<!DOCTYPE ETS PUBLIC "-//UMDLPS//DTD EEBOPROOF 2.0//EN">
<ETS>
<TEMPHEAD>
<REVDESCR>
<CHANGE>
<DATE>2012-10-10</DATE>
<RESPSTMT>
<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
<RESP>MURP</RESP>
</RESPSTMT>
<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch Z120814.pdcc.</ITEM>
</CHANGE>
</REVDESCR>
</TEMPHEAD>
<EEBO>
<IDG S="marc" R="OX" ID="B04601">
<STC T="W">O129A</STC>
<STC T="C">R188706</STC>
<BIBNO T="oclc">47012558</BIBNO>
<VID>174526</VID>
</IDG>
<TEXT LANG="eng">
<FRONT>
<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="1">
<PB REF="1" MS="y">
<P>A DISCOVERIE, To the prai&s;e of God, and joy of all true hearted Prote&s;tants, of a late intended Plot by the Papi&s;ts, to &s;ubdue the Prote&s;tants.</P>
<P>Being a true Copy of a Di&s;cour&s;e be|tweene <HI>William O Conner</HI> a Prie&s;t, and <HI>Anne Hu&s;&s;ey</HI> an Iri&s;h Gentlewoman: as it was brought and confirmed by oath in the Parliament hou&s;e.</P>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>St Peter holds a key and stands over a kneeling, praying woman, with an angel kneeling behind her</FIGDESC>
<P>CHRE PRECORESTO PIV</P>
<P>SALVE DOMINE ANGELORVM</P>
</FIGURE></P>
<P>Printed, <HI>Anno</HI> 1641.</P>
</DIV1>
</FRONT>
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="discourse">
<PB REF="2">
<PB N="1" REF="2">
<HEAD>A Di&s;cour&s;e betwixt <HI>William O Conner</HI> a Prie&s;t, and Servant to the Queen|mother, and <HI>Anne Hu&s;&s;ey</HI> an <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Gentle|woman of the Hou&s;e of <HI>Galtrum,</HI> u&s;ually working at Mi&s;tris <HI>Pinoks</HI> Hou&s;e a Schoolemi&s;tris on the back&s;ide of <HI>Lions</HI> Inne in the <HI>Strand, at &s;everall meetings of theirs &s;ince</HI> Ea&s;ter 1640. <HI>in the&s;e words, or to this effect.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_I <HI>Anne Hu&s;&s;ey</HI> comming to Good|wife <HI>Walker,</HI> a &s;tocking mender in the Strand, who &s;aid to mee, I would your Countryman were as hone&s;t as you, that lyes at my hou&s;e; then I asked her, who hee was? Goodwife <HI>Wal|ker</HI> an&s;wered mee, and &s;aid hee is a Prie&s;t, and a &s;ervant to the Queen|mother, and if any had wit to &s;earch it out, they would find out a great deal of Trea&s;on in him: then I &s;ayd to Goodwife <HI>Walker,</HI> if you will bee true to mee, and not di&s;cover me to bee a Prote&s;tant, I will fetch it out of him if I can, and Goodwife <HI>Walker</HI> promi&s;ed, that &s;hee would not di&s;cover mee, &s;o the next day early in the morning, I went up to his chamber at the &s;aid Goodwife <HI>Walkers</HI> hou&s;e, and
<PB N="2" REF="3">was directed to it by her husband, and when the Prie&s;t had opened his doore, and I in his chamber, he asked me, if I knew him? I an&s;wered no, but I in|quired for an Iri&s;hman, that came with the Queen|mother, and heareing that he was one, I was bold to come up to him, to entreat him to enquire for an Uncle of mine, one Ma&s;ter <HI>Nicholas Hu&s;&s;ey</HI> (a Prie&s;t) at the Spani&s;h Amba&s;&s;adours, whether he was alive, or come over into <HI>England. William O Conner</HI> an&s;we|red me, why doe you not go and enquire your &s;elf? I an&s;wered, I being a woman, was loath to goe a|mong&s;t &s;o many men.</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>Are you a Catholike?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Hu&s;&s;ey.</SPEAKER>
<P>I was born, and bred one.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>What hou&s;e of <HI>Ireland</HI> are you of?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>Of the hou&s;e of <HI>Galtrum.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>They are Royall Catholikes, and worthy peo|ple; then he asked me what my name was? I told him <HI>Anne Hu&s;&s;ey,</HI> &s;o hee brought me to Mi&s;tris <HI>Pinocks</HI> hou&s;e, and &s;o departed for that time.</P>
<P>At a &s;econd meeting on Saturday after, <HI>William O Conner</HI> the Prie&s;t came againe to Mi&s;tris <HI>Pincoks</HI> hou&s;e to aske for me, and de&s;ired me goe drink with him at a Tavern, which I refu&s;ed, but went with him to one Ma&s;ter <HI>Hils</HI> an Alehou&s;e, and there wee fell into this following di&s;cour&s;e.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>I told him I was troubled in minde about one thing that I de&s;ired to know.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>You mu&s;t relate it to a Prie&s;t.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>If I knew an <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Prie&s;t, that would tell mee faithfully, I would.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>I am one my &s;elfe, and immediatly hee cro&s;&s;ed me over the forehead.</P>
</SP>
<PB N="3" REF="3">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>I asked him, whether the number of the Pro|te&s;tants, or the Papi&s;ts of England were the greate&s;t?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>He &s;aid the Papi&s;ts were.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>Then they will conquer our Country (mea|ning Ireland.)</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>Fir&s;t, we mu&s;t began with England.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>How, or in what manner will they begin with England? and when will it be?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>When the King goes to Scotland.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>There is no hope of the Kings going to Scot|land.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>I'le warrant you he doth.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>Can you not procure me letters from beyond Sea, to helpe me to be a Nun?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>It is a hard taske for you to performe, to be a Nun.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why, I can live cha&s;te, I never mean to marry.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>Although you doe not marry, you may ly with a man.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>I but that is &s;in.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>But the Prie&s;t can forgive it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>I know he can.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes you may ly with a man, &s;teale, kill a man, or any man may kill a King, for the advancement of the Church of Rome, and the Prie&s;t can forgive him.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>I have heard there is a Prote&s;tant book called a Bible, and by their report it &s;aith, <HI>that who&s;oever &s;heds mans bloud, by man &s;hall his bloud be &s;hed,</HI> and we mu&s;t feare God and honour the King, and pray for the King, that we may live a peaceable, a quiet and a holy life.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>For your life read not that book, for I will not
<PB N="4" REF="4">read it for a thou&s;and worlds, and further &s;aid, whe|ther doe you goe to Ma&s;&s;e?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>To a private hou&s;e I doe goe.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>I prai&s;e God there is many of them, and bid me come next day (being Sabbath day) to St. <HI>Iame&s;es,</HI> and I &s;hould heare him &s;ay Ma&s;&s;e before the Queene|mother.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>I have bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to morrow, that I cannot goe thither to Ma&s;&s;e, nor to any other place, but will &s;ome other time.</P>
<Q><L>So ended our di&s;cour&s;e at that time.</L>
<L>At another meeting, &amp;c.</L></Q>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>At his reque&s;t I went to his Chamber at Mi&s;tris <HI>Scarlotts</HI> hou&s;e in Coven Garden, in Blackmoore &s;treete, at the &s;igne of the Sedan (about a fortnight after) one day in the after noone, where I found him upon his Bed, and hee gave mee three &s;hirts of fine holland of about &s;ixteene &s;hillings an ell (as they were judged) to marke for him upon the brea&s;t or bo&s;ome, in this manner following.
<Q><P><HI>Ie&s;us Maria.</HI></P>
<P><HI>William O Conner.</HI></P></Q></P>
<P>At which time he &s;hewed me his beads, and other knacks, and clothes made of black plu&s;h, &s;carlet, and as I thinke a hairecolour &s;atten; after this I left him and carried away the &s;hirts to be marked, but in&s;tead of marking them as hee directed, I marked them only with a Crucifix and his name, and the &s;ame night a|bout nine of the clock, he came to me for his Shirts, and brought an Iri&s;h man with him in a long gray coate, with a &s;word girt clo&s;e to his &s;ide, under his
<PB N="5" REF="4">arme, I asked the Prie&s;t who he was?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>He is one of the number of the 7000. that is in private pay, and in readine&s;&s;e to aide the Catho|likes, and to cut the Prote&s;tants throats that &s;hould re&s;i&s;t them.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>What office hath this man with them?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>Hee is one that blowes the Pipe, with the Drum.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>Let mee &s;ee it, and immediatly hee drew it out and would have played on it, but I de&s;ired him to forbeare, le&s;t hee was di&s;covered, which advi&s;e they liked well, and pray&s;ed me highly, and offered mee the lives of any, that I would de&s;ire to bee &s;aved.</P>
</SP>
<STAGE>And &s;o they departed.</STAGE>
<P>About the latter end of <HI>Iuly</HI> 1640. hee came to me at Mi&s;tris <HI>Pinock's</HI> hou&s;e afore&s;ayd, and &s;aid hee came upon great occa&s;ion, and in great ha&s;te, and hee mu&s;t immediatly returne back.</P>
<P>I asked him the occa&s;ion.</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>I have three Letters from the Queene mother, to be delivered to three Amba&s;&s;adors, the <HI>Spani&s;h,</HI> the <HI>Venetian,</HI> the <HI>French.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>Wherefore?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>To &s;end to the Pope.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>Can you doe nothing without the Popes leave?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>Either by him&s;elfe, or his Legate, wee mu&s;t know when to begin.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>To begin what?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>The &s;ubduing of the Prote&s;tants.</P>
</SP>
<PB N="6" REF="5">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>I doe not like their fury, if they once draw the &s;word they are like Lions.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>What are they, if their King be cut off?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>You can never overcome the King by the &s;word.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>If we cannot that way, we can another.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>How?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>Doe you think my Lady and Queen is a fool?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>I do not think &s;he is a fool.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>If no hand will doe it, this hand &s;hall.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>Do what?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>Kill him.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>Who?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>The King.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>H.</SPEAKER>
<P>What, you kill the King?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P.</SPEAKER>
<P>Ah! kill an hereticke at any time for the ad|vancement of the mother-Church of Rome, and &s;wore by Saint <HI>Francis,</HI> and Saint <HI>Dominick,</HI> that he would doe it, and promi&s;ed to come againe on Munday after to pay me for marking of his &s;hirts, and to be&s;tow &s;ome bracelets upon mee, but hee never came to me afterwards.</P>
<P>This <HI>William O Conner</HI> the Prie&s;t, would not &s;uffer me to &s;peake a word in all this di&s;cour&s;e, but in Iri&s;h, and confe&s;&s;ed he hath beene long employed by the Queene-mother in her bu&s;ine&s;&s;e with all the Princes in Chri&s;tendome, and with the great Turke, and he profe&s;&s;ed further to goodwife <HI>Walker,</HI> (as &s;hee told me on Munday la&s;t) much of his care in the kee|ping of the Queens &s;ecrets, and that hee would bee burnt in a fire before he would reveale them.</P>
</SP>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
</TEXT>
</EEBO>
</ETS>
