ARTICLES OF High-Treason and other High-Crimes and misdemeanours AGAINST THE duchess OF PORTSMOUTH.  
I. IMprimis, That the said duchess hath and still doth cohabit and keep Company with the King, having had foul nauseous and contagious Distempers, which once possessing her blood can never admit of a perfect cure, to the manifest danger and hazard of the Kings person, in whose preservation is bound up, the weal and happiness of the Protestant Religion, our Lives, Liberties and Properties, and those of our Posterity for ever.  
II. She hath laboured to alter and subvert the Government in Church and State now established by Law, and in the room there of to introduce Popery and Tyranny in the three Kingdoms by her Counsels from time to time.  
III. She hath by her persuasion, countenance and other Artifices and Insinuations reconciled several of her Servants and others, natural born Subjects, to the Communion of the See of Rome, in defiance of the Statute which makes it Capital, Jac. 3.4.  
IV. She advised and still does nourish, foment and maintain that fatal and destructive Correspondency and Alliance between England and France. being sent over and pensioned by the French King to the same end and purpose, and consequently hath rendered ineffectual those frequent Addresses in Parliament for a War with the French King, and in order to the Propagating these her malicious, detestable and destructive Designs, against our Religion and Government the several French Ministers, who have resided here since the breach of the Triple League,( from whence we of these three Kingdoms have and still groan under,) have and do still resort to her Apartment in his Majesty's Royal Palace, where having several Conferences with his Majesty, they have pried into his secret Counsels, and by the Assistance of her, her Agents and French Ministers, have fixed and continued the aforesaid accursed Amity between England and France, against the grave and repeated advice of the whole Nation in Parliament.  
V. That she hath endeavoured to her four to stifle and vilify the King Evidence, to create a disbelieve of the King of the Plot against his Royal Person, subversion of the Protestant Religion and Government, interceded for by Traytors impeached by Parliament and other Arch-Traytors( particularly Father Ireland the jesuit Arraigned, heard fairly and legally condemned, and most justly executed.  
VI. She has from time to time intermeddled and advised in mraters of the highest moment and importance in Government, as Peace and War, several Dissolutions and Prorogation of Parliament, matter depending wherein the very life and soul of the Government in church and State was concerned.  
VII. That she advised a disgeneral Peace, so destructive to Christendom and particularly to these three Kingdoms, it being in our Power to have turned the Scale.  
VIII. That she placed and displaced great Ministers in Church and State, as she judged might be most serviceable in promoting the French Popish Interest.  
IX. That she not only took upon her, to make chief Ministers as aforesaid but either received Sums of Money in hand, and Pension yearly out of their profits, saleries and perquisites, which hath in great measure contributed to that general corruption in all places, and nothing being more unnatural, than when trust and places are bought; Justice must be sold.  
X. That she hath been an unspeakable charge and burden, having had given her, for many years past prodigious sums of Money in other people names,( the better to disguise the matter) as well out of the public Treasury, as the privy Purse; and such is her ascendant over the King, that, in her own apartment, she prevailed with the King, there to Sign and Seal Warrants for grants, of Vast sums of Money, an● particularly procured the Kings Warrant to the Earl of Danby( now-Impeached and in the Tower) for 100000 l. and this at one time, which ought to have been applied for the safety, honour and reputation of this Kingdom.  
XI. That hardly and Grant, Office of Place was given, but through her or her Emissaries Intercession and money given to them.  
XII. Those vast, prodigious Sums she hath for the most part, was to be transported to a Nation by Religion, Interest and practise, and Enemy to our Religion and Government, to the weakening and impoverishing of our Nation and the strenghtning and enriching of our Adversaries.  
XIII. That she hath procured Farms and Undertakings of the several Branches of the Revenue at lower Rates than really worth having been bribed for so doing.  
XIV. That she hath protected several from Justice, and particularly, the Earl of Ranalagh, who had cheated, defrauded and abused the King in his Revenues of Ireland, supporting him against many representations from the Government of Ireland, and many Orders of the King and Council here, full-well knowing several Articles were in the secret Committee against the said Earl, not only for cheating His Majesty in Ireland; but for combining with the Earl of Danby in England to defraud the King, and particularly in the Excise-Farm. undertaken by the Dashwoods, and notwithstanding, such is her Power, she still protects the said Earl, not only from his Accounts; but in his place of Treasurer, which does reflect upon His Majesty, to keep such a person in place in spite of all the Orders in Council, his own Convictions, and does wholly discourage a Parliament ever to give a supply, when such are employed, and has procured several Letters, in favour of the said Earl of Ranalagh as well to the present as former Governours, to the●… nour of the King, and interruption of Justice.  
XV. That she got grant in Ireland,( in other persons names) as well to Crown Rents, as others, to the great disorder, distraction and vexations of the Subjects. who are liable to have their Estates and Titles questioned and disturbed by Commissions of Enquiry, and otherways, as Officer for the King.  
XVI. That she procured to her self a grant of the Revenues, arising by the Wine Lycenses, towards the defraying of her extravagant Debts, most contrary to the express Letter of the Act of Parliament, which provides most positively: that the Revenues arising therefrom, shall not be employed or granted to any private use whatsoever: yet, such was her power with His Majesty and the Earl of Danby Late Lord Treasurer, that she procured three able honest Servants to His Majesty, to be turned out of their Commissions in the Wine-License-Office, because they would not lend her Money upon the fecurity of the said Revenue, contrary to the Act of Parliament, above mentioned, and such is her power with several of the Commissioners of His Majestys Treasury, that she hath procured Doctor tailor her servant to be made a Commissioner in the new Commission of Wine-Licence-Office, in prejudice of those persons turned out by the Earl of Danby, as aforesaid, on purpose that he the said Doctor tailor, should govern that branch of the Revenue( in spite and contempt of an Act of Parliament, appointing it to public End and Government) for the duchess use and behalf, neither can it be for any other end and purpose, for that the said Doctor tailor, by reason of the many affairs he has to manage of the duchess, cannot attend the Kings Service.  
XVII. That she hath and doth relieve and countenance in her Family and Lodgings in Whitehal, several Servants, whom she knows to be Papists and ill affencted to the Protestant Religion and Government, giving them frequent and private access to His Majesty to the hazard and danger of His Majesties Person, and in a contempt of a late Act of Parliament whereby all. Papist whatsoever( except Father Huddleston, seven Women-Servants and some foreign Servants to Her Majesty) were prohibited to come within the Limits of His Majestys palace or Court; notwithstanding which Act of Parliament, she hath, and still doth not only relieve in her Lodgings, as aforesaid, several Servants of the Popish persuasion, but she hath lately taken into her service a French Papist. whom she formerly preferred to His Majesty, as a Confectioner, and who was entred of His Majesties Service upon the aforesaid Act, which said Confectioner doth daily prepare Sweet-meats and other Banquetings( in triumph over the late fresh Act of that Parliament) for His Majesty at her Lodgings, so as His Majesty may be in an eminent danger from the aforesaid French Papist, who has such opportunity to poison His Sacred Majesty( by mixing poison in the Sweetmeats, whom God long preserve.  
XVIII. That the day before His Majesty fell sick at Windsor, she persuaded His Majes●y( being then in her Lodgings) to eat a Mess of broth, prepared by some of her Papist-Servants, whereupon His Majesty fell immediately sick, it being the Opinion of some Able Physicians, that His Majestys Diseases were much augmented, if not wholly created by the aforesaid broth.  
XIX. That during His Majestys sickness, she introduced several unknown persons by a Back-Door to His Majesties Bed-Chamber, who, in all likelihood were Romish-Priests, French Physicians, Agents or Ministers of the French Kings, all which persons could have no honest or lawful business with His M●jesty, at that time especially, being privately introduced, and His Majesties proper Servants, belonging to his Bed-Chamber being all sent out, except such as were Popishly affencted, her Creatures consequently, and her Foot-Men ordered to wait in the Anti-Chamber, as is judged to prevent any bodys hearing or seeing them, as if they had been of His Majesties Bed-Chamber.  
XX. That she has by her creatures and friends given out and whispered abroad, that she was married to His Majesty, and that her Son the Duke of Richmond is His Majesties Legitimate Son, and consequently. Prince of Wales, his health being frequently drunk by her and her Creatures, in her Night-Debauches and Merry-Meetings, to the great dishonour and reflection of His Majestys and the manifest peril and danger of these Kingdoms, who may hereafter by such false and scandalous Storys and wicked practices be embroiled in distractions if not in blood and Civil Wars, to the utter ruin of His Majesties Subjects, and subversion of the Protestant Religion, it being manifest, she being a Papist her self, will breed her Son in the same Religion however she may pretend to the contrary.  
XXI, That she having that high and dishonourable absolute dominion and power over the Kings Heart, she has opportunity to draw from him the secrets of his Government, opportunity by her self, or other Engines of hers, to poison, or otherwise, to destroy the King: opportunity, at least, to promote a French Popish interest; so that it is not only impossible the Protestant Religion should live; but its not possible, the King can have a due sense of the dangtr, he was, or may be in, from the Romish Conspiracy, which has, is, or may be against His Royal Person or Government.  
XXII. That she has had the highest honours and rewards conferred on her and hers, to the high dishonour of God, the encouragement of Wickedness and 'vice( which by such Examples is overspread the Nation, and for which Gods Anger is kindled and inflamed against us) suppressing and discouraging of virtue, whose rewards those high Titles and Honours ought to be, and this to the eternal reproach of His Majesties Reign and Government.  
FINIS.