A true narrative of the Popish-plot against King Charles I and the Protestant religion as it was discovered by Andreas ab Habernfeld to Sir William Boswel Ambassador at the Hague, and by him transmitted to Archbishop Laud, who communicated it to the King : the whole discoovery being found amongst the Archbishops papers, when a prisoner in the Tower, by Mr. Prynn (who was ordered to search them by a committee of the then Parliament) on Wednesday, May 31, 1643 : with some historical remarks on the Jesuits, and A vindication of the Protestant dissenters from disloyalty : also, A compleat history of the Papists late Presbyterian plot discovered by Mr. Dangerfield, wherein an account is given of some late transactions of Sir Robert Peyton.
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A true narrative of the Popish-plot against King Charles I and the Protestant religion as it was discovered by Andreas ab Habernfeld to Sir William Boswel Ambassador at the Hague, and by him transmitted to Archbishop Laud, who communicated it to the King : the whole discoovery being found amongst the Archbishops papers, when a prisoner in the Tower, by Mr. Prynn (who was ordered to search them by a committee of the then Parliament) on Wednesday, May 31, 1643 : with some historical remarks on the Jesuits, and A vindication of the Protestant dissenters from disloyalty : also, A compleat history of the Papists late Presbyterian plot discovered by Mr. Dangerfield, wherein an account is given of some late transactions of Sir Robert Peyton.
Habervešl z Habernfeldu, Ondřej.
Boswell, William, Sir, d. 1649.
Laud, William, 1573-1645.
Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
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A
TRUE
NARRATIVE
OF
THE
POPISH-PLOT
AGAINST
King
CHARLES
I.
AND
THE
Protestant
Religion
:
As
it
was
Discovered
by
Andreas
ab
Habernfeld
to
Sir
William
Boswel
Ambassador
at
the
Hague
,
and
by
him
Transmitted
to
Archbishop
Laud
,
who
Communicated
it
to
the
King.
The
whole
Discovery
being
found
amongst
the
Archbishops
Papers
,
when
a
Prisoner
in
the
Tower
,
by
Mr.
Prynn
(
who
was
ordered
to
search
them
by
a
Committee
of
the
then
Parliament
)
on
Wednesday
,
May
31.
1643.
WITH
Some
HISTORICAL
REMARKS
on
the
JESUITS
,
and
a
Vindication
of
the
Protestant
Dissenters
from
Disloyalty
.
ALSO
A
Compleat
HISTORY
of
the
Papists
late
Presbyterian
PLOT
DISCOVERED
BY
Mr.
DANGERFIELD
,
Wherein
an
Account
is
given
of
some
late
Transactions
of
Sir
ROBERT
PEYTON
.
LONDON
,
Printed
for
Robert
Harford
at
the
Angel
in
Cornhil
,
near
the
Royal
Exchange
:
M.
DC
.
LXXX
.
THE
PREFACE
.
IT
may
appear
strange
to
some
,
that
this
Conspiracy
against
King
Charles
I.
was
never
divulged
till
found
by
Mr.
Prynn
in
1643.
seeing
it
was
known
both
to
the
King
and
Archbishop
in
1640.
But
if
they
do
but
reflect
upon
the
Actions
of
those
Times
,
the
Wonder
will
cease
:
For
these
Romish
Traytors
having
by
their
Devillish
Cunning
raised
a
Rebellion
in
Scotland
,
and
fomented
the
Divisions
between
His
Majesty
and
Parliament
to
that
heighth
,
as
soon
after
brake
forth
into
a
most
bloody
and
unnatural
War
between
Prince
and
People
:
His
Majesty
(
as
they
design'd
)
was
sufficiently
Diverted
for
the
present
;
and
afterwards
(
the
Devil
of
Discontent
raised
by
these
wicked
Incendiaries
of
Rome
,
proving
too
Head-strong
for
them
,
and
threatning
their
ruin
)
the
Conspirators
were
so
disperss'd
,
that
it
would
have
been
a
difficult
thing
for
His
Majesty
(
if
he
had
been
free
from
the
Rebellious
Clamours
of
Be-Jesuited
Men
)
to
have
brought
them
to
Conviction
.
The
Person
who
had
the
greatest
Opportunity
of
Advancing
this
Design
,
was
Sir
F.
W.
a
Man
in
all
outward
appearance
a
Protestant
,
and
verily
believed
to
be
so
by
the
Archbishop
,
whose
Interest
with
the
King
made
him
Secretary
of
State
;
as
we
find
it
set
down
by
the
Archbishop
in
the
Journal
of
his
Life
,
in
these
words
,
June
25.
1631.
Mr.
Fr.
Windebank
,
my
old
Friend
,
was
Sworn
Secretary
of
State
,
which
Place
I
obtained
for
him
of
my
Gracious
Master
KING
CHARLES
.
How
Industrious
this
Secretary
was
in
carrying
on
the
PLOT
,
may
partly
appear
by
the
Charge
against
him
in
Parliament
,
Novem.
12.
and
Decem
.
1.
1640.
viz.
Seventy
four
Letters
of
Grace
to
Recusants
in
Four
Years
,
Sixty
four
Priests
discharged
by
his
Warrants
,
Twenty
nine
by
his
Verbal
Order
,
and
Twenty
three
by
his
Authority
under
Read's
Hand
:
But
he
prevented
the
the
necessity
of
Answering
to
this
or
any
other
Charge
by
his
Flight
into
France
,
where
he
was
Generously
Entertained
by
Cardinal
Richelieu
,
(
no
doubt
for
the
good
Service
he
had
done
the
Catholick
Cause
in
England
)
and
lived
and
died
a
profest
Papist
.
His
Son
went
to
Rome
,
where
he
was
received
with
the
like
Kindness
by
Cardinal
Barbarino
,
the
chief
Contriver
of
this
POPISH
PLOT
.
As
for
Read
,
he
was
an
Actor
in
this
Plot
,
much
in
the
same
nature
as
Coleman
was
in
that
lately
discoved
by
Doctor
Oates
,
and
others
;
and
because
he
was
a
profest
Papist
,
the
Secretary
above-mentioned
,
(
to
whom
I
think
he
appertain'd
as
Clerk
)
procured
for
him
the
following
Protection
,
which
for
his
greater
Immunity
was
Recorded
in
the
Crown-Office
,
and
in
the
Clerk
of
the
Peace
his
Book
for
Middlesex
in
open
Sessions
.
BY
THE
KING
.
WHEREAS
We
have
received
good
Testimony
of
the
Loyalty
and
Duty
of
our
Trusty
and
Well-beloved
Captain
John
Reade
,
and
because
he
may
be
subject
to
the
Laws
for
Recusancy
;
These
are
to
signifie
,
That
We
are
Graciously
pleased
to
extend
our
Special
Grace
towards
him
:
And
do
hereby
Command
,
That
no
Indictment
,
Presentment
,
Information
,
or
Suit
in
Our
Name
,
or
in
the
Name
of
any
other
,
be
henceforth
Commenced
,
Prosecuted
,
or
accepted
against
him
,
by
any
of
our
Officers
or
Subjects
whatsoever
,
for
or
concerning
Recusancy
:
And
if
any
such
shall
happen
,
then
Our
Will
and
Pleasure
is
,
That
upon
sight
hereof
,
the
same
shall
be
discharged
and
made
void
,
or
otherwise
not
prejudicial
to
him
.
Given
under
Our
Signet
at
Our
Court
at
Theobalds
,
the
Thirteenth
Day
of
July
,
in
the
Tenth
Year
of
Our
Reign
.
To
all
and
singular
Our
Judges
of
Assize
,
Justices
of
the
Peace
,
&c.
whom
it
doth
or
may
concern
,
and
to
every
of
them
.
Thus
was
that
good
King
so
far
abused
(
by
having
a
Traytor
represented
to
him
as
a
Loyal
Subject
)
as
to
grant
a
Protection
to
this
Read
,
who
intended
to
make
no
other
use
of
it
,
than
thereby
to
destroy
with
the
more
safety
his
ROYAL
PROTECTOR
.
This
Plot
against
King
Charles
the
First
,
was
buried
in
a
Bloody
Civil
War
,
but
raised
again
against
King
Charles
the
Second
,
in
time
of
Peace
,
by
the
Blood-thirsty
Jesuits
;
the
Discovery
whereof
has
been
sufficiently
made
known
by
the
Tryal
and
Execution
of
several
of
them
,
as
well
as
by
the
Printed
Narratives
thereof
.
To
get
up
their
Reputation
again
,
they
plotted
to
throw
their
Guilt
upon
the
Dissenting
Protestants
;
but
the
All-seeing
Eye
of
God
prevented
their
Villanous
Designs
by
a
timely
Discovery
:
The
Design
and
Discovery
whereof
,
you
will
find
particularly
related
at
the
End
of
this
BOOK
.
A
TRUE
RELATION
OF
THE
POPISH-PLOT
AGAINST
King
CHARLES
I.
AND
THE
Protestant
Religion
.
IF
there
be
any
professing
the
Protestant
Religion
within
His
Majesties
Dominions
,
who
are
yet
so
wilfully
blinded
,
as
not
to
believe
the
Reality
of
the
late
Conspiracies
,
or
that
it
has
not
been
a
long
time
carrying
on
to
extirpate
the
Protestant
Religion
,
reestablish
Popery
,
and
inthral
the
People
in
all
the
Three
Kingdoms
,
let
them
but
advisedly
fix
their
Eyes
and
Minds
,
upon
the
Ensuing
Letters
and
Discoveries
,
and
they
will
easily
find
Papistical
Plots
have
been
no
new
things
in
this
Nation
.
To
omit
their
attempts
upon
King
Edward
,
Queen
Elizabeth
,
and
King
James
,
these
Papists
make
it
evidently
out
,
that
the
same
Design
,
and
the
same
Contrivances
were
on
foot
in
the
Reign
of
our
late
Sovereign
Charles
the
First
,
of
Blessed
Memory
;
a
True
Narrative
whereof
these
Sheets
contain
,
as
they
were
found
in
the
Arch-Bishop
of
Canterbury's
Study
in
the
Tower
,
May
31.
1643.
The
first
who
discover'd
it
,
was
an
Actor
in
it
,
sent
hither
from
Rome
,
by
Cardinal
Barbarini
,
to
assist
Con
,
the
Pope's
Legat
,
in
the
pursuit
of
it
,
and
privy
to
all
the
particulars
;
who
being
touch'd
with
remorse
of
Conscience
,
for
being
guilty
of
so
detestable
a
Crime
,
reveal'd
the
whole
Mystery
to
Sir
William
Boswell
,
the
King's
Leiger
Embassador
at
the
Hague
,
who
gave
private
notice
of
the
same
to
the
Arch-Bishop
of
Canterbury
,
by
whom
it
was
declar'd
to
the
King
himself
.
Sir
WILLIAM
BOSWELL's
first
Letter
to
the
Arch-Bishop
,
touching
this
Plot.
May
it
please
your
Grace
,
THe
Offers
(
whereof
your
Grace
will
find
a
Copy
)
here
enclos'd
toward
a
farther
and
more
particular
Discovery
,
were
first
made
to
me
at
the
second
hand
,
and
by
word
of
mouth
by
a
Friend
of
good
Quality
and
Worth
in
this
place
.
But
soon
after
,
as
soon
as
they
could
be
put
into
order
,
were
avowd
by
the
principal
party
,
and
deliver'd
me
in
writing
by
both
together
,
upon
promise
and
Oath
,
which
I
was
required
to
give
,
and
gave
accordingly
,
not
to
reveal
the
same
to
any
other
Man
living
,
but
your
Grace
,
and
by
your
Grace's
hand
to
his
Majestie
.
In
like
manner
they
have
tied
themselves
not
to
declare
these
things
to
any
other
but
my self
,
untill
they
should
know
how
His
Majestie
,
and
your
Grace
would
dispose
thereof
.
The
Principal
giving
me
withall
to
know
,
that
he
puts
himself
and
this
Secret
into
your
Grace's
power
,
as
well
because
it
concerns
your
Grace
so
nearly
after
his
Majestie
,
as
that
he
knows
your
wisdom
to
guide
the
same
aright
,
and
is
also
assur'd
of
your
Grace's
fidelity
to
His
Majesties
Person
,
to
our
State
and
to
our
Church
.
First
,
your
Grace
is
earnestly
pray'd
to
signifie
His
Majesties
pleasure
,
with
all
speed
,
together
with
your
Grace's
disposition
herein
,
and
purpose
to
carry
all
with
silence
from
all
but
his
Majestie
,
until
due
time
.
Secondly
,
when
your
Grace
shall
think
fit
to
shew
these
things
to
His
Majestie
,
to
do
it
immediately
,
and
not
trusting
Letters
,
nor
permitting
any
other
Person
to
be
by
,
or
within
hearing
,
and
to
intreat
and
counsel
His
Majestie
as
in
a
case
of
Conscience
,
to
keep
the
same
wholly
and
solely
in
his
own
bosom
from
the
knowledge
of
all
other
Creatures
living
,
but
your
Grace
,
until
the
business
shall
be
clear'd
out
.
Thirdly
,
not
to
enquire
or
demand
the
Names
of
the
Parties
from
whom
these
Overtures
do
come
,
or
any
farther
discoveries
or
advertisements
in
pursuit
of
them
,
which
shall
come
hereafter
,
until
satisfaction
shall
be
given
to
every
part
of
them
.
Nor
to
tell
to
any
Person
but
His
Majestie
,
that
any
thing
of
this
Nature
is
come
from
me
.
For
as
I
may
believe
these
Overtures
are
veryfiable
in
the
way
they
will
be
laid
,
and
that
the
parties
will
not
shrink
;
so
I
may
account
,
that
if
never
so
little
glimpse
or
shadow
of
these
Informations
shall
appear
by
His
Majesties
or
your
Grace's
words
or
carriage
unto
others
,
the
means
whereby
the
business
may
be
brought
best
unto
Tryal
,
will
be
utterly
disappointed
.
And
the
parties
who
have
in
Conscience
toward
God
,
Devotion
to
His
Majestie
,
Affection
toward
your
Grace
,
and
Compassion
to
our
Country
disclos'd
these
things
,
will
run
a
present
and
extream
hazard
of
their
Persons
and
Lives
.
So
easily
it
will
be
conjectur'd
upon
the
least
occasion
given
either
by
His
Majestie
or
your
Grace
,
who
is
the
Discoverer
.
These
are
the
Points
and
Offers
which
they
have
prest
me
to
represent
more
especially
to
his
Grace
.
For
my
own
particular
,
having
already
most
humbly
crav'd
Pardon
of
any
Errour
or
Omissions
that
have
befallen
me
in
the
managing
this
business
,
I
do
beseech
your
Grace
to
let
me
know
,
First
,
whether
,
and
in
what
order
I
shall
proceed
with
the
Parties
.
Secondly
,
what
points
of
these
Offers
I
shall
first
put
them
upon
to
enlarge
and
clear
?
Thirdly
,
what
other
Points
and
Queries
I
shall
propose
to
them
,
and
in
what
manner
?
Fourthly
,
how
far
further
I
shall
suffers
my self
to
hear
and
know
these
things
.
Fifthly
,
whether
I
shall
not
rather
take
the
parties
answers
and
discoveries
sealed
up
by
themselves
,
and
having
likewise
put
my
own
Seal
upon
them
,
without
questioning
or
seeing
what
they
contain
,
so
to
transmit
them
to
your
Grace
or
His
Majestie
.
Sixthly
,
whether
I
may
not
insinuate
upon
some
fair
occasion
,
that
there
will
be
a
due
regard
had
of
them
and
their
service
by
His
Majestie
and
your
Grace
;
when
all
particulars
undertaken
in
these
general
Offers
,
and
necessary
for
perfecting
the
discovery
,
and
work
intended
,
shall
effectually
be
delivered
to
His
Majestie
and
your
Grace
.
Upon
these
Heads
,
and
such
other
as
His
Majesty
and
your
Grace
shall
think
proper
in
the
Business
,
I
must
with
all
humility
beseech
your
Grace
to
furnish
me
with
Instructions
,
and
Warrant
for
my
proceedings
,
under
His
Majesties
Hand
,
with
your
Grace's
attestation
,
as
by
His
Majesties
Goodness
and
Royal
disposition
is
usual
in
like
Cases
.
May
it
please
your
Grace
to
entertain
a
Cipher
with
me
upon
this
Occasion
;
I
have
sent
the
Counterpart
of
one
here
inclos'd
.
If
these
Overtures
happily
sort
with
His
Majesties
and
your
Grace's
mind
,
and
shall
accordingly
prove
effectual
in
their
Operation
,
I
shall
think
my self
a
most
happy
man
,
to
have
any
Oblation
in
so
pious
a
Work
for
my
most
Gracious
Soveraign
and
Master
.
More
particularly
in
that
your
Grace
under
His
Majesty
shall
be
Opifex
rerum
&
mundi
melioris
Origo
.
Which
I
shall
incessantly
beg
in
my
Prayers
at
his
Hands
,
who
is
the
giver
of
all
good
things
,
and
will
never
forsake
or
fail
them
,
who
do
not
first
fail
and
fall
from
him
,
the
God
of
Mercy
and
Peace
,
with
which
I
remain
ever
more
,
Your
Grace's
most
Dutiful
and
obliged
Servant
,
WILLIAM
BOSWELL
.
Hague
in
Holland
,
Sept.
9.
1640.
Stylo
loci
.
I
have
not
dar'd
to
trust
this
business
(
without
a
Cipher
)
but
by
a
sure
hand
,
for
which
reason
,
I
have
sent
the
Bearer
my
Secretary
Express
,
but
he
knows
nothing
of
the
Contents
thereof
.
Superscrib'd
For
your
Grace
.
Endors'd
by
the
Arch-Bishop
with
his
own
hand
.
Received
Sept.
10
1640.
Sir
WILLIAM
BOSWELL
,
About
the
Plot
against
the
King.
ANDREAS
ab
HABERNFELD's
Letter
to
the
Arch-Bishop
,
concerning
the
Plot
revealed
to
him
,
written
by
him
in
Latin.
Most
Illustrious
and
most
Reverend
Lord
,
ALL
my
senses
are
shaken
together
as
often
as
I
revolve
the
present
business
,
neither
doth
my
Understanding
suffice
,
to
conceive
what
Wind
hath
brought
such
horrid
things
,
that
they
should
see
the
Sun-shine
by
me
:
for
unexpectedly
this
good
Man
became
known
unto
me
,
who
when
he
had
heard
me
discoursing
of
these
Scotch
stirs
,
said
,
that
I
knew
not
the
Nerve
of
the
business
,
that
those
things
which
are
commonly
scattered
abroad
are
superficial
.
From
that
hour
he
every
day
became
more
familiar
to
me
,
who
acknowledging
my
dexterity
herein
,
with
a
full
breast
poured
forth
the
burdens
of
his
heart
into
my
bosom
,
supposing
that
he
had
discharged
a
burden
of
Conscience
wherewith
he
was
pressed
.
Hence
he
related
to
me
the
Factions
of
the
Jesuits
,
with
which
the
whole
earthly
World
was
assaulted
;
and
shewed
,
that
I
might
behold
how
through
their
Poison
,
Bohemia
and
Germany
were
devoured
,
and
both
of
them
maimed
with
an
irreparable
wound
;
that
the
same
Plague
did
creep
through
the
Realms
of
England
and
Scotland
,
the
matter
whereof
,
revealed
in
the
adjacent
writing
,
he
discovered
to
me
:
Which
things
having
heard
,
my
Bowels
were
contracted
together
,
my
Loyns
trembled
with
horrour
,
that
a
pernicious
Gulf
should
be
prepared
for
so
many
thousands
of
Souls
:
With
words
moving
the
conscience
,
I
inflamed
the
mind
of
the
Man
;
he
had
scarce
one
hour
concocted
my
admonitions
,
but
he
disclosed
all
the
secrets
,
and
he
gave
free
liberty
that
I
should
treat
with
those
whom
it
concerned
,
that
they
might
be
informed
hereof
.
I
thought
no
delay
was
to
be
made
about
the
things
:
The
same
hour
I
went
to
Sir
William
Boswell
,
the
King's
Leiger
,
at
the
Hague
,
who
being
tied
with
an
Oath
of
Secrecy
to
me
,
I
communicated
the
business
to
him
,
I
admonished
him
to
weigh
these
things
by
the
Ballance
,
neither
to
deser
,
but
act
,
that
those
who
were
in
danger
might
be
speedily
succoured
:
He
,
as
becomes
an
honest
Man
,
mindful
of
his
Duty
,
and
having
hearer
looked
into
the
business
,
refused
not
to
obey
the
Monitions
.
Moreover
,
he
forthwith
caused
that
an
Express
should
be
dispatched
,
and
sent
word
back
again
what
a
most
acceptable
Oblation
this
had
been
to
the
King
and
your
Grace
;
for
which
we
rejoyced
from
the
heart
,
and
we
judged
,
that
a
sase
and
favourable
Deity
had
interposed
it self
in
this
business
,
whereby
you
might
be
perserved
.
Now
that
the
verity
of
the
things
elated
might
be
confirmed
,
some
principal
heads
of
the
conspiracy
were
purposely
pretermitted
,
that
the
knowledge
of
them
might
be
extorted
from
the
circumvented
Society
of
the
Conspirators
.
Now
the
things
will
be
speedily
and
safely
promoted
into
act
,
if
they
be
warily
proceeded
in
at
Bruxels
.
By
my
advice
,
that
day
should
be
observed
wherein
the
Packet
of
Letters
are
dispatch'd
,
which
under
the
Title
of
,
To
Monsieur
Strario
Arch-Deacon
of
Cambray
,
tyed
with
one
cover
,
are
delivered
to
the
Post-Master
;
such
a
Packet
may
be
secretly
brought
back
from
him
,
yet
it
will
be
unprofitable
,
because
all
the
inclosed
Letters
are
written
Characteristically
.
Likewise
another
Packet
coming
weekly
from
Rome
,
which
is
brought
under
this
superscription
,
To
the
most
Illustrious
Lord
Count
Rossetti
,
Legat
for
the
time
;
these
are
not
to
be
neglected
:
To
whom
likewise
Letters
writ
in
the
same
Characters
are
included
.
That
they
may
be
understood
,
Reade
is
to
be
consulted
with
.
The
forenamed
day
of
dispatch
shall
be
expected
:
In
Reade's
House
an
accumulated
congregation
may
be
circumvented
;
which
succeeding
,
it
will
be
your
Graces
part
to
order
the
business
.
The
intestine
enemy
being
at
length
detected
by
God's
Grace
,
all
bitterness
of
mind
,
which
is
caused
on
either
side
may
be
abolished
,
buried
in
oblivion
,
deleted
and
quieted
,
the
enemy
be
invaded
on
both
parts
:
Thus
the
King
and
the
Kings
Friend
,
and
both
Kingdoms
neer
to
danger
,
shall
be
preserved
and
delivered
from
eminent
danger
.
Your
Grace
likewise
may
have
this
injunction
by
you
,
if
you
desire
to
have
the
best
advice
given
you
by
others
,
That
you
trust
not
overmuch
to
your
Pursevants
,
for
some
of
them
live
under
the
stipend
of
the
Popish
Party
.
How
many
Rocks
,
how
many
Scilla
's
,
how
many
displeased
Charybdes
appear
before
your
Grace
,
in
what
a
dangerous
Sea
,
the
Cock-boat
of
your
Graces
life
,
next
to
Shipwrack
,
is
tossed
,
your self
may
judge
;
the
Fore-deck
of
the
Ship
is
speedily
to
be
driven
to
the
Harbour
.
All
these
things
(
I
whisper
)
into
your
Grace's
ear
,
for
I
know
it
bound
with
an
Oath
of
Secrecy
;
therefore
by
open
name
,
I
would
by
these
Presents
become
known
to
your
Grace
,
Hague
Sept.
14.
S.
N.
1640.
Your
Graces
most
observant
,
and
most
officious
,
Andrew
Habernfeld
.
Superscribed
by
Andreas
ab
Habernfeld
,
a
Noble
Bohemian
,
Dr.
of
Physick
to
the
Queen
of
Bohemia
,
Illustrissimo
ac
Reverendissimo
Dom.
Domino
Gulielmo
Archiepiscopo
Cantuariensi
,
Primati
&
Metropolitano
totius
Regni
Angliae
Dom.
meo
.
The
Arch-Bishops
Indorsement
with
his
own
Hand
.
Received
,
Octob.
14.
1640.
Andreas
ab
Habernfeld
.
His
Letters
sent
by
Sir
William
Boswell
,
about
the
discovery
of
the
Treason
.
I
conceive
by
the
English
Latin
herein
,
that
he
must
needs
be
an
Englishman
,
with
a
concealed
and
changed
name
.
And
yet
it
may
be
this
kind
of
Latin
may
relate
to
the
Italian
.
Or
else
he
lived
some
good
time
in
England
The
Declaration
of
this
Treason
I
have
by
His
Majesties
special
Command
,
sent
to
Sir
W.
Boswell
,
that
he
may
there
see
what
proof
can
be
made
of
any
particulars
.
The
general
OVERTURE
and
DISCOVERY
of
the
PLOT
,
sent
with
Sir
William
Boswell's
first
Letter
,
and
written
in
Latin.
The
King's
Majesty
and
the
Lord
Arch-Bishop
of
Canterbury
are
to
be
secretly
informed
by
Letters
,
1.
THat
the
King's
Majesty
,
and
the
Lord
Arch-Bishop
are
both
of
them
in
great
danger
of
their
lives
.
2.
That
the
whole
Common-wealth
is
by
this
means
endangered
,
unless
the
mischief
be
speedily
prevented
.
3.
That
these
Scotch
Troubles
are
raised
,
to
the
end
,
that
under
this
pretext
,
the
King
and
Arch-Bishop
might
be
destroyed
.
4.
That
there
is
a
means
to
be
prescribed
,
whereby
both
of
them
in
this
case
may
be
preserved
,
and
this
Tumult
speedily
composed
.
5.
That
although
these
Scotch
Tumults
be
speedily
composed
,
yet
that
the
King
is
endangered
,
and
that
there
are
many
ways
,
by
which
destruction
is
plotted
to
the
King
and
Lord
Arch-Bishop
.
6.
That
a
certain
Society
hath
conspired
the
Death
of
the
King
,
and
Lord
Arch-Bishop
,
and
Convulsion
of
the
whole
Realm
.
7.
That
the
same
Society
,
every
Week
deposits
with
the
President
of
the
Society
,
what
Intelligence
every
of
them
hath
purchased
in
eight
days
search
,
and
then
confer
all
into
one
Packet
,
which
is
weekly
sent
to
the
Director
of
the
Business
.
8.
That
all
the
Confederates
in
the
said
conspiracy
may
verily
be
named
by
the
Poll.
But
because
they
may
be
made
known
by
other
means
,
it
is
thought
meet
to
defer
it
till
hereafter
.
9.
That
there
is
a
ready
means
,
whereby
the
Villany
may
be
discovered
in
one
moment
,
the
chief
Conspirators
circumvented
,
and
the
primary
Members
of
the
Conjuration
apprehended
in
the
very
act
.
10.
That
very
many
about
the
King
,
who
are
accounted
most
faithful
and
intimate
,
to
whom
likewise
the
more
secret
things
are
intrusted
,
are
Traytors
to
the
King
,
corrupted
with
a
Foreign
Pension
,
who
communicate
all
secrets
of
greater
or
lesser
moment
to
a
Foreign
Power
.
These
and
other
most
secret
things
,
which
shall
be
necessary
to
be
known
for
the
security
of
the
King
,
may
be
revealed
,
if
these
things
shall
be
acceptable
to
the
Lord
Arch-Bishop
.
Likewise
they
may
be
assured
,
that
whatsoever
things
are
here
proposed
,
are
no
Figments
,
or
Fables
,
nor
vain
Dreams
,
but
such
real
Verities
,
which
may
be
demonstrated
in
every
small
tittle
.
For
those
who
thrust
themselves
into
this
business
,
are
such
men
,
who
mind
no
gain
,
but
the
very
zeal
of
Christian
Charity
suffers
them
not
to
conceal
these
things
:
Yet
both
from
His
Majesty
and
the
Lord
Arch-Bishop
some
small
exemplar
of
gratitude
will
be
expected
.
All
these
premises
have
been
communicated
under
good
Faith
,
and
the
Sacrament
of
an
Oath
,
to
Mr.
Leiger
Embassadour
of
the
King
of
Great
Britain
,
at
the
Hague
;
that
he
should
not
immediately
trust
,
or
communicate
these
things
to
any
mortal
,
besides
the
King
,
and
the
Lord
Arch-Bishop
of
Canterbury
.
Subscribed
,
&c.
Present
,
&c.
Hague
,
Com.
6.
Sept.
1640.
In
the
Style
of
the
Place
.
The
Arch-Bishops
own
Indorsement
.
Recieved
Sept.
10.
1640.
The
Plot
against
the
King.
The
Arch-Bishop
of
Canterburies
Letter
to
the
King
,
concerning
the
PLOT
;
with
the
King's
Directions
in
the
Margin
,
written
with
his
own
hand
.
[
I
beseech
your
Majesty
read
these
Letters
as
they
are
Endorsed
by
Figures
,
1
,
2
,
3
,
&c.
]
May
it
please
your
Majesty
,
AS
great
as
the
Secret
is
which
comes
herewith
,
yet
I
choose
rather
to
send
it
in
this
silent
covert
way
,
and
I
hope
safe
,
than
to
come
thither
,
and
bring
it
my self
.
First
,
because
I
am
no
way
able
to
make
hast
enough
with
it
.
Secondly
,
because
should
I
come
at
this
time
,
and
antedate
the
meeting
,
Sept.
24.
there
would
be
more
jealousie
of
the
business
,
and
more
enquiry
after
it
:
Especially
,
if
I
being
once
there
,
should
return
again
before
that
day
,
as
I
must
,
if
this
be
followed
,
as
is
most
fit
.
The
danger
it
seems
is
eminent
,
and
laid
by
God
knows
whom
;
but
to
be
executed
by
them
which
are
very
near
about
you
.
(
For
the
great
honour
which
I
have
to
be
in
danger
with
you
,
or
for
you
,
I
pass
not
,
so
your
Sacred
Person
,
and
the
State
may
be
safe
.
)
Now
,
may
it
please
your
Majesty
,
This
information
is
either
true
,
or
there
is
some
mistake
in
it
:
If
it
be
true
,
the
Persons
which
make
the
Discovery
will
deserve
thanks
and
reward
;
if
there
should
be
any
mistake
in
it
,
your
Majesty
can
lose
nothing
but
a
little
silence
.
The
business
,
(
if
it
be
)
is
extream
foul
.
The
Discovery
thus
by
God's
Providence
offered
,
seems
fair
.
I
do
hereby
humbly
beg
it
upon
my
knees
of
your
Majesty
,
that
you
will
conceal
this
business
from
every
creature
,
and
his
name
that
sends
this
to
me
.
And
I
send
his
Letters
to
me
,
to
your
Majesty
,
that
you
may
see
his
sence
both
of
the
business
and
the
Secrecy
.
And
such
Instructions
as
you
think
fit
to
give
him
,
I
beseech
you
let
them
be
in
your
own
hand
for
his
Warrant
,
without
imparting
them
to
any
.
And
if
your
Majesty
leave
it
to
his
descretion
to
follow
it
there
in
the
best
way
he
can
,
that
in
your
own
hand
will
be
Instruction
and
Warrant
enough
for
him
.
And
if
you
please
to
return
it
herewith
presently
to
me
,
I
will
send
an
express
away
with
it
presently
.
In
the
mean
time
,
I
have
by
this
Express
returned
him
this
Answer
,
That
I
think
he
shall
do
well
to
hold
on
the
Treaty
with
these
men
,
with
all
care
and
secrecy
,
and
drive
on
to
the
Discovery
,
so
soon
as
the
business
is
ripe
for
it
,
that
he
may
assure
himself
and
them
,
they
shall
not
want
reward
,
if
they
do
the
Service
.
That
for
my
part
he
shall
be
sure
of
Secrecy
,
and
that
I
am
most
confident
,
that
your
Majesty
will
not
impart
it
to
any
.
That
he
have
a
special
eye
to
the
eighth
and
ninth
Proposition
.
Sir
,
for
God's
sake
,
and
your
own
safety
,
Secrecy
in
this
Business
:
And
I
beseech
you
,
send
me
back
this
Letter
,
and
all
that
comes
with
it
,
speedily
and
secretly
,
and
trust
not
your
own
Pockets
with
them
.
I
shall
not
eat
,
nor
sleep
in
quiet
,
till
I
receive
them
.
And
so
soon
as
I
have
them
again
,
and
your
Majesties
Warrant
to
proceed
,
no
diligence
shall
be
wanting
in
me
to
help
on
the
Discovery
.
This
is
the
greatest
business
that
ever
was
put
to
me
.
And
if
I
have
herein
proposed
,
or
done
any
thing
amiss
,
I
most
humbly
crave
your
Majesties
pardon
.
But
I
am
willing
to
hope
I
have
not
herein
erred
in
judgment
,
and
in
fidelity
I
never
will.
These
Letters
came
to
me
on
,
Thursday
,
Sept.
10.
at
night
,
and
I
sent
these
away
according
to
the
date
hereof
,
being
extreamly
wearied
with
writing
this
Letter
,
copying
out
those
other
which
come
with
this
,
and
dispatching
my
Letters
back
to
him
that
sent
these
,
all
in
my
own
hand
.
Once
again
secrecy
for
God's
sake
,
and
your
own
.
To
his
most
blessed
protection
I
commend
your
Majesty
and
all
your
Affairs
:
And
am
,
Lambeth
,
Sept.
11.
1640.
Your
Majesties
most
humble
faithful
Servant
,
W.
Cant.
The
Arch-Bishop's
Postscript
.
As
I
had
ended
these
,
whether
with
the
labour
or
indignation
,
or
both
,
I
fell
into
an
extreme
faint
Sweat
;
I
pray
God
keep
me
from
a
Feaver
,
of
which
three
are
down
in
my
Family
at
Croyden
.
These
Letters
came
late
to
me
,
the
express
being
beaten
back
by
the
wind
.
The
Arch-Bishops
Indorsement
with
his
own
hand
.
Received
from
the
King
,
Sept.
16.
1640.
The
King's
Answer
to
the
Plot
against
him
,
&c.
Superscrib'd
by
the
Arch-Bishop
,
For
your
Sacred
Majesty
:
By
the
King
,
Yours
Apostyled
.
Sir
William
Boswel's
second
Letter
to
the
Arch-Bishop
.
May
it
please
your
Grace
,
THis
evening
late
I
have
received
your
Graces
dispatch
,
with
the
enclosed
from
His
Majesty
,
by
my
Secretary
Oveart
,
and
shall
give
due
account
with
all
possible
speed
of
the
same
,
according
to
His
Majesties
and
your
Graces
Commands
,
praying
heartily
that
my
endeavours
,
which
shall
be
most
faithful
,
may
also
prove
effectual
,
to
His
Majesties
and
your
Grace's
content
,
with
which
I
do
most
humbly
take
leave
,
being
always
Hague
,
Sept.
24.
1640.
S.
Angelo
.
Your
Graces
most
dutiful
and
humblest
Servant
,
William
Boswell
.
The
Arch-Bishop's
Indorsement
.
Received
,
Sept.
30.
1640.
Sir
William
Boswell
his
acknowledgement
,
that
he
hath
received
the
King's
Directions
in
my
Letters
.
Sir
William
Boswell's
third
Letter
to
the
Arch-Bishop
.
sent
with
the
larger
Discovery
of
the
PLOT
.
May
it
please
your
Grace
,
UPon
receipt
of
His
Majesties
Commands
,
with
your
Grace's
Letters
of
9
,
and
18
,
Sept.
last
,
I
dealt
with
the
party
to
make
good
his
Offers
formerly
put
in
mine
hand
,
and
transmitted
to
your
Grace
:
This
he
hopes
to
have
done
,
by
the
inclosed
,
so
far
as
will
be
needful
for
His
Majesties
satisfaction
;
yet
if
any
more
particular
explanation
or
discovery
shall
be
required
by
His
Majesty
or
your
Grace
,
He
hath
promised
to
add
thereunto
,
whatsoever
he
can
remember
,
and
knows
of
truth
.
And
for
better
assurance
and
verification
of
his
integrity
,
he
professeth
himself
ready
(
if
required
)
to
make
Oath
of
what
he
hath
already
declared
,
or
shall
hereafter
declare
in
the
business
.
His
name
he
conjures
me
still
to
conceale
,
though
he
thinks
His
Majesty
and
your
Grace
,
by
the
Character
he
gives
of
himself
,
will
easily
imagin
who
he
is
,
having
been
known
so
generally
through
Court
and
City
,
as
he
was
for
three
or
four
years
,
in
the
quality
and
imployment
he
acknowlegeth
(
by
his
Declaration
inclosed
)
himself
to
have
held
.
Hereupon
he
doth
also
redouble
his
most
humble
and
earnest
Suit
unto
His
Majesty
and
your
Grace
,
to
be
most
secret
and
circumspect
in
the
business
,
that
he
may
not
be
suspected
to
have
discovered
,
or
had
a
hand
in
the
same
.
I
shall
here
humbly
beseech
your
Grace
to
let
me
know
what
I
may
further
do
for
His
Majesties
service
,
or
for
your
Graces
particular
behoof
;
that
I
may
accordingly
endeavour
to
approve
my self
,
As
I
am
,
Hague
,
Octob.
15.
1640.
Your
Grace's
mest
dutiful
and
obliged
Servant
,
William
Boswell
.
The
Arch-Bishop's
Indorsment
.
Received
Octob.
14.
1640.
Sir
William
Boswell
in
prosecution
of
the
great
business
.
If
any
thing
come
to
him
in
Cyphers
,
to
send
it
to
him
.
The
large
particular
Discovery
of
the
PLOT
and
Treason
against
the
King
,
Kingdom
,
and
Protestant
Religion
,
and
to
raise
the
Scotish
Wars
,
written
in
Latin.
Most
Illustrious
and
Reverend
Lord
,
WE
have
willingly
and
cordially
perceived
,
that
our
offers
have
been
acceptable
both
to
his
Royal
Majesty
,
and
likewise
to
your
Grace
.
This
is
the
only
Index
to
us
,
That
the
blessing
of
God
is
present
with
you
,
whereby
a
spur
is
given
,
that
we
should
so
much
the
more
chearfully
and
freely
utter
and
detest
those
things
whereby
the
hazard
of
both
your
lives
,
the
subversion
of
the
Realm
and
State
both
of
England
and
Scotland
,
the
tumbling
down
of
his
Excellent
Majesty
from
his
Throne
,
is
intended
.
Now
lest
the
discourse
should
be
enlarged
with
superfluous
circumstances
,
we
will
only
premise
some
things
which
are
meerly
necessary
to
the
business
.
You
may
first
of
all
know
,
that
this
good
man
,
by
whom
the
ensuing
things
are
detected
,
was
born
and
bred
in
the
Popish
Religion
,
who
spent
many
years
in
Ecclesiastical
dignities
.
At
length
being
found
fit
for
the
expedition
of
the
present
Design
,
by
the
counsel
and
mandate
of
the
Lord
Cardinal
Barbarini
,
he
was
adjoyned
to
the
assistance
of
Master
Cuneus
(
Con
)
by
whom
he
was
found
so
diligent
and
sedulous
in
his
Office
,
that
hope
of
great
promotion
was
given
to
him
.
Yet
he
,
led
by
the
instinct
of
the
good
Spirit
,
hath
,
howsoever
it
be
,
contemned
sweet
promises
,
and
having
known
the
vanities
of
the
Pontifician
Religion
(
of
which
he
had
sometime
been
a
most
severe
defender
)
having
likewise
noted
the
malice
of
those
who
fight
under
the
Popish
banner
,
felt
his
Conscience
to
be
burdened
;
which
burden
that
he
might
ease
himself
of
,
he
converted
his
mind
to
the
Orthodox
Religion
.
Soon
after
,
that
he
might
exonerate
his
Conscience
,
he
thought
fit
,
that
a
desperate
Treason
,
machinated
against
so
many
souls
,
was
to
be
revealed
,
and
that
he
should
receive
ease
if
he
vented
such
things
in
the
bosom
of
a
friend
:
which
done
,
he
was
seriously
admonished
by
the
said
friend
,
that
he
should
shew
an
example
of
his
conversion
and
charity
,
and
free
so
many
innocent
souls
from
imminent
,
danger
To
whose
monitions
he
willingly
consented
,
and
delivered
the
following
things
to
be
put
in
writing
,
out
of
which
the
Articles
not
long
since
tendered
to
your
Grace
,
may
be
clearly
explicated
and
demonstrated
.
1.
First
of
all
,
that
the
hinge
of
the
business
may
be
rightly
discerned
,
it
is
to
be
known
,
that
all
those
factions
with
which
Christendom
is
at
this
day
shaken
,
do
arise
from
the
Jesuitical
Off-spring
of
Cham
,
of
which
four
Orders
abound
throughout
the
World.
Of
the
first
Order
are
Ecclesiasticks
,
whose
Office
it
is
to
take
care
of
things
promoting
Religion
.
Of
the
second
Order
are
Politicians
,
whose
Office
it
is
by
any
means
to
shake
,
trouble
,
and
reform
the
state
of
Kingdoms
and
Republicks
.
Of
the
third
Order
are
Seculars
,
whose
property
it
is
to
obtrude
themselves
into
Offices
with
Kings
and
Princes
,
to
insinuate
and
immix
themselves
in
Court
businesses
,
bargains
and
sales
,
and
to
be
busied
in
civil
affairs
.
Of
the
fourth
Order
are
Intelligencers
,
(
or
Spies
)
men
of
inferiour
condition
,
who
submit
themselves
to
the
services
of
great
men
,
Princes
,
Barons
,
Noble-men
,
Citizens
,
to
deceive
(
or
corrupt
)
the
minds
of
their
masters
.
2.
A
Society
of
so
many
Orders
,
the
Kingdom
of
England
nourisheth
:
for
scarce
all
Spain
,
France
,
and
Italy
,
can
yield
so
great
a
multitude
of
Jesuits
,
as
London
alone
;
where
are
found
more
than
50
Scotish
Jesuits
.
There
the
said
society
hath
elected
to
it self
a
Seat
of
iniquity
,
and
hath
conspired
against
the
King
,
and
the
most
faithful
to
the
King
,
especially
the
Lord
Archbishop
of
Canterbury
,
and
likewise
against
both
Kingdoms
.
3.
For
it
is
more
certain
than
certainty
it self
,
that
the
forenamed
society
hath
determined
to
effect
an
universal
reformation
of
the
Kingdom
of
England
and
Scotland
.
Therefore
the
determination
of
the
end
,
necessarily
infers
a
determination
of
means
to
the
end
.
4.
Therefore
to
promote
the
undertaken
Villany
,
the
said
society
dubbed
it self
with
the
Title
of
,
The
Congregation
of
propagating
the
Faith
;
which
acknowledgeth
the
Pope
of
Rome
the
Head
of
the
College
,
and
Cardinal
Barbarini
his
substitute
and
Executor
.
5.
The
chief
Patron
of
the
society
at
London
,
is
the
Popes
Legat
,
who
takes
care
of
the
business
;
into
whose
bosom
,
these
dregs
of
Traytors
weekly
deposite
all
their
Intelligences
.
Now
the
residence
of
this
Legation
was
obtained
at
London
in
the
name
of
the
Roman
Pontiff
,
by
whose
mediation
it
might
be
lawful
for
Cardinal
Barbarini
to
work
so
much
the
more
easily
and
safely
upon
the
King
and
Kingdom
.
For
none
else
could
so
freely
circumvent
the
King
,
as
he
who
should
be
palliated
with
the
Popes
Authority
.
6.
Master
Cuneus
did
at
that
time
enjoy
the
Office
of
the
Popes
Legat
,
an
Universal
Instrument
of
the
conjured
society
,
and
a
serious
Promoter
of
the
business
,
whose
secrets
,
as
likewise
those
of
all
other
Intelligencers
,
the
present
good
man
,
the
Communicator
of
all
these
things
,
did
revive
and
expedite
whither
the
business
required
.
Cuneus
set
upon
the
chief
men
of
the
Kingdom
,
and
left
nothing
unattempted
,
by
what
means
he
might
corrupt
them
all
,
and
incline
them
to
the
pontifician
party
:
he
inticed
many
with
various
incitements
,
yea
,
he
sought
to
delude
the
King
himself
with
gifts
of
Pictures
,
Antiquities
,
idols
,
and
of
other
vanities
brought
from
Rome
,
which
yet
would
prevail
nothing
with
the
King.
Having
entred
familiarity
with
the
King
,
he
is
often
requested
at
Hampton
Court
,
likewise
at
London
,
to
undertake
the
Cause
of
the
Palatine
,
and
that
he
would
interpose
his
Authority
,
and
by
his
intercession
perswade
the
Legat
of
Colen
,
that
the
Palatine
,
in
the
next
Diet
to
treat
of
peace
,
might
be
inserted
into
the
Conditions
;
which
verily
he
promised
,
but
performed
the
contrary
.
He
writ
indeed
,
that
he
had
been
so
desired
by
the
King
concerning
such
things
,
yet
he
advised
that
they
should
not
be
consented
to
,
lest
peradventure
it
might
be
said
by
the
Spaniard
,
that
the
Pope
of
Rome
had
patronized
an
heretical
Prince
.
In
the
mean
time
,
Cuneus
smelling
from
the
Archbishop
,
most
trusty
to
the
King
,
that
the
Kings
mind
was
wholly
pendulous
(
or
doubtful
,
)
Resolved
,
That
he
would
move
every
stone
,
and
apply
his
forces
,
that
he
might
gain
him
to
his
party
:
Certainly
confiding
,
that
he
had
a
means
prepared
.
For
he
had
a
command
to
offer
a
Cardinals
Cap
to
the
Lord
Archbishop
in
the
name
of
the
Pope
of
Rome
,
and
that
he
should
allure
him
also
with
higher
promises
,
that
he
might
corrupt
his
sincere
mind
.
Yet
a
fitting
occasion
was
never
given
,
whereby
he
might
insinuate
himself
into
the
Lord
Archbishop
.
Free
access
was
to
be
gained
by
the
Earl
and
Countess
of
A
—
likewise
Secretary
W
—
The
intercession
of
all
which
being
neglected
,
he
did
flie
the
company
or
familiarity
of
Cuneus
,
worse
than
the
plague
:
He
was
likewise
perswaded
by
others
of
no
mean
rank
,
well
known
to
him
,
neither
yet
was
he
moved
.
7.
Another
also
was
assayed
,
who
hindred
access
to
the
detestable
wickedness
,
Secretary
Cook
,
he
was
a
most
bitter
hater
of
the
Jesuits
,
whom
he
intercepted
from
acces
,
to
the
King
,
he
entertained
many
(
of
them
)
according
to
their
deserts
,
he
diligently
enquired
into
their
factions
;
by
which
means
every
incitement
,
breathing
a
magnetical
(
attractive
)
power
to
the
Popish
party
,
was
ineffectual
with
him
;
for
nothing
was
so
dear
unto
him
,
that
might
incline
him
to
wickedness
.
Hereupon
being
made
odious
to
the
Patrons
of
the
Conspiracy
,
he
was
endangered
to
be
discharged
from
his
Office
;
it
was
laboured
for
three
years
space
,
and
at
last
obtained
.
Yet
notwithstanding
there
remained
on
the
Kings
part
a
knot
hard
to
be
untied
,
for
the
Lord
Arch-Bishop
,
by
his
constancy
,
interposed
himself
as
a
most
hard
rock
.
When
Cuneus
had
understood
from
the
Lord
Arch-Bishops
part
,
that
he
had
laboured
in
vain
,
his
malice
and
the
whole
Societies
waxed
boyling
hot
:
soon
after
ambushes
began
to
be
prepared
,
wherewith
the
Lord
Arch-Bishop
together
with
the
King
should
be
taken
.
Likewise
a
sentence
is
passed
against
the
King
(
for
whose
sake
all
this
business
is
disposed
)
because
nothing
is
hoped
from
him
which
might
seem
to
promote
the
Popish
Religion
;
but
especially
when
he
had
opened
his
mind
,
that
he
was
of
this
opinion
,
That
every
one
might
be
saved
in
his
own
Religion
,
so
as
he
be
an
honest
and
pious
man.
8.
To
perpetrate
the
Treason
undertaken
,
the
criminal
Execution
at
Westminster
,
caused
by
some
Writings
of
Puritans
,
gave
occasion
of
the
first
Fire
:
which
thing
was
so
much
exasperated
and
exaggerated
by
the
Papists
to
the
Puritans
,
that
if
it
remained
unrevenged
,
it
would
be
thought
a
blemish
to
their
Religion
;
The
Flames
of
which
Fire
,
the
Scotch
Book
of
Prayers
increases
,
occasioned
by
it's
alterations
.
9.
In
this
heat
,
a
certain
Scotish
Earl
,
called
Maxfield
,
if
I
mistake
not
,
was
expedited
to
the
Scots
by
the
Popish
Party
;
with
whom
two
other
Scotish
Earls
,
Papists
,
held
correspondency
:
He
was
to
stir
up
the
People
to
Commotion
,
and
rub
over
the
injury
afresh
,
that
he
might
enflame
their
minds
,
precipitate
them
to
Arms
,
by
which
the
hurtful
disturber
of
the
Scotish
Liberty
might
be
slain
.
10.
By
this
one
labour
,
snares
are
prepared
for
the
King
;
for
this
purpose
the
present
business
was
so
ordered
,
That
very
many
of
the
English
should
adhere
to
the
Scots
;
That
the
King
should
remain
inferiour
in
Arms
,
who
(
thereupon
)
should
be
compelled
to
crave
assistance
from
the
Papists
,
which
yet
he
should
not
obtain
,
unless
he
would
descend
unto
conditions
,
by
which
he
should
permit
Universal
liberty
of
the
exercise
of
the
Popish
Religion
;
for
so
the
affairs
of
the
Papists
would
succeed
according
to
their
desire
.
To
which
consent
,
if
he
should
shew
himself
more
difficult
,
there
should
be
a
present
remedy
at
hand
.
The
King
is
to
be
dispatched
:
For
an
Indian
Nut
,
stuffed
with
most
sharp
Poyson
,
is
kept
in
the
Society
(
which
Cuneus
at
that
time
shewed
often
to
me
in
a
boasting
manner
)
wherein
a
Poyson
was
prepared
for
the
King
;
after
the
Example
of
his
Father
.
11.
In
this
Scottish
Commotion
,
the
Marquess
of
Hamilton
,
often
dispatched
to
the
Scots
in
the
Name
of
the
King
,
to
interpose
the
Royal
Authority
,
whereby
the
heat
of
minds
might
be
mittigated
,
returned
notwithstanding
as
often
without
fruit
,
and
without
ending
the
Business
:
His
Chaplain
at
that
time
repaired
to
us
,
who
communicated
some
things
secretly
with
Cuneus
.
Being
demanded
of
me
in
jest
,
Whether
also
the
Jews
agreed
with
the
Samaritans
?
Cuneus
thereunto
answered
;
Would
to
God
all
Ministers
were
such
as
he
:
What
you
will
may
be
hence
conjectured
.
12.
Things
standing
thus
,
there
arrived
at
London
from
Cardinal
Richelieu
,
Mr.
Thomas
Chamberlaine
,
his
Chaplain
and
Almoner
,
a
Scot
by
Nation
,
who
was
to
assist
the
College
of
the
confederate
Society
,
and
seriously
to
set
forward
the
Business
,
to
leave
nothing
unattempted
,
whereby
the
first
heat
might
be
exasperated
.
For
which
service
he
was
promised
the
reward
of
a
Bishoprick
;
He
cohabited
with
the
Society
four
Months
space
;
neither
was
it
lawful
for
him
first
to
depart
,
until
things
succeeding
according
to
his
wish
,
he
might
be
able
to
return
back
again
with
good
news
.
13.
Sir
Toby
Matthew
,
a
Jesuited
Priest
,
of
the
Order
of
Politicians
,
a
most
vigilant
man
of
the
chief
heads
,
to
whom
a
Bed
was
never
so
dear
,
that
he
would
rest
his
head
thereon
,
refreshing
his
Body
with
sleep
in
a
Chair
for
an
hour
,
or
two
,
neither
day
nor
night
spared
his
Machinations
;
a
Man
principally
noxious
,
and
himself
the
Plague
of
the
King
and
Kingdom
of
England
;
a
most
impudent
man
,
who
flies
to
all
Banquets
and
Feasts
,
called
or
not
called
;
never
quiet
,
always
in
action
and
perpetual
motion
;
thrusting
himself
into
all
Conversations
of
Superiours
;
he
urgeth
Conferences
familiarly
,
that
he
may
fish
out
the
minds
of
Men
;
What
ever
he
observeth
thence
,
which
may
bring
any
commodity
,
or
discommodity
to
the
part
of
the
Conspirators
,
he
communicates
to
the
Pope's
Legat
;
the
more
secret
things
he
himself
writes
to
the
Pope
,
or
to
Cardinal
Barbarini
.
In
sum
,
he
adjoins
himself
to
any
mans
company
;
no
word
can
be
spoken
,
that
he
will
not
lay
hold
on
,
and
accommodate
to
his
Party
.
In
the
mean
time
,
whatever
he
hath
fished
out
,
he
reduceth
into
a
Catalogue
,
and
every
Summer
carrieth
it
to
the
general
Consistory
of
the
Jesuits
Politicks
,
which
secretly
meets
together
in
the
Province
of
Wales
,
where
he
is
an
acceptable
guest
.
There
Counsels
are
secretly
hammered
,
which
are
most
meet
for
the
Convulsion
of
the
Ecclesiastic
,
and
Politic
Estate
of
both
Kingdoms
.
14.
Captain
Read
,
a
Scot
,
dwelling
in
Long-acre-street
,
near
the
Angel
Tavern
,
a
secular
Jesuit
,
who
for
his
detestable
office
performed
(
whereby
he
had
perverted
a
certain
Minister
of
the
Church
,
with
secret
incitements
to
the
Popisn
Religion
,
with
all
his
Family
,
taking
his
Daughter
to
Wife
)
for
a
recompence
,
obtained
a
Rent
,
or
Impost
upon
Butter
,
which
the
Country
People
are
bound
to
render
to
him
,
procured
for
him
by
some
chief
men
of
the
Society
,
who
never
want
a
spur
,
whereby
he
may
be
constantly
detained
in
his
Office.
In
his
House
the
business
of
the
whole
Plot
is
concluded
,
where
the
Society
,
which
hath
conspired
against
the
King
,
the
Lord
Arch-Bishop
,
and
both
Kingdoms
,
meet
together
,
for
the
most
part
every
day
:
But
on
the
day
of
the
Carriers
(
or
Posts
)
dispatch
,
which
is
ordinarily
Friday
,
they
meet
in
greater
numbers
;
for
then
all
the
Intelligencers
assemble
,
and
confer
in
common
,
what
things
every
of
them
hath
fished
out
that
Week
;
who
,
that
they
may
be
without
suspition
,
send
their
secrets
by
Sir
Toby
Matthew
,
or
Read
himself
,
to
the
Pope's
Legat
;
he
transmits
the
compacted
Packet
,
which
he
hath
purchased
from
the
Intelligencers
,
to
Rome
.
With
the
same
Read
,
the
Letters
brought
from
Rome
are
deposired
,
under
fained
Titles
and
Names
,
and
by
him
are
delivered
to
all
to
whom
they
appertain
:
For
all
and
every
of
their
Names
are
known
to
him
.
Upon
the
very
same
occasion
,
Letters
also
are
brought
hither
under
the
covert
of
Father
Philip
;
(
he
notwithstanding
,
being
ignorant
of
things
)
from
whom
they
are
distributed
to
the
Conspirators
.
There
is
in
that
very
House
,
a
publick
Chappel
,
wherein
an
ordinary
Jesuit
Consecrates
,
and
dwells
there
.
In
the
said
Chappel
Masses
are
daily
celebrated
by
the
Jesuits
,
and
it
serves
for
the
Baptizing
of
the
Children
of
the
House
,
and
of
some
of
the
Conspirators
.
Those
who
assemble
in
the
forenamed
House
,
come
frequently
in
Coaches
,
or
on
Horse-back
in
Lay-mens
Habit
,
and
with
a
great
Train
,
wherewith
they
are
disguised
,
that
they
may
not
be
known
,
yet
they
are
Jesuits
,
and
conjured
members
of
the
Society
.
15.
All
the
Papists
of
England
contribute
to
this
Assembly
,
lest
any
thing
should
be
wanting
to
promote
the
undertaken
Design
.
Out
of
whose
Treasury
,
a
Widow
,
owner
of
the
Houses
,
wherein
Secretary
W.
now
dwelleth
,
dead
above
three
Years
since
,
bestowed
forty
Thousand
English
Pounds
;
so
likewise
others
contributed
above
their
abilities
,
so
as
the
business
may
be
promoted
unto
its
desired
end
.
16.
Besides
the
foresaid
Houses
,
there
are
Conventicles
also
kept
in
other
more
secret
places
,
of
which
they
dare
not
confide
,
even
among
themselves
,
for
fear
lest
they
should
be
discovered
.
First
,
every
of
them
are
called
to
certain
Inns
,
(
one
not
knowing
of
the
other
;
)
hence
they
are
severally
led
by
Spies
to
the
place
where
they
ought
to
meet
;
otherwise
ignorant
where
they
ought
to
assemble
,
lest
peradventure
they
should
be
surprised
at
unawares
.
17.
The
Countess
of
A
—
a
strenuous
She-Champion
of
the
Popish
Religion
,
bends
all
her
Nerves
to
the
Universal
Reformation
;
whatsoever
she
hears
at
the
King's
Court
,
that
is
done
secretly
,
or
openly
,
in
words
or
deeds
,
she
presently
imparts
to
the
Pope's
Legat
,
with
whom
she
meets
thrice
a
day
.
Sometimes
in
A
—
House
,
now
at
the
Court
,
then
at
Tarthal
.
He
scarce
sucks
such
things
by
the
Claw
.
The
Earl
himself
,
called
now
about
three
years
since
,
this
year
ought
to
go
to
Rome
,
without
doubt
to
consult
there
of
serious
things
concerning
the
Design
.
At
Greenwich
,
at
the
Earls
cost
,
a
Feminine
School
is
maintained
,
which
otherwise
is
a
Monastery
of
Nuns
;
for
the
young
Girls
therein
,
are
sent
forth
hither
and
thither
,
into
Foreign
Monasteries
beyond
the
Seas
.
Mr.
P
—
of
the
King's
Bed-Chamber
,
most
addicted
to
the
Popish
Religion
,
is
a
bitter
enemy
of
the
King
,
he
reveals
all
his
greatest
Secrets
to
the
Pope's
Legat
;
although
he
very
rarely
meets
with
him
,
yet
his
Wife
meets
him
so
much
the
oftner
,
who
being
informed
by
her
Husband
,
conveys
secrets
to
the
Legat.
In
all
his
actions
,
he
is
nothing
inferiour
to
Sir
Toby
Matthew
;
it
cannot
be
uttered
,
how
diligently
he
watcheth
on
the
business
.
His
Sons
are
secretly
instructed
in
the
Popish
Religion
;
openly
,
they
profess
the
Reformed
.
The
eldest
is
now
to
receive
his
Fathers
Office
,
under
the
King
which
shall
be
.
A
Cardinal's
Hat
is
provided
for
the
other
,
if
the
Design
shall
succeed
well
.
Above
three
Years
past
,
the
said
Mr.
P
—
was
to
be
sent
away
by
the
King
to
Marocco
;
but
he
was
prohibited
by
the
Society
,
lest
the
business
should
suffer
delay
thereby
.
He
is
a
Patron
of
the
Jesuits
,
for
whom
,
for
the
exercise
of
Religion
,
he
provides
Chappels
both
at
home
and
abroad
.
Secretary
W
—
a
most
fierce
Papist
,
is
the
most
unfaithful
to
the
King
of
all
men
,
who
not
only
betrays
and
reveals
even
the
King
's
greatest
secrets
,
but
likewise
communicates
Counsels
,
by
which
the
Design
may
be
best
advanced
.
He
,
at
least
thrice
every
Week
,
converseth
with
the
Legat
in
Nocturnal
Conventicles
,
and
reveals
those
things
which
he
thinks
fit
to
be
known
;
for
which
end
,
he
hired
a
House
near
to
the
Legats
House
,
whom
he
often
resorts
to
,
through
the
Garden
door
;
for
by
this
vicinity
,
the
meeting
is
facilitated
.
The
said
Secretary
is
bribed
with
Gifts
to
the
Party
of
that
conjured
Society
,
by
whom
he
is
sustained
,
that
he
may
the
more
seriously
execute
his
Office.
He
sent
his
Son
expresly
to
Rome
,
who
was
to
insinuate
himself
into
the
Roman
Pontif.
Sir
D
—
Sir
W
—
Mr.
M
—
the
younger
,
who
hath
been
at
Rome
;
my
Lord
S
—
a
Cousen
of
the
Earl
of
A
—
the
Countess
of
N
—
the
Dutchess
of
B
—
and
many
others
,
who
have
sworn
into
this
Conspiracy
,
are
all
most
vigilant
in
the
Design
.
Some
of
these
are
inticed
with
the
hope
of
Court
,
others
of
Political
Offices
;
Others
attend
to
the
sixteen
Cardinals
Caps
that
are
vacant
,
which
are
therefore
detained
idle
for
some
years
,
that
they
may
impose
a
vain
hope
on
those
who
expect
them
.
The
President
of
the
aforesaid
Society
was
my
Lord
Gage
,
a
Jesuit
Priest
,
dead
above
three
years
since
.
He
had
a
Palace
adorned
with
lascivious
Pictures
,
which
counterfeited
Profaneness
in
the
House
,
but
with
them
was
palliated
a
Monastery
,
wherein
forty
Nuns
were
maintained
,
hid
in
so
great
a
Palace
:
It
is
situated
in
Queen-street
,
which
the
Statue
of
a
Golden
Queen
adorns
.
The
secular
Jesuits
have
bought
all
this
Street
,
and
have
design'd
it
into
a
Quadrangle
,
where
a
Jesuitical
College
is
built
in
private
,
with
this
hope
,
that
it
might
be
openly
finished
,
as
soon
as
the
universal
reformation
was
begun
.
The
Pope's
Legat
useth
a
threefold
Character
or
Cipher
;
one
of
which
he
communicates
with
all
Nuncioes
;
another
,
with
Cardinal
Barbarini
only
;
with
a
third
,
he
covers
some
greater
secrets
to
be
communicated
.
Whatsoever
things
he
either
receiveth
from
the
Society
,
or
other
Spies
,
those
he
packs
up
together
in
one
bundle
,
dedicated
under
this
Inscription
;
To
Monsieur
Stravio
,
Arch-deacon
of
Cambray
:
From
whom
at
last
they
are
promoted
to
Rome
.
These
things
being
thus
ordered
,
if
every
thing
be
laid
to
the
Ballance
,
it
will
satisfie
in
special
,
all
the
Articles
propounded
.
WHEREIN
1.
THe
Conspiracy
against
the
King
and
Lord
Arch-Bishop
is
detected
,
and
the
means
whereby
ruin
is
threatned
to
both
,
demonstrated
.
2.
The
eminent
dangers
of
both
Kingdoms
are
rehearsed
.
3.
The
rise
and
progress
of
that
Scottish
Fire
is
related
.
4.
Means
whereby
these
Scottish
Troubles
may
be
appeased
,
are
suggested
:
For
after
the
Scots
shall
know
by
whom
and
to
what
end
their
minds
are
incensed
,
they
will
speedily
look
to
themselves
,
neither
will
they
suffer
the
Forces
of
both
parts
to
be
subdued
,
lest
a
middle
party
interpose
,
which
seeks
the
ruin
of
both
.
5.
With
what
Sword
the
King's
Throat
is
assaulted
,
even
when
these
stirs
shall
be
ended
,
Cuneus
his
Confession
,
and
a
visible
Demonstration
,
sheweth
.
6.
The
place
of
the
Assembly
in
the
House
of
Captain
Read
is
nominated
7.
The
day
of
the
eight
days
dispatch
by
Read
and
the
Legat
is
prescribed
8.
How
the
names
of
the
Conspirators
may
be
known
.
9.
Where
this
whole
Congregation
may
be
circumvented
.
10.
Some
of
the
Principal
unfaithful
ones
of
the
King's
Party
are
notified
by
name
;
many
of
whose
names
occur
not
,
yet
their
habitations
are
known
;
their
names
may
be
easily
extorted
from
Read.
If
these
things
be
warily
proceeded
in
,
the
strength
of
the
whole
business
will
be
brought
to
light
;
so
the
arrow
being
foreseen
,
the
danger
shall
be
avoided
;
which
that
it
may
prosperously
succeed
,
the
Omnipotent
Creator
grant
.
The
Arch-Bishops
Indorsement
with
his
own
hand
.
Received
,
October
14.
1640.
The
Narration
of
the
great
Treason
,
concerning
which
he
promised
to
Sir
William
Boswell
to
discover
,
against
the
King
and
State.
Historical
Remarks
ON
THE
JESUITS
.
WHoever
shall
Compare
the
before-recited
PLOT
against
King
Charles
the
First
,
of
Glorious
Memory
,
with
that
against
His
most
Sacred
Majesty
now
Reigning
;
shall
find
them
so
like
in
all
the
Parts
and
Circumstances
,
that
never
were
two
Brothers
more
:
the
Design
the
same
,
the
Contrivance
the
same
,
the
Working
and
Machination
,
all
moving
upon
the
same
Wheels
of
KING-killing
,
and
State-destruction
;
and
in
reference
to
Condition
,
Quality
,
Religion
,
and
Motive
,
the
Conspirators
the
very
same
.
From
whence
it
follows
,
that
there
is
no
such
Improbability
of
the
Late
discovered
PLOT
,
as
the
Papists
would
have
us
believe
.
An
ill
Name
is
half
a
Conviction
;
Quo
semel
est
imbuta
recens
,
&
naturam
expellas
furcalicet
,
are
the
Jesuits
Morals
:
Plot
,
Contrivance
,
and
Cruelty
are
so
much
the
Essential
Attributes
of
Jesuitism
,
as
if
like
so
many
Romulusses
and
Remusses
they
had
suckt
the
Milk
of
Wolves
rather
than
of
Christian
Mothers
,
that
when
you
hear
of
Plots
and
Designs
against
Kings
and
Princes
,
you
may
be
assur'd
what
sort
of
Cyclops
were
the
Forgers
of
such
Conspiracies
.
Neither
is
this
bare
Allegation
,
but
Matter
of
Fact
,
there
being
nothing
more
frequently
taught
,
nor
more
frequently
practis'd
,
than
the
rebellious
Principles
of
the
Jesuits
and
their
Adherents
.
How
abominably
the
Reigns
of
several
of
our
Princes
here
in
England
has
been
pester'd
with
this
Generation
of
Vipers
and
Blood-suckers
,
the
Penal
Statutes
of
the
Kingdom
,
and
the
utter
Expulsion
of
the
Popish
Priests
and
Jesuits
out
of
the
Nation
,
are
convincing
Evidences
.
And
as
to
their
Behaviour
in
other
Countries
,
take
this
following
Account
.
First
then
it
is
a
Maxim
most
true
and
undoubted
,
That
a
Vacuum
in
Nature
may
be
as
soon
allow'd
,
as
that
there
is
any
Court
of
King
of
Prince
where
these
Jesuits
do
not
swarm
and
abound
,
if
they
can
but
creep
in
at
the
least
Creviss
.
To
come
to
particulars
,
we
will
begin
with
Portugal
,
a
Kingdom
altogether
acknowledging
the
Papal
Jurisdiction
.
In
the
Year
1578.
the
Jesuits
perswaded
Sebastian
King
of
that
Kingdom
,
to
undertake
that
Fatal
Expedition
into
Africa
,
to
the
end
that
by
his
ruin
they
might
transfer
the
Kingdom
to
the
Dominion
of
the
Spaniard
.
The
Success
answer'd
their
Expectation
;
for
Sebastian
being
cut
off
,
together
with
his
Son
,
and
the
greatest
part
of
the
Portugal
Nobility
,
presently
Philip
King
of
Spain
prepares
to
invade
Portugal
with
two
powerful
Armies
:
But
well
knowing
how
little
Right
he
had
on
his
side
,
and
how
much
he
should
be
censur'd
as
well
in
Italy
as
in
Portugal
for
such
an
Action
,
he
began
to
make
it
a
Point
of
Conscience
,
and
referr'd
his
Scruples
to
be
discuss'd
by
the
Jesuits
and
Franciscans
in
the
Colledge
of
Alcana
de
Henares
,
and
of
them
he
desires
to
know
,
Whether
if
it
were
apparent
that
he
had
a
Right
to
the
Crown
of
Portugal
by
the
Death
of
Henry
,
he
were
not
oblig'd
in
Conscience
to
submit
himself
to
some
Tribunal
,
that
should
adjudge
the
Kingdom
to
him
.
Secondly
,
Whether
if
the
Portugals
should
refuse
to
admit
him
for
their
King
before
the
difference
were
decided
between
the
Competitors
,
he
might
not
by
force
of
Arms
Invest
himself
in
the
Kingdom
by
his
own
Authority
.
To
which
the
Jesuits
and
Pranciscans
made
answer
,
That
Philip
was
bound
by
no
tye
of
Conscience
to
subject
himself
to
the
Will
of
another
,
but
might
act
as
he
saw
fitting
by
his
own
Authority
.
Which
flattering
Sentence
of
those
irreligious
Cusuists
being
approved
by
Philip
,
he
presently
began
the
War.
In
the
heat
of
which
War
,
the
Jesuits
were
they
that
would
have
betray'd
the
chiefest
of
the
Azores
Islands
to
the
Spaniards
,
which
so
incens'd
the
People
,
that
some
would
have
had
them
try'd
for
their
lives
,
others
would
have
had
them
and
their
Colledge
burnt
together
.
In
France
,
Joane
Albret
Queen
of
Navarr
,
was
poysoned
with
a
pair
of
Perfumed
Gloves
,
at
the
procurement
of
the
Jesuits
,
for
being
the
Patroness
of
those
of
the
Reformed
Religion
.
That
Rebellious
League
of
the
Guizes
against
Henry
the
Third
of
France
,
was
carried
on
and
promoted
by
the
Jesuits
,
both
at
Paris
and
other
places
:
Insomuch
,
that
when
the
League
got
strength
and
began
to
appear
,
the
Jesuits
making
a
wrong
use
of
their
Power
of
Confessing
and
Absolving
,
would
Absolve
none
that
professed
themselves
obedient
Subjects
to
the
King.
This
unfortunate
Prince
was
not
only
harrass'd
and
tormented
by
this
Villanous
and
Jesuitical
League
,
not
only
driven
out
of
his
chief
City
,
but
at
length
at
the
Instigation
of
the
Jesuits
,
stabb'd
and
murder'd
by
a
Dominican
Monk
,
by
them
procur'd
.
The
Murder
was
also
applauded
by
Pope
Sixtus
the
Fifth
,
in
a
long
Oration
spoke
in
a
full
Consistory
of
Cardinals
in
these
words
:
That
a
Monk
(
saith
he
)
should
kill
the
unfortunate
King
of
France
in
the
midst
of
his
Army
,
was
a
rare
,
noble
,
and
memorable
Act.
And
a
little
further
,
This
Act
,
saith
he
,
was
done
by
the
Providence
of
God
,
design'd
by
the
Inspiration
of
the
Holy
Ghost
;
a
far
greater
Act
than
that
of
Judith
,
who
slew
Holofernes
.
Expressions
rather
becoming
the
Mouth
of
a
Devil
,
than
of
a
Vicar
of
Christ.
After
him
Henry
the
Fourth
was
first
attempted
by
Barrier
,
exhorted
and
confirm'd
in
the
lawfulness
of
the
Fact
by
Varada
the
Jesuit
,
and
others
of
the
same
Gang.
Secondly
by
John
Castell
,
at
the
Instigation
of
Gueret
and
Guignard
,
both
Jesuits
:
And
Francis
Verona
the
Jesuit
,
publisht
an
Apology
in
vindication
and
justification
of
the
Fact
:
And
lastly
,
murder'd
out-right
by
Francis
Ravaillac
a
great
Disciple
of
the
Jesuits
.
And
for
no
worse
Pranks
than
these
,
they
were
banished
out
of
France
by
Decree
of
Parliament
,
As
Corrupters
of
Youth
,
Disturbers
of
the
public
Peace
,
and
Enemies
to
the
King
and
Kingdom
.
Truly
very
honourable
Characters
for
those
that
pretend
to
be
of
the
Society
of
Jesus
.
The
Venetians
expell'd
them
upon
this
occasion
:
The
Senate
observing
that
the
Ecclesiastics
,
especially
the
Jesuits
,
began
to
engross
Lands
and
Houses
of
their
Territories
under
the
pretence
of
Legacies
,
to
the
great
damage
of
the
Public
Income
,
thought
it
convenient
to
put
a
stop
to
this
Jesuitical
Engrossment
;
and
provide
by
Law
that
Ecclesiastical
Persons
should
not
possess
all
the
Temporal
Estates
in
their
Territories
to
themselves
,
but
give
leave
for
others
to
share
with
them
,
it
being
positively
against
the
Constitution
of
their
Order
,
and
the
Institution
of
Christ
their
Founder
.
The
Jesuits
took
this
in
great
dudgeon
,
and
wrote
to
Pope
Paul
the
Fifth
about
it
.
The
Venetians
being
summon'd
to
answer
,
would
not
relinquish
their
Right
,
Protesting
withal
,
that
they
had
the
Supreme
Jurisdiction
in
their
own
Territories
,
and
consequently
to
make
Laws
;
and
that
the
Pope
had
nothing
to
do
with
them
in
those
Matters
.
Upon
which
Answer
,
the
Pope
thunders
out
his
Excommunication
.
The
Duke
and
Senate
by
public
Decree
condemn
the
Excommunication
as
unjust
and
invalid
;
which
done
,
they
call
the
whole
Body
of
their
Clergy
,
and
to
them
declare
how
Affairs
stood
.
The
elder
sort
take
part
with
the
Commonwealth
,
and
maintain
the
Argument
against
the
Pope
in
writing
,
among
whom
Paulus
Venetus
was
most
eminently
Signal
:
The
Jesuits
not
enduring
the
kneeness
of
his
Reasons
,
hire
two
Ruffians
,
and
upon
the
fifth
of
October
,
1607.
set
them
to
assassinate
Paulus
Venetus
,
who
thinking
they
had
done
his
work
,
left
him
for
dead
,
and
fled
away
.
This
was
something
near
Sir
Edmundbury
Godfreys
Case
.
The
Senate
hearing
this
,
by
a
new
Law
banish
the
Jesuits
for
ever
out
of
their
Territories
,
and
cut
them
off
from
all
hope
of
ever
returning
:
And
this
was
their
Fortune
in
Venice
.
In
the
year
1609.
the
Bohemians
made
a
Complaint
to
the
Emperour
against
the
Jesuits
,
for
the
same
Encroachments
of
which
the
Venetians
had
accused
them
before
,
desiring
of
Caesar
that
they
might
no
longer
be
permitted
to
transfer
and
translate
into
their
own
possession
such
ample
Patrimonies
,
under
pretence
of
Donations
and
Legacies
,
as
they
did
continually
.
Of
which
when
the
Emperour
took
little
notice
,
they
were
by
the
Bohemian
States
themselves
in
the
year
1618.
utterly
expelled
out
of
that
Nation
for
ever
,
with
these
Characters
:
1.
That
they
were
lavish
Wasters
of
the
Public
Peace
and
Tranquility
of
the
Nation
.
2.
That
they
endeavour'd
to
subject
all
Kingdoms
and
Nations
to
the
Power
of
the
Pope
.
3.
That
they
did
nothing
but
set
the
Magistrates
together
by
the
Ears
.
4.
That
they
made
particular
Advantage
of
Confessions
,
to
the
destruction
of
the
people
:
with
many
other
Crimes
of
the
same
nature
.
The
same
year
they
were
expell'd
out
of
Moravia
for
the
same
Reasons
;
and
the
next
year
out
of
Hungaria
for
the
same
Causes
.
In
Silesia
also
a
Decree
was
made
,
That
the
Jesuits
should
not
enter
that
Province
upon
pain
of
Death
,
as
being
the
onely
means
to
preserve
peace
in
the
Nation
.
As
to
other
Villanies
in
Poland
,
a
Polonian
Knight
,
himself
a
Papist
,
in
an
Oration
by
him
made
in
a
full
Assembly
of
the
Polonian
Nobility
,
declares
,
That
Cracow
the
most
Famous
City
of
Poland
,
and
Ornament
of
the
Kingdom
,
was
so
plagu'd
by
the
Jesuits
,
that
several
good
men
,
though
Catholicks
,
affirmed
,
That
they
would
rather
live
in
the
Woods
among
wild
Beasts
,
than
abide
in
the
City
.
One
time
among
the
rest
,
these
Jesuits
having
brought
their
Conspiracy
to
perfection
,
brake
into
the
most
ancient
Monument
of
Antiquity
in
the
City
,
and
to
the
great
danger
of
the
whole
City
,
set
it
on
Fire
,
as
being
granted
to
the
Evangelics
by
Consent
of
the
King
,
and
States
of
the
Kingdom
.
In
Posnania
another
great
City
of
the
same
Kingdom
,
they
set
Fire
on
the
Church
belonging
to
those
of
the
Augustan
Confession
,
and
committed
so
many
Insolencies
without
Controul
,
that
the
Nobility
refus'd
to
meet
at
the
Dyet
shortly
after
to
be
held
at
Warsaw
,
resolving
to
repair
further
off
to
Lublin
,
for
the
redress
of
these
Misdemeanours
.
Neither
indeed
was
there
any
thing
more
grievously
burdensom
to
that
Kingdom
than
the
Pride
and
Avarice
of
those
Miscreants
.
In
Muscovy
,
upon
the
Death
of
the
Great
Duke
Basilowich
,
the
Jesuits
set
up
one
Demetrius
against
the
lawful
Heir
,
who
had
made
them
large
Promises
,
if
he
obtain'd
the
Dukedom
.
Thereupon
by
the
help
of
these
Jesuits
,
the
said
Demetrius
gets
Aid
from
the
King
of
Poland
,
which
was
not
onely
the
Occasion
of
a
great
War
in
Muscovy
,
but
had
like
to
have
cost
them
the
Alteration
of
their
Laws
,
and
loss
of
their
ancient
Customs
and
Priviledges
,
had
they
not
prevented
it
by
a
desperate
Attempt
upon
the
Impostor
,
and
put
him
to
Death
;
surrounded
with
Impostors
and
Jesuits
.
The
Transilvanians
publicly
and
with
one
Consent
laid
all
the
Cause
of
their
Miseries
and
Calamities
,
upon
the
Subtilties
and
Contrivances
of
the
Jesuits
,
for
which
reason
by
a
Public
Decree
of
the
States
of
that
Province
,
they
were
Ejected
out
of
the
limits
of
their
Territories
.
Nevertheless
they
secretly
fomented
the
Ruin
of
that
Country
,
and
were
the
reason
that
Sigismund
Bathor
involv'd
himself
in
War
and
Trouble
,
and
at
length
died
an
inglorious
and
miserable
Death
.
By
their
Contrivance
also
Stephen
Potski
,
Prince
of
Transilvania
,
opposing
their
Bloody
Sect
,
was
put
out
of
the
way
,
as
they
call
it
,
by
Poyson
,
in
the
year
1607.
In
Styria
and
Carinthia
,
Provinces
of
Germany
,
they
never
left
till
they
had
voided
those
Provinces
of
all
the
Inhabitants
of
the
Reformed
Religion
.
In
Holland
,
they
never
left
till
they
saw
the
Blood
of
William
Prince
of
Orange
,
spilt
by
the
trayterous
Hand
of
Balthasar
Gerard
,
a
Burgundian
and
Disciple
of
their
own
.
The
same
Attempts
did
Peter
de
Tour
,
and
other
Ruffians
make
upon
the
person
of
Maurice
his
Son
,
a
brave
and
Martial
Prince
,
and
all
at
the
Instigation
of
the
Jesuits
,
those
Insatiable
Sons
of
BLOOD
and
PERDITION
.
A
VINDICATION
OF
THE
Dissenting
Protestants
,
From
being
Authors
of
the
REBELLION
against
the
late
KING
,
and
Plotters
of
Treason
against
His
MAJESTY
now
Reigning
.
SEeing
then
no
Corner
of
Europe
has
been
free
from
the
Plots
and
Conspiracies
of
these
Jesuitical
Fiends
,
it
would
be
a
kind
of
Crime
and
sleepy
Desertion
of
our
own
Safety
,
to
suffer
our selves
to
be
charm'd
by
the
Delusions
of
insinuating
Libels
and
Rumors
of
Presbyterian
Plots
,
to
mistrust
the
Truth
of
the
continu'd
Jesuitical
Contrivances
against
the
Kingdom
.
Neither
can
they
be
thought
the
best
Subjects
of
England
,
who
are
so
willing
to
Gratifie
the
Popish
Party
,
by
giving
Credence
to
such
idle
Surmizes
which
they
can
have
so
little
ground
to
believe
.
The
Jesuits
have
committed
a
great
piece
of
Villany
in
this
Nation
;
they
have
attempted
the
Life
of
the
King
,
and
have
been
Plotting
to
subvert
the
Established
Religion
of
the
Kingdom
,
and
now
they
would
throw
it
upon
the
Presbyterians
:
Which
is
a
Fourbery
so
plain
,
that
common
Sense
and
Policy
may
easily
discover
the
full
intent
and
meaning
of
it
:
And
therefore
it
is
fairly
to
be
hop'd
,
that
neither
Presbyterians
,
nor
any
other
Protestant
Dissenters
will
be
so
Unchristian-like
Disloyal
,
as
to
receive
any
Exasperation
from
these
Calumnies
;
but
rather
unite
against
the
Common
Enemy
,
from
whom
they
can
expect
no
more
Mercy
,
than
the
severest
Champion
of
Episcopacy
can
hope
for
.
But
you
will
say
,
the
Presbyterians
are
not
accus'd
of
any
Design
to
bring
in
Popery
,
but
miraculously
discover'd
,
as
the
Authors
of
a
Plot
to
set
up
the
Classes
of
their
own
Ecclesiastical
Government
.
Well!
if
it
were
so
,
they
were
the
arrantest
Bunglers
of
Plotters
that
ever
plotted
Mischief
in
this
World
:
For
I
do
not
find
their
Plot
to
be
above
a
years
standing
;
And
it
was
a
Plot
that
was
driven
on
out
of
pure
Kindness
to
the
Papists
.
For
the
Presbyterians
understanding
that
the
Papists
,
(
their
Incarnate
Enemies
)
were
under
a
Premunire
,
as
being
accused
of
Treason
and
Conspiracy
against
the
KING
and
Kingdom
;
They
therefore
would
needs
enter
into
a
Plot
,
which
they
would
so
order
as
to
be
discover'd
a
Twelve-month
after
,
to
ease
the
Papists
of
the
Load
they
groan'd
under
.
So
that
as
considering
the
time
,
it
fell
out
most
confoundedly
unluckily
,
that
the
Presbyteriaus
should
conceal
this
Plot
from
the
Papists
,
till
so
many
good
,
honest
,
pious
and
loyal
Priests
of
Baal
,
and
Sons
of
Belial
were
hang'd
,
which
would
never
have
been
done
,
had
there
been
the
least
Inkling
given
of
the
Meal-Tub
in
season
.
But
when
the
Names
of
the
Persons
came
to
be
seen
that
were
to
be
Actors
in
this
Presbyterian
Tragedy
,
then
to
the
Laughter
of
the
whole
World
,
there
never
appear'd
such
a
Dow-bak'd
Plot
out
of
a
Meal-Tub
since
the
Creation
,
to
bring
so
many
Great
Men
plotting
against
their
own
prosperity
and
enjoyments
;
so
many
wise
and
politie
States-men
,
by
whom
the
Nation
has
been
so
long
steer'd
,
to
be
Plotters
and
Conspirers
against
their
own
Preservation
.
These
are
Plots
of
such
a
strange
Nature
,
that
if
they
could
be
thought
reall
,
they
would
occasion
the
unhinging
of
the
whole
Frame
of
Order
and
Government
,
while
it
were
impossible
for
Honour
,
Probity
,
and
Reputation
to
remain
upon
the
Earth
.
Obedience
and
Allegiance
to
Government
are
grounded
either
upon
Religion
,
or
Moral
Vertue
;
or
if
these
two
fail
,
there
is
a
necessity
which
obliges
the
ordinary
fore-sight
of
Prudence
.
Against
these
Ambition
or
Revenge
are
the
only
Combatants
;
but
neither
Ambition
nor
Revenge
can
bear
so
great
a
sway
in
persons
that
understand
the
Intrigues
of
Policy
,
or
the
more
mysterious
management
of
Prudence
,
as
to
delude
them
into
Plots
and
Conspiracies
where
there
is
no
prospect
of
a
secure
Change.
The
Presbyterians
are
a
sort
of
people
wary
and
deliberate
:
Neither
are
their
Tenents
,
which
had
their
rise
and
beginnings
from
men
whom
the
Papists
themselves
confess
to
have
been
men
of
great
Learning
,
Eloquence
,
and
Exemplary
Lives
,
of
that
Crimson
Constitution
,
as
to
prompt
them
to
lay
the
Foundations
of
their
Hierarchy
in
Blood
and
Massacre
;
or
so
deeply
to
wound
the
Reputation
of
the
Protestant
Religion
,
by
the
clandestine
Treachery
and
secret
Contrivances
of
Disloyalty
.
For
as
for
that
Design
of
the
Huguenots
under
Francis
the
Second
,
King
of
France
,
of
which
the
Prince
of
Conde
,
and
the
Admiral
Coligni
were
said
to
be
Chief
;
that
was
no
Design
against
the
Life
or
Person
of
the
King
,
but
against
the
exorbitant
Pride
of
the
Guises
,
Duke
and
Cardinal
,
who
were
at
the
same
time
Papists
,
and
were
themselves
contriving
to
take
away
the
Life
of
the
young
King
,
and
translate
the
Royal
Dignity
into
their
own
Family
.
Neither
could
the
Civil
Wars
of
France
be
said
to
be
the
Rebellion
of
the
Hugonets
:
But
a
War
of
the
Queen
Regents
,
and
the
two
Guises
own
weaving
,
while
they
all
strove
to
preserve
their
own
Authority
.
And
the
Queen
Regent
her self
was
the
first
that
caus'd
the
Prince
of
Conde
to
take
Arms
,
as
fearing
the
Guises
would
wrest
the
Government
out
of
her
hands
,
by
recommending
to
his
Protection
the
young
King
Charles
the
Ninth
her
Son
,
her Self
,
and
the
Kingdom
.
Nay
they
were
so
far
from
being
Rebels
to
their
King
,
that
they
joyn'd
with
the
Catholiques
for
the
Recovery
of
Haure
out
of
the
hands
of
Queen
Elizabeth
,
who
had
been
their
Friend
:
And
though
the
Admiral
and
Danaelot
were
not
at
the
Siege
,
for
fear
of
being
tared
by
the
Queen
of
Ingratitude
,
yet
they
sent
both
their
Forces
and
Friends
.
Some
indeed
justly
deserved
to
be
blamed
for
the
violence
of
their
Conduct
in
the
late
Wars
;
but
it
is
a
Question
,
of
which
some
make
no
doubt
,
whether
those
Violences
were
not
occasion'd
by
the
Papists
in
Masquerade
,
who
well
knew
how
to
intermix
themselves
both
in
their
Counsels
and
Actions
;
whether
they
did
not
stand
behind
the
Scene
and
prompt
those
Sons
of
Jehu
?
Whether
they
did
not
pour
Oyl
upon
those
Flames
?
For
it
appears
that
the
Presbyterians
(
if
Names
of
distinction
may
be
us'd
among
people
of
the
same
Religion
)
were
the
first
that
relented
,
as
is
evident
by
Votes
of
Addresses
,
and
their
Treaty
at
the
Isle
of
Wight
,
not
broke
off
by
them
,
but
by
One
that
was
playing
his
own
Game
,
and
meditating
the
destruction
both
of
his
Sovereign
and
them
too
:
Who
having
made
his
Exit
,
they
then
considered
what
ill
Phaetons
they
had
been
before
,
and
return'd
the
more
skilful
Phoebus
the
Reins
of
his
Chariot
again
.
But
that
you
may
know
that
't
is
an
old
Dog-trick
of
the
Papists
to
play
the
Devils
Incarnate
,
and
lay
their
most
wicked
Actions
upon
the
Innocent
;
I
will
repeat
this
short
Story
out
of
one
of
the
choicest
French
Historians
,
and
a
Catholique
to
boot
.
The
Queen
Regent
of
France
having
long
design'd
the
Destruction
of
the
Protestants
in
France
,
and
of
all
the
chief
Heads
of
the
reformed
Religion
;
and
among
the
rest
of
Admiral
Coligni
,
the
Life
and
Soul
of
the
whole
Party
,
projects
the
Execution
,
with
the
Assistance
of
the
Duke
of
Anjou
,
the
Counts
of
Tavanes
and
Raix
,
and
the
Chancellor
Birague
,
and
easily
drew
in
the
young
King
,
whom
they
made
believe
that
there
was
no
safety
so
long
as
those
persons
were
alive
,
and
the
young
Guises
were
as
ready
as
she
to
revenge
their
Fathers
Death
.
As
for
the
King
of
Navar
,
they
had
so
order'd
it
,
that
he
was
to
be
marry'd
at
Paris
at
that
time
,
and
that
brought
the
Prince
of
Conde
to
the
City
.
But
the
Admiral
more
wary
kept
aloof
,
till
the
King
had
begun
the
War
with
Spain
in
the
Low
Countries
,
which
the
Admiral
had
so
passionately
desir'd
,
and
of
which
the
King
and
Queen
Regent
,
had
assur'd
him
the
Management
.
Then
he
came
an
end
,
seeing
the
War
begun
,
and
two
of
his
own
Favourites
,
Noue
and
Genlis
,
at
the
Head
of
some
thousands
in
Flanders
.
And
these
three
Great
Personages
,
the
King
of
Navarr
,
the
Prince
of
Conde
,
and
the
Admiral
Coligni
,
brought
such
Trains
after
them
,
as
throng'd
all
Paris
with
the
Flower
of
all
the
Protestant
Nobility
and
Gentry
of
France
:
Who
being
all
thus
within
the
Net
,
Orders
were
given
to
make
a
general
Slaughter
of
all
without
distinction
,
excepting
the
King
of
Navarr
,
and
the
Prince
of
Conde
.
Hence
proceeded
that
Horrible
Massacre
in
the
Year
1572.
which
lasted
for
seven
Days
together
,
to
the
destruction
of
above
5000
persons
of
all
Ages
and
Sexes
;
and
among
these
above
600
Persons
of
Quality
.
After
this
Deluge
of
Blood
,
and
that
the
Queen
had
sent
the
Head
of
Coligny
Embalm'd
as
a
Present
to
the
Pope
,
the
Queen
Regent
had
contriv'd
to
lay
the
Load
of
all
the
committed
Impiety
upon
the
Guises
,
who
were
Captains
of
the
Massacre
,
believing
that
the
Monmor
ancies
would
certainly
seek
to
revenge
the
Admirals
Death
upon
them
:
So
that
while
those
two
Factions
ruin'd
and
destroy'd
one
another
,
she
might
have
all
the
Power
in
her
own
hands
,
and
rule
according
to
her
own
Will.
But
the
Guises
being
aware
of
this
Design
,
and
having
the
Catholique
Nobility
,
the
Duke
of
Montpensier
,
and
the
Parisians
on
their
side
,
caus'd
the
Queen
to
change
her
Note
;
and
thereupon
she
caus'd
the
King
to
write
abroad
,
That
all
was
done
to
prevent
the
detestable
Conspiracy
of
the
Admiral
and
his
Confederates
,
againsh
his
Life
and
Royal
Family
.
Thereupon
there
was
a
Court
of
Justice
erected
,
wherein
the
Admiral
was
Condemn'd
,
and
after
they
had
murder'd
him
,
Executed
again
in
Effigies
,
his
Goods
Confiscated
,
and
his
Children
degraded
:
And
the
better
to
colour
this
,
two
poor
innocent
Gentlemen
that
had
escaped
the
Massacre
,
were
apprehended
for
saving
their
Lives
,
Briquemaut
,
and
Arnaud
de
Covagnes
,
as
his
Accomplices
,
condemn'd
to
the
same
punishment
,
and
executed
accordingly
.
Thus
what
these
did
,
our
late
Plotters
would
have
done
:
We
may
then
say
to
all
Protestants
in
general
,
Felices
Agricole
sua
si
bona
norint
,
Happy
would
they
be
,
would
they
but
know
their
own
strength
,
Would
they
but
make
the
right
use
of
these
wicked
Contrivances
of
their
Enemies
,
and
laying
aside
all
froward
Puuctilio's
of
private
Opinions
,
joyn
unanimously
against
the
common
Adversary
.
For
if
it
be
a
Maxim
falsly
argu'd
against
,
that
Peace
and
Diversity
of
Religions
cannot
be
preserved
in
the
same
Nation
,
as
the
Ambassadors
of
the
Germane
Princes
urg'd
to
Charles
the
Ninth
of
France
;
much
more
truly
may
it
be
said
,
that
little
matters
of
difference
between
persons
of
the
same
Religion
can
be
no
impediment
to
their
Union
and
Conformity
.
But
further
to
clear
the
Dissenting
Protestants
,
I
shall
here
add
a
perfect
Narration
of
the
Management
and
Contrivance
of
the
Jesuits
,
to
render
the
greater
part
of
the
principal
Men
in
this
Kingdom
,
as
well
those
of
the
Church
of
England
,
as
the
Dissenters
,
obnoxious
to
the
Government
,
thereby
utterly
to
ruin
them
and
the
Protestant
Religion
,
which
Design
God
of
his
infinite
Goodness
has
been
pleased
to
bring
to
Confusion
,
and
the
Instruments
thereof
through
the
same
Divine
Providence
,
we
hope
shortly
to
see
brought
to
Condign
Punishment
.
A
Compleat
HISTORY
OF
THE
LAST
PLOT
OF
THE
PAPISTS
,
UPON
THE
Dissenting
Protestants
.
THe
late
PLOT
of
the
Romish
Priests
and
Jesuits
for
murdering
His
Majesty
,
subverting
the
Government
and
Protestant
Religion
,
and
introducing
Popery
,
being
proved
by
undeniable
Evidences
and
Circumstances
;
the
cunning
Jesuits
thought
it
their
best
way
(
since
peoples
Eyes
were
too
open
to
be
made
believe
there
was
no
PLOT
)
to
confess
there
was
a
Plot
,
and
to
aggravate
it
too
;
but
withal
to
use
their
utmost
skill
to
prove
,
That
this
Plot
was
not
a
Popish-Plot
,
as
was
generally
believed
,
but
a
pure
Design
of
the
Presbyterians
,
and
other
Dissenters
from
the
Protestant
Church
of
England
,
to
ruin
the
Loyal
Roman
Chatholiques
,
whilst
indeed
themselves
were
the
Conspirators
;
who
(
whereas
they
gave
out
that
the
Papists
intended
by
murdering
the
King
,
&c.
to
bring
in
Popery
)
really
intended
by
killing
His
Majesty
,
to
Introduce
Presbytery
and
a
Commonwealth
,
and
so
at
one
Blow
subvert
the
Government
both
in
Church
and
State
,
and
then
to
set
up
a
new
one
of
their
own
under
the
Name
of
Conservators
of
the
Liberties
of
England
:
And
for
this
purpose
they
had
secretly
given
out
Commissions
for
raising
an
Army
,
the
principal
Officers
whereof
were
such
Persons
who
seemed
to
have
the
greatest
share
in
the
Peoples
Affections
.
This
Design
being
agreed
to
by
these
Hellish
Miscreants
,
all
possible
Diligence
was
used
to
bring
it
to
Execution
;
and
for
this
purpose
they
drew
up
the
Scheme
of
a
Government
they
intended
to
Impeach
several
of
the
truly
Loyal
Nobility
and
Gentry
,
and
the
whole
Body
of
Dissenting
Protestants
,
of
conspiring
.
This
being
done
,
they
began
to
form
Letters
of
Intelligence
concerning
this
Presbyterian
Plot
,
and
also
to
provide
themselves
with
Persons
to
Swear
for
the
Truth
of
their
Allegations
.
To
this
end
Mrs.
Cellier
(
a
zealous
Papist
,
and
Midwife
to
the
Lady
Powis
,
and
other
Roman
Catholic
Ladies
)
procures
the
Enlargement
of
one
Wiltoughby
,
aliàs
Dangerfield
,
aliàs
Thomas
;
aliàs
Day
,
who
had
been
a
Prisoner
in
Newgate
about
six
Weeks
,
and
had
been
Convicted
once
at
Salisbury
Assizes
,
(
where
he
was
fined
Five
pounds
,
and
sentenced
to
stand
Three
several
times
in
the
Pillory
,
which
he
did
twice
,
and
then
brake
Prison
and
escaped
;
)
and
twice
at
the
Old
Bailey
,
for
uttering
false
Guineys
,
(
where
for
the
first
Offence
he
was
fined
Fifty
pounds
,
and
for
the
second
he
got
His
Majesties
Pardon
.
)
He
was
no
sooner
released
from
Newgate
,
but
he
was
Arrested
and
thrown
into
the
Counter
,
from
whence
by
the
means
of
Bannister
and
Scarlet
she
got
him
removed
to
the
King's-Bench
,
where
(
after
some
fruitless
attempts
to
get
some
Papers
relating
to
Captain
Bedlow
from
one
Strode
a
Prisoner
there
)
he
was
furnished
with
Money
by
the
five
Lords
in
the
Tower
,
viz.
the
Lord
Bellasis
,
the
Lord
Powis
,
the
Lord
Petre
,
the
Lord
Arundel
,
and
the
Lord
Stafford
,
(
Mrs.
Cellier
also
giving
him
5
l.
)
to
Compound
all
his
Debts
,
&c.
Before
Mrs.
Cellier
would
discharge
him
from
Newgate
,
she
made
tryal
of
his
Wit
,
by
ordering
him
to
draw
up
Articles
according
as
she
directed
,
against
Captain
Richardson
,
which
he
perform'd
to
her
liking
,
and
confirm'd
her
in
the
Choice
she
had
made
of
his
being
a
fit
person
to
carry
on
the
Designed
Plot.
The
general
Esteem
the
Conspirators
had
of
him
is
evident
by
the
Trust
they
reposed
in
him
;
for
though
they
had
several
Others
to
carry
on
their
New
Plot
,
yet
he
appears
to
have
the
chief
Management
of
it
.
Being
now
sufficiently
provided
with
Instruments
to
execute
their
Damnable
Designs
,
this
Dangerfield
was
recommended
to
His
Majesty
by
a
Great
Person
,
as
one
who
was
much
concerned
in
a
Plot
of
the
Presbyterians
against
His
Life
and
Government
,
and
that
from
time
to
time
he
would
make
discovery
thereof
.
Thus
they
endeavoured
to
insinuate
into
His
Majesties
Mind
a
belief
of
the
Plot
,
that
he
might
not
be
surpriz'd
at
the
Discovery
they
intended
to
make
.
Another
of
the
intended
Actors
in
this
Tragedy
,
was
Thomas
Courtees
,
once
a
Clerk
to
Sir
William
Bucknal
,
one
of
the
Excise
Farmers
,
then
a
Servant
to
Mr.
Henry
Nevil
,
and
after
to
a
worthy
Member
of
Parliament
;
from
whose
Service
,
he
fell
into
a
lewd
course
of
life
:
But
being
thought
a
Man
fit
for
the
Design
in
hand
,
he
was
entertained
for
one
of
the
Witnesses
.
This
Person
was
very
industrious
in
promoting
a
Belief
of
this
Presbyterian
Plot
;
for
being
well
acquainted
with
Mrs.
Bradley
,
who
keeps
the
House
called
Heaven
in
Old
Palace-Yard
;
and
there
being
a
Club
of
several
honest
Gentlemen
kept
at
her
House
,
he
desired
her
to
bring
him
into
their
Company
,
which
she
promised
to
endeavour
.
Discoursing
with
her
about
the
late
Plot
,
he
told
her
,
that
it
would
shortly
appear
to
be
a
Plot
of
the
Presbyterians
,
and
that
they
were
privately
giving
out
Commissions
for
raising
an
Army
:
Whereupon
she
demanded
,
who
gave
out
the
Commissions
;
to
which
he
replyed
,
it
was
Mr.
Blood
;
and
added
further
,
That
if
she
would
use
her
Interest
with
Mr.
Blood
,
to
get
a
Commission
for
him
,
though
it
were
but
for
an
Ensign
,
he
would
give
her
100
l.
and
told
her
also
that
he
should
get
5000
l.
by
it
.
Mrs.
Bradley
told
this
to
Mr.
Blood
,
who
fearing
the
Consequence
,
acquainted
His
Majesty
therewith
,
and
from
Him
received
Encouragement
to
make
a
further
Inquiry
into
this
Matter
.
Mr.
Blood
hereupon
desired
the
Woman
to
keep
still
her
Correspendency
with
Courtees
,
and
if
possible
to
find
out
the
Mystery
of
this
Business
.
Courtees
came
several
times
afterwards
to
the
House
,
and
discoursed
freely
with
her
about
the
before-mentioned
matter
,
and
told
her
,
that
he
knew
seven
or
eight
persons
who
were
employed
upon
the
same
account
as
he
was
.
But
that
which
follows
put
a
stop
to
his
proceedings
,
and
made
these
wicked
Agents
carry
themselves
more
warily
.
The
Jesuits
thought
it
not
sufficient
to
throw
the
Plot
upon
the
Presbyterians
;
unless
they
could
likewise
bring
off
the
Evidence
that
had
sworn
against
them
,
and
by
getting
them
to
recant
,
put
their
Innocency
out
of
Question
.
For
this
purpose
Mr.
Dugdale
,
one
of
the
Kings
Evidence
,
is
attempted
by
one
Mrs.
Price
,
(
for
whom
it
is
said
Mr.
Dugdale
had
formerly
some
kindness
;
)
she
warily
discovers
her
Design
,
and
he
as
warily
entertains
it
;
and
after
some
Treaty
,
one
Mr.
Tesborough
appears
in
the
Case
.
They
promis'd
Mr.
Dugdale
a
great
Sum
of
Money
,
upon
condition
that
he
would
Recant
what
he
had
Sworn
,
and
Sign
a
Paper
,
which
they
had
ready
drawn
up
to
this
effect
.
Being
touched
with
a
True
Remorse
of
Conscience
,
and
an
hearty
Sorrow
for
the
Great
Evil
I
have
done
,
in
appearing
as
a
witness
against
the
Catholicks
,
and
there
speaking
that
which
in
my
own
Conscience
I
know
to
be
far
from
the
Truth
;
I
think
my self
bound
in
Duty
to
God
,
to
Man
,
and
for
the
safety
of
my
own
Soul
,
to
make
a
true
Acknowledgment
,
how
I
was
drawn
into
thesewicked
Actions
;
but
being
well
satisfied
that
I
shall
create
my self
many
powerful
.
Enemies
upon
this
account
,
I
have
retired
my self
to
a
place
of
Safety
,
where
I
will
with
my
own
hand
discover
the
great
Wrong
that
has
been
done
the
Catholicks
,
and
hope
it
may
gain
Belief
:
I
do
likewise
Protest
before
Almighty
God
,
that
I
have
no
Motive
to
Induce
me
to
this
confession
,
but
a
True
Repentance
for
the
Mischiefs
that
I
have
done
,
and
do
hope
that
God
Almighty
will
forgive
me
.
Having
done
this
,
they
told
him
he
might
immediately
withdraw
himself
beyond
the
Seas
into
Spain
,
where
he
should
be
honourably
entertained
,
during
his
stay
there
,
which
should
be
no
longer
than
till
they
had
brought
their
Designs
to
their
desired
End
,
and
then
he
should
be
recalled
,
and
have
both
Riches
and
Honour
conferr'd
upon
him
as
a
Reward
for
faithfully
serving
the
Catholick
Interest
.
Mr.
Dugdale
seemed
willing
to
agree
to
their
Proposals
,
(
though
at
the
same
time
he
acquainted
several
honest
Gentlemen
of
every
particular
that
passed
)
if
the
Reward
could
be
ascertained
to
him
;
but
as
for
the
two
Proposers
he
would
not
take
their
Security
for
it
;
whereupon
they
offered
the
Security
of
a
Forein
Ambassador
,
but
he
told
them
that
he
thought
him
a
Person
not
fit
for
Security
,
because
he
might
suddenly
be
commanded
home
,
and
then
he
could
have
no
remedy
against
him
.
Then
they
proposed
several
others
,
whose
Security
they
said
he
need
not
question
;
but
still
he
found
a
plausible
Excuse
;
his
Design
being
onely
to
gain
time
,
that
he
might
make
a
further
Discovery
who
set
them
on
work
.
His
Delays
created
a
Jealousie
in
them
,
that
he
never
intended
to
answer
their
Desires
;
wherefore
least
he
should
discover
this
Treaty
,
and
render
them
liable
to
punishment
,
(
as
it
happened
in
Mr.
Readings
Case
)
they
were
resolved
to
begin
with
him
first
;
and
by
the
assistance
of
a
great
Person
,
a
Complaint
was
made
against
Mr.
Dugdale
,
That
he
offered
for
a
Sum
of
Money
to
Recant
his
Evidence
,
and
that
he
would
have
Signed
such
a
Paper
as
before-mentioned
;
adding
withal
,
that
it
was
a
lamentable
thing
to
consider
how
much
Blood
had
been
shed
upon
such
Evidence
.
Upon
this
Mr.
Dugdale
was
summoned
before
the
King
and
Council
,
where
giving
a
full
Relation
of
the
Affair
,
and
having
those
Gentlemen
ready
,
whom
he
had
all
along
acquainted
with
the
Intrigue
to
prove
what
he
said
;
and
it
plainly
appearing
,
that
Mrs.
Price
and
Mr.
Tesbrough
had
endeavoured
to
take
off
the
Kings
Evidence
,
they
were
both
committed
to
safe
Custody
.
This
it
was
that
alarm'd
Courtees
.
Mr.
Dangerfield
in
this
time
had
been
employed
to
murder
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
,
which
he
twice
attempted
,
but
could
not
meet
with
an
opportunity
,
the
Earl
refusing
to
speak
in
private
with
him
;
which
he
urged
,
under
pretence
that
he
had
something
to
reveal
to
his
Lordship
of
great
Concern
to
his
Lordships
Person
.
He
waited
on
his
Lordship
by
the
Name
of
Day
,
and
went
armed
with
a
Dagger
,
which
he
received
from
Mrs.
Cellier
,
to
whom
three
or
four
were
brought
by
Mr.
Rigaut
.
To
perform
this
Murther
,
he
was
promised
500
l.
by
the
Lords
Powis
and
Arundel
,
(
the
Lord
Arundel
giving
him
then
10
Guineys
)
and
encouraged
by
the
Lady
Abergaveny
,
Lady
Powis
,
Mrs.
Cellier
,
and
others
,
and
his
Confessor
Sharp
conjur'd
him
to
stab
him
with
all
possible
speed
.
After
his
first
disappointment
,
they
advised
him
to
tell
the
Earl
that
he
was
in
danger
of
being
Impeached
for
High
Treason
,
and
that
from
Letters
under
his
own
hand
;
and
that
when
he
should
find
himself
in
the
Tower
,
he
would
have
cause
to
repent
that
he
had
refused
to
hear
what
he
had
to
tell
him
.
These
Instructions
he
followed
,
and
told
his
Lordship
that
his
Servants
had
Copied
out
his
Letters
,
from
whence
would
be
drawn
Matter
to
form
an
Impeachment
:
But
the
Earl
would
not
be
Wheadled
by
this
to
give
him
a
private
Audience
,
and
thereby
administer
to
him
an
opportunity
of
taking
away
his
Life
;
but
askt
him
which
of
his
Servants
they
were
that
had
Copied
out
his
Letters
:
To
which
Dangerfield
replyed
,
That
he
knew
not
.
Then
the
Earl
answered
,
That
he
knew
that
all
he
said
was
false
,
for
that
if
his
Letters
were
made
known
to
all
the
World
,
there
would
not
be
found
Matter
sufficient
to
endanger
the
least
Hair
of
his
Head
,
much
less
to
form
an
Impeachment
.
Whereupon
Dangerfield
told
him
,
That
if
that
was
his
Lordships
Opinion
,
he
would
take
his
leave
;
and
so
departed
,
leaving
his
Lordship
a
little
jealous
of
his
Intentions
.
The
Lady
Powis
would
have
perswaded
him
upon
a
Third
Attempt
,
which
he
refusing
,
she
struck
him
gently
on
the
Hand
with
her
Fan
,
calling
him
Cow-hearted
Fellow
,
telling
him
,
she
would
do
it
her self
;
but
Mrs.
Cellier
told
her
,
that
should
not
be
,
for
She
would
perform
it
.
In
order
to
which
,
the
very
next
day
she
went
armed
with
a
Dagger
,
to
wait
upon
his
Lordship
,
who
received
her
very
civilly
;
but
being
made
more
wary
than
formerly
,
by
Dangerfields
last
carriage
,
he
strictly
observ'd
her
,
and
perceiving
her
fumbling
about
her
Pocket
,
betwixt
Jest
and
Earnest
,
he
clapt
his
hands
upon
hers
,
and
there
held
them
,
pleasantly
drolling
with
her
till
she
was
ready
to
depart
;
but
she
was
not
gone
so
far
as
the
Door
,
before
she
offer'd
to
return
,
which
his
Lordship
observing
,
stept
to
her
again
,
and
clapping
his
hands
upon
hers
,
quite
dasht
her
out
of
Countenance
;
so
that
she
departed
without
attempting
further
.
Thus
was
his
Lordship
thrice
,
by
Divine
Providence
,
miraculously
preserved
from
the
bloody
hands
of
Papists
.
The
Plot
being
now
ripe
for
Execution
,
and
Treasonable
Letters
ready
written
,
to
be
conveyed
into
the
Custody
of
such
Persons
they
intended
to
Accuse
,
and
two
or
more
Witnesses
prepared
to
swear
the
Delivery
and
Receit
of
such
Letters
or
Commissions
against
every
man
in
their
black
List
;
Dangerfield
under
the
Name
of
Thomas
,
takes
a
Lodging
in
Ax-Yard
in
Westminster
,
(
pretending
himself
a
Country-Gentleman
)
where
lay
one
Colonel
Mansel
,
whose
Chamber
he
soon
made
himself
acquainted
with
,
and
therein
conveyed
about
Nine
or
Ten
of
the
aforesaid
Treasonable
Letters
,
superscribed
to
several
honest
Gentlemen
and
Persons
of
Quality
,
some
of
which
were
Favourers
of
the
Dissenting
Protestants
:
When
he
had
so
done
,
he
informed
some
of
the
Officers
belonging
to
the
Custom-House
,
That
in
that
House
there
was
concealed
great
Quantities
of
French-Lace
,
and
other
prohibited
Goods
,
desiring
them
the
next
Morning
to
bring
a
Warrant
with
them
and
search
the
House
,
which
they
promised
.
At
Night
he
brought
one
Captain
Bedford
to
lie
with
him
(
as
is
supposed
)
that
he
might
be
a
Witness
against
the
Colonel
:
Next
Morning
after
the
Colonel
was
gone
forth
,
came
the
Officers
to
search
for
prohibited
Goods
;
Dangerfield
was
very
officious
in
assisting
them
to
search
the
Colonel's
Chamber
,
and
at
length
from
behind
the
Bed
brings
forth
the
before-mentioned
Pacquet
of
Letters
;
upon
which
,
casting
his
Eyes
,
and
seeming
surprized
,
he
cryed
out
,
Treason
,
These
are
all
Treasonable
Letters
;
Whereupon
the
Officers
carried
them
away
to
the
Commissioners
:
But
the
Colonel
coming
in
soon
after
,
and
being
acquainted
with
all
that
had
past
in
his
absence
,
found
means
to
retrieve
them
again
;
and
when
he
had
so
done
,
he
made
some
Enquiry
after
Dangerfield
,
of
whose
Quality
being
well
informed
,
he
carried
the
Letters
to
His
Majesty
,
with
Protestations
of
his
own
Innocency
,
and
Dangerfield's
Villany
.
Whereupon
on
the
23.
of
October
,
the
Council
ordered
Dangerfield
to
be
taken
into
Custody
by
a
Messenger
,
and
after
a
full
hearing
of
the
Business
before
them
,
Oobct
.
27.
they
Committed
him
to
Newgate
.
When
Colonel
Mansel
had
thus
detected
Dangerfield
,
the
above-mentioued
Captain
Bedford
came
in
very
generously
of
himself
,
and
confessed
several
things
he
was
privy
to
,
amongst
which
,
one
was
,
That
this
Dangerfield
would
have
perswaded
him
to
swear
that
Sir
Thomas
Player
spoke
Treason
,
thereby
to
have
taken
away
the
Life
of
that
honest
Gentleman
.
The
Letters
before-mentioned
gave
Light
enough
to
perceive
what
the
Design
was
the
Papists
were
then
contriving
;
Whereupon
Sir
William
Waller
(
who
has
been
all
along
very
zealous
in
discovering
the
Priests
,
and
their
wicked
Plots
,
notwithstanding
their
Threats
and
Attempts
to
take
away
his
Life
)
understanding
that
Dangerfield
used
to
lodge
at
Mrs.
Celliers
,
went
thither
on
Wednesday
,
Octob.
29.
to
search
her
House
;
and
that
he
might
leave
no
place
unsearcht
,
he
ordered
a
Tub
of
Meal
to
he
emptied
,
which
being
done
,
at
the
Bottom
thereof
was
found
a
little
Paper-book
tyed
with
red
Ribbons
,
wherein
was
a
List
of
several
Persons
of
Quality
,
and
others
,
to
the
number
of
above
500.
whom
they
designed
to
ruin
by
this
their
New
Plot.
They
had
set
down
his
Grace
the
Duke
of
Monmouth
for
General
of
the
Army
to
be
raised
;
the
Lord
Grey
,
Lord
Brandon
and
his
Son
,
and
Sir
Thomas
Armstrong
,
for
Lieutenant-Generals
,
Sir
William
Waller
and
Mr.
Blood
for
Major-Generals
,
&c.
the
Duke
of
Buckingham
,
Lord
Shaftsbury
,
Lord
Essex
,
Lord
Roberts
,
Lord
Wharton
,
and
Lord
Hallifax
,
were
to
have
been
accused
for
the
chief
Counsellors
and
Managers
of
this
Plot.
Many
other
things
were
contained
in
these
Papers
,
relating
to
the
Management
of
their
Design
:
Upon
this
Mrs.
Cellier
was
committed
to
the
Gatehouse
.
Their
Plot
being
now
sufficiently
laid
open
,
Dangerfield
(
notwithstanding
Mrs.
Celliers
Encouragement
to
be
constant
and
firm
to
the
Catholick
Cause
)
thought
it
time
to
confess
the
Truth
,
and
being
brought
before
the
Right
Honourable
Sir
Robert
Clayton
Lord
Mayor
of
London
,
on
Friday
Octob.
31.
1679.
he
made
a
large
Confession
,
which
held
them
from
Five
of
the
Clock
in
the
Afternoon
,
untill
Two
next
Morning
.
Part
whereof
was
,
That
he
was
sent
for
to
the
Tower
,
whither
he
went
in
disguise
,
where
after
some
discourse
with
the
Lord
Powis
,
the
Lord
Arundel
asked
him
,
If
he
were
willing
to
do
any
thing
to
advance
his
Fortune
;
to
which
he
answered
he
would
do
any
thing
.
Then
the
Lord
Arundel
asked
him
if
he
would
kill
the
King
for
a
good
Reward
;
to
which
he
replyed
,
He
would
kill
any
body
but
the
King
,
or
his
Royal
Brother
.
That
then
the
aforesaid
Lord
asked
him
the
same
Question
again
;
and
he
answered
,
No.
Then
said
the
Lord
Powis
,
No
,
no
,
my
Lord
Arundel
does
onely
this
to
try
you
:
But
my
Lord
(
continued
he
)
what
would
you
give
him
to
kill
the
King
?
'T
is
worth
(
said
the
Lord
Arundel
)
2000
l.
That
then
the
Lord
Powis
told
him
,
he
should
have
500
l.
to
kill
the
Lord
Shafisbury
.
That
Mr.
Gadbury
told
him
,
the
Lords
in
the
Tower
were
angry
with
him
,
as
also
chiefly
the
Lord
Castlemain
,
for
that
he
would
not
kill
the
King
,
when
he
might
easily
do
it
,
and
no
hurt
befall
him
.
That
here
,
upon
he
asked
Mr.
Gadbury
,
How
no
hurt
should
befall
him
,
when
in
his
Opinion
it
could
be
no
less
than
Death
?
To
which
Gadbury
made
answer
,
That
he
knew
he
might
do
it
safely
,
for
at
the
Request
of
the
Lady
Powis
he
had
Calculated
his
Nativity
,
and
that
it
was
clear
from
thence
.
That
the
Lord
Castlemain
very
angrily
askt
him
,
Why
he
was
so
unwilling
to
do
that
for
which
he
was
released
out
of
Prison
;
and
fearing
some
mischief
from
him
,
he
left
him
,
and
went
and
told
Mrs.
Cellier
,
that
the
Lord
Castlemain
was
angry
;
to
which
she
replyed
,
That
it
was
his
custom
to
fall
out
one
hour
,
and
be
good
friends
the
next
.
That
his
Confessor
Sharp
told
him
he
must
do
Penance
for
denying
to
serve
God
,
as
the
Scriptures
taught
.
That
he
askt
him
,
If
they
taught
him
to
kill
his
King
?
To
which
Sharp
replyed
,
Yes
,
if
he
were
condemn'd
by
them
.
That
when
he
told
the
Lady
Powis
and
Mrs.
Cellier
,
of
having
been
alone
with
the
King
in
his
Closet
;
they
both
said
,
What
an
Opportunity
have
you
lost
?
And
the
Lady
Powis
added
,
How
bravely
might
you
have
killed
him
,
if
you
had
been
provided
!
That
he
was
sent
by
the
Lady
Powis
to
Mr.
Webb's
at
Petterley
in
Buckinghamshire
,
with
a
Letter
directed
,
For
Mrs.
Jean
;
which
Mrs.
Jean
he
found
to
be
a
Priest
in
Womans
Habit.
That
upon
reading
the
Letter
,
Jean
administred
the
Sacrament
to
him
,
obliging
him
thereby
to
Secrecy
;
and
then
gave
him
Papers
containing
a
rough
Draught
of
the
Plot
against
the
Presbyterians
,
which
he
told
him
were
to
be
drawn
up
into
Particulars
by
the
Lords
in
the
Tower
,
and
Mr.
Nevil
in
the
Kings-Bench
.
That
Mr.
Wood
told
him
,
The
Lords
in
the
Tower
had
consulted
,
that
before
Mr.
Oates
wat
Indicted
,
something
should
be
made
appear
of
a
Presbyterian
Plot.
That
one
Duddel
brought
him
27
Letters
,
written
most
by
by
Mr.
Nevil
,
which
Mr.
Turner
the
Lord
Powis
his
Priest
,
desired
some
Catholiques
might
Transcribe
;
whereupon
Mrs.
Cellier
sent
for
Mr.
Singe
who
wrote
there
about
a
Week
.
That
the
Contents
of
these
Letters
were
,
That
there
Business
went
on
well
here
at
London
,
as
they
hoped
theirs
did
in
the
Country
:
That
Commissioners
would
shortly
be
ready
;
(
mentioning
in
some
of
these
Letters
the
Names
of
divers
Persons
of
Quality
;
)
and
that
they
would
now
be
their
own
Choosers
in
Matters
of
Government
,
and
use
Papists
as
they
pleased
.
That
these
Letters
were
to
be
sent
into
all
parts
of
the
Kingdom
where
any
Presbyterians
liv'd
,
and
privately
to
be
put
into
their
Houses
,
and
then
their
Houses
were
to
be
searcht
,
and
these
Papers
produced
for
Evidence
against
them
,
as
they
intended
against
Colonel
Mansel
.
Saturday
,
Novem.
1.
His
Lordship
waited
on
His
Majesty
and
Council
with
Dangerfield's
Confession
;
and
Dangerfield
being
again
sent
for
to
come
before
the
Council
,
did
further
declare
,
That
all
the
Lords
in
the
Tower
gave
him
Money
,
more
or
less
,
and
did
desire
him
to
go
to
Turner
the
Popish
Book-seller
to
get
his
Remarks
on
the
Tryals
Printed
.
That
the
Lord
Powis
advised
Lane
should
be
sent
out
of
the
way
,
lest
if
Mr.
Oates
should
find
him
at
his
House
,
they
should
all
be
ruin'd
.
That
he
saw
Sir
G.
Wakeman
at
Mr.
Stamford's
House
,
(
the
Duke
of
Newburgh's
Agent
)
in
whose
own
Room
he
lay
,
and
that
Sir
George
told
him
,
He
hid
himself
there
for
fear
of
the
People
,
who
had
posted
a
threatning
Paper
over
his
Door
;
and
that
he
had
received
500
l.
by
the
Queens
Order
for
his
Transportation
.
That
Sir
George
asking
his
Advice
,
how
he
might
get
away
,
he
told
him
,
He
had
best
send
for
a
Shallop
from
Calice
to
take
him
in
about
six
Miles
from
Dover
,
which
he
did
,
and
escaped
to
Newport
.
That
Dormer
was
Author
of
Traytors
transform'd
into
Martyrs
;
and
that
Gadbury
had
writ
a
Ballad
and
several
Pamphlets
.
That
the
second
time
he
visited
the
Earl
of
Shafssbury
,
he
intended
to
stab
him
,
and
then
put
out
the
Candle
,
and
under
pretence
of
running
down
to
light
it
,
have
made
his
escape
.
That
the
two
Books
taken
(
whereof
one
was
found
in
a
Meal
Tub
)
was
writ
by
him
,
and
that
the
Names
therein
were
all
Dictated
to
him
by
the
Lady
Powis
.
That
Mrs.
Cellier
and
he
used
the
words
,
Lady
Mary
for
the
KING
,
and
Lady
Anne
for
the
DUKE
.
In
the
Afternoon
Mrs.
Cellier
was
Examin'd
,
and
declar'd
,
That
Dangerfield
had
for
some
time
lain
at
her
House
.
That
she
paid
3
l.
10.
s.
out
of
the
Money
to
be
distributed
to
Prisoners
for
his
Release
,
but
denyed
the
paying
of
Twenty
pounds
,
or
Five
pounds
,
as
had
been
alledged
.
That
she
employed
Dangerfield
onely
to
get
in
some
desperate
Debts
belonging
to
her
Husband
,
and
to
Bail
two
or
three
persons
out
of
Prison
,
and
in
nothing
else
.
That
she
did
lie
at
the
Lady
Powis
;
but
denied
she
sent
a
Note
to
Dangerfield
in
Newgate
,
till
the
Note
was
produced
,
and
then
she
own'd
it
.
That
she
knew
nothing
of
killing
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
.
That
she
did
indeed
go
to
the
said
Earl
upon
business
.
That
Dangerfield
did
draw
up
Articles
against
Captain
Richardson
,
but
not
by
her
Order
.
Then
Dangerfield
was
call'd
in
again
,
who
said
further
,
That
Banister
and
she
visted
him
in
the
Kings-Bench
,
and
that
she
order'd
him
to
get
the
Papers
from
Strode
about
Mr.
Bedlow
;
to
which
end
,
Hitton
the
Priest
advised
that
Opium
should
be
put
into
Strode's
Drink
.
That
Margaret
Mrs.
Celliers
Maid
brought
him
Opium
from
Mrs.
Celliers
Son-in-law
,
Plasdel
;
and
that
Mounson
told
him
how
to
use
it
.
That
Knowles
and
Sharp
,
Priests
,
told
him
if
he
continued
firm
to
the
Business
,
he
would
thereby
merit
Heaven
.
Mrs.
Cellier
confess'd
,
That
she
hid
the
Papers
in
the
Meal-Tub
:
That
she
did
agree
with
Mr.
Dangerfield
to
use
Lady
Mary
in
stead
of
King
,
and
Lady
Anne
in
stead
of
Duke
.
And
That
Gadbury
did
Calculate
Dangerfield's
Nativity
,
but
said
,
He
would
be
hang'd
.
Then
the
Lady
Powis
was
Examined
,
who
denied
all
,
except
,
That
she
paid
Ten
shillings
per
Week
to
Mrs.
Cellier
for
Dangerfields
Diet.
That
she
saw
him
in
the
Stone-Gallery
,
but
was
not
near
enough
to
speak
to
him
.
That
once
and
no
more
she
discoursed
him
at
Mrs.
Celliers
,
and
that
then
he
told
her
of
some
Treasonable
Letters
hid
at
Westminster
,
and
that
the
Secretary
refused
to
give
him
a
Warrant
to
search
for
them
,
unless
he
would
make
Affidavit
of
it
;
and
that
then
Mrs.
Cellier
advised
him
to
make
use
of
the
Custom-House
Officers
to
search
for
them
.
On
Sunday
,
Nov.
2.
Mr.
Gadbury
was
examined
,
who
acknowledged
,
That
he
had
seen
Mr.
Dangerfield
once
or
twice
at
his
House
with
Mrs.
Cellier
,
and
that
he
thought
he
cast
his
Nativity
under
the
Name
of
Thomas
,
and
that
looking
on
his
Horoscope
,
he
did
say
,
it
prognosticated
a
bold
and
adventurous
Man
,
but
does
not
remember
that
he
told
Mrs.
Cellier
he
would
be
hang'd
.
That
he
likewise
cast
the
Lord
Powis
his
Nativity
,
and
that
it
was
a
usual
thing
with
him
to
cast
the
Nativities
of
such
Persons
of
Quality
,
whose
Time
of
Birth
he
could
be
assured
of
.
But
as
to
other
things
,
he
said
,
He
was
innocent
.
Nov.
1.
Susan
Edwards
,
Mrs.
Cellier's
Maid
,
deposed
,
That
she
carried
Notes
to
Mr.
Dangerfield
from
her
Mistress
,
when
he
was
in
Newgate
;
as
also
a
Guinney
,
Twenty
Shillings
in
Silver
,
and
two
Books
of
Accounts
:
As
likewise
a
Message
by
word
of
mouth
,
importing
,
That
Mrs.
Cellier's
Life
lay
in
Mr.
Dangerfield's
hands
.
And
said
,
That
the
Lady
Powis
had
been
three
times
at
her
Mistresses
in
five
Weeks
time
that
she
lived
there
,
and
that
once
she
had
discourse
with
Mr.
Dangerfield
.
Nov.
2.
William
Woodman
deposed
,
That
Mr.
Dangerfield
was
two
Months
at
the
Lord
Powis's
House
,
and
that
Mrs.
Cellier
and
he
writ
often
;
and
that
he
carried
Letters
from
them
to
the
Lady
Powis
in
the
Tower
;
as
also
Letters
from
the
Lady
Powis
to
Nevile
in
the
King's
Bench
;
to
whom
also
he
had
carried
Letters
from
Mr.
Dangerfield
and
Mrs.
Cellier
.
Mary
Ayray
deposed
,
That
Duddel
and
she
carried
Notes
taken
by
Mr.
Willoughby
,
aliàs
Dangerfield
,
at
Langhorn's
Trial
,
to
Mr.
Nevil
in
the
King's
Bench
,
and
that
they
left
Dangerfield
at
a
Coffee-House
in
the
mean
time
.
That
she
carried
a
Letter
from
Nevil
to
Mrs.
Cellier
,
and
another
from
Mrs.
Cellier
to
the
Lady
Powis
.
That
she
had
seen
Sing
often
with
Mrs.
Cellier
.
That
Dangerfield
writ
the
Speeches
of
the
Five
Jesuits
,
as
they
were
dictated
to
him
by
Mrs.
Cellier
.
That
she
had
seen
Lane
(
by
Mrs.
Cellier's
order
called
Johnson
)
at
Powis-House
.
Bennet
Duddel
a
Carpenter
,
deposed
,
That
he
had
seen
Mr.
Dangerfield
at
Powis-house
.
That
he
went
with
Mrs.
Ayray
to
the
King's
Bench
,
and
Mr.
Dangerfield
stayed
in
the
mean
time
at
a
Coffee-House
there
by
.
That
they
brought
Papers
back
with
them
,
and
that
soon
after
Mrs.
Ayray
went
to
the
Tower.
That
at
Powis-house
he
has
often
seen
Mr.
Dangerfield
,
Mrs.
Cellier
,
and
others
,
writing
.
That
Mr.
Lane
lay
in
the
house
,
and
that
Mrs.
Cellier
was
once
much
concerned
when
she
thought
him
lost
.
That
Dangerfield
once
asked
him
if
he
could
make
a
Printing-Press
.
That
he
went
to
the
Gate-house
once
or
twice
with
Mrs.
Ayray
,
who
carried
Money
to
the
Prisoners
.
That
by
the
Lady
Powis's
Order
he
made
a
private
place
in
Powis-house
.
To
all
these
Depositions
,
the
Lady
Powis
being
called
in
,
answered
particularly
.
To
Susan
Edwards
,
That
when
she
came
to
Mrs.
Cellier
,
she
never
lighted
from
her
Coach.
To
Woodman
,
That
she
never
receiv'd
a
Letter
from
Nevil
,
or
sent
one
to
him
.
That
she
had
received
several
from
Mrs.
Cellier
,
and
perhaps
she
might
have
received
one
from
Dangerfield
.
That
going
to
see
the
Lady
Gage
in
the
Kings-Bench
,
some
body
pointed
to
Nevil
as
he
stood
at
the
Window
:
And
excepting
once
she
never
saw
him
besides
that
time
.
To
Duddel
,
That
Mrs.
Ayray
did
bring
her
some
Remarks
upon
Langhorns
Tryal
,
but
she
never
saw
any
thing
from
Nevil
.
To
Mrs.
Ayray
,
That
she
never
brought
her
any
Message
from
Nevil
.
Being
demanded
,
whether
Mrs.
Cellier
had
not
been
with
her
in
the
Tower
from
Mr.
Willoughby
?
She
answered
,
Yes
;
but
that
she
never
saw
Willoughby
but
twice
.
Hereupon
Mrs.
Cellier
being
called
,
and
askt
,
Whether
she
had
not
been
in
the
Tower
with
the
Lady
Powis
;
she
stiffly
denied
it
:
but
being
told
,
the
Lady
Powis
her self
had
own'd
it
,
she
then
confess'd
she
had
been
there
.
Captain
Bedford
was
then
called
in
,
and
said
,
That
he
was
at
several
Clubs
with
Dangerfield
.
That
he
was
at
Thompsons
the
Printers
,
where
was
printing
,
The
Presbyterian
unmask'd
.
That
Dangerfield
paid
Money
to
Dormer
in
S.
John's
.
That
Dangerfield
would
have
got
a
List
of
the
Club
at
the
Kings-head
,
but
the
Drawer
would
not
give
it
him
.
That
at
the
Green
Dragon
he
got
the
Names
of
about
60
Persons
that
used
to
meet
there
.
That
he
went
with
him
to
the
Sun
and
Ship
Taverns
,
where
he
enquired
if
the
Duke
of
Monmouth
had
not
been
there
the
Night
before
he
went
away
.
That
Dangerfield
said
,
Gadbury
brought
him
acquainted
with
Sir
Robert
Peyton
.
That
Dangerfield
told
him
,
the
Lord
Shafisbury
,
Sir
William
Waller
,
Doctor
Tongue
,
and
others
,
had
private
Meetings
near
Fox-hall
about
the
Plot.
The
Earl
of
Peterborough
being
called
in
,
and
having
an
account
of
what
was
laid
to
his
Charge
,
made
a
very
plausible
Speech
in
answer
thereto
;
and
as
to
the
business
of
Sir
Robert
Peyton
,
he
said
,
That
Mrs.
Cellier
told
him
that
among
others
which
she
had
brought
over
to
be
serviceable
to
His
Majesty
and
the
Duke
,
Sir
Robert
Peyton
was
one
,
who
had
declared
to
her
,
that
he
would
gladly
come
in
,
but
that
he
thought
the
Duke
of
that
temper
,
that
he
would
never
forget
an
Injury
.
That
then
he
assured
Mrs.
Cellier
,
the
Duke
was
no
such
person
;
and
then
she
replyed
,
that
Sir
Robert
would
willingly
meet
him
at
Mr.
Gadbury's
.
That
they
did
meet
accordingly
at
Mr.
Gadbury's
,
where
Sir
Robert
did
say
,
that
he
would
serve
the
King
to
all
purposes
;
but
seemed
to
doubt
of
the
Dukes
being
reconciled
to
him
.
That
afterwards
he
waited
on
the
Duke
at
his
Lordships
Lodgings
,
and
from
him
received
all
the
assurance
of
favour
he
could
desire
.
These
are
the
principal
things
that
were
acted
before
the
King
and
Council
,
the
Result
whereof
was
,
that
the
Earl
of
Castlemain
(
first
)
and
(
after
)
the
Lady
Powis
was
committed
to
the
Tower
,
Mr.
Gadbury
to
the
Gate-house
,
Mr.
〈◊〉
and
Mrs.
Cellier
to
Newgate
,
and
several
others
to
the
Custody
of
Messengers
.
About
this
time
Sir
William
Waller
(
searching
a
House
near
the
Arch
in
Lincolns-Inn
Fields
,
leading
to
Duke-street
)
seized
on
several
Habits
,
Vestments
,
Crucifixes
,
Reliques
,
and
other
Popish
Trinkets
,
all
very
rich
;
as
allodivers
Trunks
and
Boxes
full
of
Books
and
Papers
,
that
did
belong
to
Father
Hercourt
lately
executed
,
wherein
are
set
down
several
great
sums
of
Money
paid
by
him
in
about
7
or
8
years
last
past
,
for
carrying
on
the
Catholique
Cause
;
as
likewise
many
other
things
that
confirm
the
truth
of
the
Kings
Evidence
.
Among
the
Relicks
was
found
one
great
Piece
of
Antiquity
,
and
by
computation
of
time
near
800
years
old
.
It
was
a
Cross
of
Gold
,
weighing
about
4
Ounces
,
upon
which
on
the
one
side
was
engraven
these
words
,
Defendite
Gentes
hanc
partem
Crucis
Omnipotentis
;
in
English
,
Defend
O
ye
Nations
this
part
of
the
Omnipotent
Cross
:
On
the
other
side
were
engraven
the
Arms
of
Alfred
King
of
England
,
who
dyed
in
the
year
901.
Besides
which
engraving
,
it
was
empail'd
with
divers
precious
Stones
of
a
considerable
value
.
Within
this
Cross
was
another
Cross
of
Ebony
,
to
which
the
Gold
one
seem'd
to
serve
onely
for
a
Case
;
and
as
if
it
had
been
a
little
Nest
of
Serpentine
Idolatry
,
the
Ebony
Cross
was
inlaid
with
another
Cross
of
a
quite
different
Wood
,
which
it
is
suppos'd
,
they
believ'd
to
be
a
piece
of
our
Saviour's
Cross.
There
was
also
a
Gold
Ring
with
a
Motto
wrap'd
up
in
white
Paper
,
upon
which
was
written
,
The
Ring
of
the
Bishop
of
Glascow
,
with
several
other
Curiosities
,
which
are
as
yet
preserv'd
.
On
Novem.
5.
Mr.
Courtees
was
taken
and
brought
before
Justice
Warcup
,
who
having
taken
his
Examination
,
sent
him
to
the
Gate-house
.
At
his
Examination
,
he
gave
an
account
of
his
first
acquaintance
with
Mr.
Willoughby
,
(
not
knowing
then
that
he
went
by
any
other
Name
)
and
that
Willoughby
told
him
,
that
the
Presbyterians
were
conspiring
against
the
King
and
Government
,
and
were
privately
raising
an
Army
,
and
that
Mr.
Blood
was
one
that
gave
out
Commissions
for
that
purpose
;
and
perswaded
him
to
use
his
endeavour
to
get
one
,
and
if
he
could
do
so
,
he
would
bring
him
to
the
King
,
whereby
he
should
get
5000
l.
And
that
upon
this
he
made
his
application
to
Mrs.
Bradley
in
order
thereto
,
believing
what
Dangerfield
said
,
and
that
there
was
really
a
Presbyterian
Plot
on
foot
:
so
that
what
he
did
,
he
said
was
upon
a
Loyal
Design
.
But
there
is
some
cause
to
suspect
what
he
said
,
if
we
reflect
on
what
Mrs.
Bradley
deposed
on
Nov.
1.
and
what
he
acknowledged
now
;
viz.
That
the
last
time
Mrs.
Bradley
saw
him
,
asking
him
when
they
should
get
the
5000
l.
He
replied
,
that
he
would
not
meddle
in
it
,
that
it
troubled
his
Conscience
,
and
that
it
would
be
Treachery
if
it
were
done
,
and
it
is
to
no
purpose
to
meddle
in
it
now
,
for
there
is
a
List
found
out
.
However
it
be
,
he
is
since
bailed
out
of
the
Gate-house
:
And
for
a
confirmation
of
his
Guilt
,
is
gone
aside
.
And
now
almost
every
day
new
Discoveries
are
made
,
either
of
Priests
or
their
Appurtenances
,
Reliques
and
feditious
Papers
.
Dormer
a
Priest
was
seized
by
Dr.
Oates
at
the
Door
of
the
Council-Chamber
,
on
Nov.
4.
as
he
was
busie
in
discourse
with
the
Lady
Powis
,
and
was
sent
to
Newgate
.
On
Nov.
11.
Sir
William
Waller
seized
at
Turner's
in
Holborn
,
several
seditious
and
scandalous
Libels
,
Popish
Books
and
Pamphlets
;
as
also
divers
Beads
,
and
Priests
Habits
,
and
some
Reliques
,
one
of
which
was
a
very
fine
Handkerchief
,
which
had
been
dip'd
in
the
Blood
of
the
five
Jesuits
lately
executed
.
Not
long
after
Sir
William
seized
on
one
William
Russel
,
alias
Napper
,
a
Franciscan
Fryar
,
and
Titular
Bishop
of
Norwich
:
With
him
were
taken
the
Garments
belonging
to
his
Office
;
as
also
the
Form
of
an
Oath
of
Abjuration
,
for
his
Proselytes
,
to
this
effect
;
That
they
did
from
thenceforth
renounce
those
damnable
and
heretical
Doctrines
,
wherein
they
had
been
educated
and
instructed
,
and
that
they
did
oblige
themselves
under
the
penalty
of
Damnation
to
remainsted
fast
in
the
Faith
of
the
Mother-Church
of
Rome
,
&c.
Together
with
a
Latin
Prayer
,
in
the
Margin
whereof
was
written
in
English
,
Whoever
says
this
Prayer
shall
be
free
from
the
Plague
.
And
several
Popish
Books
,
&c.
On
Friday
.
Nov.
21.
Sir
Robert
Peyton
,
Mr.
Nevil
,
Mr.
Gadbury
,
Mrs.
Cellier
with
her
Maids
,
and
others
were
severally
Examin'd
;
when
it
was
sworn
,
that
Sir
Robert
Peyton
had
had
frequent
Conferences
with
Mr.
Dangerfield
;
and
the
further
hearing
of
the
Matter
being
put
off
till
Wednesday
,
Nov.
26.
Sir
Robert
was
then
ordered
to
give
Bail
for
his
Appearance
at
the
Kings-Bench-Bar
,
the
first
day
of
the
next
Term
,
to
answer
to
such
Informations
as
should
then
be
brought
against
him
by
the
Attorney-General
.
Dr.
Oates
during
these
Transactions
had
two
of
his
Servants
,
Lane
(
often
mentioned
in
this
History
)
and
Osborn
,
confederated
with
one
Knox
belonging
to
the
Lord
Treasurers
Family
,
against
him
,
who
Indicted
him
for
no
less
a
Crime
than
Sodomy
:
But
it
being
proved
a
malicious
slander
,
and
his
Accusers
perjured
Villains
,
who
were
hired
by
the
Lords
in
the
Tower
,
to
invalidate
his
Evidence
,
the
Jury
brought
it
in
Ignoramus
.
And
Dr.
Oates
thereupon
bringing
in
an
Indictment
against
them
in
the
Kings-Bench
,
Knox
and
Lane
(
Osborn
being
fled
)
were
tried
on
Tuesday
,
Nov.
25.
When
the
whole
Design
was
so
particularly
laid
open
,
especially
by
Mr.
Dangerfield
,
(
whose
Pardon
was
perfected
the
day
before
)
that
every
one
present
was
convinc'd
of
the
intended
Villany
,
and
the
Jury
(
without
the
Lord
Chief
Justice's
summing
up
the
Evidence
)
declared
them
guilty
of
the
Indictment
:
But
their
Sentence
is
deferred
till
next
Term.
We
shall
here
close
our
History
with
our
Prayers
to
God
,
to
bring
to
Light
all
the
Dark
Contrivances
of
Jesuits
and
wicked
men
;
and
to
their
Plots
,
and
our
Divis●●●●●
Dangers
,
put
FINIS
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had
reason
so
to
do
.
It
is
an
unanswerable
Dilemma
.
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concur
totally
with
you
in
opinion
,
assuring
you
,
that
no
body
doth
,
or
shall
know
of
this
business
;
and
to
shew
my
care
to
conceal
it
,
I
received
this
but
this
Afternoon
,
and
now
I
make
this
dispatch
before
I
sleep
.
Herewith
I
send
his
Warrant
,
as
you
advise
,
which
indeed
I
judge
to
be
the
better
way
.
I
like
your
answer
extreme
well
,
and
do
promise
not
to
deceive
your
considence
,
nor
make
you
break
your
word
.
I
have
sent
all
back
.
I
think
these
Apostyles
will
be
warrant
enough
for
you
to
proceed
,
especially
,
when
I
expresly
command
you
to
do
so
.
In
this
I
am
as
far
from
condemning
your
judgement
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