THE FULL EXAMINATION Of Six suspected Catholic Gentlemen, brought before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, who were Seized for Dispersing the late KING James' Declaration.  
AS ALSO, A Relation of the Death of a Scotch Papist Gentleman, Named CHARLES STUART, Laird of Castleton, who Murdered himself at Mr. Walter Davis House in Amen-Corner, the 11th of this Instant June, 1689. who was suspected as a Confederate with the Six aforesaid Gentlemen, in Dispersing the said Declaration.  
ON Monday being the 10 th' Instant, between 11. and 12. at Night were apprehended Six Gentlemen of good Fashion and Appearance, and of seeming Quality, who were taken in manner following: These Gentlemen had been pursued by the Constable and Watch, and about the Hour of Eleven at Night were fixed at the Ship-Tavern over-against the Poultry-Compter; and upon enquiry made of the Master of the House, he first owned them for his Relations and Friends; but after many frivolous and contradictory Excuses, the Constable and Officers not satisfied therewith, apprehended them, and found with them about 400 or 500 hundred of the late King James his Declaration, newly Wet from the Press, covered over with a Purple Cloak; the Cloak as well as Papers were utterly disowned, and the Persons committed to Jail, and the next day being Examined before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, were very obstinate, refusing to own the Papers, or discover their true Names; for which they were Remanded to Prison, and with them the Master of the said Tavern as their Confederate.  
About Christmas last also, a Scotch Gentleman took a Lodging at Mr. Davis' a Book-Binder, dwelling as Amen-Corner, near Pater-Noster-Row; his Civil Deportment and Behaviour, gained much upon the Affections of his kind Landlord, and his great Parts and Ingenuity made his Company very acceptable to all persons. He was observed to be a very sober and moderate Man, and very Complaisant to all persons; and in the late King James' time lived in that Splendour, that he kept two Men to wait on him; but since, being reduced to a meaner Station, was forced to part with both his Men.  
This Gentleman was of a very Great Name, as Charles Stuart, and of some Figure in the World, as a Laird in his own Country, and also living in some Credit, was reasonably presumed by all that knew him to have been under some private Trust in England; and the suddenness of so Fatal an Execution, by all Conjecture, is imputed only to some Defeat and Unsuccess in the Affairs of his Party in Scotland. The Protestant Cause, through the Providence of God, has so succeeded in that Kingdom, as has not a little disheartened the Catholic Agents of that Nation: And this unhappy Gentleman, being a known Romish Convert of the last Reign, and undoubtedly riveted in the Catholic Interest, being indeed too ingenuous to disown his Persuasion, whatever Concealment he made of his Affairs; so fatal and sudden a Despair is by all Circumstances, imagined to flow from no other Cause. Whether the apprehension of the other Six Romish Agents might occasion any part of so violent a Resolution, as perhaps some ways concerned with them, is not yet known; or from whatever other defeated purposes cannot justly be assigned. Only to the matter of his Death, he was so resolved to dispatch himself, that he committed this Barbarity with his own Sword, and was so hardy in the performance, that one Wound failing, he gave himself no less than four or five Stabs to complete his bloody purpose. The Fact being committed between Seven and Eight in the Morning this Instant 11th of June. His said several Wounds have been viewed by divers able Surgeons, and he is at present left lying on his Face, being the posture in which he was found, till the Coroners Inquest sits upon him.   

Licenced according to Order.   

LONDON, Printed for W. Downing. 1689.