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<DATE>2014-08-12</DATE>
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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>A FULL and TRUE ACCOUNT OF A <HI>Horrid and Bloody Con&s;piracy</HI> Of the <HI>PAPISTS</HI> again&s;t the <HI>PROTESTANTS</HI> In the North of <HI>ENGLAND;</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Being a True Copy of a Letter from <HI>Thomas Rowland</HI> at <HI>Hex|ham</HI> in <HI>Northumberland,</HI> &s;hewing the Intention of a mo&s;t Bar|barous Murther was intended to be Committed on <HI>William Rowland</HI> of that Place, by the Lord <HI>Derwinwater</HI>'s Son, <HI>Mr. Thomas Ratcliff,</HI> a Papi&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>WE &s;ee daily the Horrid Barbarous De&s;igns of the <HI>Roman Catholicks</HI> again&s;t tho&s;e of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> though of the neare&s;t Affinity; And finding them&s;elves fru&s;trated of all future hopes in performing their mo&s;t Villanous and Unchri&s;tian Intentions, by a General Ma&s;&s;acre (as it will appear by this) are re&s;ol|ved, rather than fail, to commit Murther upon all tho&s;e who &s;hall any ways ob&s;truct their Dark and Horrid Inclinations, as will appear by the &s;equel of this Story,</P>
<P><HI>William Rowland</HI> of the Pari&s;h of <HI>Hexham</HI> in the County of <HI>Northumberland,</HI> being a Per&s;on well known for his hone&s;t en|deavours to &s;upport the Prote&s;tant Religion, upon the Noi&s;e of the Prince of <HI>Orange</HI>'s Landing, knowing the Lord <HI>Derwin|water,</HI> and &s;ome others, (living not far from the Town of <HI>Hex|ham,</HI>) to be Papi&s;ts, and that they would ob&s;truct what in them lay the Prote&s;tant Intere&s;t, he imediately endeavoured to rai&s;e a &s;ufficient Number of Prote&s;tants, whereby they might Di&s;arm the Papi&s;t<HI>'s</HI> Hou&s;es of Arms, to prevent the Mi&s;chief they might do; which he did to the utmo&s;t of his power; but
<PB N="2" REF="3">knowing their implacable Malice would tend to the taking away his Life, and having &s;ome other occa&s;ions, took his Journey for <HI>London,</HI> where he now is, and hath &s;ince his Arrival here recei|ved a Letter from <HI>Thomas</HI> and <HI>John Rowland</HI> his Brothers, now at <HI>Hexham,</HI> that <HI>William Rowland</HI> their Kin&s;man was Drinking at a Gardner's Hou&s;e at <HI>Dal&s;ton</HI> with <HI>George Hog</HI> and a Boy, and coming homeward, <HI>William Rowland</HI> would of nece&s;&s;ity call upon a Friend that he had which lived at the Lord <HI>Derwinwaters,</HI> and thereupon knocked at the Gate, upon which, Mr. <HI>Ratcliff,</HI> the Lord's Son, looked out of the Hou&s;e, and Asked who was there? And he An&s;wer'd, he was <HI>William Rowland</HI> of <HI>Hexham,</HI> whereupon Mr. <HI>Thomas Ratcliff</HI> commanded his Servants to break his Neck over the Rock, and thought it to be <HI>William Rowland</HI> now in <HI>London,</HI> with this expre&s;&s;ion, ha&s;t thou got from <HI>London</HI> already thou Rogue? Upon which Four of them came out and threw him over the Rock, at the We&s;t End of the Bowling Alley, about Four Yards high, and if a Tree had not been, they had thrown him into the DEVIL's-WA|TER, the Man that was with him, and Boy, was got to the Bridg that goes into the Park, and &s;eeing my Lords Men throw him over the Rock, cryed out, you have Killed the Man, take him to your charge, I will go and rai&s;e the Town of <HI>Hexham,</HI> and Ring the <HI>FRA-BELL,</HI> upon which Four of them follow|ed <HI>George Hog</HI> and the Boy, and brought them up where <HI>William Rowland</HI> was lying; and they &s;aid to <HI>Hog,</HI> thou ha&s;t Killed this Man; and if he had been Dead, they would have either Killed <HI>Hog</HI> and the Boy, or Sworn his Death upon <HI>Hog;</HI> he was &s;o Brui&s;ed and Wounded, that he is in &s;mall hopes of Recovery. He was carried back to <HI>Dil&s;ton,</HI> where he now lieth in a mo&s;t Deplorable Condition. Such you &s;ee are the mo&s;t moderate Cruelties of the Papi&s;ts, in the Execution of their Bar|barity, and the Tenets of their Religion; from which <HI>Libera Nos Domine.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>James Baldwin,</HI> 1689.</P>
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