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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25877	The arraignment, tryal and condemnation of Stephen Colledge for high-treason in conspiring the death of the king, the levying of war, and the subversion of the government : before the Right Honourable Sr. Francis North, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common-Pleas, and other commissioners of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery held at the city of Oxon for the county of Oxon, the 17th and 18th of August 1681.	Colledge, Stephen, 1635?-1681, defendant.	1681 (1681)	Wing A3761; ESTC R15865	159,951	112

Natural Lord the Fear of God in thy heart not having nor weighing the Duty of thy Allegiance but being moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil the cordial Love and true due and natural obedience which true and faithful Subjects of our said Sovereign Lord the King towards him our said Soveraign Lord the King should and of right ought to bear wholly withdrawing and machinating and with all thy strength intending the Peace and common tranquillity of our said Soveraign Lord the King of this Kingdom of England to disturb and Sedition and Rebellion and War against our Sovereign Lord the King within this Kingdom of England to move stir up and procure and the Cordial Love and true and due Obedience which true and faithful Subjects of our said Soveraign Lord the King towards him our said Soveraign Lord the King should and of right ought to bear wholly to withdraw put out and extinguish and him our said Soveraign Lord the King to Death and final Destruction to bring and put the Tenth day of March in the Three and Thirtieth year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. at Oxford in the County of Oxford Falsly Maliciously Subtilly and Traiterously did Purpose Compass Imagine and Intend Sedition and Rebellion within this Kingdom of England to move stir up and procure and a Miserable Slaughter among the Subjects of our said Soveraign Lord the King to procure and cause and our said Soveraign Lord the King from his Regal State Title Power and Government of his Kingdom of England to deprive depose cast down and disinherit and him our said Soveraign Lord the King to Death and final Destruction to bring and put and the Government of the said Kingdom at thy will and pleasure to change and alter and the State of all this Kingdom of England in all its parts well instituted and ordained wholly to Subvert and Destroy and War against our said Soveraign Lord the King within this Kingdom of England to levy and thy said most Wicked Treasons and Trayterous Imaginations and Purposes aforesaid to fulfil and perfect thou the said Stephen Colledge the said tenth day of March in the Three and Thirtieth year of the Reign of our said Soveraign Lord the King with force and Arms c. at Oxford aforesaid in the County of Oxford aforesaid Falsly Maliciously Subtilly Advisedly Devilishly and Traiterously did prepare Arms and Warlike offensive habiliments to wage War against our said Soveraign Lord the King And thy self in warlike manner for the purposes aforesaid then and there Falsly Maliciously Subtilly Advisedly Devilishly and Traiterously didst Arm and one Edward Turbervill and other Subjects of our said Soveraign Lord the King to Arm themselves to perfect thy Traiterous purposes aforesaid then and there Advisedly Maliciously and Trayterously didst incite and advise And further then and there Falsly Maliciously Subtilly Advisedly Devilishly and Traiterously didst say and declare That it was purposed and designed to seize the Person of our said Soveraign Lord the King at Oxford aforesaid in the County of Oxford aforesaid And that thou the said Stephen Colledge in prosecution of thy Traiterous purpose aforesaid wouldst be one of them who should seize our said Soveraign Lord the King at Oxford aforesaid in the County aforesaid And that thou the said Stephen Colledge thy said most wicked Treasons and traiterous Imaginations Compassings and Purposes aforesaid the sooner to fulfill and perfect and discords between our said Soveraign Lord the King and his People to move cause and procure then and diverse times and dayes as well before as after at Oxford aforesaid in the County of Oxford aforesaid in the presence and hearing of diverse Leige Subjects of our said Soveraign Lord the King then and there being present falsly maliciously subtilly advisedly devillishly and Traiterously didst say and declare That nothing of good was to be expected from our said Soveraign Lord the King that our said Soveraign Lord the King did mind nothing but beastliness and the Destruction of his People And that our said Soveraign Lord the King did endeavour to establish Arbitrary Government and Popery against the Duty of thy Allegiance against the Peace of our Soveraign Lord the King his Crown and Dignity and against the Form of the Statutes in this Case made and provided How say'st thou Stephen Colledge art thou Guilty of this High Treason whereof thou standest indicted and hast been now arraigned or Not Guilty Colledge My Lord I do desire if it please your Lordship to be heard a few words L. Ch. Just Look you Mr. Colledge the matter that hath been here read unto you is a plain matter and it hath been read to you in English that you may understand it 'T is an Indictment of High Treason now you must know that no Plea can be received to it but either Guilty or Not Guilty as to the Fact if you can assign any matter in Law do it Colledge Will you please to spare me that I may be heard a few words I have been kept close Prisoner in the Tower ever since I was taken I was all along unacquainted with what was charged upon me I knew not what was sworn against me nor the persons that did swear it against me and therefore I am wholly ignorant of the matter I do humbly desire I may have a Copy of the Indictment and a Copy of the Jury that is to pass upon me and that I may have Councel assigned me to advise me whether I have not something in Law pleadable in Bar of this Indictment L. Ch. Just These are the things you ask you would have a Copy of the Indictment you would have Councel assigned to you to advise you in matter of Law and a Copy of the Jury Colledge One word more my Lord I desire to know upon what Statute I am indicted L. Ch. Just I will tell you for that Is it not contra formam Statut. with an abbreviation Cl. of C. Yes L. Ch. Just That refers to all manner of Statutes that have any Relation to the thing in the Indictment that is High Treason For it may be meant contra formam Statut. which are all the several Statutes that are in force concerning High Treason Now for those things that you demand you cannot have them by Law No man can have a Copy of the Indictment by Law for Councel you cannot have it unless matter of Law arises and that must be propounded by you and then if it be a matter debatable the Court will assign you Councel but it must be upon a matter fit to be argued for I must tell you a defence in Case of High Treason ought not to be made by Artificial Cavils but by plain Fact If you propose any matter of Law the Court will consider of it and assign you Councel if it be reasonable For a Copy of

I did ask him whether he was a Witness or no against Colledge Mr. Turbervile said he would break any one's head that should say so against him for he neither was a Witness nor could give any Evidence against him So after he came from Oxon I met with Mr. Turbervile again and hearing he had been there I asked him if he had sworn any thing against Colledge He said Yes he had been sworn before the Grand Jury Said I did not you tell me so and so Why said he the Protestant Citizens have deserted us and God damn him he would not starve L. Ch. Just Would he say so to you Dr. Oates Yes my Lord he said those very words Mr. Serj. Jeff. 'T is Mr. Oates Saying 't is Mr. Turbervile's Oath Dr. Oates Several times he did repeat it but when I asked him what he had sworn he said I am not bound to satisfie peoples Curiosities L. Ch. Just What say you to it Mr. Turbervile Mr. Turbervile My Lord the first part of the Doctor 's discourse in part is true I met him just at my Lodgings and the Doctor alighted out of his Coach and spoke to me and invited me to come to my old Friends for he told me they had some jealousie that I was not true to them and he told me if I would come to the King's Head Club I should be received with a great deal of kindness and never afterwards did I speak with the Doctor a tittle about any Evidence L. Ch. Just He says you said you would break any one's head that said you were an Evidence against Colledge for you were not nor could be Mr. Turbervile There was no such thing said by me Mr. Attorn Gen. Upon your Oath did you tell him so Mr. Turbervile Upon my Oath I did not Mr. Serj. Jeff. Did you tell him that other passage when you swore you would not starve Mr. Turbervile No I did not Dr. Oates Upon the word of a Priest what I say is true My Lord I do say as I am a Minister I speak it sincerely in the presence of God this Gentleman did say these words to me which made me afraid of the man and I went my ways and never spake with him afterwards nor durst I for I thought he that would swear curse after that rate was not fit to be talked with L. Ch. Just 'T is very improbable that he should say so to you Mr. Turbervile I always looked upon Dr. Oates as a very ill man and never would converse much with him L. Ch. Just Will you ask him any thing more Coll. Do you know any thing of the rest Doctor Dr. Oates I know nothing of Turbervile further but that he did present this Petition wherein he says he lay under great temptations to go on the other side and accuse some Protestants And truly till I heard he was an Evidence at Oxon after what he had said to me I did not believe it Mr. Attorn Gen. Doctor Oates Mr. Turbervile hath not changed Sides you have he is still an Evidence for the King you are against him Dr. Oates Mr. Attorney I am a Witness for Truth against Falshood and Subornation and it cannot plainly be made to appear there is Subornation against the Protestants And moreover my Lord L. Ch. Just Mr. Oates you would do well to explain your self Mr. Serj. Jeff. If there be any subornation relating to Mr. Turbervile or any of the other Witnesses that have now sworn against Colledge make it out Doctor Dr. Oates There is my Lord and there will be made further to appear in time to come To my own knowledge as to Mr. Smith Mr. Colledge and Mr. Smith had some provoking words passed betwixt them at Richards Coffee-house and Mr. Smith comes out and swears God damn him he would have Colledges bloud So my Lord when I met him said I Mr. Smith you profess your self to be a Priest and have stood at the Altar and now you intend to take upon you the Ministery of the Church of England and these words do not become a Minister of the Gospel his reply was God damn the Gospel this is truth I speak it in the presence of God and Man L. Ch. Just Can you say any thing of any of the other Witnesses Dr. Oates As for Mr. Dugdale I was ingaged for him for 50 li. for last Lent Assizes he wanted money to go down to the Assizes having pay'd some debts and pay'd away all his money and so I ingaged for 50 li. that he borrowed of Richard the Coffee-man After he came from Oxen I called upon him to hasten to get his money of the Lords in the Treasury which as near as I remember was ordered him upon his Petition for so I heard And at that time said he Sir I hear there is a great noise of my being an Evidence against whom said I against several Protestants my Lord Shaftsbury and others said I I never heard any thing of it says he there is no body hath any Cause to make any such Report of me for I call God to Witness I know nothing against any Protestant in England After that I met with Dugdale at Richards Coffee-house and pressing him for the money and he saying he had it not just then but would pay it in a little time Mr. Dugdale said I you have gone I am afraid against your Conscience I am sure against what you have declared to me said he It was all long of Colonel Warcup for I could get no money else Mr. Att. Gen. Mr. Oats is a through paced Witness against all the King's Evidence Mr. Serj. Jeff. And yet Dr. Oates had been alone in some matters had it not been for some of these Witnesses Dr. Oates I had been alone perhaps and perhaps not but yet Mr. Serjeant I had always a better Reputation than to need theirs to strengthen it Mr. Serj. Jeff. Does any man speak of your Reputation I know no body does meddle with it but you are so tender Coll. Sir George Now a man is upon his Life I think you do not do well to affront his Witnesses Mr. Serj. Jeff. I do not affront him but now my Lord pray give us leave to call our Witnesses Mr. Smith pray stand up L. Ch. Just Mr. Smith do you hear what Mr. Oates hath said Mr. Smith No my Lord. L. Ch. Just Then speak it again Mr. Oates Dr. Oates Yes my Lord I will speak it to his face He said coming out of Richards Coffee-house They having had some provoking words as I understood when I come in God damn that Colledge I will have his blood and my Lord when I did reprove him and said to him Mr. Smith you have been a Priest and stood at the Altar and intend to be a Minister of the Church of England these words do not become a Minister of the Gospel and he replied God damn the Gospel and away he went L. Ch. Just What say you

Commotion which no man knows what end it would have had Gentlemen this hath been our proof Now the Objection made to this proof by Mr. Colledge is That this is a Popish design to raise a new Plot and cast it upon the Protestants and that these Witnesses are now to deny all the Evidence they have given of the Popish Plot and throw all upon the Protestants This is that he would perswade you to believe but which I think when you do consider a little of it it will be impossible for you in the least to have such a thought For what are the Evidence that have ●●●ved this who are they Men of Credit that have been Evidences against the Popish Plotters and against men that have suffered for that Plot men that still stand to the Evidence they have given and affirm it every word to be true and one of the very men that he brought says that they still stand to it for Turbervile who was one of the Witnesses against my Lord Stafford was tempted by some persons to deny the Evidence he had given against the Papists but his answer was no I can never depart from it I have a soul to save that was true which I said I cannot deny it It then the Witnesses which he would have you believe to be guilty of denying the Popish Plott do confirm what they have said as to that discovery that objection is taken off and they doe stand still to if that every part of it was true and aver the same thing and yet forsooth these men are going about to stifle this Plot. Gentlemen these are the men the whole Nation have given credit to the Parliament having impeached my Lord Stafford upon the credit of them for it was upon the credit of Dugdale and Turbervile that they impeached him for there was not two Witnesses till Turbervile came in and made a Second and upon their credit after so solemn a Tryal where all the Objections that could possibly be made were made the House of Lords thought fit to find my Lord Stafford Guilty and my Lord Stafford suffered for it and dyed upon the credit of these men These are the Witnesses Gentlemen that this man thinks ought to be blown off with that frivolous Objection that they are Persons he would have you believe who are Guilty of a design to throw the Plot upon the Protestants But because he hath desired to save himself in an Herd by numbring himself amongst the Protestants I must a little observe to you what a sort of Protestant he is a man he would have you to believe so popular for his Religion that he hath obtained the name of the Protestant Joyner But when you have considered what his Actions are I believe you will a little suspect his Religion If the Protestant Religion allow any man to vilifie the King to Arraign the Government and to throw off all manner of allegiance then this man is a Protestant but if this be to act the part of a Papist and if the Papists could wish that such an infamy might be put upon the Protestant Religion that it should justifie such a Rebellion as the late horrid one was and own such a Principle that it is lawful for any Subject to asperse and vilifie the King as this man by those many and scurrilous Libels seems to do If they could wish this Nation overturned and the Government in confusion and the Church of England destroyed the Best Bulwark now in the world against Popery and the best or only refuge at this day left for the poor afflicted Protestants abroad Then whilest Mr. Colledge does thus act the part of a Papist he does very ill to call himself a Protestant Gentlemen I cannot but observe one thing to you and it was the Evidence of Dr. Oates when he did first discover the Plot and without his Evidence you would easily believe the thing He told you there were two ways they had to accomplish their design by direct murdering of the King or if that failed by putting all things into confusion here and raising Rebellion and disturbance amongst us and the way to affect that Rebellion it was by having Emissaries sent among us to work us into a dislike of the Church and by that means into a Rebellion against the State That some men were sent abroad for that purpose to preach at Conventicles some whereof were catched and some did suffer Now without this Evidence it would not be hard to believe that such there are and have been for all that know the History of our Reformation do know that it was an early practice among them to raise Sects amongst us to bring confusion first into the Church and then in the State And we have already found the sad effects of it Now Gentlemen if Colledge have all this while under the name of a Protestant acted the part of a Papist though I cannot say he is a Papist nor that he is one of those Emissaries yet I may say he is not that good Protestant he pretends to be Gentlemen I must now to do him right come to repeat the Evidence that he hath given against our Witnesses for Mr. Haynes he hath produced several Witnesses one is Mr. Hickman who says he overheard Haynes say to one that was his Tenant that it was his trade to swear and he must get money by it This he overheard him standing and listning at a door You have another man Lun that is the next Witness and he says that at the Fleet-ditch where he saw him there he declared the same thing to him that he would swear any thing for money and dam his soul rather than the Catholick Cause should sink and now He comes to prove a Plot upon him that is a Protestant and in his person upon all the Protestants of England and this man would fain throw off the credit of the Popish Plot and turn it upon the Protestants But Gentlemen it is strange that Mr. Haynes should have this discourse with Lun the first time that ever he saw him for I am sure his own Witness Lun says it was the first time and that he should immediately talk to him at this rate is somewhat strange But for an Answer to it this Lun we have confronted with the Evidence of White the Messenger who swears that afterwards meeting him at Vxbridge Lun asked him what Gentleman that was and did not know Mr. Haynes and yet he takes upon him to prove that he had spoke such words to him before I think there is never another material Witness against Haynes except Whaley who was an under-Officer in the Kings-Bench and he says that Haynes while he was a Prisoner there ran away with a silver Tankard but he never was indicted or prosecuted for it tho' he remained afterwards in the House and this was 5 or 6 years ago Now Gentlemen I think the nature of this Evidence hath not that weight as to take off