A Great Plot DISCOVERED, OR The notorious and wicked Design upon the River of Thames, put in execution on Monday last,  
With a Hu-and-Cry after the Condemned Prisoners that made their escape upon their removing from Newgate to be transported for Jamaica; And the manner how they made their escape, and got ashore in Essex, the kill of the Steer-man, the pursuing of them by Soldiers, and the Names and Number of those since retaken, which are now to be executed upon several Gibbets.  
Likewise the apprehending of the wicked Villains illaffected to his Gracious Majesty, and his Royal Highness the Duke of York.  
London, Printed for G. Horton, 1661.   

A Great PLOT DISCOVERED, etc.  
TO do justly is the duty of every Christian, Mich. 6.8. but especially of Magistrates, and such as are in Authority, and then People may sit under their own Vines, and Figge-trees, safely; When Justice runs down like a Raver, and Righteousness as a mighty stream in the street; And that we may be the more enamoured with the beauty of Justice, cousider that just and legal Order of our Gracious Sovereign, and the Magistracy, for the transporting of divers Condemned Prisoners to Jamaica, which Order was intentionally put in execution on Monday the 26. of this instant August, and a Gibbet erected for the hanging of those that should refuse to obey it, but thus had these Villains plotted and conspired together, generally to submit thereunto, and to endeavour their escape before they were put a shipboard, which accordingly on Monday last, being embarked in a Barge, waiting their opportunity below Black mall, they most insolently seized the Steersman and the rest of his Fellows, and resolutely steered a long till they came to the Essex Coast, which the Soldiery that were their Guard, perceiving, let fly several musket shot, which unfortunately killed the Steersman, and made up to them as fast as they could; but before they could make their timely approach, the Prisoners had got ashore, some running one way, some another, dispersing of themselves to several places and corners; but being pursued, some of them are since taken, amongst whom, Digby, Wood, and fifteen others; and a Hu-and-Cry is gone after the rest, so that we may expect very suddenly the hand of justice to overtake them.  
In the mean time, for a better discovery of these Offenders, we shall here present you with a perfect List of their Names, a true Copy take as followeth.   

A LIST Of all the Condemned Prisoners Sent from NEW GATE The twenty sixth of August, 1661. to JAMACA, and never to return into ENGLAND, Unless they be willing to be hanged.  


London Side.  
EDward Beek ford.  
James Harris.  
Samuel Netherlaw.  
Susan Sillham.  
Richard Sims.  
Sarah Wiltshire.  
Benjamin Childerston.  
Hugh Brown.  
Ellen Thorp.  
William Peacock.  
Margery Martin.  
Elizabeth Smith.  
Thomas Balden.  
Edward Guch.  
William Elder.  
William Hudson.  
Nathan Hubert.  
Susan James.  
Susan Almon.  
Elizabeth Smith.  
John Riggs.  
Judith Thomas.  
Robert Newman.  
Gabriel Reynolds.  
Robert Wood  
John Harris, alias  
Robinson.  
John Digbie.   

Middlesex.  
THomas Edward's.  
Arthur Garton.  
William Fuller.  
John Johnson, alias Lacey.  
John Hobbs.  
Bartholomew Shore.  
William Reemes.  
John Phips, alias Phipie.  
Thomas Bullock.  
Thomas Cook.  
Francis Corbit.  
Amy Mason.  
Alice Scalley.  
Thomas Alen.  
William Gun.  
Elizabeth Green  
George Green,  
Henry Jackson.  
Margery Evans.  
Henry Pretty.  
Thomas Nash.  
Thomas Har, alias Parr.  
William Keitley.  
Thomas Asten.  
Robert Stonbery.  
Elizabeth Gosgrow.  
John Bowden.  
Thomas Gad.  
George Meake.  
John Meake.  
John Hilland.  
Thomas Watson.  
George Wooler.  
George jacob's.  
John Hebe's.  
Richard Hickman.  
John Thomas.  
James Smith.  
Elizabeth Atkins  
Mary Snirl.  
Elizabeth Lemond.  
Richard Caper.  
William Hawkins.  
John Leech.  
Hum. Keerre.  
Elizabeth Freeman.  
The number in all 72.    
Since the removal of these from Newgate, divers other notorious Offenders, have been apprehended and committed to the said Goal amongst the rest, those audacious Villains, that durst presume or dare to attempt, to rob his Highness the Duke of York: As also those wicked Watermens, that lately played their pranks on the River of Thames.  
FINIS.