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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51531	The narrative of Lawrence Mowbray of Leeds, in the county of York, Gent., concerning the bloody popish conspiracy against the life of His Sacred Majesty, the government, and the Protestant religion wherein is contained I. His knowledge of the said design, from the very first in the year 1676, with the opportunity he had to be acquainted therewith, ... II. How far Sir Thomas Gascoigne, Sir Miles Stapleton, &c. are engaged in the design of killing the King and firing the cities of London and York, for the more speedy setting uppermost the popish religion in England, III. An account of the assemblings of many popish priests and Jesuits at Father Rishton's Chamber ..., IV. The discovery of the erecting a nunnery at Dolebank in Yorkshire ..., V. A manifestation of the papists fraudulent conveying of their estates, himself being privy to some of them, VI. A probable opinion concerning the Jesuits, the grand instruments in these affairs : together with an account of the endeavours that were used to stifle his evidence, by making an attempt upon his life in Leicester-Fields.	Mowbray, Lawrence.	1680 (1680)	Wing M2994; ESTC R10191	28,403	35

February the 5th 1679 80 I Do appoint Thomas Simmons and Jacob Sampson to Print this my Narrative and that no other Print the same nor any part of it Lawr. Mowbray THE NARRATIVE OF Lawrence Mowbray Of LEEDS In the County of YORK Gent. Concerning the Bloody Popish Conspiarcy against the Life of His Sacred Majesty the Government and the Protestant Religion Wherein is Contained I. His Knowledge of the said Design from the very first in the year 1676. with the opportunity he had to be acquainted therewith and the Reasons why he concealed it so long with the manner of his discovering the said wicked Project to His Majesty and His most Honourable Privy Council II. How far Sir Thomas Gascoigne Sir Miles Stapleton c. are engaged in the design of Killing the King and Firing the Cities of London and York for the more speedy setting uppermost the Popish Religion in England III. An Account of the Assemblings of many Popish Priests and Jesuits at Father Rishton's Chamber at Sir Tho. Gascoigne's House at Barmebow with their Consultations and Determinations IV. A Discovery of the Erecting a Nunnery at Dolebank in Yorkshire by the Popish Party especially by Sir Thomas Gascoigne with an Account of an Estate of ninety pounds per Annum settled thereupon by him V. A Manifestation of the Papists fraudulent conveying of their Estates himself being privy to some of them VI. A probable opinion concerning the Jesuits the grand Instruments in these Affairs With other Considerable Matters relating to the Plot. Together with an Account of the Endeavours that were used to stifle his Evidence by making an Attempt upon his Life in Leicester-Fields LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Princes Arms and Jacob Sampson next door to the Wonder-Tavern in Ludgate-Street MDCLXXX To the Right Honourable Heneage Lord Finch Baron of Daventry Lord High Chancellor of England and One of His Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council My LORD I Dare not permit the ensuing Papers to approach your Lordships presence without an Apology For had not your Lordship afforded some signal Encouragement to the poor Author nothing of This had presumed to interrupt your Lordships great Thoughts and Cares And yet the subject matter herein contained besides your particular Favours afforded to my self which I hope at least in my desires and design is contributory to the prevention of eminent dangers to King and Kingdom may plead my excuse as not unworthy of your Lordships Consideration who is so great a Lover of them both and hath so immediate a concern in their preservation If I had the Pen of a Demosthenes or a Cicero or to sum them up both in one your own I might then have adventured to enlarge on the Theme of your Lordships Merit which is able to inspirit the most jejune and barren Orator but in regard it Transcends the small pittance of my disused skill I shall rather be silent than speak too little of what I am never able to speak enough I have read in our Chronicles concerning Q. Elizabeth that never any Prince who swayed the English Scepter had more sapient and vigilant Councellors than Her Majesty Amongst whom I have heard it reported of Sir Francis Walsingham Secretary of State in Queen Elizabeths time that he was so prudently watchful over the designs of the Popish Emissaries and Priests that he maintained divers private Agents for that purpose in Rome it self who did so cunningly and dissemblingly carry the matter that the Pope himself in suae infallibilitatis opprobrium paid Pensions to some of those Setters who probably pretended to do service on both sides for no such Key to unlock the Apostolical Chamber nay the very Conclave as a disguised yet fugitive Privado It cannot be denied but those days were very critical when Parry Squire c. were suborned and encouraged by the Jesuited party to Murther that Queen and upon that account extraordinary diligence was required in the Ministers of State to prevent any inconvenience which by the policy of the Romanists might accrue to their Queen Lady and Mistress And herein she was as happy in her Servants as they were prosperous in their success leaving her to expire in a good old age as a fruit of their vigilance and care next to Gods blessing and protection over her I know our times are as designing as theirs and the means used to accomplish their purpose of destroying our King and Government is suitable to what methods were then put in practise either by Poyson Assassination or the like And therefore it is Gods goodness to our King and Kingdom to raise up many Walsinghams I mean Honourable and Faithful Councellors who watch night and day for the preservation of His Majesties person and the true Protestant Religion amongst us Amongst these your Lordship is placed in the highest Orb and that not by a casual frolick by which yet some are advanced of blind Favour but by a just and acknowledged desert after several remarkable Gradations of Dignities and Offices which were but praevious to that Eminency wherewith your Lordship now shines It is therefore the happiness of His Majesty to be so served and secured and not his alone but all those concerned in the discovery of this wicked and hellish Design have reason to bless God for the acknowledged protection and encouragement which you are pleased to afford them and in particular to my self The Tribute I am to pay your Lordship is only my humble acknowledgment more I cannot less I may not the same which God is pleased to accept from thankful supplicants I had it first in my thoughts to have made my Epistolary Address to His Majesty himself and I was encouraged thereunto by some Instances wherein mean persons have addressed themselves unto great Potentates to forewarn them of their dangers I shall only cite two Examples both being of our Kings Predecessors one sitting on the Scotish another on the English Throne both which are now happily united in the person of our Royal Soveraign 1. When King James the 4th of Scotland was preparing his Army to fight against the English in the battel of Floddin being in the midst of his Nobles and Collonels at prayer a Grave ancient Country-man pressed in through the crowd to the Kings Chair and leaning familiarly thereon told him That he and his followers should not prosper in that War and therefore he wished him to desist Buchan Hist Scot. lib. 13. The King not hearkning to his counsel was slain in that Fight together with the Flower of the Scots Nobility and Gentry There are enough which will sow Pillows under the elbows of Princes and flatter them even in their evils for as one says as soon a hot May without Flies as Courts without Flatterers But 't were well if the Chambers of Kings were sometimes open to the persons of Loyal and well-affected Plebeians who being but standers by to speak proverbially yet many times may see more than the Gamesters and