence by backe Lanes to his sisters house neere vnto Powles wharfe where hee lodged But whiles they two were going together Coppinger was very carefull to know whether Arthington followed them or not insomuch as hee woulde not bee satisfied till the sayde apprentice went backe againe for him At whose comming backe hee found Arthington still publishing his foresayde messages to the people and telling them of Hacket and of his Office with whome Arthington was content also at last to goe by the same streetes that Coppinger had gone but yet crying as hee did afore Repent Englande Repent c. When in this sorte they two were come together to Coppingers lodging they founde the gates shutte against them whereupon the sayde apprentice would haue had Arthington to haue gone to his owne lodging but he would needes goe to Walkers house at Broken wharfe where not long before he left Hacket All the way that Arthington went hee was followed by a great multitude of lads and young persons of the meaner sort But at his comming to Walkers house Hacket was not yet returned out of the citie from Wigginton After that Arthington was entred the house he was there stayed by one Edward Iones an honest citizen and when Hacket not long after came in Arthington said There cōmeth the king of the

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

therefore be put to death but as sure as God is in heauen the sworde shall not come neere to hurt vs neither shall any man bee able to touch the least haire of any of our heads Thus the meane time for the most part thereof from Friday the 16. of Iuly vntill Munday seuennight after being spent in examinations it was thought good that Hacket should then come to his triall on which day being the 26. of Iuly hee was brought from Bridewell to the Sessions house neere Newgate before the Lord Maior the Lord Wentworth Sir Gilbert Gerrard knight Master of the Rolles Sir Wolstane Dixie and Sir Richard Martin knight M. Sergeant Fleetwood Recorder of London M. Daniel and others in that Commission where after the graund Iurie was empannelled the witnesses that shoulde giue euidence sworne and two seuerall Indictments against him found Hacket was willed to holde vp his hand which he did then the first Indictment was read being of this tenor being turned into English viz. The Iurie doe present for the Queene London ss that William Hacket late of Oundell in the Countie of Northampton yeoman as a false traytor against the most excellent and Christian Princesse our Soueraigne Ladie Elizabeth by the grace of God of England France and Ireland Queene defender of the faith c. his naturall Soueraigne liege Ladie hauing not the feare of God in his heart nor weighing his due alleageance but seduced by the instigation of the Deuill maliciously traiterously compassing imagining deuising and intending the depriuation and deposing of our said Soueraigne Ladie Elizabeth from her honor and royall name of the Imperial Crowne of this Realme of England on the 21. day of Iuly in the 33. yeere of the reigne of our Soueraigne Ladie Elizabeth nowe Queene of England at London that is to say in the parish of S. Brides in the ward of Farringdon extra London and diuers other dayes times betwixt the 12. of Februarie last past and the 25. day of Iuly in the said 33. yeere of her Maiesties reigne aswell in the parish and ward aforesaid as els where in London aforesaid of his own peruerse and traiterous minde and imagination maliciously expresly aduisedly directly and traiterously in the presence hearing of sundry faithfull subiects of our said Soueraigne Lady these false malicious and traiterous English wordes following concerning our sayde Soueraigne Lady the Q. Maiestie falsly maliciously aduisedly expresly directly and traiterously saide rehearsed published and spoke viz. That the Q. Maiesties meaning thereby our said Soueraigne Lady Q. Elizabeth was not Queene of England and that the Queenes Maiestie meaning thereby our saide Soueraigne Q. Elizabeth did represent al hypocrisie and had forfeited her Crown and was worthie to bee depriued and that he had bene of that opinion these foure yeeres and that he defaced her Armes in Kayes house thereby meaning the house of one Ralph Kayes situate and being in Knight-rider streete in the parish of S. Gregorie neere Paules in the ward of Baynards Castle London to take away her whole power of her authoritie and was mooued thereunto by the spirit and that he neither was nor is sorie therefore to the great scandall and derogation of the person and Royaltie of our sayd Soueraigne Ladie the Queene and to the subuersion of the state of this Realme of England and contrary to the forme of a statute in this case made and prouided and also against the peace of our said Soueraigne Lady her Crowne and dignities c. Being asked whether he were guiltie to this Indictment or not he confessed and pleaded guiltie adding this All must be as you will Whereupon M. Attourney generall desired for the Queene his confession of the Indictment might be entred Then Hacket being againe bidden to holde vp his hand he did so accordingly whereupon the seconde Indictment was read being in English as followeth viz. The Iurie presents for the Queene London ss That William Hacket late of Oundell in the Countie of North-hampton Yeoman as a false traitor against the most excellent and Christian Princesse our Soueraigne Ladie Elizabeth by the grace of God of England Fraunce and Ireland Queene defender of the faith c. Hauing not the feare of God in his heart nor weying his due allegeance but seduced by the Instigation of the Deuill and intending wholly to withdrawe put out and extinguish the heartie loue and the true and due obedience which a true and faithfull subiect of the Queenes shoulde beare and by lawe is bound to beare towardes our sayde Soueraigne Ladie the Queene The first day of Iuly in the three and thirtieth yeere of the Reigne of the sayde Queene at London in the parish of Saint Gregories neere Pauls in the ward of Castle-Baynard London falsly maliciously and traiterously intented imagined went about and compassed the sayde Queene his Soueraigne and naturall liege Ladie not onely from her Royall state title power and gouernement of this Realme of England vtterly to depriue depose cast downe and disherit but also to bring and put the sayde Queenes Maiestie to death and finall destruction and sedition in the sayde Realme of England to raise vp leauie and make and also wholly to subuert and destroy the state of this whole Common wealth being in and throughout euery part thereof well constituted and ordered And to the intent hee might fulfill and bring to passe those his aforesayde trayterous purposes imaginations compassings and intents the sayde William Hacket afterward that is to say the sayde first day of Iuly in the three and thirtieth yeere of the reigne of the Queenes Maiestie that nowe is did come to the mansion house of one Ralph Kayes situate and being in Knight-rider streete in the sayde Parish of Saint Gregorie in the ward aforesayde and then and there maliciously deuilishly and trayterously rased and defaced the Armes of the Queenes Maiestie then and there in the sayde house being with this intent trayterously to take away put downe and ouerthrowe the power of authoritie of the sayde Queene And that the sayde William Hacket for further accomplishing and effecting of his said traiterous purposes imaginations compassings and intents the said first day of Iuly in the said 33. yeere of her Maiesties reigne in the house of the sayde Ralph Kayes situate in the parish and ward aforesayde did trayterously raze a certaine picture of the Q. Maiesties then and there in the said house likewise being and then and there did maliciously and traiterously put in and thrust an yron Instrument into that part of the sayde picture that did represent the Brest and Hart of the Q. Maiestie And afterward that is to say on the 16. day of Iuly in the 33. yeere of the reigne of the Q. Maiestie that now is the sayde W. Hacket trayterously came to the house of one Iohn Walker situate and being in the parish of S. Marie Sommersets in the ward of Queene-hithe in London aforesaide with intent traiterously to

conferre and treate with one Edmund Coppinger Gent. and Henry Arthington Gent. concerning his traiterous purposes imaginations compassings intents aforesaid And that the said William Hacket afterward that is to say on the 16. day of Iuly in the 33. yere of the reigne of the Q. Maiestie that nowe is at London aforesaide in the house of the saide Iohn Walker in the foresaid parish of S. Marie Sommerset in the said ward of Queenehithe in London of his owne peruerse and traiterous minde and imagination maliciously aduisedly expresly and traiterously did treate had conference with the saide Edmund Coppinger and Henry Arthington by what wayes meanes and maner the said traiterous purposes imaginations compassings and intents might be accomplished and brought to passe And thereupon on the said 16. day of Iuly in the saide 33. yeere in the said house of Iohn Walker aforesaid situate and being in the sayd parish of S. Marie Sommersets in the saide ward of Queene-hithe London in the presence hearing of the said Edmund Coppinger and Henrie Arthington being then and there in the said house the said Hacket these false traiterous English words following of our said Soueraigne Q. Elizabeth falsly maliciously aduisedly expresly directly trayterously sayd rehearsed published and spoke viz. That the Q. Maiestie meaning our saide Soueraigne Ladie Q. Elizabeth had forfaited her Crowne and was worthie to bee depriued And that furthermore the said William Hacket thereupon the sayd 16. day of Iuly in the said 33. yeere in the said house of Iohn Walker situate in the parish of S. Marie Sommersets in the sayde ward of Queene-hithe London maliciously and traiterously moued stirred vp the sayd Edmund Coppinger and Henrie Arthington traiterouslie and openly to publish and declare in London aforesayd that the Queenes Maiestie that now is had forfaited her crowne to the great offence and derogation of the person of the Queenes Maiestie and to the subuersion of the state of this Realme of England and contray to the peace of our said soueraigne Lady her crowne and dignities c. And being likewise asked whether he were guiltie to this Inditement or not belike perceiuing that he was already plunged in farre inough he began then to answere more peruerslie saying to the Bench You haue wit ynough to iudge for me your selues too being asked the same againe hee sayd Fewe words are best it is good to know much and to say litle and being diuers times asked he still repeated these wordes Then being told that if hee should persist in that sort not to plead directly as by lawe hee ought it could not serue his turne for that alone was sufficient of it selfe to condemne him of the treason and being asked againe whether hee were guiltie or not hee sayd Ambo But some further good aduertisements being giuen vnto him at last after much adoe he pleaded not guiltie to that second Indictment Thereupon being asked by whom he would be tried he sayd by the countrey but being told he ought to say By God and by the countrey he said that he would be tried by the Iurie And there withall burst out into such blasphemous and hellish wordes against the Maiestie of God in trueth not to be heard by Christian eares and therefore not to be vitered or repeated here that they were to the great astonishment and horrour of all and detestation of him with all the hearers It may be that he hoped thereby to induce the Iudges to an opinion that he was mad and furious albeit in his countinance gesture attentiuenesse to that which was spoken silence when hee ought holding vp his hand when he was commaunded perceiuing the effect of all was spoken pertinent though sometimes peruerse answers through all that action no tokens of any furie or madnesse at all could be noted in him Some haue imagined that the Illusion of the deuil was so strong to perswade him of an immunitie from all danger according to his former conceiued opinions that thereby he grew to such a diuelish impatience against God when as now hee sawe himselfe to bee brought to more apparant danger thē happely he supposed there euer would be cause for him to feare Which thing seemeth more probable to haue bene the occasion thereof for that immediately after his blasphemie he also vsed these words God almightie is aboue and will he not reuenge But seeing hee could not bee brought to any other plea the Queenes Attorney generall desired in behalfe of the Queene that iudgement thereupon might be entered And seeing hee pleaded guiltie to the one and stood mute to the second in that hee answered not as law would whereupon he was to bee conuicted of both the Inditements so that none Euidence which was there readie needed either to bee vsed or by the Queenes Counsell learned to be opened or enforced Neuerthelesse for better satisfaction of the world it was by them thought meete somewhat to shew both how hainous and how euident for proofe his treasons were And albeit I am not able in any tolerable sort to repeate the graue wise and pithie discourses that were made in this behalfe by those two woorthie gentlemen master Attorney generall and master Sollicitor to her Maiestie yet I hope they will pardon me to set downe onely some few heads of their speaches as they were noted brieflie from their mouthes and afterward brought vnto mee Master Attorney declared that the originall of these plots and conspiracies came from and were for the Sectaries of this time that Coppinger in a letter to Vdall prayeth him and the rest in prison not to saint that he and others had taken a course for their speedie deliuerance and desired pardon for not comming to him which hee sayd might bee dangerous for that they should bee the sooner suspected or to that effect that there were letters dispersed in the streetes fiue or sixe dayes before the action that there were found in Wiggintons chamber printed pamplets which should bee sent to a great number of women whom I quoth master Attorney forbeare to name as is touched before that in other letters was contained that the Queene should commaund her Counsellors to their chambers because of the stirre and danger which then should bee that Hacket himselfe had afore confessed besides the other points of the Inditements how he sent Arthington and Coppinger to do and proclaime as they did Then master Sollicitor very excellently also discoursed how there was no treason more dangerous then that which is practised vnder other colours as it were in the cloudes and none wounded so deep as those that were shadowed vnder the cloke of religion zeale for of it commonly followed greatest destruction and calamities This he exemplified by the Anabaptists at Munster in Westphalia and some others that in like sort as they did this Hacket also affirmeth hee was sent from God was a principall Angel sent before the Iudgement that he doth participate with horror I reherse