I Do Appoint Thomas Cockerill and Benjamin Alsop to Print this Narrative, and that no other Print the same.  
RODERICK MANSELL. Novemb. 17. 1679.   

An Exact and True NARRATIVE OF THE LATE Popish Intrigue, TO FORM A PLOT, And then To cast the GILD and ODIUM thereof UPON THE PROTESTANTS. Wherein are contained, 

I. The Contrivance itself, with the Principal Agents and Instruments, viz. The Lords in the Tower, Mr. Dangerfield, etc.  
II. The manner of carrying on the said Contrivance,  
III. The Continuance of the Popish Plot to Assassinate the KING.  
iv The Book found in the House of Mrs. Cellier, in a Meal-Tub, by Sir William Waller.  
V The several Attempts to Murder the Right Honourable, Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury.  
VI The manner of Conveying a List of Names and other Treasonable Papers, into the Chamber of Col. Roderick Mansell.  
VII. The full Examination of the whole Affair before the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. With the Exemplification of divers Informations, Examinations, Depositions, etc. relating to the said Intrigue.    
Faithfully Collected by Col. RODERICK MANSELL.  
LONDON: Printed for Tho. Cockerill and Benj. Alsop, at the Three Legs, and at the Angel and Bible in the Poultry, against the Stock-market, 1680.   

A Solemn ADDRESS TO All true ENGLISH PROTESTANTS, BY Col. RODERICK MANSELL.  
Most Honoured, and Worthy Gentlemen,  
WHat accursed Designs have formerly been set on foot to undermine, and blow up the Religion, that is, The true interest of England, your own Concerns therein have made you too apprehensive to need a Remembrancer; and that your Enemies are no Changelings, but as unwearied as pregnant (and, thanks be to God, as unsuccessful) in their malicious Contrivances as ever; had you no Friends, they themselves will do you that one and only friendly Office, to become your faithful Monitors.  
Some have observed, that Quicksilver, the Devil, and a Jesuit can assume a thousand various shapes, and yet under all those Disguises, Mercury, will be Mercury; the Devil, a Devil; and a Jesuit, a Jesuit; when he ceases to Be, he may cease to be mischievous; and when he puts off his Essence, may possibly put off his pragmaticalness.  
In all their other Plots, they have outdone the World; in this last trial of their skill, they have outdone (and we hope undone) themselves; for 'tis a Question, (and must remain so, for any solution of mine) whether their Malice in contriving; their Activity in pursuing; their Impudence in denying; their Fruitless Attempts for corrupting the Evidence; or this their last Essay, to devolve the Odium, of their execrable Treason against the King and Kingdom, upon the Protestants, have been more (though all have been beyond example) Devilish.  
I acknowledge this is no modern Artifice, nor the Invention of junior Heads, their Ancestors have traveled in the same Argument, wrought in the same Mine; for when they had form the Powder-Plot, they consulted to lay the Bastard at the Puritans Door; and what they had the pleasure to beget, others must have the reproach to Father; though the Deformed Brat, to all discerning eyes, would apparently own its Sire.  
Now although in laying the groundwork of their late Project, they had a confused Idea, or rude draught of that Ancient Policy, yet could they not lick that unformed lump into a perfect shape, till time had ripened and sharpened their Inventions. Mr. Dugdale, in his Evidence against Mr. Whitebread, and his Accomplices, (pag. 25.) swears, That a Letter came from Paris, through Mr. Harcourt 's hands into the Country, to prove, That it was the Opinion of them at Paris and St. Omers, to fling all this upon the Presbyterians, that is, The death of the King, that if any thing of this nature should happen, they should be ready to give the first Alarm, and give it out that it was the Still-King-killing Presbyterians that had done the Fact, and so they thought they should bring the Protestants into their company, to revenge themselves of the Presbyterians; to which the Lord Chief Justice replied, It was pretty Advice indeed, to have it first laid on the Presbyterians, that they might get the Episcopal to join and cut their Throats, and then their own Throats should be cut.  
But because it was impossible, and therefore incredible, that ever Protestants should so grossly mistake their Interest, as to conspire the destruction of their King, who is the Centre and Head of it; they had been long preparing the People to entertain the belief of it, against that happy juncture of time, which should invite them openly to assert it; for these Theologico-Political Quacks, knew well that so great a Dose of Improbabilities would work too rigidly upon the Body Politic, without due Preparatives to mitigate its surly Operation; and therefore, some good while before, they had been slily insinuating into the credulous Brains of those whom either simplicity, or a bad Interest, had made capable of such Impressions, That the Presbyterians were a dangerous Generation of men; that their Principles and Practices were inconsistent with Government, but carried a specific malignity against Monarchy; that they were certainly a brewing some desperate mischief, which a little time would discover; (and they could have told us the time to an hour.) That whoever were tolerated, the Presbyterians were intolerable! and still with great Zeal they reminded us of forty one, that we might not dream of seventy nine.  
Marchemont Needham, in his Scurrilous Advice to the men of Shaftsbury; the Author of the Countermine; and R. L'Estrange, in their Politic Burlesques, always bore hard and downright upon the Presbyterians, but what is more remarkable, a day or two before the attempt to fasten this imaginary Treason upon myself, the World was saluted with a Pamphlet, under the name of Tom. the Joiner, wherein we are gravely advised to come out from amongst them (the Presbyterians) and not to partake of their Sins, lest we received of their Plagues, which God had prepared for them; for they were conscious to themselves what Plagues they had prepared for them; and 'tis but the privilege of their great Familiarity with God to make him espouse their Quarrels, and employ his Thunder according to the direction of the Consult; but he goes on, That we should not fear their Power, it would be but a Summer's Storm; but e'er long (within two days, if Mr. Dangerfield's Flint was but well fixed) their turn of suffering would come about; for God would make their Hearts to melt, and their Loins to tremble; and for his part, he could be content his life were given in Sacrifice, that the King and his good Subjects might be preserved from the most Damnable Havoc John Presbyter designed to make amongst us; but was it not easy to tell the World what the Presbyterians would do, when the Papists had formed for them a piece of Villainy, which they must do, whether they would, whether they knew it or no? The Devil can certainly prognosticate those Plagues, which he has Commission or Permission to execute; and the Pope is not more infallible in his Determinations de fide, than John Gadbury in his Predictions de facto, when he's a part of the Confederacy, and privy to the Intrigue.  
Yet though these Pamphlets (which were only the Title-Page to the Plot) suggested danger only from the Presbyterians, Providence having unsealed and opened the Book itself, we read there that the main Body of the Protestants were to be involved in the design: They had preferred the Right Honourable the Earls of Essex, and Radnor, the Lord Hallifax, all Members of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, to be Counselors in this their feigned Rebellion; nay they had introduced the Lord Wharton, and reintroduced his Grace the Duke of Bucks, and the right honourable the Earl of Shaftsbury into the Plot; they had Commissioned the Lord Grace, the Lord Gerrard and his Son, and Sir Thomas Armstrong, to be Lieutenant Generals; but above all, his Grace the Duke of Monmouth was most beholden to them, whom, to compensate the loss of his General-ship over an Army of real men on Earth, they had now created Generalissimo over an airy Army of their own listing, mustered in the Clouds; and that they might not seem ridiculously contradictory to themselves, to pretend a Presbyterian Plot, without one Presbyterian in it, they had graciously given a Commission for Major-General to Sir William Waller, and sprinkled here and there a Dissenter, like a Train to the Trap, and so from the less part, and almost no part, had denominated (by Jesuits Logic) the whole to be Presbyterian, which gave occasion to an ingenious Clergyman to say, That Mr. Dangerfield had made more Presbyterians in a day, than they withal their Conventicles and preaching could make in twenty years.  
It is a stated Maxim, That Interest will not lie: No man in his wits would cut down that Bough of the Tree upon which he stands; nor shear asunder that single Cord upon which he hangs. How then is it credible that Protestants should conspire to take away that life by which they live? Can they be so vain as to promise themselves fairer Quarter under any Successor whom the Laws favour, than under the Auspexes of his Majesty? When the combined fates of both are so interwoven, that they must weep and laugh, live and die together: but the Papists have drawn a Protestants face by a Jesuits heart, and whatever of Devillism they find in their own breasts, fancy it to be lodged in other men's brains.  
I cannot but admire too, at the imprudence of some, who seem to be Protestant's (and of those some, some are, I hope, really such) that understand their own Interest no better, than to join with the Papists, if not directly in their Counsels, yet obliquely in their Actions, to ruin any who are firm to an English Interest; pleasing themselves that they shall deliver up Dissenters to the Romish Polyphemus, when their only privilege must prove to become the last (if the last) Morsel. Nor could I ever yet discern the Truth or Justice of that Charge, which loud Clamour has drawn up against those who bear the name of Presbyterians; that they are Enemies to Monarchy. I have read that about threescore of them have openly protested against the Trial and Execution of the late King, when some others were then silent, who are most clamorous: That they refused the Engagement whereby the Royal Family was renounced, when yet others swallowed it; that many of them were sequestered for their Loyalty, when some others enjoyed considerable Benefices: That some of them were Imprisoned, Executed, for adhering to his present Majesty's Interest, when others declined it; and that a considerable Army of that Persuasion asserted his Majesty's Right with their Swords and Lives in their hands, when of the numerous Zealous Royalists scarce three hundred in the three Kingdoms appeared to join them: How forward they were with the foremost, and actively instrumental in the restoration of His Majesty to his Crown and Throne, the World remembers, and his Majesty has not forgotten; and how they have ever since demeaned themselves without any spot of Disloyalty that could justly be fixed upon them, is so well known, that their Enemies can sooner envy it, than deny it: Nor can I perceive that they have repent of their Loyalty, though some have ordered matters so to tempt them to it. They have fallen under the severities of the penal Laws, even those made against Papists, and yet have suffered with as much cheerfulness, as I believe 'twas possible for flesh and blood to do: And that they should be brought under a suspicion of hatching Treasonable designs, had been utterly unaccountable, but that the Discovery of this late horrid Contrivance has convinced me, that the Masterpiece of Papal policy lies here, To forge a false Plot against them, that they might conceal a real one of their own; and then to persuade the credulous world, that the Protestants had forged an Imaginary Plot for the Papists, last year, that they might hid that which they had designed to execute this present year.  
In which hellish Intrigue though I cannot tell whether there was a greater Mixture of Policy, or folly; yet this is evident, there was a great Mixture of both, of which, with your Patience (Gentlemen) I will now give you some short Account, that you may have a through light into this work of darkness.  
I. The Policy of the Papists in contriving this present horrid Plot.  
1. The Papists finding the Sword of Justice (which so long had slumbered in the Scabbard) drawn against them for their Devilish Treason, judged it necessary to divert the edge another way; if therefore they could bring the Protestants under a suspicion of that guilt whereof they stood clearly convicted, 'twas hoped the Current of the people's fury, together with the just indignation of the Magistrate, would turn also, and not run so violently against their Party; for all men naturally fortify against the present evil, and set themselves against the latest, and freshest Enemy; and therefore it could not otherwise fall out, but that they must ease their own Shoulders, whilst they loaded other men's Backs; and the Fire which threatened to burn them up, would slake, when they had provided it other Fuel: Their former Treasons would be buried in the Grave of new Protestant Rebellions; and fresh Crimes would be a kind of an Act of Oblivion for their State-Villanies.  
2. They promised themselves, that if their Plot had made those Impressions upon his Majesty's belief, as to look upon so considerable a number of his Protestant Subjects as Enemies to his Person, and Government, they should then be the only White-boyes, and immediately jump into the Embraces of his Royal Arms: for what other Consequences could follow from those Premises? If the Protestants lose ground, they must win it, and pitch their conquering Tents upon the deserted Field.  
3. It must be Infinite satisfaction to their Revengeful Spirits, could they once see the most Eminent Protestants drawn to Tyburn in the same pompous State, wherein their Reverend Fathers, and glorious Martyrs, so lately road thither; nor could any thing be sweeter to such a heightened Malice, than to see those who had been their just Accusers for Treason, to suffer, however innocently, for the same pretended Crimes.  
4. Though their whole design be now laid open; yet may they hope for this considerable advantage, that now the Nation may be tempted to think, the late Popish Plot was but a Contrivance of the Protestants: since it evidently appears, that the present pretended Plot of the Protestants, is but a contrivance of the Papists; Thus they would use their own notorious Lies to persuade us there is no Truth; and that all the world are Knaves, because they have given us such demonstration of their Rogueries.  
Wise men indeed despise these reasonings, but the far greater part of mankind is none of the wisest: and the Game is worth the Candle, if they can but captivate the belief of the many, who may prove good tools, though errand Fools: The Catholic Plot was apparently to their advantage, but this feigned one, had it really been, and been effectual, had ruined the Contrivers: Every man is supposed the Author of those Counsels, by which he reaps benefit, but there could be no temptation to the Protestants, to remove a Protestant Prince, to make room for one that is otherwise minded: The real Popish Plot, was confirmed by such a harmony of concurrent Circumstances, such a cloud of Witnesses, who from all parts without knowledge of each others testimony, fell in with admirable proportion to the same thing, when this new Romance had nothing of self consistency, nor agreement with the Truth; And lastly, the Popish Plot was discovered by those that had a hand, a head, a heart, in it, and were a great part of it, but this upstart Forgery never was owned by any Protestant, and the very Authors, and main Engineers therein, haled by a guilty Conscience, are come in to justify us, and condemn themselves of unpardonable wickedness and folly; which leads me to the second thing I promised to discourse of, viz.  
II. The notorious folly of the present Popish Figment designed to be laid upon the Protestants.  
I profess I was somewhile inclined to think that the refined sublimated Wits of the Jesuits (who were never yet blamed for bungling at Mischief,) could not possibly be the Authors of so dull a contrivance; but that some Phlegmatic Seculars, or heavy headed Bigots of the Laity, had the hammering of it: But we have had some pregnant instances, of the wisest Counsels, which by ill success have been chalked o'th' back for Follies: For malice sends such thick fumes into the head, as often disturb the understanding; great haste makes the nimblest stumble, to which if we add the consideration of the Divine Justice, whose glory it is to snare the wicked in the works of their own hands, it will go far to assoil the difficulty.  
1. The Heterogeneous mixture of the persons, joined, or rather jumbled, together in one Conspiracy, speaks its ill Contrivance: The Papists, I confess, have one singular advantage above all other men for a cleaver piece of Villainy, in that they can be all of a piece in forming, and executing any design for promoting their common cause, and opposing their common Enemies, for though they quarrel bitterly amongst themselves, the Dominicans hating, and hated by the Franciscans: The Molinists persecuting the Jansenists, and these again undermining those; yet they all conspire in advancing that unwieldy Kingdom, whereof the Pope is the Head; whereas the Protestants in England having no other point, wherein they can politically unite, but in the Person, and Government of his Sacred Majesty; if once you suppose them to divide in that Centre, they must divide in infinitum, and can never meet in any Third.  
2. 'Twas but a raw project, to Introduce as discerning and apprehensive Persons, as the Nation, perhaps as the world, can boast of, so silly as to engage in a work which must inevitably involve them in destruction: Either their Plot would succeed, or not: If it miscarries, the Law destroys them; If it succeeds, their Enemies destroy them; for I doubt not to avow to all the World; that some of the most considerable persons, whom these Plot-makers had assigned to dig in the Mine, must with all their concerns be blown up, to all intents and purposes, as soon as ever the Mine was sprung: Who sees not that many of them hold their Estates, Honours, Dignities, Offices, Preferments, yea Liberties and Lives, for Term at longest, of his Majesty's life and Throne; so that to feign them his Assassinates, is but to suppose them self-murderers; and were they in Chains in a Dungeon, yet so far as life is desirable they are bound in their own defence to make it a standing Petition in their Orisons, God preserve the King of Great-Brittain.  
3. 'Twas but oddly laid, to assign the Cabals and Clubs, for forming and managing this hare-brained Plot, to public houses, The Kings-head-Tavern, the Sun-Tavern, the Green-Dragon-Tavern, and a Chandler's Shop in Westminster, where to be sure (if any were) all the Knavery must come to light; that they should meet in common Rooms, the thoroughfares for the Family, at stated days, fixed hours, with a mixed multitude, of various Interests, Humours, Tempers, and Inclinations, who could not possibly understand each others propensities, nor how the pulse of their Affections beat; where without precaution any might be admitted, and the Trapans were admitted, and all this to expedite a Project so dangerous to themselves, so damnable in itself, so improbable to succeed; this is it which poses my belief, and strands the faith of any considering thinking person.  
Observe but with what Circumspection the Jesuits convene in their Consults; how shy and cautelous they are of their own Friends, who are not actually engaged in the Confederacy: that famous Letter found amongst Harcourt's Papers, produced in the Trials of Ireland and Whitebread, might have taught us some Policy, had we needed their finesses to subserve any vile occasions of our own.— Every one is minded also not to hasten to London long before the time appointed, nor to appear much about the Town till the Meeting be over, lest occasion be given to suspect the design: Finally, Secrecy, as to time and place, is recommended to all those that receive Summons, as it will appear in its own nature necessary. Surely these grand Statesmen might have supposed us to have some small pittance of Brains, and not to engross all the Subtlety, as they have monopolised the Knavery, to themselves: They that were so timorous, even to Superstition, in their own Intrigues, might have allowed us common sense, and not have represented us in a Plot, as they have done some Religious Persons in a Play, for a company of crack-brained, nonsensical fools; and I assure them, were I capable of a provocation to bring an Action of slander against them, I would lay it, not only for personating me as a Traitor, but a Coxcomb.  
4. The manner of Mr. Dangerfield, and his Privadoes, fastening this Plot upon myself, speaks notorious folly; he tells Capt. Bedford that his friend for whom he had taken the Lodging was not yet come to Town, and yet he tells Mrs. Harris before Bedford, that this Capt. Bedford was that Friend for whom he had taken it; he informs the Officers of the Custom-house, that there were Contreband Goods to the value of 2000 l. stowed in my Chamber, and yet was solicitous to remove me one pair of Stairs higher. Now how inconsistent this was with a supposition that I had such a quantity of Goods in my Chamber, is obvious: for what a noise must we have had with Joiner's to contrive new Cells, Drawers, Closets, Lockers, to conceal them? What an oversight was it to direct the Searchers to look behind the Beds-head, before he had lodged his Papers there; had he been his Craftsmaster, he should first have deposited the Treason, and then have left the Officers to remove the Bed; which their Zeal, hot in pursuit of a Prize, would infallibly have advised them too; what Foolery was it to cry out Treason, before he had read more than the usual Preface to a Letter? I do really believe, the Devil and his Jesuits never sent a more simple Child on their Errands! and what madness was it, to inform of prohibited or uncustomed Goods, when he knew there were none such there? and to make that the umbrage to search for Treason, which he as little knew to be there, seeing the tracing him a Liar in one instance, might have raised some dust of suspicion in the Spectators Eyes, that indeed all the rest was but a great Forgery?  
And yet the same wretched Impolitickness have they used in their other Actings, When Hettervile's design to Corrupt honest Capt. Berry, proved abortive, they are presently at work again with Capt. Bedlow; and when Reading was so handsomely overreached, yet they are incapable of fair warning, and attempt the same threadbare Method with Dr. Oates. And when that pitiful project proved unsuccessful; they proceed in the same dull, baffled tract with Mr. Dugdale: and when they have cast up the accounts of these particulars, the total is thus much, a real proof of their true Plot, and their infatuation in the Conduct of this false one: And still they proceed with that Confidence, as if they were absolute Masters of all Events, and could Command success to wait upon their Stirrup, whatever Idle means they use, or in whatsoever Improper Methods they proceed.  
5. Nor does it argue more of Wisdom, to rear such a Massive Towering Structure as that of a Plot, against his Majesty's Person and Government, upon so slender and sleighty a Foundation; Some persons it seems, according to the custom of the Town-converse, do divert themselves in Clubs at Coffeehouses, Taverns, etc. Where with a certain frankness of Conversation, agreeable to a people that abhor starched pedantry, they toss the Gazettes, and Intelligences up and down; and some one perhaps has picked up a Pamphlet of more Wit, than Discretion, and fuller of Drollery, than Honesty, which exercises and whets what Ingenuity the company can spare; now in the Career of discourse, some one perhaps applauds what is discommendable, another Censures that of which he is no Competent Judge; and now for these Skulking Limitors to Wiredraw Treason out of every wry expression, or misplaced word, is wretched duncery, if it has not a more severe and agreeable Name: But these Sharks having the Jaundice in their own eyes, think all the world yellow, and whatever of baseness they bear in their own bosoms, presently conclude it to be working in other men's brains.  
To Conclude (Gentlemen) let their defeated folly teach us Innocent and Loyal Wisdom, for if the designs of Papists will not teach us to oppose our united strength against their combined Fury, some or other will take the Fools-cap off from their heads, and put it upon ours. If you either divide yourselves, or suffer yourselves by their little wheadling tricks to be divided, you must perish, either cruelly by their hands, or shamefully by your own: What progress their Scouts that creep into your Quarters have made that way, and what hopes they have raised upon such progress, wise men see in the Cause, but Fools only feel in the Effects. If like Eteocles, and Polynices, you cannot maintain concord, alive; your enemies will make the experiement, whether your Flames and Ashes will also divide in Smithfield.  
Nor let us think it enough to have convicted them of Treasons, except we can approve our own Loyalty: The smoke of suspicion, as well as the fire of sin, must be avoided; 'tis not sufficient, that brave English tempers are honest, unless our Enemies be convinced we are eminently so.  
We have yet one encouragement left us, that those bloody and deceitful Men shall not Outlive their own Plots, nor live out half their own days: For the ruled Cases of Providence upon Record, do abundantly prove, that where Men deal most proudly God is above them; and he whose care extends to the meanest Fly, his Power controls the great Leviathan; when Egyptians pursue, and the Angel takes off their Chariot-wheels, and yet they will pursue still, they will find it ill striving against the Stream and Current of Vindicative Justice; when the bvilders of Babel will go on, and nothing will be restrained from them, which they have Imagined to do; the next news we hear is, Let's go down, and confound their Languages; And if our Romish Adversaries, not owning that hand of disappointment, which is so visibly stretched out against them, shall persist to add one Conspiracy to another, they may expect their own Policies will find them out.  
Thus much of trouble to have given, was your Concern, and his Duty, who is,  
Honoured and Worthy GENTLEMEN, Your most Humble Servitor, R. MANSELL. Novem. 3. 1679. Axe-Yard, Westminster.   
An Exact, Full, and particular NARRATIVE OF THE Popish Intrigue, to form a PLOT, AND Then to throw it upon the PROTESTANTS.  

IF Truth in its richest dress, that is Nakedness, will please, I cannot despair of the Readers acceptation; but if nothing but Oratory will recommend this Piece, Let him seek elsewhere: The nature of a Narrative will not bear it, the Judicious loath it, I have not the faculty to do it, and if I had, am quite out of humour to scratch him where it itches, or to gratify a vanity that argues so much distemper of Soul.  
Whatever is maintained by Wit, by a greater Wit may be destroyed; what Rhetoric can say for the Plaintiff, it can say also for the Defendant; only Truth sincerely proposed to the eye, taketh and captivates all the World: I shall not, for aught I know, (as I have not hitherto) call this Contrivance a horrid, hellish Devilish Conspiracy, for when I have Plainly from the best Records I could procure, (and I deal openly, I think I have the best that are,) laid open the matter of Fact, with the professed declared designments of it, every Reader will load it with such Epithets, and give it more poignant Terms than I can readily invent, who am naturally barren in my Invention.  
I am not curious in my method, but have indulged my own humour in this single point, to represent the whole in distinct paragraphs, that so the meanest reader (who deserves, and may challenge an interest in these papers,) may more easily digest that in parcels, which perhaps would overset his capacity if swallowed in the lump, and further Preface let not the Reader expect from me.  
1. The whole of the Intrigue was thus much: That whereas the Catholics former design upon His Majesty's Person, and Government; and the design of that design to extirpate the Protestants, and the Protestant Religion, was clearly discovered, and probably would now be prevented, and that all their hopeful and promising attempts to corrupt the King's Evidence had to their great surprise miscarried, yet still though success were wanting to their endeavours, they would not be wanting to themselves, but push for it once more, that if possible they might retreive the game, which seemed utterly lost to all, but themselves, who had great faith against great discouragements. That a Plot might be contrived with such fair probabilities, and presumptions, having witnesses laid in at every stage to prove the particulars, which being prudently fastened upon the Protestants might so win upon the belief of His Majesty, and so approve itself to the Consciences of the Judges, and Juries before whom any of the Plotters should be indicted, arraigned, and tried, that the Protestants would be found guilty of conspiring against the Person, and Government of His Majesty, and thereupon being justly and openly sacrificed to the Justice of the Law, the Catholics might appear, as they have confidently avowed themselves, to be the King's best Subjects; and than it might be left to the Ingenuity of the Impartial world to draw this conclusion, That it was now evident that the last years Plot, which by the malicious Artifices of the Heretics, had been fathered upon the Innocent Catholics, was but a colour to take away their Lives, and seize their Estates, which being considerable, was sufficient to render them guilty with those whose covetousness had prepared them for the spoil.  
And this is the substance of what in the sequel of this Narrative shall branched out into its particulars, in which the Narrator does most solemnly, and religiously promise to surrender himself a slave to Truth, Faithfulness, and Impartiality.  
2. It must be observed, that though the Papists were so active in forming this New Treason for the Protestants, yet they had not laid aside their own; but with the same Zeal pressed for the assassinating of His Sacred Majesty as before; whether their rage were the more inflamed because it was restrained; or that like losing Gamesters they were resolved to double the stake or quit all; or whether thy fancied they had got better instruments to effect that out-work, with which all their other designs must succeed proportionably. I say whether for these any, or all of these or other Reasons it was, 'tis none of my part to determine, only that thus it was, Mr. Dangerfield in his information upon Oath before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of London, assures us, which information was taken, Octob. 31. 1679. I was sent for to the Tower, whither I went in disguise, and after much discourse with my Lord [Powis] in the dining Room, he took me into his Chamber, and there was the Lord Arundel, who first said (after some discourse) will you do any thing to make your Fortune? I answered yes! I would do any thing! well than said he will you kill the King for a good Reward? I was amazed, and said, Sir, you jest surely? then he again asked me: and I said, any Body but the King and His Royal Brother, Nay said he, I mean not so. But Tell me, will ye do it? I again answered, no! without time to consider on'nt; Then said my Lord Powis, No! no! come! Lord Arundel does only this to try you; and pray my Lord Arundel (says Lord Powis) what will you give him to do so? 'tis worth (said Lord Arundel) 2000 l. No! no! (said Lord Powis) you shall do that to my Lord Shaftsbury; and shall have 500 l. for your Reward: [but of the Honourable Persons interest in their hatred, in its proper place:] the same Deponent says further, That when he had acquainted the Lord Peterburgh, that Sir Robert Peyton would meet him at Mr. Gadburies' house, the next Tuesday night at 5 a Clock; he went also to Mr. Gadburies', and gave him notice of it: who liked it well, but was angry that I had displeased the Lords in the Tower, and especially the Lord Castlemain, who did design to make my fortune: I demanded if he knew the ococcasion of their Anger, he answered, yes; it was because I would not kill the King. I wonder at you (said he) when you knew no way to get out of Prison whilst you lived (had not good Charity done it) that you should refuse it: nay it might so easily have been done, by your own hand, that no hurt could have befallen you. Why, said I, Mr. Gadbury, can it be any other but death? yes, with you (said he) for before you were released out of Prison, I had by Mrs. Celliers a true Account what time you were born, and the Countess of Powis ordered me to Calculate your Nativity, and it is so clear, that you were adjudged by all a person allotted to that bold and daring Enterprise; and in Mr. Willoughbie's further examination before the Council-board, Nou. 1. 1679. he affirms That after he had been introduced to the King by Mr. Chiffinch, where he had been alone with His Majesty in his Closet, and told Mrs. Cellier that he had so been; O, said she, what an opportunity have you lost? and soon after the Lady Powis said the same thing, in Mrs. Cellier's hearing, And, how bravely he might have killed the King if he had been provided!  
3. This Plot was unanimously agreed, should in the outward and discursive part of it only touch the Presbyterians; if I should adventure the credit of this one point upon Common fame, it were no vain thing, for the Ears of all men were alarmed with a continual noise of a Presbyterian Plot; the Pamphlets rung of nothing but a Presbyterian Plot; and the Coffeehouses echoed to the common Prints, a Presbyterian Plot; so that the Eyes of all who received the Impression, were fixed upon that kind of men, as the quarter from whence this prognosticated storm would arise: but I shall not content myself, much less the Reader, to rest this observation upon popular outcry, but show that it was a designed, and a politicly designed thing too: Mr. Dangerfield in his Information, of October 31. 1679. Deposes to this purpose, That the Countess [Powis] told him he must go into Buckinghamshire to one Mrs. Webb's at Peterley, with a Letter to one Mrs. Jean; and when he came thither, he finds this Mrs. Jean, not a Woman, but a Man, nay a Priest; who immediately upon reading the Letter, made him Confess and Receive the Sacrament, to be true to the whole cause: and this Jeane, made up the Papers for the Plot against the Presbyrians: which [Paper] was only the ground of it, and was to be drawn up by the Lords, and Mr. Nevil, (as he told Mr. Dangerfield. And afterwards Mr. Woods, told me the Lords had consulted together, that before Oats was Indicted, there should a Rumour be spread abroad of a Plot amongst the Presbyterians, and something of it made appear; and that I may not be tedious in a matter so acknowledged, he further deposes, That one Dowdel came to him with 27 Letters to be transcribed, most of them written by Mr. Nevil's own hand, That Mr. Turner the Lord Powis his Priest desired Mrs. Cellier to get some Catholics to write out several Copies which he then had; accordingly she sent for one Sing a Schoolmaster, who wrote there a week more or less. The Contents of as many of them (as I can remember (says he) are as follows; ‛ That their business here at London went on very well, and hoped theirs did the same in the Country, and Commissions would shortly be ready; mentioning in some Letters, many Noble Persons Names: and that we will now be our own choosers in matters of Government, and take our own pleasures, with Popery: ' Many or most of them Importing the same sense with those taken by the Customhouse Officers, etc. These were to be sent into all parts of the Kingdom where any Presbyterians Lived, to be put into their Houses privately, and then by some other Persons, the House to be searched, and these Papers produced in Testimony against them: This is the fact, so it was, and so they projected the matter, and judged themselves very politic in the projection: for how readily would the sparks of such a suggestion take with great Multitudes against the Presbyterians, when their old animosity did yet smother, nor could the old grudge be quenched: And though many railed at the Presbyterians out of custom, because they had contracted an evil habit of railing and could not leave it; others from Example, swearing and railing because their Companions whetted their already too keen inclinations; others perhaps out of Ignorance, who neither knew what a Presbyterian, nor Presbytery was, yet it was a Common Theme to rail on, and therefore were the more ready at it; yet the Designers had a further reach, to weaken the Protestant Cause, by rendering so many of them unserviceable to the Interest of England, which by such scandalous reflections they must needs be.  
4. Another step I would make is this: However the vogue carried it for a Presbyterian Plot, yet the inside was a Protestant plot, which if my proper Province were to Reason out the matter might be easily demonstrated; for the Church of England is an object more adequate to Papal Covetousness, and Envy, than the Dissenters and their Friends can show; what great temptation is there in the Skins of a few half-starved Non-Conformists, when the Revenues of the Church of England, and fair Estates of the Nobility and Gentry of that Communion, were a morsel that might awaken the dullest appetite; but the fact is that I must clear: let it therefore be noted, of All those Noble Persons that they had nominated for a Council of State to manage this War against the Government, not above one could be with any tolerable propriety of speech called Presbyterian: none being more worthy Personages, nor any more really, and zealously devoted to the true Interest of this Church: The Duke of Monmouth whom they created General over this terrible Army; the Lord Grey, the Lord Gerrard, and his Son, who with Sir Thomas Armstrong were Commissioned for Leiutenant Generals, were none of them ever suspected of Presbyterianisme, and should I look over the Clubbs, where the Meal Tubb Intelligence informs us, that the Persons who were there employed as Writers and Messengers into the Country, when occasion should require were all to be Field Officers, yet amongst these I cannot pick out half a dozen Presbyterians, and its harsh to denominate an Army that must overturn the Government of three Kingdoms, from so inconsiderable a Number: but of this there will be further evidence, when we come to exemplify the platform of this design as it was laid in the  Papers.  
5. Having got this general Idea of the Plot in their Heads, which yet was not a piece of exact proportion, but left to more mature Counsels to be polished. It was time to think, and pitch upon fit Instruments for the executing of it, that is to make it stick to those persons, whose forward Zeal against the late Popish design against His Majesty's Person, Government, and the Protestant Religion, had made must obnoxious to their Malice, and revenge: And herein they proceeded with much caution, as became their wisdoms, who knew well, that many well laid designs, such as promised great hopes of a good issue had miscarried through the insufficiency of those to whose Hands the management was committed: Madam Cellier, by Calling a Midwife, whose Employ chief was with Catholic Ladies, and Gentlewomen, was very serviceable in delivering the Catholic Cause of this birth, wherewith it had gone so long, and was now in the pangs, and throws of bringing forth. This Gentlewoman by the means of one Mrs. White, was brought to Mr. Danger field, than a Prisoner in Newgate: She there examined his capableness for business, and because Instruments may be used but cannot be form, for a trial of his Abilities. Let me see (says she) how you can draw up Articles against Captain Richardson. Hereupon she gave him Instructions, who performed the first Essay of his Art to her satisfaction, and then told him, She had something of greater moment for him to undertake: but Mr. Dangerfield being then a Prisoner, some Expedient must be used for his Enlargement, that he might enter upon his charge; and to this end she advises him to Complain to Mr. Recorder, in whom she would make such an Interest by Alderman Jefferies, as to get his Petition granted: Then she employs one Mr. Williams a Solicitor to Bail him out, which yet could not be effected in less than three weeks: however Madam Cellier sent her Maid Margaret every day to supply his wants with money, to support his Spirits with good words such as administered hope, and not long after he was bailed: after that this charitable Person through whose hands much of the Romish benevolence passed, had cleared the Fees, and expenses of the Prison.  
But he was no sooner discharged from Newgate, but he was Arrested, and thrown into the Counter; This surprised Mrs. Cellier, yet she sends her trusty Maid Margaret to assure him, that if he would forthwith be at Liberty, she would purchase it at any rate, for she had ordered business for him the Tuesday next; And first she furnishes him with money to remove himself to the Kings-Bench by Habeas Corpus, here he is relieved by her again, receiving twenty shillings in hand, and twenty shillings per week, with promises of a speedy Release: but because the good of the Catholic 'Cause was the main end that must overrule lesser projects, she had found a notable job of work for him there, which was to practise upon one Mr. Strode, then and there a Prisoner, whose story will he taken up in due order: here a piece of service was also enjoined him with Captain Bedlow, by the Lords in the Tower, (as Mr. Mounson told him) viz. that he should send for the Captain, and pretending he knew something of the Plot, when he was in Flanders, that he would gladly discover it, if he might be examined, which would be a great piece of Service to the Lords; first being sworn an evidence for the King, and then to swear such other matters as Mr. Mounson should instruct him in, but because they could not Contrive any secure footing to proceed upon in his treating with Captain Bedlow the business fell.  
Some while after being furnished with Money (as he deposes) by the Lords Powis, Petre, Arundel, Bellasis, and Stafford, to Compound his Debts, and Five pound given him by M ris. Cellier to clear his Fees, Mr. Dangerfield is fully enlarged.  
And being at Liberty after so long durance in several Prisons, he looked on himself a competent Undertaker in the greatest Affairs, and was brought by Mris. Cellier to the Lady Powis, who thanked him for his diligence in the business of the Kings-bench, and withal told him, that his faithfulness in that Affair should make his Fortune, provided he would undertake other business; which he promised to do.  
But now he must come under Discipline, to make him tied to the Cause; and accordingly is charged to continue steadfast in his Religion, (what that was, perhaps every body, perhaps no body knows) to Confess once a Week to Mr. Mounson, which he promised to do. And indeed, when he was in the Kings-bench, he was advised to scour his Kettle, that is, to Confess, and Receive; but because his Practices would need a little latitude, he was Indulged to be drunk with Strode, and told it was no sin, because it was for the good of the Cause.  
Being thus prepared, it was time he should be encouraged; and so he was, the Countess Powis sends him with a Letter to the Lord Castlemain, who received him kindly, and promised to make his Fortune, if he would use his endeavour to support the Catholic Cause: and presently returns him with a Recommendatory Letter to the Lady Powis, to this purpose: This person I like well, and though he be no Scholar, yet he may serve to instruct the Youths, according as he shall be directed, and in so doing, I shall be eased of much suspicion.  
And now Mr. Dangerfield must go into Buckingham-shire, to Madam, or Mounsieur Jeane, (for it was a Priest in Woman's disguise) and from him he receives the Rudiments of this Presbyterian Plot; and comes up to the Lords in the Tower, to have it reduced to a consistent Form: And when Mr. Dangerfield was sent with a Letter to the Lady Tuke, she seemed to like him well, and sent word he was fit to be employed, and gave him two Guinneys; and asked him, If he was one that durst do any thing of desperate consequence: He answers, Yes! But the Lady Powis meeting with some Rub in an Affair she had with a Noble Person, and not being able to procure Mr. Mounson out of Prison to be an Assistant in this grand Intrigue, tells Mr. Dangerfield, I thought I could have got Mr. Mounson out, but since it can no better be, you must do all our business; and from that night by order of the Lords sent by Mrs. Cellier, he was to fall upon the execution of this black Design.  
6. Mr. Dangerfield is now Plenipotentiary to manage the whole Negotiation, under the Conduct of his great Lords and Masters; and that he might the better expect success, they consult how to prepare the People to receive and believe a Story so incredible, that the Protestants would actually Rebel: Their first attempt was, by dispersing several scandalous Pamphlets, written by Nevil, and others, against the Presbyterians, to refresh the People's Memories with any old Actions of theirs, which might render it credible: And the next was, that by several Agents assigned to their respective Posts, the Coffeehouses might ring of the general apprehensions of some Notorious Villainies ready to break forth from the Presbyterian party. This Mr. Dangerfield deposes, That he gave the Papers he received from Mr. Jean in Bucks, to the Lady Powis, who opened, and read them, to this effect: That good store of Pamphlets must be writ and spread abroad against the Presbyterians, and persons must be employed to go to Coffeehouses, and rail against the Presbyterians, and if they met with any that offered to contend, matters of Treason or some such thing might easily be laid to their Charge, and so have them secured; but there must be many persons employed in these matters, and it would be great prudence not to let them know one another, nor any one to know more than the part he was to act: And again; From that night, by the Lords Order sent me, I began going about to Coffeehouses, and had an Account from Nevil what to go to; and I chose Farrs Coffee-house; whither I went every night, till Mr. Kinnaston and I differed. And here it seems for want of other idleness, his discourse was (as the Lords had instructed him) That Sir Edm. Bury Godfrey was Murdered by my Lord Danby 's Order, who joined with the Presbyterians to overthrow the Catholics: A story so incredible, as might justly shake the credit of the rest amongst considering persons: Then he was sent to drop the Danby Reflections, and Timothy Touchstone, and divers other base Pamphlets written by Nevil, in the Coffeehouses, and to send them sealed up in Papers to Man's Coffee-house, to Farrs, and to Proctors, and others: Let us note by the way, that this Mr. Nevil was a person great in repute for the happiness of his Pen; And I have been credibly informed from the Minutes of the Council, that Mr. Dangerfield before the Honourable Board affirmed, Nou. 7. 79. Fryd. afternoon;  
That Mr. Nevil by the advice of the Lords in the Tower, should be again confined; forasmuch as when he was formerly in that Condition, he had been very industrious in writing of Papers in their business, but now he was at liberty, he chief followed the Playhouse.  
But the Information of Mr. Bedford, Nou. 4. before the Council, is very remarkable; That about six weeks before, he went with Mr. Willoughby to one Thompson in Fetter-lane, who was then printing The Presbyterian Unmasked; in which famous piece, if the Reader will consult it, there are intimations of great havoc that would suddenly be made by John Presbyter, but that vengeance would suddenly overtake them; And this may further be observed, that this Thompson has been a notorious Engine in all Popish Designs, and to this day abuses the World with his weekly Domestic Intelligence. And lastly, let me note but one Paragraph more out of his Information: I met (says he) the Lady Powis soon after at Mrs. Celliers, and told her of their proceed, who liked it well, but told me, I must go forward, with all speed, in some Intrigue against the Duke came to Town, to make him believe the Presbyterians were plotting against the King; then the Way was consulted, and the next day upon Mrs. Celliers return from the Lady Powis, who had sent for her to the Tower, she told me, I must give Money to some people that were idle, and appeared well, to go to the Coffeehouses and Clubs, and endeavour to learn how things stood; where I sound all things very hot against the Presbyterians, and that the Plot was discovered to be theirs; This being first set on foot by some of our Accomplices, as Wood, Dormer, the Virginia Merchant, Gadbury, and divers others, and I was to further it.  
But because this was a matter of great moment, and that upon the right conduct thereof, the Prosperity of their whole Cause depended; It was thought adviseable to crave Foreign Counsels, and accordingly a Letter was sent to Brussels, to Mr. Holder, stating the whole Design, and earnestly desiring his Advice therein; and further, to procure the Impressions of several Coats of Arms to be cut there, which were fixed to the Margin of the Letter; which Letter was conveyed by one Mris. Katherine Holder, living in St. James', to her Uncle; and in one of the Answers to these Letters, I heard (says Mr. Dangerfield) the Lady Powis read as follows.  
If you had taken this Course sooner, much blood might have been saved; but I doubt 'tis now too late, and fear the St. Omers Testimony being so baffled, has much impaired our endeavours, yet to my power I will assist, and advise you to go on.  
7. Though matters seemed so well concerted, yet there were some difficulties in the way, which in order to a happy procedure must be removed; And the greatest Obstacle in their way, was the Life of the Earl of Shaftsbury: A person whose fixedness to the true Interest of his Majesty, and the Protestant Religion, they well knew; whose profound Judgement to dive into all Mysteries, and whose Wisdom to obviate their Designs they feared; and therefore his Person was by them mortally hated, and nothing can quench their fiery rage but his Blood.  
The Lady Abergaveney told Mr. Dangerfield, it was as easy for him to kill the Lord Shaftsbury, as a Bird on a Tree; and when he demanded, How? she then and there proposed Divers ways, saying, She was often with the said Lord, who talked so cruelly against the Catholics, that she could not endure to hear it, but yet was forced to hold a Candle to the Devil; amongst others (wherein Mr. Knolles and Mr. Sharp also agreed) one was, That Mr. Dangerfield should pretend himself a person good at Curing the Gout; and that she would recommend him to the said Lord; this the Lady Powis liked well, but said, she would let the Lords know it: And now if by this Expedient he could be admitted to such a nearness to his Lordship's person, he might have picked some convenient time to Cure him of that, and all other Diseases.  
We must remember, that when Mr. Dangerfield was in the Tower with the Lords Powis and Arundel, who offered 2000 l. for the Murder of the King; that being refused, Immediately 500 l. was offered for the Murdering the Earl of Shaftsbury; and when Mr. Dangerfield asked them how it might be achieved? they both replied, Easily enough: For (said the Lord Powis) two nights since my man Woods was there to deliver a Message, and he sorely repent he was not provided, though there more twenty or more persons in the Room: But if he were out of the way (said the Lord Powis) we might easily overrun the rest of our Opposites: Then (says Mr. Dangerfield) I promised I would, and the Lord Powis gave me ten Guinneys, and told me, a Virginia Merchant should come to me the Sunday following, to Mrs. Celliers house, and advise with me about it: And accordingly this Merchant came at the time, and place appointed, who entered into discourse with me about it, and I seemed to be very willing to undertake it; and he advised me to consult with Mr. Dormer, and all the persons concerned therein, how to carry it on, and on Monday I went to Confession to Mr. Knowles, and received the Sacrament.  
Yet still something or other Intervened, which deferred the execution of the design against the Lord Shaftsbury; till the Lady Powis came to me, and bid me (these are his own words) go to Mr. Sharp to Confession, and Receive, for I must speedily, or on the next Order, go to the Lord Shaftsbury; I did then go and Confess, and Receive of Mr. Sharp, who conjured me by all that was good, to use all speed imaginable for the stabbing the Lord Shaftsbury, which I promised to do, and left him.  
But Mrs. Cellier received a Letter that night; that I must go to the said Lord, and say as follows: My Lord, I am a Stranger, and am neither introduced, nor sent by any Person, but desire to know if it be in my power to serve your Lordship, if your Honour will show me favour? Then Mrs. Cellier gave me a Dagger, (three or four such being brought to her the Sunday before by the Virginia Merchant) and dispatched me away.  
Mr. Dangerfield (under the Name of Mr. Day) addresses himself to this famous Exploit; and coming to the Earls house, desires a Servant to acquaint his Lord, that a Gentleman had some Affairs with him of great Importance: His Lordship commands him to be conducted into the Dining-room, whither his Lordship, as soon as he had dispatch those persons who attended him, came, waited on by his Servants. Mr. Day intimates to him, that he had something to discover to his Honour, of the highest Concern for his Lordship to know, but withal such as required the greatest secrecy, and therefore humbly requested, that his Servants might be discharged their present attendance; which his Lordship as peremptorily refusing as it was importunately urged, Mr. Day replied, That because he had not his Proofs ready at present, which yet in a little time he should, he would take his leave at present, and within a few days wait again on his Lordship; and for that time he departed.  
Mr. Dangerfield at his return gives an account to Mrs. Cellier, That he was disappointed, but would take some other opportunity; she gives advice of this to the Tower: And about two days after, meeting with the Lady Powis at Mrs. Celliers, she tells him, he must go again to the Lord Shaftsbury's, and tell him as follows, Viz. That if he should be sent for before the King and Council, and there have several Impeachments of High Treason drawn against him, and be thence committed to the Tower, and the Testimony in many of the said Impeachments to be from Letters written with his own hand, that then I might hope his Lordship would believe I was his faithful Servant.  
Thus instructed, Mr. Dangerfield attends the Earl (being armed as before with his Dagger) his Lordship being in discourse with a person of Honour, commanded Mr. Day to be put into a Chamber which had a passage into the Dining Room, till his Lordship could be at leisure. Mr. Day thought he might now effect his matters, and coming softly into the Entry that leads to the Dining-Room, stood listening to hear when that Noble Personage should departed, presuming, as indeed it fell out, that the Lords Servants would wait on that Noble Lord down to his Coach, and that the Lord Shaftsbury being for a while left alone, he might dispatch him, and clear himself of the House before the return of the Servants. As soon as that Nobleman departed, the Servants there waited on him down the Stairs, but unhappily for Mr. Day; just at that Lords going out, came another Gentleman in, who entertained his Lordship with some discourse; but Mr. Day hearing no voice, presumed the happy hour was come, and therefore throwing open the door, was coming up towards his Lordship, when he unexpectedly espies a young Gentleman with him: This surprised him, and finding the season lost, he retires to the Room where he was before. This Action gave some apprehension to his Lordship, who as soon as his Servants were returned, and the Gentleman withdrawn, sends for Mr. Day to come to him; who after his former Preface, That he had matters of great Concern to communicate to his Lordship, desired that his Servants might be commanded to withdraw; but his Lordship being somewhat the more awakened by the late Carriage of Mr. Day, told him, He must not expect that from him, but that if he had business of moment to Impart, as he pretended, he should impart it: He thereupon gins to tell his Lordship; that he was in danger of being questioned for his Life; that his Servants were false to him, that they did copy out his Letters and Papers, and communicated them, whence would be drawn matter to form an Impeachment against him: His Lordship asked, Which of his Servants they were that had thus Copied out his Writings? And when Mr. Day replied, That he knew not; his Honour returned, Sir, I can now tell you, that every word of what you say is false; for I have no Papers, no Letters, which if known to all the World would endanger one hair of my head; and therefore it cannot be that any such Impeachment should be formed out of any Letters of mine: If that be your Lordship's opinion, (answered Mr. Day) I shall take my leave.  
Mr. Day being thus a second time disappointed, sends the Lord's word of it by his Boy; and the next day Mr. Woods came, and said, His Lord wondered I had been so great a Coward; and so ordered Mr. Day alias Dangerfield to go to the King, and tell him that he had been again with the Lord Shaftsbury, lest the Lord Shaftsbury should first acquaint his Majesty with it.  
Mrs. Cellier sends him to Lord, Peterburghs, to tell him what had happened, and how he had been twice at Lord Shaftsburies'; and he was well pleased (as Mr. Dangerfield upon Oath informs,) and promised him, when any Forces were raised, he would put in for a Regiment of Horse, than he would make Mr. Dangerfield Captain of a Troop: And added, Be sure you do his business the third time. And when the Lady Powis came next to Mrs. Celliers, she would have persuaded him to a third attempt upon the Lord Shaftsbury, which he refusing, she struck him gently with her Fan on the hand, calling him Cow-hearted Fellow, and said, She herself would go. But Mrs. Cellier answered, No Madam, that shall never be, for I will make the World know, That our Sex are braver than they of the Masculine, and myself will go and do the work. To which the Lady Powis returned, Alas! all our men of Courage are sent out of the world, or secured for to be so.  
And she was as good as her word as to the Attempting part; for the same, or the very next day, this Virago, that deserves a place amongst the worthy Confessors in the Roman Calendar, visited his Lordship, and Complementing his Lordship highly for his Moderation towards the Catholics, would have insinuated herself into his good thoughts; but his Lordship made perhaps more cautelous by the late demeanour of Mr. Day, kept a strict eye upon her, and observing her to be fumbling about her Petticoat, or Pockets, gently (as if between Jest and Earnest) laid his hands upon hers, and pleasantly drolled with her, till she seemed ready to take her leave; but she was not gone far towards the door, but that reflecting upon herself, that she should promise so high, and come off doing as little as Mr. Day, whose Cowardice she had scorned, she suddenly returns towards his Lordship; which he observing, steps to her, and laying his hands on hers as before, dashed her out of Countenance, that she was forced to departed, to tell a sad story of her failure to those who waited to see the fruit of her great and daring Promises.  
8. These Conspirators being thus frustrated in their designed Death of the Earl of Shaftsbury, yet were not discouraged in the main of their Contrivance, which was to fasten this grand Treason against His Majesty's Person and Government, upon the Protestants: And therefore being resolved to drive the Nail home, it was judged absolutely necessary to possess His Majesty with it: A mighty Point it would be, if they could make it, to impose so far upon His Majesty's well-known Judgement. That His Protestant Subjects should grow so weary of His Person, and Government, as to desire a change, when he knew that they knew how much their Interest, and that of their Religion was wrapped up in His Majesty's Life and Prosperity: And therefore they would first endeavour to lodge this Intrigue with His Royal Highness, who being then returned to Town, the Lord Peterborough (says Dangerfield) sent for me to give him an account of this New Plot, but I was unprovided: But I met with Mr. Woods, and he sat down, and wrote what came uppermost, or what he was ordered (at least as he told me) but some things I was forced to put in also. Then the Lady Powis recommended me to the Lord Peterborough, and desired him by a Letter which Mrs. Cellier carried (as she told me) to take me to His R. Highness, which he did; but first demanded of me what I could say? or if the Lady Powis had given me any Directions in the same: We stayed in the Lord Peterboroughs Closet in his Lodgings in Whitehall, for some time, till the D. returned from Supper, than he took me and Mrs. Cellier to the D s. Closet, where we both had the honour to kiss his Royal Hand; and me he took from the ground where I was kneeling, and then I delivered the Papers, and spoke according to my Orders. After this the Lord Peterborough told me, I must go again to the D. as by his Lordship's means I did, and His R. Highness told me I must go to the King, and give His Majesty an account at large of all that the Papers mentioned, and told me the King would order me money to proceed in the Discovery, and then he gave me twenty Guinneys; and I came away, and gave an account to the Lords of all; and that I must go to the King, and desired to know what I must say: That night I received no Answer more than that the Lady Powis would be with me the next day at three of the Clock, and so she was, at Mrs. Celliers house, where she told me, I must stick hard [against the Lord Shaftsbury, Lord Grey, Lord Howard, D. of Monmouth, Lord D. of Ducks, Sir Will. Waller, Coll. Blood, and divers others] And that I must tell what Clubs I had enquired out, and where, and that they were all of the Faction; and that if His Majesty had died at Windsor, they had posted about the Town and Suburbs, a considerable Army, to have taken possession of the Government, and did design to bring the same to a Commonwealth, and set up the D. of Monmouth therein; and that the Lord Shaftsbury, and others, were issuing out Commissions to that effect, and had promised some to divers persons; and that I had the promise of a Commission from one of the Presbyterian Party: To this effect I told His Majesty.  
His Majesty, no doubt, saw through this thin Contrivance, and yet that he might not seem wholly to reject an Information that pretended so highly to his Service, he encouraged me (says Dangerfield) and ordered Coll. Halsall, that I might be furnished with moneys, and I received soon after from the said Coll. 40 l. who told me, I must make out things plainer, or the King would not be well pleased; which I promised to do, and so took my leave.  
Mr. Dangerfield now goes home, and sends Mrs. Celliers to the Tower, to let the Lords know what had happened, and all were well pleased, and much rejoiced at his good success; but desired he would not apply himself any more to the King, by the means of Coll. Halsall, for they believed he would discover him.  
9 What Informations were given to His Majesty at this and other times by Mr. Dangerfield, we must now make out from that Book found in Mrs. Celliers house, in a Meal-Tub, by Sir William Waller, whose diligence nothing could escape, whose industry no pains could weary; and whose courage no terrors of Popish Enemies could abate.  
A true and exact Copy of the Book found by Sir Will. Waller at Mrs. Celliers house in the Meal-Tub on Wednesday, Octob. 29. 1679.  
Major Alsop's promise to me for a Commission.  
Mr. Goodings promise to support D. M. if banished.  
Friday night the 12th. of Septemb. D. Monm. went to the Sun-Tavern to converse with Player and Jencks, for the settling Affairs, and also a supply for himself if banished.  
The manner of the meeting of four several Clubs, viz.  
At the King's-Head Tavern, at the Green-Dragon Tavern, at the Sun-Tavern, and one at a Chandlers-Shop in Westminster, which are at present employed, as Writers and Messengers, into the Country, but when occasion shall require, they are to be Field-Officers.  
The manner of sending those Messengers.  
The manner of their meeting for the better concurrence of all matters.  
Their way of contributing, how often, and for what purposes it is done.  
The posture they were in for a Rising in the City, if His Majesty had died.  
The design of Rising in the North to join with the Scots, and what shall occasion that Rising there?  
Gooding's Account of the Chief Persons and Commanders there among them, viz. 



Lord Shaftsbury,  
Lord Hallifax,  
Lord Radnor,  
Lord Essex,  
Lord Wharton,  
D. Buckingham,   Councillors.  
D. Monmouth, General.  


Lord Grey,  
Lord Gerrard, and his Son,  
Sir Tho. Armstrong,   Lieutenant Generals.  
Blood and Waller to be Major Generals.    
The Field, and other Officers, most of them meet at the several Clubs, together with some that are in the Country.  
The considerable Parties would come from His Majesty's horse and foot Guards, to join them when occasion should require.  
Alsop, and Gooding promise to introduce me to Lord Shaftsbury to be employed as a spy, and to have the promise for a Commission.  
That only the consent of Sir J. P. D. B. Sir W. W. Sir R.P. was wanting to give the stroke, but if they would not comply, it should be done otherwise as at the Parliaments, etc.  
A Parchment was seen in the hands of Captain England, by Bed. on Monday, the 22d. of Sept. 79. which was written on in indented letters. These are to Authorise etc. And thirteen Label seals to it. This at Bloods Club.  
On the same night was a secret Cabal held at Blood's house.  
The next being Tuesday night was one at Sir, W.W.  
Gooding told me a Corporal of his acquaintance was going to be listed, to discipline men.  
Friday the 19 of September, a person was sent from Blood's Club to Huntingdon, about weighty business, and is not yet returned, which causes some fear of miscarriage.  
Sept. 30th. the Messenger returned from Huntingdon, who said he had finished the business he went about, and that all that part of the Country, was in good readiness.  
Saturday, the 5th. of October, a Cabalmet at waller's to consult about the affairs of other Counties: but particularly for the present, the County of Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall, and in order thereunto two persons were sent away with great Pacquets, and in one of them were divers Papers like printed warrants, and names, and seals to the same, but the person who saw them could not come to read one; my Author is Alsop.  
Monday, the 7th. a Cabal met at waller's in order to the Dispatch of divers persons into the North, and to York City to a Club there at one Lees house a Tallow-Chandler. These go into some part of Scotland too, before they return, and yet are obliged to return before the 30th. of this Month.  
Sir W.W. promise to B. for a Commission.  
Lord S. promise of a Commission to etc.  
Goodings promise to me of the list of 5000. etc.  
Sept. 9 Brown produced a paper to the company, who all approved of it, but especially one Desny, who said, Cursed be the man whose mind is not suitable to this Paper.  
One Mason at the same place said after some discourse of affairs, that all within 20 miles round London, were raedy to strike, whensoever they should be commanded, and that against the King's Interest too: and said it was not the French Kings pretended Invasion, should put them in fear of any Army the King now had, or could raise.  
'Tis also Resolved, that when any Commissions are given out for the Raising an Army for the King, that some of the Faction shall privately put in for Employs, in order to the better serving that Party by the corrupting His Majesty's Soldiers. Witt. Curtice.  
Wednesday the 15th. of Octob. I was with Lord S.  
Saturday, 19 B. told me Sir W.W. said he had 300 Horse at his command to oppose an Army that the D. and Lauderdale were going to raise in the North; and that if they made not too much haste, he should have more.  
This is the true Copy of the Paper-book found in the Meal-tub, which being since well sifted to the Bran, appears to be a Tale of a Tub.  
But that the Reader may be more fully satisfied of the matter of the Informations given in to the King, I shall give him the true Copy of a Letter sent by Mr. Willoughby to His Majesty.  
SIR, May it please your most Sacred Majesty,  
ON Friday the 26th. of this Instant Septemb. was seen by a person whom I employ, in the hand of one England, a Paper like a List of men's Names, and a Parchment in the likeness of a Commission, with thirteen Label-seals, and as many Names thereto, and at the top, was in great Indenture Letters (viz.) These are to authorise, etc.  
I myself was informed, that a Corporal now in your Majesty's Foot-Guards, was to be sent into the North to discipline a considerable number of Men: My Author for this was one Gooding, a Nonconformist Parson.  
Friday the 26th. was a person sent with a Packet, very considerable, (supposed to be so by my friend who saw the outside thereof) to Huntingdon: the said person is not yet returned, nor to be heard of, which much amazes the gang he was sent by, and at present puts a stop to their Party.  
It was spoken publicly in a Club, That all things were in a ready posture, and they only expect your Majesty's Command to make the onset; but if that be not, 'tis designed at the sitting of the Parliament, if your Majesty answer not their expectation.  
I have also discovered a great Correspondence between the same Party and the Dutch; and believe at your Majesty's return to give a good Account of the same by God's help; till which time I shall use my utmost endeavour to make myself  
Your Majesty's most Faithful and Obedient Subject Willoughby,  
These were the great Informations given in against the poor Protestants; the Result of all the Wit of the Popish Faction; a Project so full of Self-inconsistencies; this His Majesty must look through, and through it, at the first glance of his Eye, only his Wisdom might let them play with their own Fancies, till they were snared in their own Nets. In the Meal-Tub Information, it was the 22th. of September that the Parchment was seen in Captain England's hands; but in Mr. Willoughby's Letter to His Majesty it was Septemb. the 26th. Again, in the Meal-tub Paper, it was Friday the 19th. of September that the Messenger was sent to Huntingdon; but in this Letter to His Majesty it was said Friday the 26th. a whole week later: But let them study at their leisure to reconcile Contradictions.  
10. Matters being thus laid, and His Majesty now returned to London, by the Lord's Order, he must go with another Story to the King, but much what of the same tendency; and by Mr. Chiffinch 's means, Mr. Willoughy is brought to speak with His Majesty: An Account of which being given to the Lady Powis, and what His Majesty said, her Ladyship answered, he could carry something of moment, but that till he heard further from her, he was commanded to be diligent to inquire after one Coll. Mansfield, which I easily did (says he) and sent word by Madam Cellier to the Tower, where he lodge; upon which I received Orders from the Lady Powis to be at home in the Afternoon, and she would come to she did so, and commanded me to go to Confession, and receive the Sacrament. After some time the aforesaid Lady said (after some discourse) will you take these Papers, and privately put them into some of his , or into his Trunks, or any where about his Chamber? I answered, I could not do that, because I knew him not; then she told me, I must go and pretend to some acquaintance, and take him to a Tavern, and drink hard, and so convey them into his , and immediately cry out, he had spoken Treason, and call the Constable, and cause him to be apprehended and searched.  
And in order to Mr. Dangerfield's being acquainted with Coll. Mansfield (for so the Countess mistook his Name) he was advised to take lodgings near him, and insinuate himself into his acquaintance, and therewith the Lady gives him 15 Letters, and a list of Names, whereof one was written with her Ladyships own hand. These she desired might be transcribed, and when Mr. Dangerfield, officiously offered his service; she replied, O no! the King having some remarks already written with your hand, will know your hand again, for these must be showed to the King and Council; and therefore sends him to a Scrivener that lives over against  who copied them out; and then he brings them to Mrs. Cellier and shown them to her, who with Mrs. Webb advised him to proceed, and wished him good success, and both warranted him he should be well rewarded.  
Mr. Dangerfield goes now into Axe-Yard, to the colonel's Lodgings, and there views the Rooms, and found all things look very hopefully towards the executing his design; but at that time he took no Lodgings there, but sent an Account to the Tower how things stood, and then went in person (as he deposes) to the Lord Peterborough, and Mr. Gadbury, and told them the Design, as he was ordered by the Lady (Powis) who well approved of it.  
At his Return to his own Lodgings he meets with a Letter from the Lady, whereby he is ordered to proceed forthwith, which he obeys, and presently goes and takes the Lodgings, and puts the fatal Papers behind the Bed, and came away, and sends word to the Lords in the Tower what he had done: then the persons concerned commended him, and consult one another by Letters, and gave him order to Acquaint His Majesty, and to go to Mr. Secretary Coventry, and make Affidavit, what he had seen in the colonel's Chamber; but Mr. Willoughby, or Dangerfield, fearing, it seems, from some jealousies he had, to be proved a perjured person, was resolved to let it fall, till they sent word he must now go forwards, and he should be well provided for: And these heads of the Conspiracy direct him by a Letter to Mrs. Cellier, to go to some Officers of the Custom-house, and inform them of some prohibited goods, which were in Colonel Mansfield's Chamber, which he did, and brought them in pursuance of that search to detect the Imaginary treasonable Papers conveyed behind the Bed.  
11. Mr. Willoughby having proceeded thus far, yet apprehended himself within reach of danger, and therefore fearful of being suspected, as soon as the Officers had seized the Papers, and carried them to the Custom-house, he withdraws to send word to the Tower that the Papers were seized: And the Lords there were not without apprehensions that the Papers might be conveyed away; and therefore immediately send him word, to acquaint His Majesty how the Papers were seized, who sends Mr. Dangerfield to Mr. Secretary Coventry, that he should come forthwith to Whitehall; but in the mean time Mr. Dangerfield, not knowing what further to say when he should attend the King, goes home to advise with Madam Cellier, where not long after he was apprehended; but the Justice taking Bail, and ordering him to attend the Council next morning, the Lady Powis meets him in the Stone-Gallery, encourages him to stand fast, assuring him, that if he were committed, he should be brought off, and want for nothing. That night he stood again upon his Bail, and was ordered to attend the Council next day at three a clock, which gave him a convenient time to be better instructed.  
And full instructions he received the next day from the Lady Powis her own hand, as she met him in the stone Gallery, with a strict charge to stand fast, which he resolved and promised to do. These Instructions he transcribed whilst in the Messengers hands, and kept close to them in his pleading before the Council, as by comparing his Defence with his Instructions will evidently appear, a Copy whereof at the conclusion of this Paragraph shall be presented to the Reader.  
But notwithstanding whatever defence he could make, and though according to the charge of Mr. Sharp his ghostly Father, he stoutly denied all that was alleged against him before the Council; yet was he committed to Newgate; the place (as he observes) from whence they had fetched out at first, and now by these intrigues had returned him back thither at last.  
To the Prison Mrs. Cellier sends her Maid with that old repeated charge To stand fast; promising him he should want for nothing; and encouraging him to hope he should be removed to the Kings-bench; and the same time she sends him one Guinney, and twenty shillings in silver, and a of paper filled with Crosses, and by the hand of Mrs. Cellier this grave sentence written, I will never change: but Mrs. Cellier was herself it seems got into prison too; and not knowing but that if Mr. Dangerfield should find courage enough to stand fast and resolute, as she enjoined him, yet the wisdom of the Council might possibly entrap them in some contradictions; she sends therefore her servant a second time with a Letter of advice to him, which sounded to this purpose: I am in custody; and if examined how I came to know you, will declare I employed you to gather in desperate debts; I would have you say the same if you be examined; and say also that it was you that sent me to the Lord Shaftsbury, and I will say so too; for this cannot worst you. And with this Letter she sent him their Debt-books, that he might from thence be instructed to make his tale good.  

A true Copy of the Instructions sent to Mr. Willoughby by the hands of the Lady Powis, teaching him how to make his Defence before the Council, and answer all Objections.  
FIrst, I am suspected to have put the Letters behind the bed, when I went to take the rooms.  
The improbability of that is plain: for I neither knew what Room Mansell would lie in, nor if I myself should be entertained there.  
But when I had been told which Rooms were to be let, it plainly appears I did not desire Mansell should out of his Lodging to give me place.  
And after I had taken the Lodgings, they cannot prove that I was any more in Mansell's Lodgings till the search was made.  
Secondly, Stretch swears, I at the same time that he was searching, went round the bed, and he believes I then put them there, for the reason that I first espied the papers.  
But 'tis strange that the Mistress' Brother, one Messenger more, and others in the room, at the same time, could not see me go round the bed as well as Stretch.  
This is twice I am suspected, for that he also swears I declared the Letters to be treasonable papers before I see the inside of any one; and that he never read any Letter to me.  
To prove he did, let Mr. Bedford be examined: I also desired them to seize all the rest of his Letters and Pamphlets, which were of great consequence, and a considerable number of both, and bring them immediately to the Honourable Council, whither I went expecting to find them; but it seems they were carried to the Lord Shaftsbury, and afterwards sent to Justice Warcup, when five or six of the Letters found behind the bed, had been taken out, and all the Pamphlets, and two or three hundred Letters more, and a Parchment or two with great seals to them, were returned to Mr. Mansell again, and only such as were thought fit to be withstood by him, here produced.  
To testify the other Letters, Mr. Bedford.  
I also desire to know what time, and where the Writings were delivered to him again, and why they were not all produced, as well as those that are?  
And why they were not from that time forthwith by him carried before some Secretary of State to peruse?  
And by what power he could examine the Boy, and give him Wine?  
And why the Boy was threatened to be sent to Bridewell, or with a Constable?  
And why he was afterwards called good Boy, and told he was the prettiest Boy they ever see?  
Now if the Boy (who if asked can declare I never pre-instructed him in the least tittle) would not tell the truth (as they call it) without being thus prompted and threatened, I humbly conceive little credit can be given to what he says; but if it were truth, and had come freely from him (as it did not) he is not of age to understand an Oath.  
Pray let Mr. Bedford be asked if this Mansell did not at any time use to go to a Factious Club in Westminster-Market; or if he did not bring a scandalous Pamphlet, titled, The Word out of doors, and there applaud the same.  
I desire to know if he does not know Captain Brown, Mr. Disney, Mr. Hamey, Mr. Alsop, Mr. Kenniston, Mr. Philip's, Mr. Wray, Mr. Murray, Mr. Pemberton, Mr. Whitaker, and many of the Faction about the Town? and if he had not frequented their Meetings? If he has, than he may justly be suspected; for these are most notorious persons amongst the Faction, who cannot love or endure to hear any speak well of His Majesty, or the present Government.  
Now I would fain know how Doyley could be so well acquainted with me, to know my name to be any other but Willoughby, and by what power he examined the Boy? and when he see me at the Tower? and how often?  
And how long he has had the counterfeit Guinney, and from whom? And how he came to attend the Council just that morning I was there? And if I mistake not, he has since declared, If I had not spoke to him, he would have said nothing to me: Why then should Mr. Doyley now pretend to produce the counterfeit Guinney against me?  
Or, why not when he see me in the Tower, or since? for he has met me divers times in the streets: Can this appear to be any more than envy in the highest, or some mercenary act of Mansell, or his Interest, to invalidate my testimony, and strengthen their design?  
Now, my Lords, I humbly conceive, that the Guinney being counterfeit, is Treason; and if Mr. Doyley knew me the author of it, it must also be Treason in him for concealing it thus long: for though he may have His Majesty's Commission to apprehend such, he is not to conceal, compound, or smuther any such crime, after twenty four hours, of himself, which he hath done in this.  
He also went divers times to one William Leigh, a prisoner in Newgate (and by him apprehended for clipping and coining) and offered to sue out his pardon for sixscore pounds, and he not be indicted for the crime; which had been done, had not some friend prevented, and so he would have done with divers others which were tried in Yorkshire.  
By all matters and things its clear as the Sun, they have stirred up all the firebrands could be thought of, to burn me with: but I know I am before a Just and Wise King, whom I humbly implore to inspect and consider my honest endeavours to do your Majesty service.   
Having given the Reader the Copy of his Instructions, I now proceed to Col. Mansell's part of the story more explicitly; where we shall see how exactly Mr. Dangerfield kept to them.   

The true manner of Mr. Dangerfield's leaving the Treasonable Papers in the Lodgings of Colonel R. Mansell.  

ON Wednesday October 15. 1679, Mr. Willoughby under the feigned name of Mr. Thomas (who the same day under the borrowed name of Mr. Day, had attempted the Lord Shaftsbury) came to the house of Mr. Alexauder Harris in Axe-yard in Kingstreet Westminster, and enquired for Lodgings; but because nothing would please him but the two rooms of one floor, and one pair of stairs high, of which the room forward was already disposed of, and of which the Gentleman in possession could not be dispossessed without his consent, which at that time could not through his absence be desired, Mr. Thomas for that time departed.  
He had then many Irons in the fire, and some of them if he were not very nimble, would cool; for he was not to take a step without advice from his great Masters; which having gotten, he returns, and on Friday Octob. 17. drives a bargain at first word for those two rooms, giving at first word whatever the Gentlewoman of the house asked; for a little money must not break the squares in an affair of this weight; Col. Mansells favour being obtained to remove one pair of stairs higher forward, that he might not hinder the house of so beneficial a Lodger as Mr. Thomas promised to be. When he came this day, the Gentlewoman of the house being abroad, he was conducted by a kinswoman into the room whither the Colonel was to remove, and there left to his own thoughts for about half an hour; in which time, it now appears by his own confession that he fixed the Troublesome and Treasonable Papers behind the bed's head. He promised to come that night with his friend, for whom he pretended to have taken the other room; but having advice to give what he had done, and advice to take how further to proceed, he came not till the next day, Saturday Octob. 18. when he enquired whether his Trunks were come? but they had heard of none. After much impertinent discourse, he departs a second time, promising to come to take possession the next night, for that night he could not, his friend being out of Town; yet he failed then also; but on Monday Octob. 20. he visited them, with short inquiries whether his Trunks were come; and being answered negatively, he once more disappears. On Tuesday night, having by that time gotten full instructions how to proceed, about ten of the clock at night he appears with one Captain Bedford in his company, who as he told the house, was that Friend for whom he had taken the other Lodging; and both lay in one bed in the room one pair of stairs forward.  
On Wednesday between seven or eight a clock in the morning, Col. Mansell being gone out about his occasions, came two Officers of the Custom-house, with a Constable, to search for prohibited or uncustomed Goods: They first went into the Chamber where Mr. Thomas and his friend lay, and from thence conducted by Mr. Thomas into the Colonel's Chamber, where they made a thorough search, breaking open the Colonel's Trunks and Boxes, examining the Bed-clothes, and at last after intimation given by Mr. Thomas, they proceeded to remove the Bed, which they did three foot from the Wall, but could find nothing, till Mr. Thomas went behind it, and there espied a Packet of papers (he that hides, can find) and presently asks, What's that there? Mr. Thomas with great haste snatches a paper out of the Officers hand, and ere he could have time to read the contents, cried out, Here's Treason. It was a list of names, some at length, others only with the initial letters. The searcher opening another paper, and beginning to read, Mr. Thomas again cries out, There's Treason against His Majesty, and therefore the papers (and the person upon whom they were found, had he been present) ought to be secured. The Officers knowing better what belong to their own Office, than that of a Justice of the Peace, take these papers, and carried them not to a Secretary of State (as Mr. Thomas charged them) but to their own Masters at the Custom-house, permitting a Gentlewoman there present, at the request of Mrs. Harris, to go along with them.  
Mrs. Harris being in a great perplexity at this unexpected and surprising seizure; yet lost not the use of her prudence, but sends her brother, and presently follows herself, to find out the Colonel at the sign of the Cat in St. Paul's Churchyard, where the Colonel left word at his going abroad, he might be spoke with at eleven of the clock; and she met him just going to the designed place.  
She relates him (all amazed) the whole of this affair; and out of her too great care for his safety, advised him to take Lodgings in the City, promising to convey to him the rest of his goods. But the Colonel's Innocency and Courage would not suffer him to follow the well-meant, but really ill counsel; for than his withdrawing had been a flight, his flight had proved his guilt, and his personal guilt had involved hundreds of innocent persons with him in the condemnation. He therefore answers, That he was not conscious to himself of any Treasonable Designs, and therefore would go to the Custom-house to know by what authority his Box was seized, and what was become of these pretended papers. Wither immediately he went.  
There he meets with one Mr. Bostock that had searched his Chamber; who informed him, That one Mr. Willoughby, the Monday before, came and informed of 2000 l. worth of Flanders silver and gold Lace, stowed in such a place; and this was the Contrivance of Mrs. Celliers own Mother-wit, who when Mr. Willoughby was at a loss how to proceed with the Colonel when he had fixed the Papers behind his bed, waving the old threadbare artifice of searching for arms, advised to make the discovery by the Officers of the Custom-house. But here Colonel Mansell understands that his Papers were all returned, all his own, and more than his own, the Treasonable ones to boot; and accordingly at his return he finds the Box restored, and the Papers lying on the Dresser, superscribed by the Master of the house, For Col. Mansell. These Papers he opens in the presence of Mr. Harris, Mrs. Harris, and Mrs. Orde; desiring them to take notice of them and their number, which was Nine; and desired, for more caution, Mr. Harris to put his mark on them, that he might more certainly know, and confidently own them to be the same when they should come to be examined before Authority; which he resolved they should presently be. In order to which, he carries them with him to advise with a Friend what to do in the case. Whose ready advice was, To go forthwith to a Secretary of State. This he endeavoured, but not finding my Lord Sunderland or any of his Clerks at the Office, nor Mr. Secretary Coventry or his Clerks in their Office, the Earl of Essex and Sir Henry Capel being also from home; he addressed himself to a worthy Gentleman, Mr. Justice Warcup, to whom he opened the whole affair; and having got together the Officers of the Custom-house, the Master and Mistress of the Colonel's Lodgings, and whatever other Evidence they then had; he was pleased to take their Depositions: Upon the whole matter it appeared to him, That it was a malicious design of this Mr. Thomas, and therefore granted out a Warrant for his apprehension; which being delivered to a Constable, this worthy Gentleman went along with him to Mr. Celliers, a French Merchant, and a Papist, where Mr. Willoughby now, and the St. Omers Boys formerly had lodged; where the Justice, Constable, and Warrant found him.  
As soon as Mr. Willoughby understood their errand, he cried out, Oh! this is Mr. Mansell's doing! What has he cried Whore first! but I have been this day with the King myself, and with Mr. Secretary Coventry, and have acquainted them with the business; so that I suppose there will be some to inquire for him ere his return. Col. Warcup answered him, That if he found Sureties to appear at the Council-board next morning by nine of the Clock, he should at present give him no further trouble. And Mr. Cellier the Frtnch Merchant, and an Apothecary entering into Recognizance for that end, he was bailed.  
Thursday Octob. 23. forenoon. That morning as the persons concerned attended the Council in the Lobby, Mr. Willoughby met with a very unhappy rencontre; who as he was going down the stairs of the Lobby, met with one Mr. Doyley an Officer belonging to the Mint, who had formerly known and prosecuted one Mr. Willoughby for disposing of false Guinnies, and Clipping of Money: Mr. Willoughby espying him, and being perhaps Conscious of his former Crimes, began to Curse without any Provocation, Damn and Sink him! what had Doyley to say to him? Threatening, that if he had him out of the Court, he would run him through; and that when ever he met him in Convenient place, he would be Revenged of him: Mr. Doyley was indeed Surprised at such course Language; and the more, because he knew a person of his Character could not have any Affairs that were good there.  
But my Lord Chief Justice North passing by towards the Council, and Overhearing the Repartees, Mr. Doyley made Application to his Lordship; and presently Mr. Justice Warcup was sent for in, and Ordered to take the Information of Mr. Doyley against Mr. Willoughby, with order to a Messenger to take Mr. Willoughby into Custody: Mr. Justice Warcup directs the messenger to take him to the Kings-head Tavern; whither as soon as the Council was risen, he promised to come: and during the stay there, Mr. Willoughby, (who had his Boy in Livery to wait on him, for his trade would have maintained it) Writes a Note, and directs it to Mrs. Cellier, to this purpose; That she should go to the Lord, and Lady Powis, and acquaint them that he was taken up, for the old business they knew of. This Note the Messenger would not suffer the Boy to Carry till he read the Contents of it, and then he dismissed him, who carried according to direction.  
This morning, the Council had the Affair of Mr. Dugdale before them, so that when Colonel Warcup had delivered in his Examinations taken the day before, about Mr. Willoughby, they were all Commanded to appear in the afternoon at four of the Clock.   

Thursday Oct. 23. Afternoon.  
MR. Willoughby was first called in, and presently coming forth, Colonel Mansell was called in, to whom the Lord Chancellor was pleased to say: What Correspondencies are these you hold? Here are Papers of dangerous Consequence, such as intimate the Levying of Men, and raising Rebellion against his Majesty! Here is also a List of men's Names whom you have Enlisted. The Colonel humbly replied, that he knew nothing of those Letters, and Papers; neither had he, or did, or ever would hold any Treasonable Correspondence with any person living. He humbly prayed the Favour of the Honourable Board, that he might be permitted to give an account how he came by the sight of those Papers, and then he did not Question but he should make it appear, that those Papers were designedly, and maliciously brought into his Chamber by Mr. Willoughby.  
Hereupon the Colonel gave to their Lordships, a full and clear, yet Concise Account of what he knew, or had been informed in, by Persons of the Family where he Lodged, and the Officers of the Custom-house: and being Commanded to call in his Witnesses, he accordingly did so  
Mr. Alexander Harris was first Sworn, who Witnessed, that the Papers before that Honourable Board, were the same left at his house for Colonel Mansel, by the Officer of the Custom-house.  
Mr. Stretch, and Mr. Bostock, were next Sworn, who deposed amongst other matters, That Mr. Willoughby having informed them of certain Prohibited Goods concealed in Ax-Yard, appointed them to come to him at Mr. Celliers House in Arundel-Buildings the last Monday; Wither being come, in order to the Search and Seizure, Mr. Willoughby told them he was not yet Ready, having not yet Lodged at his New Quarters; but would not Fail to be there that present Night, and therefore appointed them to come thither on Wednesday Morning. That at the time prefixed they came, and found Mr. Willoughby with his Friend in their Chamber; that Mr. Willoughby took him aside, and Whispered to him, that the Goods were in the Room above-head, and desired him to charge himself to Assist them: That after a narrow Search, finding no such Goods as were informed of, Mr. Willoughby pointed towards the Bed, which they drew out Three Foot from the Wall, and Searched with all Exactness; but still Mr. Willoughby pointing to the Beds-head, Mr. Stretch went once more behind the Bed, with a Candle; but with the same Success. At last Mr. Willoughby going behind the Beds-head alone, called to the Officers; What's that hangs there? Showing them a Packet of Papers, pinned to the Beds-Head. The Officer taking them down, Mr. Willoughby snatched one of them out of his Hand; and ere he could Read any thing, cried out, Here is Treason! The Officer taking another Paper, and reading it, there were Words to this Purpose: I wonder at your Delay, and that the Four Lords have left Us; for now the Old tyrant has declared himself a Papist! At which Words, Mr. Willoughby cried out; Ay, That's the King! That's the King, he means! Did not I tell you, these were Treasonable Papers? and that you ought to Secure them, and the Person too, if he had been here; and carry them either before the Council, or a Secretary of State? Mr. Stretch also swears, That these were the same Papers, that were taken from behind the Beds-head; and that he did verily believe, they were put there by Mr. Willoughby.  
It was now late; and the Council rising, ordered Mr. Willoughby to be Committed to a Messenger; and Colonel Mansel, with his Witnesses, to appear the next Day, at Four of the Clock in the Afternoon.   

Friday, Octob. 24. Afternoon, at the Council-Board.  
THe Council being met, Colonel Mansel put in his Humble Petition, That the rest of his Witnesses might be heard: Upon which His Majesty was pleased to order, That the Cause should be heard the next Council-Day.  
Mr. Willoughby moved, that till that time, he might stand upon Bail; but an Order was granted, That he should remain in the Messenger's Custody, as before: With which Order, the Messenger acquainted him very Civilly: But he stormed, and swore, He was confident, there was no such Order; for he knew, there were those within, that would not suffer him to be so treated. But the Messenger insisted upon his Order, and demanded his Sword; which he refused to deliver to him, but to another Messenger. However, Mr. Willoughby was safely Conducted to the Messenger's House.  
The Council that Night, after a short Recess, sat again; And his Majesty was graciously pleased, to appoint the colonel's Affair to be heard on Monday following, at Four in the Afternoon: And then a Motion he made, That Colonel Mansel should also be Committed; The Right Honourable, the Lord Chancellor opposed the Motion, and so it fell.   

Monday, Octob. 27, 1679. At the Council-Board.  
ABout Five or Six of the Clock, in the Afternoon, the Colonel, and Mr. Willoughby, were called in; where, after a short Repetion of the Charge against the Colonel, employed in the Papers, he prepared to make his Defence.  
Mr. Willoughby, having received Instructions fresh out of the Mint, in the Tower, addressed himself to his Majesty, with a peculiar Confidence; affirming, That there were Sixteen of these Papers found in his Chamber; and therefore, he desired to know, what was become of all the rest? As also, of the Box of Treasonable Printed Pamphlets, and Two or Three hundred Letters? Adding, that Mansel had got together a Company of Witnesses, to disparage the King's Evidence, and to palliate his own Treasonable Practices: And desired, he might have the Leave to ask the Colonel some Questions.  
It was granted; and Mr. Willoughby proceeded: Whether did not the Colonel frequent the Angel Club, behind the Exchange, and divers others in the City? Whether he did not keep a Club of his own, at one Streets, a Tallow-Chandler's House, in the Marketplace, Westminster? Whether he did not know one Disney, Grange, England, L'isle, and one Capt. Brown? Whether he did not bring into his Club one Night, a scandalous Pamphlet, called, A Word without Doors; and there publicly read it? And afterwards, used Treasonable Words against his R. Highness? The Colonel owned, that he knew many of the Gentlemen by him mentioned; but that they were all very honest Gentlemen, and Loyal Subjects; and all of them Inhabitants of Westminster, saving only Capt. Brown; who had been Lieutenant to Major Russel's Troop of Horse, in his R. Highness' Regiment: But all Treasonable Discourses with them, or any other, he utterly disavowed; and was thereupon commanded to call the rest of his Witnesses.  
Mr. Harris, and Mrs. Harris, first appeared; who witnessed, as before, That the Number of the Papers (contrary to Mr. Willoughby's Allegation) were not Sixteen, but Nine.  
Mr. Bostock confirmed the same; and further, That those Papers, then before the Honorable-Board, were the same Papers found behind the Beds-head; And that he did verily believe, Mr. Willonghby had placed them there.  
Mr. Stretch being Sick, appeared not; but his Depositions were read, tending to the same Effect.  
Colonel Mansel then produced a Record, to prove, That Mr. Willoughby had been Indicted, at an Assize held at Salisbury, for the County of Wilts, in Three Indictments, for uttering Counterfeit Guinnties to three several Persons. That upon his Trial, he confessed all the Indictments; and was Fined Five Pound, upon each Indictment; and further Sentenced, to stand in the Pillory, he broke the Goal, ran away, and escaped the Execution of the Third.  
The Lord Chancellor, and the Lord Precedent, asked Mr. Willoughby, What he Can say for himself? Who denied, that ever he had been at Salisbury in all his Life. His Majesty was pleased to ask him, Whether he would take his Oath, that he was never there? He readily answered, That he would not only take his Oath, but take the Sacrament upon it also! The Lord President replied; What, will you swear against a Record? Here's a Record brought in against you! Yet he persisted to deny, that he was ever there.  
Capt. Bedford, his Friend, was then called in; who gave a full Relation, how Mr Willoughby came to him on Tuesday Night before, to desire him to Lodge with him at his New-Lodgings. He confirmed the Evidence of Mrs. Harris, and the rest, as to the manner of Searching the colonel's Chamber, and the finding of the Papers: Adding, further; That going to Mr. Cellier's House, to speak with Mr. Willoughby, he told him what an Evil Thing he had done, not only to the Colonel, but himself, to engage him in so vile a Business, which now was so clearly laid open: And therefore, desired him to discover the whole Truth, and who had Engaged him in it. To which Mr. Willoughby replied; Pish! I doubt not to come off; for the Greatest Man in England, has engaged me in it. To which Capt. Bedford rejoined, Whom do you mean, The King? Ay! said Mr. Willoughby, The King! And further; That he understood, that Mr. Willoughby held Correspondence with the Lord Powis, in the Tower; and that he had seen the Lady Powis her Coach, on Saturday before, standing before Mr. Willoughby's Lodgings.  
Mr. Doyley was the next Witness called in, who Deposed, that he had Prosecuted the said Willoughby at two several Sessions held in the Old-Bayley, for Clipping of Money, and Vending of False Guinnies. Mr. Willoughby being Asked what he could say to that? Answered, That he had been twice there Prosecuted, by the said Mr. Doyley, but all was out of pure malice. He confessed that he had been Fined Fifty Pounds for the First Offence; and for the Second, had obtained His Majesty's Gracious Pardon; so that he hoped those Matters should not be remembered against him. The Right Honourable the Earl of Essex, demanding of him, Who had Solicited His Majesty for his Pardon? He Answered, Capt. Richardson had put his Name into a Pardon, for which he gave him Three Guinnies.  
Capt. Richardson was then Examined, who upon his Oath, Witnessed, That he had this Mr. Willoughby in his Custody two Sessions: That the first time his Fine was remitted, and he Discharged: That the second time, he had put his Name into His Majesty's Newgate-Pardon; but that he never received any Guinnies from him, upon such account; and indeed, he believed he was then not worth a Guinney. That he never had a more Notorious Rogue in his Custody; who, during the time of his Imprisonment, was always contriving Mischief, and creating Disturbance amongst the Prisoners. That whilst he was there, he had practised Forgery. That in or about last May, one Mrs. Celliers, a Roman Catholic, and a Midwife, whom he had observed to come to the Prison, to Visit and Relieve the Papists then in his Custody, committed upon the account of the late Plot, paid Ten Pounds for the Discharge of the said Willoughby, rigged him out in handsome Apparel, and so took him away: Of which he took such particular Notice, That he acquainted Mr. Justice Warcub what Mrs. Celliers had done; and that this Willoughby was a dangerous Person, and desired him to keep an eye upon him. That he had observed the said Willoughby, at Sir George Wakeman's Trial, to take Notes, and that he carried them to the Lord Powis in the Tower. And Mr. Doyley further Witnessed, that he saw the said Willoughby in the Lord Powis his Lodgings, the day after the said Trial; where he heard him vilifying Dr. Oats, and Captain Bedlow, and the rest of the King's Evidence.  
Afterwards, one Smith (Mr. Willoughby's Footboy) was Examined; who testified, That he was sent with a Message, and a Note from his Master, then in the Messenger's Hand, to Mrs. Cellier, desiring her, to acquaint the said Lord Powis, That he was taken into Custody for the old business he knew of. That for two Months before, he had Lodged in the Lord Powis his house in Queens-Street. That he had several times waited on his Master to the Lord Powis his Lodgings in the Tower, which described to be in the Mint; that he had road behind the Coach, to attend his Master thither: That he had several times carried Letters or Papers from his Master, to the said Lord Powis; and brought Answers back again to his Master. And lastly, that the Lady Powis had several times been at his Master's Lodgings at Mrs. Celliers; and that particularly on Saturday was seven-night, the said Lady had been with his Master in a Tower-Room, in private discourse with him alone, above half an hour.  
The Lord Chancellor was then pleased to ask Mr. Willoughby, whither he had been at the Lord Shaftsburies'. To which he Answered, That he had been several times with him, and had Discourses with his Lordship; some of which he there Rehearsed. To which the Lord Chancellor replied, You are a fine Fellow; first to come to His Majesty, and there to tell him one Story: Then to the Lord Powis; and from thence to my Lord Shaftsburies'; discovering to one, what Discourse you held with the other: And thus brought one Story to the Council, another to the Earl of Shaftsbury.  
All were commanded to Withdraw, there being no need of the Testimony of the rest of the Colonels Witnesses in a Matter so plain and clear. And presently a Warrant was issued out from the Council-Board, to Commit the said Mr. Willoughby to Newgate, where he now remains, in his old Quarters; and an Order was given for his Prosecution, to the Mr. Attorney General.   

Wednesday, Octob. 29. 1679.  
THis day Sir William Waller, whose known Activity, and Zeal for the Service of His Majesty, and the Protestant Religion, did never yet abate; upon some information, thought it Expedient to make a through Search in the House of Mrs. Cellier, if perhaps something might be further discovered, to give Light to this Mystery of Iniquity; where he found that Book, containing the Rudiments of their designed Plot upon the Protestants; which has been already Exemplifyed: And I shall only now, give the Copy of the Examination of a Maid-Servant, in the House, which was as follows.  

The Examination of Anne Blake, Servant to Mrs. Cellier, taken on Oath before Sir William Waller, the 29th. October, 1679.  
THis Examinant saith, that Mrs. Cellier delivered into her Custody two parcels of papers, desiring her to lay them up for her, so as they might not be discovered, or words to that effect: And that in obedience to her Mistress' commands, this Examinant hide one parcel of Papers behind the Pewter in the Kitchen, and the other parcel wrapped up in a sheet of white paper, amongst which was a little Paper-book tied with red Ribbons, which for the better security was hid in a Tub of Meal, both which parcels were seized by Sir William Waller: This Examinant further saith, that one Lane was this day, at the said Mrs. Cellier's House to speak with her; and further this Examinant saith not at present.  
Cap. & Jurat. coram William Waller. The Mark of Anne Blake.    

Saturday November 1. 1679. At the Council Chamber in White-Hall.  
THis day the Right Honourable the present Lord Mayor came to White-Hall, and delivered to His Majesty, or to His Right Honourable Privy Council the Information of Thomas Dangerfield given upon Oath before his Lordship, an Extract whereof the Reader hath already had in these Papers, as the Particulars referred to the matters discoursed of.  
This day also several other Persons were examined before the Lords of the Council as followeth.  
Susan Edward's Servant-Maid to Mrs. Cellier, who lives in Arundel-Street being sworn, says:  

That she carried the two little Papers which were showed her to Mr. Willoughby, in Newgate, with Twenty Shillings in Silver, and a Guinney; and two Books of Accounts, that he might be perfect in them, and that he looked on the one, and not on the other, and that on Tuesday Night last, she carried a Message to the said Mr. Willoughby, from her said Mistress. That her life was in his hands.  
And that the Lady Powis had been thrice at Mrs. Cellier's House in five week's time, that she had lived there, and that once the said Lady Powis had there spoken with the said Mr. Willoughby.  
The Mark of the said Susan Edward's.   
Note, that the little Papers mentioned in this Information, are these. 

PAPER I.  
I have said you were taken into my House to get in Desperate Debts: They bring me to L. S. They will ask me who encouraged me to go to him? I will say, it was you! It cannot worst you.    

PAPER II.  
I never change.  
  
Then was Mr. Dangerfield alias Willoughby further examined, and to his Information before the Lord Mayor he made the following Additions.  
That he had Orders to burn all Papers.  
That all the Lords in the Tower gave him money; One a Guinney; Another Thirty Shillings; One half a Guinney, Others Fifteen or Sixteen Shillings, and desired him to go to Turner to print his Remarks on the Trials: There were others who wrote short Hand, and his remarks were put amongst theirs.  
When Lane lay at Powis-House, that Lord advised he should be sent out of the way, for said the Lord Powis, Oates searches for him, and if he be found at my House, 'twould Ruin us all.  
That Mr. Stamford, the Newburg-Agent, and Mrs. Celier walked together in Lincolns-inn-Walkes, to discourse of Sir George Wakeman's escape, and that the Informant found them there; and Stamford did then show him the Copy of a paper, that had been posted up at Sir George Wakeman's Door, importing a Menace, Though he had escaped at his Trial. That he saw Sir George at Stamford's House, in whose own Room he lay; and Sir George told him, he was there fain to abscond for fear. And that he had five hundred Pounds by the Queen's order for his Transportation.  
That the Informant advised him first to buy a small Boat for thirty or forty Pounds, to carry him over: then proposed the passing in one of the Chaloupes that used to transport Wool. That Sir George liking the same, went down to Rumney-Marsh, proposing first to go in his Calash, and pass for a Frenchman, and to take the Informant with him, to return with advice of his Success, but that he did not do. That being with a Friend in Rumney-Marsh, he writ up for new advice to Mr. Stamford, and the Informant hearing thereof, advised that one should go over, and bring a Chaloup from Calais, to take him in, about six miles from Dover, which accordingly took Effect, and he escaped to Newport.  
That Dormer did write, The tranfforming of Traitors into Martyrs; That Gadbury had writ a Ballad, and several other Pamphletts.  
That being brought to the D. with the Paper he had received from the Lady Powis, the D. knew not but that it was real, and said it seemed considerable.  
That when he first returned from the Lord Shaftsbury and gave Mrs. Cellier an account of the disappointment of the matter for that time, Mr. Cellier the Husband was present.  
That he had twenty Guinneys from the D's. own Royal Hand, when he came at another time to him about the Plot.  
That when he went the second time to the Lord Shaftsbury, if God had not prevented, he had certainly stabbed him, intending to have put out the Candle, and under pretence to go down to light it, give it to one of the Servants, and then escape. That his Lordship refusing to speak to him alone, but would have his Servant by, did prevent it.  
He says they were angry that he did not make Oath, as Secretary Coventry required him, before he would give him a Warrant to Search. And that having pined the Letters on Mansells Bed, he was ordered by the Lords to go and tell the King thereof, lest the Customhouse Messengers should have concealed them.  
That When he was put into Custody, Mrs. Cellier sent presently to one wigs an Attorney to get him out by Habeas Corpus.  
That the Lord Powis bid him follow his Lady's Advice, and consult with Turner his Priest, and be sure what his Lady advised came from him, and the rest of the Lords in the Tower.  
He did acknowledge the two Books to be his Handwriting, whereof one was found in the Meal-Tubb, and said that the Lady Powis, did declare all those Names with her own Mouth.  
That it was a while after Sr. George Wakeman was transported, that the Lord Arundel spoke to him in the Lord Powis' Bedchamber about Killing the King.  
That in his ordinary Discourse with Mrs. Cellier, the King went by the name of the Lady Mary, and the Duke by the Name of the Lady Anne, by agreement between them.   

The same Day. Afternoon.  
Mrs. Cellier being sent for out of the Gatehouse, and examined upon the Information of Willoughby, alias Dangerfield, Said.  
That he had for some time lain at her House. That she having Money to distribute at the Prisons. Willoughby begged there of her, and she collecting three Pound ten Shillings, got him released. That her Husband having great Debts due to him, which looked desperate, he was employed in recovery of the same, and was to have six Shillings in the Pound for what he could get in: and besides she employed him to Bail out two or three Prisoners, and that was all which Willoughby did for her. She denies she paid either twenty Pound or five Pound to get him out. That she never sent him of any Errand to the Tower.  
That being troubled in her House with Sr. William Waller's Searches, she obtained leave to be at the Lady Powis' House, and Willoughby's Lodgings at the Goat, being troublesome also, he was desired to go and be at this Examinants' House with her Husband. That she never saw Willoughby and the Lady Powis at her House speaking together but once.  
That she did not write to Willoughby at his late being in Newgate. But when the Note was shown her, with a Seal thereon, and some Crosses on the Paper, and these words I never change, she confessed the same.  
She pretended Ignorance also of another Paper, Importing what excuse Mr. Willoughby should make, but that also being produced, she could not deny that it was her Hand.  
She said she knew not of any Design to kill the Lord Shaftsbury, but that being told her House was to be searched, she did go to the said Earl on Monday was seven-night, and he gave her a kind Answer.  
She says she never employed Willoughby to draw Articles against Capt. Richardson, but yet confessed she had seen some he had drawn himself.  
Willoughby was here called in to Confront her, who acquainted the Board: That about the latter end of March Mrs. Cellier enquiring of Mrs. White for a man of desperate Nature, she named him: That he was first employed by Mrs. Cellier to draw Articles against Cap. Richardson: That she sent by her Maid three Pounds ten Shillings, in order to get him out, and afterwards more, near five Pounds. That he Was arrested immediately and carried to the Counter; that Mrs. Celliers Maid brought him there fifty Shillings, and by the means of Bannister, and Scarlett, he was removed to the Kings-Bench: there he was visited by her with Bannister, she commended his looks, gave him twenty Shillings, and so much afterward per week. She ordered him to observe the motions of Strode, who was there in Prison, to get those Papers from him, which concerned Bedlow.  
That he was advised by Hitton a Priest, and others to put Opium in Strode's Drink, in order to search him when fast asleep for Papers. That Margaret, Mrs. Celliers Maid, brought him Opium, from her Son's in Law, Blasdell the Apothecary; that Mounson told him how to use it, and to drink Brandy with him in the Cellar, with which Strode was only drowsy: that a double Dose was sent, which he put for him into a Tankard of small Beer, but it tasting bitter, and he being grown jealous, fling Tankard, and all upon the Ground; he says also, that Mounson gave him leave to drink and be drunk too, as a thing lawful for the good of the Catholic Cause.  
Mr. Willoughby continued to make a Repetition of his whole Information, wherein Mrs. Cellier was concerned, to which she answers by denial of all, falling down on her Knees, beseeching his Majesty, she might not be tortured; for what ever she should say by reason of Torture, then that she said at present, would be false.  
She denies to know any thing of Mr. Sharp the Priest at Wild-house, she owns to have seen Willoughby at Mass, but never at Confession.  
Willoughby speaking of his Papers, said; that at Mrs. Celliers he had from the Lady Powis, the List of the Councillors, and that it came from the Tower: that two thirds of that Book came from the Lady Powis, and the rest of the Information from Capt. Bedford.  
Mrs. Cellier Confesses at last that she hide the Papers in the Meal-Tub, but it was his desire: she acknowledges she did give him caution to call the King Lady Mary, and the Duke, the Lady Anne.  
Willoughby says, that Knowles the Priest, and Sharp, advised him, on all occasions to stand firm to what he undertook, and that he would thereby merit Heaven.  
Mrs. Cellier, acknowledges the business of calculating Willoughby's Nativity, but that Gadburie's Papers made it appear that Willoughby was to be hanged.  
Then was the Lady Powis called in, and examined upon the Information of Mr. Dangerfield, who generally denies all: That she sent any Letter to Mounson in the King's Bench: That Margaret ever carried any Letter from her, to get the Papers out of Strode's hands; or that she gave Mr. Willoughby thanks for his diligence therein: She denies that she has seen him above three times in her life: That she had any Letter from Mr. Jeane at Peterley by Willoughby.  
Yet acknowledges she paid Mrs Cellier ten Shillings per week for Mr. Willoughby's Diet.  
She says that his Lodging at Powis House, was without her knowledge.  
She owns, that about a Fortnight since she called at Mrs. Celliers, that Mr. Willoughby came into the Room where she was, which was the only time she conversed with him there; and then he told her of some Treasonable Letters hid at Westminster, and that the Secretary had refused him a Warrant to search for them without making an Affidavit. And that then Mrs. Cellier had advised him to make use of the Customhouse Officers to search for them.  
She knows nothing of Colonel Mansfield, nor of any Papers put by Willoughby into his Chamber; nor never gave him fifteen Papers, and a List of Names, nor mentioned any Scrivener to him to Copy any Papers: She knows not she had any occasion to advise him to burn his Papers.  
She denies giving him any Instructions, and knows nothing of his going to the Earl of Shaftsbury. She saw him in the Stone-Gallery, but was not within distance of speaking to him: She never heard of any proposition of Willoughby's killing the King: She abominates the thoughts, or mention of any such wickedness; and denies she ever spoke of his neglecting any opportunity, as to the King, or the Lord Shaftsbury, and denies that Willoughby evet told her he had been in a Room with the King alone.  
Mr. Wood being examined, says, he knows Willoughby, and has seen him at Mrs. Celliers, and other Places, but never at the Tower: When Willoughby dined with the Lord Powis' Servants there, he was from home; he owns he paid Mrs. Cellier twenty pound for the Prisoners; but denies he brought Willoughby any money for Lane.  

MIDDLESEX and WESTMINSTER.  
The Information of Mrs. Jane Bradley of Westminster Widow, taken upon Oath, this First Day of November, 1679. Before me Edmond Warcup Esquire, one of His majesty's Justices of the Peace, in the said County, and City.  
THis Informant saith, that upon a Saturday about three weeks ago, one Thomas Curtice late of Lancashire, now in, or about London, came to Heaven, where this Informant lives, and as she was lighting him out of doors, he told her, that he heard there were Commissions giving forth, and that Mr. Blood had the giving them out, and added, that if he could get one of them, it would be Five thousand pounds in his way; and that this Informant should have part of it; whereupon this Informant asked him, what way he propounded to get one of them? who answered by Captain Brown, who was one of his Countrymen, with whom he was acquainted: Sometime after which, the said Thomas Curtice, brought the said Captain Brown to the same House, but they than discoursed nothing of the business in her hearing: but this Informant did, and doth apprehend, that the said Curtice meant that those Commissions, were to be given out against the King. And she further saith, that she sent for Mr. Blood, and acquainted him with the said Discourse, who answered 'twas very well done, to tell him thereof, but there was no such thing in being; and about a week after, Mr. Blood gave this Informant a broad piece of Gold, saying you are a poor woman, and directed her to know as much as she could of the matter; and accordingly this Informant did inquire of the said Curtice about the 5000 l. but could get nothing out of him, more than that he was well assured of the 5000 l. And she further saith, that Mr. Blood, and Captain Brown, had been at Heaven, together; before that time; and she remembers that she did tell the said Brown, that one Lawton, one Pember, and one Tresby were acquainted with the said Curtice, and she heard the said Lawton, was a Priest-taker. And further saith not at present.  
Jurat. Die, & Anno supradict. coram me Edm. Warcup. Jane Bradley.   

The said Jane Bradley doth further say upon her Oath, that the last time she spoke to the said Thomas Curtice, which was when he fetched a straw-hat from Heaven, she said unto him words to this effect: When is it that we must get the 5000 l? to which he answered: I will not meddle in it; it troubles my conscience, and it were but treachery in me if it were done, and it is to no purpose, to meddle in it, for there is a List found out, or to that effect.  
Jurat. Die, & Anno supradict. coram me Edm. Warcup. Jane Bradley.    

Sunday, November 2. 1679. At the Council-Board.  
1. John Gadbury being examined, saith, he hath seen Willoughby once or twice at his House with Mrs. Cellier, and that he believes he may have cast his Nativity, by the name of Thomas, at the desire of Mrs. Cellier, and two more Nativities for her two Daughters. He says, that looking upon Willoughby's Horoscope, it prognosticates a bold and adventurous man; but does not remember, that he said to Mrs. Cellier, that he would be hanged; but it's possible he might. That he cast likewise the Lord Powis' Nativity, as he doth that of all Persons of Quality, the certain time of whose Birth he can be assured of.  
2. Matthew Hopkinson a Scrivener over against , acknowledges, that he transcribed a List of Names, and a Letter of Mr. Willoughby's, in a Room, two pair of stairs high; but he does not remember, that it was out of a woman's hand.  
And the List, and Letter being showed to him, he owned them to be his hand-writing.  
3. Sir James Buttler, owned the taking of an Affidavit, of Lane, about Buggery charged upon Mr. Oates, and that a woman came with the said Lane to him.  
4. Thomas Jolly the Tailor, being sworn, says, he carried a Letter, from Mrs. Cellier to the Lady Powis, and brought back an Answer, Mr. Willoughby being then present. That he hath seen Mr. Willoughby half a dozen times at Mrs. Celliers.  
Upon the full hearing of these several Informations and Examinations, we have this public account of the result of the Council.  
White-hall, November 2. Mr. Thomas Dangerfield, alias Willoughby, having been examined the 27 th'. passed by the Lords of His majesty's Privy-Council, concerning certain dangerous and treasonable Papers, seized in Colonel Roderick Mansel's Chamber, which it appeared to their Lordships, had been by him conveyed thither, was thereupon by Order of the Board, committed to Newgate, and having since given in an Information, to the Lord Mayor of London, of several treasonable practices against His majesty's Person, and Government; and of his having been prevailed with by several of the Popish Religion to counterfeit the  Papers and Letters, by which divers Noblemen, and other Protestants were to have been brought under a suspicion of carrying on a Plot, against His majesty's Government. And the said Information being yesterday morning brought to His Majesty by the Lord Mayor, and by His Majesty sent to the Council-Board, Mr. Dangerfield was sent for, and further examined by their Lordships; who thereupon the last Night, committed the Earl of Castlemain to the Tower, and Mrs. Cellier to Newgate; and did this day likewise commit Mr. Gadbury to the Gatehouse, and Mr. Rigaut to Newgate, several other Persons accused, being in the Custody of His majesty's Messenger; and their Lordships have appointed the further Examination of this Matter on Tuesday next.   

Novemb. the 2d. the same day.  

1. The Deposition of William Woodman, taken upon Oath on the 2d. of Novemb. 1679. before the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.  
Who saith, That he hath known Mr. Willoughby, at the Lord Powis his House, for about Two Month's time, and that he hath seen him and Mrs. Cellier, writ there very often. That he carried a Packet of Letters from Mr. Willoughby, or Mrs. Cellier, to the Lady Powis at the Tower, and that her Ladyship opened the Packet, and read some of the Letters, and gave others to him the said Woodman, who carried them to one Nevile, in the Kings-Bench, and that he hath carried Letters divers times between Mrs. Cellier, and Mr. Willoughby and Nevile.  
William Woodman.   

2. The Information of Mary Ayray, taken upon Oath, the 2d. day of Novemb. 1679. before the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.  
This Informant saith upon her Oath, That she went with Willoughby and Duddell to Nevile in the Kings-Bench, and left Willoughby at a Coffee-house by the way, and carried a Sheet of Notes taken at Langhorne's Trial, which Willoughby writ, but was given her by Mrs. Cellier, to carry to Nevile: And she saith she carried a Letter from Nevile to Mrs. Cellier, and a Letter from Mrs. Cellier to the Lady Powis; she has also seen Sing, with Mrs. Cellier, and she has seen Willoughby write the Speeches of the Five Jesuits, the which Mrs. Cellier did dictate to him: And saith also, That she has seen Lane at Powis-House, who went by the name of Johnson; and that Mrs. Cellier ordered him to be called by that Name. This Informant also saith that she went with my Lady Abergaveny last Winter, to the Earl of Shaftsbury, about her being Indicted as a Popish Recusant, but has not been at any other time since with the Earl of Shaftsbury; but knows nothing of the Earl of Shaftsbury's being threatened to be killed by the Lady Abergaveny: And saith, That Mr. Nevile did bid her tell my Lady Powis, that he would write to his Friend.  
Marry Ayray.   

3. The Information of Bennett Duddell a Joiner, Taken upon Oath before His Majesty in Council: Nou. 2. 1679.  
The Informant saith, That he hath wrought at Powis House, and hath there seen Mr. Willoughby; that he went with Mrs. Ayray, to see one in Prison, in the Kings-Bench, but knew not that his Name was Nevile, that Mr. Willoughby stayed in the mean time at a Coffee-house thereby. He saith, that when they returned, they brought some Papers with them, and that soon after Mrs. Ayray went to the Tower. That he hath at Powis House seen Mr. Willoughby, Mrs. Cellier, and others often Writing: He remembers that one Mr. Lane lay there in the House, and that Mrs. Cellier was once in great fear, when she thought that Lane was lost. He doth remember that Mr. Willoughby did once ask him, if he could make a Hand-Press, in order to Printing, and he made answer, he would ask the Lord Powis and his Lady, if he might make such a thing: He says he went Once or Twice, with Mrs. Ayray to the Gatehouse; who went with money to the Prisoners: But the reason of his being the more with Mrs. Ayray, was by the reason of a Match proposed by Mrs. Cellier, between him and her: That in Powis House there is a private place made by him, and by the Lady Powis Order: Sworn before the King in Council.  
Bennett Duddell.    

Tuesday Novemb, 4th. 1679.  
His Majesty sat in Council, in the Afternoon, to Examine further into the Discovery made by Thomas Dangerfield, alias Willoughby.  
1. The Lady Powis was called in, to whom the Deposition of Woodman being read, her Ladyship said:  
That to her knowledge she never had Packet from Willoughby, or ever sent a Packet to Nevile: That she has had several Letters from Mrs. Cellier, and perhaps she may have given at sometime a Packet to her Ladyship's Boy, written from some body else. That her Ladyship never went to see Nevile at the Kings-Bench, but going thither to see the Lady Gage, some body pointed to Nevile as he was at the Window, and once before that she thinks she saw him elsewhere: That she never had Letter from Nevile, though perhaps she might have had one from Willoughby.  
2. To the Deposition of Duddell, she saith:  
That it is true, one Mr. Ayray did bring to the Tower some Remarks upon Langborn's Trials; but she never saw any thing brought from Nevile at the Kings-Bench.  
3. To the Deposition of Susan Edwards, she saith:  
That though she had been at Mrs. Celliers, she never had once alighted out of her Coach to have Discourse with Mr. Willoughby.  
4. To the Deposition of Mrs. Ayray, she saith (as before)  
That she never brought her Ladyship any Message from Mr. Nevile.  
5. To the Deposition of Jolly a Tailor, her Ladyship says:  
That she had Two or Three short Notes from Mr. Willoughby, as also a great Packet of Papers brought by Jolly from him, but looking them over, she found them very Insignificant things; that once or twice she had some short Notes from Willoughby, but was much surprised to receive them.  
She affirms, That Willoughby never told her of his having been alone with the King; though she was indeed told it by Mrs. Cellier: But for any such answer, as to lament that he was not then prepared to kill the King: She never gave it, and abhors any such thoughts, having never heard of any such thing, or any other Treason in her life.  
That for Willoughby's Lodging so long at her House, all the Servants are able to testify, that it was without her knowledge, and when she came there, he still endeavoured to keep out of her sight.  
Willoughby said, That after he was Taken, Mrs. Cellier went to her Ladyship to the Tower, to frame an execuse touching 40 s. that should have been lent him by one of her Ladyship's Servants.  
Her Ladyship answered, It's true; Mrs. Cellier came to her about some contrivance of a Story about 40 s. to be owing to one of her Servants, but her Ladyship chid her severely, and told her she would keep no Servant that could be guilty of such a thing. Her Ladyship added, That she never saw Willoughby but Twice.  
Mrs. Cellier being called in, and asked, Whether she had not been at the Tower with the Lady Powis, to frame some excuse against Willoughby? She flatly denied the same; but being told that the Lady Powis had even newly owned it: She then confessed, That on Thursday Seven-night, she was there, and told her Ladyship how her Husband, and her Son, were bound for Willoughby 's appearance, when Justice Warcup came, and took him from her House.  
That Willoughby did indeed advise her to say something touching Money due to a Servant of the Lady Powis; but that her Ladyship hearing thereof, was displeased at it: Then she rails at Willoughby.  
And being told of her Industry to get Willoughby 's Nativity Cast: She said that Willoughby having desired the same, she got Mr. Gadbury to do it: But Mr. Willoughby affirmed, that Mrs. Cellier sent her Maid Margaret, whilst he was in Prison, for the time of his Birth; and that he did not understand for what intent it was.  
Mr. Edward Bedford, was then called in, who referred himself to the Account he had given of his Correspondence with Mr. Willoughby, by Information to Mr. Justice Warcup.  
And further saith, That he went about with Mr. Willoughby to several Clubs.  
That he went with him also to Thompson in Fetter-Lane, who was then Printing the Presbyterian Unmasked: That Mr. Willoughby has brought with him to the Coffeehouse, Papers fresh, and wet from the Press: That Mr. Willoughby went to pay Moneys to Mr. Dormer in St. John's: That Mr. Willoughby enquired of him after Clubs; and that he nameing the Kings-head Club, thither they went, and would have got a List of the Names, but the Drawer refused. The like happened at another place; but at the Green Dragon they got a list of about 60. Names of such as used to meet there.  
Afterwards they went to the Sun and Ship Taverns, to inquire if the D. of Monmouth had not been there the Night before his departure.  
That Willoughby told him, How by Gadbury's means he was acquainted with Sir R. Peyton, and by him was getting into the Kings-Head Club, but that Sir Robert dissuaded him upon the account of the Charge, for that they did sometimes make a Purse of One or Two Guinies a Man, about special service.  
That Mr. Willoughby lay for a time at the Goat near Exeter-House, and that going with him once thence to drink Cock-Ale, it so flew up into Willoughby's head, that going to a Coffee-house, he raised a great Quarrel there, about a word relating to Sir Thomas Player; the matter of which had been heard by Mr. Secretary Coventry. That Willoughby showed him a Paper called the State of the Three Kingdoms; that Willoughby told him, that the Lord Shaftsbury, Dr. Tongue, Sir William Waller, etc. had private meetings about Fox-Hall about the Plot, and that it was there hatched by them: That Willoughby had Lodgings at Mrs. Celliers, and lamented once unto him his wanting of 20 l. for some great design. That he had been at the Lord Clarendon's, whom Mr. Willoughby complained of as a dilatory man.  
Willoughby asked Bedford, If at their being together in Clifford's Inn Garden, he did not receive from him a gift of 40. s. And if he did not discourse to him so, and so, Concerning the D. of York, and of the D. of Lauderdale, and about Scotland? And touching 300 Horse that were to be raised by Sir William Waller?  
Bedford denies any Gift of 40 s. in the Garden, but that he borrowed 40 s. from him at two other times. That he never spoke to him of either of these Dukes, or of Scotland: And as to the 300 Horse, he has given an Account of that Matter to a Minister of State.  
Willoughby replied, That as to this of the 300 Horse, he spoke it also to Mr. Stanford, the D. of Newburgh's Agent, who if called upon, was able to testify the same.  
Mr. Secretary Coventry telling Willoughby, That he had affirmed how two thirds of the Names mentioned in his Paper-book, were dictated to him, by the Lady Powis, which he again affirming, was ordered to Mark the said Names with a Cross in the Margin, which accordingly was done by him.  
Mr. Justice Warcup coming in, acquainted the Board, That Mr. Cellier and his Son in Law Blasden the Apothecary, did both attend: But that there were yet wanting the Examinations of some of their Servants: Upon which the Lord Precedent directed him to take those Examinations.  
Blasden called in and Sworn, saith, That Margaret brought him a Note for Opium, to cause rest, but he refusing to follow that direction, he mixed something that was less dangerous, which the Maid afterwards told him was so weak, that it signified nothing; and therefore ordered him to mix somewhat a great deal stronger.  
Mr. Cellier being asked about the Paper of the Nativity, saith, He read it not himself, but that his Daughter read it to him. He remembers only something of Prophecy, or a Man's Fortune. That there were in it, the words Horoscope, Venus, Mercury, etc. That the man should be hanged the latter end of his life; but he knows no more of it, or of whom it was, but that he burned the Paper, and owns that he is a Roman Catholic and a French Merchant.  
But Mr. Blasden, in whose House the Paper was read, says it set forth; How that his adventure should be very various, and that he should come before some judge, and be in danger in a Sea-Fight.  
Willoughby asked Cellier if he did not remember, when in the presence of his Wife, He said he was then come from the Lord Shaftsbury. This he denies, and also that he heard any Discourse extraordinary between Willoughby and Rigaut; but that Rigaut had supped twice at his House, and Willoughby and he played at some Game together. He denies also, That he saw any Dagger in his House, or that ever any was hid under his Bedside. He acknowledgeth to have seen the Lady Powis at his House, but not six times.  
But Mr. Blasden says, He has seen her Ladyship's Coach a dozen times, which he can see plain from his Shop; but does not remember to have seen her Ladyship go into Mr. Cellier's above twice.  
The Lord P. is called in, and having been told what was objected against him, as having encouraged Mr. Willoughby at Gadbury's House, to go again to the Lord Shaftsbury, and to be sure to dispatch him the third time: His Lordship flatly denies any such thing, and then in a large discourse, Appeals to the known Method of his Life and Conversation, his constant Services to the Crown, and how little he is concerned in this matter, as being known by all good Men not to be capable of such a thing: That as to the Earl of Shaftsbury, he came lately over with great expectation of his aid and favour in Parliament, touching an unhappy difference arisen with a great Ally (meaning his Son-in-Law's Father) and that the Earl of Shaftsbury, had already testified so much Countenance in this matter, that he came over full of Inclinations to do that Lord greater Services than he can well express.  
That before his Daughter was disposed of in Marriage, than a very Noble Lady, The Lady Powis, who had testified very great Inclinations, to have her married to her Ladyship's Nephew: Upon which Obligation, he then grew Intimate with the said Lady; and being a person that is not wont to forget his friends in their afflictions, had often gone to that Lady to give her the best Comfort he could. That waiting on her Ladyship, when he came lately from Flanders, she recommended to him just at parting, a very charitable Woman, one Mrs. Cellier, unto whom the late Duchess of York was a Debtor in 5 or 600 l. That his Lordship being one of the Duke's Commissioners, did promise to further her business: That in further recommendation of this Woman, the Lady added, That she was a great Servant to the Duke, and also to the King: and also being a Woman of great Understanding, and getting acquaintance, by her opportunity of being a Midwife, into many considerable Families, she had wrought about several incensed Persons to be of better Principles and Inclinations, both to the King, and the Duke; and more particularly, That this Woman had now found out a man, who was very able to discover very dangerous practices against the King.  
That Mrs. Cellier came soon after to his Lodgings, That she gave a great Character of one Willoughby, who had much improved himself abroad in the Service of the Prince of Orange, and under the D. de Villa Hermosa; That this man coming over, and resorting to the Coffeehouses, was much scandalised, at the Rebellious discourses, that he heard, but that concealing his thoughts, he grew familiar with the most mutinous, who liked him so well, that they carried him to their Clubs and private meetings, and being admitted to their secrets, he found, that great and dangerous things were preparing against the Parliament.  
That she desired his Lordship but to procure a Warrant for making a search, and that all the whole matter would be plainly discovered, but she desired, that this Warrant might be obtained without the King's knowledge. That of all this Information his Lordship gave an account to the Duke, who refusing to have any thing acted therein without the King's knowledge, Willoughby came with Mrs. Cellier to his Lodgings, where the Duke saw him, and he was afterwards handed to the King.  
That when Willoughby came afterwards to his Lordship, he mentioned the difficulty of getting a Warrant, and complaining of want of Zeal in the King's Ministers, he said he would yet do his business without a Warrant, and by the Customhouse way.  
That as concerning the Lord Shaftsbury, Willoughby told him that there was some woman about the Duke, that Writ to the Earl of Shaftsbury, all the dangerous things she could invent, and to make proof of this, came afterwards to show two Letters which his Lordship presently saw were Written in Sir Rich. Bulstrodes hand, and contained nothing touching the Duke, but such matters of common intelligence from Brussels, as he himself, or any other man might fitly write.  
Whereupon Willoughby pretended to him, that there was a third Letter of greater importance, which he had lost, but as to those two Letters his Lordship says they were given to the King.  
Soon after this, Willoughby came to him, at midnight, and said, he was going to Prison, to which his Lordship could only say, that if he were guilty of any harm, he knew not how to help him, but if he were to suffer by mistake, the King's Ministers would soon discover it, and set him again at liberty.  
His Lordship upon Willinghbies' Question, did own that he being at Dinner at Lambs, Willoughby did there come to him, about a meeting to be had at Mr. Gadburies' with Sir Robert Peyton, and perhaps it might be upon a Letter from the Lady Powis, as Willoughby affirms.  
His Lordship doth acknowledge, that he gave his Servants charge to admit Willoughby, when ever he came: and that he did also call him Captain Willoughby: but the occasion was, that he telling his Lordship, that he hoped His Majesty would gratify him, and provide him as good an employment, as he had refused from the otherside, his Lordship did say, Doubtless His Majesty would provide for him, and that when ever any forces were sent abroad, he need not fear but that he should have a Company.  
That he did not wonder at all at Willoughby's confident words, since they have been the best Cards he had to Play for his Life: but that his Lordship's actions in the World have been such, as will exempt him from any shadow of reflection that can happen by such a Creature as this.  
As to the business of Sir R. Peyton, he would conceal nothing that the Council desired to know. And first, he says, that he knows not that Sir Robert was privy to any thing relating to Willoughby; but that Mrs. Cellier telling him, (as he said before) the good offices she had done the King, and Duke, with some that were inflamed against him, she named Sir Robert Peyton for one, who told her, that if he could be forgiven what was past, he would come in, and help the Government, but his greatest fear was from the Duke, who was thought to be a person of Animosity, that could not forgive: That when his Lordship assured Mrs. Cellier of the contrary; she told him, that Sir Robert would not be willing to meet at any public place, but at Mr. Gadburies' he would. Where accordingly they met; where Sir Robert Peyton declared he would come in to the King's service to all purposes; that he seemed to complain of some hard measure, and doubted much of the Duke's reconciliation: but his Lordship going far towards Sir Robert's satisfaction, he afterwards met the Duke at his Lordship's Lodgings, and had all the assurance he could desire; which is all that he knows, or could say concerning Sir Robert Peyton.  
Willoughby does acknowledge, that he told his Lordship of an ill woman in the Duke's Family, that corresponded with the Lord Shaftsbury, and that, he said, he had lost one of the Letters.  
His Lordship tells the Board, that he cannot but be troubled to have his name mentioned by so infamous a person as this was, but yet, if any whoever should come to morrow to him again, & tell him of any dangerous practices against the King and the Government, whether the Lord Shaftsbury, or any other Lord whatsoever, he should hold himself bound in duty to hearken to any such person, and to endavour to discover such danger by all the ways he could.  
His Lordship being withdraws: Willoughby added, that the two Letters mentioned were by him found in a drawer at the Lord Shaftsburies'. That he gave them to Mrs. Cellier, complaining they were Writ in an ill hand, but she carried them to the Tower, saying the Lady Powis could read any hand. And further says, that althô the Lords in the Tower, found upon perusal of them that they were of no importance, yet because they might testify that he was admitted to privacy with the Lord Shaftsbury, they thought fit he should make use of them, in the manner he did:  
Mr. John Webb of Missenden in the County of Bucks, being called in says. He knows Mr. Willoughby, but remembers not when he went down to his house, but that he was sent by Mrs. Cellier, not by the Lady Powis, that he knows nothing of any Letters sent down by him, or of one Mrs. Jean, or any other Priest at his house: that he only went down to fetch up a Child.  
Willoughby obejects, that he knows Jean so well, that at his last coming from home, he brought him a Letter from Jean, being then at Mrs. Celliers, Webb denying this, the very Letter found by Sir William Waller, is produced, and read, upon which Mr. Webb said, it was possible, but he had forgot it. And Willoughby saying, that Mrs. Cellier was by, when that Letter was delivered to him, Cellier denied it, but Willoughby replied that Webb knew all, as well as what he would now excuse.  
The Copy of the aforesaid Letter from H. Jean to Mr. Willoughby.  
SIR,  
I Received yours on Monday last, and think myself much obliged to you, for that you remember your Captive Friend It is some divertisement to my retired Life to hear sometimes how affairs stand, both that I may the better know how to set my steps that are laid for Innocent men and learn also how to value an innocent solitude more than the tumults of a confused World. I perceive by yours, the old Sticklers are still busy, and strive to blind the people's Eyes with a Popish Plot, that their own may not be seen; when was there ever Mischief or Treason hatched against Monarchy, but under the Cloak of Religion, and Zeal against Popery? Things are so plain that who is not wilfully blind, must needs see the good Old Cause, taking Life again: God bless the King, and direct his Council. That we may live in Peace, and Justice under him. This is the Prayer of  
SIR, Your very humble Servant, H. JEAN. Octob. 1st. 1679.  
Pray present my humble Service to Mounsieur Cellier, and his Lady.  
John Porter Butler to the Lord Powis, being sworn says, that he is a Protestant. That he has seen Willoughby at Powis house several times, and that he lodged there, but not by the knowledge of the Lord, or Lady, as the Porter told him: he remembers that Lane was also there by the name of Johnson: he does confess he gave Willoughby a bottle of Sherry, at the Tower, but not by the Lord's order: and that Willoughby, dined there another day: and that he did lead Willoughby to the Lodgings of the Lord Arundel, and the Lord Bellasis.  
John Lane, being called in, says, that he lay at Powis house, for a Month or six Weeks, by order of Willoughby, and Mrs. Cellier from whom he had his Diet. That he went by the name of Johnson, fearing to be arrested by Mr. Oates, for what he had testified against him, and in that fear he went down to Gray's, near Gravesend, and had a pair of Shoes given him by Willoughby, who also got him out of Prison, which was a chargeable work. He says, he made an Affidavit before Sir James Butler. And being asked by one of the Lords, whether he had not before the House of Lords, made two contrary Affidavits, he acknowledged that out of fear he did so: but that the first drawn by Willoughby, as Mr. Nevil had directed was true, and the other false.  
Mr. Knox being called in, says he knows Willoughby, when he met at Powis house, going there in search of Lane, who was to give Evidence for him; that the Examinant knowing in whose house he had been, was much troubled, inasmuch as he is a Protestant. It is true, that he being in Prison, Writ little Notes to his Brother, under the door, but knows not who conveyed them. That he knows Mrs. Airy that he has seen Mr. Willoughby at Mrs. Celliers house, and there has had some money of him, though he was ever Cautious of him, fearing he was a Papist. That he met him once at Proctors Cough house, where an Affidavit made by Osborn was read unto him, and owns that Willoughby did deliver Papers to him. He also owns that Rogers, and Shereman the Saddler did tell him, that they heard Nevil report how he had furnished money to get the Examinant out of Prison; which he with anger questioning Nevil about, Nevil made answer it was true, and plain demonstration.  
Mr. Dormer being called in, says, he knows Mr. Willoughby, having seen him at Mrs. Celliers, from whom Willoughby once brought him five pound. And that he had seen Mr. Willoughby twice or thrice at Powis house, where he has been to wait upon the Lady, to whom he is related: and that he has been at Mrs. Celliers to see a Child brought from Peterley, that is his Nephew. That Mr. Web of Peterly is his Kinsman, that he knows not of Mr. Jean nor any such man there: having not been for these three quarters of a year at that house. That he known nothing at all of any ground of the Presbyterian Plot mentioned by Willoughby, and says he never carried to the Tower, the Pamphlet called Traitors transformed into Martyrs; but that indeed, he had one of those books, and remembers he gave it to Mrs Cellier, meeting her once with Willoughby in Tower-street. He owns that he saw Willoughby once at the Rainbow Cough House, and there pulled of his Hat without speaking to him, that he has seen the Danby reflections, but knows not who Writ them.  
Being asked if he heard any thing of the murder of the Lord Shaftsbury, he said that several Months ago, there was such a report, and that one Adamson a Watchmaker, with a Barber, and others in Holborn were concerned in it: but that he never heard any thing else thereof, much less ever consulted such a thing with the Lady Abergaveney: that he knows Turner the Bookseller, and had the Pamphlet aforementioned from him, but denies that ever he Writ the same, or that he ever delivered five pounds to one Sharp to pray for any man's Soul.  
Mrs. Woodman who lives in Drury-Lane; at the Corner house of parkers-Lane, being called in, saith, that Margaret formerly Maid to Mrs. Cellier had been without attending, but would be gone, though she advised her to stay, and that being out of Service she knows not where to find her.  
The Lords bid her tell Margaret, (if they meet) that a Messenger shall take her in Custody, unless she attends the Clerk of the Council of her own accord.  

Middlesex and Westminster.  
The Information of Thomas Curtis of Westminster Clothworker, taken this 5th. day of November 1679. before me Edward Warcup Esq one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in the said County and City.  
This Informant saith, that about half a year ago, he became acquainted with Mr. Thomas Willoughby, taking him to be a very civil Gentleman, and not knowing that he had any other name: and about the second day of October last, he met the said Willoughby at the Hoop Tavern on Fish street Hill, and there drank a Bottle of Rhenish Wine with him, in the drinking whereof the said Willoughby told this Informant that he looked on him as an honest man, and one that loved his King and Country, and expressed himself to be a Protestant, and much against Rebellion; and he further added, that he would put this Informant into a way to serve his King and Country, whereunto this Informant replied, that he would serve his King and Country to the last drop of his Blood in any thing that is just; to which the said Willoughby replied, he would not put this Informant, on any thing but what was honourable and just, and he would make it easy: but at that time he refused to tell the business, but appointed this Informant to Dine with him at Mrs. Celliers on the next day following, which this Informant did, and after Dinner the said Willoughby took this Informant into a private room above, and there told this Informant, that there were Commissions giving out privately by the fanatics, and persuaded this Informant to get one, and if this Informant did so, he would bring this Informant to the King, and that it should be 5000 l. in this Informants way, besides being taking care of for the future, but this Informant replying, he did not believe there was any such thing, the said Willoughby answered, he knew it to be true, and that he had been at several meetings with them, and named one in Holborn, another which he called Sir Thomas Players, or my Lord Shaftsbury's in London, a third that was Sir Robert Peytons', and he particularly said that Blood's party issued out these Commissions; and this informant had heard before, that Mrs. Cellier had harboured the Gentlemen, that came over from St. Omers, and that she was a Papist, but the said Willoughby did never intimate to this Informant that he was employed by the Papists in this affair, and he charged this Informant not to say any thing of this matter to Mr. Nevil, because he had no correspondence with him, nor desired any, nor to Mrs. Cellier, because she was a woman: and then this Informant promised him to see what could be done, and so left him, resolving not to insinuate into any secret trust on purpose to betray it; about four days after which, this Informant returned to Mr. Willoughby, and told him he had been at the Club in Westminster Market, but could not learn any such thing, and when this Informant hath not seen the said Willoughby, and this Informant went to Mr. Nevil, and Mr. Nevil bid this Informant never to meddle with such Villainous treacheries. And this Informant, further saith, that he likewise told Mrs. Jane Bradley the same Story, and that he heard that Mr. Blood's Party, the fanatics had the giving out those Commissions, and she then said, she would use her interest with one Capt. Brown (who had formerly been her Sweetheart) to get one, and the said Jane Bradly hath several times since wished we could get the 5000 l. saying she would share therein: And this Informant did tell her, that he heard, those Commissions were given out by Mr. Blood's Party, by those people where he was concerned, and that this Informant would beg his bread, before he would be guilty of such treacherous designs; and that it was to no purpose to meddle in it, for there is a list found out, as he heard. And this Informant remembers the said Willoughby asked this Informant, if he knew Colonel Mansel, which this Informant said he did; and he also told this Informant, he had been in the Earl of Shaftsbury's company or Club, and further saith not.  
Jurat. Die & anno supradict. cor. me Edmund Warcup. Thomas Curtis.   

This Informant further saith that Mrs. Bradly asked him, in whose name the said Commissions were to issue out, where unto this Informant answered that he heard that it was in the name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England: and did further say, he heard some should hold that the long Parliament was not yet dissolved: But this Informant does not rember from whom he heard these particulars.  
Jurat: codem Die. Edmond Warcup. Thomas Curtis.    

Friday November 7th. 1679. in the Afternoon.  
Mr. Dangerfield, was sent for, and in his presence Margaret Jenkins formerly Servant to Mr. Cellier being Sworn and Interrogated by him, saith,  
That she carried money to him in Newgate, but remembers not how much it was, that he was afterwards in the Counter, and sending earnestly to her Mistress to get him out, she sent the Examinant to him with 50 s. but the same not being sufficient she brought it back again, and 3 l. was afterwards sent.  
She acknowledges that her Mistress bid him get out by Tuesday, and that being out he should presently come to her: that she did carry several letters between him, and her Mrs. but knows not what they were.  
That she did carry two small Vials to the King's Bench, but knows not what they concerned, nor whether the Lady Powis was concerned in that Advice. That after carrying the first Bottle she went next morning to the King's Bench, and that Willoughby se●t her for a second Bottle, it being in a little Vial Glass.  
She owns that he spoke to her about sending to Mr. Bedloe, and told her also of his acquaintance with Strode, for that they had formerly been padding together.  
That she once brought money to him to give to Mounson: that Mrs. Cellier did acquaint the Lady Powis, of Willoughby's desire to see Bedlow, to which her Ladyship answered. He might do what he pleased, for she would not meddle with that matter. That Willoughby told her, he had made Strode high in drink, having taken something that hindered him from being in the same Condition: and that he gave her some Notes of what he had then learned from Strode.  
As to the cause of her turning away, she says it was on this account: An Irishman who is a Solicitor, came once and told her, that her Mistress had got an ill Repute, by keeping Willoughby for her Stallion. And that the truth was, they lived in such a manner together at Powis- house, that the old man her Husband was sent up thither to keep them honest. That of this she gave some account to Mrs. Cellier's Daughter, and upon this occasion she was turned away: her Mistress also telling her, that seeing she could not live quietly at her own House, she had no farther need of her Service.  
She says, she saw Willoughby twice at Powis-House, the time she was there waiting at the Table on her Mistress and him; and that she poached Eggs for them both: being asked whether she did not lately hear from Mrs. Cellier by way of advice and instruction how to behave herself, she denied that she had any Letter or Message from her, or had seen her of a long time.  
Mr. Nevil, alias pain, is called in, and unto what Mr. Dangerfield objects, he says he knows Dangerfield, and has seen him four times at Powis-house. That he knows not of Willoughby's going to Mr. Webb's in Buckinghamshire. That he never had Letters or Papers from the Lady Powis in his life; but that with Mrs. Cellier many Letters and Papers have passed: and denies not but that the Danby-Reflections passed out of his hands.  
That by Mrs. Cellier, the Papers of Knox, Lane, and Osborne, were brought to him for his advice; which having given, he sent back. He remembers that Willoughby did attend in the Rules, when Mrs. Airy and Dowdell came over to him: but knows nothing of twenty seven Papers that he should send back; and desires if any such thing be objected to him, that he may see his hand.  
That for the many Lists objected he should send over, he denies the same. He says he knows Mounson and Kemish from many years' acquaintance. He owns that Mrs. Cellier came to him in the Fleet, to tell him of Tortures used against Prance, and how that the Lord Shaftesbury was setting up Strode to be a new Witness. He says Willoughby told him, that he had turned Strode the wrong side outwards.  
He denies the sending of any Letters, or Lists to his remembrance; and never any Letter to the Tower by any Woman: he knows not of the Affidavit made by Lane, but will not deny such a thing. He says that Knox was troubled he should declare as he did, for that he was told, that by the Charity which Mrs. Cellier dispersed, he was taken from Prison.  
He says that the second discourse he had with Willoughby at Powis-house, was, how that Mrs. Cellier had offered to procure him an Ensigns place under the Duke of Monmouth in the late Expedition to Scotland, or else to stay and depend upon her.  
He says farther, that Mrs. Cellier, from being his Friend, became his utter Enemy.  
Willoughby replies, that Mrs. Cellier had sent him 80 l. and that her Husband had been his Security to keep him from Prison; but that upon some difference arising, upon complaint made that Nevil's Daughter was like to turn Whore, old Cellier withdrew his Security, and so Nevil was returned to Prison.  
Nevile in answer to this reviles Willoughby with many passionate expressions; and as to the writing the Pamphlet Timothy Touchstone, he denies it, and says he knows nothing of Mr. Jeane the Priest in Buckinghamshire.  
As to one Cox in , he has been his Agent about his business in Ireland, but denies to have heard any thing from him about Ten thousand pound which Mr. Willoughby does object. He does acknowledge that he was still for the Advice for Indicting false Witnesses, and had twenty times advised the Indicting Oats and Bedloe; but as for the framing a Presbyterian Plot, and to draw Men in it, it had been a great villainy, and he utterly denies the same.  
That he only had from Mrs. Cellier Fifteen pound, but that she had of his money Seventeen pound: That the Commerce between her and Willoughby was very scandalous, and she was suspected to defraud the Charity which came through her hands, which by the collection of all sorts of Catholics was about Twenty two pounds per week.  
He acknowledges, that he advised Willoughby to compound his Debts, and not to depend on shifts of Law.  
He owns that he received all the Trials that were printed, and had fingered them out, as will still appear by the Books he has by him: for that seeing how ill things hung together, and that some things look like Perjury, he thought it was easy to frame Indictments against the Witnesses.  
That as to his informing Willoughby of a List of Mutinous Coffeehouses, he denies the same, having never been in four or five in his life; but it was notorious enough how all the Coffeehouses were factious.  
He declares his great hatred and animosity against Mrs. Cellier, who formerly indeed came to him every day; but that she caused her Husband to withdraw his Bail, and he was again clapped up.  
To this Dangerfield objects, That it was not altogether Mrs. Cellier, but the advice of the Lords in the Tower, that he should be again confined: forasmuch as when he was formerly in that condition, he had been very industrious about writing of Papers in their business; but that being at liberty, he chief followed the Playhouse.  
Nevile here reflects upon him as a lewd and infamous person. To which Willoughby replies, If I were such as you say, it makes it the more plain, that I could not proceed in such weighty Undertake as I have managed, without considerable Counsel and Direction; which is agreeable to what I have affirmed.    

The Narrator's Conclusion to the whole Work.  
READER,  

THe Net must be cunningly cast, that takes all the Fish in the River; and this Narrative, though it can modestly mention its own industry, yet dares not presume that nothing has escaped its diligence: but besides, it might seem uncivil to leave nothing wherein the Pen of another might travel: to reap the Fields so clean, that there should be no gleaning for the Poor, is Cruelty; to leave no Clusters after the Vintage, would be interpreted Covetousness: and yet I dare avow, that he that complains of Penury in this Collection, will hardly furnish out his Table with a more plentiful Treat. But because there are some particulars which might have been crowded in before, yet not without Incoherence, which I thought the Reader would grudge if he knew they had escaped him, I was willing to add a few Remarkables, which I rather purposely reserved for this place, than carelessly omitted in the body of the Discourse.   

§ 1.  
Then it deserves a special Remark, that this Mr. Dangerfield, who whilst he was a servant to an Instrument in the carrying on their grand Intrigue, was a man of great parts, amongst them a gallant Gentleman; as soon as he gins to be honest, to reflect upon those Mazes of Villainy wherein by their seduction he had trodden, now all of the sudden hears nothing from them, but an infamous person, one of no Credit, whose Testimony must not pass for any thing. Strange! that he who was thought a credible Witness to have fastened a Paramount Treason upon so many Noble Protestant Lords, and worthy Gentlemen, should lose his Credibility when he comes to recriminate, and cast the Gild where it ought to lie, upon a small number of Catholics. 'Tis a singular happiness that our Papists have, that their Agents are all honest whilst they do mischief, and presently Villains when they discover it. Thus they dealt with all those, whom remorse and a timely reflection upon their own evil ways, wrought upon to discover the late Plot; used their Agency, abased their simplicity to execute their Projects, and then decried them for debauched Criminals, when they could serve themselves and their Cause no longer of them: from whence we learn, that there's no Crime so great amongst them as Repentance. I will here give the Reader the Minutes of the Examinations before His Majesty in Council, Tuesday, November 4. 1679. relating to this one Remark.  
1. The Lady Powis saith, She hopes the Oath of an infamous person shall not bring her in danger, for that no body of common sense would ever confide any thing of Importance to such a Creature as he: A very ingenuous Reflection, first, to make him infamous, by his Ghostly Father's Indulgence to be drunk, and then to plead his Infamy to cover their own: but let Mr. Willoughby answer for himself, who gave this smart Repartee to her Ladyship, That he was not so inconsiderable in their Opinion, but that they were willing to get him out of Prison at the charge of Sixty pound, which in all places it cost him, as may appear by his Book which was taken out of his Closet by Sir Will. Waller.  
2. Mrs. Cellier, to whom Mr. Willoughby was such a Croney, that they were hand and glove; she that used to admire his excellent parts, and rare dexterity in the manage of business, yet now says, She never caused Willoughby or any body else to put forth Pamphlets, but that indeed he did make some, and put them forth; which were very inconsiderable things. That Willoughby did once read to her two Pamphlets, wherein was no matter of hurt; but the things were foolish, and mere Chimaeras. Then she rails at, and reviles Willoughby, etc. And yet this good Gentlewoman when she came to introduce Mr. Willoughby to the Right Honourable the E. of P. gave a high Character of him, that he had much improved himself abroad in the service of the Prince of Orange, and the Duke de Villa Hermosa.  
3. The Lord P. called in, saith, That he gave his Servants charge to admit Willoughby whenever he came, and that he did call him Captain Willoughby; yet his Lordship tells the Board, he cannot but be troubled to have his name mentioned by so infamous a person as this was.  
4. Mr. Nevile, alias pain, called into the Council on Friday Nou. 7. 1679, saith, That Willoughby had writ him a kind of a Challenge, which he rejected upon knowledge of his infamous life; besides, that he was grown in his behaviour proud, and as high as a Prince. That the Commerce between Mrs. Cellier and Willoughby, was very scandalous; that she was suspected to defrand the Charity which came through her hands, which by the collection of all sorts of Catholics, was about 22 l. per week.   

§ 2.  
I must apologise for the Non-appearance of the so-much-celebrated List of Names fixed or endeavoured to be fixed upon the Lodgings of the Narrator in Ax-yard, which I have many cogent Reasons to conceal. 1. Lest it should tempt the worthy persons therein to study some revenge upon the Catholics, which being so inconsistent with Protestant Principles, those gallant Gentlemen will satisfy themselves with their own Innocency, and willingly want what might have awakened even a just Indignation. 2. I know not how far such a List might provoke any person against myself: and yet I must say thus much; I could be content to be half hanged, to save the lives or the long of such honourable persons. 3. I have a Reason worth two of these; I did not, because I could not publish it, all my industry and interest not having been able hitherto to procure it: It was once in my Chamber, it seems, when I was willing to be honestly rid of it; but now I wish it there, it will not come: and I profess I will forgive Mr. Dangerfield from the beginning of the world to this day, if he will once more come and pin it at my beds-head, and the Key shall lie under the door against he is at leisure.   

§ 3.  
One particular, omitted in the Information of Mr. Dangerfield, must here be retrieved. The next day (says he) I went to Lord Castlemain, who demanded, Why I was so unwilling willing to do that for which I was taken out of the Prison? and frowned much on me, and sent his man down; and I fearing his fury, laid my hand to my Sword, and came down stairs, he not approaching, and went away, and told Mrs. Cellier my Lord Castlemain was angry with me: Oh (said she) 'tis his custom to fall out one hour, and be good friends the next. Then she advised me to go to Confession and Receive; which I did of Mr. Sharp; and he having notice of my Refusal to my Lord Powis and Lord Arundel, would scarce let me come from him, but told me, I must do Penance, for denying to serve God in that which the Scriptures taught: Then I demanded, If they taught me to kill my King? He answered, Yes, if he were condemned thereby. But I got from him, and was then about to have discovered all: But coming home, I found the Lady Powis with Mrs. Cellier; and when she saw me, sent for me in, and laughed. I said, Madam, it is not a laughing matter I Then she said, Know you what I laugh at? I answered, I did. Well, well, (said she) Mr. Willoughby will be honest, and do us no harm, I am sure. Then I sat down, and had some discourse; and she said, The Duke of York was coming, and that would somewhat qualify the Rage of the Presbyterians.  
What these Romish Zealots will be at next, time must discover; and when time shall discover it, I wish the Protestants may make a good improvement of their Mercies.    
FINIS.