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A63144	The tryal and condemnation of George Busby for high-treason as a Romish priest and Jesuite, upon the statute of 27 Eliz., Cap.2, at the assizes and general goal-delivery held at Derby, for the county of Derby, the 25th day of July, in the 33th year of the reign of our Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second, &c : before the Honourable Sir Thomas Street, Knight, one of the barons of His Majesties exchequer / as it was faithfully taken, by a person of quality.	Busby, George, 1638-1695, defendant.; Person of quality.; England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Derby)	1681 (1681)	Wing T2142; ESTC R28367	26,523	42

Ed. Wolmesly Gent. 6. William Horn Gent. 7. George Tricket Gent. 8. Jeremiah Ward 9. John Roper 10. John Creswel Gent. 11. Edmund Woodhead 12. Anthony Bowne Then Mr. Bridges Council for the King opened the Indictment Mr. Bridges May it please your Lordship and the Gentlemen of the Jury the Prisoner at the Bar George Busby stands Indicted for High-Treason as it is Alledged in the Indictment that he being born within the Kings Dominions and made a Priest and having received Orders by pretended Authority from the See of Rome did the 16th day of March last come into the Realm of England as 't is laid in the Indictment to West-Hallam in the County of Derby and there he did abide contrary to the Form of the Statute and this is laid to be Traiterously done To this he hath Pleaded not Guilty and we are to prove it upon him by the Kings Evidence whom we are now to call Mr. Coombes A Council for the King Gentlemen of the Jury you have heard the Indictment read and opened you will presently have it fully proved and highly aggravated by our Evidence for Gentlemen we shall prove that the Prisoner at the Bar is not only a Popish-Priest but a Jesuite and this by his own Confession and that his Name was inserted in Sir William Wallers Warrant when he came down into this Country to search for Jesuites That he has held a secret and dangerous Correspondence with Harcourt Ireland and other Popish Traytors That he has been their Procurator and disburst and received great sums of money for them Gentlemen the Prisoner hath been a person highly suspected as well as dangerous to the Government for some years for Treasonable matters of another Nature than he stands Indicted of have been deposed against him upon Oath at the Council Board and thereupon a strict Warrant to Apprehend him was directed to Mr. Gilbert a worthy Gentleman and Justice of Peace of this County Mr. Gilbert Gentlemen will presently tell you the manner of his taking him in an obscure place in the Roof of one Mr. Powtrels House at West-Hallam in this County but here I must beg leave to digress for I cannot but take notice of the malicious temper and base Practices of this sort of Men for though Mr. Gilbert acted by vertue of a VVarrant from the Lords of the Council and has since received an approbation from his Majesty of what he did under the hand of a Secretary of State yet could not those people forbear to raise false and scandalous Reports of and make false Accusations against him upon this very account but what is it they will not do to discourage Protestant Magistrates from doing their Duty against them I confess nothing is to be wondered at since the barbarous Murder of Sir Edmund-Bury-Godfrey But to proceed Gentlemen we shall also prove to you that the Prisoner is so little a friend even to the Civil-Government of this Nation that he would not suffer his Nephew Mr. Powtrel to take so much as the Oath of Allegiance which is scrupled only by the Jesuites for I think their secular Priests will generally take it Gentlemen the things I have already opened are matters of high Aggravation and come in by way of Indictment But that which in this case we rely upon is this that the Prisoner has Baptized Married Confest and absolved in the Popish way that he has given the Sacrament and said Mass very frequently in his Popish Vestments and for proof of this we have a Cloud of VVitnesses Gentlemen you hear the Prisoner is Indicted upon a Statute made in the 27th Eliz. which makes it Treason for any Subject born to take Orders from the See of Rome and afterwards to remain in England which Law I conceive was not only made for the security of the Government but also in favour of the Lay-Papists themselves for though several Statutes were made to keep them within the bounds of their Allegiance and to secure the Government from their Villanous Designes yet it was experimentally found true that no Dangers or Penalties whatsoever could deter or hinder them from Plotting against the State in order to bring us back again to the slavery of Rome whilst those jugling managers of their consciences were suffered to come amongst us and therefore I may well call this statute upon which the Prisoner stands indicted an Act of Charity to the common Papists for it was made to prevent the dangers they would otherwise run themselves into as well as the Nation 'T is true indeed Gentlemen that the lively execution of this Law has by the Clemency of our Princes and good nature of the Goverenment been many times suspended and might yet have continued in the shade had not the popish priests and Jesuits roused up this sleeping Lyon against themselves by a damnable hellish plot against his Majesties life the true Religion and well established Government of this Nation the reality of which has been confirmed to us not only by the unanswerable evidence of Colemans papers and other loyal proofs but also by frequent Proclamations and the Uniform votes and Resolutions of several Parliaments I may therefore very well borrow the words of a great Man upon the like occasion and say that at this Time of the Day it s much better to be rid of one Priest than many Fellons And therefore Gentlemen if our Evidence shall make good the Indictment I hope you will do your King your Country and your selves the right to find the Prisoner Guilty Mr. Coombes We shall call our evidence Call Mr. Gilbert who was sworn Pray tell my Lord and the Jury what you can say concerning the Prisoner at the Bar. Mr. Gilbert My Lord I dwell within two miles of Mr. Powtrells house at West Hallam the place where the Prisoner was taken and have heard that he hath been a priest in that Family six or seven years though I did never know him personally nor to the best of my knowledge ever saw him till I apprehended him which was the sixteenth of March last the very day on which the Judges went out of Derby the last Lent Assizes the first enquiry I made after him was occasioned by a Letter and a Messenger from Sir Simon Degg about November 1678 at which time I sent a Warrant to the Constable of West-Hallam to search for the said George Busby but he could not then be found at that time it was reported that he was a Jesuit and concerned in the plot which I had reason to believe because when Mr. Gray came to search Mr. Powtrells house for some Jesuits the January following by Order from the Lords of the Council in which service he commanded me to attend him we perceived Mrs. Powtrel who is Bu●bys Neece to be much troubled and in great passion the cause whereof Mr. Powtrell declared to be for fear the said search was made for her Uncle Busby who as I heard afterwards was then in the