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           THE
           Rye-house
           Travestie
           :
           Or
           ,
           a
           True
           Account
           and
           Declaration
           Of
           the
           Horrid
           and
           Erecrable
           CONSPIRACY
           AGAINST
           His
           Majesty
           King
           WILLIAM
           and
           the
           Government
           .
           Collected
           out
           of
           Original
           Papers
           and
           unquestionable
           Records
           ,
           whereby
           the
           whole
           Narration
           has
           undeniable
           Clearness
           and
           Strength
           .
           In
           a
           LETTER
           to
           the
           Right
           Reverend
           Father
           in
           God
           ,
           Dr.
           
             Thomas
             Sprat
          
           ,
           Lord
           Bishop
           of
           Rochester
           ,
           from
           his
           Lordship's
           most
           Humble
           Servant
           
             THOMAS
             PERCIVAL
          
           .
        
         
           
             —
             Mutato
             nomine
             vestra
          
           
             Narratur
             Fabula
             ,
             —
          
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           for
           
             A.
             Bell
          
           at
           the
           Cross-Keys
           in
           the
           Poultry
           .
           1696.
           
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
           A
           True
           ACCOVNT
           of
           the
           Horrid
           and
           Execrable
           Conspiracy
           ,
           against
           His
           Most
           Sacred
           Majesty
           King
           
             WILLIAM
             III.
          
           and
           the
           Government
           .
           In
           a
           LETTER
           To
           the
           Reverend
           Father
           in
           God
           ,
           THOMAS
           Lord
           Bishop
           of
           ROCHESTER
           .
        
         
           
             My
             Lord
             ,
          
        
         
           TO
           remind
           the
           Nation
           of
           the
           Rise
           ,
           Progress
           and
           mischievous
           Designs
           of
           our
           Blood-thirsty
           Iacobites
           ,
           I
           think
           sit
           to
           lay
           open
           and
           declare
           to
           your
           Lordship
           ,
           and
           the
           World
           ,
           an
           exact
           Account
           of
           the
           late
           accursed
           Conspiracy
           ,
           
           which
           was
           actually
           form'd
           and
           carried
           on
           in
           France
           against
           His
           Sacred
           Majesty's
           Life
           ,
           and
           against
           
           the
           Peaceable
           and
           Flourishing
           Government
           of
           His
           Majesty's
           Kingdoms
           ;
           as
           far
           forth
           as
           hitherto
           the
           Particulars
           of
           it
           have
           come
           to
           my
           knowledg
           ,
           by
           the
           Voluntary
           Confessions
           and
           undeniable
           Convictions
           of
           divers
           of
           the
           Principal
           Conspirators
           .
        
         
           
           And
           I
           shall
           here
           faithfully
           present
           the
           Plain
           matter
           of
           Fact
           ;
           whereby
           I
           doubt
           not
           but
           wholly
           to
           put
           to
           silence
           the
           Malicious
           Insinuations
           of
           Factious
           Men
           ,
           who
           have
           hitherto
           had
           the
           Artifice
           to
           support
           and
           encourage
           their
           Party
           by
           Impudent
           Slanders
           and
           Falshoods
           ,
           against
           the
           clearest
           Light
           and
           most
           evident
           Proof
           :
           And
           I
           heartily
           wish
           that
           this
           may
           tend
           to
           confirm
           the
           Loyalty
           and
           good
           Affections
           of
           His
           Majesty's
           Subjects
           at
           Home
           ,
           and
           to
           establish
           Abroad
           the
           Reputation
           and
           Honour
           of
           his
           Royal
           Justice
           .
        
         
           And
           moreover
           (
           which
           I
           hope
           your
           Lordship
           and
           I
           shall
           ever
           regard
           )
           this
           publick
           and
           lasting
           Testimony
           will
           be
           given
           of
           our
           sincere
           thankfulness
           to
           Almighty
           God
           ,
           for
           that
           Miraculous
           Deliverence
           from
           a
           Danger
           which
           came
           so
           near
           His
           Majesty's
           Sacred
           Person
           ,
           and
           was
           so
           far
           spread
           in
           the
           Ruin
           it
           threatn'd
           to
           all
           his
           People
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           well
           known
           what
           Mischievous
           Arts
           of
           late
           Years
           have
           been
           used
           ,
           and
           what
           Treasonable
           Courses
           taken
           ,
           to
           whithdraw
           these
           Nations
           from
           their
           bounden
           Duty
           and
           Allegiance
           ;
           and
           to
           expose
           His
           Majesty's
           most
           Just
           and
           Merciful
           Goverment
           to
           Calumny
           and
           Contempt
           .
        
         
         
           This
           Rebellious
           Design
           has
           been
           apparently
           carried
           on
           by
           Male-contents
           ,
           whose
           Crimes
           or
           Wants
           ,
           whose
           furious
           Zeal
           or
           unbounded
           Ambition
           inclin'd
           them
           to
           wish
           for
           a
           Disturbance
           of
           the
           Peace
           and
           Prosperity
           of
           these
           Nations
           .
        
         
           To
           this
           wicked
           purpose
           ,
           many
           the
           very
           same
           fatal
           Methods
           and
           specious
           Pretences
           which
           had
           heretofore
           involved
           these
           Kingdoms
           in
           Confusion
           and
           Blood
           ,
           were
           again
           reviv'd
           :
           and
           by
           many
           of
           the
           very
           same
           Persons
           ;
           Men
           of
           Crafty
           ,
           restless
           and
           implacable
           Spirits
           ;
           Impenitent
           after
           the
           most
           Gracious
           Pardons
           ;
           whom
           long
           Experience
           had
           made
           skillful
           in
           seducing
           weak
           and
           unstable
           Minds
           by
           Counterfeiting
           the
           Plausible
           Names
           of
           things
           in
           themselves
           most
           Excellent
           ,
           but
           most
           Dangerous
           when
           abused
           .
        
         
           By
           these
           wretched
           Instruments
           was
           His
           Majesty's
           most
           Gentle
           and
           Benign
           Government
           reproch'd
           ;
           Sedition
           was
           every
           where
           promoted
           to
           destroy
           our
           present
           Tranquility
           ;
           Desperate
           Speeches
           (
           such
           as
           Sir
           Iohn
           Knight's
           ,
           of
           Bristol
           and
           others
           )
           ;
           Infamous
           Libels
           ,
           Traiterous
           Books
           swarm'd
           in
           all
           Places
           ,
           and
           the
           worst
           of
           all
           unchristian
           Principles
           were
           put
           in
           practice
           .
        
         
           From
           these
           Preparations
           to
           a
           Rebellion
           ,
           
           the
           Party
           began
           by
           degrees
           to
           proceed
           to
           Action
           ;
           Distinctions
           of
           Sides
           were
           made
           ;
           Names
           and
           Tokens
           of
           Seperation
           were
           given
           ;
           Illegal
           Conventicles
           were
           maintain'd
           ,
           in
           Defiance
           of
           the
           Laws
           of
           God
           and
           Man
           ;
           Tumultuous
           Feasts
           and
           
           Factious
           Clubs
           were
           set
           up
           in
           City
           and
           Country
           .
           Close
           and
           Seditious
           Meetings
           haunted
           .
           Frequent
           Cabals
           appointed
           ,
           and
           by
           Men
           of
           High
           degree
           with
           the
           lowest
           ;
           Great
           Stores
           of
           Arms
           provided
           by
           private
           Persons
           .
           
           Insolent
           Progresses
           made
           through
           divers
           Countries
           ;
           thereby
           to
           glory
           in
           their
           Numbers
           ,
           and
           to
           carry
           far
           and
           near
           the
           the
           Terrour
           of
           their
           Power
           ,
           and
           even
           to
           Muster
           their
           Party
           for
           some
           sudden
           Blow
           and
           General
           Insurrection
           .
        
         
           All
           these
           and
           many
           more
           such
           Personal
           Indignities
           and
           Publick
           Assaults
           ,
           on
           the
           Government
           ,
           his
           Majesty
           long
           endured
           with
           the
           same
           Mildness
           and
           Clemency
           wherewith
           he
           had
           already
           forgiven
           the
           highest
           Crimes
           against
           himself
           ;
           His
           Royal
           Goodness
           still
           patiently
           expecting
           and
           wishing
           ,
           that
           in
           time
           the
           most
           obstinate
           of
           his
           misguided
           Subjects
           would
           see
           their
           Error
           ,
           and
           return
           at
           length
           to
           a
           sense
           of
           the
           Duty
           they
           owe
           him
           ,
           by
           all
           the
           strongest
           Bonds
           of
           Nature
           and
           Laws
           ,
           Religion
           and
           Gratitude
           that
           can
           possibly
           oblige
           Subjects
           towards
           a
           Sovereign
           .
        
         
           But
           when
           His
           Majesty
           was
           abundantly
           convinc'd
           that
           all
           those
           dark
           Consultations
           and
           open
           Tumults
           of
           unruly
           Men
           ,
           were
           but
           so
           many
           Infallible
           Signs
           and
           Fore-runners
           of
           Rebellion
           ,
           or
           some
           extraordinary
           Commotions
           ,
           then
           ,
           at
           last
           ,
           
           in
           a
           tender
           respect
           to
           his
           People's
           Safety
           ,
           more
           than
           to
           his
           own
           ,
           was
           his
           Majesty
           constrain'd
           to
           awaken
           his
           Authority
           ,
           to
           try
           what
           good
           Effect
           the
           Vigour
           of
           his
           Laws
           would
           have
           on
           those
           Offenders
           ,
           with
           whom
           his
           repeated
           Mercy
           and
           Indulgence
           had
           so
           little
           prevailed
           .
        
         
         
           And
           such
           was
           His
           Majesty's
           good
           Fortune
           ,
           that
           the
           disaffected
           had
           been
           found
           impotent
           in
           their
           repeated
           Attempts
           to
           set
           up
           Sheriffs
           of
           London
           and
           Middlesex
           ,
           to
           pack
           Juries
           to
           serve
           their
           purpose
           ;
           so
           that
           whilst
           his
           Majesty
           carefully
           endeavoured
           to
           distribute
           Impartial
           Justice
           to
           all
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           he
           very
           happily
           obtained
           the
           same
           Right
           himself
           ,
           and
           the
           Number
           of
           his
           Enemies
           was
           found
           very
           inconsiderable
           ,
           in
           those
           very
           places
           where
           their
           Desperate
           Enterprizes
           against
           the
           Government
           ,
           were
           likely
           to
           be
           most
           sudden
           and
           pernicious
           .
        
         
           Amongst
           divers
           other
           famous
           Examples
           of
           this
           Nature
           was
           that
           of
           
             Charnock
             ,
             King
          
           and
           Keys
           ,
           for
           these
           Criminals
           were
           very
           considerable
           ,
           for
           their
           audacious
           Forwardness
           in
           carrying
           on
           the
           execrable
           Design
           against
           His
           Majesty's
           Life
           ,
           for
           which
           they
           were
           brought
           to
           a
           fair
           and
           Legal
           Tryal
           ,
           
           and
           His
           Majesty
           procured
           Justice
           to
           be
           done
           ,
           without
           removing
           the
           Process
           into
           another
           County
           ,
           for
           here
           (
           the
           Jacobite
           Party
           being
           no
           way
           powerful
           )
           that
           old
           Damnable
           Opinion
           and
           Practice
           of
           the
           Lawfulness
           of
           Equivocating
           ,
           and
           even
           of
           Perjury
           ,
           for
           the
           Support
           of
           their
           Good
           Old
           Cause
           ,
           had
           not
           prevailed
           over
           the
           Old
           and
           Honest
           English
           Principles
           of
           Truth
           and
           Honour
           .
        
         
           Thus
           His
           Majesty's
           Justice
           got
           the
           better
           at
           this
           time
           and
           is
           in
           little
           danger
           of
           being
           defeated
           in
           a
           greater
           and
           more
           important
           Instance
           ,
           
           should
           even
           any
           Peer
           of
           the
           
           Realm
           ,
           not
           only
           be
           reasonably
           suspected
           ,
           but
           in
           the
           Issue
           manifestly
           discovered
           to
           have
           been
           an
           Author
           or
           Manager
           ,
           of
           those
           Traiterous
           Contrivances
           against
           His
           Majesty's
           Crown
           and
           Life
           ,
           for
           even
           such
           a
           Person
           will
           find
           he
           is
           not
           under
           the
           Protection
           of
           Juries
           of
           his
           own
           Appoinment
           or
           Approbation
           ;
           and
           therefore
           may
           not
           presume
           that
           he
           stands
           out
           of
           the
           reach
           of
           His
           Majesty's
           just
           Indignation
           ;
           for
           should
           he
           be
           Legally
           Indicted
           of
           Crimes
           of
           the
           Highest
           Nature
           ,
           on
           clear
           and
           positive
           Evidence
           ;
           he
           will
           undoubtedly
           be
           brought
           to
           a
           Lawful
           Tryal
           by
           his
           Peers
           ,
           and
           the
           Indictment
           not
           be
           Stifled
           by
           a
           shamful
           Ignoramus
           ,
           for
           at
           this
           Day
           His
           Majesty
           has
           gain'd
           this
           very
           considerable
           Advantage
           ,
           that
           he
           plainly
           perceives
           the
           strength
           of
           all
           his
           Enemies
           Arrogance
           lyes
           not
           now
           ,
           as
           heretofore
           ,
           in
           their
           extravagant
           Power
           to
           pack
           the
           City
           Juries
           .
           Therefore
           now
           may
           not
           even
           a
           Lord
           Securely
           project
           ,
           
           or
           a
           Ferguson
           write
           ,
           or
           a
           Confederacy
           act
           against
           the
           Government
           ;
           they
           not
           having
           Sheriffs
           and
           a
           Settled
           Club
           at
           hand
           ,
           with
           their
           Corrupt
           Pannels
           to
           indempnify
           ,
           and
           to
           second
           and
           applaud
           their
           most
           Villainous
           Practices
           ;
           And
           His
           Majesty
           seems
           resolv'd
           ,
           at
           length
           ,
           after
           a
           many
           intollerable
           Provocations
           ,
           to
           strike
           at
           that
           which
           he
           has
           now
           found
           to
           be
           the
           very
           Root
           of
           the
           Faction
           ,
           and
           not
           to
           suffer
           an
           ill
           Party
           of
           Men
           to
           destroy
           his
           Government
           ,
           as
           they
           might
           have
           done
           ,
           
           had
           they
           been
           suffered
           to
           go
           on
           never
           so
           little
           farther
           uncontrouled
           ;
           and
           it
           is
           not
           to
           be
           
           doubted
           but
           the
           Righteousness
           of
           His
           Majesty's
           Cause
           will
           meet
           with
           an
           answerable
           Success
           ;
           and
           that
           so
           many
           guilty
           Persons
           will
           not
           escape
           unpunished
           ,
           
           who
           were
           just
           at
           the
           point
           of
           bringing
           their
           devilish
           Purposes
           to
           a
           quick
           Issue
           ,
           and
           once
           for
           all
           to
           strike
           boldly
           at
           the
           Heart
           of
           the
           King
           and
           Kingdom
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           proceed
           to
           the
           History
           of
           the
           Times
           ;
           this
           Conspiracy
           was
           resolved
           upon
           by
           the
           
             French
             King
          
           ,
           and
           the
           late
           King
           Iames
           ,
           in
           Ianuary
           last
           :
           and
           for
           the
           carrying
           of
           it
           on
           ,
           the
           Duke
           of
           Berwick
           and
           others
           were
           sent
           into
           England
           ,
           to
           concert
           the
           grand
           Point
           of
           the
           Assassination
           .
           Their
           Party
           thenceforth
           gave
           over
           all
           their
           quieter
           and
           more
           plausible
           Arts
           of
           Sedition
           ,
           and
           betook
           themselves
           to
           more
           precipitate
           Enterprizes
           :
           inflaming
           some
           to
           Insurrections
           ,
           others
           to
           Assassinations
           .
           They
           proudly
           brag'd
           throughout
           the
           Nation
           that
           ,
           the
           late
           King
           Iames
           would
           be
           here
           within
           a
           Month
           ,
           Nay
           they
           offered
           to
           lay
           Wagers
           ,
           that
           within
           that
           time
           we
           should
           have
           a
           New
           Lord
           Keeper
           ,
           and
           Mr.
           F.
           was
           to
           be
           the
           Man.
           They
           bought
           up
           Horses
           and
           Arms
           in
           all
           Parts
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           at
           the
           same
           time
           using
           innumerable
           Deceits
           to
           alienate
           the
           minds
           of
           His
           Majesty's
           Subjects
           from
           His
           Government
           .
           Their
           pretended
           Protestant
           Clergy
           ,
           both
           Iurors
           and
           Non-Iurors
           ,
           talked
           ,
           at
           this
           time
           ,
           very
           impertinently
           of
           the
           horrid
           Murder
           of
           King
           Charles
           the
           First
           ,
           insinuating
           the
           Abdication
           of
           Iames
           the
           Second
           to
           be
           of
           
           the
           same
           Complexion
           :
           They
           ridicul'd
           the
           Popish
           Plot
           in
           1678
           ,
           that
           theirs
           of
           1695
           might
           be
           less
           credited
           ;
           They
           took
           occasion
           to
           exclaim
           against
           the
           Rebellion
           in
           1641
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Duke
           of
           
           Monmouth's
           ,
           not
           sticking
           to
           represent
           the
           Prince
           of
           
           Orange's
           glorious
           Expedition
           parallel
           thereto
           .
           At
           other
           times
           under
           Umbrage
           of
           great
           Loyalty
           to
           King
           William
           ,
           many
           of
           them
           declaim'd
           of
           the
           Divine
           Right
           of
           Kings
           ,
           and
           of
           their
           unaccountableness
           on
           this
           side
           Heaven
           ,
           from
           whence
           this
           wicked
           Inference
           was
           made
           ,
           that
           the
           late
           
             King
             Iames
          
           still
           remains
           their
           rightful
           King.
           
        
         
           Such
           Practices
           as
           these
           were
           found
           by
           evident
           Proof
           ,
           to
           have
           been
           the
           Principal
           Rise
           and
           Occasion
           of
           ripening
           the
           horrid
           Conspiracy
           in
           this
           Nation
           .
           
           As
           for
           his
           Majesty's
           Kingdom
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           it
           is
           Notorious
           there
           has
           been
           long
           Shelter'd
           in
           it
           a
           desperate
           Faction
           of
           furious
           Zealots
           ,
           that
           under
           the
           Notion
           of
           Prelatists
           were
           growing
           up
           by
           degrees
           to
           a
           Violation
           ,
           at
           last
           ,
           not
           only
           of
           all
           the
           Rules
           and
           Institutions
           of
           true
           Religion
           ,
           but
           of
           Common
           Humanity
           .
           Have
           they
           not
           proceeded
           to
           all
           the
           execrable
           Rage
           of
           Rapine
           aud
           Violence
           ?
           
           Their
           Principles
           are
           not
           yet
           entirely
           extinguish'd
           ,
           tho
           their
           Force
           has
           been
           Vanquish'd
           in
           open
           Field
           ,
           by
           God's
           Provindence
           prospering
           His
           Majesty's
           Arms.
           It
           is
           certain
           also
           ,
           the
           Peace
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           has
           been
           much
           endangered
           by
           other
           Factious
           and
           Seditious
           Spirits
           ,
           who
           ,
           tho
           at
           first
           they
           would
           not
           venture
           to
           encourage
           publickly
           
           the
           Treason
           ,
           yet
           stuck
           not
           secretly
           to
           favour
           and
           foment
           their
           Cause
           ,
           and
           would
           soon
           have
           own'd
           and
           headed
           the
           furious
           Traitors
           ,
           had
           the
           Plot
           prospered
           .
        
         
           By
           this
           brief
           Recollection
           of
           the
           Troubled
           State
           of
           Affairs
           ,
           
           and
           the
           tumultuous
           temper
           of
           ill
           Men's
           Minds
           ,
           in
           His
           Majesty's
           Kingdoms
           of
           England
           and
           Scotland
           ,
           about
           the
           time
           when
           this
           Treasonable
           Conspiracy
           was
           in
           Agitation
           ,
           the
           Impartial
           World
           may
           perceive
           from
           what
           destructive
           Seeds
           of
           Sedition
           ,
           private
           Passions
           and
           Animosities
           ,
           under
           the
           disguise
           of
           Religion
           and
           the
           Publick
           Interest
           ,
           so
           Monstrous
           a
           Birth
           was
           produced
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           wonderful
           Discovery
           of
           which
           detestable
           Confederacy
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           happy
           prevention
           of
           its
           dire
           Effects
           ;
           as
           all
           who
           have
           heard
           of
           it
           must
           acknowledg
           ,
           that
           a
           signal
           care
           of
           God's
           Providence
           has
           appear'd
           for
           His
           Majesty
           and
           these
           Nations
           preservation
           :
           so
           it
           must
           be
           acknowledged
           by
           all
           ,
           that
           nothing
           has
           been
           done
           on
           his
           Majesties
           Part
           ,
           but
           what
           was
           agreeable
           to
           that
           Royal
           Benignity
           and
           Natural
           Candor
           of
           his
           whole
           Life
           whereof
           all
           the
           World
           ,
           even
           his
           Enemies
           ,
           have
           had
           such
           undoubted
           Experience
        
         
           Much
           of
           the
           Evidence
           was
           deliver'd
           in
           His
           Majesty's
           own
           presence
           .
           The
           Examinations
           were
           taken
           by
           Men
           of
           unquestionable
           Reputation
           and
           Honour
           .
           The
           whole
           proceedings
           has
           been
           managed
           with
           all
           imaginable
           Integrity
           .
           There
           has
           been
           no
           straining
           or
           extorting
           of
           Accusations
           to
           blemish
           the
           Fame
           of
           the
           Innocent
           :
           
           No
           Temptations
           of
           
           Rewards
           proposed
           :
           no
           Pardon
           assured
           before-hand
           ,
           for
           discovering
           or
           aggravating
           the
           Crimes
           of
           the
           Guilty
           .
        
         
           Some
           Witnesses
           who
           offer'd
           themselves
           ,
           of
           whom
           there
           might
           have
           been
           any
           colourable
           Suspition
           ,
           were
           wholly
           rejected
           :
           Lest
           it
           should
           once
           again
           happen
           that
           the
           blasted
           Credit
           or
           needy
           Condition
           ,
           or
           Profligate
           Lives
           of
           the
           Persons
           deposing
           ,
           should
           derogate
           from
           the
           strength
           of
           their
           Depositions
           ,
           and
           administer
           any
           the
           least
           doubt
           of
           Subornation
           .
        
         
           Those
           Witnesses
           His
           Majesty
           admitted
           had
           been
           generally
           Men
           strongly
           prepossessed
           in
           Conscience
           ,
           Zeal
           and
           Interest
           for
           that
           Party
           ;
           Men
           whose
           former
           avow'd
           Hatred
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           was
           reason
           sufficient
           to
           gain
           them
           an
           absolute
           Trust
           with
           any
           who
           studied
           to
           overthrow
           it
           .
           They
           were
           not
           of
           desperate
           Fortunes
           ,
           nor
           despicable
           Men
           ;
           for
           the
           most
           part
           they
           seperatly
           and
           singly
           brought
           in
           their
           Discoveries
           .
           Divers
           of
           them
           had
           little
           or
           no
           Conversation
           or
           Familiarity
           one
           with
           another
           .
           There
           was
           no
           shadow
           or
           possibility
           of
           a
           Combination
           between
           them
           all
           to
           discover
           ;
           
           yet
           such
           is
           the
           prevalence
           of
           self
           Conviction
           ,
           and
           so
           great
           the
           Power
           of
           Truth
           ,
           that
           all
           their
           several
           Discoveries
           did
           perfectly
           agree
           with
           themselves
           and
           with
           each
           other
           ,
           in
           all
           Material
           Parts
           and
           Circumstances
           .
        
         
           It
           was
           therefore
           in
           the
           Year
           1695
           ,
           a
           time
           when
           all
           His
           Majesty's
           Dominons
           enjoyed
           a
           settled
           Peace
           and
           profound
           
           Security
           ,
           whilst
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           the
           Neighbouring
           World
           was
           involved
           in
           Wars
           and
           Combustions
           ;
           that
           his
           Majesty
           and
           his
           Council
           were
           suddenly
           awaken'd
           with
           the
           surprizing
           Knowledg
           of
           this
           dreadful
           Conspiracy
           ,
           which
           had
           been
           laying
           very
           deep
           and
           broad
           for
           many
           Months
           before
           .
        
         
           The
           Man
           whom
           God
           chose
           to
           make
           the
           first
           Discoverer
           was
           Mr.
           Prendergast
           ,
           a
           Person
           of
           good
           Credit
           in
           his
           Conversation
           ,
           but
           otherwise
           a
           most
           perverse
           Papist
           ,
           and
           fiercely
           addicted
           to
           their
           Cause
           ,
           and
           one
           of
           the
           busiest
           Sticklers
           against
           the
           Government
           .
           He
           by
           his
           approved
           Activity
           and
           Violence
           for
           the
           French
           Interest
           ,
           was
           Judg'd
           by
           the
           Chief
           Conspirators
           fitly
           qualified
           to
           be
           admitted
           into
           their
           most
           private
           Consultations
           ;
           
           and
           accordingly
           thereafter
           they
           trusted
           him
           as
           one
           of
           their
           surest
           Confidents
           .
           Insomuch
           that
           he
           was
           invited
           to
           make
           one
           of
           those
           40
           Miscreants
           ,
           whose
           proper
           part
           it
           was
           to
           Assassinate
           his
           Majesty's
           Person
           .
        
         
           Of
           which
           Number
           ,
           after
           he
           had
           freely
           consented
           to
           be
           ,
           and
           had
           met
           and
           acted
           joyntly
           with
           therest
           for
           some
           time
           ,
           to
           prepare
           the
           cursed
           Work
           for
           a
           speedy
           Execution
           ;
           It
           pleased
           the
           Divine
           Goodness
           so
           to
           touch
           his
           Soul
           with
           the
           Horrour
           of
           so
           amazing
           a
           Crime
           ,
           
           that
           he
           determined
           to
           discharge
           his
           Conscience
           of
           the
           Hellish
           Secret.
           
        
         
           Wherefore
           he
           immediately
           resolved
           to
           prevent
           the
           Mischief
           of
           the
           following
           Day
           ,
           by
           giving
           his
           Majesty
           
           timely
           Notice
           :
           accordingly
           he
           went
           and
           acquainted
           the
           Earl
           of
           Portland
           with
           the
           Design
           ,
           who
           communicated
           the
           whole
           Matter
           to
           His
           Majesty
           ,
           who
           at
           his
           return
           told
           him
           the
           King
           would
           speak
           with
           him
           .
        
         
           On
           Friday
           Night
           the
           14
           th
           of
           February
           ,
           he
           went
           to
           Kensington
           ,
           and
           was
           introduced
           to
           His
           Majesty
           by
           the
           Earl
           of
           Portland
           ,
           and
           laid
           before
           him
           his
           whole
           Knowledg
           of
           this
           Diabolical
           Conspiracy
           .
        
         
           But
           the
           intended
           Assassination
           ,
           upon
           the
           first
           disclosing
           of
           it
           ,
           appeared
           to
           be
           so
           prodigious
           a
           Barbarity
           that
           His
           Majesty
           for
           some
           time
           gave
           but
           very
           little
           Ear
           and
           slow
           Credit
           to
           this
           Information
           ,
           as
           little
           suspecting
           as
           deserving
           such
           Usage
           from
           the
           worst
           of
           His
           Subjects
           .
        
         
           Which
           generous
           Caution
           ,
           that
           His
           Majesty
           took
           not
           to
           be
           imposed
           upon
           by
           new
           Rumours
           of
           Plots
           ,
           and
           His
           Gracious
           Tenderness
           not
           to
           believe
           so
           ill
           of
           his
           very
           Enemies
           ,
           but
           upon
           certain
           Demonstration
           ,
           was
           one
           of
           the
           Chief
           Occasions
           that
           the
           Duke
           of
           Berwick
           and
           divers
           others
           of
           the
           principal
           Agitators
           and
           Managers
           of
           the
           whole
           Business
           took
           the
           Alarm
           ,
           
           and
           got
           time
           to
           scatter
           aud
           withdraw
           beyond
           the
           Seas
           .
        
         
           However
           ,
           by
           God's
           Providence
           continually
           watching
           over
           His
           Majesty's
           and
           these
           Nations
           Safety
           ,
           so
           many
           of
           the
           Traytors
           soon
           after
           fell
           into
           the
           Hands
           of
           Justice
           ,
           who
           did
           voluntarily
           acknowledg
           their
           being
           Partakers
           of
           the
           Treason
           ,
           or
           were
           convicted
           of
           it
           by
           evident
           Proof
           ,
           that
           
           henceforth
           whoever
           shall
           pretend
           not
           to
           believe
           the
           Truth
           of
           the
           whole
           ,
           they
           must
           either
           be
           such
           as
           were
           Parties
           in
           the
           Design
           ,
           or
           so
           monstrously
           unreasonable
           as
           to
           believe
           there
           never
           can
           be
           a
           real
           Plot
           against
           any
           Prince
           or
           State
           ,
           but
           what
           does
           actually
           succeed
           and
           take
           effect
           .
        
         
           Thus
           much
           is
           certain
           of
           this
           Conspirary
           ,
           and
           it
           is
           so
           remarkable
           and
           extraordinary
           ,
           that
           perhaps
           the
           like
           cannot
           be
           affirmed
           of
           any
           other
           mentioned
           in
           all
           History
           ,
           that
           there
           was
           scarce
           a
           man
           Attainted
           or
           Executed
           for
           it
           ,
           who
           did
           not
           more
           or
           less
           add
           some
           new
           light
           to
           the
           several
           parts
           of
           the
           Dark
           Contrivance
           ,
           either
           by
           a
           plain
           confession
           of
           it
           ,
           or
           by
           the
           very
           manner
           of
           dening
           it
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           weakness
           of
           the
           Subterfuges
           ,
           whereby
           they
           endeavoured
           to
           palliate
           their
           Crimes
           .
        
         
           Upon
           the
           whole
           matter
           ,
           tho
           it
           is
           not
           doubted
           but
           the
           Treasonable
           Infection
           was
           in
           some
           degree
           or
           other
           spread
           into
           most
           parts
           of
           these
           Kingdoms
           ,
           
           amongst
           the
           Ring
           leaders
           of
           the
           Jacobite
           Clubs
           ,
           and
           lawless
           Conventicles
           in
           Town
           and
           Countrey
           .
           Yet
           I
           declare
           an
           utter
           Abhorrence
           that
           bare
           Suspitions
           ,
           though
           never
           so
           probably
           grounded
           ,
           should
           prevail
           to
           conclude
           any
           Man
           guilty
           ,
           and
           therefore
           resolve
           to
           make
           no
           reflection
           on
           the
           Fame
           of
           any
           ,
           but
           only
           Such
           whose
           Part
           in
           it
           was
           made
           out
           by
           positive
           Testimony
           .
        
         
           And
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           of
           England
           the
           Persons
           who
           are
           already
           Judicially
           found
           to
           have
           been
           deeply
           concerned
           
           as
           Actors
           ,
           some
           in
           the
           Insurrection
           part
           ,
           others
           in
           the
           Assassination
           ,
           divers
           of
           them
           in
           both
           together
           ,
           are
           these
           .
        
         
           
           The
           Duke
           of
           Berwick
           ,
           who
           ,
           not
           only
           by
           Extraction
           but
           Education
           has
           been
           long
           corrupted
           ,
           and
           alienated
           from
           his
           Duty
           to
           his
           Native
           Countrey
           ,
           and
           now
           't
           is
           evident
           his
           Frenchified
           Mind
           is
           poyson'd
           with
           unjust
           and
           forbidden
           Hopes
           .
        
         
           The
           Earl
           of
           Aylesbury
           ,
           who
           for
           some
           Years
           had
           been
           ingaged
           in
           the
           most
           furious
           Designs
           of
           the
           Faction
           ,
           and
           of
           late
           especially
           .
        
         
           Capt.
           
             George
             Porter
          
           ,
           who
           had
           always
           been
           a
           busy
           Promoter
           of
           Popish
           and
           Slavish
           Projects
           for
           overturning
           our
           Church
           and
           State
           ;
           and
           was
           therefore
           for
           a
           time
           a
           great
           Favourite
           of
           the
           Disaffected
           :
           
           Whilst
           he
           was
           imprisoned
           with
           Capt.
           Goodman
           ,
           Maj.
           Matthews
           ,
           Capt.
           
             Shevery
             ,
             Rhoads
          
           ,
           a
           Trumpeter
           ,
           and
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Drury-Lane
           Trayterous
           Riotors
           ,
           in
           Iune
           1695.
           
           Nor
           did
           they
           ever
           make
           any
           Objections
           against
           the
           Honesty
           of
           his
           private
           Life
           till
           he
           came
           to
           the
           Honestest
           part
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           The
           late
           Sir
           
             Thomas
             Roe
          
           of
           Islington
           ,
           whose
           dark
           and
           turbulent
           Spirit
           and
           insatiable
           Ambition
           had
           carryed
           him
           on
           to
           be
           one
           of
           the
           Principle
           Persons
           engaged
           in
           this
           Hellish
           Conspiracy
           .
           It
           being
           well
           known
           that
           this
           Unhappy
           Gentleman
           not
           long
           before
           the
           Discovery
           ,
           was
           heard
           to
           say
           that
           he
           should
           be
           at
           the
           Head
           of
           a
           Reginment
           
           of
           Horse
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           first
           place
           would
           cut
           the
           Throat
           of
           Mr.
           Keck
           a
           Master
           in
           Chancery
           .
           But
           finding
           the
           Hellish
           Design
           to
           be
           dispointed
           and
           Discover'd
           ,
           on
           Sunday
           the
           23
           d
           of
           February
           (
           the
           Day
           after
           the
           Fatal
           Blow
           was
           to
           have
           been
           given
           ,
           )
           God
           permited
           him
           to
           become
           his
           own
           Executioner
           ,
           and
           he
           shot
           himself
           into
           the
           Head
           ,
           not
           venturing
           to
           give
           His
           Majesty
           time
           to
           make
           use
           of
           the
           excellent
           Goodness
           of
           his
           Nature
           .
        
         
           Sir
           
             William
             Parkyns
          
           ,
           a
           Person
           carried
           away
           beyond
           his
           Duty
           and
           Allegiance
           into
           this
           Trayterous
           Enterprize
           ,
           by
           a
           vain
           Air
           of
           Popish
           Principles
           ;
           whereby
           he
           was
           the
           more
           easily
           seduc'd
           by
           the
           Wicked
           Teachers
           of
           that
           most
           Unchristian
           Doctrine
           which
           has
           been
           the
           Cause
           of
           so
           many
           Rebellions
           ,
           and
           was
           so
           conformable
           to
           his
           Antichristian
           Education
           ,
           That
           it
           is
           Lawful
           to
           cut
           the
           Throat
           of
           a
           Protestant
           Prince
           .
        
         
           Sir
           
             Iohn
             Friend
          
           ,
           who
           ever
           since
           this
           happy
           Revolution
           had
           profest
           himself
           an
           Enemy
           to
           the
           Government
           of
           his
           Country
           ,
           and
           had
           acted
           accordingly
           .
           As
           he
           Liv'd
           ,
           so
           he
           Dyed
           ,
           a
           Stubborn
           Assertor
           of
           the
           Jacobite
           Cause
           .
        
         
           Capt.
           
             Robert
             Charnock
          
           ,
           a
           Popish
           Debauchee
           ,
           who
           was
           a
           most
           active
           Instrument
           to
           promote
           the
           Hellish
           Design
           against
           His
           Sacred
           Majesty
           ,
           
           under
           colour
           of
           an
           affected
           Zeal
           of
           Conscience
           and
           pure
           Religion
           .
        
         
           Leiut
           .
           
             Edward
             King
          
           a
           furious
           Papistical
           Bravo
           ;
           who
           had
           often
           laid
           Designs
           for
           the
           King's
           Murder
           ,
           which
           God
           as
           often
           prevented
           by
           his
           signal
           Providence
           .
        
         
         
           
           
             Thomas
             Keys
          
           ,
           a
           desperate
           and
           bloddy
           Raviliac
           ,
           he
           was
           a
           Trumpeter
           in
           the
           late
           King's
           Army
           in
           the
           West
           against
           Monmouth
           :
           He
           was
           actually
           engag'd
           in
           this
           Horrid
           Conspiracy
           ,
           and
           has
           receiv'd
           the
           just
           Reward
           of
           his
           Treason
           .
        
         
           Major
           
             Robert
             Lowick
          
           ,
           a
           furious
           Roman
           Catholick
           and
           great
           Confident
           of
           the
           late
           
             King
             Iames
          
           ,
           by
           whom
           he
           was
           recommended
           to
           Sir
           
             George
             Barclay
          
           to
           make
           one
           in
           the
           Assassination
           .
        
         
           
           
             Peter
             Cook
          
           ,
           Gent.
           a
           mighty
           Jacobite
           ,
           one
           of
           those
           ,
           who
           with
           an
           Hypocritical
           Zeal
           would
           have
           pass'd
           for
           the
           most
           forward
           Reformers
           of
           Church
           and
           State
           :
           whilst
           they
           themselves
           both
           in
           their
           Practice
           and
           Opinions
           ,
           were
           the
           greatest
           Corrupters
           of
           Vertue
           and
           all
           Good
           Manners
           .
        
         
           
             Charles
             Cranburne
          
           ,
           a
           Person
           whose
           resolute
           boldness
           recommended
           him
           to
           Capt.
           Porter
           as
           a
           Person
           fit
           for
           his
           turn
           in
           any
           desperate
           Attempt
           ,
           
           and
           at
           his
           Death
           Confest
           enough
           to
           shew
           his
           Crime
           tho
           not
           his
           Repentance
           .
        
         
           Brigadier
           Rookwood
           ,
           a
           notorious
           Enemy
           of
           the
           Establish'd
           Government
           in
           Church
           and
           State
           ,
           and
           was
           actually
           to
           engage
           in
           putting
           the
           Hellish
           Conspiracy
           in
           Exectuion
           .
        
         
           —
           Goodman
           ,
           —
           Harris
           ,
           —
           Knightly
           ,
           —
           Bertram
           ,
           and
           Bois
           ,
           
           notorious
           Papists
           ,
           their
           Hatred
           to
           the
           Government
           transported
           them
           to
           be
           Factious
           :
           These
           were
           all
           Men
           of
           crafty
           Heads
           ,
           and
           nimble
           Tongues
           ;
           restless
           spreaders
           of
           False
           News
           ,
           bold
           Talkers
           in
           seditious
           Clubs
           ;
           
           where
           according
           to
           the
           Corrupt
           Fashion
           of
           the
           Times
           ,
           the
           most
           Profligate
           Persons
           of
           all
           Conditions
           were
           wont
           openly
           to
           Arraign
           the
           Monarchy
           ,
           and
           Vilifie
           the
           Church
           ,
           under
           the
           fair
           Shews
           of
           amending
           both
           and
           a
           tender
           Concernment
           for
           the
           Publick
           Good.
           However
           these
           five
           last
           mentioned
           did
           in
           some
           measure
           expiate
           their
           Guilt
           ,
           by
           their
           Ingenious
           and
           Voluntary
           Confessions
           .
        
         
           Sir
           
             George
             Barclay
          
           ,
           
           a
           Scotch
           Man
           ,
           and
           a
           Leiutenant
           in
           the
           late
           King's
           Guards
           ,
           and
           egregiously
           disaffected
           to
           the
           present
           Government
           ,
           and
           therefore
           of
           considerable
           Interest
           with
           the
           Court
           of
           St.
           
           Germain's
           and
           the
           
             French
             King
          
           ,
           who
           are
           the
           most
           professed
           Enemies
           of
           these
           Kingdoms
           ,
           by
           whom
           he
           was
           sent
           into
           England
           with
           about
           20
           Troopers
           ,
           under
           the
           disguise
           of
           being
           turn'd
           out
           of
           Commission
           to
           bring
           to
           pass
           his
           Master
           's
           Devilish
           Contrivance
           .
           And
           he
           was
           known
           to
           be
           one
           of
           the
           Chief
           Actors
           in
           the
           whole
           Conspiracy
           .
        
         
           
             Brice
             Blair
          
           ,
           
           a
           furious
           Roman
           Catholick
           ,
           he
           was
           fitted
           for
           such
           a
           Design
           by
           his
           hot
           and
           fiery
           Temper
           ,
           and
           was
           a
           most
           desperate
           Enemy
           to
           the
           Government
           of
           these
           Kingdoms
           .
        
         
           But
           of
           all
           the
           Conspirators
           ,
           
           the
           Man
           to
           whom
           belonged
           the
           Cheif
           Place
           and
           Precedence
           in
           the
           whole
           Diabolical
           Design
           ,
           was
           
             Robert
             Ferguson
          
           ,
           a
           Scotch
           Man
           ;
           he
           had
           long
           brandished
           his
           poysonous
           Tongue
           and
           virulent
           
           Pen
           against
           the
           Government
           .
           He
           is
           manifestly
           convicted
           to
           have
           had
           a
           hand
           in
           the
           most
           Scandalous
           Libels
           of
           these
           Times
           ,
           and
           was
           particularly
           cherished
           and
           magnified
           by
           the
           Party
           ,
           for
           his
           peculiar
           Talent
           in
           aspersing
           the
           Government
           and
           reviling
           His
           Majesty's
           Person
           ;
           so
           that
           upon
           all
           Accounts
           of
           his
           restless
           Spirit
           ,
           fluent
           Tongue
           ,
           
           subtile
           Brain
           ,
           and
           Hellish
           Malice
           ,
           he
           was
           perfectly
           qualified
           to
           be
           the
           great
           Incendiary
           and
           common
           Agitator
           of
           the
           whole
           Conspiracy
           ;
           and
           it
           cannot
           be
           deny'd
           but
           he
           was
           the
           Life
           and
           Soul
           of
           all
           ,
           especially
           for
           the
           carrying
           on
           of
           the
           whole
           Design
           .
        
         
           These
           Persons
           appear
           hitherto
           ,
           to
           have
           been
           the
           Principal
           Contrivers
           or
           Instruments
           of
           the
           whole
           Treason
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           of
           England
           and
           Scotland
           .
        
         
           Divers
           others
           there
           are
           ,
           concerning
           whom
           more
           than
           conjectural
           Proofs
           may
           be
           given
           of
           their
           having
           been
           engaged
           in
           it
           ,
           but
           I
           chuse
           to
           spare
           particular
           Names
           ,
           as
           far
           as
           may
           stand
           with
           the
           necessary
           and
           just
           Vindication
           of
           the
           Government
           .
        
         
           It
           may
           suffice
           ,
           that
           of
           these
           here
           mentioned
           the
           World
           is
           abundantly
           satisfied
           that
           the
           several
           Shares
           they
           undertook
           in
           this
           Conspiracy
           ,
           were
           very
           agreeable
           to
           their
           former
           well-known
           perverse
           Principles
           and
           declared
           Disaffections
           to
           the
           Government
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           therefore
           certain
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           Year
           1695
           ,
           a
           time
           when
           the
           French
           King's
           Affairs
           were
           reduc'd
           to
           the
           
           heighth
           of
           Desparation
           ,
           this
           Diabolical
           Design
           of
           Assassinating
           His
           Majesty
           came
           afresh
           to
           be
           agitated
           ,
           
           and
           the
           whole
           Factious
           Interest
           ,
           in
           and
           about
           the
           Town
           ,
           nay
           throughout
           the
           three
           Kingdoms
           ,
           prepar'd
           to
           employ
           the
           main
           of
           their
           Power
           and
           Craft
           for
           overturning
           the
           Government
           .
        
         
           All
           which
           time
           nothing
           was
           omitted
           by
           the
           Disloyal
           Citizens
           ,
           who
           were
           no
           way
           Numerous
           ,
           and
           a
           Multitude
           of
           Strangers
           unduly
           mingled
           with
           them
           in
           their
           Clubs
           ,
           to
           terrify
           the
           Loyal
           ,
           and
           gain
           over
           the
           timerous
           Members
           of
           the
           City
           ;
           and
           a
           new
           and
           Devillish
           Invention
           was
           much
           in
           Vogue
           ,
           by
           which
           they
           made
           the
           Swearing
           to
           the
           Government
           to
           be
           only
           an
           Instrument
           for
           the
           promoting
           their
           ungodly
           Designs
           .
        
         
           All
           sorts
           of
           Arms
           ,
           never
           before
           known
           to
           be
           procured
           in
           such
           quantities
           by
           private
           Persons
           ,
           such
           as
           Blunderbusses
           ,
           &c.
           were
           carefully
           sought
           after
           and
           bought
           up
           .
           The
           most
           improbable
           and
           villainous
           false
           Rumors
           ,
           wherewith
           too
           many
           of
           our
           Pulpits
           ,
           with
           equal
           Industry
           and
           Malice
           design'd
           to
           poison
           our
           unthinking
           People
           ,
           filled
           every
           Street
           .
        
         
           My
           Lord
           (
           for
           tho
           I
           have
           insensibly
           slid
           into
           a
           tedious
           Letter
           ,
           I
           may
           not
           forget
           to
           whom
           I
           address
           this
           )
           I
           take
           the
           freedom
           to
           reflect
           on
           the
           Stile
           of
           Modern
           Sermons
           ,
           which
           ,
           my
           Lord
           ,
           you
           know
           ,
           are
           or
           ought
           to
           be
           serious
           Things
           ,
           and
           ,
           to
           be
           confined
           to
           the
           Rules
           
           of
           strict
           and
           sober
           Truth
           .
           When
           the
           Clergy
           find
           or
           make
           occasion
           to
           discourse
           of
           Princes
           ,
           one
           would
           think
           the
           Subject
           Matter
           should
           teach
           them
           Moderation
           and
           Temperance
           ,
           Decorum
           and
           Decency
           ;
           but
           I
           shall
           evince
           that
           some
           have
           little
           regarded
           Truth
           or
           Manners
           :
           and
           for
           the
           performing
           it
           ,
           shall
           not
           ransack
           many
           Sermons
           ,
           but
           give
           your
           Lordship
           a
           Taste
           of
           the
           Fraternity's
           Goodly
           Method
           of
           disparaging
           and
           reproaching
           His
           Majesty
           ,
           and
           of
           their
           fine
           knack
           at
           Representation
           and
           Character
           ,
           and
           that
           from
           your
           Lordship's
           next
           Neighbour
           ,
           and
           a
           Prebendary
           of
           your
           Church
           of
           VVestminster
           ,
           I
           mean
           the
           Famous
           Dr.
           Birch
           ,
           who
           with
           his
           effronted
           Forehead
           (
           tho
           then
           His
           Majesty's
           Chaplain
           )
           began
           ,
           and
           that
           very
           early
           ,
           to
           sound
           the
           Trumpet
           to
           Rebellion
           ;
           and
           that
           before
           the
           August
           Assembly
           of
           the
           Nation
           's
           Representatives
           ,
           in
           his
           lewd
           Harangue
           on
           the
           30
           th
           of
           Ianuary
           1693
           ,
           for
           which
           ,
           by
           surprise
           ,
           Sir
           
             T.
             D.
          
           obtain'd
           an
           Order
           of
           the
           House
           of
           Commons
           ,
           that
           he
           and
           Mr.
           H.
           (
           who
           was
           soon
           after
           expell'd
           for
           Bribery
           )
           should
           return
           the
           Doctor
           Thanks
           ,
           and
           desire
           him
           to
           print
           his
           Sermon
           ;
           which
           they
           accordingly
           did
           ;
           and
           so
           the
           World
           became
           Obliged
           by
           these
           high
           and
           extraordinary
           Flights
           .
        
         
           We
           (
           quoth
           His
           Majesty's
           Chaplain
           )
           are
           still
           threatned
           in
           their
           Turn
           ,
           either
           with
           no
           Church
           at
           all
           ,
           or
           the
           worst
           among
           Christians
           .
           Are
           not
           our
           very
           Blessings
           turn'd
           into
           a
           Curse
           ?
           Our
           Boasted
           Freedom
           is
           now
           only
           
           a
           Liberty
           to
           bite
           and
           devour
           one
           another
           .
           Our
           long
           cry'd
           up
           Liberty
           of
           Conscience
           ,
           proves
           one
           of
           Impiety
           Licentiousness
           ,
           and
           Errour
           ,
           and
           at
           best
           serves
           for
           a
           Step
           to
           Dominion
           more
           than
           Devotion
           .
           Our
           Laws
           are
           indeed
           open
           ,
           but
           to
           the
           continual
           Conspiracies
           of
           false
           Witnesses
           against
           the
           Lives
           and
           Fortunes
           of
           the
           Innocent
           .
           Ours
           (
           proceeds
           the
           Doctor
           )
           is
           the
           first
           State-Schism
           known
           in
           the
           World.
           
        
         
           We
           have
           (
           says
           he
           )
           entailed
           upon
           us
           Disputed
           Titles
           ;
           and
           for
           ought
           yet
           appears
           endless
           Wars
           .
           We
           are
           fallen
           into
           those
           Dregs
           of
           Time
           ,
           wherein
           Hypocrisy
           and
           Profaneness
           seem
           to
           divide
           the
           World
           between
           them
           ;
           and
           all
           true
           and
           unaffected
           Piety
           is
           out
           of
           Countenance
           ;
           wherein
           all
           the
           Sacred
           Tyes
           to
           our
           King
           and
           Country
           appear
           as
           loose
           as
           our
           Manners
           .
           If
           then
           we
           dare
           own
           discouraged
           Vertue
           ,
           and
           would
           stand
           in
           the
           Gap
           to
           save
           the
           whole
           from
           Destruction
           ,
           the
           true
           way
           is
           not
           to
           follow
           a
           Multitude
           to
           do
           Evil
           ,
           or
           to
           joyn
           in
           those
           Fashionable
           Flatteries
           that
           are
           ruine
           to
           the
           Embracers
           .
        
         
           My
           good
           Lord
           ,
           I
           appeal
           to
           You
           whether
           this
           vile
           Discourse
           is
           not
           stufft
           with
           the
           most
           audacious
           Reproaches
           of
           a
           Crown'd
           Head
           ,
           that
           were
           ever
           heard
           among
           Christians
           ;
           Are
           such
           rare
           Men
           as
           this
           ,
           I
           beseech
           your
           Lordship
           ,
           fit
           to
           be
           trusted
           with
           our
           Consciences
           ?
           Now
           if
           I
           have
           not
           here
           set
           this
           bold
           Clergy-man
           in
           his
           true
           light
           ,
           I
           hope
           I
           shall
           do
           it
           to
           purpose
           ,
           when
           I
           tell
           yonr
           Lordship
           ,
           that
           this
           
           very
           Doctor
           was
           seen
           walking
           in
           St.
           
           Iames's
           Park
           ,
           with
           that
           remarkable
           Knight
           Sir
           
             Iohn
             Fenwick
          
           ,
           who
           Disappear'd
           for
           some
           Months
           ,
           but
           was
           after
           taken
           at
           Rumney
           in
           Kent
           ;
           and
           with
           a
           certain
           nameless
           Earl
           ,
           on
           that
           very
           Sunday
           before
           Noon
           (
           February
           23.
           )
           when
           their
           Party
           waited
           for
           the
           much
           long'd
           for
           News
           of
           His
           Majesty's
           Assassination
           .
           But
           to
           pass
           on
           ,
        
         
           Not
           only
           the
           Pulpit
           but
           the
           Press
           was
           imploy'd
           for
           promoting
           this
           barbarous
           Design
           ,
           as
           I
           shall
           demonstrate
           to
           your
           Lordship
           ,
           by
           a
           few
           Touches
           out
           of
           some
           envenom'd
           Libels
           .
        
         
           The
           Clergy
           (
           says
           one
           of
           their
           Incendiaries
           )
           see
           on
           what
           Terms
           they
           stand
           with
           their
           renown'd
           Deliverer
           ,
           and
           what
           great
           and
           glorious
           Designs
           he
           has
           to
           devour
           them
           ,
           so
           soon
           as
           he
           has
           Power
           and
           Opportunity
           .
           He
           has
           as
           good
           a
           Will
           to
           the
           Church-Lands
           as
           to
           his
           Father's
           Crown
           :
           But
           he
           durst
           never
           put
           it
           to
           the
           Issue
           ,
           lest
           it
           should
           discover
           the
           weakness
           of
           his
           Interest
           ,
           for
           the
           Eyes
           of
           the
           Nation
           are
           open'd
           ,
           They
           see
           themselves
           Cheated
           and
           Abus'd
           ,
           and
           instead
           of
           Liberties
           and
           Privileges
           ,
           find
           themselves
           made
           Tools
           to
           insatiable
           Ambition
           ,
           and
           a
           Morsel
           for
           execrable
           Parricide
           .
           And
           it
           was
           the
           most
           unaccountable
           Infatuation
           to
           have
           expected
           otherwise
           ;
           that
           he
           who
           had
           Stomach
           enough
           to
           devour
           his
           Father
           ,
           would
           ever
           Stick
           at
           preying
           on
           the
           Wealth
           ,
           the
           Rights
           and
           Vitals
           of
           the
           Nation
           .
        
         
         
           Read
           this
           envenom'd
           Author
           a
           little
           farther
           ,
           I
           entreat
           your
           Lordship
           .
           The
           whole
           Nation
           (
           proceeds
           he
           )
           must
           be
           sacrificed
           to
           revenge
           that
           generous
           Pity
           and
           Compassion
           which
           has
           been
           shewn
           [
           by
           the
           King
           of
           France
           ]
           to
           an
           oppressed
           Prince
           ,
           whom
           we
           have
           infinitly
           wrong'd
           .
           'T
           is
           not
           his
           Oppression
           but
           his
           Piety
           ,
           is
           the
           Ground
           of
           this
           Immortal
           Hatred
           :
           and
           't
           is
           manifest
           to
           all
           ,
           that
           the
           Noble
           ,
           Princely
           and
           Christian
           Succour
           he
           has
           afforded
           our
           Injur'd
           King
           ,
           is
           more
           provoking
           than
           all
           the
           Oppressions
           in
           the
           World.
           
        
         
           Another
           of
           their
           Emissaries
           says
           ,
           he
           Challenges
           the
           whole
           World
           to
           produce
           such
           an
           Instance
           of
           Injustice
           ,
           and
           Violation
           of
           Promises
           ,
           as
           this
           pretended
           Saint
           ,
           and
           Mirror
           of
           Justice
           has
           afforded
           us
           .
           Our
           Constitution
           both
           of
           Church
           and
           State
           are
           revers'd
           ,
           and
           quite
           disjointed
           ,
           our
           Liberties
           and
           Properties
           most
           unjustly
           invaded
           ,
           and
           more
           Instances
           of
           Arbitrary
           Power
           daily
           committed
           ,
           than
           in
           several
           of
           the
           former
           Reigns
           .
           I
           proceed
           says
           this
           venemous
           Libeller
           ,
           to
           address
           my self
           to
           those
           of
           my
           Country-men
           who
           has
           had
           the
           misfortune
           to
           be
           misled
           ,
           that
           since
           they
           have
           had
           all
           their
           Expectations
           decceiv'd
           ,
           themselves
           gull'd
           out
           of
           all
           those
           real
           Blessings
           of
           Government
           they
           formerly
           enjoy'd
           ,
           Peace
           ,
           Plenty
           ,
           Liberty
           and
           Property
           ,
           and
           all
           that
           could
           render
           a
           People
           happy
           ,
           by
           one
           whom
           a
           Man
           would
           be
           tempted
           to
           think
           could
           never
           have
           been
           procreated
           of
           Human
           Race
           ,
           void
           
           of
           all
           sence
           of
           Religion
           ,
           Justice
           ,
           Honour
           ,
           and
           every
           Qualification
           that
           is
           apt
           to
           conciliate
           Love
           or
           Veneration
           from
           Mankind
           ;
           who
           has
           really
           forfeited
           the
           Crown
           by
           his
           own
           Act
           ,
           having
           violated
           the
           very
           Instrument
           of
           Government
           he
           Subcribed
           :
           One
           who
           has
           been
           the
           Occasion
           of
           shedding
           more
           Christian
           Blood
           ,
           than
           has
           been
           spilt
           in
           the
           ten
           Persecutions
           ,
           meerly
           upon
           a
           sham
           Pretence
           of
           Religion
           to
           us
           :
           That
           it
           is
           their
           Interest
           and
           indispensible
           Duty
           ,
           if
           they
           have
           any
           sence
           of
           Goodness
           remaining
           to
           free
           these
           Nations
           of
           such
           a
           Plague
           and
           Curse
           ,
           and
           if
           possible
           to
           redeem
           all
           those
           Blessings
           which
           have
           been
           withheld
           from
           us
           by
           his
           Means
           ,
           by
           atoning
           God
           Almighty
           ,
           by
           doing
           Justice
           to
           their
           highly
           injur'd
           King
           and
           Queen
           ,
           to
           themselves
           ,
           and
           to
           all
           Europe
           ,
           and
           averting
           those
           dismal
           Plagues
           which
           otherwise
           e're
           long
           will
           fall
           upon
           their
           Heads
           :
           Otherwise
           let
           'em
           do
           what
           they
           can
           ,
           be
           as
           obstniate
           ,
           malicious
           and
           revengful
           as
           they
           please
           ,
           if
           they
           be
           resolv'd
           yet
           to
           act
           wickedly
           they
           shall
           be
           consumed
           both
           they
           and
           their
           King.
           
        
         
           All
           this
           was
           evidently
           with
           design
           to
           shake
           the
           Crown
           and
           undermine
           the
           true
           Protestant
           Religion
           ;
           The
           Truth
           is
           ,
           to
           such
           a
           Heighth
           of
           Arrogance
           were
           things
           grown
           on
           their
           Side
           ,
           that
           who
           ever
           shall
           Indifferently
           reflect
           on
           the
           Dangerous
           Devices
           ,
           Slanderous
           Reports
           ,
           and
           Writings
           ,
           and
           other
           Violent
           Emotions
           of
           the
           whole
           Party
           that
           Winter
           ,
           in
           the
           City
           and
           throughout
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           
           they
           will
           have
           just
           cause
           to
           conclude
           that
           the
           Course
           of
           their
           Proceedings
           ,
           was
           a
           daring
           Struggle
           for
           Victory
           ,
           and
           a
           Decisive
           Contention
           for
           Mastery
           over
           the
           Government
           .
        
         
           Yet
           however
           cunningly
           the
           Train
           was
           laid
           ,
           it
           took
           no
           effect
           but
           on
           themselves
           ,
           the
           Noise
           and
           Rage
           of
           all
           their
           Mutinous
           Routs
           ,
           
           vanished
           into
           Air.
           Sir
           
             Iohn
             Houblon
          
           ,
           the
           Lord
           Mayor
           ,
           together
           with
           the
           whole
           Body
           of
           the
           Greater
           ,
           Wiser
           and
           Richer
           Citizens
           understood
           rightly
           ,
           and
           stuck
           Unmovable
           to
           the
           Nation
           's
           and
           their
           own
           true
           Interest
           .
        
         
           Which
           the
           Conspirators
           perceiving
           ,
           many
           disaffected
           Lords
           and
           others
           withdrew
           from
           their
           Houses
           ,
           redoubling
           their
           Exclamations
           of
           Usurpation
           ,
           Tyranny
           ,
           Oppression
           ,
           and
           what
           not
           :
           and
           still
           apply'd
           themselves
           with
           all
           Diligence
           to
           expedite
           the
           Rebellious
           Work
           before
           projected
           ;
           fancying
           that
           yet
           the
           whole
           City
           and
           Kingdom
           ,
           would
           be
           at
           the
           French
           King's
           Beck
           ,
           and
           upon
           the
           holding
           up
           his
           Finger
           ,
           would
           presently
           rise
           in
           Arms
           to
           extirpate
           the
           two
           Brothers
           ,
           Liberty
           and
           Property
           .
        
         
           The
           
             French
             King
          
           had
           set
           on
           foot
           a
           Treaty
           with
           the
           Disaffected
           in
           England
           ,
           and
           sent
           the
           Duke
           of
           Berwick
           privily
           to
           London
           ,
           
           who
           held
           divers
           Meetings
           with
           the
           Confederates
           ,
           who
           offer'd
           ,
           that
           if
           that
           King
           would
           furnish
           10000
           Men
           they
           would
           make
           a
           Sturdy
           Commotion
           here
           .
        
         
         
           About
           that
           time
           also
           both
           ways
           of
           destroying
           these
           Kingdoms
           were
           brought
           under
           their
           Consideration
           ;
           the
           general
           way
           of
           an
           Insurrection
           ,
           
           and
           the
           more
           compendious
           way
           ,
           as
           they
           call'd
           it
           of
           Assassinating
           the
           King
           in
           his
           return
           from
           Hunting
           .
           The
           Assassination
           was
           Instantly
           promoted
           on
           all
           Hands
           in
           Town
           and
           Country
           ,
           immediately
           after
           which
           the
           Insurrection
           was
           to
           follow
           .
        
         
           At
           last
           it
           was
           thought
           adviseable
           to
           send
           one
           to
           France
           to
           acquaint
           the
           late
           
             King
             Iames
          
           with
           the
           result
           of
           their
           whole
           Proceedings
           ,
           desiring
           him
           to
           prevail
           with
           the
           
             French
             King
          
           to
           lend
           him
           8000
           Foot
           ,
           1000
           Horse
           ,
           1000
           Dragoons
           ,
           and
           they
           would
           meet
           him
           at
           his
           Landing
           ,
           at
           the
           Head
           of
           2000
           Horse
           ;
           and
           knowing
           no
           one
           fitter
           to
           employ
           in
           such
           a
           Concern
           ,
           
           they
           desir'd
           Mr.
           Charnock
           would
           be
           the
           Man
           ,
           because
           they
           knew
           him
           to
           be
           of
           a
           fluent
           Tongue
           ,
           and
           subtile
           Brain
           ,
           and
           one
           of
           the
           Chief
           Contrivers
           and
           Managers
           of
           the
           whole
           Design
           ;
           he
           readily
           consented
           to
           their
           Desire
           ,
           and
           immediatly
           provided
           for
           his
           Departure
           ,
           after
           he
           had
           advised
           and
           encourag'd
           each
           of
           them
           to
           be
           hearty
           in
           the
           Cause
           .
        
         
           Though
           Charnock
           was
           gone
           for
           a
           while
           ,
           yet
           the
           Impressions
           of
           Mischief
           he
           had
           left
           behind
           on
           the
           Minds
           of
           the
           Confederates
           ,
           would
           not
           so
           easily
           vanish
           .
           They
           soon
           reflected
           on
           his
           last
           advice
           ,
           
           that
           so
           many
           having
           been
           made
           Conscious
           to
           the
           Design
           ,
           they
           should
           certainly
           find
           more
           Safety
           in
           pushing
           it
           on
           boldly
           ,
           than
           in
           too
           late
           
           a
           Retreat
           .
           Upon
           this
           immediately
           they
           recover'd
           their
           Spirits
           and
           Resolutions
           ,
           which
           his
           Departure
           had
           somewhat
           damp'd
           ;
           thenceforth
           they
           renew'd
           their
           Consultations
           'till
           his
           Return
           ,
           which
           was
           soon
           after
           ,
           with
           the
           Answer
           ,
           That
           the
           French
           King's
           Affairs
           being
           in
           such
           a
           Posture
           he
           could
           not
           at
           that
           time
           comply
           with
           their
           Demand
           ,
           which
           for
           the
           present
           broke
           all
           their
           Measures
           .
        
         
           But
           upon
           the
           Arrival
           of
           Sir
           
             George
             Barclay
          
           ,
           who
           after
           having
           declar'd
           to
           the
           Disaffected
           Party
           the
           Occasion
           of
           his
           coming
           ,
           produc'd
           a
           Commission
           authorizing
           them
           to
           perpetrate
           the
           Parricide
           ,
           he
           withal
           told
           them
           that
           the
           late
           King
           was
           retired
           from
           St.
           Germains
           to
           Calais
           ,
           where
           lay
           a
           considerable
           Body
           of
           Troops
           under
           his
           Command
           ,
           that
           the
           
             French
             King
          
           had
           given
           Orders
           to
           Bouffleurs
           to
           draw
           together
           immediately
           to
           Imbark
           ,
           as
           soon
           as
           the
           Signal
           was
           given
           that
           their
           Hellish
           Contrivance
           for
           Assassinating
           His
           Majesty's
           Person
           had
           taken
           effect
           :
           Whereupon
           they
           renew'd
           their
           Cousultations
           with
           more
           Vigour
           than
           before
           .
           The
           Principal
           Managers
           having
           their
           frequent
           Meetings
           ,
           as
           also
           the
           Inferiour
           Instruments
           theirs
           ,
           whilst
           some
           of
           each
           number
           gave
           secret
           Intimations
           to
           the
           other
           of
           what
           was
           passing
           in
           their
           seperate
           Assemblies
           .
        
         
           Of
           the
           great
           Council
           ;
           
           the
           Consults
           that
           have
           been
           hitherto
           plainly
           testified
           and
           sworn
           to
           ,
           were
           those
           ,
           at
           the
           old
           King's-head
           in
           
             Leadenhall
             street
          
           ,
           and
           Mrs.
           
           Montjoy's
           in
           
           St.
           
           Iames's
           -
           street
           .
           The
           Subordinate
           Cabals
           were
           kept
           in
           divers
           other
           Places
           in
           and
           about
           the
           City
           of
           London
           ;
           as
           in
           Ianuary
           ,
           in
           that
           Year
           ,
           at
           Capt.
           
           Porter's
           ,
           and
           at
           Mr.
           
           Charnock's
           Lodgings
           in
           Norfolk-street
           :
           Or
           in
           common
           Taverns
           ,
           as
           at
           the
           Nag's-Head
           in
           Covent-Garden
           ,
           the
           Sun
           in
           the
           Strand
           ,
           the
           Globe
           in
           
             Hatton-Garden
             ,
             &c.
          
           
           As
           also
           on
           February
           the
           14
           th
           ,
           the
           very
           Day
           the
           Discovery
           was
           made
           ,
           at
           the
           Blew-Posts
           in
           Spring-Garden
           ;
           and
           on
           the
           15
           th
           and
           22
           d
           ,
           at
           Capt.
           
           Porter's
           Lodging
           in
           Maiden-lane
           ,
           being
           both
           the
           Times
           agreed
           upon
           to
           put
           the
           Design
           in
           Execution
           .
        
         
           Their
           Meetings
           being
           so
           generally
           in
           places
           of
           publick
           Entertainment
           ;
           therefore
           to
           prevent
           the
           Observation
           of
           Drawers
           and
           Servants
           ,
           they
           often
           discours'd
           of
           their
           whole
           Bloody
           Business
           in
           a
           Canting
           Language
           of
           their
           own
           making
           .
        
         
           The
           King
           was
           sometimes
           call'd
           the
           Spark
           ,
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           ,
           
           the
           
             Little
             Gentleman
             ,
             &c.
          
           
           Provision
           of
           Arms
           ,
           as
           Bluuderbusses
           ,
           Musquets
           ,
           Pistols
           ,
           &c.
           were
           talk'd
           of
           under
           disguised
           Names
           .
           The
           Insurrection
           was
           stil'd
           the
           
             General
             Point
          
           ,
           the
           Assassination
           
             taking
             off
             the
             Spark
          
           ,
           and
           
             striking
             at
             the
             Head.
          
           And
           because
           several
           or
           most
           of
           the
           Conspirators
           were
           notorious
           Papists
           ,
           it
           was
           sometimes
           agreed
           that
           their
           wicked
           Intentions
           against
           the
           King
           and
           Government
           should
           be
           veil'd
           under
           the
           terms
           of
           
             taking
             off
             the
             Insupportable
             Yoke
          
           .
        
         
         
           But
           for
           the
           most
           part
           when
           they
           were
           free
           and
           among
           themselves
           ,
           
           they
           did
           discourse
           of
           the
           whole
           Contrivance
           in
           plain
           Language
           ,
           and
           without
           Reserve
           ;
           their
           common
           Healths
           were
           such
           as
           these
           ,
           
             To
             the
             Restoring
             the
             late
             King
          
           James
           ,
           the
           Health
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Wales
           ,
           the
           
             late
             Queen
          
           ,
           and
           the
           
             French
             King.
          
           
        
         
           But
           when
           
             Harris
             ,
             Lowick
          
           ,
           and
           others
           ,
           who
           were
           less
           harden'd
           in
           Cruelty
           ,
           express'd
           some
           kind
           of
           Consternation
           and
           Dread
           of
           the
           Consequences
           of
           so
           dire
           a
           Stroak
           ,
           
           readily
           declar'd
           themselves
           willing
           to
           joyn
           in
           the
           Insurrection
           ,
           but
           shrunk
           a
           little
           at
           first
           at
           the
           Horror
           of
           the
           Assassination
           ;
           they
           said
           tho
           it
           was
           a
           Barbarous
           Work
           ,
           yet
           they
           would
           obey
           Sir
           George
           Barclay's
           Orders
           .
        
         
           In
           these
           their
           private
           Cabals
           ,
           the
           Matters
           they
           promiscuously
           treated
           of
           ,
           were
           either
           a
           general
           Insurrection
           or
           the
           Assassination
           of
           the
           King's
           Person
           .
           
           Of
           the
           Assassination
           divers
           ways
           were
           consulted
           ,
           'till
           they
           fix'd
           on
           that
           Lane
           coming
           form
           Brentford
           to
           Turnham-Green
           .
           The
           Insurrection
           was
           propos'd
           to
           be
           made
           at
           the
           same
           time
           in
           England
           and
           Scotland
           .
           The
           adjusting
           that
           part
           of
           it
           which
           related
           to
           Scotland
           was
           chiefly
           under
           the
           Care
           and
           manag'd
           by
           Commissioners
           appointed
           for
           that
           purpose
           ,
           by
           the
           French
           King
           and
           the
           late
           King
           Iames
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           this
           in
           England
           ;
           all
           which
           Particulars
           are
           Circumstantially
           set
           forth
           ,
           so
           often
           repeated
           ,
           and
           demonstrably
           confirm'd
           in
           the
           ensuing
           Evidences
           ,
           that
           it
           
           will
           be
           sufficient
           here
           only
           to
           direct
           the
           Reader
           's
           Observation
           by
           given
           a
           brief
           Summary
           of
           the
           whole
           .
        
         
           Towards
           an
           in
           Insurrection
           throughout
           England
           ,
           they
           laid
           the
           greatest
           Stress
           on
           the
           City
           of
           London
           ;
           not
           doubting
           but
           if
           that
           was
           once
           secured
           to
           them
           ,
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Nation
           would
           of
           Course
           fall
           in
           .
        
         
           
           For
           the
           increasing
           their
           Numbers
           ,
           and
           drawing
           in
           New
           Converts
           this
           one
           General
           Rule
           was
           carefully
           prescribed
           ,
           that
           the
           bottom
           of
           the
           Design
           should
           in
           the
           beginning
           be
           warily
           conceal'd
           from
           all
           Persons
           with
           whom
           they
           treated
           .
           First
           their
           Inclinations
           were
           to
           be
           tried
           by
           gradual
           Insinuations
           ,
           and
           plausible
           Discourses
           at
           a
           Distance
           ,
           till
           they
           had
           gain'd
           a
           full
           assurance
           of
           their
           Fidelity
           .
           They
           were
           to
           be
           ask'd
           ,
           
             If
             they
             would
             be
             concern'd
             ,
             in
             Easing
             them
             from
             the
             Yoke
             that
             laid
             upon
             '
             em
             ?
          
           Meaning
           to
           murder
           King
           William
           ;
           when
           it
           was
           Answer'd
           ,
           
             They
             would
             readily
             assist
             in
             any
             thing
             of
             that
             Nature
             :
          
           Then
           it
           was
           next
           to
           be
           demanded
           ,
           
             Whether
             they
             would
             contribute
             the
             Assistance
             of
             their
             Persons
             or
             Purses
             ,
             or
             both
             ?
          
           That
           being
           also
           determined
           ,
           It
           was
           to
           be
           farther
           inquired
           ,
           
             What
             Furniture
             of
             Arms
             ,
             Horses
             ,
             and
             Money
             they
             had
             in
             readiness
             ?
             What
             Friends
             they
             could
             engage
             ?
          
           And
           if
           these
           Questions
           were
           resolved
           according
           to
           their
           Minds
           ,
           
           then
           the
           whole
           Mystery
           of
           the
           Villainy
           was
           to
           be
           frankly
           disclos'd
           .
           They
           were
           to
           be
           told
           in
           down-right
           Terms
           ,
           That
           their
           Design
           was
           to
           Assassinate
           
           the
           Person
           of
           King
           William
           in
           order
           to
           fix
           King
           Iames
           again
           in
           the
           Throne
           ,
           to
           which
           if
           they
           would
           lend
           their
           Assistance
           it
           would
           answer
           their
           Expectation
           .
           He
           having
           already
           sent
           over
           several
           Men
           and
           Money
           to
           buy
           Horses
           to
           help
           to
           do
           the
           Work.
           
        
         
           The
           way
           being
           thus
           made
           to
           sound
           and
           prepare
           the
           Dispositions
           of
           ill
           Men
           for
           any
           Violent
           Enterprize
           ;
           the
           next
           thing
           came
           under
           deliberation
           was
           Money
           .
           
           For
           that
           several
           of
           the
           Conspirators
           declar'd
           ,
           they
           had
           considerable
           sums
           of
           their
           Own
           ,
           or
           deposited
           with
           them
           ,
           which
           were
           ready
           ,
           and
           might
           be
           call'd
           for
           on
           Occasion
           .
           That
           Sir
           
             George
             Barclay
          
           subscribed
           Money
           ,
           enough
           to
           furnish
           40
           Horses
           ,
           likewise
           Sir
           
             Iohn
             Friend
          
           offered
           if
           the
           late
           K.
           Iames
           would
           give
           order
           for
           it
           ,
           to
           disburst
           3000
           l.
           that
           the
           Cause
           might
           not
           be
           lost
           .
           Neither
           was
           Sir
           
             W.
             Parkyns
          
           ,
           with
           many
           others
           slack
           in
           making
           provision
           for
           a
           sudden
           Push
           ,
           for
           they
           if
           the
           Business
           succeeded
           were
           in
           Hopes
           to
           satisfy
           their
           thirsty
           Appetites
           and
           inrich
           themselves
           with
           the
           Blood
           and
           Estates
           of
           just
           and
           honest
           Men.
           
        
         
           The
           next
           necessary
           Provision
           they
           debated
           on
           was
           Arms.
           And
           it
           is
           notoriously
           known
           ,
           the
           whole
           Party
           had
           been
           gathering
           great
           abundance
           of
           all
           sorts
           .
           
           All
           probably
           with
           the
           same
           prospect
           and
           in
           the
           same
           proportion
           for
           their
           parts
           in
           the
           Conspiracy
           as
           Sir
           
             William
             Parkyns
          
           had
           done
           for
           his
           ,
           though
           they
           happened
           not
           all
           
           to
           be
           so
           manifestly
           detected
           ;
           for
           not
           long
           after
           the
           Conspiracy
           was
           discover'd
           to
           His
           Majesty
           and
           His
           Ministers
           :
           the
           said
           Sir
           
             William
             Parkyns
          
           was
           found
           to
           have
           by
           him
           ,
           hid
           under-ground
           by
           his
           Garden-Wall
           ,
           several
           Chests
           of
           compleat
           Arms
           ,
           belonging
           as
           he
           pretended
           to
           his
           Country-House
           ,
           where
           no
           thought
           of
           Robbery
           or
           Assault
           could
           be
           fear'd
           ;
           and
           by
           consequence
           ,
           there
           could
           not
           be
           the
           least
           shadow
           or
           pretence
           that
           they
           were
           laid
           in
           there
           for
           his
           own
           lawful
           use
           or
           defence
           .
        
         
           
           But
           besides
           these
           Stores
           ,
           which
           they
           had
           every
           one
           made
           for
           themselves
           ,
           it
           was
           resolved
           ,
           at
           the
           very
           first
           News
           of
           the
           late
           King
           
           Iames's
           Landing
           with
           his
           Cut-Throat
           Army
           to
           be
           in
           readiness
           ,
           some
           to
           attempt
           the
           publick
           Magazines
           in
           and
           about
           the
           City
           ,
           whilst
           others
           in
           the
           remote
           Parts
           ,
           were
           to
           use
           their
           utmost
           Diligence
           to
           form
           themselves
           into
           a
           Body
           and
           join
           the
           Invasion
           .
        
         
           Many
           Thoughts
           were
           also
           spent
           how
           to
           engage
           the
           Sea-Men
           to
           their
           Side
           :
           Tho
           it
           must
           be
           said
           that
           their
           Practices
           with
           them
           met
           with
           the
           least
           Success
           of
           any
           .
           Nor
           is
           it
           imaginable
           ,
           the
           brave
           Race
           of
           English
           Mariners
           should
           ever
           prove
           false
           to
           His
           Majesty
           ,
           who
           has
           cherish'd
           ,
           encourag'd
           and
           promoted
           that
           Profession
           more
           than
           all
           the
           Kings
           of
           England
           have
           done
           since
           the
           Conquest
           :
           
           His
           Majesty
           well
           understanding
           that
           the
           Safety
           ,
           Riches
           and
           Honour
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           depend
           most
           on
           its
           Maratime
           Greatness
           .
        
         
         
           However
           ,
           the
           Conspirators
           not
           in
           the
           least
           doubting
           but
           they
           should
           have
           sufficient
           Numbers
           ,
           as
           soon
           as
           their
           Friends
           were
           arrived
           from
           France
           ,
           to
           make
           a
           Stand
           ,
           and
           give
           time
           to
           others
           to
           come
           in
           ,
           and
           declare
           ;
           their
           Rendezvouses
           were
           appointed
           in
           most
           of
           the
           convenient
           Posts
           of
           London
           and
           Westminster
           ;
           whence
           they
           might
           at
           once
           attack
           the
           Bridg
           ,
           the
           Exchanges
           ,
           the
           Guards
           ,
           the
           
             Savoy
             ,
             Whitehall
          
           and
           the
           Tower
           :
           And
           they
           had
           ready
           in
           Town
           and
           Country
           a
           considerable
           number
           of
           Officers
           to
           head
           and
           govern
           the
           mixt
           Multitude
           as
           soon
           as
           they
           should
           appear
           in
           Arms.
           
        
         
           At
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           a
           Party
           was
           to
           be
           ready
           to
           scowr
           the
           Streets
           ,
           and
           immediately
           Barricadoes
           were
           to
           be
           made
           :
           The
           Horses
           of
           Hackney-Coaches
           ,
           and
           other
           Strangers
           ,
           were
           to
           be
           seiz'd
           on
           :
           The
           Horse-Guards
           not
           actually
           Mounted
           to
           be
           surpriz'd
           in
           their
           several
           Stables
           :
           For
           which
           end
           a
           Committee
           was
           chose
           ,
           who
           undertook
           to
           vew
           the
           Posture
           of
           their
           Quarters
           ,
           and
           reported
           back
           to
           the
           Principals
           that
           the
           seizing
           'em
           was
           a
           thing
           very
           feasible
           .
        
         
           Ferguson
           had
           also
           often
           assur'd
           them
           he
           could
           promise
           for
           a
           considerable
           Number
           of
           Men
           to
           be
           ready
           at
           a
           day
           ,
           
           and
           that
           he
           would
           make
           one
           of
           the
           same
           Party
           himself
           .
        
         
           Upon
           supposition
           of
           this
           Strength
           ,
           their
           principal
           aim
           being
           to
           surprize
           the
           Tower
           ,
           as
           a
           Place
           most
           able
           to
           annoy
           them
           ,
           and
           where
           there
           lay
           great
           Magazines
           of
           Stores
           of
           
           Ammunition
           to
           furnish
           them
           ;
           they
           had
           many
           Debates
           on
           that
           Subject
           .
           
           And
           it
           is
           very
           well
           known
           they
           had
           brought
           an
           Officer
           in
           Trust
           therein
           to
           be
           of
           their
           Party
           ,
           who
           was
           to
           deliver
           the
           Tower
           into
           their
           Hands
           .
        
         
           
           Besides
           securing
           to
           themselves
           by
           these
           means
           the
           Cities
           of
           London
           and
           Westminster
           ,
           which
           was
           their
           greatest
           Care
           ;
           they
           had
           also
           under
           Consideration
           the
           raising
           Commotions
           at
           the
           same
           time
           in
           divers
           other
           Parts
           of
           England
           :
           Especially
           those
           Counties
           of
           the
           West
           and
           North
           ,
           in
           which
           they
           believ'd
           the
           Iacobite
           Party
           to
           be
           most
           Numerous
           ,
           and
           most
           inclin'd
           to
           their
           Factious
           Interest
           .
        
         
           In
           every
           County
           some
           one
           Great
           Man
           was
           to
           put
           himself
           at
           the
           head
           of
           the
           Rebellion
           ,
           and
           divers
           of
           them
           had
           their
           proper
           Stations
           appointed
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           North
           they
           depended
           on
           a
           numerous
           Assistance
           ,
           having
           been
           inform'd
           ,
           by
           Sir
           
             William
             Parkyns
          
           ,
           who
           had
           made
           a
           Journey
           into
           that
           part
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           that
           the
           North
           was
           as
           well
           inclin'd
           to
           their
           Party
           as
           the
           West
           .
        
         
           
           Most
           Sea-Port
           Towns
           of
           any
           considerable
           Strength
           was
           to
           be
           attempted
           ,
           particularly
           Portsmouth
           ,
           by
           some
           going
           into
           the
           Town
           on
           pretence
           of
           seeing
           the
           Place
           ,
           at
           the
           same
           time
           another
           Party
           coming
           in
           on
           the
           Market-day
           ,
           disguiz'd
           like
           Country-men
           ,
           and
           both
           together
           were
           to
           fall
           on
           the
           Guards
           .
        
         
           At
           the
           same
           time
           when
           they
           were
           making
           these
           Preparations
           for
           an
           Insurrection
           ,
           the
           other
           Design
           of
           Assassinating
           His
           Majesty
           kept
           equal
           Pace
           with
           it
           .
        
         
         
           It
           is
           manifest
           that
           the
           
             French
             King
          
           and
           late
           King
           Iames
           ,
           had
           often
           devised
           his
           Majesty's
           Murder
           ;
           it
           being
           indeed
           a
           Talent
           peculiar
           to
           them
           both
           to
           murder
           Princes
           ,
           and
           lay
           their
           Nations
           in
           Blood
           and
           Confusion
           .
           That
           of
           all
           Men
           living
           they
           can
           most
           easily
           turn
           themselves
           into
           all
           Shapes
           ,
           and
           comply
           with
           all
           Dispositions
           ,
           to
           get
           Agents
           to
           compass
           their
           Damnable
           Purposes
           ;
           having
           by
           long
           practice
           ,
           got
           the
           skill
           to
           cover
           their
           Hooks
           with
           Baits
           fitting
           every
           Humour
           .
           The
           Covetous
           ,
           who
           are
           no
           small
           Number
           of
           their
           Iacobite
           Party
           ,
           
           those
           they
           feed
           and
           deceive
           with
           hopes
           of
           Wealth
           and
           new
           Sequestrations
           :
           The
           Ambitious
           ,
           with
           Praise
           and
           Vain-Glory
           :
           The
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           with
           Promises
           of
           Liberty
           and
           Religion
           :
           Sometimes
           not
           refusing
           to
           stoop
           lower
           ,
           and
           even
           to
           serve
           and
           assist
           the
           Pleasures
           and
           Debauches
           of
           Men
           that
           way
           inclin'd
           ,
           if
           they
           find
           them
           any
           way
           useful
           for
           their
           purposes
           .
        
         
           And
           now
           also
           upon
           this
           Occasion
           ,
           
           divers
           Ways
           of
           performing
           the
           Assassination
           were
           debated
           ;
           one
           was
           to
           make
           the
           Attempt
           on
           His
           Majesty
           ,
           as
           He
           came
           from
           Richmond
           by
           the
           Road.
           
        
         
           Another
           when
           He
           was
           upon
           Horse-back
           at
           Cue
           .
        
         
           Another
           to
           Surprize
           Him
           by
           Ambuscade
           as
           He
           was
           diverting
           Himself
           with
           Shooting
           or
           Hunting
           in
           the
           Park
           by
           Richmond
           .
        
         
         
           But
           of
           these
           Propositions
           Sir
           
             George
             Barclay
          
           approv'd
           of
           none
           like
           the
           last
           mention'd
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           which
           he
           desir'd
           Capt.
           Porter
           to
           go
           with
           Mr.
           Knightly
           to
           View
           the
           Ground
           ;
           accordingly
           they
           went
           ,
           and
           Mr.
           King
           with
           them
           :
           At
           their
           return
           made
           their
           Report
           :
           
             That
             the
             Lane
             between
          
           Brentford
           and
           Turnham-Green
           
             to
             be
             much
             more
             Feasible
             to
             dispatch
             the
             Business
             ,
             or
             do
             the
             Trick
             ,
          
           as
           they
           call'd
           it
           .
        
         
           
           The
           Account
           they
           gave
           of
           the
           Commodiousness
           of
           the
           Lane
           for
           any
           such
           desperate
           Enterprize
           soon
           incourag'd
           them
           to
           fix
           it
           there
           .
           It
           being
           a
           Place
           lonely
           and
           retired
           ,
           with
           a
           River
           on
           one
           Side
           and
           Pales
           on
           the
           other
           ,
           which
           would
           afford
           all
           Advantages
           imaginable
           to
           the
           Assailants
           ,
           and
           give
           as
           great
           Inconveniences
           to
           the
           Persons
           Attack'd
           .
        
         
           The
           Place
           being
           agreed
           on
           ,
           it
           was
           first
           question'd
           ,
           
             Whether
             the
             Stroak
             should
             be
             struck
             upon
             His
             Majesty's
             going
             to
             ,
             or
             coming
             from
             Hunting
             :
          
           But
           it
           was
           thought
           more
           expedient
           
             to
             defer
             it
             'till
             His
             Majesty's
             return
             .
          
        
         
           That
           Point
           being
           over
           ,
           they
           had
           several
           Meetings
           ,
           to
           consult
           of
           all
           the
           Circumstances
           of
           the
           Parricide
           .
        
         
           
           The
           number
           of
           the
           Men
           to
           be
           Personally
           engag'd
           ,
           were
           Forty
           at
           least
           ,
           of
           which
           Number
           Sir
           
             George
             Barclay
          
           was
           to
           make
           up
           about
           Twenty
           .
           Mr.
           Charnock
           was
           to
           furnish
           Eight
           ,
           Capt.
           Porter
           Seven
           ,
           Sir
           
             William
             Parkyns
          
           Three
           Men
           and
           5
           Horses
           .
           To
           that
           end
           2
           or
           3
           Lists
           of
           Names
           were
           drawn
           up
           ,
           out
           of
           which
           choice
           was
           made
           of
           
           Two
           which
           were
           call'd
           Ordely
           Men
           ,
           and
           Quarter'd
           at
           Kensington
           ,
           to
           give
           Notice
           to
           the
           Rest
           when
           His
           Majesty
           went
           a
           Hunting
           .
        
         
           The
           Arms
           to
           be
           used
           were
           Blunderbusses
           ,
           Musquets
           ,
           Pistols
           ,
           &c.
           
           The
           several
           Parties
           were
           to
           be
           dispers'd
           at
           the
           Inns
           at
           Brentford
           and
           Turnham-Green
           ,
           that
           they
           might
           be
           in
           a
           readiness
           against
           the
           approach
           of
           the
           Fatal
           Hour
           .
        
         
           On
           the
           day
           the
           Design
           was
           to
           be
           executed
           ,
           the
           Attempt
           was
           agreed
           to
           be
           made
           in
           this
           Manner
           :
           Some
           one
           or
           two
           ,
           were
           to
           be
           at
           the
           Ferry
           ,
           to
           give
           Notice
           when
           His
           Majesty
           Landed
           ,
           first
           to
           Sir
           
             George
             Barclay
          
           ,
           then
           to
           the
           rest
           .
        
         
           Upon
           Warning
           given
           of
           the
           King
           's
           being
           near
           at
           hand
           ,
           all
           were
           to
           be
           in
           a
           readiness
           ,
           to
           Issue
           forth
           in
           a
           Moment
           ,
           some
           on
           Horse-back
           ,
           some
           on
           Foot.
           
        
         
           Immediately
           ,
           
           upon
           the
           Coach's
           coming
           within
           the
           Lane
           ,
           they
           were
           to
           shut
           the
           Gate
           ,
           and
           the
           Conspirators
           were
           to
           divide
           into
           three
           Parties
           :
           Some
           before
           in
           the
           Habit
           of
           County-men
           were
           to
           throw
           down
           the
           Pales
           ,
           afore
           sawn
           a-sunder
           for
           the
           same
           purpose
           ,
           in
           the
           narrowest
           Passage
           ,
           so
           to
           prevent
           all
           possibility
           of
           Escape
           :
           Then
           Mr.
           Charnock
           with
           his
           Party
           were
           to
           attack
           the
           Guards
           in
           the
           Rear
           ,
           and
           Rookwood
           and
           Porter
           with
           another
           Party
           in
           two
           Wings
           were
           to
           attack
           both
           sides
           of
           the
           Guards
           .
           The
           other
           Party
           to
           Aim
           only
           at
           His
           Majesty's
           Coach
           ,
           which
           
           Party
           consisted
           of
           8
           Persons
           ,
           and
           was
           to
           be
           under
           the
           Particular
           direction
           of
           Sir
           
             George
             Barclay
          
           ;
           the
           Villian
           declaring
           before-hand
           ,
           Mr.
           Prendergast
           was
           to
           have
           a
           very
           good
           Blunderbuss
           ,
           which
           carried
           7
           or
           8
           Bullets
           ,
           to
           be
           of
           his
           Party
           ,
           and
           to
           Shoot
           into
           it
           .
           King
           at
           the
           same
           time
           telling
           him
           ,
           
             He
             hop'd
             he
             would
             not
             be
             afraid
             of
             breaking
             the
             Glass-Windows
             .
          
        
         
           
           It
           is
           indeed
           a
           thing
           prodigious
           to
           tell
           ,
           and
           were
           it
           not
           for
           the
           undeniable
           Proofs
           of
           it
           ,
           very
           difficult
           to
           be
           believ'd
           ,
           that
           not
           only
           One
           or
           Two
           such
           Furies
           should
           rise
           up
           in
           a
           whole
           Age
           ,
           but
           that
           so
           great
           a
           Number
           of
           Men
           should
           ,
           be
           found
           so
           void
           of
           all
           Humanity
           ,
           as
           not
           only
           to
           imagine
           and
           contrive
           so
           Horrid
           a
           Fact
           ,
           but
           to
           discourse
           of
           it
           in
           so
           many
           Meetings
           ,
           so
           sportfully
           and
           merrily
           as
           they
           did
           ,
           as
           if
           the
           Cruelest
           Tragedy
           ,
           which
           Wicked
           Men
           or
           the
           Devil
           ever
           invented
           ,
           had
           been
           only
           a
           Matter
           of
           Common
           Past-time
           and
           loose
           Raillery
           .
        
         
           
           The
           execrable
           Deed
           being
           thus
           supposed
           by
           them
           to
           be
           feasible
           ,
           without
           much
           Opposition
           ,
           they
           then
           farther
           considered
           the
           several
           Ways
           of
           their
           escaping
           afterwards
           .
           Sometimes
           they
           thought
           if
           it
           were
           possible
           to
           take
           the
           King
           alive
           and
           carry
           him
           to
           France
           ,
           whether
           they
           intended
           to
           bear
           him
           Company
           .
           But
           if
           not
           ,
           another
           way
           was
           proposed
           by
           Sir
           
             George
             Barclay
          
           ,
           after
           the
           Fatal
           Blow
           was
           given
           ,
           to
           get
           privately
           into
           the
           City
           before
           the
           
           News
           of
           what
           was
           done
           could
           possibly
           get
           thither
           .
           It
           was
           concluded
           at
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           That
           those
           Lords
           and
           Principal
           Men
           of
           their
           Party
           should
           be
           ready
           to
           Head
           the
           Faction
           upon
           the
           first
           arrival
           of
           the
           News
           that
           the
           late
           King
           Iames
           was
           Landed
           .
        
         
           Thus
           Saturday
           the
           15
           th
           of
           February
           being
           come
           ,
           the
           first
           day
           pitch'd
           upon
           for
           executing
           their
           Hellish
           Design
           ;
           
           whilst
           they
           were
           thus
           wholly
           intent
           on
           this
           Barbarous
           Work
           ,
           and
           proceeded
           securely
           in
           its
           Contrivance
           without
           any
           the
           least
           doubt
           of
           a
           prosperous
           Success
           ,
           having
           prepar'd
           every
           thing
           in
           order
           to
           have
           perpetrated
           this
           Villainous
           Work
           ;
           Behold
           !
           on
           a
           sudden
           God
           miraculously
           disappointed
           all
           their
           Hopes
           ,
           by
           
           Chamber
           's
           bringing
           word
           ,
           about
           Noon
           ,
           the
           King
           went
           not
           Abroad
           that
           day
           .
        
         
           Yet
           notwithstanding
           they
           being
           disappointed
           at
           this
           time
           ,
           which
           made
           them
           look
           one
           on
           another
           in
           much
           disorder
           ,
           yet
           they
           could
           not
           part
           'till
           they
           had
           drank
           their
           accustomed
           Healths
           :
           And
           to
           add
           to
           their
           Villainny
           ,
           Capt.
           Porter
           took
           an
           Orange
           in
           his
           Hand
           ,
           and
           began
           a
           Health
           to
           the
           
             Squeezing
             the
             rotten
          
           Orange
           ,
           which
           having
           gone
           round
           ,
           they
           took
           leave
           of
           each
           other
           for
           that
           Time.
           
        
         
           Presently
           after
           ,
           
           at
           their
           next
           meeting
           ,
           their
           Discourse
           first
           tended
           to
           doubting
           whether
           the
           Design
           had
           not
           been
           discover'd
           ;
           but
           then
           't
           was
           immediately
           answer'd
           ,
           
             If
             it
             had
             ,
             they
             should
             not
             have
             been
             there
             ,
             but
             taken
             up
             .
          
           Whereupon
           they
           resolv'd
           ,
           notwithstanding
           the
           former
           Disappointment
           ,
           
           to
           Excecute
           the
           Divilish
           Design
           the
           next
           Saturday
           following
           .
        
         
           The
           Result
           of
           this
           their
           Consultation
           they
           imparted
           to
           their
           inferior
           Agents
           who
           were
           to
           act
           under
           them
           and
           order'd
           all
           things
           to
           be
           ready
           against
           that
           time
           .
        
         
           The
           late
           King
           for
           preparing
           a
           Declaration
           to
           facilitate
           his
           Re-accession
           to
           the
           Crown
           order'd
           divers
           of
           his
           Agents
           in
           England
           to
           send
           him
           their
           Conceptions
           ,
           out
           of
           which
           Collection
           a
           Compleat
           Remonstrance
           was
           gather'd
           .
           The
           main
           Drift
           of
           the
           whole
           was
           to
           amuse
           the
           People's
           Fancies
           for
           a
           Time
           with
           new
           Chymera's
           of
           Freedom
           from
           Taxes
           ,
           and
           Advantages
           for
           Trade
           :
           Then
           to
           calumniate
           and
           asperse
           King
           William
           as
           a
           Tyrant
           and
           Oppressor
           ,
           
           and
           accuse
           all
           his
           Faithful
           Subjects
           ,
           as
           Servile
           Instruments
           of
           Arbitrary
           Power
           ,
           and
           Betrayers
           of
           their
           Country
           :
           Whilst
           he
           and
           his
           Party
           were
           to
           be
           magnified
           as
           the
           only
           Asertors
           ,
           and
           Restorers
           of
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           Properties
           ;
           who
           it
           is
           notoriously
           known
           have
           ever
           acted
           the
           contrary
           .
           His
           and
           their
           Design
           in
           all
           this
           being
           the
           same
           that
           has
           been
           put
           in
           Practice
           by
           all
           Promoters
           of
           Popish
           and
           Slavish
           Principles
           ,
           Sedition
           and
           Treason
           in
           all
           Ages
           ;
           who
           have
           always
           thought
           they
           have
           done
           more
           than
           half
           their
           Business
           ,
           if
           they
           can
           but
           once
           appropiate
           to
           themselves
           all
           the
           good
           and
           pleasing
           Words
           of
           things
           plausible
           and
           popular
           ,
           and
           fasten
           on
           His
           present
           Majesty's
           Government
           the
           Names
           and
           Titles
           of
           things
           vulgarly
           odious
           ,
           or
           contemptible
           .
        
         
         
           But
           in
           their
           particular
           Heads
           of
           Discourse
           in
           which
           the
           Con●pirat●rs
           chiefly
           delighted
           ,
           
           and
           were
           wont
           in
           their
           Meetings
           most
           amply
           to
           enlarge
           their
           Inventions
           ,
           was
           concerning
           their
           resolutions
           of
           several
           kinds
           of
           Vengeance
           to
           be
           executed
           on
           those
           Eminent
           Persons
           of
           all
           Professions
           ,
           whom
           they
           thought
           most
           capable
           and
           willing
           to
           oppose
           their
           Bloody
           Enterprize
           .
        
         
           Their
           Passions
           in
           that
           part
           indeed
           transported
           them
           beyond
           all
           bounds
           of
           common
           Prudence
           even
           to
           the
           highest
           degree
           of
           ridiculous
           Vanity
           ,
           and
           extravagant
           Ostentation
           of
           their
           full
           assurance
           to
           succeed
           in
           the
           dire
           Attempt
           .
        
         
           Having
           first
           gloried
           in
           the
           Imagination
           of
           imbruing
           their
           Hands
           in
           Royal
           Blood
           ,
           they
           scrupl'd
           not
           to
           profess
           they
           would
           continue
           the
           Assassination
           on
           all
           the
           Principal
           Officers
           of
           the
           Crown
           ,
           and
           Ministers
           of
           Justice
           ;
           and
           spightfully
           projected
           all
           Circumstances
           imaginable
           which
           they
           thought
           might
           aggravate
           the
           Terrour
           or
           Ignominy
           of
           their
           Punishment
           .
        
         
           The
           Lord
           Mayor
           ,
           and
           the
           Sheriffs
           of
           that
           Year
           ,
           were
           concluded
           fit
           to
           be
           Murder'd
           .
           All
           others
           were
           doom'd
           to
           the
           like
           Destiny
           ,
           who
           might
           think
           they
           deserv'd
           well
           of
           the
           Faction
           by
           their
           Moderation
           :
           But
           they
           resolv'd
           that
           Neuters
           should
           be
           treated
           as
           ill
           as
           their
           most
           avowed
           Enemies
           .
        
         
         
           They
           made
           no
           Distinction
           of
           Opinions
           ,
           the
           Soberest
           and
           Richest
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           together
           with
           the
           Presbyterians
           and
           orher
           Dissenters
           they
           hated
           and
           dispis'd
           in
           general
           ,
           
           as
           Men
           whose
           Interest
           could
           not
           be
           divided
           from
           King
           William
           ,
           as
           knowing
           they
           must
           fall
           with
           him
           ,
           and
           undergo
           the
           same
           Fate
           .
        
         
           In
           this
           furious
           manner
           they
           proceeded
           to
           lay
           about
           'em
           in
           their
           common
           Discourses
           ,
           with
           all
           the
           Infernal
           Malice
           that
           is
           so
           agreeable
           to
           their
           Principles
           and
           inseperable
           from
           them
           :
           There
           never
           having
           yet
           been
           found
           ,
           in
           all
           Records
           of
           Time
           ,
           any
           Popish
           Plot
           but
           it
           was
           always
           most
           certainly
           attended
           with
           a
           fierce
           Spirit
           of
           Implacable
           Cruelty
           .
        
         
           As
           it
           cannot
           be
           imagin'd
           that
           either
           of
           the
           Cabals
           was
           altogether
           unacquainted
           with
           what
           the
           other
           were
           doing
           ,
           during
           all
           this
           time
           ;
           so
           it
           is
           manifest
           ,
           some
           of
           their
           great
           Men
           understood
           the
           dark
           Hints
           that
           were
           sometimes
           given
           them
           ,
           of
           
             taking
             off
             the
             Spark
             ,
             removing
             the
             Yoke
             that
             lay
             so
             heavy
             upon
             them
             ;
             and
             knocking
             him
             on
             the
             Head
             :
          
           And
           also
           that
           the
           inferiour
           Instruments
           proceeded
           on
           assurance
           ,
           That
           when
           they
           came
           to
           Action
           they
           should
           be
           Headed
           by
           Men
           of
           much
           higher
           Quality
           and
           Condition
           than
           as
           yet
           openly
           appear'd
           amongst
           them
           .
        
         
           Wherefore
           of
           the
           Debate
           and
           Resolutions
           of
           the
           
             French
             King
          
           and
           the
           late
           King
           Iames
           ;
           in
           France
           it
           was
           thought
           
           expedient
           for
           the
           farthering
           of
           their
           Design
           ,
           that
           a
           small
           select
           Number
           of
           the
           most
           eminent
           Heads
           of
           the
           Party
           ,
           in
           and
           about
           London
           ,
           should
           be
           united
           into
           a
           close
           Cabal
           ,
           or
           secret
           Council
           ;
           who
           might
           have
           their
           frequent
           Assemblies
           ,
           and
           be
           ready
           on
           all
           Occasions
           ,
           to
           guide
           and
           direct
           the
           motions
           of
           the
           lower
           Agents
           .
        
         
           The
           Persons
           who
           undertook
           this
           Universal
           Care
           and
           Inspection
           ,
           were
           the
           Duke
           of
           Berwick
           ,
           sent
           from
           France
           for
           that
           purpose
           ,
           Sir
           
             William
             Parkyns
          
           ,
           Sir
           
             Iohn
             Friend
          
           ,
           Sir
           
             George
             Barclay
          
           ,
           Sir
           
             Iohn
             Fenwick
          
           ,
           Mr.
           Charnock
           ,
           Mr.
           Porter
           ;
           and
           some
           others
           ,
           were
           admitted
           ,
           as
           occasion
           serv'd
           ,
           on
           some
           particular
           Debates
           .
        
         
           After
           their
           Arrival
           from
           France
           ,
           they
           had
           several
           Meetings
           in
           Ianuary
           ,
           particularly
           at
           the
           Globe-Tavern
           in
           Hatton-Garden
           ,
           and
           at
           the
           Sun-Tavern
           in
           the
           Strand
           ,
           where
           some
           General
           Heads
           were
           propounded
           of
           things
           to
           be
           resolv'd
           on
           ,
           
           in
           their
           more
           mature
           Thoughts
           ,
           as
           where
           the
           Insurrection
           should
           first
           be
           made
           ,
           in
           City
           ,
           or
           Country
           ,
           or
           both
           at
           once
           :
           what
           Countries
           were
           most
           disposed
           for
           Action
           :
           What
           Places
           would
           be
           most
           proper
           for
           their
           Rendezvouses
           :
           What
           Arms
           were
           necessary
           ,
           how
           to
           be
           provided
           ,
           where
           to
           be
           laid
           in
           ,
           so
           as
           to
           administer
           no
           Ground
           of
           Jealousy
           :
           And
           how
           and
           by
           what
           means
           a
           Disturbance
           might
           be
           made
           in
           Scotland
           ,
           at
           the
           same
           time
           .
        
         
         
           The
           last
           was
           look'd
           upon
           as
           a
           Principal
           Point
           ,
           and
           therefore
           the
           managment
           of
           that
           Affair
           was
           left
           to
           the
           
             French
             King
          
           ,
           who
           had
           appointed
           a
           Considerable
           Body
           of
           Men
           to
           disturb
           the
           Peace
           and
           Tranquility
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           :
           
           And
           who
           deliver'd
           this
           as
           his
           Opinion
           ,
           
             That
             the
             Plot
             was
             so
             close
             and
             deeply
             laid
             ,
             it
             was
             past
             the
             Power
             of
             Men
             and
             Devils
             to
             hinder
             the
             Fatal
             Blow
             .
          
        
         
           The
           late
           King
           Iames
           ,
           that
           nothing
           should
           be
           wanting
           on
           his
           part
           ,
           deputed
           some
           of
           his
           Confidents
           hither
           ,
           to
           attend
           the
           Issue
           of
           their
           Debates
           ,
           to
           represent
           their
           Proposals
           ;
           and
           to
           assist
           in
           the
           Assassination
           .
        
         
           The
           first
           Day
           appointed
           for
           the
           accomplishing
           this
           wicked
           Design
           was
           the
           15
           th
           of
           February
           ,
           
           which
           being
           over
           ,
           and
           they
           by
           the
           Singular
           Mercy
           of
           God
           disappointed
           ;
           yet
           so
           great
           was
           their
           Thirst
           after
           Royal
           Blood
           ,
           that
           they
           did
           resolve
           to
           go
           on
           and
           execute
           it
           .
           And
           the
           next
           Saturday
           ,
           which
           was
           the
           22
           d
           of
           February
           ,
           was
           pitch'd
           upon
           for
           the
           time
           of
           Execution
           ;
           and
           accordingly
           ,
           on
           Friday
           the
           21
           st
           of
           February
           ,
           the
           day
           before
           ,
           they
           met
           at
           the
           Nags-Head
           in
           Covent-Garden
           ,
           where
           they
           had
           some
           discourse
           among
           them
           that
           they
           were
           in
           doubt
           ,
           because
           of
           the
           first
           Disappointment
           ,
           whether
           there
           had
           not
           been
           some
           Discovery
           ,
           but
           that
           Doubt
           was
           soon
           over
           ;
           for
           it
           was
           said
           
             it
             could
             not
             be
             so
             ,
             for
             then
             they
             should
             not
             have
             been
             there
             together
             .
          
           That
           seemed
           probable
           ,
           and
           the
           
           Disppointment
           was
           imputed
           to
           some
           Accident
           which
           gave
           them
           new
           Assurance
           to
           go
           on
           ,
           and
           they
           resolv'd
           to
           go
           on
           and
           do
           the
           Business
           they
           had
           formerly
           resolv'd
           on
           ,
           the
           next
           day
           ,
           which
           was
           Saturday
           .
        
         
           Thus
           ,
           on
           the
           14
           th
           of
           February
           ,
           
           was
           the
           whole
           Conspiracy
           going
           on
           in
           a
           full
           Carreer
           ,
           when
           Mr.
           Prendergast
           made
           his
           Discovery
           :
           But
           finding
           that
           His
           Majesty
           and
           His
           Ministers
           ,
           were
           exceeding
           diffident
           of
           his
           single
           Intelligence
           ,
           in
           a
           business
           of
           so
           vast
           a
           Moment
           ;
           therefore
           ,
           whilst
           he
           was
           considering
           which
           way
           he
           might
           best
           strengthen
           his
           Evidence
           ,
           Mr.
           
             De
             la
             Rue
          
           ,
           on
           Friday
           Night
           ,
           the
           21
           st
           of
           February
           ,
           was
           introduc'd
           to
           His
           Majesty
           by
           the
           Earl
           of
           Portland
           ,
           who
           discover'd
           to
           him
           the
           Hellish
           Designs
           of
           his
           Implacable
           Enemies
           .
        
         
           Upon
           Saturday
           the
           22
           d
           of
           February
           in
           the
           Morning
           ,
           which
           was
           the
           2
           d
           time
           appointed
           for
           the
           Execution
           of
           this
           Bloody
           Design
           ,
           
           they
           Met
           together
           at
           
           Porter's
           Lodging
           ,
           and
           resolved
           to
           go
           on
           with
           it
           and
           put
           it
           in
           Execution
           ,
           where
           they
           had
           Notice
           from
           Chambers
           that
           the
           King
           did
           go
           a
           Hunting
           that
           Day
           ,
           and
           there
           was
           great
           Joy
           among
           them
           all
           ,
           thinking
           themselves
           sure
           ;
           and
           so
           they
           ordered
           all
           things
           to
           be
           got
           ready
           .
           From
           thence
           they
           went
           to
           the
           Blew-posts
           in
           Spring-Garden
           ,
           where
           .
           News
           was
           brought
           about
           one
           a
           Clock
           ,
           
             That
             the
             King
             did
             not
             go
             Abroad
             ,
             for
             the
             Guards
             were
             all
             come
             back
             in
             great
             haste
             ,
             
             their
             Horses
             being
             all
             in
             a
             Foam
             ,
             and
             the
             King's
             Coaehes
             to
             the
          
           Mews-Gate
           .
        
         
           They
           at
           first
           receiv'd
           the
           News
           with
           various
           Apprehensions
           and
           Motions
           of
           Mind
           ,
           
           looking
           on
           one
           another
           with
           much
           Astonishment
           and
           Confusion
           ;
           and
           immediately
           parted
           in
           great
           Disorder
           ,
           being
           fully
           assur'd
           the
           thing
           had
           taken
           Air
           ,
           and
           was
           discovered
           .
        
         
           
           His
           Majesty
           ,
           with
           inexpressible
           Surprize
           ,
           found
           by
           undoubted
           Evidence
           that
           many
           of
           his
           mis-guided
           Subjects
           had
           deeply
           engaged
           themselves
           to
           imbrue
           their
           Hands
           in
           His
           Royal
           Blood
           ,
           went
           on
           Monday
           the
           24
           th
           of
           February
           to
           the
           House
           of
           Lords
           ,
           and
           in
           His
           Speech
           accquainted
           both
           Houses
           ,
           
             
               That
               he
               was
               come
               on
               an
               extraordinary
               Occasion
               ,
               which
               might
               have
               proved
               fatal
               if
               it
               had
               not
               been
               disappointed
               by
               the
               singular
               Mercy
               and
               Goodness
               of
               God.
               
            
             
               That
               he
               had
               received
               several
               concurring
               Informations
               of
               a
               Design
               to
               assassinate
               him
               ,
               and
               that
               our
               Enemies
               were
               very
               forward
               in
               their
               Preparations
               for
               a
               sudden
               Invasion
               of
               the
               Kingdom
               .
            
             
               That
               His
               Majesty
               had
               not
               been
               wanting
               to
               give
               the
               necessary
               Orders
               for
               the
               Fleet
               ,
               and
               that
               he
               hoped
               there
               was
               a
               Strength
               of
               Ships
               ,
               and
               in
               such
               a
               Readiness
               ,
               as
               would
               be
               sufficient
               to
               disappoint
               the
               Intentions
               of
               our
               Enemies
               .
            
             
               That
               he
               had
               dispatched
               Orders
               for
               bringing
               Home
               such
               a
               Number
               of
               our
               Troops
               ,
               a
               might
               secure
               us
               from
               any
               Attempt
               ;
               
               and
               exhorted
               them
               to
               do
               every
               thing
               which
               they
               should
               judg
               proper
               for
               our
               Common
               Safety
               ,
               &c.
               
            
          
        
         
           Upon
           this
           astonishing
           News
           the
           House
           of
           Commons
           (
           
             Nemine
             Contradicente
          
           )
           resolved
           to
           address
           His
           Majesty
           to
           
             congratulate
             his
             happy
             Deliverance
             ,
             and
             to
             give
             him
             their
             Thanks
             for
             imparting
             the
             Horrid
             Design
             to
             the
             House
             ,
             and
             to
             desire
             His
             Majesty
             to
             take
             more
             than
             ordinary
             Care
             of
             his
             Royal
             Person
             ,
             assuring
             him
             that
             they
             will
             stand
             by
             ,
             assist
             ,
             and
             defend
             His
             Majesty
             with
             their
             Lives
             and
             Fortunes
             ,
             against
             the
             late
             King
             Iames
             and
             all
             other
             His
             Enemies
             both
             at
             Home
             and
             Abroad
             ;
             and
             that
             in
             case
             His
             Majesty
             should
             come
             to
             any
             violent
             Death
             (
             which
             God
             forbid
             )
             they
             would
             revenge
             the
             same
             upon
             all
             his
             Enemies
             an
             their
             Adherents
             ,
             &c.
             
          
        
         
           The
           House
           of
           Lords
           also
           unanimously
           agreed
           upon
           an
           Address
           to
           His
           Majesty
           ,
           to
           which
           they
           desired
           the
           Concurrence
           of
           the
           Commons
           ;
           who
           made
           some
           Amendments
           thereunto
           ,
           to
           which
           the
           Lords
           agreeing
           :
           The
           same
           Evening
           both
           Houses
           attended
           His
           Majesty
           therewith
           .
           You
           have
           here
           a
           Copy
           thereof
           .
        
         
           
             WE
             your
             Majesty's
             most
             Loyal
             and
             Dutiful
             Subjects
             ,
             the
             Lords
             Spiritual
             and
             Temporal
             ,
             and
             Commons
             in
             this
             present
             Parliament
             Assembled
             ;
             having
             taken
             into
             our
             
             serious
             Consideration
             ,
             what
             your
             Majesty
             hath
             been
             pleased
             to
             Communicate
             to
             us
             this
             day
             ,
             think
             it
             our
             Duty
             in
             the
             first
             place
             ,
             to
             give
             Your
             Majesty
             most
             Humble
             Thanks
             ,
             for
             having
             acquainted
             Your
             Parliament
             ,
             with
             the
             great
             Danger
             Your
             Sacred
             Person
             hath
             been
             so
             nearly
             expos'd
             to
             ,
             and
             the
             Design
             of
             an
             Invasion
             from
             our
             Enemies
             Abroad
             ;
             We
             heartily
             Congratulate
             Your
             Majesty's
             Happy
             Preservation
             ,
             and
             thankfully
             acknowledg
             the
             signal
             Providence
             of
             God
             in
             it
             ;
             and
             at
             the
             same
             time
             Declare
             our
             Detestation
             and
             Abhorrence
             of
             so
             Villainous
             and
             Barbarons
             a
             Design
             :
             And
             since
             the
             Safety
             and
             Welfare
             of
             Your
             Majesty's
             Dominions
             do
             so
             intirely
             depend
             upon
             Your
             Life
             ,
             We
             most
             Humbly
             Beseech
             Your
             Majesty
             to
             take
             more
             than
             Ordinary
             Care
             of
             Your
             Royal
             Person
             :
             And
             we
             take
             this
             Occasion
             to
             Assure
             Your
             Majesty
             of
             our
             utmost
             Assistance
             ,
             to
             Defend
             Your
             Person
             ,
             and
             Support
             Your
             Government
             against
             the
             late
             King
             James
             ,
             and
             all
             other
             Your
             Enemies
             ,
             both
             at
             Home
             and
             Abroad
             ;
             hereby
             Declaring
             to
             all
             all
             the
             VVorld
             ,
             That
             in
             case
             Your
             Majesty
             shall
             come
             to
             any
             Violent
             Death
             ,
             (
             which
             God
             forbid
             )
             we
             will
             Revenge
             the
             same
             upon
             all
             your
             Enemies
             ,
             and
             their
             Adherents
             .
             And
             as
             an
             In●nce
             of
             our
             Zeal
             for
             Your
             Majesty's
             Service
             ,
             we
             will
             give
             all
             possible
             Dispatch
             to
             the
             Publick
             Business
             :
             And
             we
             make
             it
             our
             Desire
             to
             Your
             Majesty
             ,
             to
             Seize
             and
             Secure
             all
             Persons
             ,
             Horses
             ,
             and
             Arms
             ,
             that
             Your
             Majesty
             may
             think
             fit
             to
             Apprehend
             upon
             this
             Occasion
             .
          
        
         
         
           To
           which
           His
           Majesty
           gave
           a
           gracious
           Answer
           to
           the
           effect
           following
           ,
           viz.
           
           
             
               
                 My
                 Lords
                 and
                 Gentlemen
                 ,
                 I
                 Thank
                 you
                 heartily
                 for
                 this
                 kind
                 Address
                 :
                 On
                 my
                 Part
                 you
                 may
                 be
                 assured
                 ,
                 that
                 I
                 will
                 do
                 all
                 that
                 is
                 within
                 my
                 Power
                 for
                 the
                 Conservation
                 of
                 this
                 Kingdom
                 ,
                 to
                 which
                 I
                 have
                 so
                 many
                 Obligations
                 .
                 I
                 will
                 readily
                 adventure
                 my
                 Life
                 for
                 the
                 Preservation
                 of
                 it
                 ,
                 and
                 recommend
                 my self
                 to
                 the
                 Continuance
                 of
                 your
                 Loyalty
                 and
                 good
                 Affections
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           The
           House
           of
           Commons
           also
           the
           same
           Day
           resolved
           upon
           the
           following
           Association
           to
           be
           signed
           by
           their
           Members
           .
        
         
           
             Whereas
             there
             has
             been
             a
             Horrid
             and
             Detestable
             Conspiracy
             ,
             Formed
             and
             Carried
             on
             by
             Papists
             ,
             and
             other
             Wicked
             and
             Traiterous
             Persons
             ,
             for
             Assassinating
             His
             Majesty's
             Royal
             Person
             in
             Order
             to
             Incourage
             an
             Invasion
             from
          
           France
           ,
           
             to
             Subvert
             our
             Religion
             ,
             Laws
             ,
             and
             Liberty
             :
             We
             whose
             Names
             are
             hereunto
             Subscribed
             ,
             do
             Heartily
             ,
             Sincerely
             ,
             and
             Solemnly
             Profess
             ,
             Testify
             and
             Declare
             ,
             That
             His
             Present
             Majesty
             King
          
           William
           
             is
             Rightful
             and
             Lawful
             King
             of
             these
             Realms
             .
             And
             we
             do
             Mutually
             Promise
             and
             Engage
             to
             stand
             by
             and
             assist
             each
             other
             ,
             to
             the
             utmost
             of
             our
             
             Power
             ,
             in
             the
             Support
             and
             Defence
             of
             His
             Majesty's
             most
             Sacred
             Person
             and
             Government
             ,
             against
             the
             late
             King
          
           James
           
             and
             all
             his
             Adherents
             .
             And
             in
             case
             His
             Majesty
             come
             to
             any
             Violent
             or
             Vntimely
             Death
             (
             which
             God
             forbid
             )
             We
             do
             hereby
             further
             Freely
             and
             Vnanimously
             Oblige
             our Selves
             ,
             to
             Vnite
             ,
             Associate
             ,
             and
             Stand
             by
             each
             other
             ,
             in
             Revenging
             the
             same
             upon
             his
             Enemies
             ,
             and
             their
             Adherents
             ;
             and
             in
             Supporting
             and
             Defending
             the
             Succession
             of
             the
             Crown
             ,
             according
             to
             an
             Act
             made
             in
             the
             First
             Year
             of
             the
             Reign
             of
             King
          
           William
           
             and
             Queen
          
           Mary
           ,
           Intituled
           ,
           An
           Act
           Declaring
           the
           Rights
           and
           Liberties
           of
           the
           Subject
           ,
           and
           Settling
           the
           Succession
           of
           the
           Crown
           .
        
         
           There
           was
           also
           an
           Association
           agreed
           upon
           by
           the
           House
           of
           Lords
           ,
           which
           was
           carried
           by
           a
           Majority
           ,
           which
           appears
           to
           be
           of
           a
           
             Comfortable
             Importance
          
           .
        
         
           Their
           Lordships
           Association
           differs
           so
           little
           from
           that
           of
           the
           Commons
           ,
           that
           I
           do
           not
           transcribe
           it
           ;
           but
           shew
           you
           how
           they
           vary
           :
           Instead
           of
           the
           Words
           [
           King
           William
           
             is
             RIGHTFVL
             and
             Lawful
             King
          
           ]
           their
           Lordships
           insert
           .
        
         
           That
           
             His
             Present
             Majesty
             King
          
           William
           
             hath
             A
             RIGHT
             BY
             LAW
             to
             the
             Crown
             of
             this
             Realm
             ,
             and
             that
             neither
             the
             late
             King
          
           James
           ,
           
             nor
             the
             pretended
             Prince
             of
          
           Wales
           ,
           
             nor
             any
             other
             Person
             hath
             any
             Right
             whatsoever
             to
             the
             same
             ,
          
           &c.
           
        
         
           Ninety
           six
           of
           the
           Lords
           Spiritual
           and
           Temporal
           ,
           that
           was
           then
           present
           ,
           subscribed
           their
           Association
           ,
           and
           others
           
           who
           were
           at
           first
           absent
           ,
           come
           in
           daily
           ;
           it
           hath
           been
           refused
           only
           by
           15.
           
        
         
           The
           House
           of
           Commons
           having
           ,
           as
           I
           told
           you
           ,
           agreed
           upon
           the
           above-written
           Association
           ,
           ordered
           it
           to
           be
           engrossed
           ,
           to
           be
           Signed
           by
           their
           Members
           ;
           and
           near
           400
           of
           that
           August
           Assembly
           ,
           which
           consists
           of
           513
           ,
           have
           already
           (
           with
           great
           Alacrity
           )
           subscribed
           it
           .
        
         
           On
           Tuesday
           the
           House
           ordered
           that
           their
           absent
           Members
           ,
           as
           they
           come
           to
           the
           House
           ,
           do
           come
           up
           to
           the
           Table
           ,
           and
           sign
           the
           Association
           ;
           or
           ,
           in
           their
           Places
           ,
           declare
           their
           Refusal
           so
           to
           do
           :
           and
        
         
           On
           Thursday
           it
           was
           ordered
           that
           the
           Association
           ,
           and
           the
           Subscriptions
           thereunto
           ,
           be
           entred
           upon
           the
           Journal
           of
           the
           House
           ;
           and
           Resolved
           that
           it
           should
           be
           presented
           to
           His
           Majesty
           ,
           by
           the
           Speaker
           ,
           and
           
             the
             whole
             House
          
           ,
           before
           the
           end
           of
           that
           Session
           .
        
         
           It
           was
           also
           ,
           the
           same
           day
           ,
           ordered
           that
           such
           Members
           who
           had
           not
           already
           ,
           should
           by
           Monday
           Fortnight
           Sign
           the
           Association
           ,
           or
           declare
           their
           Refusal
           .
        
         
           Now
           a
           day
           or
           two
           before
           the
           Conspirators
           final
           Seperation
           ,
           the
           King
           and
           his
           Council
           began
           to
           be
           convinc'd
           of
           the
           truth
           of
           Prendergast
           and
           Dela
           Rue's
           Evidence
           ,
           by
           a
           full
           knowledg
           of
           the
           Witnesses
           Characters
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           
           firmness
           and
           constancy
           of
           their
           Testimony
           ,
           besides
           many
           other
           concurring
           Circumstances
           .
           Wherefore
           His
           Majesty
           ordered
           Warrants
           should
           be
           Issued
           out
           against
           the
           Persons
           accused
           ,
           whereof
           some
           absconded
           ,
           others
           were
           taken
           ;
           of
           these
           last
           divers
           confirm'd
           what
           Prendergast
           and
           
             De
             la
             Rue
          
           had
           sworn
           ,
           and
           Named
           others
           as
           Partakers
           in
           the
           Treason
           .
           Whereupon
           more
           and
           more
           appearing
           every
           day
           to
           have
           been
           engaged
           ,
           Proclamations
           were
           Published
           in
           England
           and
           Scotland
           for
           their
           Speedy
           Apprehension
           .
           By
           this
           means
           through
           the
           Providence
           of
           God
           ,
           so
           many
           of
           them
           were
           either
           Seized
           or
           Delivered
           themselves
           up
           ,
           as
           have
           irrefragably
           confirmed
           every
           part
           of
           the
           foregoing
           Account
           .
           What
           became
           of
           the
           several
           Conspirators
           will
           appear
           by
           the
           Following
           List.
           
        
         
           The
           Duke
           of
           Berwick
           presently
           fled
           beyond
           the
           Seas
           from
           the
           Coast
           of
           Sussex
           .
           
        
         
           Capt.
           Porter
           ,
           Mr.
           Prendergast
           and
           Mr.
           Keyes
           ,
           was
           taken
           at
           Letherhead
           in
           Surrey
           ,
           and
           were
           brought
           up
           to
           Town
           ;
           the
           last
           mention'd
           received
           the
           deserved
           Reward
           of
           his
           horrid
           Ingratitude
           and
           Treasons
           :
           the
           two
           former
           largly
           confessed
           .
        
         
           Capt.
           Harris
           surrender'd
           himself
           to
           Mr.
           Secretary
           Trumbull
           ,
           and
           largly
           confess'd
           .
        
         
           Capt.
           Bois
           was
           taken
           ,
           and
           freely
           Confess'd
           .
        
         
         
           Mr.
           
             ●ela
             Rue
          
           came
           in
           ,
           and
           Confess'd
           what
           was
           done
           and
           said
           at
           the
           Trayterous
           Meetings
           at
           Capt.
           
           Poter's
           Lodging
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           Sir
           
             Iohn
             Friend
          
           fled
           frōm
           his
           own
           House
           to
           hide
           himself
           at
           ▪
           Quaker's
           in
           
             Stratton
             Ground
          
           ,
           
           where
           he
           was
           Taken
           ,
           Arraign'd
           ,
           Condemned
           and
           Executed
           .
        
         
           Sir
           
             VVilliam
             Parkyns
          
           was
           Taken
           at
           Mr.
           
           Castlemain's
           Chamber
           in
           the
           Temple
           ;
           he
           was
           likewise
           Arraign'd
           ,
           Condemn'd
           and
           Executed
           ;
           he
           confest
           enough
           to
           shew
           his
           Crime
           ,
           but
           not
           his
           Repentance
           .
        
         
           Mr.
           Bryerly
           taken
           ,
           and
           Confess'd
           .
        
         
           
             Peter
             Cook
          
           ,
           Gent.
           taken
           March
           17
           th
           ;
           and
           committed
           to
           Newgate
           Arraign'd
           and
           Condemn'd
           ,
           but
           not
           as
           yet
           Executed
           .
        
         
           
             Christopher
             Knightly
          
           ,
           was
           taken
           disguised
           in
           Womens
           Clothes
           ,
           Arraign'd
           and
           Condemn'd
           ,
           but
           as
           yet
           not
           Executed
           .
        
         
           Sir
           
             Roger
             L'Estrange
          
           ,
           was
           taken
           up
           ,
           and
           dismist
           upon
           Bail.
           
        
         
           
             Edward
             King
          
           was
           taken
           ,
           
           Arraign'd
           ,
           Condemned
           and
           Executed
           .
        
         
           Capt.
           Stow
           ,
           taken
           the
           6
           th
           of
           March
           ,
           in
           a
           Spunging-House
           ,
           near
           Smithfield
           ;
           he
           having
           caused
           himself
           to
           be
           Arrested
           upon
           a
           Sham-Action
           of
           300
           l.
           under
           the
           Name
           of
           Smith
           .
        
         
           Mr.
           Blair
           ,
           was
           taken
           ,
           examin'd
           ,
           and
           confess'd
           .
        
         
         
           Mr.
           
             Robert
             Ferguson
          
           was
           seiz'd
           in
           
           Gray's
           -
           Inn-lane
           ,
           hid
           under
           a
           Bed.
           
        
         
           
           —
           Lowick
           was
           seiz'd
           in
           Alley
           in
           Golden-lane
           ,
           very
           much
           disguis'd
           ,
           Arraign'd
           ,
           Condemned
           and
           Executed
           .
        
         
           Sir
           
             Iohn
             Fenwick
          
           with-drew
           ,
           upon
           notice
           there
           was
           a
           Proclamation
           out
           against
           him
           ;
           was
           taken
           with
           one
           VVebber
           ,
           at
           Rumney
           in
           Kent
           ,
           ready
           to
           go
           over-Sea
           ,
           and
           was
           Committed
           ,
           and
           is
           still
           a
           Prisoner
           .
        
         
           
             Ambrose
             Rookwood
          
           was
           Taken
           ,
           Tryed
           ,
           Condemned
           and
           Executed
           .
        
         
           The
           Earl
           of
           Aylesbury
           was
           taken
           and
           committed
           to
           the
           Tower
           ,
           where
           he
           is
           still
           a
           Prisoner
           .
        
         
           —
           Goodman
           ,
           was
           taken
           ,
           and
           made
           an
           Ingenious
           Confession
           .
        
         
           —
           Bertram
           was
           taken
           ,
           and
           confess'd
           .
        
         
           
             Robert
             Charnock
          
           was
           taken
           ,
           Arraign'd
           ,
           Condemned
           and
           Executed
           ;
           the
           deserved
           Reward
           of
           his
           horrid
           Treasons
           .
        
         
           
             VVilliam
             Berkenhead
          
           ,
           who
           has
           gone
           by
           the
           several
           Names
           of
           
             East
             ,
             VVest
             ,
             South
             ,
             Fish
          
           and
           Baker
           ,
           was
           taken
           ,
           but
           since
           made
           his
           Escape
           out
           of
           Goal
           .
        
         
           
             Charles
             Cranburne
          
           was
           Taken
           ,
           Arraign'd
           ,
           Condemn'd
           and
           Executed
           .
        
         
           Sir
           
             George
             Barclay
          
           fled
           ,
           and
           with-drew
           from
           Justice
           upon
           the
           first
           Discovery
           ,
           and
           is
           Out-law'd
           .
        
         
         
           Sir
           
             Thomas
             Row
          
           ,
           upon
           the
           first
           Discovery
           ,
           shot
           himself
           into
           the
           Head
           ,
           of
           which
           Wound
           he
           the
           same
           Day
           died
           .
        
         
           Besides
           these
           there
           are
           several
           others
           secured
           which
           must
           not
           expect
           to
           be
           dismiss'd
           but
           by
           due
           Couse
           of
           Law.
           
           
        
         
           Wherefore
           to
           return
           to
           what
           happen'd
           shortly
           after
           the
           Discovery
           .
           His
           Majesty
           having
           now
           receiv'd
           irresistible
           Proof
           of
           the
           Certainty
           of
           the
           Wicked
           and
           Unnatural
           Design
           ;
           that
           the
           World
           might
           have
           the
           like
           Conviction
           ,
           resolv'd
           speedily
           to
           bring
           some
           of
           the
           most
           Notorious
           Malefactors
           to
           a
           fair
           and
           open
           Tryal
           .
        
         
           The
           Persons
           who
           were
           first
           put
           upon
           justifiying
           themselves
           ,
           were
           
             Robert
             Charnock
             ,
             Edward
             King
          
           and
           
             Thomas
             Keys
          
           ,
           on
           the
           11
           th
           of
           March
           169●
           ,
           against
           whom
           divers
           Witnesses
           were
           produced
           ,
           who
           in
           their
           Depositions
           ,
           first
           gave
           some
           distinct
           Account
           of
           the
           Plot
           in
           General
           ,
           and
           then
           of
           the
           particular
           Share
           each
           Person
           at
           the
           Bar
           had
           in
           it
           .
        
         
           
             As
             to
             what
             Concern'd
             Charnock
             .
          
           
             Capt.
             Porter
             first
             depos'd
             ,
             That
             the
             said
             Charnock
             ,
             himself
             ,
             and
             others
             did
             meet
             at
             the
             Globe-Tavern
             in
             Hatton-Garden
             ,
             the
             Nags-Head
             in
             St.
             
             Iames's
             -
             Street
             ,
             and
             often
             in
             other
             places
             ,
             where
             they
             did
             consult
             and
             contrive
             the
             Design
             for
             Assassinating
             His
             Majesty's
             Person
             ,
             agreed
             upon
             it
             ,
             and
             the
             Ways
             and
             Methods
             for
             
             Carrying
             it
             on
             ;
             That
             he
             with
             the
             rest
             did
             agree
             it
             should
             be
             done
             on
             the
             15
             th
             of
             February
             ,
             in
             the
             Lane
             coming
             from
             Brentfort
             to
             Turnham-Green
             ,
             and
             Horses
             and
             Arms
             were
             provided
             ,
             and
             that
             he
             did
             Personally
             ingage
             and
             bring
             6
             or
             7
             Men
             more
             to
             act
             in
             the
             Design
             ,
             that
             he
             went
             into
             France
             to
             invite
             the
             late
             King
             Iames
             to
             England
             with
             a
             Foreign
             Force
             .
          
           
             The
             next
             was
             Mr.
             
               De
               la
               Rue
            
             ,
             who
             Swore
             ,
             That
             he
             the
             said
             Charnock
             was
             at
             several
             Places
             with
             divers
             of
             the
             Conspirators
             and
             where
             the
             Matter
             was
             discours'd
             concerning
             the
             Assassination
             :
             and
             that
             some
             time
             after
             the
             first
             Disappoinment
             ,
             he
             ask'd
             him
             ,
             
               How
               the
               thing
               went
            
             ?
             and
             he
             answer'd
             ,
             
               he
               was
               afraid
               it
               would
               come
               to
               nothing
               .
            
          
           
             Then
             Mr.
             Prendergast
             swore
             ,
             That
             Charnock
             sent
             a
             Note
             to
             Capt.
             Porter
             ,
             to
             Countermand
             the
             Order
             for
             the
             15
             th
             of
             February
             ,
             subscribed
             by
             the
             Name
             of
             Robinson
             .
          
           
             Next
             Mr.
             Bertram
             swore
             ,
             That
             he
             the
             said
             Charnock
             ask'd
             him
             ,
             
               if
               he
               would
               be
               one
               in
               the
               Design
               in
               taking
               off
               the
               Spark
               ?
            
             meaning
             King
             VVilliam
             ,
             but
             he
             answer'd
             ,
             
               He
               was
               otherwise
               ingaged
            
             .
             And
             after
             the
             second
             Disappointm●nt
             ,
             he
             this
             Deponent
             met
             him
             again
             ,
             who
             told
             him
             ,
             
               he
               heard
               VVarrants
               were
               out
               against
               them
               :
            
             Therefore
             would
             have
             had
             him
             come
             to
             his
             Lodging
             ,
             where
             ,
             with
             others
             ,
             to
             have
             gone
             to
             Kensington
             to
             put
             their
             Design
             in
             immediate
             Execution
             ,
             and
             assur'd
             him
             there
             would
             be
             Safety
             in
             so
             doing
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             Against
             King.
             
          
           
             First
             ,
             Capt.
             Porter
             deposed
             ,
             That
             the
             said
             
               Edward
               King
            
             went
             with
             him
             and
             Knightly
             ,
             to
             view
             the
             Ground
             :
             And
             was
             with
             the
             other
             Conspirators
             at
             most
             of
             their
             Meetings
             ,
             particularly
             at
             his
             Lodging
             in
             Maiden-lane
             ,
             the
             same
             day
             they
             were
             to
             execute
             their
             Design
             ;
             where
             were
             Discourses
             of
             that
             Nature
             :
             And
             also
             at
             the
             Blew-Posts
             in
             Spring-Garden
             ,
             That
             he
             was
             present
             when
             Word
             was
             brought
             of
             the
             Disappointment
             .
          
           
             The
             next
             was
             Mr.
             
               De
               la
               Rue
            
             ,
             who
             Swore
             ,
             That
             the
             said
             
               Edward
               King
            
             told
             him
             ,
             on
             the
             7
             th
             of
             February
             ,
             that
             he
             was
             going
             out
             Town
             about
             something
             in
             order
             to
             the
             Design
             ,
             with
             
               Knightly
               ,
               Durance
            
             ,
             and
             others
             ,
             to
             see
             whether
             the
             King
             went
             to
             Richmond
             or
             Hounslow
             ,
             and
             That
             sometime
             after
             he
             told
             this
             Deponent
             ,
             he
             did
             ride
             out
             with
             his
             Friends
             ,
             and
             that
             there
             was
             the
             Rarest
             Place
             for
             the
             Execution
             of
             the
             Design
             against
             King
             William
             that
             was
             possible
             ,
             or
             had
             they
             studied
             never
             so
             long
             for
             a
             Convenient
             Place
             they
             could
             not
             have
             had
             such
             another
             .
             And
             that
             he
             was
             with
             him
             on
             the
             15
             th
             and
             22
             d
             of
             February
             ,
             at
             Porter's
             Lodging
             ,
             and
             the
             Blew-Posts
             in
             Spring-Garden
             ,
             where
             they
             had
             Discourses
             concerning
             putting
             their
             Purpose
             in
             Execution
             .
             And
             that
             he
             had
             seen
             him
             at
             divers
             other
             Times
             and
             Places
             .
          
           
             Mr.
             Bois
             swore
             ,
             That
             King
             was
             the
             first
             that
             ever
             told
             him
             of
             the
             Assassination
             ,
             it
             was
             at
             his
             own
             Chamber
             
             in
             this
             manner
             ;
             That
             there
             was
             a
             great
             undertaking
             in
             hand
             ,
             that
             he
             had
             put
             his
             Name
             into
             the
             List
             ,
             and
             That
             ,
             if
             he
             would
             make
             one
             ,
             he
             should
             have
             a
             Horse
             ;
             and
             gave
             him
             20
             s.
             to
             buy
             Boots
             .
             He
             told
             him
             several
             were
             come
             over
             from
             France
             ;
             That
             the
             late
             King
             Iames
             would
             Land
             very
             Speedily
             .
          
        
         
           
             Against
             Keys
             .
          
           
             Capt.
             Porter
             first
             deposed
             ,
             That
             he
             the
             said
             Keys
             was
             present
             at
             most
             of
             the
             Consultations
             ,
             he
             hired
             Horses
             for
             the
             Captain
             to
             be
             imploy'd
             in
             the
             Business
             .
             That
             he
             was
             at
             the
             Blew-Posts
             in
             Spring-Garden
             ,
             with
             him
             and
             the
             other
             Conspirators
             ,
             where
             word
             was
             brought
             of
             the
             Disappointment
             ,
             both
             the
             15
             th
             and
             22
             d
             of
             February
             ,
             and
             That
             he
             agreed
             to
             be
             one
             that
             should
             be
             Personally
             concern'd
             in
             the
             Assassination
             .
          
           
             Mr.
             Prendergast
             swore
             ,
             That
             he
             the
             said
             Keys
             was
             at
             Capt.
             
             Porter's
             Lodging
             in
             Maiden-lane
             ,
             the
             25
             th
             of
             February
             where
             were
             divers
             others
             ,
             whose
             discourse
             chiefly
             tended
             to
             the
             Execution
             of
             the
             Assassination
             :
             and
             afterwards
             ,
             on
             the
             same
             day
             ,
             they
             met
             again
             at
             the
             Blew-Posts
             in
             the
             Spring-Garden
             ,
             where
             ,
             with
             others
             ,
             he
             did
             agree
             to
             act
             in
             the
             Design
             .
          
           
             Mr.
             
               De
               la
               Rue
            
             deposed
             ,
             That
             he
             the
             said
             Keys
             was
             one
             of
             those
             that
             met
             at
             the
             Blew-Posts
             in
             Spring-Garden
             ,
             on
             Saturday
             the
             22
             d
             of
             February
             ,
             and
             he
             was
             the
             only
             Man
             
             told
             him
             of
             the
             Meetings
             .
             That
             when
             Word
             was
             brought
             of
             the
             Disappointment
             ,
             he
             went
             to
             the
             Mews-Gate
             ,
             to
             learn
             the
             reason
             if
             he
             could
             of
             the
             King
             's
             not
             going
             abroad
             for
             two
             Saturdays
             together
             ;
             and
             that
             he
             brought
             in
             word
             .
             
               The
               Guards
               were
               come
               back
               in
               a
               Foam
               ,
               and
               the
               King's
               Coach
               to
               the
            
             Mews-gate
             ,
             
               and
               by
               People's
               Muttering
               he
               fear'd
               a
               Discovery
               .
            
          
           
             But
             the
             whole
             Evidence
             against
             
               Charnock
               ,
               King
            
             and
             Keys
             being
             clear
             and
             positive
             Testimony
             ;
             and
             what
             they
             pleaded
             for
             themselves
             being
             only
             their
             own
             single
             Affirmation
             and
             Negation
             ,
             without
             any
             support
             of
             Witnesses
             ,
             the
             Jury
             brought
             them
             in
             Guilty
             of
             High-Treason
             .
          
           
             Accordingly
             to
             which
             Sentence
             they
             were
             Executed
             the
             18
             th
             of
             the
             said
             Month.
             
          
           
             At
             the
             time
             of
             their
             Execution
             each
             of
             them
             deliver'd
             a
             Paper
             ,
             to
             the
             Sheriffs
             ,
             wherein
             they
             own'd
             themselves
             guilty
             of
             the
             Crime
             for
             which
             they
             stood
             Condemn'd
             ,
             and
             that
             they
             were
             for
             Killing
             the
             King
             and
             the
             Guards
             .
          
           
             The
             next
             Criminal
             Arraign'd
             was
             Sir
             
               Iohn
               Friend
            
             ,
             who
             was
             brought
             to
             his
             Tryal
             ,
             March
             the
             23
             d
             of
             that
             Year
             .
          
           
             Against
             him
             Capt.
             Porter
             deposed
             ,
             That
             about
             the
             latter
             end
             of
             May
             or
             beginning
             of
             Iune
             1695
             ,
             on
             a
             Monday
             ,
             the
             Lord
             Aylesbury
             ,
             the
             Lord
             Mongomery
             ,
             Sir
             
               Iohn
               Friend
            
             ,
             Sir
             
               William
               Parkyns
            
             ,
             Sir
             
               Iohn
               Fenwick
            
             ,
             Mr.
             Charnock
             ,
             one
             Cook
             ,
             and
             this
             Deponent
             ,
             met
             at
             the
             old
             King's-Head
             in
             
             Leadenhall-Street
             ,
             and
             at
             one
             Mrs.
             
             Monjoy's
             -
             Tavern
             in
             St.
             
             Iames's
             -
             street
             ,
             sometime
             after
             .
             At
             both
             these
             Meetings
             it
             was
             consulted
             and
             agreed
             ,
             to
             send
             Charnock
             over
             to
             France
             to
             invite
             the
             late
             King
             Iames
             to
             England
             and
             to
             prevail
             with
             the
             
               French
               King
            
             to
             furnish
             him
             with
             10000
             Men
             ;
             8000
             Foot
             ,
             1000
             Horse
             ,
             and
             1000
             Dragoons
             ,
             and
             each
             did
             promise
             to
             meet
             him
             at
             his
             Landing
             with
             2000
             Horse
             ,
             and
             Sir
             
               Iohn
               Friend
            
             did
             say
             ,
             
               he
               would
               be
               as
               forward
               in
               his
               Assistance
               as
               any
               .
            
             And
             not
             long
             after
             the
             second
             they
             had
             a
             third
             Meeting
             ,
             where
             were
             Sir
             
               William
               Parkyns
            
             ,
             Sir
             
               George
               Barclay
            
             ,
             Sir
             
               Iohn
               Friend
            
             ,
             one
             Holmes
             ,
             Mr.
             Ferguson
             ,
             and
             this
             Deponent
             .
          
           
             Capt.
             Blair
             swore
             ,
             that
             2
             or
             3
             Years
             ago
             Sir
             
               Iohn
               Friend
            
             produc'd
             a
             Commission
             he
             had
             from
             K.
             Iames
             ,
             to
             be
             a
             Colonel
             of
             a
             Regiment
             of
             Horse
             ,
             which
             he
             was
             to
             raise
             ,
             and
             to
             appoint
             what
             Officers
             he
             thought
             fit
             ;
             That
             he
             read
             the
             Commission
             ,
             it
             was
             seal'd
             at
             the
             Top
             
               Iames
               Rex
            
             ,
             and
             counter-sign'd
             Melford
             ,
             That
             he
             promised
             this
             Deponent
             he
             should
             be
             his
             Lieutenant
             Colonel
             ,
             and
             told
             him
             he
             should
             get
             as
             many
             Men
             as
             he
             could
             ,
             that
             Mr.
             Fisher
             was
             to
             be
             his
             first
             Captain
             ,
             and
             Vernatti
             was
             to
             be
             another
             ,
             and
             Mr.
             Sclater
             should
             be
             Captain
             of
             a
             Troop
             of
             Non-Swearing
             Parsons
             ,
             and
             that
             for
             ingaging
             and
             contracting
             with
             Men
             to
             come
             in
             to
             be
             of
             his
             Regiment
             ,
             and
             to
             caress
             and
             keep
             them
             together
             and
             to
             carry
             on
             the
             Design
             ,
             he
             had
             expended
             a
             great
             deal
             of
             Money
             .
             And
             that
             he
             laid
             down
             100
             l.
             
             to
             facilitate
             Col.
             
             Parker's
             escape
             out
             of
             the
             Tower
             ;
             That
             he
             had
             wrote
             a
             Letter
             to
             King
             Iames
             ,
             and
             gave
             it
             this
             Deponent
             to
             read
             ,
             who
             told
             him
             't
             was
             well
             penn'd
             ,
             and
             that
             he
             believed
             Mr.
             Ferguson
             did
             pen
             it
             .
          
           
             To
             this
             Sir
             
               Iohn
               Friend
            
             makes
             an
             Objection
             against
             the
             Credit
             of
             the
             Witnesses
             that
             they
             were
             not
             to
             be
             believed
             ,
             upon
             this
             Account
             ,
             because
             they
             are
             known
             to
             be
             Roman
             Catholicks
             ,
             and
             he
             a
             Protestant
             ,
             their
             Consciences
             as
             to
             Oaths
             ,
             are
             somewhat
             large
             ,
             especially
             when
             they
             swear
             against
             Protestants
             ,
             and
             therefore
             ,
             says
             he
             ,
             they
             are
             not
             to
             be
             allow'd
             ,
             against
             Protestants
             ,
             as
             Witnesses
             ;
             and
             that
             their
             Credit
             was
             not
             sufficient
             to
             induce
             a
             Jury
             to
             believe
             them
             .
             At
             first
             he
             alledged
             there
             was
             a
             Statute
             that
             disabled
             them
             from
             being
             Witnesses
             ,
             but
             that
             was
             proved
             to
             him
             to
             the
             Contrary
             .
          
           
             Then
             he
             insisted
             upon
             it
             ,
             that
             Blair
             was
             not
             to
             be
             look'd
             upon
             as
             a
             Witness
             ,
             and
             that
             because
             he
             denyed
             he
             knew
             any
             thing
             of
             the
             Plot
             :
             The
             Occasion
             of
             that
             was
             this
             ;
             when
             he
             was
             in
             the
             Gate-House
             ,
             there
             was
             News
             in
             the
             Flying-Post
             or
             Post-Boy
             ,
             where
             it
             was
             alledged
             that
             Blair
             had
             confess'd
             all
             ;
             and
             that
             thereupon
             Blair
             said
             ,
             
               he
               was
               Innocent
            
             ;
             but
             Blair
             being
             called
             into
             Court
             again
             swears
             ,
             
               he
               did
               not
               say
               he
               knew
               nothing
               of
               a
               Plot
               ,
            
             but
             deny'd
             being
             privy
             to
             ,
             or
             concern'd
             in
             the
             Assassination
             :
             so
             that
             he
             did
             not
             deny
             wholly
             to
             be
             in
             the
             Plot
             ,
             but
             in
             the
             Assassination
             .
          
           
           
             Another
             thing
             he
             insisted
             upon
             to
             be
             a
             Matter
             of
             Law
             ,
             in
             the
             Statute
             of
             the
             25.
             
             Edw.
             3.
             which
             was
             over-rul'd
             by
             the
             Court.
             
          
           
             So
             that
             what
             he
             had
             to
             say
             for
             himself
             ,
             proving
             no
             way
             material
             ;
             then
             the
             Jury
             withdrew
             ,
             and
             return'd
             after
             a
             short
             time
             ,
             and
             brought
             him
             in
             Guilty
             of
             High-Treason
             .
          
           
             As
             touching
             the
             Paper
             he
             deliver'd
             to
             the
             Sheriffs
             ,
             at
             the
             time
             of
             his
             Execution
             ,
             he
             said
             ,
             
               he
               died
               in
               Charity
               with
               all
               Men
               ,
               and
               a
               Member
               of
               the
               Church
               of
            
             England
             ;
             he
             no
             way
             denyed
             the
             Fact
             for
             which
             he
             stood
             Condemn'd
             ,
             but
             rather
             Justified
             it
             ,
             and
             made
             some
             groundless
             Reflections
             on
             the
             legal
             and
             regular
             Proceedings
             against
             him
             ;
             concluding
             with
             a
             Prayer
             which
             could
             be
             dictated
             by
             none
             but
             a
             fierce
             Jacobite
             .
             It
             was
             in
             truth
             a
             Prayer
             more
             proper
             for
             their
             Treasonable
             Meetings
             at
             the
             Old
             King's-Head
             in
             
               Leadenhall-streei
               ,
               &c.
            
             than
             to
             be
             used
             as
             the
             last
             Words
             of
             a
             Gentleman
             dying
             in
             the
             Profession
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             England
             .
          
           
             The
             next
             Offender
             that
             came
             under
             the
             stroke
             of
             Justice
             ,
             was
             Sir
             
               William
               Parkyns
            
             ;
             who
             came
             to
             his
             Tryal
             the
             24
             th
             of
             March
             the
             same
             Year
             :
             Amongst
             the
             several
             Witnesses
             that
             was
             produc'd
             Capt.
             Porter
             was
             the
             first
             ,
             who
             has
             been
             a
             Witness
             hitherto
             against
             several
             upon
             the
             like
             Occasion
             ,
             he
             swore
             ,
             That
             about
             the
             latter
             end
             of
             May
             or
             beginning
             of
             Iune
             ,
             1695
             ,
             Sir
             
               Iohn
               Fenwick
            
             ,
             Sir
             
               Iohn
               Friend
            
             ,
             Sir
             
               William
               Parkyns
            
             ,
             and
             this
             Deponent
             ,
             with
             
             divers
             others
             ,
             Met
             at
             the
             Old
             Kings-Head
             in
             Leadenhall-street
             ,
             and
             some
             time
             after
             ,
             at
             Mrs.
             
             Monjoy's
             ;
             at
             both
             which
             Places
             they
             did
             consult
             ,
             how
             they
             might
             again
             Restore
             King
             Iames
             :
             in
             order
             to
             it
             they
             thought
             it
             very
             necessary
             to
             send
             ,
             Mr.
             Charnock
             ,
             who
             was
             at
             that
             Meeting
             ,
             to
             King
             Iames
             ,
             and
             invite
             him
             to
             England
             with
             a
             French
             Force
             ,
             viz.
             8000
             Foot
             ,
             1000
             Horse
             ,
             and
             1000
             Dragoons
             ,
             if
             he
             could
             solicit
             the
             French
             King
             to
             lend
             him
             so
             many
             ,
             and
             that
             each
             of
             them
             did
             send
             their
             promise
             to
             meet
             him
             ,
             where
             he
             should
             appoint
             to
             Land
             ,
             at
             the
             Head
             of
             2000
             Horse
             .
          
           
             And
             further
             ,
             as
             to
             the
             Assassination
             ,
             he
             swore
             ,
             That
             about
             the
             latter
             end
             of
             Ianuary
             ,
             or
             beginning
             of
             February
             ,
             Sir
             
               George
               Barclay
            
             was
             sent
             over
             with
             a
             Commission
             from
             the
             late
             King
             Iames
             ;
             whereupon
             Sir
             
               George
               Barclay
            
             ,
             Sir
             
               William
               Parkyns
            
             ,
             this
             Deponent
             ,
             with
             divers
             others
             ,
             had
             several
             Meetings
             ,
             particularly
             at
             the
             Globe-Tavern
             in
             Hatton-Garden
             ,
             the
             Nags-Head
             Tavern
             in
             Covent-Garden
             ,
             the
             Sun-Tavern
             in
             the
             Strand
             ,
             and
             other
             places
             .
             Where
             it
             was
             resolved
             to
             undertake
             to
             Assassinate
             King
             William
             ,
             that
             Sir
             William
             did
             consent
             to
             it
             ,
             and
             said
             ,
             
               he
               thought
               it
               necessary
               to
               be
               done
               ,
               to
               facilitate
               the
               Restauration
               of
               King
            
             James
             :
             and
             offer'd
             to
             Lend
             5
             Horses
             to
             engage
             in
             it
             ,
             three
             to
             be
             mounted
             by
             Men
             as
             he
             would
             get
             ,
             the
             other
             two
             by
             Capt.
             Porter
             ;
             That
             he
             told
             Charnock
             ,
             in
             this
             Deponents
             hearing
             ,
             
               He
               had
               a
               Commission
               from
               King
            
             James
             
             
               for
               the
               raising
               a
               Troop
               of
               Horse
               ,
               and
               that
               he
               had
               seen
               and
               read
               the
               Commission
               Sir
            
             George
             Barclay
             
               brought
               over
               ,
               which
               was
               to
               Levy
               War
               against
               the
               Person
               of
               the
               Prince
               of
            
             Orange
             ,
             
               and
               that
               he
               would
               not
               Personally
               engage
               in
               the
               Assassination
               ,
               because
               he
               had
               a
               Regiment
               to
               look
               after
               .
            
          
           
             Sweet
             swore
             ,
             That
             he
             the
             said
             Sir
             
               William
               Parkyns
            
             told
             him
             about
             Christmas
             last
             ,
             
               That
               King
            
             James
             
               would
               come
            
             ;
             he
             ask'd
             him
             ,
             
               How
               he
               knew
               it
            
             ?
             He
             told
             him
             ,
             
               He
               had
               his
               Word
               for
               it
               ;
               and
               that
               he
               had
               a
               Troop
               which
               consisted
               of
               Old
               Soldiers
               ;
               he
               had
               Thirty
               Sadles
               ,
               and
               besides
               there
               would
               be
               some
               Volunteers
               which
               were
               old
               Officers
               :
               That
               he
               was
               to
               go
               into
            
             Leicester-Shire
             ,
             
               and
               did
            
             ,
             it
             was
             about
             the
             latter
             end
             of
             
               Ianuary
               ,
               and
            
             Scudamore
             
               went
               with
               him
               ;
               and
               one
            
             Yarborough
             ,
             
               and
               a
               Parson
               that
               came
               out
               of
            
             York
             shire
             ,
             
               met
               him
               there
               :
               And
               that
               he
               found
               the
            
             West
             
               was
               as
               well
               inclin'd
               to
            
             King
             James
             
               's
               Interest
               as
               the
            
             North
             ;
             
               and
               a
               Lord's
               Brother
               was
               concern'd
               .
            
             That
             Sir
             William
             sent
             for
             him
             out
             of
             the
             Country
             the
             second
             time
             the
             King
             was
             to
             be
             Assassinated
             ,
             and
             that
             he
             had
             designed
             to
             have
             used
             him
             in
             the
             business
             ,
             but
             that
             he
             had
             Compassion
             on
             his
             Family
             .
          
           
             Eubank
             swore
             ,
             That
             he
             ,
             in
             Ianuary
             last
             ,
             waited
             on
             Sir
             VVilliam
             into
             Leicester-shire
             where
             several
             resorted
             to
             him
             ,
             particularly
             one
             Yarborongh
             ,
             and
             a
             
               York
               shire
            
             Parson
             ;
             that
             afterwards
             he
             ordered
             him
             to
             bring
             three
             Horses
             to
             London
             ,
             and
             he
             brought
             them
             up
             the
             14
             th
             of
             February
             ,
             and
             Sir
             VVilliam
             told
             him
             ,
             
               he
               thought
               to
               go
               out
               of
               Town
               
               on
               the
               Morrow
               ,
            
             being
             Saturday
             ;
             but
             his
             mind
             altered
             'till
             Monday
             following
             ,
             when
             he
             went
             to
             his
             House
             in
             VVarwick-shire
             ,
             and
             return'd
             the
             Friday
             after
             ,
             which
             was
             the
             21
             st
             of
             Ianuary
             ,
             and
             brought
             up
             four
             Horses
             more
             .
             The
             next
             Day
             ,
             being
             Saturday
             ,
             this
             Deponent
             was
             sent
             on
             a
             Message
             to
             Kensington
             ;
             the
             Answer
             he
             brought
             back
             was
             writ
             in
             his
             Almanack
             ,
             which
             he
             shewed
             to
             Sir
             William
             ,
             who
             thereupon
             bid
             him
             
               go
               to
               his
               Inn
               ,
               and
               get
               his
               Horses
               ready
               to
               go
               out
               of
               Town
               in
               the
               Afternoon
               ,
            
             which
             he
             did
             ;
             on
             the
             Monday
             following
             he
             received
             a
             Letter
             from
             Sir
             William
             ,
             to
             go
             to
             his
             Fellow-Servant
             Evans
             ;
             that
             after
             reading
             the
             Letter
             ,
             they
             went
             with
             a
             Cart
             and
             Horses
             to
             one
             
             Haywood's
             House
             to
             fetch
             some
             Chests
             ;
             there
             were
             three
             large
             Ones
             ,
             out
             of
             which
             were
             taken
             seven
             or
             eight
             smaller
             ,
             which
             they
             carried
             to
             Sir
             
             William's
             House
             ,
             and
             buried
             them
             in
             the
             Garden
             .
          
           
             Then
             
               Thomas
               Watts
            
             was
             sworn
             ,
             who
             deposed
             ,
             That
             after
             the
             breaking
             out
             of
             the
             Plot
             ,
             he
             did
             search
             Sir
             William
             Parkyns's
             House
             ,
             where
             ,
             in
             the
             Garden
             ,
             he
             found
             buried
             several
             Boxes
             ,
             or
             Chests
             ;
             there
             was
             in
             them
             four
             Dozen
             of
             Swords
             ,
             Thirty
             two
             Carbines
             ,
             Twenty
             five
             Brace
             of
             Pistols
             .
          
           
             There
             are
             more
             Substantial
             Concurring
             Evidence
             ,
             which
             I
             think
             two
             tedious
             to
             mention
             ;
             but
             shall
             refer
             any
             inquisitive
             Person
             to
             the
             Tryals
             .
          
           
           
             Sir
             
               VVilliam
               Parkyns
            
             says
             for
             himself
             ,
             that
             he
             does
             admit
             and
             agree
             ,
             what
             Porter
             says
             is
             very
             positive
             and
             full
             ,
             but
             that
             is
             but
             the
             Evidence
             of
             one
             Witness
             :
             And
             that
             by
             the
             Law
             no
             Person
             ought
             to
             be
             convicted
             of
             High-Treason
             upon
             the
             Testimony
             of
             one
             Witness
             .
             But
             then
             it
             was
             answer'd
             ,
             as
             to
             the
             Matter
             of
             Law
             ,
             he
             is
             to
             the
             right
             ,
             
               no
               Man
               ought
               to
               be
               convicted
               of
               Treason
               ,
               upon
               the
               Testimony
               of
               one
               single
               VVitness
            
             :
             But
             it
             was
             prov'd
             he
             ,
             with
             others
             ,
             did
             send
             Charnock
             into
             France
             .
             To
             which
             if
             you
             add
             the
             Testimony
             of
             Sweet
             ,
             who
             swore
             Sir
             VVilliam
             told
             him
             King
             James
             
               would
               come
               ,
               that
               he
               had
               a
               Troop
               ,
               had
               bought
               Saddles
               ,
               his
               having
               such
               a
               quantity
               of
               Arms
               ,
               of
               his
               going
               into
            
             Liecester-shire
             .
             If
             all
             which
             be
             understood
             in
             pursuance
             of
             the
             Design
             against
             His
             present
             Majesty
             ,
             then
             there
             are
             at
             least
             Two
             Witnesses
             ,
             to
             several
             Overt-Acts
             of
             the
             same
             Treason
             .
          
           
             But
             then
             it
             was
             objected
             by
             Sir
             VVilliam
             ,
             That
             Sweet
             does
             not
             prove
             any
             Overt-Act
             ,
             
               that
               what
               he
               said
               being
               only
               words
               ,
               and
               words
               are
               not
               Treason
               .
            
             But
             then
             it
             was
             answer'd
             ,
             
               they
               are
               words
               that
               relate
               to
               Acts
               and
               Things
               .
            
             That
             he
             had
             a
             great
             quantity
             of
             Arms
             ,
             beyond
             what
             he
             ,
             as
             a
             private
             Man
             ,
             could
             have
             occasion
             for
             ,
             or
             use
             :
             Sir
             VVilliam
             pretended
             
               he
               found
               them
               at
               his
               House
               ,
               when
               he
               first
               went
               thither
               ,
               all
               rusty
            
             ;
             but
             account
             was
             given
             ,
             these
             were
             bright
             and
             fit
             for
             use
             .
          
           
           
             By
             this
             plain
             evidence
             of
             the
             several
             Stages
             of
             his
             Journey
             ,
             his
             Treasonable
             Intercourse
             with
             the
             Men
             of
             the
             North
             ,
             his
             agreeing
             ,
             with
             others
             ,
             to
             send
             Charnock
             to
             France
             ,
             his
             providing
             such
             a
             considerable
             quantity
             of
             Arms
             ,
             his
             engaging
             to
             lend
             5
             Horses
             ,
             and
             3
             Men
             ,
             to
             act
             in
             the
             Assassination
             ,
             &c.
             was
             made
             out
             beyond
             all
             possibility
             of
             Confutation
             .
             After
             a
             full
             hearing
             on
             both
             sides
             the
             Jury
             with-drew
             ,
             and
             after
             a
             very
             short
             time
             return'd
             ,
             and
             brought
             him
             guilty
             of
             High-Treason
             :
             According
             to
             which
             Sentence
             he
             was
             Executed
             the
             3
             d
             of
             April
             following
             .
             At
             the
             time
             of
             his
             Death
             delivered
             a
             written
             Paper
             to
             the
             Sheriffs
             ,
             wherein
             he
             acknowledg'd
             his
             being
             concern'd
             in
             the
             Design
             against
             the
             King's
             Life
             .
          
           
             On
             the
             21
             st
             of
             April
             1696
             ,
             was
             
               Ambrose
               Rookwood
            
             brought
             to
             Tryal
             .
             Against
             him
             Capt.
             Porter
             first
             deposed
             ,
             that
             at
             several
             Meetings
             for
             the
             carring
             on
             this
             Design
             against
             His
             Majesty
             ,
             Mr.
             Rookwood
             was
             present
             ,
             more
             particularly
             at
             the
             Globe-Tavern
             in
             Hatton-Garden
             ,
             where
             Sir
             
               George
               Barclay
            
             ,
             Mr.
             Charnock
             ,
             Sir
             
               VVilliam
               Parkyns
            
             ,
             this
             Deponent
             ,
             and
             others
             ,
             discours'd
             which
             was
             the
             best
             way
             and
             method
             ;
             That
             ,
             and
             first
             ,
             Mr.
             Rookwood
             said
             ,
             
               't
               was
               a
               very
               desperate
               thing
               ,
               and
               seem'd
               not
               very
               willing
               to
            
             engage
             in
             it
             ,
             whereupon
             Sir
             
               George
               Barclay
            
             told
             him
             ,
             
               he
               should
               command
               his
               Party
            
             ;
             he
             reply'd
             in
             
               French
               ,
               There
               's
               an
               end
               of
               it
               ,
            
             and
             consented
             .
          
           
           
             And
             farther
             that
             on
             Saturday
             Morning
             the
             15
             th
             of
             February
             ,
             there
             met
             at
             his
             ,
             this
             Deponent's
             Lodging
             ,
             in
             Little
             Rider-street
             ,
             Sir
             
               George
               Barclay
               ,
               Rookwood
            
             ,
             and
             several
             others
             ,
             where
             word
             was
             brought
             by
             Durance
             ,
             the
             King
             did
             go
             abroad
             ;
             and
             it
             was
             resolv'd
             by
             all
             ,
             the
             same
             Day
             to
             put
             their
             Design
             in
             Execution
             .
          
           
             The
             next
             Witness
             produced
             was
             Captain
             Harris
             ,
             who
             swore
             ,
             That
             on
             Saturday
             Morning
             the
             15
             th
             of
             February
             ,
             the
             first
             Day
             when
             this
             Assassination
             was
             design'd
             to
             be
             committed
             ,
             he
             went
             to
             the
             Lodging
             of
             one
             Burk
             ,
             where
             Mr.
             Rookwood
             was
             ,
             with
             others
             ,
             and
             he
             found
             them
             all
             in
             great
             Disorder
             ,
             and
             thereupon
             ask'd
             them
             ,
             
               what
               was
               the
               matter
               ,
               and
               what
               they
               were
               going
               to
               do
               ?
            
             And
             Rookwood
             bid
             him
             go
             to
             one
             
               Counter
               ,
               and
               he
               should
               know
               of
               him
               what
               was
               the
               matter
               .
            
             Accordingly
             he
             went
             ;
             and
             Counter
             told
             him
             ,
             and
             those
             who
             were
             with
             him
             ,
             That
             they
             must
             get
             ready
             to
             go
             to
             Turnham-Green
             ;
             and
             at
             the
             same
             Time
             and
             Place
             ,
             he
             this
             Deponent
             met
             Sir
             
               G.
               Barclay
            
             ,
             and
             after
             some
             Discourse
             of
             attacking
             the
             Coach
             ,
             Sir
             
               G.
               Barclay
            
             at
             the
             first
             said
             ,
             
               They
               were
               his
               Ianizaries
            
             ;
             and
             afterwards
             going
             out
             ,
             he
             came
             in
             again
             ,
             and
             said
             ,
             
               They
               were
               Men
               of
               Honour
               ,
               and
               that
               they
               were
               to
               go
               abroad
               to
               attack
               the
               Prince
               of
            
             Orange
             :
          
           
             He
             further
             depos'd
             ,
             That
             upon
             Saturday
             the
             22
             d
             of
             February
             ,
             the
             second
             time
             it
             was
             to
             have
             been
             put
             in
             Execution
             ,
             Mr.
             Rookwood
             gave
             this
             Deponent
             a
             List
             of
             
             Men
             that
             he
             was
             to
             Command
             ;
             that
             Mr.
             
             Rookwood's
             Name
             was
             at
             the
             Top
             ,
             and
             this
             Deponent's
             counterfeit
             Name
             ,
             which
             was
             Ienkins
             ,
             and
             
             Hare's
             counterfeit
             Name
             ,
             which
             was
             Guinea
             ;
             and
             that
             he
             told
             this
             Deponent
             ,
             
               He
               was
               to
               be
               of
               his
               Party
               ,
               and
               that
               he
               should
               be
               his
               Aid-du-Camp
               ,
               and
               they
               were
               to
               make
               ready
               to
               go
               to
            
             Turnham
             Green
             
               to
               attack
               the
               Prince
               of
            
             Orange
             .
          
           
             Then
             the
             Council
             for
             the
             Prisoner
             endeavour'd
             to
             take
             off
             the
             Credit
             of
             Mr.
             Porter
             ,
             and
             opened
             very
             great
             Crimes
             ,
             that
             he
             should
             be
             guilty
             of
             ,
             which
             must
             render
             him
             a
             Person
             not
             to
             be
             believed
             ;
             but
             did
             not
             prove
             any
             thing
             :
             No
             Witness
             that
             they
             call'd
             against
             Mr.
             Porter
             said
             any
             thing
             against
             him
             ,
             to
             invalidate
             his
             Testimony
             ,
             or
             to
             introduce
             any
             one
             to
             disbelieve
             what
             he
             has
             said
             .
          
           
             Then
             they
             said
             in
             Point
             of
             Law
             ,
             there
             is
             no
             Overt-Act
             proved
             of
             any
             Design
             against
             the
             King's
             Life
             ,
             that
             affects
             Mr.
             Rookwood
             ;
             there
             were
             other
             Objections
             started
             ,
             which
             were
             over-rul'd
             by
             the
             Court.
             The
             Jury
             went
             forth
             to
             consider
             of
             their
             Verdict
             ,
             and
             after
             a
             quarter
             of
             an
             Hours
             stay
             return'd
             ,
             and
             brought
             him
             in
             Guilty
             of
             High-Treason
             .
          
           
             The
             next
             Person
             that
             was
             call'd
             to
             the
             Bar
             to
             justify
             himself
             ,
             was
             
               Charles
               Cranburne
            
             ,
             the
             22
             d
             of
             April
             ,
             1696.
             
             Against
             him
             Capt.
             Porter
             deposed
             ,
             That
             he
             made
             the
             said
             Cranburne
             acquainted
             with
             the
             Design
             of
             Assassinating
             His
             Majesty
             King
             VVilliam
             ,
             the
             Day
             before
             they
             were
             
             to
             execute
             it
             ;
             and
             he
             engaged
             to
             be
             ready
             and
             make
             one
             .
             On
             Saturday
             ,
             the
             22
             d
             of
             February
             ,
             he
             came
             to
             my
             Lodging
             in
             Maiden-lane
             ,
             and
             I
             sent
             him
             to
             Sir
             
               William
               Parkyns
            
             .
             for
             a
             Note
             for
             two
             Horses
             that
             I
             was
             to
             mount
             of
             his
             :
             He
             came
             back
             and
             told
             me
             
               he
               knew
               where
               to
               have
               them
               ,
               and
               that
               Capt.
            
             Charnock
             
               was
               afraid
               we
               should
               not
               have
               our
               Complement
               of
               Men
               ,
               and
               desir'd
               me
               to
               send
               him
               an
               account
               what
               Men
               I
               could
               bring
               ,
            
             which
             I
             did
             ,
             by
             Mr.
             Cranburne
             ;
             and
             being
             to
             go
             to
             the
             Blew-Posts
             ,
             order'd
             him
             to
             bring
             it
             to
             me
             thither
             ;
             and
             he
             did
             bring
             it
             back
             to
             me
             ,
             to
             the
             Blew-Posts
             ,
             with
             Capt.
             
             Charnock's
             List
             underneath
             :
             And
             notwithstanding
             word
             being
             brought
             of
             the
             Disappoiotment
             ,
             we
             parted
             not
             till
             we
             had
             drank
             the
             Healths
             ,
             
               to
               the
               Restoring
               the
               late
               King
            
             James
             ,
             
               the
               Prince
               of
            
             Wales
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             Then
             Mr.
             
               De
               la
               Rue
            
             swore
             ,
             That
             he
             the
             said
             Cranburne
             ,
             the
             22
             d
             of
             February
             ,
             the
             day
             on
             which
             they
             the
             second
             time
             thought
             to
             put
             the
             Design
             in
             Execution
             ,
             was
             sent
             with
             a
             List
             ,
             by
             Capt.
             Porter
             ,
             of
             his
             Men
             ,
             and
             whilst
             I
             and
             Capt.
             Porter
             was
             at
             the
             Blew-Posts
             in
             Spring-Garden
             ,
             he
             brought
             ,
             to
             Capt.
             Porter
             ,
             the
             List
             from
             Charnock
             ,
             with
             an
             addition
             of
             Names
             .
             And
             after
             ,
             word
             was
             brought
             of
             the
             Disappointment
             ,
             the
             Company
             began
             to
             drink
             very
             Disloyal
             Healths
             ,
             as
             
               to
               the
               Restoring
               the
               late
               King
            
             James
             ,
             
               the
               Queen
               ,
               the
               Prince
               of
            
             Wales
             ,
             
               and
               the
            
             French
             King.
             Then
             Capt.
             Porter
             ,
             having
             an
             Orange
             in
             his
             Hand
             ,
             squeez'd
             it
             ,
             and
             drank
             a
             Health
             ,
             
               to
               the
               squeezing
               the
               rotten
               
               Orange
            
             ;
             which
             was
             Pledg'd
             by
             all
             ,
             and
             particularly
             by
             Mr.
             Cranburne
             .
          
           
             Mr.
             Prendergast
             depos'd
             ,
             That
             he
             was
             with
             Mr.
             Cranburne
             the
             14
             th
             of
             February
             ,
             and
             there
             was
             a
             Discourse
             of
             going
             in
             pursuance
             of
             this
             Design
             the
             next
             day
             ,
             and
             Mr.
             Cranburne
             agreed
             to
             it
             :
             and
             when
             they
             were
             disappointed
             the
             15
             th
             being
             at
             the
             Blue-Posts
             in
             Spring-Garden
             ,
             they
             then
             agreed
             to
             pursue
             it
             the
             next
             Saturday
             ,
             and
             that
             Cranburne
             was
             one
             of
             them
             that
             agreed
             to
             it
             .
          
           
             To
             all
             this
             Mr.
             Cranburne
             and
             his
             Council
             offer'd
             very
             little
             ,
             finding
             the
             Evidence
             so
             positive
             ;
             so
             the
             Jury
             withdrew
             to
             consider
             of
             their
             Verdict
             a
             quarter
             of
             an
             Hour
             ,
             and
             return'd
             into
             Court
             ,
             having
             found
             him
             guilty
             of
             High-Treason
             .
          
           
             On
             VVednesday
             the
             22
             d
             of
             April
             1696
             ,
             
               Robert
               Lowick
            
             was
             brought
             to
             the
             King's-Bench
             Bar
             ,
             for
             Conspiring
             to
             Assassinate
             his
             Majesty
             King
             VVilliam
             .
             Against
             him
             Mr.
             Harris
             swore
             ,
             That
             between
             the
             15
             th
             and
             22
             th
             of
             February
             he
             met
             Mr.
             Lowick
             in
             Red-Lion-fields
             ,
             and
             discoursed
             with
             him
             there
             ,
             about
             the
             Assassination
             ;
             and
             told
             him
             what
             a
             barbarous
             and
             inhumane
             thing
             it
             was
             that
             we
             should
             be
             the
             Murderers
             of
             the
             Prince
             of
             Orange
             ,
             and
             that
             it
             would
             render
             us
             odious
             to
             all
             the
             World
             ,
             and
             that
             we
             should
             be
             a
             continual
             Reproach
             to
             our selves
             ;
             he
             did
             agree
             it
             was
             so
             ,
             but
             would
             obey
             Orders
             ;
             that
             he
             said
             Sir
             
               George
               Barclay
            
             ,
             he
             was
             sure
             ,
             would
             not
             do
             it
             without
             Orders
             ;
             which
             he
             repeated
             twice
             .
          
           
           
             On
             Saturday
             the
             22
             th
             he
             this
             Deponent
             and
             Mr.
             Lowick
             din'd
             at
             a
             Cooks
             at
             the
             End
             of
             Red-Lion-street
             ;
             and
             being
             there
             together
             ,
             he
             this
             Deponent
             was
             in
             a
             Sweat
             ,
             and
             Lowick
             ask'd
             him
             the
             Reason
             ;
             he
             told
             him
             he
             had
             been
             about
             to
             get
             ready
             
             Rookwood's
             Party
             that
             were
             to
             seize
             the
             King
             :
             says
             he
             ,
             you
             need
             not
             grudg
             to
             do
             it
             ,
             you
             have
             six
             Shillings
             a
             day
             ,
             and
             I
             have
             nothing
             ,
             and
             yet
             I
             brought
             a
             couple
             of
             Men
             at
             my
             own
             Charge
             .
          
           
             Then
             Mr.
             Bertram
             swore
             ,
             That
             he
             the
             said
             
               Robert
               Lowick
            
             came
             to
             him
             about
             the
             Beginning
             of
             February
             last
             ,
             and
             ask'd
             him
             if
             he
             would
             espouse
             a
             thing
             with
             him
             that
             might
             be
             for
             his
             Advantage
             ?
             He
             told
             him
             ,
             he
             thought
             he
             might
             espouse
             any
             thing
             that
             he
             thought
             fit
             to
             engage
             in
             ;
             he
             answer'd
             it
             was
             well
             ,
             and
             desir'd
             him
             to
             ask
             him
             no
             more
             Questions
             .
             On
             the
             14
             th
             of
             February
             he
             desired
             him
             to
             be
             at
             his
             Lodging
             at
             12
             a
             Clock
             ;
             he
             went
             :
             when
             he
             came
             there
             ,
             he
             took
             him
             up
             into
             his
             Chamber
             ,
             and
             told
             him
             ,
             he
             believed
             they
             would
             ride
             out
             in
             some
             little
             time
             ,
             and
             that
             the
             King
             was
             to
             be
             seiz'd
             in
             his
             Coach
             ;
             and
             he
             gave
             him
             a
             Guinea
             to
             buy
             him
             Necessaries
             .
          
           
             To
             this
             he
             and
             his
             Council
             had
             little
             to
             offer
             in
             their
             Defence
             ,
             the
             Evidence
             being
             so
             full
             and
             positive
             against
             them
             ;
             which
             being
             summ'd
             up
             to
             the
             Jury
             ,
             they
             withdrew
             for
             a
             short
             time
             ,
             and
             return'd
             into
             Court
             ,
             having
             found
             him
             guilty
             of
             High-Treason
             :
             according
             to
             which
             Sentence
             he
             was
             Executed
             ,
             and
             Rookwood
             and
             Cranburne
             with
             him
             .
          
           
           
             On
             VVednesday
             the
             13
             th
             of
             May
             ,
             in
             the
             said
             Year
             1696
             ,
             
               Peter
               Cook
            
             Gent.
             was
             Indicted
             for
             endeavouring
             to
             procure
             Forces
             from
             France
             to
             invade
             this
             Kingdom
             ,
             and
             Conspiring
             to
             levy
             War
             in
             this
             Realm
             for
             assisting
             and
             abetting
             the
             said
             Invasion
             ,
             in
             order
             to
             the
             Deposing
             his
             Sacred
             Majesty
             King
             William
             ,
             and
             Restoring
             the
             late
             King
             Iames.
             
          
           
             The
             first
             Witness
             produced
             was
             Mr.
             Porter
             ,
             who
             swore
             ,
             That
             the
             Lord
             Ailesbury
             ,
             my
             Lord
             Montgomery
             ,
             Sir
             
               Iohn
               Fenwick
            
             ,
             Sir
             
               VVilliam
               Parkins
            
             ,
             Sir
             
               Iohn
               Friend
            
             ,
             Mr.
             Charnock
             ,
             Mr.
             Cook
             ,
             and
             himself
             ,
             (
             Mr.
             Goodman
             came
             in
             after
             Dinner
             )
             had
             two
             Meetings
             ;
             the
             first
             was
             in
             May
             ,
             at
             the
             old
             
               King's
               Head
            
             Tavern
             in
             Leadenhall-Street
             ,
             in
             order
             to
             consult
             about
             an
             Invasion
             .
             In
             this
             Meeting
             it
             was
             consulted
             which
             was
             the
             best
             Way
             ,
             and
             the
             quickest
             ,
             to
             restore
             King
             Iames
             ,
             and
             hasten
             his
             Return
             into
             England
             ;
             several
             Discourses
             and
             Proposals
             there
             were
             :
             At
             last
             in
             was
             agreed
             to
             send
             Mr.
             Charnock
             to
             the
             late
             King
             ,
             to
             borrow
             of
             the
             French
             King
             10000
             Men
             ,
             8000
             Foot
             ,
             1000
             Horse
             ,
             and
             1000
             Dragoons
             ,
             to
             be
             sent
             over
             into
             England
             ,
             to
             assist
             the
             late
             King's
             Restoration
             .
             Says
             Mr.
             Charnock
             thereupon
             ,
             
               This
               the
               King
               can
               do
               without
               your
               sending
               ,
               and
               I
               would
               not
               go
               upon
               a
               Foolish
               Errand
               .
               What
               will
               you
               do
               in
               this
               Matter
               ?
            
             The
             Company
             desir'd
             him
             to
             promise
             King
             
               Iames
               ,
               That
               if
               he
               would
               send
               word
               where
               he
               landed
               ,
               they
               would
               be
               sure
               to
               meet
               him
               at
               his
               Landing
               with
               a
               Body
               of
            
             2000
             Horse
             .
             And
             all
             of
             them
             that
             were
             there
             present
             ,
             was
             ask'd
             by
             
               Charnock
               ,
               Whether
               he
               might
               assure
               the
               King
               of
               what
               they
               had
               told
               him
               ?
            
             Every
             one
             said
             ,
             
               Yes
               ,
               you
               may
            
             :
             And
             when
             Mr.
             Cook
             was
             ask'd
             ,
             he
             kneel'd
             upon
             a
             Chair
             ,
             and
             said
             ,
             
               Yes
               ,
               you
               may
            
             .
          
           
             The
             2d
             Meeting
             was
             about
             the
             latter
             end
             of
             May
             ,
             or
             beginning
             of
             Iune
             ,
             at
             Mrs.
             
             Montjoy's
             Tavern
             ,
             at
             St.
             
             Iames's
             ;
             
             where
             were
             present
             ,
             at
             that
             time
             ,
             my
             Lord
             Aylesbury
             ,
             Sir
             
               Iohn
               Friend
            
             ,
             Sir
             
               William
               Parkyns
            
             ,
             and
             Mr.
             Charnock
             ,
             and
             Mr.
             Cook
             ,
             and
             himself
             ;
             they
             did
             assure
             Mr.
             Charnock
             that
             they
             kept
             to
             their
             former
             Resolution
             ,
             and
             would
             abide
             to
             what
             was
             agreed
             upon
             at
             their
             first
             Meeting
             :
             And
             that
             accordingly
             Mr.
             Charnock
             did
             go
             to
             France
             ,
             and
             he
             did
             return
             ,
             and
             bring
             back
             King
             
             Iames's
             Thanks
             to
             them
             :
             and
             he
             had
             share
             of
             the
             Complement
             .
          
           
             Then
             Mr.
             Goodman
             swore
             ,
             That
             about
             the
             middle
             of
             the
             Month
             of
             May
             ,
             Mr.
             Porter
             acquainted
             him
             there
             would
             be
             a
             Meeting
             of
             some
             of
             King
             
             Iames's
             Friends
             ,
             at
             the
             Old
             King's-head
             in
             Leadenhall-street
             ;
             that
             tho
             he
             could
             not
             dine
             with
             them
             he
             would
             come
             to
             them
             after
             Dinner
             ,
             which
             he
             did
             ;
             when
             he
             came
             there
             ,
             Mr.
             Porter
             brought
             him
             into
             a
             Room
             where
             was
             my
             Lord
             Montgomery
             ,
             my
             Lord
             Aylesbury
             ,
             Sir
             
               Iohn
               Fenwick
            
             ,
             Sir
             
               Iohn
               Friend
            
             ,
             Sir
             
               William
               Parkins
            
             ,
             Mr.
             Charnock
             and
             Mr.
             Cook
             :
             after
             we
             were
             set
             down
             ,
             there
             was
             a
             Consultation
             ,
             that
             considering
             the
             French
             King's
             Wars
             retarded
             the
             Affair
             of
             sending
             back
             King
             Iames
             ,
             and
             the
             means
             of
             restoring
             him
             to
             the
             Crown
             ;
             it
             was
             thought
             fit
             after
             some
             Debate
             to
             send
             Mr.
             Charnock
             into
             France
             ,
             to
             King
             Iames
             ,
             to
             prevail
             with
             the
             French
             King
             to
             furnish
             Ten
             Thousand
             Men
             ,
             whereof
             8000
             to
             be
             Foot
             ,
             1000
             Horse
             ,
             and
             1000
             Dragoons
             :
             That
             we
             would
             meet
             him
             at
             the
             Head
             of
             2000
             Horse
             .
             When
             our
             Resolution
             of
             the
             Thing
             and
             the
             Number
             was
             thus
             fixed
             ,
             Mr.
             Charnock
             ask'd
             ,
             
               whether
               it
               were
               with
               all
               our
               Consents
               ?
               And
               that
               he
               might
               assure
               the
               King
               ,
               that
               this
               was
               our
               Resolution
               ?
            
             Whereupon
             we
             all
             rose
             up
             ,
             and
             said
             to
             him
             ,
             
               Yes
               ,
               you
               may
               ;
               Yes
               ,
               you
               may
            
             ;
             every
             one
             particularly
             :
             that
             at
             the
             same
             time
             Mr.
             Cook
             kneel'd
             upon
             the
             Chair
             ,
             when
             he
             said
             ,
             
               Yes
               ,
               you
               may
            
             ,
             and
             his
             Elbows
             were
             upon
             the
             Table
             .
          
           
           
             There
             was
             another
             Meeting
             as
             Capt.
             Porter
             told
             me
             ,
             but
             I
             had
             Business
             in
             the
             City
             ;
             but
             whatever
             he
             promis'd
             on
             my
             behalf
             as
             to
             the
             Quota
             of
             Men
             ,
             I
             would
             be
             sure
             to
             make
             it
             good
             ,
             but
             was
             not
             at
             the
             second
             Meeting
             .
          
           
             So
             that
             after
             a
             Long
             Tryal
             and
             hearing
             Council
             both
             for
             the
             King
             and
             Prisoner
             ,
             the
             Jury
             with-drew
             to
             consider
             of
             their
             Verdict
             about
             three
             quarters
             of
             an
             Hour
             ;
             they
             return'd
             into
             Court
             ,
             and
             brought
             him
             in
             Guilty
             of
             High-Treason
             .
          
           
             As
             for
             the
             Persons
             Out-law'd
             ,
             my
             Lord
             ,
             they
             having
             by
             Law
             the
             space
             of
             a
             whole
             Year
             allow'd
             to
             surrender
             themselves
             ,
             
             before
             they
             are
             to
             be
             look'd
             on
             as
             Men
             absolutely
             to
             be
             condemn'd
             ,
             it
             's
             hoped
             before
             that
             Time
             's
             expired
             ,
             that
             some
             of
             them
             will
             voluntarily
             come
             in
             ,
             and
             stand
             a
             legal
             Trial
             ,
             and
             ,
             if
             possible
             ,
             prove
             themselves
             innocent
             :
             but
             if
             not
             ,
             they
             must
             not
             think
             the
             Evidence
             against
             them
             will
             be
             any
             longer
             suppress'd
             ,
             there
             being
             to
             be
             found
             in
             the
             Informations
             given
             in
             upon
             Oath
             ,
             abundantly
             sufficient
             to
             convict
             every
             Man
             of
             them
             ,
             either
             of
             the
             intended
             Insurrection
             or
             Assassination
             ;
             both
             which
             are
             made
             out
             with
             as
             much
             Clearness
             of
             Testimony
             and
             Strength
             as
             any
             Humane
             Affair
             is
             capable
             of
             .
          
           
             And
             his
             Majesty
             is
             deeply
             sensible
             ,
             and
             hath
             publickly
             acknowledg'd
             ,
             
             how
             he
             has
             once
             more
             been
             preserved
             ,
             by
             the
             immediate
             Hand
             of
             Heaven
             ,
             from
             the
             Rage
             and
             Violence
             of
             blood-thirsty
             and
             cruel
             Men
             ;
             cannot
             but
             look
             on
             himself
             as
             a-fresh
             oblig'd
             to
             manifest
             his
             Gratitude
             to
             Heaven
             ,
             by
             promoting
             the
             Glory
             of
             his
             Preserver
             ,
             in
             continuing
             to
             consult
             ,
             above
             all
             things
             ,
             the
             Welfare
             of
             his
             Church
             ,
             and
             the
             Peace
             and
             Happiness
             of
             this
             great
             People
             committed
             to
             his
             Charge
             .
          
           
             And
             since
             ,
             my
             Lord
             ,
             the
             Divine
             Favour
             has
             so
             marvellously
             put
             into
             his
             Hands
             this
             new
             Advantage
             ,
             he
             will
             
             improve
             it
             ,
             not
             in
             Acts
             of
             Severity
             and
             Revenge
             ,
             which
             your
             Lordship
             knows
             his
             Nature
             utterly
             abhors
             ,
             but
             by
             imitating
             the
             Divine
             Goodness
             ,
             in
             a
             regular
             Course
             of
             strict
             Justice
             to
             all
             obdurate
             Impenitents
             ;
             so
             ,
             which
             he
             much
             rather
             desires
             ,
             in
             his
             usual
             Method
             of
             Mercy
             and
             Kindness
             ,
             to
             as
             many
             as
             shall
             give
             sincere
             Proofs
             of
             Penitence
             ,
             and
             Reformation
             of
             their
             pail
             Crimes
             :
             Vertues
             ,
             which
             we
             have
             too
             much
             Reason
             to
             believe
             ,
             his
             Enemies
             have
             been
             hitherto
             little
             acq●ainted
             with
             .
          
           
             Before
             I
             conclude
             ,
             my
             good
             Lord
             ,
             let
             me
             entreat
             your
             Lordship's
             Patience
             whilst
             I
             address
             my self
             to
             those
             misguided
             
             English-men
             ,
             who
             ,
             after
             all
             this
             ,
             persevere
             to
             be
             disaffected
             to
             his
             Majesty
             and
             the
             Government
             ;
             whom
             I
             would
             willingly
             perswade
             to
             cease
             doting
             on
             their
             old
             Bondage
             ,
             and
             hankering
             after
             a
             Perjur'd
             Prince
             ,
             who
             when
             amongst
             us
             ,
             broke
             his
             Coronation
             Oath
             ,
             and
             studied
             nothing
             more
             than
             subjecting
             us
             to
             Popery
             ,
             Slavery
             ,
             a
             Despotick
             and
             Arbitrary
             Government
             .
             Did
             he
             not
             assume
             to
             himself
             a
             Power
             to
             suspend
             and
             dispence
             with
             the
             Execution
             of
             the
             Laws
             ,
             enacted
             for
             the
             Security
             and
             Happiness
             of
             the
             Subjects
             ,
             and
             thereby
             rendred
             them
             of
             none
             effect
             ?
             And
             did
             he
             not
             ,
             in
             order
             to
             the
             obtaining
             a
             Judgment
             in
             the
             Court
             of
             King's-Bench
             ,
             for
             declaring
             the
             Dispensing
             Power
             a
             Right
             belonging
             to
             the
             Crown
             ,
             turn
             out
             such
             Judges
             as
             could
             not
             in
             Conscience
             concur
             in
             so
             pernicious
             a
             Sentence
             ?
             And
             after
             having
             pack'd
             Judges
             for
             his
             Purpose
             ,
             he
             obtain'd
             the
             Judgment
             he
             requir'd
             .
             What
             ,
             Can
             no
             King
             please
             them
             but
             him
             who
             set
             up
             a
             Commission
             of
             Ecclesiastical
             Matters
             ,
             against
             express
             Laws
             to
             the
             contrary
             ,
             which
             were
             executed
             contrary
             to
             all
             Law
             ?
             Can
             no
             one
             content
             them
             but
             a
             Prince
             who
             values
             nothing
             in
             the
             World
             so
             much
             as
             the
             overturning
             our
             Religion
             ?
             and
             in
             order
             thereto
             ,
             Did
             he
             not
             
             send
             the
             Archbishop
             of
             Canterbury
             ,
             and
             six
             other
             Bishops
             ,
             to
             the
             Tower
             ,
             for
             setting
             forth
             ,
             in
             a
             Petition
             ,
             their
             Reasons
             why
             they
             could
             not
             obey
             the
             Order
             requiring
             them
             to
             appoint
             their
             Clergy
             to
             read
             the
             Declaration
             for
             Liberty
             of
             Conscience
             ?
             Finally
             ,
             Can
             nothing
             please
             them
             but
             a
             King
             who
             Arbit●ally
             ,
             and
             against
             Law
             ,
             turn'd
             the
             Fellows
             of
             Magdalen
             College
             in
             Oxford
             out
             of
             their
             Freeholds
             ,
             and
             put
             the
             College
             into
             the
             hands
             of
             Papists
             ?
             Did
             he
             not
             bring
             his
             Army
             of
             Irish
             Cut-throats
             by
             whom
             we
             went
             in
             danger
             of
             being
             Murder'd
             every
             Moment
             ?
          
           
             Or
             if
             the
             Experience
             of
             Time
             past
             ,
             
             so
             dearly
             bought
             ,
             can
             prevail
             nothing
             with
             them
             ,
             let
             them
             but
             seriously
             reflect
             on
             their
             present
             Condition
             ,
             Who
             may
             ,
             if
             they
             will
             ,
             Securely
             enjoy
             Peace
             ,
             Plenty
             ,
             Liberty
             ,
             and
             the
             best
             Religion
             under
             the
             best
             of
             Princes
             ,
             whilst
             many
             Misguided
             Gentlemen
             ,
             both
             English
             and
             Scotch
             ,
             who
             have
             abandon'd
             their
             Families
             and
             Estates
             to
             follow
             that
             Unhappy
             Prince
             to
             St.
             Germain's
             where
             a
             considerable
             Party
             being
             Protestants
             ,
             
             they
             only
             desir'd
             a
             Chappel
             from
             the
             late
             King
             Iames
             ,
             for
             the
             Exercise
             of
             their
             Worship
             according
             to
             the
             Church
             of
             England
             ;
             and
             propos'd
             Dr.
             Granvile
             ,
             Brother
             to
             the
             Earl
             of
             Bath
             ,
             formerly
             Dean
             of
             Durham
             ,
             as
             a
             fit
             Person
             to
             be
             their
             Chaplain
             :
             They
             urged
             the
             great
             Incouragment
             such
             a
             Toleration
             would
             give
             to
             his
             Adherents
             in
             England
             ,
             and
             what
             Satisfaction
             it
             would
             be
             ,
             to
             such
             Protestants
             as
             followed
             him
             ;
             but
             tho'
             common
             Policy
             ,
             and
             his
             Circumstances
             made
             every
             body
             believe
             that
             this
             request
             would
             be
             easily
             granted
             ,
             yet
             it
             was
             positively
             denyed
             ,
             and
             Dr.
             Granvile
             obliged
             not
             onely
             to
             retire
             from
             Court
             ,
             but
             also
             from
             the
             Town
             of
             St.
             Germains
             to
             avoid
             the
             daily
             Insults
             of
             the
             Priests
             ,
             and
             the
             dreaded
             Consequences
             of
             the
             Jealousies
             with
             which
             
             they
             possess'd
             King
             
             Iames's
             Court
             against
             him
             .
             Dr.
             Gordon
             a
             Bishop
             of
             Scotland
             ,
             the
             only
             Protestant
             Divine
             that
             then
             was
             there
             ,
             met
             with
             a
             worse
             Treatment
             still
             than
             Dr.
             Granvile
             ,
             and
             was
             reduc'd
             to
             the
             necessity
             of
             abjuring
             his
             Religion
             for
             want
             of
             Bread
             ,
             with
             which
             he
             could
             not
             be
             supplyed
             but
             upon
             those
             hard
             Terms
             .
          
           
             Let
             them
             examine
             a
             little
             farther
             ,
             and
             they
             will
             find
             the
             Lord
             Chief
             Justice
             Herbert
             ,
             a
             Person
             both
             well
             qualified
             to
             give
             Advice
             in
             English
             Affairs
             ,
             and
             of
             an
             unspotted
             Reputation
             in
             his
             Country
             ,
             interceding
             in
             behalf
             of
             the
             Protestant
             Party's
             Demand
             :
             Upon
             which
             an
             Information
             was
             trump'd
             up
             against
             the
             Chief
             Justice
             by
             Mr.
             
               Comptroller
               Skelton
            
             and
             Sir
             
               William
               Sharp
            
             ,
             of
             having
             said
             that
             K.
             
             Iames's
             Violent
             Temper
             would
             ruin
             himself
             and
             all
             that
             Follow'd
             him
             .
             My
             Lord
             own'd
             the
             Words
             ;
             but
             made
             so
             ingenious
             an
             Explanation
             of
             his
             meaning
             ,
             that
             King
             Iames
             was
             satisfied
             .
             Shortly
             after
             they
             charged
             him
             with
             another
             Plot
             of
             corresponding
             with
             the
             English
             ,
             whereupon
             he
             ,
             and
             a
             Worthy
             Lady
             with
             whom
             he
             Boarded
             ,
             were
             confined
             ;
             and
             Broomfield
             ,
             the
             Quaker
             ,
             committed
             to
             the
             Bastile
             .
             Thus
             was
             my
             Lord
             Chief
             Justice
             ,
             for
             no
             other
             reason
             but
             his
             adhering
             to
             a
             Protestent
             Interest
             ,
             excluded
             from
             all
             share
             of
             Management
             of
             Affairs
             in
             King
             
             Iames's
             Court
             ;
             tho'
             his
             Capacity
             and
             Sufferings
             were
             sufficient
             ,
             in
             the
             Eyes
             of
             all
             reasonable
             Men
             ,
             to
             have
             intituled
             him
             to
             a
             share
             in
             that
             Prince's
             Favour
             and
             Secrets
             .
             If
             my
             Lord
             Chief
             Justice
             Herbert
             was
             so
             used
             ,
             I
             would
             fain
             know
             ,
             upon
             what
             Ground
             any
             of
             our
             Iacobites
             should
             flatter
             themselves
             of
             a
             better
             Treatment
             .
          
           
             Sir
             
               Andrew
               Forrester
            
             ,
             Sir
             
               Theophilus
               Oglethorp
            
             ,
             and
             Mr.
             
               Fergus
               Graham
            
             ,
             these
             Gentlemen
             by
             their
             Capacities
             as
             well
             as
             Services
             ,
             were
             encourag'd
             to
             go
             over
             and
             offer
             
             their
             Assistance
             to
             King
             Iames
             ;
             at
             whose
             hands
             they
             were
             unkindly
             used
             ,
             and
             the
             Reward
             of
             their
             Service
             ,
             only
             a
             Pass
             to
             return
             for
             England
             again
             ;
             where
             't
             is
             expected
             they
             will
             Plot
             no
             more
             .
          
           
             If
             there
             can
             still
             remain
             any
             well-meaning
             Men
             in
             their
             Party
             ,
             led
             away
             by
             the
             specious
             Delusions
             of
             good
             Words
             abused
             to
             the
             worst
             of
             things
             ,
             let
             them
             instead
             of
             hearkening
             to
             what
             Wicked
             and
             designing
             Men
             under
             the
             most
             deceitful
             Colours
             Suggest
             to
             them
             for
             Sinister
             Ends
             ,
             guide
             their
             Opinions
             by
             their
             own
             plain
             and
             sensible
             Observations
             .
             Let
             them
             but
             fairly
             and
             indifferently
             ,
             compare
             the
             present
             State
             of
             all
             Nations
             round
             about
             them
             with
             their
             own
             :
             And
             then
             let
             them
             ,
             if
             they
             can
             ,
             refuse
             to
             Bless
             God
             and
             King
             William
             for
             their
             inexpressible
             Advantages
             above
             all
             others
             .
          
           
             Henceforth
             therefore
             let
             no
             vain
             pretence
             of
             Liberty
             and
             Property
             push
             them
             on
             to
             the
             same
             desperate
             Designs
             by
             fomenting
             Jeasousies
             between
             the
             King
             and
             his
             People
             ,
             or
             throwing
             in
             Sparks
             of
             Discontent
             ,
             and
             endeavouring
             to
             blow
             them
             up
             into
             Flames
             of
             Mutinies
             and
             Rebellions
             .
             Be
             advised
             to
             consider
             what
             you
             are
             doing
             ,
             and
             run
             not
             headlong
             to
             Destruction
             by
             helping
             forward
             your
             Countries
             Ruine
             ,
             by
             labouring
             to
             Subject
             it
             to
             its
             most
             avowed
             Enemies
             ;
             the
             securing
             whose
             Interest
             here
             in
             England
             ,
             was
             the
             Devilish
             Design
             so
             long
             on
             Foot.
             
          
           
             Wherefore
             let
             me
             conjure
             them
             to
             look
             back
             on
             their
             past
             Actions
             which
             gave
             us
             the
             dismal
             Prospect
             of
             Slavery
             in
             our
             Persons
             ,
             Consciences
             and
             Estates
             ,
             if
             the
             Divine
             Goodness
             had
             not
             miraculously
             appear'd
             for
             our
             Deliverance
             .
          
           
             Let
             us
             seriously
             consider
             ,
             if
             the
             Direful
             Stroak
             which
             was
             Levell'd
             against
             His
             Majesty
             had
             taken
             effect
             ,
             what
             the
             Consequence
             would
             have
             been
             ;
             assuredly
             we
             must
             
             have
             bid
             adieu
             to
             our
             Religion
             ,
             Law
             and
             〈◊〉
             at
             once
             ,
             for
             Popery
             ,
             Tyranny
             ,
             and
             Oppression
             pour'd
             in
             upon
             us
             like
             a
             Mighty
             〈…〉
             Wives
             and
             Daughters
             Ravished
             ,
             〈…〉
             our
             Faces
             ,
             our selves
             ransack'd
             and
             plunder'd
             ,
             if
             not
             knock'd
             on
             the
             Head
             ,
             and
             if
             spar'd
             ,
             〈◊〉
             to
             live
             in
             the
             most
             extream
             Misery
             ,
             and
             at
             last
             〈…〉
             with
             the
             utmost
             Cruelty
             .
          
           
             Therefore
             since
             it
             has
             pleased
             God
             to
             bless
             us
             with
             the
             Surprize
             of
             a
             Deliverance
             from
             so
             great
             Evils
             ,
             Let
             us
             be
             perswaded
             to
             become
             a
             Loyal
             and
             Quiet
             People
             ,
             〈◊〉
             to
             Obedience
             ;
             which
             is
             the
             hearty
             Wish
             of
             a
             〈…〉
             of
             his
             Country
             ,
             and
             ,
          
           
             
               My
               LORD
               ,
            
             
               Your
               Lordship
               's
               Humble
               Servant
               .
            
          
        
         
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             Vide
             
               A
               View
               of
               the
               Court
               of
            
             St.
             Germains
             .