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A53414	An exact and faithful narrative of the horrid conspiracy of Thomas Knox, William Osborne, and John Lane, to invalidate the testimonies of Dr. Titus Oates, and Mr. William Bedlow by charging them with a malicious contrivance against the E. of Danby, and the said Dr. Oates with an attempt of sodomy wherein are exemplified from the originals I. Four forged letters dictated by Thomas Knox, II. Five false informations, one paper of memorials, and one other information against Dr. Oates for sodomy, forged by Knox in the names of Lane and Osborne, III. The informations, depositions, examinations, and confessions of the said Knox, Osborne, and Lane, taken upon oath before Sir William Waller and Edmund Warcup, Esq., IV. An account of some depositions taken before the Lords Committees of Secresie, relating thereunto, V. The breviates of the councel for the King at the trials of the said Knox and Lane, Nov. 25, 1679, wherein full satisfaction is given to the world of the whole cause, by the particular evidences of the witnesses in behalf of the King / published by the appointment of me, Titus Oates.	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1680 (1680)	Wing O41; ESTC R4560	41,985	38

An Exact and Faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid Conspiracy OF Thomas Knox William Osborne and John Lane To INVALIDATE the TESTIMONIES OF Dr. Titus Oates and Mr. William Bedlow By Charging them with a Malicious Contrivance against the E. of Danby and the said Dr. OATES with an Attempt of SODOMY Wherein are Exemplified from the Originals I. Four Forged Letters dictated by Thomas Knox. II. Five False Informations One Paper of Memorials and one other Information against Dr. OATES for Sodomy forged by Knox in the Names of Lane and Osborne III. The Informations Depositions Examinations and Confessions of the said Knox Osborne and Lane taken upon Oath before Sir William Waller and Edmond Warcup Esq IV. An Account of some Depositions taken before the Lords Committees of Secresie relating thereunto V. The Breviates of the Councel for the KING at the Trials of the said Knox and Lane Nov. 25. 1679. wherein full satisfaction is given to the World of the whole Cause by the particular Evidences of the Witnesses in behalf of the KING Published by the Appointment of me TITUS OATES LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst Tho. Cockerill and Benj. Alsop at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside at the Three Legs and at the Angel and Bible in the Poultrey 1680. I Do Appoint Thomas Parkhurst Thomas Cockerill and Benjamin Alsop to Print this Narrative and that no other Print the same TITUS OATES Decemb. 2. 1679. TO HIS Sacred Majesty CHARLES II BY THE GRACE of GOD OF Great Britain France and Ireland KING Defender of the Faith Great Sr. THe highest Ambition this Address dares pretend to is to Congratulate your Majesties happy Success in the late famous Cause obtained against the Enemies of your Person Crown and Dignity in which Tri●l you have won the Field and carried the day not by the Justice of the Sword but by the Sword of Justice And if the old Roman Consuls rejoyced in these Triumphs decreed to their fortunate Valour by the Senate wherein the Success was commonly better than the Cause your Majesty must needs much more Rejoice to have come off Victor by the Law where you have not the Advantage of the longer Sword but fight your Enemies with equal Weapons where 't is the Glory of your Courts of Judicature that they are Eagle-eyed to discern the merits of the Cause but blind in the favour and respect of Persons Nor will you wonder dear Sir that I have Entituled your Name to what may seem my personal and private Concern since without Vanity I can avow it they that struck at my Credit designed the Blow at your Sacred Life and to Murder the Repute of your Majesties Evidence against the Traytors was indeed but a handsom expedient to atchieve a more horrid Assassination I have therefore fair Hopes your Majesty will graciously Accept this Dedication and give it the Protection of your Royal Purple which will convince the obstinate Unbelief of your Enemies that Papal Principles bear such a Vatinian Hatred against your Person Government and Religion that they abhor the meanest Creature that crosses them in the way of their Conspiracies But I give them free leave to Storme and if the Interposition of so inconsiderable a thing as what I am between your Sacred Person and their Fery might intercept the Effect of their raging Malice I should glory to become your succedaneous Sacrifice and despair ever to place out my cheape Life to better account then to pay it down upon the Nale for the preservation of yours that is of three Kingdoms for seeing I owe a Death to Nature my loyal Heart must interpret it a huge Advantage to swist Martyrdome with Mortality and make so great a Virtue of inevitable Necessity You will easily believe Sir I might have slept out my Dates in inglorious Ease amongst the Crowds of men of no Name or Noyse could I have satisfyed myself to have stood a Spectator in the common Box of those Tragedies they had contrived and laid great Brittan for the Seene of Action but when once Duty and Allegiance had conquered the remainders of slavish Fears worldly Hopes or whatever of self Respects might fright or flatter me out of honourable Danger into a base Retreat to discover their Deeds of Darkness before the Sun I foresaw I must draw the Combined Wrath of that whole Faction upon my self and that all the lines of their Malice would enter at least in the desine of my Destruction who otherwise fly at higher Games and do not use to stoop at so Inconsiderable Quarry I accknowledge it was no small Encouragement to me to see with what Transports your Majesties loyal Subjects there present exprest their inward Joys when the righteous Verdict of the Jury according to full and clear Evidence of the Fact at once proclaimed my own Innocence and the villanous Confederacy of my Popish Enemies but how would that Joy be multiplied if the grand Engineers of all these Mischiefs who sit behind the Curtain and direct these Actors were once brought to a legal Ordeal which in effect would be condigne and exemplary Panishments the rather because all Essays towards settlement all approaches towards satisfaction have proved fruitless and will do so whilst the great Abettors and Fomentors of Treason hug themselves in the prospect of not despayred Success and seem to defy and deride the Justice of the Nation I know well your Majesties excellent Lawes are not like the Spiders Toyls which entangle the lesser Flyes whilst the great Transgressors by power and interest brake through them Nor dare we question but your Wisdom will find a sit juncture of time to let the proudest Delinquents know if they dare offend your Justice will dare to punish That the Sword which the Divine Grace had entrusted you with is sharpe enough to chop off a plotting Head as well as to paire the Nayles of those that would scratch your Royal Honour that your equal and impertial Justice will reckon with these Wholesale Traytors who are in Arrear to the Laws for Talents as well as you have called to account some of the Retayle Offendors which comparatively owed but a few Farthings .. And in this Confidence your Majesties loyal Subjects have waited and still do and shall attend your Royal Leasure resting satisfied that though your Majesty will try you will not dissapoint their Expectations and if you suffer their Hope to Gaspe you will not suffer it to give up the Ghost I am confident there is no Prince in Europe that can Command more real and couragious Hearts then your Majesty may and when you have made a Purchase of their Hearts their Hands and Purses their Lives and Estates are but Appurtinances which go along with and of course are thrown into the bargain only they are so devoted to your Service that as they would have no forreign Prince Pope or potentate govern them so they desire you may be King of and to all your Subjects Whilst

you shall unite them amongst themselves and against your and their common Enemy they are wholy your own and whilst you secure to them their religious and civil Interests the Fruits of both are entirely in your Excheaquer Which Union of your Protestant Subjects your old inveterate popish Enemies dread more than all your Naval and Land Forces who indeed only live by our Divisions and gather Confidence from our Animosites And this work as 't is truly glorious so 't is exceeding easy and I hope reserved as the great blessing which England shall receive from your Royal Hand for you see them all except some few Bigots impatiently waiting till your Majesty shall remove the rocks of offence cunningly by our adversaries laid in the way of our peaceable Coalescence and command us all to write in the grand Truths of the Protestant Religion leaving the lesser punctilio's a fit matter wherein to exercise charity and mutual forbearance which otherwise like fire for want of Fewel to feed it would expire And though those Zealots of all forms and perswasions amongst us who value their little pretentions at a greater rate than that of the publick peace may seem to discour age your pious endeavours this way yet believe it Sr. the discord of a single string or two will be drowned in the Harmony of an universal Jubilee All true Protestants are naturally enclined to peace upon consciencious Terms out of Interest as well as Duty for if we be so mad as to create troubles in England we are not so fond as to expect Peace in Italy If we fire our own houses Rome will never quench them we have no foreign Dependencies or transmarine expectancies where ever our Circumference may be by Trade or Travel we Censor in your desired self though 't is far otherwise with our Catholicks who have a Head at Rome and an Interest distinct form and opposed to that of their Natural King and Native Country Whatever Cruelties and Barbarisms the Papists have acted amonst us may be paralleld by Instances from other Country's and former Ages but still from their own Patterns Their late Ingenious Artifice to divolve the quilt and Odium of their own Treasons upon the innocent Protestants may be sampled in the Powder Treason and the Massacre of Paris In the former of which had it succeeded the Puritans must have born the blame and shame of their Villanies in the latter Instance the Hugonots did actually bear it and Knights of the post were suborned to swear against the valiant Briquemault and gallant Caviagnes that they with the great Admiral Caligni had conspired the Death of the King and the Duke of Guise and accordingly these innocent Persons were Executed so trite a Method is it for our Catholicks to object their own Treasons to their Enemies and it 's evident that they never contrived a Plot for the Protestants but at the same time they designed upon the pretence and under the umbrage a general Massacre of them but now what History can give us an example so contrived we repeated a project to Corrupt if it were possible the Evidence which divine Providence had brought in against their Treasons or to suborn a company of Rake-hels to disparage the Testimony of those who came in as Voluntiers to save a Prince and his People from imprudent destruction I am far from despairing to see your Majesties Kingdoms once more yet happy that is freed from these Pests of all Societies the sworn Enemies to Peace and Truth the Priests and Jesuits without which 't is impossible England should be happy which is no Conclusion hastily and rashly drawn from a solitary or single observation but the uniform experience of all times since this Island was rescued from Romish Slavery by a Miracle of mercy no less glorious than that of the Redeeming Israel from Egypt or Balylon The English Soyl carries the same Antipothy against the Ignatian Fraternity that Ireland bears no venomous Creatures and 't is the happier constitution of the two that we maintain a radicated enmity against the Romish Wolves then that they can boast of the aversion of their Ayr or Soyl to Spiders to Adders and Serpents a temper and natural Complexion which we owe not to any fabulous miroculous power of St. Patrick but to that more powerful Influence of the grace of God which cannot be interpreted a sudden flash or hasty ferment of spirit which will be dash'd in a moment but to the Genius and Interest of the People whose Piety has been their best Policy it being a staple Maxime bequeathed to your Majesty from that Glorious Jacen of eternal and happy Memory that our only way to secure peace at Home was to love none with Rome nor reconciliation with them to be attempted till they shall cease to be what they are and divest them of their imbred Disloyalty History tells us of a Great Prince that habituated his body to the use of poyson till no poyson would work upon him but that which is the Serpents Nature is our Disease If Spain can live with such a Dose of Superstitions and Heresies in its Bowels we cannot but must eternally languish till Nature or the Poyson getteth victory All those convulsive motions all those pangs those gripes and dreadful symptoms that have been found upon us of late are entirely due to some fragments of this Popish Poyson which the Nation has unawares lickt up or has been given it in some plausible Vehicle and all our distortions struglings and commotions in many parts of the body politick are nothing else but the strainings and Pumpings of a strong Constitution to eject the venom that we have unadvisedly contracted I can discern nothing by the pulse of the Nation but that the heart is yet sound for God and the King the vitals are good and perhaps the true old English Spirit may by the strength of its natural Crasis overcome and throw off those ill humours which at present oppress it but yet Nature may want a little help and when she discovers a willingness to discharge that which burthens it those indications are to be observed and her attempts to be encouraged Which your Majesty will have the glory of when you shall consult your Great Colledge of Physitians who proceed upon the solid Principles of Art and listen not to those Empiricks who try conclusions with us and shew tricks upon us to their own shame and the retarding our hopes of a perfect Cure and through-recovery God has honoured your Sacred Majesty with a peculiar Grace to heal that Disease which we commonly call the King's-evil not that he causes it but that he cures it with one Touch of your Royal Hand Sr. we come to you for one Soveraign Touch May it please you but to put your Hand to one Bill humbly tendred to you by your loyal Subjects at their next Session to deliver us from our present Dangers and secure us against future fears and you have healed

about the Earl of Danby and Dr. Oates He confesses the writing the Letters and informations That they often shifted lodgings that Knox bore their expences and promised them great rewards That Lane being taken Knox sent my Lord Duneblanes Coachman with a hackney-Coach for him that in that Coach they went to Whitefriers where Knox acquainted him that the taking of Lane would expedite the buisiness That Knox gave him money That when Osborne was in the Gate-house Knox sent him a Note to this purpose you will be examined this afternoon we alwayes clubbed and you paid two shillings at the Sugar-leaf Tare this which note Knox has confessed and upon his Examination acknowledged he threw down a Guinny upon the table which Lane took up but to colour the business said it was only lent him but even this gives just ground of suspition to the design and now what will the whole world think and say of the Impudence of these men that after all these disappointments and bafflings after their own confessions retractions yet that they should be buoyed up to that height of confidence as to make a farther attempt upon the Doctors reputation And yet this they did for upon the nineteenth day of this instant November 1679. John Lane had mustered up so much of his declined courages as to prefer an Indictment against Dr. Oates for an attempt to commit upon him the horrid and Abominable sin of Sodomy Which Indictment being brought to the Grand Jury the Incoherence and slightness of his evidencence caused them to return an Ignoramus Dr. Oates not willing to suffer his Good name and the Credit of his Testimony to depend upon the throwing out of that bill brought an Indictment for the King against the said Knox and Lane for Osborne had withdrawn himself which came to be openly tryed at the Kings-bench bar November twenty five 1679. An account whereof the whole Nation does expect and wherein satisfaction shall be now given Novem. 25 1679. Dominus Rex versus Thomam Knox Johanem Lane For the King The Indictment sets forth that whereas Edward Coleman William Ireland and John Groves and other false Traytors to the Jury unknown 24th of April in the thirtieth year of the King that now is at the Parish of Saint Margarets Westminster did trayterously conspire consult and agree amongst themselves to kill and destroy the King and to raise War against his Majesty within this Kingdome and to change the Religion by Law established to the Superstition of the Church of Rome for which Treasons Trayterous Conspiracies Consultations and Agreements the said Coleman Ireland and Groves were afterwards attainded and put to death for the same And whereas William Earl of Powis William Viscount Stafford John Lord Bellasis Henry Lord Arundel of Wardour William Lord Petre and Sir Henry Tichbourn Baronet the thirtieth of Nov. last at Westminster were accused of the Treasons aforesaid and thereupon according to due forme of law were committed to the Tower of London to be there safely kept to answer the said Treasons whereof the said Earl of Powis and the other four Lords were by the Commons in Parliament assembled Impeached And whereas Thomas Earl of Danby afterwards that is to say the thirtieth of Nov. last at Westminster was in lawful manner accused of certain Treasons and other misdemeaners and thereupon according to due forme of law was committed to the Tower there to be safe kept to answer the Treasons and misdemeanours aforesaid of which said Treason and misdemeanours the said Earl of Danby is Impeached by the Commons in Parliament assembled And that the Defendants knowing the said Lords to be accused of the Treason and misdemeanours aforesaid and the said defendants being diabolically affected towards the King their natural Lord and contriving and endeavouring with all their might to disturb hinder and stifle the discovery of the said Treasons by the said Earl of Powis Viscount Stafford Lord Bellisis Henry Lord Arundel William Lord Petre supposed to be committed as aforesaid and as much as in them lay to elude the due Course of law and retard the prosecution of justice against the said five Lords Sir Henry Tichbourn and Thomas Earl of Danby They the said Defendants the thirtieth of April last past at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid falsely maliciously and unlawfully amongst themselves did consult and agree to scandalize Titus Oates Clerk and William Bedlow Gent. Who had given informations of the Treasons aforesaid and whom the said Defendants knew to have given Information of the Treasons aforesaid against the Earl of Powis Viscount Stafford Lords Bellasis Arundel and Petre and to represent them upon the Trial of the said five Lords to be persons of evil Conversation and Witnesses not to be believed And that the Defendant Knox afterwards that is to say the 30th of April last at Westminster aforesaid in the Names and with the consent and agreement of the Defendant Lane and William Osborne to villifie the Information of the said Titus Oates and William Bedlow to be given for the King against the said five Lords last mentioned falsly maliciously subtilly and advisedly did write and cause to be written four Letters and those Letters so written falsly c. did direct and cause to be delivered to himself the said Defendant Knox by which said Letters it was falsly craftily and deceitfully declared that the said Lane and Osborne were very much troubled in their Consciences by reason of certain matters which they well knew and did conceal concerning the unjust contrivances of the said Titus Oates and William Bedlow in accusing the said Earl of Danby to be guilty of the Treasons and other Misdemeanors aforesaid And that the said Titus Oates was a person of a wicked and vicious Life and did make an assault upon the said John Lane and did endeavour to commit with him the said Lane Sodomy And further that the Defendant Knox the sooner and effectually to perswade the said Lane and Osborne falsly to accuse the said Titus Oates and William Bedlow that they the said Titus Oates and William Bedlow had unjustly contrary to all Truth accused the said E. of Danby of the Treasons and other Misdemeanours aforesaid and so to affirm against the Kings Evidence against the Trial to be had of the said Earl of Danby for the Treasons and Misdemeanors aforesaid afterwards the 30th of April last at Westminster falsly advisedly corruptly and against the duty of his Allegiance did give to the said Lane and Osborne divers great summs of Money And did promise to the said Lane and Osborne within a certain time by the said Defendant Knox proposed that they the said Lane and Osborne should have and receive other great summs and other rewards for the same to the great delay obstruction and suppression of Justice c. To this the Defendants pleaded not Guilty The Names of the Jury Empanelled and Sworn were as followeth Sr. John Kirke Knight Thomas Harriot