GREAT NEWS FROM Derbyshire: Being a Full and True RELATION OF THE DISCOVERY OF Above Thirty Priests, Living and Residing in and about Halam, in the said County. TOGETHER With an account of the taking of one Busbie a Priest, and two Women, notorious Papists, by Justice Gilbert, a worthy and active Prosecutor of Priests and Jesuits; and how they had contrived to Charge Mr. Gilbert with Felony, which by the Confession of Dudley, one of their own Party, by the Providence of God, was fully detected and discovered, and they committed to the County-Gaol, where they now remain.  
Written in a Letter from a worthy Divine in that County, to a Friend in London.  
SIR,  
I Cannot but acknowledge my neglect, by so long a silence, since I received your last; but yet I doubt not of a pardon from so candid and ingenuous a Nature; when I shall acquaint you, that partly Business, and partly want of something new, wherewith to divert you, from these parts, did occasion it. But having now an opportunity in some measure to make you Reparation, I resolved not to let slip a Relation, which, at present, is the Subject of our whole Discourse in these parts, and which is this.  
There was, the last Week, a Meeting of the Justices of the Peace hereabouts, to consider of an Information which was exhibited before them, against one Busbie a Romish Priest, who they understood was entertained and harboured at the House of one Mr. Pouthrel, of Halam, in this County, a notorious and obstinate Papist; after whom Mr. Gilbert (a Justice of the Peace, a worthy good Protestant, and zealously active against those of the Church of Rome) had several times searched at the said Mr. Pouthrel's house, but to no effect; till at length (whether by some private Intelligence, or mere accident, I know not) he discovered him hid between the Ceiling and the Tiles of the House in a Garret, Mr. Pouthnel himself being at that instant absent from home; nor indeed had he been there for some considerable time passed, leaving only a Housekeeper, who in the nature of a Steward, managed his Estate; with an under Bailiff named Dudley, and two Women, who were all noted Papists: especially one of the Females, who is, or at least pretends to be, missioned from his Un-holiness.  
A few days after Busbie was taken, Dudley, and the two Women, were also Apprehended, and brought before Justice Gilbert; who laying open the Law to Dudley, told him, that he was not only liable to be imprisoned, but to be Indicted also; and that the matter of Fact being so evident, he had certainly forfeited his Life by entertaining and harbouring the said Priest, which was death by the Statute. This wrought so effectually upon Dudley, who had not as yet entertained any thoughts of being Sainted, that he freely confessed to the Justice, That his Master Pouthrel did, after an extraordinary manner, receive and protect the Priests of Rome; telling him that at one time, and in one and the same place, there met together no less than thirty of them, the greatest part of whom he knew, as having seen them at several times at his Master's house: Moreover, affirming that one of the women who were taken with him, was in some kind of Orders, the nature whereof he could not tell, neither what she was; only he had observed her to Baptise Children. Mr. Gilbert then further encouraged him by all the mild and plausible persuasions imaginable, assuring him of all the favour and friendship that could be expected from so ingenuous a Confession. And now Sir, do but observe the damnable and wicked contrivance of this accursed Crew: For Dudley gathering more assurance from the mild behaviour and hearty promises of the Justice, proceeds to declare: That they had conspired amongst themselves, to Accuse Mr. Gilbert, the Justice of the Peace, that when he searched the House, he had taken from thence a Bag of Eighty Pounds in money, and that he carried it away with him; threatening withal to Indict him upon a Robbery for the same. But it appearing that there was no such money lost, altho' they did impudently charge it upon this worthy and active Gentleman; Mr. Dudley, as a recompense for this great discovery, was discharged and set at liberty, the rest were sent to the County-Gaol, where they remain to be Tried at the next Assizes. Thus Sir, I have given you a true and impartial Relation, and which I hope, hath in some measure discharged that Obligation incumbent upon me: I shall now leave you to make your own Remarks upon the proceed of this sort of people, who notwithstanding all the dangers and difficulties they meet with from the Constitution of our Laws and Government, shall yet be be so audacious, as even in the heart of the Kingdom to affront them both, which makes me apt to believe there is some greater encouragement in the bottom of their design, than as yet the world is either capable of knowing, or willing to be undeceived in.  
SIR, I am yours in all Hearty Affection. From Halam in Derbyshire, June 4th. 1681.   

LONDON, Printed for Richard Janeway, in Queens-Head-Ally in Pater-noster-Row. 1681.