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<HEAD>Here is a true and ju&s;t account of a mo&s;t HORRID And BLOODY PLOT, Con&s;pired again&s;t his mo&s;t Sacred MAJESTY And his Royal HIGHNES <HI>By the wicked Contrivances of Colonel</HI> John Rum&s;ay, Richard Nelthorp, Ed|ward Wade, Richard Goodenough, <HI>Captain</HI> Walcot, William Thomp&s;on, James Burton, and William Hone.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Since which time there is an account that Colonel <HI>John Rum&s;ay</HI> is taken, and hath been upon his Examination.</HEAD>
<P>NOtwith&s;tanding the unparaleld clemency, of our mo&s;t Gracious So|vereign, <HI>Charles</HI> the Second, by the Grace of God, King of <HI>England, Scotland, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith. Such is the in&s;atiate de&s;ire of never &s;atisfied malignant Spirits, that they cannot be contented to live peaceably under the Government of a renowned Prince, the very pattern of pity, and mercy, but mo&s;t wickedly, and maliciou&s;ly con&s;pire, and contrive the death of their Prince, the ruine of the Nation, and the lo&s;s of their own Souls, as may appear by the following lines, which give perfect te&s;timony of the hor|rid de&s;ign and bloody Plot, de&s;igned to be carried on by the wicked con|trivance of the&s;e Barbarous and Inhumane Wretches. Namely <HI>John Rum&s;ay,</HI> Colonel, <HI>Richard Rumhold</HI> Mini&s;ter, <HI>Richard Nelthorp</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Edward Wade</HI> Gentleman, <HI>Richard Goodenough</HI> Gentleman, Captain <HI>Walcot, William Thomp|&s;on, James Burton,</HI> and <HI>William Hone</HI> Joyner, who, as it is te&s;tified upon Oath, did mo&s;t Traiterou&s;ly, and Villainou&s;ly de&s;ign the death of his mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty, and not contented with the blood &s;ucking of a Monarch, &s;o matchle&s;ly merciful, did al&s;o contrive the murther and de&s;truction of his Roy|al Higne&s;s, <HI>James</HI> Duke of <HI>York.</HI> But being by Divine Providence, inter|po&s;e in their wicked de&s;ign, and prevented of the evil hatch'd in the infer|nal lake, by a happy and timely di&s;covery of their dreadful enterprize, they fearing that Ju&s;tice, the continual pur&s;uivant of &s;uch inhumane Con&s;pirators, &s;hould overtake, and lay hold of their Rebellious Contrivances, have, for the prevention thereof, ab&s;ented their habitations, and ab&s;conded them&s;elves, which gives a clear and large Demon&s;tration of their Guilt.</P>
<P>And it is very likely, his Maje&s;ty, will, by, and with, the advice of his mo&s;t Honourable Privy Council, i&s;sue forth a <HI>Proclamation</HI> for the apprehending of the Malefactors above named, that they may be brought to the Bar of Ju&s;tice, to receive the reward due to their Con&s;piracies.</P>
<P>And the&s;e per&s;ons &s;o di&s;covered, and brought to condign puni&s;hment, I hope may be an Example to all others for the future, to forbear and abhore &s;uch bloody Contrivances and inhumane Barbarity, as to Con&s;pire the death of a Prince, mo&s;t Merciful, Gracious, and Pitiful: but the Malignancy of the&s;e, and &s;uch like Rigicides, cannot, nor will not be forgotten, by any Loyal Sub|ject, though they may be puni&s;hed according to the heinou&s;ne&s;s of the Crime: I wi&s;h with all my heart it may be the la&s;t Plot that may ever be con&s;pired again&s;t our Soveraign, who&s;e mercies are daily manife&s;ted to many offenders, and who&s;e virtues are as much admired, as their impudence wondred at, who do or &s;hall ever attempt &s;uch enormities, again&s;t the pattern of Princelie Mo|narchs.</P>
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<P>It is much to be minded and ob&s;erved, how graciou&s;lie God hath been plea&s;ed to protect and pre&s;erve our Soveraign King from the bold and de&s;perate at|tempts of his Con&s;pireing Enemies, who, wanting Grace and the Fear of God, would audaciou&s;lie pre&s;ume, and venture on the mo&s;t execrable murther <HI>of</HI> the mo&s;t merciful Prince the World could ever boa&s;t <HI>of.</HI> But if we look back upon the Eye of Providence, we cannot but &s;ee the great, and particular kindne&s;s, our mo&s;t ble&s;sed Creator hath for our mo&s;t Gracious King. what a miraculous pre&s;ervation was that at <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> when a Prince of the greate&s;t Splendour in <HI>Europe</HI> was forced by the rebellious (though then prevailing par|tie) to take up his Lodging in an <HI>Oaken Tree,</HI> only accompanied &s;ometimes with a few Loyal Nobles, who like worthie Souls, were free to participate of the deplorable &s;orrows his Maje&s;tie then met with? What &s;trange and wonder|ful de&s;igns have been &s;ince, &s;everal times contrived again&s;t him, whom the Hea|vens have pre&s;erved: but we may conclude with this Ancient Proverb, <HI>Si De|us pro nobis quis contra nos?</HI> and it is undoubtedlie true, that he that &s;heweth mercie, &s;hall al&s;o find mercie; it hath &s;o happened to our Soveraign. And I hope the mercies of the mo&s;t high will &s;till continue to him, and be multiplied more, and more, that our poor Nation, too much divided by Faction, may be ble&s;sed by the long continuance <HI>of</HI> an unparraleld Monarch, who&s;e clemencie is to be amired, who&s;e mercie is to be prai&s;ed, and who&s;e Enemies hope will be <HI>defeated.</HI> And tho&s;e that &s;hall either attempt, or at lea&s;t imagine the lea&s;t harm to his Princelie per&s;on, may they be utterlie <HI>confounded</HI> in their evil de|&s;igns again&s;t him: that poor <HI>England</HI> may again Flouri&s;h as <HI>before,</HI> that hath latelie been incumbred with prodigious Con&s;pirators, hatching &s;uch wicked and helli&s;h Contrivances, that 'tis a &s;hame to all Loyal per&s;ons to reiterate, or rather to harbour in the &s;ecret Corners <HI>of</HI> their Loyal hearts.</P>
<P>And I think no rea&s;onable per&s;on can reckon le&s;s than &s;evere puni&s;hment to be the Portion allotted <HI>for</HI> them: and it is undoubtedlie a dutie incumbent up|pon all per&s;ons to endeavour <HI>to</HI> make a <HI>di&s;covery of</HI> the&s;e Malefactors, which will be a piece of good Service to the Nation, and unque&s;tionablie will be well rewarded by his Maje&s;tie, who was ever, and wil be &s;till an encourager of well doers, and who can do more for a Prince, then to &s;tudie how to detect the Villains that &s;hall &s;o impudentlie undertake a de&s;ign &s;o mon&s;trous, &s;o inhumane, and &s;o diabolical? But &s;uch is the unrea&s;onablene&s;s and &s;ordid di&s;po&s;ition of &s;ome ill qualified, and ill tempered per&s;ons, that whereas they &s;hould be won by the clemencie and favourable kindne&s;s of an obliging Prince, that they on the contrary, are rather imboldned to pre&s;ume to the greate&s;t hight of impu|dence that can po&s;&s;ibly be imagined, and in &s;tead of being won to a dutiful obe|dience, are more and more animated to all kind of mi&s;chief, that the Devil, and an ill Con&s;cience, can find out, or invent: nor can the affability of an endearing Monarch make any impre&s;&s;ion on obdure and impenetrable hearts, but they &s;till per&s;i&s;t in their bea&s;tly and rude behaviours, till time and providence, bring them too late to repent, of their unju&s;t, and wicked practices.</P>
<P><HI>Here is al&s;o an undoubted a&s;&s;urance of the apprehending of Collonel</HI> John Rum|&s;ey <HI>who was &s;eized and examined; of which proceedings, we will give you a more perfect account by the next.</HI></P>
<P>Wind&s;or June <HI>the 21st</HI> 1683, <HI>This day the Sheriff, and common Serjeant of</HI> London, <HI>by the expre&s;s Command of the Lord Mayor, and the Court of Al|dermen, in pur&s;uance of an Order of Common Council, waited on His mo&s;t gra|cious Maje&s;tie, and with all Submi&s;&s;ion, mo&s;t humbly acquainted him, that the Common Council, had agreed to acquie&s;ce with the Regulations required by His Majesty, and had deferred the Election of Sheriffs, and other Officers, which u&s;ually were cho&s;en on Mid&s;ummer-day. until the</HI> 18th <HI>of</HI> July <HI>next.</HI></P>
<P><HI>So I conclude, with my Prayers for the pre&s;ervation of his Maje&s;ty, and his Royal Highne&s;s, that no Traitor may ever A&s;&s;a&s;&s;inate, or ever have power to prejudice their Princely Per&s;ons, and &s;o leaving them to the Tuition of the Omnipotent, I con|clude with a</HI> Vive le Roy, <HI>or long live the King.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>AN ACCOUNT Of the Di&s;covery of the NEW PLOT, Made manife&s;t by &s;everal of the Con&s;pirators Conveened before His Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Honourable Privy Council at <HI>Hampton Court</HI> on the 23. of this In&s;tant <HI>June</HI> 1683.</HEAD>
<P>NO Wonder if Sacred Princes, Vice-gerents to the King of kings, are Heavens peculiar care, &s;ince Wicked Men &s;o frequently are Combin'd (with the Powers of Darkne&s;s, in malice to Him that In&s;tituted them by His Eternal Decree to Govern the Inferiour World) do di&s;turb their Reign, and Con&s;pire their Hurt; but in vain are all the Machinations and De|vices of a Turbulent Faction, who &s;eek to overthrow the E&s;tabli&s;hed Government; which is Heavens peculiar Care, though like Bulls in <HI>Ba&s;&s;ian,</HI> they have pu&s;hed for &s;ome years pa&s;t, to overthrow <HI>Great-Britains</HI> Monarchy, yet have their Devices been brought to nought, as appeared by the late Di&s;covery, when <HI>Ignoramus</HI> Ju|ries were brought as <HI>Salvo's,</HI> yet the Eyes of the Nation were too open to be deceiv|ed with Shaddows, Spectrums, or Fantoms, when apparent Truth pre&s;ented her &s;elf in her Native &s;hape, and much more now, &s;ince a more then ordinary Di&s;cove|ry hath been made by &s;uch who were in the Combination against the be&s;t of Kings, who is indeed, next Heaven, our only Refuge, and the Breath of our Nostrils; a Prince &s;o Good, &s;o Bounteous, and &s;o Ju&s;t, that Heaven thought him only fit to Rule &s;o great a People.</P>
<P>But to the purpo&s;e, &s;ome days &s;ince, Depo&s;itions having been made by one <HI>Keel|ing</HI> (who, as Heaven would have it, was altogether re&s;tle&s;s ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">l he had Di&s;imboged the dire Secret) that a Hell<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h and Damnable Con&s;piracy had for a long time been Brooding, and carried o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> by &s;everal of the Di&s;affected Party, many of whi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">h he Named, and depo&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">d likewi&s;e the &s;everal Circum&s;tances, &s;o far as his Know|ledge Retained, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">t attended the damnable Con&s;piracy, no doubt laid deep to de|prive true Loyali&s;ts of all they hold dear on this &s;ide Heaven; upon which Depo&s;iti|on, one Mr. <HI>We&s;t,</HI> a Councellor at Law, and one who formerly was Active in the behalf of <HI>Stephen</HI> Colledge, had his Chamber Seized by Order of the Secretary of State, and divers Papers &s;ecured by the Officers Imployed to that purpo&s;e, many of which contained matters of dangerous Con&s;equence, tending to the countenancing Sedition and Rebellion, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &V;pon notice of which, he, the &s;aid Mr. <HI>We&s;t,</HI> Coun|cellor at Law, for &s;ometime ab&s;conded him&s;elf; but being moved by the &s;ence of his unnatural Combination against his Soveraign, he expre&s;&s;ed a deep, and pa&s;t doubt, an unfeigned &s;orrow for his offence, which he di&s;covering to his Father in Law, who is doubtle&s;s a man of unbya&s;&s;ed Principles, he advi&s;ed him to throw him&s;elf at the Feet of that Maje&s;ty, which in &s;o high a Nature he offended, but he not daring to approach &s;uch Innate Goodne&s;s, again&s;t whom he had cau&s;ele&s;ly con&s;pired, before his Attonement was in &s;ome mea&s;ure made, he by his Agents, if not in Per&s;on, applyed him&s;elf to the worthy, (and of unque&s;tionable Loyalty) Sir <HI>George Jef|feries</HI> chief ju&s;tice of the Countie Palatine of <HI>Che&s;ter,</HI> and his Maje&s;ties Serjeant at Law, &amp;c. Humblie be&s;eeching him to Interceed with His Maje&s;tie, that Foun|tain of Mercie, for his Pardon, and confiding in &s;uch his Interce&s;&s;ion, and His Majesties never failing compa&s;&s;ion, to tho&s;e that &s;incerelie confe&s;s their Offences, he
<PB N="4" REF="3" MS="y">&s;urrendred him&s;elf into the hands of Ju&s;tice, and this day being the 23d of this In|&s;tant <HI>June,</HI> attended the Honourable Privie Council (for that and other Important con&s;iderations) A&s;&s;embled at <HI>Hampton Court,</HI> upon Examination he laid open (according to our best information) the Helli&s;h Con&s;pirac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e aga<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">n&s;t the Per&s;on of his mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;tie, and his Royal Highne&s;s, the Illu&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ious Prince <HI>James</HI> Duke of <HI>York,</HI> in order to the overthrow of <HI>Monarchy,</HI> and all that can be called dear to Loyal and Peaceful Subjects, in which divers of the d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;affected had involv|ed them&s;elves. I &s;hall endeavour to &s;how you the true Narrative of Honourable and Credible Per&s;ons, this Plot was to be Acted (as we hea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">) by the Whiggi&s;h Par|tie, when the King came from <HI>Newmerkat</HI> la&s;t and the manner of their attact was this, at <HI>Hodsdeen,</HI> which is betwixt <HI>Newmerca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> and <HI>London,</HI> there is a strait pa&s;&s;age, through which two Coaches cannot pa&s;s at on<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e, and Hedged on each &s;ide, and they for a Stratagem, had de&s;igned two Carts to meet the Kings Coaches in the Lane, which would undoubtedlie cau&s;e a &s;top, and w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ilst the King &s;to<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ped, they were to unleaden eight or a dozen of Blunderbu&s;hes in the King and Dukes Coaches, but as the wonderful Providence of God ordered it, His Maje&s;tie left <HI>Newmercat</HI> &s;ooner then ordinarie by two Weeks, by rea&s;on of the violent Fire which happened there at that time: which Conflagration cau&s;ed his Maje&s;tie and Royal Highne&s;s to depart, and take their way to <HI>Cambridge:</HI> In this de&s;ign many were Involved as by &s;ome Papers Seized appears, and upon di&s;coverie of which, di|vers are fled, nor cannot be yet found, divers Me&s;&s;engers have been Impowered to apprehend them, and of this pernicious number, <HI>Mr. Goodenough</HI> late under Sheriff for the Citie of <HI>London,</HI> &amp;c. Is &s;hrewdly &s;u&s;pected for one, as al&s;o a Law|ers Son of note, but till the wi&s;dom of the Nation (in Council a&s;&s;embled) make a further Progre&s;s in this happie and timely di&s;coverie; I &s;hall acquie&s;ce, wi&s;hing that all &s;uch, as either in thought or deed attempt the hurt of His most Sacred Ma|je&s;tie, may undergoe the Puni&s;hment due to the worst of Traytors.</P>
<P>HIs Majestie being &s;atisfied of the Truth of this Con&s;piracie again&s;t His Sacred Per&s;on, and the Per&s;on of his Royal Brother, cau&s;ed His Proclamation to be I&s;sued forth, Commanding the&s;e Con&s;pirators, <HI>viz.</HI> Collonel <HI>John Rum&s;ie, Richard Rumbal, Richard Nelthrop, Edward Wade, Richard Goodenough,</HI> Captain <HI>Walcot, William Thomp&s;on, James Burton,</HI> and <HI>William Hone,</HI> to render them&s;elves to his Judges, Ju&s;tices, &amp;c. Strictlie forbidding anie of his Sub|jects to conceal, harbour, or releave them; and that who&s;oever &s;hall apprehend anie of them, and put them into the hands of Ju&s;tice, &s;hall receive for each &s;o apprehend|ed, One hundred pound as a Reward.</P>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Re-printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;tie, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1683.</P>
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