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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47807	A brief history of the times, &c. ...	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.; L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. Observators.	1687 (1687)	Wing L1203; ESTC R12118	403,325	718

a Martyr for the Meritorious Services he did in That Act both to Church and State. It is most Certain that he was a great stickler in 't and it is No less Certain that he was afterward as Violent for the Bill of Exclusion and for Stripping the Roman-Catholique Lords and Commons of the Vndoubted Privileges of their Birthright Nay and of the Common Benefits of Life Liberty and Property either as Reasonable Creatures or as Members of a Political Body As to his Protestant Zeal All the world knows that he was not a man to Burn at stake for his Religion and if he Propos'd to himself the same End in what he did for the Test and what he did some years after for the Plot the Association and Exclusion he had undoubtedly in his eye the Ruine of the King the Duke of York and the Monarchy from First to Last and Designed the One as well as the Other for an Expedient toward the Gaining of his Point It looks unluckyly too that Marvel should with the same Breath so much Extoll both the Lord and the Project for his Whole Book is a Train of Scandal upon the King and of Treason against him from End to End. The Scribler and the Peer were Both Men of Parts They Knew what was for their Turn and what Not and it was Impossible for any thing to please them in Government that was not Pernicious to the State. This appear'd abundantly by the Sequel For Marvels Pamphlets and This Peers Practices were the Main Incentives and Encouragements to the Following Rebellions To Close This Head It was the Removal of the Lord it seems that brought on the Desperate Apprehensions of Popery for in one and the same Year his Lordship found no Danger of it at All and yet No Living for Fear on 't without any Visible Cause of Change Intervening Now when Another Generation shall come to look into the Hurry and the Distraction of These Times they cannot but in Reason presume that there was some Mighty Bus'ness in 't to Produce such Wonderful Effects Little Imagining that Otes's Popish Monstrous Snake in the Grass should be found at last to be but a Glow-worm But now to the State of the Kingdom upon the coming of This Blasphemous Saviour of the Nation into the World. A Short View of the Miseries that this Plot brought upon us I am at a loss in the Infinite Variety of Miseries that I have now before me Where to Begin Here 's Soul and Body Life Liberty and Estate Peace of Mind Religion Reputation Charity Truth and Iustice All in fine that can be Dear to a Nation to a Christian or to a Man to the Present Age or to Posterity All This I say at stake and All these Privileges Interests Rights and Duties Swallowed up in a Licentious and Abandon'd Contempt and Violation of All Obligations Sacred and Prophane How many People had we that under the Temptations of Fear Avarice Malice Revenge Envy Ambition Sold themselves to Work Wickedness play'd the Hypocrites with God and the King and Betray'd them Both under the Masque of Loyalty and Religion How many Instances had we of people that had no Other Choice before them but either to Hang or Damn and of Persons that made their Election some the One way and some the Other Only so much Money Cast-in on the Swearing-side as if it had been upon an Estimate betwixt the Body and the Soul to make the Scales Even And so much for Soul and Body Now to Proceed How many Lives taken away by Perjury and Subornation And what Security had Any man for his Life when the Kingdom ran as Quick of False Witnesses as a Cony-Warren of Rabbets and Every mans Breath lay at the Mercy of a Couple of Reprobated Villains Where was the Free-born Subjects Liberty When the Kings Witnesses were only the Re-publicans Beagles to Draw Dry-Foot to the Door of Every Honest or but Suspected Honest Man When Priest-Hunters and Prince-Hunters were One and the Same sort of People What an Intelligence was there betwixt the Evidences and the Catch-Poles When Knights of the Post made More Rogues then the Government had provided Prisons to Receive them When the English of Resolv'd upon the Question was only Take him Iaylor When Mittimus-es ran without Cause shewn and Commitments as Arbitrary as their Keepers-Fees When men were Taken-up and Spirited away without Warrants and made Slaves contrary to Law. What Title had any man to his Estate when a Pair of Affidavit-Sparks Match't like Indentures could Swear him Out on 't When Guinneys pass'd for Popish Medalls Crucifixes for the Reliques of Superstition Choice and Historical Pictures in Honour and Memoriall of the Christian Profession When These Paintings I say went for the Remains of Idolatry When Ordinary Drinking-Plate pass'd for Chalices and men were Rifled Robb'd and Vndone by the Basest of Felons under the Masque of Zeal and Conscience This was Undenyably our Condition in the Matters of Life Liberty and Estate Now to the Next Point of Peace of Minde What could be more Miserable then to live in Perpetual Fears Ielousies Frights and Alarums In fear for the Kings Life the Protestant Religion The Peace of the Government Tyranny Popery Slavery In Fear for Souls Bodies and Fortunes Fires Massacres Portugal-Black-Bills and Smithfield-Faggots In Fear of All that it was Possible for us to Lose or to Suffer and under an Incurable Ielousie of our Governours and our Friends that they meant to Betray us and to bring All These Evils upon us And so for Frights and Alarums Our Danger was to come from All Quarters of the Heavens College Searches the Cellars in the Palace-Yard for fear of Gunpowder There was the Black-Heath Army The Purbeck-Invasion the City-Guards to be Doubled Shaftsbury and Tonge to be Murder'd as Godfrey was And what did they say for All This now Why the Pulpits are Wise and They tell of Squibbs and Fire-Balls to make Sport for the Philistins Such a Lord sat up all night with his Pistols and Blunderbusses about him for fear of a Rising The House knew what they Did when they Voted the Guards to be a Grievance and the Militia to be Rais'd at a Days Warning What Peace of Minde could there Be or rather What Horror of Thought did not they Endure that liv'd under the Continual Agony of These Terrours Neither were we one jot more at Ease in the Matter of Religion for they Bely'd the very Religion that they pretended to and the Practices of the Faction ran directly Counter to All the Precepts of the Gospel Treachery was call'd Truth and Faith. Slander was only Liberty of Speech Perjury was Hallow'd by the Lips and Credit of a Kings-Evidence Forgery if Detected was but a Mistake Rebellion a True Protestant Association A Shamm-Narrative pass'd for the Discovery of a Damnable Hellish Popish Plot and the People were Stirr d-up and Instructed to Hate and Persecute the

that More have not shrunk under the Temptation But as to the Voluntier-Witnesses now they were such a Parcel of Dissolute Miscreants in the Whole Habit of their Lives that their Souls were scarce Blacker After the Perjury then they were Before We have been here speaking of their Practices upon such as have been formally Accus'd Articled and Impeach'd c. And Then says Bedloe of Prance when I went into the House of Lords I made out My Charge against him Green's Tryal pa. 34. But now there were Another sort of People too that as a Man may say fell into the Toyl by Chance and This in Twenty Several Cases But I am here upon the Bus'ness of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey and I 'le keep to My Subject The Two Persons that Found the Stick and the Gloves that gave the First Light to the Discovery of the Body of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey did their Duties Honestly and Discreetly upon That occasion as Will appear by the Enformations here following and we shall see the Thanks they had for their Pains Over and above a very Good Reason Why This was not done While Matters were Fresh VVilliam Brumwell Deposeth That This Enformant together with one John Walters Passing by Primrose Hill toward the White House about Three or Four in the Afternoon of That Thursday when the Body of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey was found saw a Cane and a Pair of Gloves lying within a Thicket upon a Green Bank near the Ditch This Enformant and the said VValters went forward to the White-house Where as they were Drinking together speaking of the said Gloves and Stick and likewise of a Belt lying with them as This Enformant remembers It was Propos'd and Agreed to go down to the Place to see whether they were there still And being come Thither the Master of the White-house stooping to take them up started back on the sudden saying Lord Bless us There 's a Man Murther'd This Enformant and the Company after a very Little stay and without Touching the Body or Medling with the Gloves and Stick that lay by went away presently to Mr. Brown who was then Constable And upon This Enformants and the Others Description of the Person to Mr. Brown he said to This Effect I wish it be not Sir Edmundbury Godfrey And that in the way from Primrose Hill to Mr. Browns This Enformant with his Company Met one Jennings a Cow-keeper at Cony-bury Hall And told him that they had found a Man Dead in such a Place Naming the Place and Considering what was best to do in it The said Jennings replying You had best let it Alone and take No further Notice for fear You should come into Trouble about it Rawson Rebuking the said Jennings for Talking at that Rate and so they Parted from the said Jennings And saith Likewise that about the Latter end of Octob. 1678. This Enformant and John VValters abovesaid were Taken up and brought before the Lords Committees at VVallingford-house the Earl of Shaftsbury being in the Chair where they were Examin'd and this Enformant severely Threatned by the Earl of Shaftsbury and Committed to Newgate And about Ten days after This Enformant was sent for again Where the Lord Shaftsbury Declar'd That This Enformant was set on by some Great Roman Catholique to find out the Body of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey And if any Man ever was Hang'd He should be Hang'd if he did not Discover it And further that after These Menaces of the Lord Shaftsbury Major W took This Enformant into a By-Place and there ask'd This Enformant Why he would not Discover VVho set him on for he should have 500 l. Reward His Life Secur'd c. Still Pressing This Enformant as aforesaid This Enformant telling him that he had spoke What he Knew already and that He Could say no More nor Would he Accuse any Man Falsly And Moreover That This Enformant was kept about Nine-Weeks a Prisoner in Newgate without suffering Any body to come to him saving only that This Enformant's Wife had an Order from the Duke of Buckingham Twice to Visit him John Walters Deposeth that He This Enformant Walking with William Bromwell toward the White-house upon the Day when Justice Godfrey's Body was found saw a Cane and a Pair of Gloves upon a Bank near Primrose Hill about Three or Four in the Afternoon And as they were Drinking afterwards at the White-house speaking of the said Gloves and Stick they went down to the Place to see if they were there still the Master of the House going along with them who being come to the place and stooping to take up the Gloves started back and Cry'd Lord Bless us There 's a Man Murther'd This Enformant and Company made very Little stay after This but left things as they found them and went away to see for a Constable and were Directed to one Mr. Brown Who upon Describing the Body said to This Effect I VVish it be not Sir Edmundbury Godfrey And that as they were upon the Way to get a Constable they met One Jennings and told him of a Body they had found in such a Place Naming the Place Whose answer was I take You for Neighbours and Friends I do ' een advise you to say Nothing on 't but let some body else find it out for you may bring your selves into a Great Deal of Trouble This Enformant and the Company Blaming Jennings for Talking so And then they Parted And saith that about the Latter end of October 1678. This Enformant was Taken up by One that belonged to the Duke of Buckingham as he told This Enformant and Carried to the Lords Committees at VVallingford-house the Day that Sir Edmundbury Godfrey's Body was Bury'd The Late Earl of Shaftsbury being in the Chair and Titus Otes appointed to See if he Knew This Enformant The said Earl Threatning This Enformant ve●y severely and This Enformant was Committed thereupon to the Gate-house where he was Fetter'd and Hand-Cuff'd and kept in the Dungeon for Three Days and Three Nights That about Eight or Ten Days after his Commitment This Enformant was sent for again to the Lords Committees when the said Lord Saftsbury took This Enformant aside into a By-Closet speaking to him to This Effect Honest Smug the Smith Thou look'st like an Honest Fellow Thou shalt shoe my Horses and I 'le make a Man of thee saying further Tell me who Murther'd This Man and who set thee to find him out VVhat Papists dost thou VVork for And so the said Earl went on Pressing This Enformant to the same Effect This Enformant making Answer My Lord If I knew Your self had Murther'd him I would Discover it though I Dy'd for 't This Enformant telling the said Earl as well as he Could remember for what Customers he Wrought After which This Enformant was Deliver'd up to the Keeper but presently call'd back and Discharg'd For a VVord of Introduction to what now follows Mrs. Mary Gibbon the VVife of Captain Thomas Gibbon was related