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<HEAD>A True and Faithful Account of the &s;eizing Thirty &s;even &s;u&s;pected Per&s;ons, and among&s;t them &s;ome known Papi&s;ts, who were Caballing again&s;t the Government in a Tavern, with the manner of their Apprehen&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P>Licens'd <HI>Septemb.</HI> 6. 1689.</P>
<P>THe la&s;t Week &s;ome De&s;igning Per&s;ons, as mentioned in the <HI>Gazette,</HI> took the boldne&s;s to Seize both the <HI>Scots</HI> and <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Mails, carrying away the King's Pacquets from each; which as it is a matter of that high Concern, &s;o it Demon&s;trably be&s;peaks, that the <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> Party, who have a natural Propen&s;i|ty to practi&s;e Mi&s;chief again&s;t the Government, de&s;ign to have &s;ome extraor|dinary Project put in Execution: But, as prai&s;ed be God, none of their Con|trivances have hitherto met with Succe&s;s, &s;o the merit of the Cau&s;e, as well as the indefatigable care of the Government is &s;uch, as to defeat the De&s;igns of the Di&s;affected and <HI>Grumbletonian</HI> Incendiaries, a more notable In&s;tance has not been extant.</P>
<P>The Mails afore&s;aid being &s;eized, and therby the King's Advice di&s;cover'd, extraordinary Diligence was u&s;ed, to find out the Authors of this mi&s;chievous Proceeding; and con&s;idering that not the Gaols, but rather &s;ome Taverns ought to be in&s;pected, a double Diligence and Scrutiny was made into &s;everal places, where, under the Notion of meeting and drinking purely with a Friend there, Complotting and Caballing was the Intent, and as the Se|quel demon&s;trates, the Cau&s;e. So the Government having got Informa|tion, that a more than ordinary Number of Gentlement, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> held a Ren|dezvous at one <HI>Brooks</HI>'s, who keeps the <HI>New Cock</HI> and <HI>Bottle</HI> in the <HI>Strand</HI> near <HI>Charing-cro&s;s.</HI> Two Me&s;&s;engers were appointed on <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> Evening to beat up their Quarters, who, con&s;idering the Number of the Enemy they were like to Encounter with, prudently repaired to the Captain of the Guard at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> and he forthwith &s;ent a Lieutenant with one File of Granadiers, and four of Musquets, to a&s;&s;i&s;t them in the Action; Command being fir&s;t gi|ven to load with Ball, and not to &s;peak a word one to another in their pa&s;&s;age; which was performed with that Precaution and Diligence, that they arrived at the afore&s;aid Tavern without the lea&s;t Mi&s;tru&s;t or Preknowledge, who bold|ly entering the Hou&s;e, without &s;taying for the Drawer to &s;hew them a Room, they found out one them&s;elves, but the Door being &s;hut, took the liberty to force an Entrance, where meeting with a great Number of <HI>Papists,</HI> they, like the true <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> were &s;o ba&s;hful at their &s;ight, that &s;ome hid them&s;elves in the Chimney, behind the Curtains, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and would have di&s;po&s;ed of their Papers, but were forced to &s;urrender them&s;elves with their Weapons, and what they had about them that might be mi&s;chievous. The like diligence was u&s;ed in o|ther parts of the Hou&s;e, where was &s;carce a place but they found &s;ome, and others e&s;caping on the Tops of the Hou&s;es; but being brought all into a Room, and commanded to &s;it down, there was found to be Thirty &s;even of them, be&s;ides a Woman, there being little Mi&s;chief done where one of their Sex is not concerned.</P>
<P>The Lieutenant, and Me&s;&s;engers took the Names of them <HI>Seriatim,</HI> and found divers <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> &s;everal Officers and other Soldiers, &s;ome whereof had formerly rid in the Lord <HI>Dover</HI>'s Troop of Guards, under the Late King <HI>James:</HI> And &s;ome of the <HI>Grumbletonian</HI> Gang, who finding the Late King's Intere&s;t in all the Three Kingdoms to be near Expiring, would like a Candle give the great|er Bla&s;t at going out. And there was &s;uch Cau&s;e found again&s;t the Ma&s;ter of the Hou&s;e, tho he pleaded he never &s;aw them before, as to keep him a Pri&s;oner with them. For mo&s;t part of the Night they continued in the Tavern, but afterwards 21 of them were &s;ent to a Me&s;&s;engers in <HI>St. Martin's-lane,</HI> and 16 to anothers, where they are kept Pri&s;oners, while their Papers can be per|u&s;ed, and they Examined.</P>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Re-printed in the Year, 1689.</P>
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