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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46751	The narrative of Robert Jenison of Grays-Inn, Esquire containing I. a further discovery and confirmation of the late horrid and treasonable popish plot against His Majestie's person, government, and the Protestant religion, II. the names of the four ruffians, designed to have murthered the King, III. the reasons why this discovery hath been so long deferred, by the said Robert Jenison, IV. an order of His Majesty in Council touching the same ... : together with a preface introductory to the said narrative.	Jenison, Robert, 1648-1688.	1679 (1679)	Wing J561; ESTC R11080	31,524	50

Ireland was in London August the Twenty Ninth as he mistakes it whereas my Depositions spake of August the Nineteenth that I saw and discoursed Him here Where he was the Twenty Ninth of that Month doth not affect me but at the time by me Deposed I am sure my Brother nor no Person living could ever see Him the said Ireland in any other place unless it were possible for the same man to have Two Bodies in Two different places at one and the same time 4. And whereas he alleadges in his Letter that I told him I could prove Titus Oates perjured I confess the great affection I had for him as a Brother did set my thoughts at work at that time for the invalidating the Testimony of Mr. Oates so far at least as my Brother was concerned therein but it can in no sort be concluded that by what I said by my Brother or asserted in a Petition upon that occasion presented by me to His Majesty That I should have been able although I should have sworn it to invalidate the Testimony of Mr. Oates much less that I was perswaded in my self that there was no Plot or that I would have him to acknowledge that which in his Letter he calls an Incredible Story The Matter being too apparent to be hid 5. The charge of Perfidiousness Apostacy for so it amounts unto of imitating yea out-doing Judas himself c. is grounded on a false Basis viz. That the Church of Rome to use a Scripture Expression is the Pillar and Ground of Truth and therefore my interposing for the continuance of Reformed Protestancy in these Nations as far as my weak endeavours can contribute thereto not to mention my embracing thereof and deserting the Roman Church is in their sense hiding and driving the Truth from the Nation which censure how well or rather how ill Grounded it is let all true Protestants yea let all sober Christians of whatsoever perswasion provided they be not of their Interested Church judge and determine 6. The Weeping which my Brother misconstrues in his Letter to me was on this occasion I went to give him a Visit in Newgate partly out of Brotherly Kindness and Respect and partly by my Father's encouragement to move him to make some Confession and Acknowledgment where finding him who had had Liberal Education abroad in the World and was besides so nearly related to me to be shut up in a Close Prison and knowing him to be under the Character of the deepest Guilt I was so far transported with Natural Affection which I hope is no Crime in the Profession of any Religion as to break out into Tears proceeding from some Emotion of Spirit on so sad a Spectacle when it was not at all out of Reflection or Guilt in my self which might in any sort assimilate my case to St. Peter's whose sin if I were guilty of I would willingly tread in the same foosteps of his Repentance But my carriage at that time was so far from being imputable to me as a Crime that if I mistake not my Brother might rather have accepted it as an Argument of my sincere and Brotherly affection to him as indeed it was 7. Though I heartily wish to all those concerned in this Plot true repentance and amendment of life and cannot say Amen to the Issue of their endeavours hoped for and expected by Them yet my Testimony hath not been instrumental to the condemnation or suffering of Mr. Ireland as is suggested without ground in the Letter for his Tryal and Condemnation was past before any Evidence of mine in relation to him came to be published And as to my endeavour to prejudice my Brother which is there also intimated I reply that my visit to him was purposely in order to his preservation his Person abstracting from his Crimes having been and yet is always notwithstanding the Severity of his Censures dear to me whose safety I shall study as well as my own as the event I hope will make appear And as for all others concerned in the Plot I shall count it a great mercy if their Designs may be obviated and prevented without shedding any more Blood After this Grand Charge by my own Brother whose Letter I have thus opened and dissected I have been further assaulted by Female Addresses that so if possible the entreaties of that Sex might take me off from prosecuting my Discovery and that in a Critical Juncture of time immediatly before the Tryal of Sir George Wakeman Hear then how a Kinswoman of mine and her Mother my Aunt residing in Staffordshire have accosted me by their Letters out of the Country A Letter to Robert Jenison Esq from his Cousin Harwell Dearest Cousin I Think my Mother is the onely Aunt you have in the world if you have either Compassion for her or Kindness for me I beg of you for the love of God to recall your pernicious Mistakes for so we are sure they be and may prove to be of very dangerous Consequence to your Soul disgrace to your Family and Ruine to your Brother We do impute it to some Oppression of the Fancy since you had that great Fit of Sickness rather then any thing of Will to doe so great an Injustice either to the Living or Dead My most dear Cousin let me beg of you to desist and not so much as to have a Thought of any such Thing which Fancy in time through God's Goodness may pass away My Mother saith she could tell you of a very near Relation of yours that came to her and wept extreamly She demanded the Cause he answered his Sister was Dead My Mother said she should have heard of it if that had been so he notwithstanding persisted saying that he saw her Dead It prov'd to be nothing but a weakness of his Fancy and that Sister to my Mother's Knowledge was alive twenty years after I believe the strange Death of our Cousin might work and create strange Fancies in you that had so great a Fit of Sickness that you lay Dead for a Time as I was told Dear Cousin I do most intirely love you which makes me so free with you and I assure you my Mother can scarce either eat or drink or sleep she is so full of Sorrow I fear if you persist wilfully you will break the Heart of your onely Aunt and my Dear Mother which will more afflict then you can imagin Your most affectionate Cousin and Servant C. H. July the 7th 1679. POSTSCRIPT We shall have no ease till we hear from you pray let it be speedily Superscribed to Mr. Robert Jenison at his Chamber in Grayes-Inne After this Letter from the Daughter and my Answer thereunto I received the two following Epistles from her Mother Superscribed also to me at Grayes-Inne Madam Harwell's Letter to her Nephew Robert Jenison Esq Dear Nephew I Received your Letter which gave me no satisfaction in the Contents but your Civility in Returning an Answer I acknowledge and

Let such know That the Disclosing the Four Ruffians who were designed to do so Black a Deed is wholly due to Mr. Jenison's Informations mentioned herein For though other Evidences have concurred in the number of Four and in their Designation to that Bloody Fact yet who they were none hath nominated but Himself A Circumstance of that Moment that much of the Credibility of the whole Conspiracy doth depend thereupon Besides One and the same subject may be cultivated by several Pens according to the diversities of Style and Method and their respective Knowledges of different Occurrences relating to the same Argument which Variety doth not weary but refresh the Reader nor detract from but corroborate former Evidences especially His Majestie having declared his great Satisfaction which he received from this Testimony And yet This Theme is not so wholly drained but that room is left both for this Gentleman and other Discoverers to make their further Additions thereunto And in the mean time I question not but the unprejudiced Reader will find his Expectation sufficiently answered in the Ensuing Narrative THE Narrative it Self I Cannot deny but that all the while I was engaged in the Profession of the Religion of the Church of Rome I was very unwillingly drawn to make any discovery of what I knew concerning the late horrid Plot and Conspiracy partly because the Grand Concern of the thing it self did much amaze me for great expectances of extraordinary Events as well as deep Sorrows do rather tie than unloose the Tongue partly also because a Brother a Couzen Germane and several other of my intimate Friends and Acquaintance all of the Roman Communion being deeply engaged therein I was willing so far to consult their safety as not to be influential to their prejudice by any act of mine To which I shall add the concern of my Religion it self then judged by me to be the best which I knew would undergo an undeleble blot of Scandal and Reproach in case any discovery were made of these horrid actings by its Professors besides the stain and infamy it would affix on my Self and Family which had hitherto lived in good repute in case we had been found conscious thereunto But the main of the Plot having been discovered by others I came to be further Instrumental in the clearing of many Particulars relating thereunto upon the following occasion Robert Bowes of Gray's Inn Esquire Son to Sir Francis Bowes was my Country-man and Neighbour betwixt whom and my self there had interceeded several Offices of strict Friendship and not unfrequent intercourses by Letters he the said Mr. Bowes wrote me one Letter being then retired to Reading in obedience to his Majestie 's Proclamation for banishing all Papists to such a distance from London signifying that my Father was coming up to London from the North his Errand being to perswade my Brother then and yet a Prisoner on suspicion of the Plot to make a discovery of what he knew thereof and withall he acquainted me that it would be an acceptable Service to King and Country if I would cast in my mite towards the compleating that discovery for he did presume that upon the account of my strictness in that Religion and my acquaintance with and interest in many of the Ecclesiasticks of the Roman Church especially in my Kinsman Mr. William-Ireland who was a principal man amongst them I must needs have a more than ordinary knowledge of their Designs and besides by declaring what I knew I might provide for my own Indemnity it being a Rule in the Law That there are no Accessaries in Treason but the Conscious as well as the Actors are all lyable to the same punishment Being thus strongly assaulted by my Friend I yielded to his importunity resolving nevertheless so to poize my self in my discovery as to save my own stake and yet not much to endanger any of my Friends Hereupon I wrote that Letter to Mr. Bowes in answer to his dated from Reading December 19. 1678. which hath already been published in print wherein I did so labour to vail and palliate the Truth that doubtful expressions might be taken in the most favourable sense and that it might be perceived my intention was not to bring any on the Stage for though my Couzen Ireland's being in London and there discoursed by me were therein clearly and positively asserted according to Truth yet upon the first resuming that matter in discourse betwixt Sir Michael Wharton Mr. Bowes and my self after Ireland's Trial I was so startled that I was in effect willing to recede therefrom rather than cast a Note and imputation of falshood on such a known Father of that Church but that my own Hand and Letter to Mr. Bowes would then have witnessed against me and my conscience also have flown in my face for denying an evident Truth And my strong Asseverations mentioned in that Letter wherein I seem peremptory and conclusive of my self under high Protestations as to any further knowledge in those matters do stand on the same foot for at that time not being shaken in the Principles of the Romish Religion I did count it my duty to consult for the Honour of it by concealing the guilt of its Professors Besides my Conversation having been most among the Seculars I had not such Doctrines infused into me as the Deposing or Murdering of Kings and what contrary Principles these Jesuits with whom I sometimes conversed laboured to instil into me they did it not at first directly and in express words but according to their known Art by Ambages and Circumlocutions that their Pills thus guilded might be the better swallowed yet to those who were acquainted with their Language their meaning was easily intelligible though not expressed in plain words and if at any time they were more free and open in their intimations to me yet I was then so far guilty of humane frailty as by my silence to suffer affection to oversway judgment especially the Honour of my then Church and the safety of my Relations and my self being concerned therein moreover I was always looked upon by the Fathers of that Church as a Person wholly addicted to Loyalty and Obedience to my lawful Sovereign and altogether averse from all actions base and immoral and besides having an universal love for all Mankind I did rather compassionate their seduction from the way of Truth as I then thought it then judge it fit to endeavour their conviction by the cruel Arguments of Sword Fire and Fagot hence it was that I often urged to my Couzen Ireland in discourse the Example of Christ who brought not in armatum Evangelium but by true Doctrine and the Example of a holy life did labour to convince the World whose pattern ought to be our Rule for if our Saviour would not have Fire from Heaven called down upon the Samaritans who refused to receive him why should we labour to propagate our Opinions and Religion by ways so contrary