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<P>A BLOODY MASACRE PLOTTED BY THE <HI>PAPISTS</HI> intended fir&s;t again&s;t the City of London, and con&s;equently again&s;t the whole Land.</P>
<P>Di&s;covered by the care of Alderman <HI>Towes,</HI> and &s;ome other godly and well affected <HI>Citizens.</HI></P>
<P>With a Relation of the great uprore on Munday la&s;t: Fir&s;t occa&s;ioned by &s;ome words betweene the late Bi&s;hop of Lincolne (now Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Yorke</HI>) and &s;ome <HI>London-Apprentices</HI> and &s;econdly by <HI>Lunsford</HI> and his Company.</P>
<P>And the bloody skirmi&s;h at We&s;tmin&s;ter Abbey on Tue&s;day night.</P>
<P>With the combu&s;tion then in the <HI>City,</HI> and &s;hutting of the <HI>City</HI> Gates.</P>
<P>With the Noble courage and valour, expre&s;t by Sir <HI>Richard Wi&s;eman</HI> at the &s;ame Time.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed for <HI>M.R.</HI> 1641.</P>
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<HEAD>A BLOODY PLOT IN|TENDED BY THE <HI>PAPISTS</HI> to ma&s;&s;acre the City of London, and (con&s;equently) the whole Kingdome, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>_ON <HI>Friday</HI> night la&s;t, (being <HI>Chri&s;tmas Eve</HI>) a <HI>French</HI> man pa&s;&s;ed through the Watch, and being examined as the manner is, who went there; he an&s;wer|ed &s;omething chubbedly: but being pre&s;t upon the matter where he had been, he &s;aid at Summer&s;et-Hou&s;e. And being asked what he did there &s;o late, he an&s;wered, that he had been at Ma&s;&s;e: then being as ked what he did at Ma&s;&s;e &s;o late, he &s;aid becau&s;e it was Chri&s;tmas Eve; to celebrate the Eve of Chri&s;tmas, which he &s;aid, was a work of the night.</P>
<P>Then they demanded of him, if he had not been about &s;ome Popi&s;h plot again&s;t us; And he made an&s;wer peremptorily, That he had been about &s;uch a plot as they &s;hould hear further on before the Twelve dayes were expired. This man was heard to &s;peak thus by Alderman <HI>Towes,</HI> and others that
<PB N="2" REF="3">were then pre&s;ent; and was therefore committed to the <HI>Counter:</HI> and the next day being brought before the Lord Major, he was examined, and put in Bail to the Lord Major: upon which he was re|lea&s;ed, till he be called for again to be further ex|amined.</P>
<P>There were al&s;o two Frenchmen coming to <HI>London</HI> by water, who did di&s;cour&s;e in <HI>French,</HI> now the water-man did unde&s;tand French, but took no notice of what they di&s;cour&s;ed, but carried him&s;elf as if he did not under&s;tand any thing at all. Thus he rowed them along: and when he had landed his Fair, and taken his money, he tyed his boat to the &s;taires, and went after them, and cau&s;ed them to be apprehended, and carried before a Ju&s;tice: &s;o they went before Sir <HI>John Lenton:</HI> To whom the water-man did te&s;tifie, that they did talk to this effect, that the Catholicks did intend to make Munday and Tue&s;day to be the bloodie&s;t dayes and nights in the City of London, that ever was in this place; upon this he &s;hould have been commit|ted, but he &s;ent for Bail. And &s;o upon &s;ecuritie for his forth coming, was di&s;charged till be be againe called for.</P>
<P>There was al&s;o a letter &s;ent from a Gentleman in France to a Citizen (a friend of his in <HI>London</HI>) to this effect: That he would de&s;ire him to make what &s;peed he could out of <HI>England,</HI> and e&s;pecially out of <HI>London,</HI> as he tendred his life: for he was ve|rily per&s;waded by the rumours he heard in <HI>France,</HI> that before Twelft day, there would be bloody de&s;ignes wrought in this kingdome of <HI>England</HI> by
<PB N="3" REF="3">the Papi&s;ts, and e&s;pecially in the City of <HI>London,</HI> which place the Papi&s;ts maligne mo&s;t.</P>
<P>Now the City hath been the more di&s;tracted &s;ince the placing of Colonell <HI>Lunsford</HI> to be the Lieutenant of the Tower, which the City did con|ceive to be of dangerous con&s;equence; and that in the&s;e and divers other re&s;pects.
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<ITEM>1. Becau&s;e he is held to be a Papi&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. He hath been Colonell under the King of <HI>France.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. He is &s;o de&s;perate a man, that to picke out one to run ine the mouth of a Cannon, or to perform &s;ome de&s;perate de&s;igne, h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> is held to be the onely man in the whole kingdome.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. The Ordnance are placed again&s;t the City upon the Tower, and want nothing but onely mounting, which with help may be done in two or three houres; and on a &s;udden (for ought we know) batter down our hou&s;es over our heads ere we be aware.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. He hath been a &s;hedder of blood in this Land.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. When the Lord Major that now is, was Shoriffe of Lon|don, he was his pri&s;oner then in Newgate: be&s;ides other pri&s;ons that he hath been in.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7. He is &s;o deboy&s;t a man, that he is generally reported to be as la&s;civious even as Sir <HI>Iohn Suckling,</HI> or, &amp;c.</ITEM>
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<P><HI>Vpon the great and ju&s;t complaint again&s;t him, it plea&s;ed his gracious Maje&s;tie to put him out again, and to put in one Sir Johnn Biroon, whom we hope is better affected&punc;</HI></P>
<P>ON Munday being Saint <HI>Johns</HI> day, there was a great uprore at We&s;tmin&s;ter, cau&s;ed by the afore&s;aid <HI>Lunsford.</HI></P>
<P>About noon the &s;aid Munday, the Archbi&s;hop of Yorke, the late Bi&s;hop of Lincolne, pa&s;&s;ing to the Parliament Hou&s;e, by many Apprentices of London; &s;ome of tho&s;e Apprentices expre&s;&s;ed
<PB N="4" REF="4">them&s;elves, that their de&s;ires was to have Bi&s;hops removed, no Bi&s;hops. At which the Archbi&s;hop was very, angry; and turning to wards them, &s;eemed as if he would have &s;truck &s;ome of them. But they were not any thing daunted with him, but &s;tood to the matter, yet offering him no abu&s;e, onely cry|ing, No Bi&s;hops.</P>
<P>Then turned a Gentleman like man and drew his &s;word, as if he would fall upon them, or to defend the Bi&s;hop, le&s;t they &s;hould have fallen upon him. The mean while the Prelate gat away. Now whil&s;t this Spark was vapouring with his blade, an hone&s;t man, fearing &s;ome mutiny might en&s;ue herefrom, laid hands upon him, and with &s;ome other aid, he was orderly carried before the Hou&s;e of <HI>Commons.</HI></P>
<P>About two or three houres after came Colonell <HI>Lunsford,</HI> and with him about 30. men more all with Swords and Rapiers, who came in through the great Gate at We&s;tmin&s;ter Hall; and taking great notice of the Citizens Apprentices, and Say|lers, that were there pa&s;&s;ed by them quite through to the further doore, and &s;ome meanes being u&s;ed for the &s;hutting of the further doore, returned back again, as if they would have gone forth. But ha|ving pa&s;&s;ed all the people, they turned back on a &s;udden, and all drew their &s;words and Rapiers, and fell upon the people with great violence. The peo|ple being for the mo&s;t part unweaponed, fled be|fore them, and when they came to the further gate it was &s;hut; and &s;o they could not pa&s;&s;e out that way, but were forced &s;ome to run into one Court, &s;ome into another: others came up &s;taires into the
<PB N="5" REF="4">Court of Reque&s;t, where was Sir <HI>Richard Wi&s;eman,</HI> who &s;eeing this &s;udden mutiny, and perceiving how it went, &s;pake mo&s;t bravely to animate them to return with &s;uch weapons as they had. I will (quoth Sir <HI>Richard</HI>) &s;pend my deare&s;t and be&s;t blood in defence of the Hou&s;e of <HI>Commons,</HI> come (quoth he) fall on; There were Saylers that had good Trunchions in their hands, and Sir <HI>Richard</HI> with his Sword fell upon them as well as he could. But <HI>Sir Richard Wi&s;eman</HI> was &s;ore put to it, for hee did not onely hold play with two of them, but a|gaine the third al&s;o did run full at him with his Rapier: (but God prevented them) and Sir <HI>Richard</HI> with his &s;word &s;trake at the others Rapier, and did make it flie in two peeces.</P>
<P>One of the Sailers was foyled with 4. or 5. of them at once having no other weapon, &s;ave only a trun|chion wherwith he quit him&s;el very &s;toutly agin&s;t them all.</P>
<P>And (&s;uch was the Providence of Almighty God) by this time, tho&s;e <HI>Citizens</HI> and Apprenti&s;es (ha|ving no weapons about them, had brough downe Brick-battes in the lappes of there clokes, which they had pulled up in the Court of Reque&s;ts, and with there thowing of the &s;aid Brick-bates, did (immediatly) cau&s;e <HI>Lun&s;ford,</HI> and his Company to Retreate, and forced them to flie: But &s;ome of them were raken and carried before the Hou&s;e:</P>
<P><HI>Lunsford</HI> him&s;elf was &s;ain to wade above the deep|ne&s;se of his bootes to take bore and &s;o made an e|&s;cape by water.</P>
<P><HI>Hereupon the City was again di&s;tracted, the Train. band
<PB N="6" REF="5">and Watch and Ward was rai&s;ed, the Gates of the City were &s;hut up and every man be&s;tird him &s;elf, for his our defence.</HI></P>
<P>There were &s;ome 8. or 9. Citizens caried unto the Garchou&s;e by an Officer in We&s;tmil&s;ter, but he did foone (again) relea&s;e them.</P>
<P>On Tue&s;day being Childermas Day there was &s;ome Apprenti&s;es in the Abbey at. We&s;tmin|&s;ter, upon whome certaine in the Abbey with &s;ome of the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Yorke,</HI> (late Bi&s;hop of <HI>Lin|coln</HI>) his Scollers or Attendants or &s;ome appoynted (as it &s;eemes) for that de&s;igne.</P>
<P>About 5. of the clock at night they were &s;hut into the Abbey as Pri&s;oners: And what they have done with them, God knowes.</P>
<P>Sir Richard Wi&s;eman and M. <HI>Lilhorn</HI> and &s;ome others hearing of it, went to inquire after them and when they came to the Abbey: Tho&s;e within the Abbey &s;hot at them, and &s;ome of them al&s;o came forth with naked &s;wordes and after a cruell and a mo&s;t Bucherly manner fell upon them, and haue wounded Sir Richard and M. <HI>Lilborne</HI> and divers others: and what the event will be, God knowes.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>The Lord protect us, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> AMEN</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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