The PRESENTMENT of the Grand-Jury for the Town and Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey, and divers other adjacent Places in the same County, at the General Sessions of the Peace holden for the said Town and Borough, etc. at the Bridghouse-Hall within the said Borough, on Friday the 27th. of June, in the Six and Thirtieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc.  
THere having been lately detected a Horrid Conspiracy, against the Lives of the King and the Duke of York, the established Government of Church and State, and the Liberties of the English Nation: We do Present the said Conspiracy to be still manifestly carried on; as appears by the Practices of the Republican, and Fanatical Faction: And likewise, by the Declarations of some of the Conspirators themselves at the place of Execution: Holloway, particularly, delivering himself in his Confession and Narrative, in these very words, There would be no want of Men, if it (speaking of the Insurrection) were once begun. And afterward, If we should name every one that we thought would be concerned, I believe we might name three parts of London. Giving therein to understand, that they expected as well to be seconded by those that were only Well-willers to the Cause, as by others that were Actually engaged in the Malice of the Design.  
We do therefore Present, as our Opinion, that all those, who either by Open favour, or Connivance, Directly or Indirectly, by Word, Counsel, or Action, give Countenance, or Encouragement, to any Seditious or Schismatical Disturbers of the Public Peace, are, and aught to be comprised within the number of the aforesaid Well-willers to the interest of that Cause and Party.  
And we do the rather Present, and humbly Recommend this to consideration; in regard of the many Frauds, and Artifices, that are commonly made use of for the Inveigling of the credulous Multitude, seducing the Ignorant; corrupting the Vain, and improving all occasions and ill humours, toward the dishonour both of the King and of the Church, and the embroiling of the Government.  
And whereas it has been the constant Method of these Turbulent Spirits, as well in printed Libels, and written News-Letters, as in their ordinary Discourses, to Revile and Slander the King, and the Church; to Calumniate his Majesty's Ministers of State and Justice, and all Loyal Subjects, that out of a sense of Conscience, and Duty, have either Acted, spoken, or written, in Defence of the Government, Ecclesiastical and Civil; and for the undeceiving of his Majesty's Liege People: By means whereof, they have endeavoured, as much as in them lay, not only to blast the Memory of all honest men, but even to stigmatize Virtue and Loyalty itself.  
In contemplation of these Outrages against Humanity, Duty, good Manners, and common Justice; We do Present, as our further Opinion, the necessity of fixing some public Mark of Infamy, upon all scandalous and seditious, printed Books, Pamphlets and Papers, of the Quality abovementioned, to prevent the transmitting of so many Honourable Names, with Infamy, to Posterity.  
We do likewise Present, that Factious Coffee-men, Victuallers, and Ale-house-Keepers in this Borough, have greatly contributed to our late Divisions; and that divers of them do still continue to make their Houses the Receptacles of Disloyal and illaffected Persons in suspicious numbers: Notwithstanding their entire dependence upon his Majesty's Grace and Bounty, for the Livelihood of Themselves, and their Families.  
In which regard, we Present it needful, that some effectual course be taken with them, either for their suppression, or their better behaviour for the future.  


Jonadab Ballam.  
Edward Collingwood.  
John Gerard.  
Henry Durnford.  
Benjamin Chapman.  
Robert Sparks.  
William Duke.  
Francis Walker.  
Martin Grace, sen.  
George Bickers.  
John Hall.  
John Cross.  
Charly Stanton.  
William Greening.  
Richard Snart.  
William Smith.  
William Wornham.     

Villa & Burgus de Southwark necnon divers. Paroch. & loci infra Com. Surr. Ad General. Quarterial. Session. pacis Dom. Regis tent. pro Villa & Burgo de Southwark, ac in & per tot. Parochias S. Olavi, S. Thomae, S. Salvat. S. Georgii, ac in Kentstreet, Blackmanstreet in Paroch. de Newington in Com. Surr. apud le Bridghouse infra Villam & Burg. praedict. in Com. praedict. die Veneris scil. vicesimo septimo die Junii, Anno Regni Reg. Caroli Secund. nunc Angliae, etc. tricesimo sexto.  
It is ordered by this Court that the Presentment of the Grand Inquest, now here delivered and openly read, be forthwith Printed by Benjamin took.  
Wagstaffe.