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A43957	The History of the whiggish-plot, or, A brief historical account of the charge and deefnce [sic] of [brace] William Lord Russel, Capt. Tho. Walcot, John Rouse, William Hone, Captain Blague, [brace] Algernoon Sidney, Esq., Sir Sam. Barnardiston, John Hambden, Esq., Lawrence Braddon, Hugh Speak, Esq. together with an account of the proceedings upon the outlawry against James Holloway, and Sir Thomas Armstrong : not omitting any one material passage in the whole proceeding : humbly dedicated to His Royal Highness.	Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50.	1684 (1684)	Wing H2190B; Wing T3309_CANCELLED; ESTC R41849	81,748	75

Debates That against doing it upon Several debates when to execute the design going down it was objected that the Guards were left here and there and they went together but very often they return'd apart and therefore it was not the safest way going down and besides nothing else being prepared it was resolved to be done coming back That then it was considered what Arms were to be provided which matter Mr. Rumbold undertook to manage and to procure some Blunderblusses some Carbines and some Pistols but as for other persons they were to provide every one for himself The Witness further added that he asked Mr. Ferguson what provision of Money he had made who answered that he should have Money when the Men were provided That there were several debates about the manner of Conveighance of the Arms to Rumbolds House but no Resolution taken Then it was considered how they should put the Design in Execution upon which it was proposed That one party was to fall upon the Coach-Horses a second upon the Coach and a third upon the Guards and that for Captain Walcot he would undertake nothing but the Guards Capt. Walcot would undertake nothing but the Guards Here Captain Walcot interrupted the Witness with an Interrogatory calling out what do you say Sir to which the Kings Evidence made answer with an Affirmative that the Prisoner at the Bar was at his Chamber and said that he vvas to command the Party of Horse that vvere to attack the Guards vvho vvere to lye perdue at Rumbolds House till the King just came dovvn upon them Being asked vvhere the Arms vvere to be carried He said to Rumbolds House vvho said he could keep them all private vvhere no body could see them till the time of Execution that there vvas a Gate vvhich he could shut upon the Guards to prevent their coming into the Rescue that Mr. Rumbold said he vvould bring them off and because it vvas dangerous for them to go the road vvay he vvould carry them over the Meadows and come in by Hackney Marsh But the way which the Prisoner at the Bar did most approve Walcot's way to get off when the business was done of was to retire within the Wall and there keep close till night as being a place which they could defend against any force for a days time and that this Resolution was taken at his Chamber Then the Witness recollecting himself told the Court there was one thing which he had omitted which was that in the first Discourse with Captain VValcot concerning the Insurrection in November the Prisoner at the Bar told him that the Lord Shaftsbury was preparing a Declaration to be published in case of an Assassination or Insurrection and asked him if he would undertake to draw one telling him that he had made some Collect●ons toward it himself and shewed him a Paper which was a Collection of all the Passages in the Raigns of King James K. Charles the First and this King which he called Attempts to introduce Arbitrary Government and Popery taxing them with some personal Vices and concluding that the Government was Dissolved and that therefore they were free to se●●le another to which the Witness made answer that such an Untertaking required Mr. West refuses to draw a Declaration an exact Knowledge in History and that he would not undertake a thing for which he was not Competent and that hereupon Captain Walcot desired him to burn the Paper vvhich he did Being asked what Meetings there were after the disappointm●nt He answered that when the News of the Fire came they Adjourned to his Chamber and there considered what they had to do and endeavoured to put things in a posture to see if it could be done another day To which purpose as far as he could remember they met Thursday and Friday Night But because they said the King would be at home the next day the business vvas laid aside That about a day or tvvo after he met Collonel Rumsey at the The reason why the Arms were called Swans-Quills c. Dolphin Tavern at vvhat time Mr. Keeling came in that there Collonel Rumsey vvas talking of Pistols and Blunderbusses in dovvn right English That thereupon the Witn●ss admonished them that it vvas a foolish thing to talk so before Drawers vvhich vvas the occasion of calling them by the Names of Swans-quills Goose-quills and Crows-quills That the next vveek the Prisoner at the Bar Mr. Goodenough Mr. Ferguson one N●rton and one Ayliff met at the George and Vulture vvhere after some discourse of the late Disappointment the reason of vvhich vvas that they had not Arms in Readiness they agreed that Arms should be bought ten Blunderbusses Twenty or two and Twenty Inches in the Ba●rel Thirty Carbines Eighteen Inches and Thirty Cases of Pistols of Fourteen Inches That the Witn●ss vvas ordered to provide these Arms because he could be no other way serviceable to them and could have a pretence for buying them because he had a Plantation in America That he did bespeak the said Arms and pay for them but had not his money a good while after but at length was paid Fourscore and Thirteen Guneys which was something more then the Arms cost and that he believed the Money was paid by Mr. Charleton That in case the Assassination had gone on they had designed to kill the Lord Maior and the Sh●riffs as many of the Lieutenancy as they could get and the The Mayor Sheriff● c. to be killed as also the Earl of Roch●ster Lord K●●per Lord Hallifax Principal Ministers of State The Lord Rochester as being like to stand to the Duke's Interest The Lord Keeper because he had the Great Seal whom they also intended to hang upon the same Post that College was hang'd upon for his Death The Lord Hallifax as being one that profest himself of the Party before and turned from the Right side That Sir John Moore was to be kill'd as Sir John Moor. a Betrayer of the Rights and Liberties of the City that the Judges were to be flead and stuft and hung up in Westminster Hall and several of the Pentionary Parliament as Betrayers of the Rights of the People And that the Prisoner at the Bar was sometimes at these Meetings when these things were discoursed of though not so often as the rest That after the News of the Fire the Prisoner said that he beleived God shewed his Disappointment of these things and desired to have his Name concealed upon which Mr. Ferguson ask'd him why he should be ashamed saying that it was a glorious Action which he hoped to see publickly gratify'd by the Parliament and questioned not but the Prisoner would be fam'd for it and have Statues erected for him with the Title of Liberator Patriae The Witness farther added that when the Mayor and Sheriffs Papillion and Dubois designed Sheriffs and Ald. Cornish Mayor were killed they designed that Mr. Papillion and Dubois should

Council that should take care of the whole they resolved to erect a little Cabal among themselves consisting of six Persons which were the Duke of Monmouth the Lord Russel the Earl of Essex Mr Hampden Junior Algernoon Sidney Esq and Himself That these six Persons met about the middle of February at Mr. Hampden's House where it was agreed what their Business was which was to take care of the whole That as to particulars the things that Challenged their care should be Whether the Insurrection were most proper to be begun in London or in the Country or both in an Instant What Countries Towns were fittest most dispos'd to Acti●n What Armes were necessary to be got and how to be disposed How to Raise a Common Bank of 25 or 30000 l. to answer all Occasions And lastly how to order it so as to draw Scotland to consent with them it being thought necessary that all Diversion should be given That there was another Meeting of all the same six Persons ten days after at the Lord Russel's House where they came to a Resolution A Council of six erected of which the Prisoner one A second meeting at the Lord Russel's House That some Persons should be sent to the Lord Arguile to settle an Understanding with him and that some Mess●ngers should be send into Scotland to invite some Persons hither that were judged most able to understand the State of Scotland and give an Accompt of it That the Persons agreed on were Sir John Cockrane and the Lord Melvin with one more whose Name he since understood to be Sir Campbel And that in Discourse it was refer'd to Colonel Sidney to take care of that Business That afterwards Colonel Sidney told him he had sent Aaron Smith and given sixty Guineys for his Journey Being ask'd whether he was sure the Lord Russel was at that The Lord Russel at the Meeting about Scotland and consented to it Meeting He Answered That he wish'd he could not say it Being ask'd whether he consented the Lord Howard made Answer That they did not put it to the Vote but it went without Contradiction and he so took it that all that were present gave their consent The Lord Russel being now permitted to ask the Lord Howard any Questions said That what the Lord Howard had said of him was only Hearsay That the two times they met it was upon no formed Design only to talk of News and Things in General That the Lord Howard was a Man of a voluble Tongue talk'd well was full of Discourse and they were delighted to hear him That for the Scotch Gentlemen he never saw any of them only the Lord Melvil he had seen but not upon this Accompt There the Atturney General urg'd That Aaron Smith did go into Scotland and that Campbel he went for was taken and then call'd Mr. Atterbury Mr. Atterbury swear Sir Hugh Campbel in Custody the Messenger to prove his Apprehension who being Sworn Declared That Sir Hugh Campbel was then in his Custody and that he had been by his own Confession four days in London before he was Apprehend●d Then Mr. West being Sworn Declared That as to the Lord Russel he never had any Conversation with him at all but that Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Rumsey told him That the Lord Russel intended to go down and take his Post in the West where Mr. Trenchard The Lord Russel the person most looked upon by the Party had fail'd them And that they always said The Lord Russel was a Man they most depended upon because he was a Person lookt upon as of great Sobriety Here the Court Declared That what Colonel Rumsey or Mr. Ferguson told Mr. West was no Evidence so that the King's Councel resolved to rest upon what they had already prov'd The sum then o● the Evidence against the Lord Russel was That Colonel Rumsey was sent upon a Trayterous Message by the Earl of Shaftsbury to a Meeting where his Lordship was and that the Answer was return'd his Lordship being there and that there was a Discourse at the same time of an Insurrection to be made and a Declaration read to be Printed upon the Rising seting forth the Oppressions and Grievances of the Nation and Discourse of surprising the Guards That six Persons of which his Lordship was one did erect themselves into a Council to manage the Insurrection and Raising of Men. To all this the Lord Russel made Answer That he could not but think himself mighty unfortunate to stand there Charg'd His Defence with so high a Crime and that intermix'd with the Horrid Practises and Speeches of other People while the King's Council took all advantages to heighten things against him That he was no Lawyer and a very unready Speaker and altogether a Stranger to things of this Nature That he was sensible he was not so provided as to make his Defence as otherwise he should do But that his Lordship thought the Gentlemen of the Jury were Men of Consciences that valu'd Innocent Blood and hop'd they would consider the Witnesses that they Swore to save their own Liv●s Neither was what Colonel Rumsey Swore enough to take away his Life or if it were the time was Elapsed by the 13th of the King which limits Prosecution to Six Months Neither was the Design of L●vying War Treason unless it appeared by some Overt Act as appears by the 25th of Ed●ard the 3d. And then desiring to know upon what Statute he was Endicted it was told him by the Statute of the 25th of Edward the 3d. upon which he insisted He insists upon two Points of the Law and desires Council upon these two Points as Matter of Law and prayed to be heard by his Council whether the Treason were duly prov'd und if it were whether it were punishable by the Statute In Answer to which the Court informed him That if he were contented that the Fact should be taken as prov'd against him and desired Counsel upon what was bare Matter of Law he he should have it granted but that there could be no Matter of Law admitted but upon a Fact admitted and stated And whereas he insisted that the business a● Mr. Shepheard's House was sworn to only by one Witness It was Answered That if there were one Witness of one Act of Treason another of a second another of a third that manifested the same Treason it was sufficient After the Lord Russel had several times insisted upon the same The Lord Anglesey Objections and had received several undeniable Answers to the same effect the Lord Anglesey stood up who declared That upon a Visit which he gave the Earl of Bedford in his trouble for the Affliction of his Son the Lord Howard came in while he was there and to comfort the Earl us'd these Expressions My Lord you are happy in h●ving a wise Son and a worthy Pers●n one that can never sure be in such a Plot as this or

heard which seemed to contradict the Inquisition That some time after being at a Coffee-Hous● Braddon and Edwards came to him and there they began to talk and Edwards said that Braddon had been with his Child to examine him to bear Testimony about flinging the Razor out of the Window upon the Report which the Boy had made out upon which he adviz'd them to forbear talking any farther about the Matter for that it might do Braddon and Edwards both an Injury Edwards Swore that he heard the Report first from his Family Edwards's Evidence and that afterwards the Boy confirmed the Truth of it but afterwards he heard the Boy had denyed it which was after Braddon had been there to enquire concerning it Then he Swore that Braddon came to him again and that then he had got a note dictated by himself and not by the Boy which being tendered to the Boy the Boy refused to put his hand to it Upon which Mr. Braddon came again another time though he was told the Boy had deny'd it and then the Boy did set his hand to it Withal he said the Boy was us'd to tell Lyes very often which his Family told him also and that more especially to make Excuses when he played Truant The Boy being put upon his Oath with all the tenderness and The Boy upon his Oath admonitions that could be us'd Swore positively That he told his Mother and Mr. Braddon what he had Reported concerning the Razor was true at first but when his Sister bid him be sure to tell nothing but what was Truth then he said Truly it was not Truth He farther Swore That Mr. Braddon offer'd him a Paper to Sign but he would not Sign it and being ask'd the Question why he would not He Answered Because it was not true and being ask'd whether Braddon had notice of this both the Mother and Sisters all Swore That Braddon had notice that the Boy had denyed it The Boy deny'd also upon his Oath That he had ever say'd He was going to see the Lord Gerard of Brandon's Lodgings though Braddon had put it into the Paper which he made him Sign He farther Swore That Mr. Braddon came to him a second time after he had refus'd and that then it was that Mr. Brandon imposing upon him and pretending there was no harm to him but that if there were it would redound to Braddon himself he was then prevail'd upon to put his Name to that which was notoriously false Dr. Hawkins's Son of the Tower deposed That he likewise D. Hawkins his Sons Testimony played Truant that Morning that upon the Report of the Earl of Essex's having cut his Throat he went back to the Tower and was there a considerable time gaping among the People and that he saw Edwards's Boy there that he was there all the time he was there that they went out of the Tower together and that there was no such thing nor any grounds for such a Report Mr. Brathwayt who was present when Mr. Braddon was before Mr. Brathwayt the King deposed That the Boy and the Girl were fetch'd and all Persons examin'd and that after this it was told him That all that the Boy had said was false and by his Faith it was a Lye That Braddon confessed he would have got some Justices of the Peace to have examin'd the Boy and to that purpose apply'd himself to Sir Robert Clayton and Sir John Lawrence but because they would not do it privately he would not let them do it at all That the right Words of one of the Sisters being examin'd before the King to the best of his remembrance was That Braddon compell'd the Boy to Sign it Mr. Monstevens depos'd That Mr. Braddon came to him and shew'd him the Boys Information which he read and thereupon by way of caution told him That he wonder'd Sir H. Capel did not appear in a Matter of that Moment To which Braddon reply'd That Sir H. Capel was ill and could not come himself But being told that Sir H. Capel was not so ill but that he had been with the Earl of Sunderland and the King too since the Death of the Earl of Essex he made no Answer only that he did it out of the Duty he ow'd to the Memory of the Lord of Essex Sir H. Capel upon Oath declar'd That Mr. Braddon came to Sir H. Capel him to tell him he had some Discovery to make concerning the Death of the Earl of Essex to whom Sir Henry reply'd That if he had any thing of that Nature he should go to a Secretary of State Mr. Beech being Sworn deposed That when he was seiz'd in Mr. Beech's deposition the Country by the Warrant of one Mr. Aires there was found about him severel Informations of his own contriving as of Edwards's Boy of the little Girl Lodeman a L●tter from one Burgess a Pinmaker in Marleborough to the Post-Master of Froom to this effect Pray call to mind such a business of a Report of my Lord The substance of Burgess's Letter of Essex's cutting his Throat upon Fryday the 13th of July last Pray recollect your self and impart it to this Bearer In this Letter it appeared That Mr. Burgess had put it in his Letter the 6th of June but upon Mr. Braddons telling him that he had mistaken it must be the 13th the same Burges's accordingly interlin'd the 13th of July to make it humour the Story Against Mr. Speak there was no other Evidence than the Letter Speak's Letter which was taken out of Braddons Pocket in the Country directed to Sir Robert Atkins and by Mr. Brathwayt Sworn to have been own'd by Mr. Speak himself before the King and Council The substance of which was That Braddon a very Honest Gentleman the Prosecutor of the Murder of the Earl of Essex had made a considerable Discovery of it notwithstanding the hard stream he ran against That he had sent him his Man for fear he should be stabb'd or knockt in th● head in those Parts and desired Sir Robert ' s advice how he should proce●d admonishing him withal to call him by the Name of Johnson Then going on in the first Person Plural we hope said he to bring on the Earl of Essex's Murder to a Tryal before th●y can any of th●se in the Tower c. We labour under many difficulties as the Tide runs at pres●nt c. To this the chief of Mr. Speaks Defence was That he wrote the Letter at such a time at Night after he had been at the Tavern His Defence that he knew not well what he wrote That he knew nothing but what he had from Braddon and that he was no otherwise concern'd or knew any of the Matter So that the Lord Chief Justice left it to the Jury whether they believ'd he had written the Letter with a Design to have the Lye spread abroad for that then he was as guilty in every