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<DIV1 TYPE="introduction">
<PB N="1" REF="1">
<HEAD>A TRUE RELATION OF THE POPISH-PLOT <HI>AGAINST</HI> King CHARLES I. AND THE Prote&s;tant Religion.</HEAD>
<P>_IF there be any profe&s;&s;ing the <HI>Prote&s;tant Religion</HI> within His Maje&s;ties Dominions, who are yet &s;o wilfully blinded, as not to believe the Reality of the late Con&s;piracies, or that it has not been a long time carrying on to extirpate the <HI>Prote&s;tant Religion,</HI> ree&s;tabli&s;h <HI>Popery,</HI> and inthral the Peo|ple in all the Three Kingdoms, let them but advi&s;edly fix their Eyes and Minds, upon the En&s;uing Letters and Di&s;coveries, and they will ea&s;ily find <HI>Papi&s;tical Plots</HI> have been no new things in this Nation. To omit their attempts upon King <HI>Edward,</HI> Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> and King <HI>James,</HI> the&s;e <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> make it evidently out, that the &s;ame De&s;ign, and the &s;ame Contrivances were on foot in the Reign of o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> late Sovereign <HI>Charles</HI> the Fir&s;t, of Ble&s;&s;ed Memory; a True Narrative whereof the&s;e Sheets contain, as they were found in the Arch-Bi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury</HI>'s Study in the <HI>Tower, May</HI> 31. 1643.</P>
<P><PB N="2" REF="2">
The fir&s;t who di&s;cover'd it, was an Actor in it, &s;ent hither from <HI>Rome,</HI> by Cardinal <HI>Barbarini,</HI> to a&s;&s;i&s;t <HI>Con,</HI> the Pope's Legat, in the pur&s;uit of it, and privy to all the particulars; who being touch'd with remor&s;e of Con&s;cience, for being guilty of &s;o dete&s;ta|ble a Crime, reveal'd the whole My&s;tery to Sir <HI>William Bo&s;well,</HI> the King's Leiger Emba&s;&s;ador at the <HI>Hague,</HI> who gave private notice of the &s;ame to the Arch-Bi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> by whom it was declar'd to the King him&s;elf.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Sir <HI>WILLIAM BOSWELL's</HI> fir&s;t Letter to the Arch-Bi&s;hop, touching this Plot.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Grace,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Offers (whereof your Grace will find a Copy) here en|clos'd toward a farther and more particular Di&s;covery, were fir&s;t made to me at the &s;econd hand, and by word of mouth by a Friend of good Quality and Worth in this place. But &s;oon after, as &s;oon as they could be put into order, were avowd by the principal party, and deliver'd me in writing by both together, upon promi&s;e and Oath, which I was required to give, and gave accordingly, not to reveal the &s;ame to any other Man living, but your Grace, and by your Grace's hand to his Maje&s;tie.</P>
<P>In like manner they have tied them&s;elves not to declare the&s;e things to any other but my &s;elf, untill they &s;hould know how His Maje&s;tie, and your Grace would di&s;po&s;e thereof. The Principal giving me withall to know, that he puts him&s;elf and this Secret into your Grace's power, as well becau&s;e it concerns your Grace &s;o nearly after his Maje&s;tie, as that he knows your wi&s;dom to guide the &s;ame aright, and is al&s;o a&s;&s;ur'd of your Grace's fidelity to His Maje&s;ties Per&s;on, to our State and to our Church.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, your Grace is earne&s;tly pray'd to &s;ignifie His Maje&s;ties plea&s;ure, with all &s;peed, together with your Grace's di&s;po&s;ition herein, and purpo&s;e to carry all with &s;ilence from all but his Maje&s;tie, until due time.</P>
<P>Secondly, when your Grace &s;hall think &s;it to &s;hew the&s;e things to His Maje&s;tie, to do it immediately, and not tru&s;ting Letters, nor permitting any other Per&s;on to be by, or within hearing, and to intreat and coun&s;el His Maje&s;tie as in a ca&s;e of Con&s;cience, to keep the &s;ame wholly and &s;olely in his own bo&s;om from 
<PB N="3" REF="2">
the knowledge of all other Creatures living, but your Grace, until the bu&s;ine&s;s &s;hall be clear'd out.</P>
<P>Thirdly, not to enquire or demand the Names of the Parties from whom the&s;e Overtures do come, or any farther di&s;coveries or adverti&s;ements in pur&s;uit of them, which &s;hall come hereafter until &s;atisfaction &s;hall be given to every part of them. Nor to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> to any Per&s;on but His Maje&s;tie, that any thing of this Nature <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> come from me.</P>
<P>For as I may believe the&s;e Overtures are veryfiable in the way they will be laid, and that the parties will not &s;hrink; &s;o I may ac|count, that if never &s;o little glimp&s;e or &s;hadow of the&s;e Informa|tions &s;hall appear by His Maje&s;ties or your Grace's words or carriage unto others, the means whereby the bu&s;ine&s;s may be brought be&s;t unto Tryal, will be utterly di&s;appointed. And the parties who have in Con&s;cience toward God, Devotion to His Maje&s;tie, Affection toward your Grace, and Compa&s;&s;ion to our Country di&s;|clos'd the&s;e things, will run a pre&s;ent and extream hazard of their Per&s;ons and Lives. So ea&s;ily it will be conjectur'd upon the lea&s;t occa&s;ion given either by His Maje&s;tie or your Grace, who is the Di&s;coverer.</P>
<P>The&s;e are the Points and Offers which they have pre&s;t me to repre&s;ent more e&s;pecially to his Grace.</P>
<P>For my own particular, having already mo&s;t humbly crav'd Pardon of any Errour or Omi&s;&s;ions that have befallen me in the managing this bu&s;ine&s;s, I do be&s;eech your Grace to let me know,</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, whether, and in what order I &s;hall proceed with the Parties.</P>
<P>Secondly, what points of the&s;e Offers I &s;hall fir&s;t put them upon to enlarge and clear?</P>
<P>Thirdly, what other Points and Queries I &s;hall propo&s;e to them, and in what manner?</P>
<P>Fourthly, how far further I &s;hall &s;uffers my &s;elf to hear and know the&s;e things.</P>
<P>Fifthly, whether I &s;hall not rather take the parties an&s;wers and di&s;coveries &s;ealed up by them&s;elves, and having likewi&s;e put my own Seal upon them, without que&s;tioning or &s;eeing what they contain, &s;o to tran&s;mit them to your Grace or His Maje&s;tie.</P>
<P>Sixthly, whether I may not in&s;inuate upon &s;ome fair occa&s;ion, that there will be a due regard had of them and their &s;ervice by His Maje&s;tie and your Grace; when all particulars undertaken in the&s;e general Offers, and nece&s;&s;ary for perfecting the di&s;covery, and work intended, &s;hall effectually be delivered to His Maje&s;tie and your Grace.</P>
<P><PB N="4" REF="3">
Upon the&s;e Heads, and &s;uch other as His Maje&s;ty and your Grace &s;hall think proper in the Bu&s;ine&s;s, I mu&s;t with all humility be&s;eech your Grace to furni&s;h me with In&s;tructions, and Warrant for my proceedings, under His Maje&s;ties Hand, with your Grace's atte&s;tation, as by His Maje&s;ties Goodne&s;s and Royal di&s;po&s;ition is u&s;ual in like Ca&s;es.</P>
<P>May it plea&s;e your Grace to entertain a Cipher with me upon this Occa&s;ion; I have &s;ent the Counterpart of one here inclos'd.</P>
<P>If the&s;e Overtures happily &s;ort with His Maje&s;ties and your Grace's mind, and &s;hall accordingly prove effectual in their Ope|ration, I &s;hall think my &s;elf a mo&s;t happy man, to have any Ob|lation in &s;o pious a Work for my mo&s;t Gracious Soveraign and Ma|&s;ter. More particularly in that your Grace under His Maje&s;ty &s;hall be <HI>Opi&s;ex rerum &amp; mundi melioris Origo.</HI> Which I &s;hall ince&s;&s;antly beg in my Prayers at his Hands, who is the giver of all good things, and will never for&s;ake or fail them, who do not fir&s;t fail and fall from him, the God of Mercy and Peace, with which I remain ever more,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your Grace's mo&s;t Dutiful and obliged Servant,</HI>
WILLIAM BOSWELL.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P><HI>I have not dar'd to tru&s;t this bu&s;ine&s;s (without a Cipher) but by a &s;ure band, for which rea&s;on, I have &s;ent the Bearer my Secretary Expre&s;s, but he knows nothing of the Contents thereof.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Hague</HI> in <HI>Holland,</HI> <DATE><HI>Sept. 9.</HI> 1640.</DATE> <HI>Stylo loci.</HI></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>Super&s;crib'd <HI>For your Grace.</HI></TRAILER>
<TRAILER>Endors'd by the Arch-Bi&s;hop with his own hand.</TRAILER>
<TAILNOTE>
<P>Received <HI>Sept.</HI> 10 1640. Sir <HI>WILLIAM BOSWELL,</HI> About the Plot again&s;t the King.</P>
</TAILNOTE>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="5" REF="3">
<HEAD>ANDREAS ab HABERNFELD'<HI>s Letter to the Arch-Bi&s;hop, concerning the Plot revealed to him, written by him in Latin.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Mo&s;t Illu&s;trious and mo&s;t Reverend Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>ALL my &s;en&s;es are &s;haken together as often as I revolve the pre&s;ent bu&s;ine&s;s, neither doth my Under&s;tanding &s;uffice, to conceive what Wind hath brought &s;uch horrid things, that they &s;hould &s;ee the Sun-&s;hine by me: for unexpectedly this good Man became known unto me, who when he had heard me di&s;cour&s;ing of the&s;e <HI>Scotch</HI> &s;tirs, &s;aid, that I knew not the Nerve of the bu&s;ine&s;s, that tho&s;e things which are commonly &s;cattered abroad are &s;uperficial. From that hour he every day became more familiar to me, who acknowledging my dexterity herein, with a full brea&s;t poured forth the burdens of his heart into my bo&s;om, &s;uppo|&s;ing that he had di&s;charged a burden of Con&s;cience wherewith he was pre&s;&s;ed. Hence he related to me the Factions of the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> with which the whole earthly World was a&s;&s;aulted; and &s;hewed, that I might behold how through their Poi&s;on, <HI>Bohemia</HI> and <HI>Ger|many</HI> were devoured, and both of them maimed with an irrepara|ble wound; that the &s;ame Plague did creep through the Realms of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> the matter whereof, revealed in the adjacent writing, he di&s;covered to me: Which things having heard, my Bowels were contracted together, my Loyns trembled with horrour, that a pernicious Gulf &s;hould be prepared for &s;o many thou&s;ands of Souls: With words moving the con&s;cience, I inflamed the mind of the Man; he had &s;carce one hour concocted my admonitions, but he di&s;clo&s;ed all the &s;ecrets, and he gave free liberty that I &s;hould treat with tho&s;e whom it concerned, that they might be informed hereof. I thought no delay was to be made about the things: The &s;ame hour I went to Sir <HI>William Bo&s;well,</HI> the King's Leiger, at the <HI>Hague,</HI> who being tied with an Oath of Secrecy to me, I commu|nicated the bu&s;ine&s;s to him, I admoni&s;hed him to weigh the&s;e things by the Ballance, neither to defer, but act, that tho&s;e who were in danger might be &s;peedily &s;uccoured: He, as becomes an hone&s;t Man, mindful of his Duty, and having nearer looked into the bu&s;ine&s;s, refu&s;ed not to obey the Monitions. Moreover, he forthwith cau&s;ed that an Expre&s;s &s;hould be di&s;patched, and &s;ent word back again what a mo&s;t acceptable Oblation this had been to 
<PB N="6" REF="4">
the King and your Grace; for which we rejoyced from the heart, and we judged, that a &s;afe and favourable Deity had interpo&s;ed it &s;elf in this bu&s;ine&s;s, whereby you might be per&s;erved.</P>
<P>Now that the verity of the things related might be confirmed, &s;ome principal heads of the con&s;piracy were purpo&s;ely pretermitted, that the knowledge of them might be extorted from the circum|vented Society of the Con&s;pirators.</P>
<P>Now the things will be &s;peedily and &s;afely promoted into act, if they be warily proceeded in at <HI>Bruxels.</HI> By my advice, that day &s;hould be ob&s;erved wherein the Packet of Letters are di&s;|patch'd, which under the Title of, <HI>To Mon&s;ieur Strario Arch-Deacon of Cambray,</HI> tyed with one cover, are delivered to the Po&s;t-Ma|&s;ter; &s;uch a Packet may be &s;ecretly brought back from him, yet it will be unprofitable, becau&s;e all the inclo&s;ed Letters are written Characteri&s;tically. Likewi&s;e another Packet coming weekly from <HI>Rome,</HI> which is brought under this &s;uper&s;cription, <HI>To the mo&s;t Illu|&s;trious Lord Count Ro&s;&s;etti,</HI> Legat for the time; the&s;e are not to be neglected: To whom likewi&s;e Letters writ in the &s;ame Characters are included. That they may be under&s;tood, <HI>Reade</HI> is to be con|&s;ulted with. The forenamed day of di&s;patch &s;hall be expected: In <HI>Reade</HI>'s Hou&s;e an accumulated congregation may be circumven|ted; which &s;ucceeding, it will be your Graces part to order the bu&s;ine&s;s. The inte&s;tine enemy being at length detected by God's Grace, all bitterne&s;s of mind, which is cau&s;ed on either &s;ide may be aboli&s;hed, 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, &s;hall be pre&s;erved and deli|vered from eminent danger.</P>
<P>Your Grace likewi&s;e may have this injunction by you, if you de&s;ire to have the be&s;t advice given you by others, <HI>That you tru&s;t not overmuch to your Pur&s;evants, for &s;ome of them live under the &s;tipend of the Popi&s;h Party.</HI> How many Rocks, how many <HI>Scilla</HI>'s, how many di&s;plea&s;ed <HI>Charybdes</HI> appear before your Grace, in what a dangerous Sea, the Cock-boat of your Graces li&s;e, next to Shipwrack, is to&s;&s;ed, your &s;elf may judge; the Fore-deck of the Ship is &s;peedily to be driven to the Harbour.</P>
<P>All the&s;e things (I whi&s;per) into your Grace's ear, for I 
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know it bound with an Oath of Secrecy; therefore by open name, I would by the&s;e Pre&s;ents become known to your Grace,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your Graces mo&s;t ob&s;ervant, and mo&s;t officious,</HI>
Andrew Habernfeld</SIGNED>

<DATELINE><HI>Hague</HI> <DATE><HI> Sept.</HI> 14 <HI>S. N.</HI> 1640.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>Super&s;cribed by <HI>Andreas ab Habernfeld,</HI> a Noble <HI>Bohemian,</HI> Dr. of Phy&s;ick to the Queen of <HI>Bohemia,</HI></TRAILER>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Illu&s;tri&s;&s;imo ac Reverendi&s;&s;imo Dom. Domino Gulielmo Archiepi&s;copo Cantuari|en&s;i, Primati &amp; Metropolitano totius Regni Angliae Dom. meo.</SALUTE></CLOSER>
<TAILNOTE>
<P>The Arch-Bi&s;hops Indor&s;ement with his own Hand.
<Q>Received,<HI> Octob. 14. 1640. Andreas ab Habernfeld. </HI>His Letters &s;ent by Sir<HI> William Bo&s;well, </HI>about the di&s;covery of the Trea&s;on. I conceive by the<HI> Engli&s;h Latin </HI>herein, that he mu&s;t needs be an<HI> Engli&s;h|man, </HI>with a concealed and changed name. And yet it may be this kind of<HI> Latin </HI>may relate to the<HI> Italian. </HI>Or el&s;e he lived &s;ome good time in<HI> England </HI>The Declaration of this Trea&s;on I have by His Ma|je&s;ties &s;pecial Command, &s;ent to Sir<HI> W. Bo&s;well, </HI>that he may there &s;ee what proof can be made of any particulars.</Q></P>
</TAILNOTE>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="enclosure">
<HEAD><HI>The general</HI> OVERTURE <HI>and</HI> DISCOVERY <HI>of the</HI> PLOT, <HI>&s;ent with Sir</HI> William Bo&s;well'<HI>s fir&s;t Letter, and written in Latin.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>The King's Maje&s;ty and the Lord Arch-Bi&s;hop of Canterbury are to be &s;ecretly informed by Letters,</HI><LIST>
<ITEM N="1">1. THat the King's Maje&s;ty, and the Lord Arch-Bi&s;hop are both of them in great danger of their lives.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="2">2. That the whole Common-wealth is by this means endangered, unle&s;s the mi&s;chief be &s;peedily prevented.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="3">3. That the&s;e <HI>Scotch</HI> Troubles are rai&s;ed, to the end, that un|der this pretext, the King and Arch-Bi&s;hop might be de&s;troyed.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="4">4. That there is a means to be pre&s;eribed, whereby both of them in this ca&s;e may be pre&s;erved, and this Tumult &s;peedily compo&s;ed.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="5"><PB N="8" REF="5">
5. That although the&s;e <HI>Scotch</HI> Tumults be &s;peedily compo&s;ed, yet that the King is endangered, and that there are many ways, by which de&s;truction is plotted to the King and Lord Arch-Bi&s;hop.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="6">6. That a certain Society hath con&s;pired the Death of the King, and Lord Arch-Bi&s;hop, and Convul&s;ion of the whole Realm.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="7">7. That the &s;ame Society, every Week depo&s;its with the Pre&s;i|dent of the Society, what Intelligence every of them hath purcha|&s;ed in eight days &s;earch, and then con&s;er all into one Packet, which is weekly &s;ent to the Director of the Bu&s;ine&s;s.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="8">8. That all the Confederates in the &s;aid con&s;piracy may verily be named by the Poll. But becau&s;e they may be made known by other means, it is thought meet to defer it till hereafter.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="9">9. That there is a ready means, whereby the Villany may be di&s;covered in one moment, the chief Con&s;pirators circumvented, and the primary Members of the Conjuration apprehended in the very act.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="10">10. That very many about the King, who are accounted mo&s;t faithful and intimate, to whom likewi&s;e the more &s;ecret things are intru&s;ted, are Traytors to the King, corrupted with a Foreign Pen&s;ion, who communicate all &s;ecrets of greater or le&s;&s;er moment to a Foreign Power.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The&s;e and other mo&s;t &s;ecret things, which &s;hall be nece&s;&s;ary to be known for the &s;ecurity of the King, may be revealed, if the&s;e things &s;hall be acceptable to the Lord Arch Bi&s;hop.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e they may be a&s;&s;ured, that what&s;oever things are here propo&s;ed, are no Figments, or Fables, nor vain Dreams, but &s;uch real Verities, which may be demon&s;trated in every &s;mall tittle. For tho&s;e who thru&s;t them&s;elves into this bu&s;ine&s;s, are &s;uch men, who mind no gain, but the very zeal of <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> Charity &s;uffers them not to conceal the&s;e things: Yet both from His Maje&s;ty and the Lord Arch-Bi&s;hop &s;ome &s;mall exemplar of gratitude will be expected.</P>
<P>All the&s;e premi&s;es have been communicated under good Faith, and the Sacrament of an Oath, to Mr. Leiger Emba&s;&s;adour of the King of <HI>Great Britain,</HI> at the <HI>Hague</HI>; that he &s;hould not immediately tru&s;t, or communicate the&s;e things to any mortal, be&s;ides the King, and the Lord Arch-Bi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Sub&s;eribed, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></SIGNED>
<SIGNED>Pre&s;ent, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Hague, Com.</HI> <DATE><HI>6. Sept.</HI> 1640. In the Style of the Place.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TAILNOTE>
<P>The Arch-Bi&s;hops own Indor&s;ement.<Q><HI>Recieved</HI> Sept. 10. 1640. <HI>The Plot again&s;t the King.</HI></Q></P>
</TAILNOTE>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="9" REF="5">
<HEAD>The Arch-Bi&s;hop of <HI>Canterburies</HI>
Letter to the King, concerning the <HI>PLOT;</HI>
with the King's Directions in the Margin,
written with his own hand.</HEAD>
<Q>  <P>[I be&s;eech your Maje&s;ty read the&s;e Letters
  as they are Endor&s;ed by Figures, 1, 2, 3, &amp;<HI>c.</HI>]</P>
  </Q>
<LETTER>
<OPENER><SALUTE><HI>May it plea&s;e your
Maje&s;ty,</HI></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>AS great as the Secret is which comes here|with, yet I choo&s;e
rather to &s;end it in this &s;ilent covert way, and I hope &s;afe, than
to come thither,</P>
</LETTER>
<P REND="italic">Ye had rea&s;on &s;o to do,</P>
<Q>  <P>and bring it my &s;elf. Fir&s;t, becau&s;e I am no way able to make
ha&s; t enough with it. Secondly, becau&s;e &s;hould I come at this time,
and antedate the meeting, <HI>Sept.</HI> 24. there would be more
jealou&s;ie of the bu&s;ine&s;s, and more enquiry after it: E&s;pecially,
if I be|ing once there, &s;hould return again before that day, as I
mu&s;t, if this be followed, as is mo&s;t fit.</P>
  <P>The danger it &s;eems 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 pa&s;s not, &s;o your
Sacred Per&s;on, and the State may be &s;afe.)
  </P>
  </Q>
<P REND="italic">It is an unan&s;werable Dilemma.</P>
<Q>  <P>Now, may it plea&s;e your Maje&s;ty, This information is either true,
or there is &s;ome mi&s;take in it: If it be true, the Per&s;ons which
make the Di&s;covery will de&s;erve thanks and reward; if there &s;hould
be any mi|&s;take in it, your Maje&s;ty can lo&s;e nothing but a little
&s;ilence.</P>
  <P>The bu&s;ine&s;s, (if it be) is extream foul. The Di&s;covery thus by
God's Providence offered, &s;eems fair. I do hereby humbly beg it upon my
knees of your Maje&s;ty, that you will conceal this bu&s;ine&s;s from
every creature, and his name that &s;ends this to me. And I &s;end his
Letters to me, to your Maje&s;ty, that you may &s;ee his &s;ence
  <PB N="10" REF="6">
  both of the bu&s;ine&s;s and the Secrecy. And &s;uch In&s;tructions as
you think fit to give him, I be|&s;eech you let them be in your own hand
for his Warrant, without imparting them to any. And if your Maje&s;ty
leave it to his de&s;cretion to fol|low it there in the be&s;t way he can,
that in your own hand will be In&s;truction and Warrant e|nough for him.
And if you plea&s;e to return it herewith pre&s;ently to me, I will &s;end
an expre&s;s away with it pre&s;ently.</P>
  </Q>
<P REND="italic"><PB N="9" REF="5">I concur totally with you in opinion,
a&s;&s;uring you, that no body doth, or &s;hall know of this bu&s;ine&s;s;
and to &s;hew my care to conceal it, I re|ceived this but this
<PB N="10" REF="6"> Afternoon, and now I make this di&s;patch before I
&s;leep. Here|with I &s;end his War|rant, as you advi&s;e, which indeed I
judge to be the better way.</P>
<Q>  <P>In the mean time, I have by this Expre&s;s re|turned him this
An&s;wer, That I think he &s;hall do well to hold on the Treaty with
the&s;e men, with all care and &s;ecrecy, and drive on to the
Di&s;|covery, &s;o &s;oon as the bu&s;ine&s;s is ripe for it, that he may
a&s;&s;ure him&s;elf and them, they &s;hall not want reward, if they do
the Service. That for my part he &s;hall be &s;ure of Secrecy, and that I
am mo&s;t con&s;ident, that your Maje&s;ty will not impart it to any. That
he have a &s;pecial eye to the eighth and ninth Propo&s;ition.</P>
  </Q>
<P REND="italic">I like your an&s;wer extreme well, and do promi&s;e not
to deceive your confidence, nor make you break your word.</P>
<Q>  <P>Sir, for God's &s;ake, and your own &s;afety, Se|crecy in this
Bu&s;ine&s;s: And I be&s;eech you, &s;end me back this Letter, and all
that comes with it, &s;peedily and &s;ecretly, and tru&s;t not your own
Pockets with them. I &s;hall not eat, nor &s;leep in quiet, till I receive
them. And &s;o &s;oon as I have them again, and your Maje&s;ties Warrant
to pro|ceed, no diligence &s;hall be wanting in me to help on the
Di&s;covery.</P>
  </Q>
<P REND="italic">I have &s;ent all back. I think the&s;e Apo&s;tyles will
be warrant e|nough for you to pro|ceed, e&s;pecially, when I expre&s;ly
command you to do &s;o.</P>
<Q>  <P>This is the greate&s;t bu&s;ine&s;s that ever was put to me. And if I
have herein propo&s;ed, or done any thing ami&s;s, I mo&s;t humbly crave
your Ma|je&s;ties pardon. But I am willing to hope I have not herein erred
in judgment, and in fidelity I never will.</P>
  </Q>
<P REND="italic">In this I am as far from condemning your judgement, as
&s;u&s;pe|cting your Fidelity.</P>
<LETTER>
<P>The&s;e Letters came to me on, <HI>Thur&s;day, Sept.</HI> 10. at
night, and I &s;ent the&s;e away according to the date hereof, being
extreamly wearied with writing this Letter, copying out tho&s;e other
which come with this, and di&s;patching my Letters back to him that &s;ent
the&s;e, all in my own
  <PB N="11" REF="6">
  hand. Once again &s;ecrecy for God's &s;ake, and your own. To his mo&s;t
ble&s;&s;ed protection I commend your Maje&s;ty and all your Affairs: And
am,</P>
<CLOSER>  <SIGNED>Your Maje&s;ties mo&s;t humble faithful Servant, <HI>W.
Cant.</HI></SIGNED>
  <DATELINE><HI>Lambeth,</HI> <DATE><HI>Sept.</HI> 11.
1640.</DATE></DATELINE>
  <POSTSCRIPT>
<HEAD>The Arch-Bi&s;hop's Po&s;t&s;cript.</HEAD>
<P>As I had ended the&s;e, 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 <HI>Croyden.</HI></P>
<P>The&s;e Letters came late to me, the expre&s;s being beaten back by
the wind.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>Super&s;crib'd by the Arch-Bi&s;hop, <HI>For your Sacred
Maje&s;ty</HI></TRAILER>
</LETTER>
<TAILNOTE>
<P>The Arch-Bi&s;hops Indor&s;ement with his own hand.<Q><HI>Received from the King,</HI> Sept. 16. 1640.</Q></P>
</TAILNOTE>
<TRAILER>The King's An&s;wer to the Plot again&s;t him,
<HI>&amp;c.</HI></TRAILER>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>York,</HI> <DATE>Sept. C. R. 13.
1640.</DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED>: By the King, <HI>Yours
Apo&s;tyled.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD><HI>Sir</HI> William Bo&s;wel'<HI>s &s;econd Letter to the Arch-Bi&s;hop.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Grace,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THis evening late I have received your Graces di&s;patch, with the enclo&s;ed from His Maje&s;ty, by my Secretary <HI>Oveart,</HI> and &s;hall give due account with all po&s;&s;ible &s;peed of the &s;ame, according to His Maje&s;ties and your Graces Commands, praying heartily that my endeavours, which &s;hall be mo&s;t faithful, may al&s;o prove effectual, to His Maje&s;ties and your Grace's content, with which I do mo&s;t humbly take leave, being always</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE> Hague, <DATE>Sept. <HI>24. 1640</HI></DATE>. S. Angelo.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Your Graces most dutiful and humble&s;t Servant,</HI>
William Bo&s;well.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TAILNOTE>
<P>The Arch-Bi&s;hop's Indor&s;ement. <HI>Received, Sept.</HI> 30. 1640.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>William Bo&s;well</HI> his acknowledgement, that he hath received the King's Directions in my Letters.</P>
</TAILNOTE>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="12" REF="7">
<HEAD><HI>Sir</HI> William Bo&s;well'<HI>s third Letter to the Arch-Bi&s;hop, &s;ent with the larger Di&s;covery of the PLOT.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Grace,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>UPon receipt of His Maje&s;ties Commands, with your Grace's Letters of 9, and 18, <HI>Sept.</HI> la&s;t, I dealt with the party to make good his Offers formerly put in mine hand, and tran&s;mitted to your Grace: This he hopes to have done, by the inclo&s;ed, &s;o far as will be needful for His Maje&s;ties &s;atisfaction; yet if any more particular explanation or di&s;covery &s;hall be re|quired by His Maje&s;ty or your Grace, He hath promi&s;ed to add thereunto, what&s;oever he can remember, and knows of truth. And for better a&s;&s;urance and verification of his integrity, he pro|fe&s;&s;eth him&s;elf ready (if required) to make Oath of what he hath already declared, or &s;hall hereafter declare in the bu&s;ine&s;s.</P>
<P>His name he conjures me &s;till to conceale, though he thinks His Maje&s;ty and your Grace, by the Character he gives of him&s;elf, will ea&s;ily imagin who he is, having been known &s;o generally through Court and City, as he was for three or four years, in the quality and imployment he acknowlegeth (by his Declaration in|clo&s;ed) him&s;elf to have held.</P>
<P>Hereupon he doth al&s;o redouble his mo&s;t humble and earne&s;t Suit unto His Maje&s;ty and your Grace, to be mo&s;t &s;ecret and circum&s;pect in the bu&s;ine&s;s, that he may not be &s;u&s;pected to have di&s;covered, or had a hand in the &s;ame.</P>
<P>I &s;hall here humbly be&s;eech your Grace to let me know what I may further do for His Maje&s;ties &s;ervice, or for your Graces particular behoof; that I may accordingly endeavour to approve my &s;elf, As I am,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE> <HI>Hague,</HI> <DATE><HI>Octob.</HI> 15. 1640.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Your Grace's mo&s;t dutiful and obliged Servant,</HI>
William Bo&s;well.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TAILNOTE>
<P>The Arch-Bi&s;hop's Indor&s;ment. <HI>Received Octob.</HI> 14. 1640.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>William Bo&s;well</HI> in pro&s;ecution of the great bu&s;ine&s;s. If any thing come to him in Cyphers, to &s;end it to him.</P>
</TAILNOTE>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="16" REF="7">
<HEAD>The large particular Di&s;covery of the <HI>PLOT</HI> and Trea&s;on again&s;t the King, Kingdom, and Prote&s;tant Religion, and to rai&s;e the <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Wars, written in Latin.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Mo&s;t Illu&s;irious and Revcrend Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WE have willingly and cordially perceived, that our offers have been acceptable both to his <HI>Royal Maje&s;ty,</HI> and likewi&s;e to your <HI>Grace.</HI> This is the only Index to us, That the ble&s;&s;ing of God is pre&s;ent with you, whereby a &s;pur is given, that we &s;hould &s;o much the more chearfully and freely utter and dete&s;t tho&s;e things whereby the hazard of both your lives, the &s;ubver&s;ion of the Realm and State both of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> the tumbling down of his Excellent Maje&s;ty from his Throne, is intended. Now le&s;t the di&s;cour&s;e &s;hould be en|larged with &s;uperfluous circum&s;tances, we will only premi&s;e &s;ome things which are meerly nece&s;&s;ary to the bu&s;ine&s;s.</P>
<P>You may fir&s;t of all know, that this good man, by whom the en&s;uing things are detected, was born and bred in the Popi&s;h Religion, who &s;pent many years in Eccle&s;ia&s;tical dignities. At length being found fit for the expedition of the pre&s;ent De&s;ign, by the coun&s;el and mandate of the Lord Cardinal <HI>Barbarini,</HI> he was adjoyned to the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of Ma&s;ter <HI>Cuneus (Con)</HI> by whom he was found &s;o diligent and &s;edulous in his Office, that hope of great promotion was given to him. Yet he, led by the in&s;tinct of the good Spirit, hath, how&s;oever it be, contemned &s;weet promi&s;es, and having known the vanities of the Pontifician Religion (of which he had &s;ometime been a mo&s;t &s;evere defender) having <HI>likewi&s;e noted the malice of tho&s;e who fight under the Popi&s;h banner, felt his Con&s;cience to be burdened; which burden that he might ea&s;e him&s;elf of, he converted his mind to the Orthodox Religion.</HI> Soon after, that he might exonerate his Con&s;cience, he thought fit, that a de&s;perate Trea&s;on, machinated again&s;t &s;o many &s;ouls, was to be revealed, and that he &s;hould receive ea&s;e if he vented &s;uch things in the bo&s;om of a friend: which done, he was &s;eriou&s;ly admoni&s;hed by the &s;aid friend, that he &s;hould &s;hew an example of his conver&s;ion and charity, and free &s;o many innocent &s;ouls from imminent, danger To who&s;e monitions he willingly con&s;ented, 
<PB N="14" REF="8">
and delivered the following things to be put in writing, out of which the Articles not long &s;ince tendered to your Grace, may be clearly explicated and demon&s;trated.</P>
<P N="1">1. Fir&s;t of all, that the hinge of the bu&s;ine&s;s may be rightly di&s;cerned, it is to be known, that all tho&s;e factions with which Chri&s;tendom is at this day &s;haken, do ari&s;e from the Je&s;uitical Off-&s;pring of <HI>Cham,</HI> of which four Orders abound throughout the World.</P>
<P>Of the fir&s;t Order are Eccle&s;ia&s;ticks, who&s;e Office it is to take care of things promoting Religion.</P>
<P>Of the &s;econd Order are Politicians, who&s;e Office it is by any means to &s;hake, trouble, and reform the &s;tate of Kingdoms and Republicks.</P>
<P>Of the third Order are Seculars, who&s;e property it is to obtrude them&s;elves into Offices with Kings and Princes, to in&s;inuate and immix them&s;elves in Court bu&s;ine&s;&s;es, bargains and &s;ales, and to be bu&s;ied in civil affairs.</P>
<P>Of the fourth Order are Intelligencers, <HI>(or Spies)</HI> men of in&s;eriour condition, who &s;ubmit them&s;elves to the &s;ervices of great men, Princes, Barons, Noble-men, Citizens, to deceive (<HI>or corrupt</HI>) the minds of their ma&s;ters.</P>
<P N="2">2. A Society of &s;o many Orders, the Kingdom of <HI>England</HI> nouri&s;heth: for &s;carce all <HI>Spain, France,</HI> and <HI>Italy,</HI> can yield &s;o great a multitude of <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> as <HI>London</HI> alone; where are found more than 50 <HI>Scoti&s;h Je&s;uits.</HI> There the &s;aid &s;ociety hath elected to it &s;elf a Seat of iniquity, and hath con&s;pired again&s;t the King, and the mo&s;t faithful to the King, e&s;pecially the Lord Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> and likewi&s;e again&s;t both Kingdoms.</P>
<P N="3">3. For it is more certain than certainty it &s;elf, that the fore|named &s;ociety hath determined to effect an univer&s;al reformation of the Kingdom of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland.</HI> Therefore the deter|mination of the end, nece&s;&s;arily infers a determination of means to the end.</P>
<P N="4">4. Therefore to promote the undertaken Villany, the &s;aid &s;ociety dubbed it &s;elf with the Title of, <HI>The Congregation of propagating the Faith</HI>; which acknowlegeth the Pope of <HI>Rome</HI> the Head of the College, and Cardinal <HI>Barbarini</HI> his &s;ub&s;titute and Executor.</P>
<P N="5">5. The chief Patron of the &s;ociety at <HI>London,</HI> is the Popes Legat, who takes care of the bu&s;ine&s;s; into who&s;e bo&s;om, the&s;e dregs of Traytors weekly depo&s;ite all their Intelligences. Now the re&s;idence of this Legation was obtained at <HI>London</HI> in the name 
<PB N="15" REF="8">
of the <HI>Roman</HI> Pontiff, by who&s;e mediation it might be lawful for Cardinal <HI>Barbarini</HI> to work &s;o much the more ea&s;ily and &s;afely upon the King and Kingdom. For none el&s;e could &s;o freely circumvent the King, as he who &s;hould be palliated with the Popes Authority.</P>
<P N="6">6. Ma&s;ter <HI>Cuneus</HI> did at that time enjoy the Office of the Popes Legat, an Univer&s;al In&s;trument of the conjured &s;ociety, and a &s;erious Promoter of the bu&s;ine&s;s, who&s;e &s;ecrets, as likewi&s;e tho&s;e of all other Intelligencers, the pre&s;ent good man, the Commu|nicator of all the&s;e things, did revive and expedite whither the bu&s;ine&s;s required.</P>
<P><HI>Cuneus</HI> &s;et upon the chief men of the Kingdom, and left nothing unattempted, by what means he might corrupt them all, and in|cline them to the pontifician party: he inticed many with various incitements, yea, he &s;ought to delude the King him&s;elf with gifts of Pictures, Antiquities, Idols, and of other vanities brought from <HI>Rome,</HI> which yet would prevail nothing with the King.</P>
<P>Having entred familiarity with the King, he is often reque&s;ted at <HI>Hampton</HI> Court, likewi&s;e at <HI>London,</HI> to undertake the Cau&s;e of the <HI>Palatine,</HI> and that he would interpo&s;e his Authority, and by his interce&s;&s;ion per&s;wade the <HI>Legat</HI> of <HI>Colen,</HI> that the <HI>Palatine,</HI> in the next Diet to treat of peace, might be in&s;erted into the Conditions; which verily he promi&s;ed, but performed the con|trary. He writ indeed, that he had been &s;o de&s;ired by the King concerning &s;uch things, yet he advi&s;ed that they &s;hould not be con&s;ented to, left peradventure it might be &s;aid by the <HI>Spaniard,</HI> that the Pope of <HI>Rome</HI> had patronized an heretical Prince.</P>
<P>In the mean time, <HI>Cuneus</HI> &s;melling from the Archbi&s;hop, mo&s;t tru&s;ty to the King, that the Kings mind was wholly pendulous (or doubt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ul,) Re&s;olved, That he would move every &s;tone, and apply his forces, that he might gain him to his party: Cer|tainly con&s;iding, that he had a means prepared. For he had a command to offer a Cardinals Cap to the Lord Archbi&s;hop in the name of the Pope of <HI>Rome,</HI> and that he &s;hould allure him al&s;o with higher promi&s;es, that he might corrupt his &s;incere mind. Yet a &s;itting occa&s;ion was never given, whereby he might in&s;inuate him&s;elf into the Lord Archbi&s;hop. Free acce&s;s was to be gained by the Earl and Counte&s;s of <HI>A</HI>&mdash; likewi&s;e Secretary <HI>W</HI>&mdash;|The interce&s;&s;ion of all which being neglected, he did flie the company or familiarity of <HI>Cuneus,</HI> wor&s;e than the plague: He was likewi&s;e per&s;waded by others of no mean rank, well known to him, neither yet was he moved.</P>
<P N="7"><PB N="13" REF="9">
7. Another al&s;o was a&s;&s;ayed, who hindred acce&s;s to the dete&s;table wickedne&s;s, Secretary <HI>Cook,</HI> he was a mo&s;t bitter hater of the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> whom he intercepted from acce&s;s to the King, he entertained many (of them) according to their de&s;erts, he diligently enquired into their factions; by which means every incitement, breathing a magnetical (attractive) power to the Popi&s;h party, was ineffectual with him; for nothing was &s;o dear unto him, that might incline him to wickedne&s;s. Hereupon being made odious to the Patrons of the Con&s;piracy, he was endangered to be di&s;charged from his Office; it was laboured for three years &s;pace, and at la&s;t obtained.</P>
<P>Yet notwith&s;tanding there remained on the Kings part a knot hard to be untied, for the Lord Arch-Bi&s;hop, by his con&s;tancy, interpo&s;ed him&s;elf as a mo&s;t hard rock.</P>
<P>When <HI>Cuneus</HI> had under&s;tood from the Lord Arch-Bi&s;hops part, that he had laboured in vain, his malice and the whole Societies waxed boyling hot: &s;oon after ambu&s;hes began to be prepared, wherewith the Lord Arch-Bi&s;hop together with the King &s;hould be taken.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e a &s;entence is pa&s;&s;ed again&s;t the King (for who&s;e &s;ake all this bu&s;ine&s;s is di&s;po&s;ed) becau&s;e nothing is hoped from him which might &s;eem to promote the Popi&s;h Religion; but e&s;pecially when he had opened his mind, that he was of this opinion, That every one might be &s;aved in his own Religion, &s;o as he be an hone&s;t and pious man.</P>
<P N="8">8. To perpetrate the Trea&s;on undertaken, the criminal Execu|tion at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> cau&s;ed by &s;ome Writings of <HI>Puritans,</HI> gave occa&s;ion of the fir&s;t Fire: which thing was &s;o much exa&s;perated and exaggerated by the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> to the <HI>Puritans,</HI> that if it remained un|revenged, it would be thought a blemi&s;h to their Religion; The Flames of which Fire, the <HI>Scotch</HI> Book of <HI>Prayers</HI> increa&s;es, occa|&s;ioned by it's alterations.</P>
<P N="9">9. In this heat, a certain <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Earl, called <HI>Max&s;ield,</HI> if I mi&s;take not, was expedited to the <HI>Scots</HI> by the <HI>Popi&s;h</HI> Party; with whom two other <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Earls, <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> held corre&s;pondency: He was to &s;tir up the People to Commotion, and rub over the injury afre&s;h, that he might en&s;lame their minds, precipitate them to Arms, by which the hurtful di&s;turber of the <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Liberty might be &s;lain.</P>
<P N="10">10. By this one labour, &s;nares are prepared for the King; for this purpo&s;e the pre&s;ent bu&s;ine&s;s was &s;o ordered, That very many of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;hould adhere to the <HI>Scots</HI>; That the King &s;hould remain in&s;eriour in Arms, who (thereupon) &s;hould be compelled 
<PB N="17" REF="9">
to crave a&s;&s;i&s;tance from the <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> which yet he &s;hould not obtain, unle&s;s he would de&s;cend unto conditions, by which he &s;hould per|mit Univer&s;al liberty of the exerci&s;e of the <HI>Popi&s;h</HI> Religion; for &s;o the affairs of the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> would &s;ucceed according to their de&s;ire. To which con&s;ent, if he &s;hould &s;hew him&s;elf more difficult, there &s;hould be a pre&s;ent remedy at hand. The King is to be di&s;patched: For an <HI>Indian</HI> Nut, &s;tuffed with mo&s;t &s;harp Poy&s;on, is kept in the So|ciety (which <HI>Cuneus</HI> at that time &s;hewed often to me in a boa&s;ting manner) wherein a Poy&s;on was prepared for the King; after the Example of his Father.</P>
<P N="11">11. In this <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> Commotion, the Marque&s;s of <HI>Hamilton,</HI> often di&s;patched to the <HI>Scots</HI> in the Name of the King, to interpo&s;e the Royal Authority, whereby the heat of minds might be mittigated, returned notwith&s;tanding as often without fruit, and without ending the Bu&s;ine&s;s: His Chaplain at that time repaired to us, who com|municated &s;ome things &s;ecretly with <HI>Cuneus.</HI> Being demanded of me in je&s;t, Whether al&s;o the <HI>Jews</HI> agreed with the <HI>Samaritans? Cuneus</HI> thereunto an&s;wered; Would to God all Mini&s;ters were &s;uch as he: What you will may be hence conjectured.</P>
<P N="12">12. Things &s;tanding thus, there arrived at <HI>London</HI> from Cardinal <HI>Richelieu,</HI> Mr. <HI>Thomas Chamberlaine,</HI> his Chaplain and Almoner, a <HI>Scot</HI> by Nation, who was to a&s;&s;i&s;t the College of the confederate Society, and &s;eriou&s;ly to &s;et forward the Bu&s;ine&s;s, to leave nothing unattempted, whereby the fir&s;t heat might be exa&s;perated. For which &s;ervice he was promi&s;ed the reward of a Bi&s;hoprick; He cohabited with the Society four Months &s;pace; neither was it lawful for him fir&s;t to depart, until things &s;ucceeding according to his wi&s;h, he might be able to return back again with good news.</P>
<P N="13">13. Sir <HI>Toby Matthew,</HI> a Je&s;uited Prie&s;t, of the Order of <HI>Politici|ans,</HI> a mo&s;t vigilant man of the chief heads, to whom a Bed was never &s;o dear, that he would re&s;t his head thereon, refre&s;hing his Body with &s;leep in a Chair for an hour, or two, neither day nor night &s;pared his Machinations; a Man principally noxious, and him&s;elf the Plague of the King and Kingdom of <HI>England</HI>; a mo&s;t impudent man, who flies to all Banquets and Fea&s;ts, called or not called; never quiet, always in action and perpetual motion; thru&s;ting him&s;elf into all Conver&s;ations of Superiours; he urgeth Conferences familiarly, that he may fi&s;h out the minds of Men; What ever he ob&s;erveth thence, which may bring any commodity, or di&s;commodity to the part of the Con&s;pirators, he communicates to the Pope's <HI>Legat</HI>; the more &s;ecret things he him&s;elf writes to the Pope, or to Cardinal <HI>Barbarini.</HI> In &s;um, he adjoins him&s;elf to 
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any mans company; no word can be &s;poken, that he will not lay hold on, and accommodate to his Party. In the mean time, what|ever he hath fi&s;hed out, he reduceth into a Catalogue, and every Summer carrieth it to the general Con&s;i&s;tory of the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> Politicks, which &s;ecretly meets together in the Province of <HI>Wales,</HI> where he is an acceptable gue&s;t. There Coun&s;els are &s;ecretly hammered, which are mo&s;t meet for the Convul&s;ion of the Eccle&s;ia&s;tic, and Po|litic E&s;tate of both Kingdoms.</P>
<P N="14">14. Captain <HI>Read,</HI> a <HI>Scot,</HI> dwelling in <HI>Long-acre-&s;treet,</HI> near the <HI>Angel</HI> Tavern, a &s;ecular <HI>Je&s;uit,</HI> who for his dete&s;table office performed (whereby he had perverted a certain Mini&s;ter of the Church, with &s;ecret incitements to the <HI>Popi&s;h</HI> Religion, with all his Family, taking his Daughter to Wife) for a recompence, obtained a Rent, or Impo&s;t upon Butter, which the Country People are bound to render to him, procured for him by &s;ome chief men of the Society, who never want a &s;pur, whereby he may be con&s;tantly detained in his Office. In his Hou&s;e the bu&s;ine&s;s of the whole Plot is concluded, where the Society, which hath con&s;pired again&s;t the King, the Lord Arch|Bi&s;hop, and both Kingdoms, meet together, for the mo&s;t part every day: But on the day of the <HI>Carriers</HI> (or Po&s;ts) di&s;patch, which is or|dinarily <HI>Friday,</HI> they meet in greater numbers; for then all the In|telligencers a&s;&s;emble, and con&s;er in common, what things every of them hath fi&s;hed out that Week; who, that they may be with|out &s;u&s;pition, &s;end their &s;ecrets by Sir <HI>Toby Matthew,</HI> or <HI>Read</HI> him|&s;elf, to the Pope's <HI>Legat</HI>; he tran&s;mits the compacted Packet, which he hath purcha&s;ed from the Intelligencers, to <HI>Rome.</HI></P>
<P>With the &s;ame <HI>Read,</HI> the Letters brought from <HI>Rome</HI> are depo&s;ited, under &s;ained 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.</P>
<P>Upon the very &s;ame occa&s;ion, Letters al&s;o are brought hither un|der the covert of Father <HI>Philip</HI>; (he notwith&s;tanding, being igno|rant of things) from whom they are di&s;tributed to the Con&s;pirators.</P>
<P>There is in that very Hou&s;e, a publick Chappel, wherein an or|dinary <HI>Je&s;uit</HI> Con&s;ecrates, and dwells there. In the &s;aid Chappel Ma&s;&s;es are daily celebrated by the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> and it &s;erves for the Bap|tizing of the Children of the Hou&s;e, and of &s;ome of the Con|&s;pirators.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e who a&s;&s;emble in the forenamed Hou&s;e, come frequently in Coaches, or on Hor&s;e-back in Lay-mens Habit, and with a great Train, wherewith they are di&s;gui&s;ed, that they may not be known, yet they are <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> and conjured members of the Society.</P>
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15. All the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> of <HI>England</HI> contribute to this A&s;&s;embly, lest any thing &s;hould be wanting to promote the undertaken De&s;ign. Out of who&s;e Trea&s;ury, a Widow, owner of the Hou&s;es, wherein Secretary <HI>W.</HI> now dwelleth, dead above three Years &s;ince, be|&s;towed forty Thou&s;and <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Pounds; &s;o likewi&s;e others contri|buted above their abilities, &s;o as the bu&s;ine&s;s may be promoted un|to its de&s;ired end.</P>
<P N="16">16. Be&s;ides the fore&s;aid Hou&s;es, there are Conventicles al&s;o kept in other more &s;ecret places, of which they dare not con&s;ide, even among them&s;elves, for fear le&s;t they &s;hould be di&s;covered. Fir&s;t, every of them are called to certain Inns, (one not knowing of the other;) hence they are &s;everally led by Spies to the place where they ought to meet; otherwi&s;e ignorant where they ought to a&s;&s;emble, left peradventure they &s;hould be &s;urpri&s;ed at unawares.</P>
<P N="17">17. The Counte&s;s of <HI>A</HI>&mdash; a &s;trenuous She-Champion of the <HI>Popi&s;h Religion,</HI> bends all her Nerves to the Univer&s;al Reformation; what&s;oever &s;he hears at the King's Court, that is done &s;ecretly, or openly, in words or deeds, &s;he pre&s;ently imparts to the <HI>Pope's</HI> Legat, with whom &s;he meets thrice a day. Sometimes in <HI>A</HI>&mdash;|Hou&s;e, now at the Court, then at <HI>Tarthal.</HI> He &s;earce &s;ucks &s;uch things by the Claw.</P>
<P>The Earl him&s;elf, called now about three years &s;ince, this year ought to go to <HI>Rome,</HI> without doubt to con&s;ult there of &s;erious things concerning the De&s;ign.</P>
<P>At <HI>Greenwich,</HI> at the Earls co&s;t, a Feminine School is maintained, which otherwi&s;e is a Mona&s;tery of Nuns; for the young Girls there|in, are &s;ent forth hither and thither, into Foreign Mona&s;teries beyond the Seas.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>P</HI>&mdash; of the King's Bed-Chamber, mo&s;t addicted to the <HI>Popi&s;h Religion,</HI> is a bitter enemy of the King, he reveals all his greate&s;t Secrets to the <HI>Pope's</HI> Legat; although he very rarely meets with him, yet his Wife meets him &s;o much the o&s;tner, who being informed by her Husband, conveys &s;ecrets to the Legat. In all his actions, he is nothing in&s;eriour to Sir <HI>Toby Matthew</HI>; it cannot be ut|tered, how diligently he watcheth on the bu&s;ine&s;s.</P>
<P>His Sons are &s;ecretly in&s;tructed in the <HI>Popi&s;h Religion</HI>; openly, they pro&s;e&s;s the Reformed. The elde&s;t is now to receive his Fathers Office, under the King which &s;hall be. A Cardinal's Hat is provided for the other, if the De&s;ign &s;hall &s;ucceed well.</P>
<P>Above three Years pa&s;t, the &s;aid Mr. <HI>P</HI>&mdash;was to be &s;ent away by the King to <HI>Marocco</HI>; but he was prohibited by the Society, le&s;t the bu&s;ine&s;s &s;hould &s;uffer delay thereby.</P>
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He is a Patron of the Je&s;uits, for whom, for the exerci&s;e of Religion, he provides Chappels both at home and abroad.</P>
<P>Secretary <HI>W</HI>&mdash; a mo&s;t fierce <HI>Papi&s;t,</HI> is the mo&s;t unfaithful to the King of all men, who not only betrays and reveals even the King's greate&s;t &s;ecrets, but likewi&s;e communicates Coun&s;els, by which the De&s;ign may be be&s;t advanced. He, at lea&s;t thrice every Week, conver&s;eth with the Legat in Nocturnal Conventicles, and reveals tho&s;e things which he thinks fit to be known; for which end, he hired a Hou&s;e near to the Legats Hou&s;e, whom he often re&s;orts to, through the Garden door; for by this vicinity, the meeting is fa|cilitated.</P>
<P>The &s;aid Secretary is bribed with Gifts to the Party of that con|jured Society, by whom he is &s;u&s;tained, that he may the more &s;eri|ou&s;ly execute his Office.</P>
<P>He &s;ent his Son expre&s;ly to <HI>Rome,</HI> who was to in&s;inuate him&s;elf into the <HI>Roman</HI> Pontif.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>D</HI>&mdash; Sir <HI>W</HI>&mdash; Mr. <HI>M</HI>&mdash; the younger, who hath been at <HI>Rome</HI>; my Lord <HI>S</HI>&mdash; a Cou&s;en of the Earl of <HI>A</HI>&mdash; the Counte&s;s of <HI>N</HI>&mdash; the Durche&s;s of <HI>B</HI>&mdash; and many others, who have &s;worn into this Con&s;piracy, are all mo&s;t vigilant in the De&s;ign. Some of the&s;e are inticed with the hope of Court, others of Po|litical Offices; Others attend to the &s;ixteen Cardinals Caps that are vacant, which are therefore detained idle for &s;ome years, that they may impo&s;e a vain hope on tho&s;e who expect them.</P>
<P>The Pre&s;ident of the afore&s;aid Society was my Lord <HI>Gage,</HI> a Je&s;uit Prie&s;t, dead above three years &s;ince. He had a Palace ador|ned with la&s;civious Pictures, which counterfeited Profanene&s;s in the Hou&s;e, but with them was palliated a Mona&s;tery, wherein forty Nuns were maintained, hid in &s;o great a Palace: It is &s;ituated in <HI>Queen-&s;treet,</HI> which the Statue of a Golden Queen adorns. The &s;ecular Je&s;uits have bought all this Street, and have de&s;ign'd it into a Quadrangle, where a Je&s;uitical College is built in private, with this hope, that it might be openly fini&s;hed, as &s;oon as the univer|&s;al reformation was begun.</P>
<P>The <HI>Pope's</HI> Legat u&s;eth a threefold Character or Cipher; one of which he communicates with all <HI>Nuncioes</HI>; another, with Car|dinal <HI>Barbarini</HI> only; with a third, he covers &s;ome greater &s;ecrets to be communicated.</P>
<P>What&s;oever things he either receiveth from the Society, or other Spies, tho&s;e he packs up together in one bundle, dedicated under this In&s;cription; <HI>To Mon&s;ieur</HI> Stravio, <HI>Arch-deacon of</HI> Cambray: From whom at la&s;t they are promoted to <HI>Rome.</HI></P>
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The&s;e things being thus ordered, if every thing be laid to the Ballance, it will &s;atisfie in &s;pecial, all the Articles pro|pounded.</P>
<LIST>
<HEAD>WHEREIN</HEAD>
<ITEM>1. THe Con&s;piracy again&s;t the King and Lord Arch-Bi&s;hop is detected, and the means whereby ruin is threatned to both, demon&s;trated.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. The eminent dangers of both Kingdoms are rehear&s;ed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. The ri&s;e and progre&s;s of that <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> Fire is related.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. Means whereby the&s;e <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> Troubles may be appea&s;ed, are &s;ugge&s;ted: For after the <HI>Scots</HI> &s;hall know by whom and to what end their minds are incen&s;ed, they will &s;peedily look to them&s;elves, neither will they &s;uffer the Forces of both parts to be &s;ubdued, le&s;t a middle party interpo&s;e, which &s;eeks the ruin of both.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. With what Sword the King's Throat is affaulted, even when the&s;e &s;tirs &s;hall be ended, <HI>Cuneus</HI> his Confe&s;&s;ion, and a vi&s;ible De|mon&s;tration, &s;heweth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. The place of the Affembly in the Hou&s;e of Captain <HI>Read</HI> is nominated.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7. The day of the eight days di&s;patch by <HI>Read</HI> and the Legat is pre&s;cribed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8. How the names of the Con&s;pirators may be known.</ITEM>
<ITEM>9. Where this whole Congregation may be circumvented.</ITEM>
<ITEM>10. Some of the Principal unfaithful ones of the King's Party are notified by name; many of who&s;e names occur not, yet their habitations are known; their names may be ea&s;ily extorted from <HI>Read.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>If the&s;e things be warily proceeded in, the &s;trength of the whole bu&s;ine&s;s will be brought to light; &s;o the arrow being fore&s;een, the danger &s;hall be avoided; which that it may pro&s;perou&s;ly &s;ucceed, the Omnipotent Creator grant.</P>
<TAILNOTE>
<P>The Arch-Bi&s;hops Indor&s;ement with his own hand.</P>
<P><HI>Received, October</HI> 14. 1640.</P>
<P>The Narration of the great Trea&s;on, concerning which he promi&s;ed to Sir <HI>William Bo&s;well</HI> to di&s;cover, again&s;t the King and State.</P>
</TAILNOTE>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="historical background">
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<HEAD><HI>Hi&s;torical Remarks</HI> ON THE JESUITS.</HEAD>
<P>WHoever &s;hall Compare the before-recited PLOT again&s;t King <HI>Charles</HI> the Fir&s;t, of Glorious Memory, with that again&s;t His mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty now Reigning; &s;hall find them &s;o like in all the Parts and Circum&s;tances, that never were two Brothers more: the <HI>De&s;ign</HI> the &s;ame, the <HI>Contrivance</HI> the &s;ame, the <HI>Working</HI> and <HI>Machi|nation,</HI> all moving upon the &s;ame Wheels of <HI>KING-killing,</HI> and <HI>State-de&s;tra|ction</HI>; and in reference to Condition, Quality, Religion, and Motive, the Con|&s;pirators the very &s;ame. From whence it follows, that there is no &s;uch Im|probability of the <HI>Late di&s;coverd PLOT,</HI> as the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> would have us believe. An ill Name is half a Conviction; <HI>Quo &s;emel e&s;t imbuta recens, &amp; natur am ex|pellas furcalicet,</HI> are the <HI>Je&s;uits Merals</HI>: Plot, Contrivance, and Cruelty are &s;o much the E&s;&s;ential Attributes of <HI>Je&s;uiti&s;m,</HI> as if like &s;o many <HI>Romulu&s;&s;es</HI> and <HI>Remu&s;&s;es</HI> they had &s;uckt the Milk of Wolves rather than of Chri&s;tian Mothers, that when you hear of <HI>Plot's</HI> and <HI>De&s;igns</HI> again&s;t Kings and Princes, you may be a&s;&s;ur'd what &s;ort of <HI>Cyclops</HI> were the Forgers of &s;uch Con&s;piracies.</P>
<P>Neither is this bare <HI>Allegation,</HI> but <HI>Matter of Fact,</HI> there being nothing more frequently taught, nor more frequantly practis'd, than the rebellious Principles of the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> and their Adherents. How abominably the Reigns of &s;everal of our Princes here in <HI>England</HI> has been pe&s;ter'd with this Generation of <HI>Vipers</HI> and <HI>Blood-&s;uckers,</HI> the Penal Statutes of the Kingdom, and the utter Expul&s;ion of the <HI>Popi&s;h Prie&s;ts</HI> and <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> out of the Nation, are convincing Evidences. And as to their Behaviour in other Countries, take this following Account.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t then it is a <HI>Maxim</HI> mo&s;t true and undoubted, That a <HI>Vacuum</HI> in Nature may be as &s;oon allow'd, as that there is any Court of King or Prince where the&s;e <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> do not &s;warm and abound, if they can but creep in at the lea&s;t Crevi&s;s. To come to particulars, we will begin with <HI>Portugal,</HI> a Kingdom altogether acknowledging the <HI>Papal Juri&s;diction.</HI></P>
<P>In the Year 1578. the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> per&s;waded <HI>Seba&s;tian</HI> King of that Kingdom, to undertake that Fatal Expedition into <HI>Africa,</HI> to the end that by his ruin they night transfer the Kingdom to the Dominion of the <HI>Spaniard.</HI> The Succe&s;s an|&s;wer'd their Expectation, for <HI>Seba&s;tian</HI> being cut off, together with his Son, and the greate&s;t part of the Portugal Nobility, pre&s;ently <HI>Philip</HI> King of <HI>Spain</HI> prepares to invade <HI>Portugal</HI> with two powerful Armies: But well knowing how little Right he had on his &s;ide, and how much he &s;hould be cen&s;ur'd as well in <HI>Italy</HI> as in <HI>Portugal</HI> for &s;uch an Action, he began to make it a Point of Con|&s;cience, and referr'd his Scruples to be di&s;cu&s;s'd by the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> and <HI>Franci&s;cans</HI> in the Colledge of <HI>Alcana de Henares,</HI> and of them he de&s;ires to know, Whether if it were apparent that he had a Right to the Crown of <HI>Portugal</HI> by the Death of <HI>Henry,</HI> he were not oblig'd in Con&s;cience to &s;ubmit him&s;elf to &s;ome <HI>Tribunal,</HI> that &s;hould adjudge the Kingdom to him. Secondly, Whether if the <HI>Portugals</HI> 
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&s;hould refu&s;e to admit him for their King before the difference were decided be|tween the Competitors, he might not by force of Arms Inve&s;t him&s;elf in the Kingdom by his own Authority. To which the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> and <HI>Franci&s;cans</HI> made an&s;wer, That <HI>Philip</HI> was bound by no tye of Con&s;cience to &s;ubject him&s;elf to the Will of another, but might act as he &s;aw fitting by his own Authority. Which flattering Sentence of tho&s;e irreligious <HI>Cu&s;ui&s;ts</HI> being approved by <HI>Philip,</HI> he pre&s;ently began the War. In the heat of which War, the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> were they that would have betray'd the chiefe&s;t of the <HI>Azores</HI> I&s;lands to the <HI>Spaniards,</HI> which &s;o incens'd the People, that &s;ome would have had them try'd for their lives, others would have had them and their Colledge burnt together.</P>
<P>In <HI>France, Joane Albret</HI> Queen of <HI>Navarr,</HI> was poy&s;oned with a pair of Per|fumed Gloves, at the procurement of the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> for being the Patrone&s;s of tho&s;e of the Reformed Religion.</P>
<P>That Rebellious League of the <HI>Guizes</HI> again&s;t <HI>Henry</HI> the Third of <HI>France,</HI> was carried on and promoted by the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> both at <HI>Paris</HI> and other places: In&s;o|much, that when the League got &s;trength and began to appear, the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> making a wrong u&s;e of their Power of Confe&s;&s;ing and Ab&s;olving, would Ab|&s;olve none that profe&s;&s;ed them&s;elves obedient Subjects to the King. This un|fortunate Prince was not only harra&s;s'd and tormented by this Villanous and Je&s;uitical League, not only driven out of his chief City, but at length at the In&s;tigation of the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> &s;tabb'd and murder'd by a <HI>Dominican Monk,</HI> by them procur'd. The Murder was al&s;o applauded by <HI>Pope Sixtus</HI> the Fifth, in a long Oration &s;poke in a full Con&s;i&s;tory of Cardinals in the&s;e words: <HI>That a Monk</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>&s;hould kill the unfortunate King of</HI> France <HI>in the mid&s;t of his Army, was a rare, noble, and memorable Act.</HI> And a little further; <HI>This Act,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>was done by the Providence of God, de&s;ign'd by the In&s;piration of the Holy Ghost; a far greater Act than that of</HI> Judith, <HI>who &s;lew</HI> Holofernes. Expre&s;&s;ions rather be|coming the Mouth of a Devil, than of a Vicar of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>After him <HI>Henry</HI> the Fourth was fir&s;t attempted by <HI>Barrier,</HI> exhorted and confirm'd in the lawfulne&s;s of the Fact by <HI>Varada</HI> the <HI>Je&s;uit,</HI> and others of the &s;ame Gang. Secondly by <HI>John Ca&s;tell,</HI> at the In&s;tigation of <HI>Gueret</HI> and <HI>Guig|nard,</HI> both <HI>Je&s;uits</HI>: And <HI>Francis Verona</HI> the <HI>Je&s;uit,</HI> publi&s;ht an Apology in vindi|cation and ju&s;tification of the Fact: And la&s;tly, murder'd out-right by <HI>Francis Ravaillac</HI> a great Di&s;ciple of the <HI>Je&s;uits.</HI> And for no wor&s;e Pranks than the&s;e, they were bani&s;hed out of <HI>France</HI> by Decree of Parliament, <HI>As Corrupters of Youth, Di&s;turbers of the public Peace, and Enemies to the King and Kingdom.</HI> Truly very honourable Characters for tho&s;e that pretend to be of the Society of Je&s;us.</P>
<P>The <HI>Venetians</HI> expell'd them upon this occa&s;ion: The Senate ob&s;erving that the Eccle&s;ia&s;tics, e&s;pecially the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> began to engro&s;s Lands and Hou&s;es of their Territories under the pretence of Legacies, to the great damage of the Pub|lic Income, thought it convenient to put a &s;top to this Je&s;uitical Engro&s;&s;ment; and provide by Law that Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Per&s;ons &s;hould not po&s;&s;e&s;s all the Tem|poral E&s;tates in their Territories to them&s;elves, but give leave for others to &s;hare with them, it being po&s;itively again&s;t the Con&s;titution of their Order, and the In&s;titution of Chri&s;t their Founder. The <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> took this in great dudgeon, and wrote to Pope <HI>Paul</HI> the Fifth about it.</P>
<P>The <HI>Venetians</HI> being &s;ummon'd to an&s;wer, would not relinqui&s;h their Right, Prote&s;ting withal, that they had the Supreme Juri&s;diction in their own Terri|tories, and con&s;equently to make Laws; and that the Pope had nothing to do with them in tho&s;e Matters. Upon which An&s;wer, the Pope thunders out his Excommunication. The Duke and Senate by public Decree condemn the 
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Excommunication as unju&s;t and invalid; which done, they call the whole Body of their Clergy, and to them declare how Affairs &s;tood. The elder &s;ort take part with the Commonwealth, and maintain the Argument again&s;t the Pope in writing, among whom <HI>Paulus Venetus</HI> was mo&s;t eminently Signal: The <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> not enduring the kneene&s;s of his Rea&s;ons, hire two <HI>Ruffians,</HI> and upon the fifth of <HI>October,</HI> 1607. &s;et them to a&s;&s;a&s;&s;inate <HI>Paulus Venetus,</HI> who thinking they had done his work, left him for dead, and fled away. This was &s;omething near Sir <HI>Edmundbury Godfreys</HI> Ca&s;e. The Senate hearing this, by a new Law bani&s;h the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> for ever out of their Territories, and cut them off from all hope of ever returning: And this was their Fortune in <HI>Venice.</HI></P>
<P>In the year 1609. the <HI>Bohemians</HI> made a Complaint to the Emperour again&s;t the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> for the &s;ame Encroachments of which the <HI>Venetians</HI> had accu&s;ed them before, de&s;iring of <HI>Ca&s;ar</HI> that they might no longer be permitted to tran&s;|fer and tran&s;late into their own po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion &s;uch ample Patrimonies, under pre|tence of Donations and Legacies, as they did continually. Of which when the Emperour took little notice, they were by the <HI>Bohemian</HI> States them&s;elves in the year 1618. utterly expelled out of that Nation for ever, with the&s;e Characters: 1. That they were lavi&s;h Wa&s;ters of the Public Peace and Tran|quility of the Nation. 2. That they endeavour'd to &s;ubject all Kingdoms and Nations to the Power of the <HI>Pope.</HI> 3. That they did nothing but &s;et the Ma|gi&s;trates together by the Ears. 4. That they made particular Advantage of Confe&s;&s;ions, to the de&s;truction of the people: with many other Crimes of the &s;ame nature.</P>
<P>The &s;ame year they were expell'd out of <HI>Moravia</HI> for the &s;ame Rea&s;ons; and the next year out of <HI>Hungaria</HI> for the &s;ame Cau&s;es. In <HI>Sile&s;ia</HI> al&s;o a Decree was made, That the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> &s;hould not enter that Province upon pain of Death, as being the onely means to pre&s;erve peace in the Nation.</P>
<P>As to other <HI>Villanies</HI> in <HI>Poland,</HI> a <HI>Polonian</HI> Knight, him&s;elf a Papi&s;t, in an O|ration by him made in a full A&s;&s;embly of the <HI>Polonian</HI> Nobility, declares, That <HI>Cracow</HI> the mo&s;t Famous City of <HI>Poland,</HI> and Ornament of the Kingdom, was &s;o plagu'd by the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> that &s;everal good men, though <HI>Catholicks,</HI> affirmed, That they would rather live in the Woods among wild Bea&s;ts, than abide in the City. One time among the re&s;t, the&s;e <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> having brought their Con|&s;piracy to perfection, brake into the mo&s;t ancient Monument of Antiquity in the City, and to the great danger of the whole City, &s;et it on Fire, as being granted to the <HI>Evangelics</HI> by Con&s;ent of the King, and States of the Kingdom.</P>
<P>In <HI>Po&s;nania</HI> another great City of the &s;ame Kingdom, they &s;et Fire on the Church belonging to tho&s;e of the <HI>Augu&s;tan</HI> Confe&s;&s;ion, and committed &s;o many In&s;olencies without Controul, that the Nobility refus'd to meet at the <HI>Dyet</HI> &s;hortly after to be held at <HI>War&s;aw,</HI> re&s;olving to repair further off to <HI>Lublin,</HI> for the redre&s;s of the&s;e Mi&s;demeanours. Neither indeed was there any thing more grievou&s;ly burden&s;om to that Kingdom than the Pride and Avarice of tho&s;e <HI>Mi&s;creants.</HI></P>
<P>In <HI>Mu&s;covy,</HI> upon the Death of the Great Duke <HI>Ba&s;ilowich,</HI> the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> &s;et up one <HI>Demetrius</HI> again&s;t the lawful Heir, who had made them large Pro|mi&s;es, if he obtain'd the Dukedom. Thereupon by the help of the&s;e <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> the &s;aid <HI>Demetrius</HI> gets Aid from the King of <HI>Poland,</HI> which was not onely the Occa&s;ion of a great War in <HI>Mu&s;covy,</HI> but had like to have co&s;t them the Alteration of their Laws, and lo&s;s of their ancient Cu&s;toms and Priviledges, had they not prevented it by a de&s;perate Attempt upon the Impo&s;tor, and put him to Death; &s;urrounded with Impo&s;tors and Je&s;uits.</P>
<P>The <HI>Tran&s;ilvanians</HI> publicly and with one Con&s;ent laid all the Cau&s;e of their 
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Mi&s;eries and Calamities, upon the Subtilties and Contrivances of the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> for which rea&s;on by a Public Decree of the States of that Province, they were Ejected out of the limits of their Territories. Neverthele&s;s they &s;ecretly fo|mented the Ruin of that Country, and were the rea&s;on that <HI>Sigi&s;mund Bathor</HI> involv'd him&s;elf in War and Trouble, and at length died an inglorious and mi&s;erable Death.</P>
<P>By their Contrivance al&s;o <HI>Stephen Potski,</HI> Prince of <HI>Tran&s;ilvania,</HI> oppo&s;ing their Bloody Sect, was put out of the way, as they call it, by Poy&s;on, in the year 1607.</P>
<P>In <HI>Styria</HI> and <HI>Carinthia,</HI> Provinces of <HI>Germany,</HI> they never left till they had voided tho&s;e Provinees of all the Inhabitants of the Reformed Religion.</P>
<P>In <HI>Holland,</HI> they never left till they &s;aw the Blood of <HI>William</HI> Prince of <HI>Orange,</HI> &s;pilt by the trayterous Hand of <HI>Baltha&s;ar Gerard,</HI> a Burgundian and Di&s;ciple of their own.</P>
<P>The &s;ame Attempts did <HI>Peter de Tour,</HI> and other <HI>Ruffians</HI> make upon the per|&s;on of <HI>Maurice</HI> his Son, a brave and Martial Prince, and all at the In&s;tigation of the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> tho&s;e <HI>In&s;atiable Sons of BLOOD and PERDITION.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="vindication">
<HEAD>A <HI>VINDICATION</HI> OF THE <HI>Di&s;&s;enting Prote&s;tants,</HI></HEAD>
<P>From being <HI>Authors</HI> of the REBELLION again&s;t the late KING, and <HI>Plotters</HI> of <HI>Trea&s;on</HI> again&s;t His MAJESTY now Reigning.</P>
<P>SEeing then no Corner of <HI>Europe</HI> has been free from the Plots and Con&s;pira|cies of the&s;e Je&s;uitical Fiends, it would be a kind of Crime and &s;leepy De&s;er|tion of our own Safety, to &s;uffer our &s;elves to be charm'd by the Delu&s;ions of in&s;inuating Libels and Rumors of <HI>Presbyterian Plots,</HI> to mi&s;tru&s;t the Truth of the continu'd Je&s;uitical Contrivances again&s;t the Kingdom. Neither can they be thought the be&s;t Subjects of <HI>England,</HI> who are &s;o willing to Gratifie the <HI>Popi&s;h Party,</HI> by giving Credence to &s;uch idle Surmizes which they can have &s;o little ground to believe. The <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> have committed a great piece of <HI>Villany</HI> in this Nation; they have attempted the Life of the King, and have been Plotting to &s;ubvert the E&s;tabli&s;hed Religion of the Kingdom, and now they would throw it upon the <HI>Presbyterians</HI>: Which is a Fourbery &s;o plain, that common Sen&s;e and Policy may ea&s;ily di&s;cover the full intent and meaning of it! And there|fore it is fairly to be hop'd, that neither <HI>Presbyterians,</HI> nor any other <HI>Protestant Di&s;&s;enters</HI> will be &s;o Unchri&s;tian-like Di&s;loyal, as to receive any Exa&s;peration 
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from the&s;e Calumnies; but rather unite again&s;t the <HI>Common Enemy,</HI> from whom they can expect no more Mercy, than the &s;evere&s;t Champion of <HI>Epi&s;copacy</HI> can hope for.</P>
<P>But you will &s;ay, the <HI>Presbyterians</HI> are not accus'd of any De&s;ign to bring in <HI>Popery,</HI> but miraculou&s;ly di&s;cover'd, as the Authors of a Plot to &s;et up the <HI>Cla&s;&s;es</HI> of their own Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Government. Well! if it were &s;o, they were the arrante&s;t Bunglers of Plotters that ever plotted Mi&s;chief in this World: For I do not find their Plot to be above a years &s;tanding; And it was a Plot that was driven on out of pure Kindne&s;s to the <HI>Papi&s;ts.</HI> For the <HI>Presby|terians</HI> under&s;tanding that the <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> (their <HI>Incarnate Enemies</HI>) were under a Premunire, as being accu&s;ed of <HI>Trea&s;on</HI> and <HI>Con&s;piracy</HI> again&s;t the KING and Kingdom; They therefore would needs enter into a Plot, which they would &s;o order as to be di&s;cover'd a Twelve-month after, to ea&s;e the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> of the Load they groan'd under. So that as con&s;idering the time, it fell out mo&s;t con|foundedly unluckily, that the <HI>Presbyteriaus</HI> &s;hould conceal this Plot from the <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> till &s;o many good, hone&s;t, pious and loyal <HI>Prie&s;ts</HI> of <HI>Baal,</HI> and Sons of <HI>Belial</HI> were hang'd, which would never have been done, had there been the lea&s;t Inkling given of the <HI>Meal-Tub</HI> in &s;ea&s;on. But when the Names of the Per&s;ons came to be &s;een that were to be Actors in this <HI>Presbyterian Tragedy,</HI> then to the Laughter of the whole World, there never appear'd &s;uch a Dow-bak'd Plot out of a Meal-Tub &s;ince the Creation, to bring &s;o many Great Men plot|ting again&s;t their own pro&s;perity and enjoyments; &s;o many wi&s;e and politic States-men, by whom the Nation has been &s;o long &s;teer'd, to be Plot|ters and Con&s;pirers again&s;t their own Pre&s;ervation. The&s;e are Plots of &s;uch a &s;trange Nature, that if they could be thought reall, they would occa&s;ion the unhinging of the whole Frame of Order and Government, while it were im|po&s;&s;ible for Honour, Probity, and Reputation to remain upon the Earth. Obe|dience and Allegiance to Government are grounded either upon Religion, or Moral Vertue; or if the&s;e two fail, there is a nece&s;&s;ity which obliges the ordi|nary fore-&s;ight of Prudence.</P>
<P>Again&s;t the&s;e Ambition or Revenge are the only Combatants; but neither Ambition nor Revenge can bear &s;o great a &s;way in per&s;ons that under&s;tand the Intrigues of Policy, or the more my&s;terious management of Prudence, as to delude them into Plots and Con&s;piracies where there is no pro&s;pect of a &s;ecure Change. The <HI>Presbyterians</HI> are a &s;ort of people wary and deliberate: Neither are their Tenents, which had their ri&s;e and beginnings from men whom the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> them&s;elves confe&s;s to have been men of great Learning, Eloquence, and Exemplary Lives, of that Crim&s;on Con&s;titution, as to prompt them to lay the Foundations of their Hierarchy in Blood and Ma&s;&s;acre; or &s;o deeply to wound the Reputation of the <HI>Prote&s;tant Religion,</HI> by the clande&s;tine Treachery and &s;ecret Contrivances of Di&s;loyalty. For as for that De&s;ign of the <HI>Huguenots</HI> under <HI>Francis the Second,</HI> King of <HI>France,</HI> of which the Prince of <HI>Conde,</HI> and the Admiral <HI>Coligni</HI> were &s;aid to be Chief; that was no De&s;ign again&s;t the Life or Per&s;on of the King, but again&s;t the exorbitant Pride of the <HI>Gui&s;es, Duke</HI> and <HI>Car|dinal,</HI> who were at the &s;ame time P<HI>api&s;ts,</HI> and were them&s;elves contriving to take away the Life of the young King, and tran&s;late the Royal Dignity into their own Family. Neither could the Civil Wars of <HI>France</HI> be &s;aid to be the Re|bellion of the <HI>Hugonets</HI>: But a War of the Queen <HI>Regents,</HI> and the two <HI>Gui&s;es</HI> own weaving, while they all &s;trove to pre&s;erve their own Authority. And the Queen <HI>Regent</HI> her &s;elf was the fir&s;t that caus'd the Prince of <HI>Conde</HI> to take Arms, as fearing the <HI>Gui&s;es</HI> would wre&s;t the Government out of her hands, by recom|mending to his Protection the young King <HI>Charles</HI> the Ninth her Son, her Self, 
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and the Kingdom. Nay they were &s;o far from being Rebels to their King, that they joyn'd with the <HI>Catholiques</HI> for the Recovery of <HI>Haure</HI> out of the hands of Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> who had been their Friend: And though the Admiral and <HI>Dandelot</HI> were not at the Siege, for fear of being taxed by the Queen of Ingra|titude, yet they &s;ent both their Forces and Friends. Some indeed ju&s;tly de|&s;erved to be blamed for the violence of their Conduct in the late Wars; but it is a Que&s;tion, of which &s;ome make no doubt, whether tho&s;e Violences were not occa&s;ion'd by the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> in Ma&s;querade, who well knew how to intermix them|&s;elves both in their Coun&s;els and Actions; whether they did not &s;tand behind the Scene and prompt tho&s;e Sons of <HI>Jehu?</HI> Whether they did not pour Oyl up|on tho&s;e Flames? For it appears that the <HI>Presbyterians</HI> (if Names of di&s;tinction may be us'd among people of the &s;ame Religion) were the fir&s;t that relented, as is evident by Votes of Addre&s;&s;es, and their Treaty at the <HI>I&s;le of Wight,</HI> not broke off by them, but by One that was playing his own Game, and medita|ting the de&s;truction both of his Sovereign and them too: Who having made his <HI>Exit,</HI> they then con&s;idered what ill <HI>Phaetons</HI> they had been before, and return'd the more skilful <HI>Phoebus</HI> the Reins of his Chariot again. But that you may know that 'tis an old Dog-trick of the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> to play the <HI>Devils Incarnate,</HI> and lay their mo&s;t wicked Actions upon the Innocent; I will repeat this &s;hort Story out of one of the choice&s;t <HI>French Hi&s;torians,</HI> and a <HI>Catholique</HI> to boot. The <HI>Queen Regent</HI> of <HI>France</HI> having long de&s;ign'd the De&s;truction of the <HI>Pro|te&s;tants</HI> in <HI>France,</HI> and of all the chief Heads of the reformed Religion; and a|mong the re&s;t of Admiral <HI>Coligni,</HI> the Life and Soul of the whole Party, projects the Execution, with the Affi&s;tance of the Duke of <HI>Anjou,</HI> the Counts of <HI>Tavanes</HI> and <HI>Raix,</HI> and the Chancellor <HI>Birague,</HI> and ea&s;ily drew in the young King, whom they made believe that there was no &s;afety &s;o long as tho&s;e per&s;ons were alive, and they young <HI>Gui&s;es</HI> were as ready as &s;he to revenge their Fathers Death. As for the King of <HI>Navar,</HI> they had &s;o order'd it, that he was to be marry'd at <HI>Paris</HI> at that time, and that brought the Prince of <HI>Conde</HI> to the City. But the Admiral more wary kept aloof, till the King had begun the War with <HI>Spain</HI> in the <HI>Low Countries,</HI> which the Admiral had &s;o pa&s;&s;ionately de&s;ir'd, and of which the King and Queen <HI>Regent,</HI> had a&s;&s;ur'd him the Management. Then he came an end, &s;eeing the War begun, and two of his own Favourites, <HI>Noue</HI> and <HI>Genlis,</HI> at the Head of &s;ome thou&s;ands in <HI>Flanders.</HI> And the&s;e three Great Per&s;onages, the King of <HI>Navarr,</HI> the Prince of <HI>Conde,</HI> and the Admiral <HI>Co|ligni,</HI> brought &s;uch Trains after them, as throng'd all <HI>Paris</HI> with the Flower of all the Prote&s;tant Nobility and Gentry of <HI>France</HI>: Who being all thus with|in the Net, Orders were given to make a general Slaughter of all without di|&s;tinction, excepting the King of <HI>Navarr,</HI> and the Prince of <HI>Conde.</HI> Hence pro|ceeded that Horrible Ma&s;&s;acre in the Year 1572. which la&s;ted for &s;even Days together, to the de&s;truction of above 5000 per&s;ons of all Ages and Sexes; and among the&s;e above 600 Per&s;ons of Quality.</P>
<P>After this Deluge of Blood, and that the Queen had &s;ent the Head of <HI>Coligny</HI> Embalm'd as a Pre&s;ent to the Pope, the <HI>Queen Regent</HI> had contriv'd to lay the Load of all the committed Impiety upon the <HI>Gui&s;es,</HI> who were Captains of the Ma&s;&s;acre, believing that the <HI>Monmor ancies</HI> would certainly &s;eek to revenge the Admirals Death upon them: So that while tho&s;e two Factions ruin'd and de|&s;troy'd one another, &s;he might have all the Power in her own hands, and rule according to her own Will. But the <HI>Gui&s;es</HI> being aware of this De&s;ign, and having the Catholique Nobility, the Duke of <HI>Montpen&s;ier,</HI> and the <HI>Pari&s;ians</HI> on their &s;ide, caus'd the Queen to change her Note; and thereupon &s;he caus'd the King to write abroad, That all was done to prevent the dete&s;table Con|&s;piracy 
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of the Admiral and his Confederates, again&s;h his Life and Royal Fa|mily. Thereupon there was a Court of Ju&s;tice erected, wherein the Ad|miral was Condemn'd, and after they had murder'd him, Executed again in <HI>Effigies,</HI> his Goods Confi&s;ctated, and his Children degraded: And the better to colour this, two poor innocent Gentlemen that had e&s;caped the Ma&s;&s;acre, were apprehended for &s;aving their Lives, <HI>Briquemaut,</HI> and <HI>Arnand de Co|vagnes,</HI> as his Accomplices, condemn'd to the &s;ame puni&s;hment, and exe|cuted accordingly.</P>
<P>Thus what the&s;e did, our late Plotters would have done: We may then &s;ay to all <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> in general, <HI>Felices Agricole &s;ua &s;i bona norint,</HI> Happy would they be, would they but know their own &s;trength, Would they but make the right u&s;e of the&s;e wicked Contrivances of their Enemies, and laying a&s;ide all froward <HI>Puuctilio's</HI> of private Opinions, joyn unanimou&s;ly again&s;t the common Adver&s;ary. For if it be a <HI>Maxim</HI> fal&s;ly argu'd again&s;t, that Peace and Diver&s;i|ty of Religions cannot be pre&s;erved in the &s;ame Nation, as the Amba&s;&s;adors of the <HI>Germane</HI> Princes urg'd to <HI>Charles</HI> the Ninth of <HI>France</HI>; much more truly may it be &s;aid, that little matters of difference between per&s;ons of the &s;ame Religion can be no impediment to their Union and Conformity.</P>
<P>But further to clear the <HI>Di&s;&s;enting Prote&s;tants,</HI> I &s;hall here add a perfect Nar|ration of the Management and Contrivance of the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> to render the greater part of the principal Men in this Kingdom, as well tho&s;e of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> as the <HI>Di&s;&s;enters,</HI> obnoxious to the Government, thereby utterly to ruin them and the <HI>Prote&s;tant Religion,</HI> which <HI>De&s;ign</HI> God of his infinite Goodne&s;s has been plea&s;ed to bring to Confu&s;ion, and the In&s;truments thereof through the &s;ame Divine Providence, we hope &s;hortly to &s;ee brought to Condign Pu|ni&s;hment.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="history">
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<HEAD>A Compleat HITSTORY OF THE LAST PLOT OF THE PAPISTS, <HI>UPON THE</HI> Di&s;&s;enting Prote&s;tants.</HEAD>
<P>THe late PLOT of the <HI>Romi&s;h Prie&s;ts</HI> and <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> for murdering His Maje&s;ty, &s;ubverting the Government and Prote&s;tant Religion, and introducing <HI>Popery,</HI> being proved by undeniable Evidences and Cir|cum&s;tances; the cunning <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> thought it their be&s;t way (&s;ince peoples Eyes were too open to be made believe <HI>there was no PLOT</HI>) to con|fe&s;s there was a Plot, and to aggravate it too; but withal to u&s;e their utmo&s;t skill to prove, That this <HI>Plot</HI> was not a <HI>Popi&s;h-Plot,</HI> as was generally believed, but a pure De&s;ign of the <HI>Presbyterians,</HI> and other <HI>Di&s;&s;enters</HI> from the Prote&s;tant Church of <HI>England,</HI> to ruin the <HI>Loyal Roman Chatholiques,</HI> whil&s;t indeed them|&s;elves were the <HI>Con&s;pirators</HI>; who (whereas they gave out that the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> in|tended by murdering the King, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> to bring in <HI>Popery</HI>) really intended by killing His Maje&s;ty, to Introduce <HI>Presbytery</HI> and a <HI>Commonwealth,</HI> and &s;o at one Blow &s;ubvert the Government both in Church and State, and then to &s;et up a new one of their own under the Name of <HI>Con&s;ervators of the Liberties of England</HI>: And for this purpo&s;e they had &s;ecretly given out Commi&s;&s;ions for rai&s;ing an Army, the principal Officers whereof were &s;uch Per&s;ons who &s;eem|ed to have the greate&s;t &s;hare in the Peoples Affections.</P>
<P>This De&s;ign being agreed to by the&s;e <HI>Helli&s;h Mi&s;creants,</HI> all po&s;&s;ible Dili|gence was u&s;ed to bring it to Execution; and for this purpo&s;e they drew up the Scheme of a Government they intended to Impeach &s;everal of the truly 
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Loyal Nobility and Gentry, and the whole Body of Di&s;&s;enting Prote&s;tants, of con&s;piring. This being done, they began to form <HI>Letters of Intelligence</HI> con|cerning this <HI>Presbyterian Plot,</HI> and al&s;o to provide them&s;elves with Per&s;ons to Swear for the Truth of their Allegations. To this end Mrs. <HI>Cellier</HI> (a zealous Papi&s;t, and Midwife to the Lady <HI>Powis,</HI> and other Roman Catholic Ladies) procures the Enlargement of one <HI>Willonghby,</HI> ali&agrave;s <HI>Dangerfield,</HI> ali&agrave;s <HI>Thomas,</HI> ali&agrave;s <HI>Day,</HI> who had been a Pri&s;oner in <HI>Newgate</HI> about &s;ix Weeks, and had been Convicted once at <HI>Salisbury</HI> A&s;&s;izes, (where he was fined Five pounds, and &s;entenced to &s;tand Three &s;everal times in the Pillory, which he did twice, and then brake Pri&s;on and e&s;caped;) and twice at the <HI>Old Bailey,</HI> for uttering fal&s;e Guineys, (where for the fir&s;t Offence he was fined Fifty pounds, and for the &s;econd he got His Maje&s;ties Pardon.) He was no &s;ooner relea&s;ed from <HI>New|gate,</HI> but he was Arre&s;ted and thrown into the <HI>Counter,</HI> from whence by the means of <HI>Banni&s;ter</HI> and <HI>Scarlet</HI> &s;he got him removed to the <HI>King's-Bench,</HI> where (after &s;ome fruitle&s;s attempts to get &s;ome Papers relating to Captain <HI>Bedlow</HI> from one <HI>Strode</HI> a Pri&s;oner there) he was furni&s;hed with Money by the five Lords in the Tower, <HI>viz.</HI> the Lord <HI>Bella&s;is,</HI> the Lord <HI>Powis,</HI> the Lord <HI>Petre,</HI> the Lord <HI>Arundel,</HI> and the Lord <HI>Stafford,</HI> (Mrs. <HI>Cellier</HI> al&s;o giving him 5 <HI>l.</HI>) to Compound all his Debts, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Before Mrs. <HI>Cellier</HI> would di&s;charge him from <HI>Newgate,</HI> &s;he made tryal of his Wit, by ordering him to draw up Articles ac|cording as &s;he directed, again&s;t Captain <HI>Richard&s;on,</HI> which he perform'd to her liking, and confirm'd her in the Choice &s;he had made of his being a fit per&s;on to carry on the <HI>De&s;igned Plot.</HI> The general E&s;teem the Con&s;pirators had of him is evident by the Tru&s;t they repo&s;ed in him; for though they had &s;everal Others to carry on their <HI>New Plot,</HI> yet he appears to have the chief Manage|ment of it.</P>
<P>Being now fu&s;ticiently provided with In&s;truments to execute their <HI>Damnable De&s;igns,</HI> this <HI>Dangerfield</HI> was recommended to His Maje&s;ty by a Great Per|&s;on, as one who was much concerned in a Plot of the <HI>Presbyterians</HI> again&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> His Life and Government, and that from time to time he would make di&s;covery thereof. Thus they endeavoured to in&s;inuate into His Maje&s;ties Mind a belief of the Plot, that he might not be &s;urpriz'd at the Di&s;covery they intended to make.</P>
<P>Another of the intended Actors in this Tragedy, was <HI>Thomas Courtees,</HI> once a Clerk to Sir <HI>William Bucknal,</HI> one of the Exci&s;e Farmers, then a Servant to Mr. <HI>Henry Nevil,</HI> and after to a worthy Member of Parliament; from who&s;e Service, he fell into a lewd cour&s;e of life: But being thought a Man fit for the De&s;ign in hand, he was entertained for one of the Witne&s;&s;es. This Per&s;on was very indu&s;trious in promoting a Belief of this <HI>Presbyterian Plot</HI>; for being well acquainted with Mrs. <HI>Bradley,</HI> who keeps the Hou&s;e called <HI>Heaven</HI> in <HI>Old Palace-Yard</HI>; and there being a Club of &s;everal hone&s;t Gentlemen kept at her Hou&s;e, he de&s;ired her to bring him into their Company, which &s;he promi&s;ed to endeavour. Di&s;cour&s;ing with her about the late Plot, he told her, that it would &s;hortly appear to be a Plot of the <HI>Presbyterians,</HI> and that they were pri|vately giving out Commi&s;&s;ions for rai&s;ing an Army: Whereupon &s;he demand|ed, who gave out the Commi&s;&s;ions; to which he replyed, it was Mr. <HI>Blood</HI>; and added further, That if &s;he would u&s;e her Intere&s;t with Mr. <HI>Blood,</HI> to get a Commi&s;&s;ion for him, though it were but for an En&s;ign, he would give her 100 <HI>l.</HI> and told her al&s;o that he &s;hould get 5000 <HI>l.</HI> by it. Mrs. <HI>Bradley</HI> told this to Mr. <HI>Blood,</HI> who fearing the Con&s;equence, acquainted His Maje&s;ty there|with, and from Him received Encouragement to make a further Inquiry into this Matter. Mr. <HI>Blood</HI> hereupon de&s;ired the Woman to keep &s;till her Corre&s;|pondency 
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with <HI>Courtees,</HI> and if po&s;&s;ible to find out the My&s;tery of this Bu&s;ine&s;s. <HI>Courtees</HI> came &s;everal times afterwards to the Hou&s;e, and di&s;cour&s;ed freely with her about the before-mentioned Matter, and told her, that he knew &s;even or eight per&s;ons who were employed upon the &s;ame account as he was.</P>
<P>But that which follows put a &s;top to his proceedings, and made the&s;e wick|ed Agents carry them&s;elves more warily.</P>
<P>The <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> thought it not &s;ufficient to throw the Plot upon the <HI>Presbyterians,</HI> unle&s;s they could likewi&s;e bring off the Evidence that had &s;worn again&s;t them, and by getting them to recant, put their Innocency out of Que&s;tion. For this purpo&s;e Mr. <HI>Dugdale,</HI> one of the Kings Evidence, is attempted by one Mrs. <HI>Price,</HI> (for whom it is &s;aid Mr. <HI>Dugdale</HI> had formerly &s;ome kindne&s;s;) &s;he warily di&s;covers her De&s;ign, and he as warily entertains it; and after &s;ome Treaty, one Mr. <HI>Tesborough</HI> appears in the Ca&s;e. They promis'd Mr. <HI>Dugdale</HI> 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.</P>
<Q>Being touched with a True Remor&s;e of Con&s;cience, and an hearty Sorrow for the Great Evil I have done, in appearing as a Witne&s;s again&s;t the Catholicks, and there &s;peaking that which in my own Con&s;cience I know to be far from the Truth; I think my &s;elf bound in Duty to God, to Man, and for the &s;afety of my own Soul, to make a true Acknowledgment, how I was drawn into the&s;e wicked Actions; but being well &s;atisfied that I &s;hall create my &s;elf many powerful Enemies upon this account, I have retired my &s;elf to a place of Safety, where I will with my own hand di&s;cover the great Wrong that has been done the Catholicks, and hope it may gain Belief: I do likewi&s;e Protest before Almighty God, that I have no Motive to Induce me to this Confe&s;&s;ion, but a True Repentance for the Mi&s;chiefs that I have done, and do hope that God Al|mighty will forgive me.</Q>
<P>Having done this, they told him he might immediately withdraw him&s;elf beyond the Seas into <HI>Spain,</HI> where he &s;hould be honourably entertained, during his &s;tay there, which &s;hould be no longer than till they had brought their De|&s;igns to their de&s;ired End, and then he &s;hould be recalled, and have both Riches and Honour conferr'd upon him as a Reward for faithfully &s;erving the <HI>Catho|lick Intere&s;t.</HI> Mr. <HI>Dugdale</HI> &s;eemed willing to agree to their Propo&s;als, (though at the &s;ame time he acquainted &s;everal hone&s;t Gentlemen of every particular that pa&s;&s;ed) if the Reward could be a&s;certained to him; but as for the two Propo&s;ers he would not take their Security for it; whereupon they offered the Security of a Forein Amba&s;&s;ador, but he told them that he thought him a Per|&s;on not fit for Security, becau&s;e he might &s;uddenly be commanded home, and then he could have no remedy again&s;t him. Then they propo&s;ed &s;everal others, who&s;e Security they &s;aid he need not que&s;tion; but &s;till he found a plau&s;ible Excu&s;e; his De&s;ign being onely to gain time, that he might make a further Di&s;covery who &s;et them on work. His Delays created a Jealou&s;ie in them, that he never intended to an&s;wer their De&s;ires; wherefore lea&s;t he &s;hould di&s;|cover this Treaty, and render them liable to puni&s;hment, (as it happened in Mr. <HI>Readings</HI> Ca&s;e) they were re&s;olved to begin with him fir&s;t; and by the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of a great Per&s;on, a Complaint was made again&s;t Mr. <HI>Dugdale,</HI> That he offered for a Sum of Money to Recant his Evidence, and that he would have Signed &s;uch a Paper as before-mentioned; adding withal, that it was a lamentable thing to con&s;ider how much Blood had been &s;hed upon &s;uch Evi|dence. Upon this Mr. <HI>Dugdale</HI> was &s;ummoned before the King and Council, where giving a full Relation of the Affair, and having tho&s;e Gentlemen ready, 
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whom he had all along acquainted with the Intrigue to prove what he &s;aid; and it plainly appearing, that Mrs. <HI>Price</HI> and Mr. <HI>Tesbrough</HI> had endeavoured to take off the Kings Evidence, they were both committed to &s;afe Cu&s;tody. This it was that alarm'd <HI>Courtees.</HI></P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Dangerfield</HI> in this time had been employed to murder the Earl of <HI>Shafts|bury,</HI> which he twice attempted, but could not meet with an opportunity, the Earl refu&s;ing to &s;peak in private with him; which he urged, under pre|tence that he had &s;omething to reveal to his Lord&s;hip of great Concern to his Lord&s;hips Per&s;on. He waited on his Lord&s;hip by the Name of <HI>Day,</HI> and went armed with a Dagger, which he received from Mrs. <HI>Cellier,</HI> to whom three or four were brought by Mr. <HI>Rigaut.</HI> To perform this Murther, he was pro|mi&s;ed 500 <HI>l.</HI> by the Lords <HI>Powis</HI> and <HI>Arundel,</HI> (the Lord <HI>Arundel</HI> giving him then 10 Guineys) and encouraged by the Lady <HI>Abergaveny,</HI> Lady <HI>Powis,</HI> Mrs. <HI>Cellier,</HI> and others, and his Confe&s;&s;or <HI>Sharp</HI> conjur'd him to &s;tab him with all po&s;&s;ible &s;peed. After his fir&s;t di&s;appointment, they advi&s;ed him to tell the Earl that he was in danger of being Impeached for <HI>High Trea&s;on,</HI> and that from Letters under his own hand; and that when he &s;hould find him&s;elf in the <HI>Tower,</HI> he would have cau&s;e to repent that he had refu&s;ed to hear what he had to tell him. The&s;e In&s;tructions he followed, and told his Lord&s;hip 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 admini&s;ter to him an opportunity of ta|king away his Life; but askt him which of his Servants they were that had Copied out his Letters: To which <HI>Dangerfield</HI> replyed, That he knew not. Then the Earl an&s;wered, That he knew that all he &s;aid was fal&s;e, for that if his Letters were made known to all the World, there would not be found Mat|ter &s;ufficient to endanger the lea&s;t Hair of his Head, much le&s;s to form an Im|peachment. Whereupon <HI>Dangerfield</HI> told him, That if that was his Lord&s;hips Opinion, he would take his leave; and &s;o departed, leaving his Lord&s;hip a little jealous of his Intentions.</P>
<P>The Lady <HI>Powis</HI> would have per&s;waded him upon a Third Attempt, which he refu&s;ing, &s;he &s;truck him gently on the Hand with her Fan, calling him Cow|hearted Fellow, telling him, &s;he would do it her &s;elf; but Mrs. <HI>Cellier</HI> told her, that &s;hould not be, for She would perform it. In order to which, the very next day &s;he went armed with a Dagger, to wait upon his Lord&s;hip, who re|ceived her very civilly; but being made more wary than formerly, by <HI>Danger|fields</HI> la&s;t carriage, he &s;trictly ob&s;erv'd her, and perceiving her fumbling about her Pocket, betwixt Je&s;t and Earne&s;t, he clapt his hands upon hers, and there held them, plea&s;antly drolling with her till &s;he was ready to depart; but &s;he was not gone &s;o far as the Door, before &s;he offer'd to return, which his Lord|&s;hip ob&s;erving, &s;tept to her again, and clapping his hands upon hers, quite da&s;ht her out of Countenance; &s;o that &s;he departed without attempting further. Thus was his Lord&s;hip thrice, by Divine Providence, miraculou&s;ly pre&s;erved from the bloody hands of <HI>Papi&s;ts.</HI></P>
<P>The Plot being now ripe for Execution, and Trea&s;onable Letters ready written, to be conveyed into the Cu&s;tody of &s;uch Per&s;ons they intended to Ac|cu&s;e, and two or more Witne&s;&s;es prepared to &s;wear the Delivery and Receit of &s;uch Letters or Commi&s;&s;ions again&s;t every man in their black Li&s;t; <HI>Danger|field</HI> under the Name of <HI>Thomas,</HI> takes a Lodging in <HI>Ax-Yard</HI> in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> (pretending him&s;elf a Country-Gentleman) where lay one Colonel <HI>Man&s;el,</HI> who&s;e Chamber he &s;oon made him&s;elf acquainted with, and therein conveyed about Nine or Ten of the afore&s;aid Trea&s;onable Letters, &s;uper&s;cribed to &s;everal 
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hone&s;t Gentlemen and Per&s;ons of Quality, &s;ome of which were Favourers of the Di&s;&s;enting Prote&s;tants: When he had &s;o done, he informed &s;ome of the Officers belonging to the Cu&s;tom Hou&s;e, That in that Hou&s;e there was con|cealed great Quantities of French Lace, and other prohibited Goods, de&s;iring them the next Morning to bring a Warrant with them and &s;earch the Hou&s;e, which they promi&s;ed. At Night he brought one Captain <HI>Bedford</HI> to lie with him (as is &s;uppo&s;ed) that he might be a Witne&s;s again&s;t the Colonel: Next Morning after the Colonel was gone forth, came the Officers to &s;earch for pro|hibited Goods; <HI>Dangerfield</HI> was very officious in a&s;&s;i&s;ting them to &s;earch the Colonel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> Chamber, and at length from behind the Bed brings forth the before|mentioned Pacquet of Letters; upon which, ca&s;ting his Eyes, and &s;eeming &s;ur|prized, he cryed out, <HI>Trea&s;on, The&s;e are all Trea&s;onable Letters</HI>; Whereupon the Officers carried them away to the Commi&s;&s;ioners: But the Colonel coming in &s;oon after, and being acquainted with all that had pa&s;t in his ab&s;ence, found means to retrieve them again; and when he had &s;o done, he made &s;ome En|quiry after <HI>Dangerfield,</HI> of who&s;e Quality being well informed, he carried the Letters to His Maje&s;ty, with Prote&s;tations of his own Innocency, and <HI>Danger|field</HI>'s Villany. Whereupon on the 23. of <HI>October,</HI> the Council ordered <HI>Danger|field</HI> to be taken into Cu&s;tody by a Me&s;&s;enger, and after a full hearing of the Bu&s;ine&s;s before them, <HI>Oobct.</HI> 27. they Committed him to <HI>Newgate.</HI></P>
<P>When Colonel <HI>Man&s;el</HI> had thus detected <HI>Dangerfield,</HI> the above-mentioued Captain <HI>Bed|ford</HI> came in very generou&s;ly of him&s;elf, and confe&s;&s;ed &s;everal things he was privy to, among&s;t which, one was, That this '<HI>Dangerfield</HI> would have per&s;waded him to &s;wear that Sir <HI>Thomas Player</HI> &s;poke Trea&s;on, thereby to have taken away the Life of that hone&s;t Gentleman.</P>
<P>The Letters before mentioned gave Light enough to perceive what the De&s;ign was the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> were then contriving; Whereupon Sir <HI>William Waller</HI> (who has been all along very zealous in di&s;covering the <HI>Prie&s;ts,</HI> and their wicked Plots, notwith&s;tanding their Threats and Attempts to take away his Life) under&s;tanding that <HI>Dangerfield</HI> u&s;ed to lodge at Mrs. <HI>Cel|liers,</HI> went thither on Wedne&s;day, <HI>Octob.</HI> 29. to &s;earch her Hou&s;e; and that he might leave no place un&s;earcht, he ordered a Tub of Meal to be emptied, which being done, at the Bot|tom thereof was found a little Paper-bod<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> tyed with red Ribbons, wherein was a Li&s;t of &s;e|veral Per&s;ons of Quality, and others, to the number of above 500. whom they de&s;igned to ruin by this their New Plot. They had &s;et down his Grace the Duke of <HI>Monmouth</HI> for Ge|neral of the Army to be rai&s;ed; the Lord <HI>Grey,</HI> Lord <HI>Brandon</HI> and his Son, and Sir <HI>Thomas Arm&s;trong,</HI> for Lieutenant-Generals, Sir <HI>William Waller</HI> and Mr. <HI>Blood</HI> for Major-Generals, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> the Duke of <HI>Buckingham,</HI> Lord <HI>Shaftsbury,</HI> Lord <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> Lord <HI>Roberts,</HI> Lord <HI>Wharton,</HI> and Lord <HI>Hallifax,</HI> were to have been accu&s;ed for the chief Coun&s;ellors and Managers of this Plot. Many others things were contained in the&s;e Papers, relating to the Management of their De&s;ign: Upon this Mrs. <HI>Cellier</HI> was committed to the <HI>Gatehou&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>Their Plot being now &s;ufficiently laid open, <HI>Dangerfield</HI> (notwith&s;tanding Mrs. <HI>Cellier<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> Encouragement to be con&s;tant and firm to the <HI>Catholick Cau&s;e</HI>) thought it time to confe&s;s the Truth, and being brought before the Right Honourable Sir <HI>Robert Clayton</HI> Lord Mayor of <HI>London,</HI> on Friday <HI>Octob.</HI> 31.1679. he made a large Confe&s;&s;ion, which held them from Five of the Clock in the Afternoon, untill Two next Morning. Part whereof was, <HI>That</HI> he was &s;ent for to the <HI>Tower,</HI> whither he went in di&s;gui&s;e, where after &s;ome di&s;cour&s;e with the Lord <HI>Powis,</HI> the Lord <HI>Arundel</HI> asked him, If he were willing to do any thing to advance his For|tune; to which he an&s;wered he would do any thing. Then the Lord <HI>Arundel</HI> 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. <HI>That</HI> then the afore&s;aid Lord asked him the &s;ame Que|&s;tion again; and he an&s;wered, No. Then &s;aid the Lord <HI>Powis,</HI> No, no, my Lord <HI>Arundel</HI> does onely this to try you: But my Lord (continued he) what would you give him to kill the King? 'Tis worth (&s;aid the Lord <HI>Arundel</HI>) 2000 <HI>l. That</HI> then the Lord <HI>Powis</HI> told him, he &s;hould have 500 <HI>l.</HI> to kill the Lord <HI>Shaftsbury. That</HI> Mr. <HI>Gadbury</HI> told him, the Lords in the <HI>Tower</HI> were angry with him, as al&s;o chiefly the Lord <HI>Ca&s;tlemain,</HI> for that he would not kill the King, when he might ea&s;ily do it, and no hurt befall him. <HI>That</HI> here</P>
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Captain <HI>Bedford</HI> was then called in, and &s;aid, <HI>That</HI> he was at &s;everal Clubs with <HI>Dangerfield. That</HI> he was at <HI>Thomp&s;ons</HI> the Printers, where was printing, <HI>The Presbyterian unmask'd. That Dangerfield</HI> paid Money to <HI>Dor|mer</HI> in S. <HI>John</HI>'s. <HI>That Dangerfield</HI> would have got a Li&s;t of the Club at the <HI>Kings-head,</HI> but the Drawer would not give it him. <HI>That</HI> at the <HI>Green Dragon</HI> he got the Names of about 60 Per&s;ons that u&s;ed to meet there. Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> he went with him to the <HI>Sun</HI> and <HI>Ship</HI> Taverns, where he enquired if the Duke of <HI>Monmouth</HI> had, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> been there the Night before he went away. <HI>That Dangerfield</HI> &s;aid, <HI>Gadbury</HI> brought him acquainted with <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">bert Peyton. That Dangerfield</HI> told him, the Lord <HI>Shaftsbury,</HI> Sir <HI>William Walier,</HI> Doctor <HI>Tongue,</HI> and others, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ad pri|vate Meetings near <HI>Fox-ball</HI> about the Plot.</P>
<P>The Earl of <HI>Peterborough</HI> being called in, and having an account of what was laid to his Charge, made a very plau&s;ible Speech in an&s;wer thereto; and as to the bu&s;ine&s;s of Sir <HI>Robert Peyton,</HI> he &s;aid, <HI>That</HI> Mrs. <HI>Cellier</HI> told him that among others which the had brought over to be &s;erviceable to His Maje&s;ty and the Duke, Sir <HI>Robert Peyton</HI> 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. <HI>That</HI> then he a&s;&s;ured Mrs. <HI>Cellier,</HI> the Duke was no &s;uch per|&s;on; and then the replyed, that <HI>Sir Robert</HI> would willingly meet him at Mr. <HI>Gadbury</HI>'s. <HI>That</HI> they did meet ac|cordingly at Mr. <HI>Gadbury</HI>'s, where <HI>Sir Robert</HI> did &s;ay, that he would &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">rve the King to all purpo&s;es; but &s;eemed to doubt of the Dukes being reconciled to him. <HI>That</HI> afterwards he waited on the Duke at his Lord&s;hips Lodgings, and from him received all the a&s;&s;urance of favour he coul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">enre.</P>
<P>The&s;e are the principal things that were acted before the King and Council, the Re&s;ult whereof was, that the Earl of <HI>Ca&s;tlemain</HI> (fir&s;t) and (after) the Lady <HI>Powis</HI> was committed to the <HI>Tower,</HI> Mr. <HI>Gadbury</HI> to the <HI>Gate|hou&s;e,</HI> Mr. <HI>Rigaut</HI> and Mrs. <HI>Cellier</HI> to <HI>Newgate,</HI> and &s;everal others to the Cu&s;tody of Me&s;&s;engers.</P>
<P>About this time <HI>Sir William Waller</HI> (&s;earching a Hou&s;e near the <HI>Arch</HI> in <HI>Lincolns-Inn</HI> Fields, leading to <HI>Duby-&s;treet</HI>) &s;eized on &s;everal Habits, Ve&s;tments, Crucifixes, Reliques, and other Popi&s;h <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="4 letters">kets, all very rich; as al&s;o divers Trunksand Boxes full of Books and Papers, that did belong to Father <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> lately ex|ecuted, wherein are &s;et down &s;everal great &s;ums of Money paid by him in about 70<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">8 years la&s;t part, for car|rying on the <HI>Catholique Cau&s;e</HI>; as likewi&s;e many other things that confirm the truth of the Kings evidence.</P>
<P>Among the Relicks was found one great Piece of Antiquity, and by computation of time near 800 years old. It was a Cro&s;s of Gold weighing about 4 Ounces, upon which on the one &s;ide was engraven the&s;e words, <HI>De|fendite Gentes <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">anc partem Crucis Omnipotentis</HI>; in <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> Defend O ye Nations this part of the Omnipotent Cro&s;s: On the other &s;ide were engraven the Arms of <HI>Alfred</HI> King of <HI>England,</HI> who dyed in the year 901. Be|&s;ides which engraving, it was empail'd with divers precious Stones of a con&s;iderable value. Within the Cro&s;s was another Cro&s;s of Ebony, to which the Gold one &s;eem'd to &s;erve onely for a Ca&s;e; and as if it had been a little Ne&s;t of Serpentine Idolatry, the Ebony Cro&s;s was inlaid with another Cro&s;s of a quite differ<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters"> Wood, which it is &s;uppos'd, they believ'd to be a piece of our Saviour's Cro&s;s.</P>
<P>There was al&s;o a Gold Ring with a Motto wrap'd up in white Paper, upon which was written, <HI>The Ring of the Bi&s;hop of</HI> Gla&s;cow, with &s;everal other Curio&s;ities, which are as yet pre&s;erv'd.</P>
<P>On <HI>Novem.</HI> 5. Mr. <HI>Courtees</HI> was taken and brought before Ju&s;tice <HI>Warcup,</HI> who having taken his Examination &s;ent him to the <HI>Gate-hou&s;e.</HI> At his Examination, he gave an account of his fir&s;t acquaintance with Mr. <HI>Willough|by,</HI> (not knowing then that he went by any other Name) and that <HI>Willoughby</HI> told him, that the <HI>Presbyterian</HI> were con&s;piring again&s;t the King and Government, and were privately rai&s;ing an Army, and that Mr. <HI>Blood</HI> was one that gave out Commi&s;&s;ions for that purpo&s;e; and per&s;waded him to u&s;e his endeavour to get one, and if he could do &s;o, he would bring him to the King, whereby he &s;hould get 5000 <HI>l.</HI> And that upon this he made his application to Mrs. <HI>Bradley</HI> in order thereto, believing what <HI>Dangerfield</HI> &s;aid, and that there was really <HI>Presbyterian Plot</HI> on foot: &s;o that what he did, he &s;aid was upon a Loyal De&s;ign. But there is &s;ome cau&s;e to &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">+pect what he &s;aid, if we reflect on what Mrs. <HI>Bradley</HI> depo&s;ed on <HI>Nov.</HI> 1. and what he acknowledged now <HI>viz.</HI> That the la&s;t time Mrs. <HI>Bradley</HI> &s;aw him, asking him when they &s;hould get the 5000 <HI>l.</HI> He replied, that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> would not meddle in it, that it troubled his Con&s;cience, and that it would be <HI>Treackery</HI> if it were done, and it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> to no purpo&s;e to meddle in it now, for there is a Li&s;t &s;ound out. However it be, he is &s;ince bailed out of the <HI>Gate-hou&s;e</HI>: And for a confirmation of his Guilt, is gone a&s;ide.</P>
<P>And now almo&s;t every day new Di&s;coveries are made, either of Prie&s;ts or their Appurtenances, Reliques and &s;editious Papers. <HI>Dormer</HI> a Prie&s;t was &s;eized by Dr. <HI>Oates</HI> at the Door of the Council-Chamber, on <HI>Nov.</HI> 4. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> he was bu&s;ie in di&s;cour&s;e with the Lady <HI>Powis,</HI> and was &s;ent to <HI>Newgate.</HI></P>
<P>On <HI>Nov.</HI> 11. <HI>Sir William Waller</HI> &s;eized at <HI>Turner</HI>'s in <HI>Holborn,</HI> &s;everal &s;editious and &s;candalous Libels, Popi&s;h Books and Pamphlets; as al&s;o divers Beads, and Prie&s;ts Habits, and &s;ome Reliques, one of which was a very fine Handkerchief, which had been dip'd in the Blood of the five <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> lately executed.</P>
<P>Not long after <HI>Sir William</HI> &s;eized on one <HI>William Ru&s;&s;el,</HI> alias <HI>Napper,</HI> a <HI>Franci&s;can Fryar,</HI> and <HI>Titular Bi&s;hop <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> Norwich:</HI> With him were taken the Garments belonging to his Office; as al&s;o the Form of an Oath of Abju|ration, for his <HI>Pro&s;elytes,</HI> to this effect; <HI>That they did from thenceforth renounce tho&s;e damnable and heretical Doctrines, wherein they had been educated and in&s;tructed, and that they did oblige them&s;elves under the penalty of Damnation to re|main &s;tedfa&s;t in the Faith of the Mother-Church of</HI> Rome, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Together with a Latin Prayer, in the Margin where of was written in Engli&s;h, <HI>Who ever &s;ays this Prayer &s;hall be free from the Plague.</HI> And &s;everal <HI>Popi&s;h</HI> Books, &amp;c.</P>
<P>On Friday. <HI>Nov..</HI> 21. <HI>Sir Robert Peyton,</HI> Mr. <HI>Nevil,</HI> Mr. <HI>Gadbury,</HI> Mrs. <HI>Cellier</HI> with her Maids, and others were &s;everally Examin'd; when it was &s;worn, that <HI>Sir Robert Peyton</HI> had had frequent Conferences with Mr. <HI>Dan|gerfield</HI>: and the further hearing of the Matter being put off till Wedne&s;day, <HI>Nov.</HI> 26. <HI>Sir Robert</HI> was then or|dered to give Bail for his Appearance at the <HI>Kings-Bench-Bar,</HI> the fir&s;t day of the next Term, to an&s;wer to &s;uch Informations as &s;hould then be brought again&s;t him by the Attorney-General.</P>
<P>Dr. <HI>Oates</HI> during the&s;e <HI>Tran&s;actions</HI> had two of his Servants, <HI>Lane</HI> (often mentioned in this Hi&s;tory) and <HI>Osborn</HI> confederated with one <HI>Knox</HI> belonging to the Lord Trea&s;urers Family, again&s;t him, who Indicted him for no le&s;s a Crime than <HI>Sodomy</HI>: But it being proved a malicious &s;lander, and his Accu&s;ers perjured Villains, who were hired by the Lords in the <HI>Tower,</HI> to invalidate his Evidence, the Jury brought it in <HI>Ignoramus.</HI> And Dr. <HI>Oates</HI> thereupon bringing in an Indictment again&s;t them in the <HI>Kings-Bench, Knox</HI> and <HI>Lane</HI> (<HI>Osborn</HI> being fled) were &s;tied on <HI>Tue&s;day, Nov.</HI> 25. When the whole De&s;ign was &s;o particularly laid open, e&s;pecially by Mr. <HI>Dangerfield</HI> (who&s;e Pardon was per&s;ected the day before) that every one pre&s;ent was convinc'd of the intended Villany, and the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ury (without the Lord Chief Ju&s;tice's &s;umming up the Evidence) declared them guilty of the Indictment. But their Sentence is deferred till next Term. We &s;hall here clo&s;e our Hi&s;tory with our Prayers to God, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> bring to Light all the Dark Contrivances of <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> and wicked men; and to their <HI>Plots,</HI> and our <HI>Divi&s;ions</HI> and <HI>D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="6 letters"></HI> put</P>
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