THE DISCOVERY OF THE Popish Plot BEING The several Examinations of TITUS OATES D. D. Before the High Court OF PARLIAMENT The Lord CHIEF JUSTICE Sir EDMUND-BURY GODFRY And several other of His MAJESTY's JUSTICES of the PEACE London Printed 1679. Titus Oates D. D. his Journal and Affidavit of his Discovery of the Conspiracy before Sir Edmund-Bury Godfry Septemb. the 27th 1678. IMprimis Richard Strange Provincial John Keines Bazil Longworth John Fenwick and Mr. Hartcourt Jesuites did Write a Treasonable Letter to Father Sinman an Irish Jesuite at Madrid in the Kingdom of Spain in which was contained their Plotting and Contriving a Rebellion in Scotland of the Presbyterians against the Episcopal Government in order to which they have imployed one Matthew Wright William Morgan and Mr. Ireland to go and Preach under the Notion of Presbyterians and give the disaffected Scots a true understanding of their sad States and Conditions which they were in by reason of Episcopal Tyranny exercised against them and withall to tell them now they had a fair opportunity to Vindicate their Liberty and Religion and that it could be done by no other way but the Sword and that now the King was addicted to his Pleasure that he would and could take but little care of that Concern In the said Letter it was expressed they had gotten an Interest in His Royal Highness but they deal with him as they think fit and that they were resolved by all means to weaken the King of England's Interest by informing his Friends of his intent to betray them into the Hands of Forraign Powers viz. to send them to fall by the Sword in the French King's Service against the Confederate Princes which Letter bares Date April 19 27 1677. 2. That the Persons abovementioned gave the Deponent 10 l. to carry the said Letter to Father Sinman into the Kingdom of Spain to Madrid the said Sinman being the Provincial General for the Kingdom of England and Ireland and in order to which Message the Deponent Embarked himself in the Ship called the Bâ—sca Merchant whereof Luke Bath-Roch was then Master to go for Bâ—lboa and there took Mules for Valladolydd but staying a day at Burgos in Spain the Deponent broke open the said Letter and found these Contents in the same 3. That they of the Society of Jesus in the English Seminary at St. Omers sent a Mission of Twelve Students into the Kingdom of Spain viz. Eight to Valladolydd and Four to Madrid there being English Colledges in both places in order to Study Philosophy and Divinity which Missioners were sent by Richard Ashbey Richard Peter Nicholas Blundel and Charles Peter by the Patents of the several Missioners by which they had power to demand Admission into the respective Colledges to which they were sent which Missioners were obliged by the Jesuits of the Colledges to renounce their Allegiance to His Majesty of Great Britain in the hearing of the Deponent and those of Valladolydd were taught by Daniel Armestrong a Jesuite Minister of the English there That First the Oath of Allegiance is Heretical and Anti-christian and Divellish and that Charles Stuart King of England is no Lawful King but comes of aspurious Rase and 〈◊〉 his Father was a Black Scotch-man and not King Charles the First This was delivered in a Sermon the 29th of Sept. 1677. to the Students there which Sermon the Deponent did hear and in this Sermon the said Daniel Armestrong in plain words did say that the King of England was a Bastard now that Daniel Armestrong goeth in Spain by the Name of Joseph Munford in Spanish by John Montefortio 4. That the said John Munford alias Armestrong did bring Letters from St. Omers to the English Colledge at Valladolydd to the Father there in Latin by reason they were Spaniards in which was expressed and related from the Fathers at St. Omers that the Fathers of the Society of London hath procured one Father Beningfield to be Confessor to His Royal Highness but if they saw that His Royal Highness did not answer their expectation they would dispose of him as they did intend to dispose of His Brother the King which they hoped to effect within a year which Letter bares Date June 1677. and Subscribed by Richard Ashbey alias Shimbleby Rector of the English Jesuites at St. Omers Richard Peter Minister Edward Nevil Prefect of the Studies Ch. Peters Prefect of Sodality John Farmor Prefect of Manors which Letters the Deponent saw in the Month of September 1677. at Valladolydd in the Kingdom of Spain 5. That Father Sinman above mentioned Writ to the English Colledge and the Fathers there said that the King of England was Poysoned to the great Joy of the English Fathers and that they would serve King James so if he did not give them a good assurance of bringing in the Catholick Religion and of rooting out the Protestant this Letter bore Date July the And was seen and read by the Deponent at Valladolydd near the latter end of July 1677. 6. That one Father John Blake alias Cross who went with the Four Students to Madrid did bring Letters from Richard Strange Provincial of the Jesuits and one Father Gray a Jesuit and John Keines to Father Sinman above mentioned in which was specifyed the great diligence was used by the said Richard Strange Father Gray and John Keines to procure such persons to dispatch the King and to put a period to his dayes which Letter bore date June the 10. 1677. Stilo Novo And the Deponent being sent to Madrid in August read it in Father Sinmans Chamber he shewing it also at the same time to James Arch-Bishop of Tuam of the Kingdom of Ireland 7. That the said Father Sinman received another Letter July the 20. 1677. Stilo Novo from Richard Strange Father Gray John Keines Bazill Longworth John Fenwick Father Ireland and Father Hartcourt in which they did manifest they were very sorry for informing him that he might assure himself that the business was done there man William being faint harted could not then do it though he had 15000 l. promised for his pains of which Letters the English Missioners by one information that at Madrid by John Cross alias Blake and those of Valladolydd by Daniel Armestrong Jesuit which Letters the deponent saw in the Chamber of Mr. Synman at Madrid at the same time that he saw the Letters of the _____ June mentioned in the fore-going paragraph or number 8. That on the 3. of November Stilo Novo Father Petro Jeronymo de Cordela Provincial of the Jesuits in New Castle did write to Richard Strange and John Keines that if the business of dispatching of the King of England could be effected they should have 10000 l. which Letter the deponent brought from Valladolydd to Bilboa and imbarked in a Ship within 5 dayes after his Arrival thither and in five dayes more arrived at a little Town near Exeter and in five dayes more at London and delivered
the Letter to Richard Strange and when opened it was writ in Lattin and read by the said Strange and he said that all means should be used to answer Father Petro's expectation and in the Letter to Strange was one inclosed to this Keines by the Name of John de Neaporto de la Companey de Jesus which Letter the said Keines offered the Deponent to read and because of the Spanish abbreviation the Deponent did not well understand the Letter it being also in the Spanish Tongue so that the Deponent could but make little of it therefore the said Strange did give the Deponent the Letter directed to himself saying that he thought the Deponent understood the Letter better then Spanish that the Deponent read the Letter and found in it the Contents above mentioned and the said Keines being then ill upon Stranges Bed said that he hoped that God would strengthen honest Williams heart to do this work now this honest William is a Servant of the Society of London this Strange did lye at Mr. Saunders his House part of Wild-house in Wild-street where the Deponent heard this discourse from Strange and Keines 9. That the said Richard Strange Bazill Longworth Father Hartcourt John Fenwick Father Ireland Father Gray Father Jenison Father Saunders and Father Euliston did write a Letter and subscribed it and did send it to St. Omers to Richard Ashbey Alias Thimbleby Rector of the English Seminary there in which he and the rest of the Fathers were given to understand that the King was as well given to Debauchery as Whoreing that they had an intent to get one to stab him in his Court at Whitehall and if that could not be conveniently done they would imploy one of his Physitians to Poyson him and for his work they had 10000 l. in the hands of one Worseley a Gold-Smith which Money was procured by one Father Leshee a French Jesuit and Confessor to the French King which Letter the Deponent saw and read and saw it subscribed by the above said persons and carried them to St. Omers he went down to Dover in a Coach place being taken for him by the said William their Servant but whose Name is John Groves the Letter carried bore date December 1677. Stilo Novo 10. That Letters were inclosed in this Letter aforementioned the aforementioned Father Leshee in which thanks were given him by the Father that had subscribed the Letter to Father Richard Ashbey for his great charity to them and his care for the propagating the Catholick Religion and that all meanes should be used to destroy the opposers of it both root and branch which Letters bear date the sixth or seventh day of December which Letters the Deponent carried inclosed with those of Richard Ashbey to St. Omers and from St. Omers to Paris and delivered them into the hands of the said Leshee about the 18. December as near as the Deponent can remember 11. That other Letters bearing date December the 12. 1677. were sent from Richard Strange and others of the Society of London to those of the Society of the English Seminaries at St. Omers and them Letters were inclosed to Father Leshee in which they told him they had stirred up the Presbyterians in Scotland to a Rebellion and that 20000 l. of them would be in Arms if that his Majestie would break with the King of England and that a way was also made for the French King landing an Army in Ireland and further that the Irish Catholicks were ready to rise in order to which 40000 Black Bills were provided to serve the Irish Souldiers withal which Letters were subscribed by Richard Strange John Keines and John Fenwick and the outside Letter directed to Richard Ashbey and told the Deponent that the Letter to Leshee was carried by a special messenger for which he had 10 Pattacoones as the said Ashbey to the Deponent said and that the Messenger was Drummer of St. Omers 12. That an other Packet sub-date the 18. of December 1677. in which it was specified that the Father Grall of the Society of Jesus at Rome had written and removed Richard Strange from being Provincial and had profered the Provincialship on Thomas Whitebread Ordered that Father Conyers should Preach on Thomas of Canterbury's day in the sodality Church in the English Seminary against the oath of Supremacy and Allegiance and that he should exhort the Fathers to stand by the new Provincial who would be as zealous for the bringing in of the Catholick Religion into England as ever his Predecessors were and would not leave one stone unturned to promote the same which said Letter was directed and read by Richard Ashbey and this was about the 24. of December 13. That another Packet Sub-Date the 26. where it was ordered by Thomas Whitebread Richard Strange John Keins Bazill Longworth John Fenwick Francis Gray Father Hartcourt Senior Father Hartcourt Junior Father Michael Father Benefield Father Ireland Father Blundel Father Jenison and some others of the Society That Father Leshee should be written to by Richard Ashbey and informed that the Fathers before named had met together to contrive the advancement of the Design of the happy disposal of His Majesty of Great Britain and if his Royal Highness should not appear to answer the expectation the former giving no hopes at all they would endeavour with all speed his dispatch that he might not hinder their design of Bringing in the Catholick Religion and if they could not find an opportunity of taking him from his Kingdom they would take his Kingdom from him which Letter he this Deponent saw in the hands of Richard Ashbey and desired to read it but the said Ashbey would not read it to him Jan. the 2. 1678. 14. That in the said Letter of December the 26. it was specified that Richard Ashbey and Nicholas Blundel was Constituted by Patent from the Provincial to be Ordinary of Newgate to go and visit the Condemned Prisoners and to seduce them to the Catholick Religion and to Catechize some Youths in London and every day in the Week he hath his several places where he teaches Youth treasonable Doctrines and mutinous against the Interest and Person of His Sacred Majesty and giveth several sums of Mony to their Parents if Poor to encourage them to send their Children to be thus instructed which passages was contained in the aforesaid Letter and afterwards practised in London 15. That another Packet came to Richard Ashbey to St. Omers from Thomas White John Keines and others of the Society of Jesus in London Which Letters from them and others were inclosed to Father Thomas Stapleton Procurator at Brussels to perswade the Father Confessor to the Duke De villa Hermosa to inform him that His Majesty of England did not intend to assist His Majesty of Spain but to stand a looker on till he was ruined by the French King which Letter being not sealed was seen heard and by Richard Ashbey Rector of St. Omers
in which it was ordered that if the said Father Confessor should not be ready to comply with the said Stapleton that Messengers should be forthwith sent to Father Sinman at Madrid to inform His Majesty of Spain of the said concern and to make the same relation of the business to the Arch-Bishop of Tuam in the Kingdom of Ireland now at the Court of Madrid That he the said Arch-Bishop and the said Sinman might jointly give an account to the King of Spain of the motion made or to be made to the said Father Confessor to the Duke De Villa Hermosa and also to advise the Spanish King to Seize the Estates of the English Merchants in several Factories in this Kingdom For that they have endeavoured to Transport them to England which would tend highly to the prejudice of Spain and for the Confirmation whereof they procured Letters from one Fausica sometimes an Agent in London to attest the same To which the said Fausica willingly condescended and sent his Letters to St. Omers to be sent to the Court of Spain that the Fathers might give their approbation which Letter was long and large with attestations therein made against the Merchants residents in their several Factories concerning the matter of Faith before mentioned and also other Letters to Daniel Armstrong at Valladolidd and John Armstrong at Madrid which they were ordered to Confirm this affirmation made or to be made by the Fathers in England and of the English Seminaries at St. Omers Or if the said Stapleton together with that of Fausica the above mentioned Spanish Agent now lives at Bruges in Flanders All which Letters bore Date the First Second of January 1678. Stilo Novo and were seen by the Deponent at St. Omers and in the Letters to the Two Fathers Armstrong and Cross in Spaein was contained a special Order that if the fermer could go to Madrid he should send his Attestation to Don John of Austria and to carry on which 200 l. was made over by Father Sinman and the English Fathers 16. That when the Lords came from England about the business before mentioned to St. Omers Edward Nevil and Thomas Farmer did say that they would not let this Black Bastard go so to His Grave in peace meaning the King of England for that he had cheated them so often and that now they resolved to be served so no more That this Deponent standing by said if the Duke prove slippery they both replyed that his Pas-Port was ready when ever he should appear to fail them These words were heard by the Deponent on the Third of January in the Afternoon in the Library of the Jesuits at St. Omers 17. That on the Fourth of January 1678. Stilo Novo Letters were sent from Richard Ashbey Edward Hall Edward Novil Christ Peters William Busby James Junior Thomas Farmer Michael Constable Jesuits of the English Seminary at St. Omers as also from Father Williams Rector of Watton and Master of the Novices there Sir Jo. Warner Barroner alias Clare Franois Samby alias Ditz-Biling to the Father-Confessor of the Emperours Majesty That His Majesty of Great Britain hath treatherously been the ruin of the Confederates especially of the Germain Empire and of his Catholick Princes under him and has under hand stirred up the Hungarian Rebellion against his Imperial Majesty and found them Money to go on in their Rebellion His design being not to keep any Alliance with his Imperial Majesty but only in shew that he might advance the Prince of Orange his Nephew and make him absolute and therefore prayed the States of Holland might have notice of it Which Letter was seen and perused by the Deponent it being writ in the Latine Tongue All which Letters were sent away by a Lay Brother who was a Dutch Man and when these Letters were sending away one of the Lay Brothers whose name was George did say the Prince of Orange was more fit to Roban Orchard than to be a General of an Army 18. That Letters bearing Date the 1. of January Stilo Novo arrived at St. Omers January the 20. from Arch-Bishop Talbot Arch Bishop of Dubline wherein it was expressed that the Fathers of the Society in Ireland were very vigilant to prepare the people to rise for the defence of their liberty and Religion and to recover their estates and if the Parliament that was to fit in England shall joyn with the King in declaring war against France and should put His Majesty to ingage in a War with France that a place in Ireland should be open to receive the French Kings Army when His Most Christian Majesty should think fit to Land one their And in the Letter he advised the Fathers of St. Omers to advertise Father Leshee of the same and other Jesuits that had an interest in the French King and that His Majesty of Great Britain was brought to that pass that if any Male content amongst them should not prove true to their designs His Majesty would never give ear to their information and prayed them to be diligent for now was the time or never Which Letter this Deponent saw and read and in order to the Fathers Compliance with the said Arch-Bishops Letters to Father Leshee to Paris and appointed Edward Nevil and William Busby to carry and deliver them to the said Leshee which Letters were answered with all speed by the aforesaid Messengers Jesuits as above The one of them being Prefect of Studies and the other Procurator for the Seminaries and by them writ Letters to Thomas White Provincial to the Rector of St. Omers viz. Richard Ashbey but of that to the Provincial the Deponent can give no account but of that to Ashbey the Deponent faith there was expressed in it that the General of the Society of the Jesuits would Contribute 500000. Crowns to be paid in June next coming and that his Holiness the Pope would not be wanting to supply them when they had made some progress in that glorious attempt 19. That another Packet arrived at St. Omers directed to Richard Ashbey Rector there the Date whereof is not well remembred by this Deponent but as near as he doth remember it was about the beginning of the Parliament for then came the Kings and Lord Chancellors Speeches and Votes of Parliament which were put into ridiculous Phrases in contempt of the King and both Houses of Parliament and for the Fathers and Scholars to Laugh at and then Translated into French and given to the Governor of St. Omers who sent them to the French King his Master and in the Packet was contained the account of the attempt of one Pickering a Lay Brother that waited on the Jesuites lying at Sommerset-house to Shoot the King as he was Walking in St. James's Park when he was at some distance from his Nobles and Attendants but the Flint of his Pistol being loose he did defer the Action till another opportunity and if he had done it and had
that William Morgan and Father Lovel were returned out of Ireland that they had given them an account that the Irish was ready to rise at ten days warning with Twenty thousand Foot and Five thousand Horse and would let the French King into that Kingdom if he should come with an Army to land there and that Father Lovel did give an account that Fifteen thousand Foot would rise in the North of Ireland and that the people were patient but very resolute and that the Duke of Ormond now Lievt is in great perplexity to see the Catholick Religion thrive so well in Ireland and that there are persons that have Secretly taken Commissions from the General of the Society of Jesus by virtue of a Breviate from the Pope Dated October 1673. and that they are resolved to cutt the Protestants Throats once again when they rise and in the said Letter the Provincial Summoned a General Council to be holden in London and therefore commanded the Fathers on the other side of the water to be present in which Letter the Deponent did see himself to be Summoned to assist at the Consultation as a messenger from Fathers to Fathers this Letter the Deponent saw in the Moneth of April 28. That in order to this Command on April the 24. 1678. Father Warren Rector of Liege Sir Thomas Preston Barronet Father March Rector of Ghent and Father Williams Rector of Watton and Master of the Novices Sir Jo. Warner Barronet Richard Ashby being sick of the Gout would not go but out of the Seminary of St. Omers went Sir Robert Brett Barronet Father Poole Edward Nevil there were in all with the Deponent about nine or ten who met in London about Consultation with Thomas Whitebread Father Hartcourt Senior and Junior John Fenwick Father Longworth William Morgan John Keines Father Lovel Father Ireland John Blundel Richard Strange Father Micho Father Gray and others to the number of fifty Jesuits met at the White horse Tavern in the Strand where they plotted their designes for the Society and ordered Father John Gray who was always there to go Procurator for Rome all which consultations they held in May 1678. The Deponent was present to attend the consultory and did their concerns from Company to Company some met at Mr. Saunders house in Wildstreet others at Mr. Fenwicks at Mr. Ayres house in Drury Lain others at Mr. Ireland's in Russel-street near Covent-Garden and other places all which though in several Companies did contrive the death of the King in order to which Papers were sent from Company to Company which the Deponent did carry containing their opinion of the business and the manner how it was to be done and within three or four days after the Deponent went to St. Omers with the Fathers who came from the other side of the water 29. Item that on the 10. of June Stilo Novo came Tho. White Provincial of St. Omers and in order to visit his Colledges in Flanders and Germany and in his Chamber of the tenth day when the Deponent with Richard Ashbey were present he told the said Ashbey and the Deponent that he hoped to see the Fool at Whitehall laid fast enough and that the Society need not fear for he that is the King is grown and would hear no complaint against them and if the Duke should see his face in the least manner to follow his Brothers foot steps his pasport was made to lay him asleep 30. Item that the said Thomas Whitebread on the Thirteenth of June did tell the Rector of St. Omers that there was a Minister of the Church of England that had Scandalously and basely put out the Jesuits Morals in England and had indevoured villanously to render them odious to the people and asked the said Rector whether the Deponent might possibly know him and the Rector not knowing called the Deponent who heard these words as he stood at the door wherein being entred the Provincial asked the Deponent if he knew him that was the Author of the Jesuits Morals his Person but not his Name The said Thomas Whitebread demanded then whether the Deponent would undertake to Poyson or Assassmate the said Author which the Deponent undertook to do and to have 500 l. reward promised him by the Provincial and appointed to return to England and the Deponent doth further testify that at the same time the said Provincial did in his Chamber say that he and the Society in London would procure Dr. Stillingfleet to be knockt in the head and also Poole the Author of Synopsis criticorum for writing something against them 31. Item That Richard Ashbey Rector of St. Omers being ill that evening with the Gout and Stone viz the 15. of June he desired the company of the Deponent and did tell him that Father Warren now Rector of the Jesuits Colledge in Leige did when he was Procurator at Paris Reconcile the late Lord Chancelor Hide to the Church of Rome upon his Death-bed which words were occasioned by the Deponents taking notice that the late Dutches of York the Lord Chancelors Daughter dyed a Papist and the Deponent when he heard the said Ashbey speak these words replyed that he never had heard any thing of the return of the Lord Chancellor answer was made that the said Ashbey was certain that the Lord Chancellor was reconciled by the said Warren 32. That the 23 of June Stilo Novo in the afternoon the Deponent had express order presently to repair to Callis and then take the Packet Boat and so away for England to attend the motions of the Fathers in London till he had orders from the Provincial to the contrary and gave the Deponent four pounds for his Charges and promised him 80 l. for service already done for the Society in Spain and elsewhere and the Deponent saith that night he parted for Callis where he met four Jesuits bound for London on Fryday they all took Boat on Saturday they arrived at Dover where they met John Fenwick who had brought Students to Dover to transport them to St. Omers The Deponent saith further that the four Jesuits John Fenwick who went at Dover by the name of Mr. Tompson and himself took Coach and that at Burton six miles this side Canterbury the Coach was stopt and a Box was seized of the said John Fenwicks by the Searchers of the place and when by them opened in it they found Beads Pictures Images and other Agnus Dei which were to be given by Bundles the Catechise to Children to encourage them to come to Catechising School and to be Catechised by him according there was a direction to him fixed on the Box to the Honorable Richard Blundel Esquire in London which Box so seized by the said Searchers and they had searched the Pockets of the said Fenwick they had found such Letters about him as he confessed to the Deponent might have cost him his Life they calling said he the concern in hand but the said Letters
him Three Blows with his Stick and a Box on the Ear and charged him with being with the King and a Minister with him whom he suspected to have informed the King of these things because that Benningfield had related in a Letter to Blundel that the Duke of York had suggested some such thing to him and did therefore Judge that it must be so by the Deponent that must have been drawn in by some person to the same but at last the Provincial told the Deponent he was willing to be reconciled to him if he would discover who the person was his Name and place of abode to the end he might be secured of him and were resolved to kill him and in the mean time the Deponent was ordered to make himself ready to go Beyond-Sea within Fourteen days as the Provincial said and that the Deponent might not cheat them they were to pay for his Coach-hire and ordered him entertainment at Sittingborne and other places on the Road to Dover and there Mr. Coniers at the Kings-head was to pay for his passage to St. Omers where the said Deponent was to remain till further Orders from the Provincial and R. Blundel was to take care of carrying on the Fire at Wapping in the Deponents Room 78. Item on the Sixth of September Pickering told the Deponent that Coniers was gone to Windsor and he said after Ten days stay he would go to the Lord Brudnels House 79. Item That about Night the Deponent attending the Provincials door and about to go in he heard White and some others whom the Deponent supposes by their Voices to be Father Micho and one Mr. Pool consulting about the disposing a person he supposes to be himself their words were these this man has betrayed us and therefore we will give a Coach-man Twenty Pound to take him up and carry him directly to Rochester to Esquire Leeds house who lives near the Town and from thence to Dover by some by way because he was acquainted at Sittingbourn and said if they could get him beyond-sea they would torment him till he had confessed to them who it was that had been with the King and informed him of the business when the Deponent heard these words he made hast away and durst not lie that night in his own Lodgings 80. Item That the Seventh of September at Night the Deponent returned to his Lodgings where he intended not to lye but only to take some necessaries for his use the next day but meeting one Grigson a Papist at whose house he had formerly lodged near the Read-Lion in Drury-lane the said Grigson told him that the Jesuits were displeased with him because he answered not their expectations in being true to them and that the Jesuits are dangerous persons and would ruin him if they could and said further that the said Grigson had known their Rogeries this Twelve or Fourteen years and the Deponent being through discourse detained by him was forced to lye in his Lodging in Drury-Lane and when the Deponent was laid down in his Bed one Stratford a person utterly unknown to the Deponent discoursed with or any otherwise provoked endeavoured to break into the house where the Deponent lay and broke down a door to get into his Lodging but was forced back because he apprehended himself to be observed by the Servants and when he saw he could not come at him to Assassinate him as he verily believes he reviled him The Deponent and brake several Quarrels of Glass in a Window under his Lodging the Deponent being therefore verily perswaded that Stratford was set on by the Jesuits to do him a mischief made his escape thence easily on Sunday Morning but durst not return thither again because that Stratford threatned to kill him now the House where the Deponent lay is a School where Blundel usually Catechized every Sunday in the Afternoon 81. Item September the Eighth whilst this Deponent was going to attend Gods worship in the City of London a Papist who goes by the Name of Nevil met him in the Strand and told the Deponent there was great murmuring amongst the Jesuits against him because a complaint was made against them by some persons of whom he was suspected one The said Nevil did tell the Deponent that it was reported he must ruin the Jesuits or they him telling him moreover that the Bishop of Rochester was made acquainted with it and said he would lead them such a Dance as they never followed since the Fool their Founder came into the World to which this Deponent made no reply but taking this person to be a Trapan when asked for his Lodging gave no account The Names of the Conspirators and where they are Jesuits THomas White Provincial England Richard Strange late Provincial England Richard Ashbey alias Thimbleby England Mr. Hartcourt Mr. Jenison in England John Keines in England William Wright in England Richard Blundel in England Gregory Pool in England Micho in England Benningfield in England Langworth in England Morgan in England Richard Peters in England Dorrington in England Lacy in England Vaughan in England Every in England Sir Thomas Preston at Leige Sir John Warner at Watton Thomas Stapleton at St. Omers Thomas Farmor at St. Omers Mr. Egglestone at Watton Mr. Sanders at Leige Edward Hull at St. Omers Coniers in England Launell and Christopher Peters at St. Omers Jenison at Watton Marsh at Ghent John Peters in England Blake alias Cross in Spain Munford in Spain Wilkinson in England Woolfe in England Nevel in England Sabrand at St. Omers Walker at St. Omers Roper at St. Omers Constable at St. Omers Canny at Rome Crane at Watton Benedictines Howard at Doway Hilchcock at Doway Anderton in England Coniers in England Rumly in England Cocker in England Skinner in England Crosby in England Mr. Reeves at Doway Carmelites Doctor Hanson in England Mr. Trevers in England Mr. Kemball in England Franciscans Mr. Napper in England Doctor Armstrong in England Dominicans Joseph David Kinmash in England Dominick in England Collins in England Vincent in England Hidden in England Mansell in England Lynsdale in England Captain Busby in England Cooper at Rome Secular Priests Perrot in England Morgan in England Willmot in England Doctor Godden in England Jones Senior in England Jones Junior in England Woolfe in France These Seven only by Information Gerrard in England Herick in England Fisher in England Jackson in England Piâ—kerd in England Sharpe in England Doctor Preston in England Scotch Jesuits Lovell Saunders More Twelve Jesuits whose Names I know not lately gone into Scotland but their Persons I know Secular persons Doctor Foggerly Sir George Wakeman Mr. Coleman John Groves Assassinates Four Irish Pickering Lay-Brothers Smith Lay-Brothers Talbot and Lynn Arch-Bishops Jerom Sinman Sir William Godolphin Lord Embassador in Spain The Examination of Titus Oates before the Parliament WHo begins his Account from King James's Reign and tells them that he and His Son Prince Henry were both dispatched