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A44229	The free and voluntary confession and narrative of James Holloway addressed to His Majesty written with his own hand, and delivered by himself to Mr. Secretary Jenkins ; as also the proceedings against the said James Holloway in His Majesties King-Bench Court, Westminster, and his petition to His Majesty ; together with a particular account of the discourse as passed between the sheriffs of London and the said James Holloway at the time of his execution for high-treason at Tyburn, April 30. 1684 ; with his prayer immediately before, and the true copy of the paper delivered them at the same time and place.	Holloway, James, d. 1684.	1684 (1684)	Wing H2509; ESTC R2717	28,093	16

The Free and Voluntary Confession and Narrative OF JAMES HOLLOWAY Addressed to His Majesty Written with his own hand and Delivered by himself TO Mr. SECRETARY JENKINS AS ALSO The Proceedings against the said James Holloway in His Majesties KINGS-BENCH COURT Westminster And his Petition to His Majesty TOGETHER With a particular Account of the Discourse as passed between the Sheriffs of London and the said James Holloway at the time of his Execution for High-Treason at Tyburn April 30. 1684. With his Prayer immediately before and the true Copy of the Paper Delivered them at the same Time and Place The Confession or Narrative Great SIR I Your Majesties most humble but too much ●…lled and disobedient Subject do here most faithfully according to the best of my Remembrance give you an Account of what I knew concerning the late discovered Conspiracy how I came to be concerned how far I was concerned how it was to have been carried on in Bristol why I did not come in at the first Discovery and cast my self at your Majesties Feet for Mercy how I made my escape and whore I was till taken If I shall thro forgetfulness omit any thing that it may be thought I am privie to I shall be ready and willing truly to answer any question that shall be asked by your Majesty or any your most Honorable Privy-Council no way despairing of your Majesties Mercy but remain in hopes that that Fountain of Mercy which hath so abundantly flowed from your Sacred Breast ever since your happy Restauration is not yet dry and that there is some drops left for me who doubt not but to Serve your Majesty both at home and abroad much more Living than my Death will That which I have cause to impute the occasion of my being Concerned was my too Publick Spirit preferring your Majesties and my Countries Interest much before my own but especially in attending the two last Parliaments promoting an Act for the encouragement of the Linnen Manufacture and the preventing of Frauds in your Majesties Customes c. which would have brought in and saved to your Majesty near 200000 l. per An. and employed many thousands of Poor c. as is well known to many Worthy Persons about your Court and indeed proved my Ruino otherwise than in this Concern by bringing me into too great Acquaintance for one of my Capacity and by that to be concerned as I was My Attendance on those two Parliaments I doubt have been mis-represented How far I was Concerned After the Dissolution of the two last Parliaments I observed a great dissatisfaction in People in most parts whore I travelled but heard nothing of any Design till July 1682. when one Mr. Joseph Tyly of Bristol came from London I meeting with him asked what News he answered to this effect all bad and if some speedy course be not taken we shall be all undone for by their Arbitrary Illegal ways and by force of Arms they have got Sheriffs to their minds Witnesses they had before but wanted Jurors to believe them now they have got Sheriffs naming Mr. North and Mr. Rich who will find Jurors to believe any Evidence against a Protestant and so hang up all the Kings Friends by degrees I then told him that I thought it was impossible such things could be done but the King must hear of it no said he there 's none suffered to come near the King but those who have been declared Enemies to the King and Kingdom by Parliament naming some that were mentioned in the Printed Votes who to save themselves do indeavor to keep all such things from the Kings knowledge and perswade him against Parliaments with much more such-like discourse by which I found the same was discoursed throughout England Scotland and Ireland as a means to engage People At length he told me that the Protestant Gentry naming the Earl of Shaftsbury Lord Howard of Estrick and others were come to a Resolution seeing fair means would not do but all things on the Protestants side are misrepresented to the King by such great Criminals and none more in favor than those to take the King from his Evil Council and that by an Insurrection in several parts of England at once viz. London Bristol Taunton Exeter Chester New Castle York and some other places in the North and that there would be a considerable party ready in Scotland and another in Ireland therefore said he we must consider how to manage affairs in Bristol for if they proceed at Michaelmas in choosing Lord-Mayor as they did Sheriffs and to swearing of North and Rich it must begin in October or November otherwise there will be some Sham-Plot contrived to take off most of the Stirring Men in the last Parliaments with much other ' Discourse to the same effect adding that Mr. Wade would come down very suddenly by whom we might expect a full Account of all About the end of August as near as I can remember Mr. Wade came down who confirmed what Mr. Tyly had said but could say little as to any farther Resolution they were come to above either of any Time or Method agreed upon but that the Design went on and men were imployed in all parts to try how people were inclined who found enough ready and that there would be no want of Men if it was once begun Then we considered how it might be managed in Bristol and what number of men might be needful for the first Onset towards which he said We might depend on 150. men from Taunton or thereabouts and concluded that 350. might be sufficient to secure it without the Bloodshed of one man it being our Design to shed no Blood if possible but this we resolved not to acquaint any of our Friends with it till the day and method was resolved of which he said we should have ten or fourteen days notice and having soon considered of a Method waited in expectation of further advice but none came till November then we heard that some disappointment happening they were forced to delay it tho there was more and more cause for it The end of December or beginning of January had advice that it was deferred to the beginning of March The third of March I came to London and meeting with Mr. Wade asked him how things went who answered that he could not tell what to make of it for he could find nothing done more than was nine Months before The great Persons who were the Managers having done nothing but talkt of things But now there was some others appointed to manage it who were men of Business naming them to me viz. The Earl of Essex the Lord Howard of Estrick the Lord Grey the Lord Russel Coll. Sidney Major Wildman Mr. Hampden the younger and Mr. Charlton who he did suppose would make something of it and not do as the others had done make a years talk to ensnare many thousands of people to no purpose for these had already sent

from New-Market in order to which he had provided Arms for fifty men Pistols Carbines and Blunderbusses and that they were promised the House of one Rumbald a Maltster which lay in the Road and the King must come by his Door there the men should have been Lodged Then we asked who was to have acted it to which he could give but a slender Answer and could or would name but two men who were Rumbald and his Brother saying if they could have raised six or eight hundred pounds to have bought Horses and something to encourage men they should have had men enough so that we found they had few men if more than two and no Horses only a parcel of Arms which afterwards he shewed us at a Gun-smiths House in a little Lane near Temple-Bar Then we asked him what they designed if it had taken effect to which he answered that the men should have come up with all speed to London and dispersed themselves immediately declaring for the Duke of Monmouth and that the King and Duke being dead no opposition could be made then we asked who were for this Design he named Collonel Rumsy and Richard Goodenough and as far as I can remember no more so we found it was carried on by them contrary to the knowledg or approbation of those who managed the General Design then we declared our great dislike of it telling him it was a base Dishonourable and Cowardly Action and would seem odious to all the World that any pretending themselves Protestants should be concerned in such a Bloody Action and that we thought it was his Cowardize put him upon it to which he said that he could not Fight but would be as forward with his Mony as any one of his Capacity Then we went to Collonel Rumsy who we found to be wholly of West's Opinion saying that except something be done that way I know nothing will be done at all for he knew the other Managers would do nothing so we had little Discourse at that time After this we went to Ferguson who told us how things stood we then found that he knew of both Designs but was only for the Insurrection and told us that the Managers had been Treating with some Scotch Gentlemen that they were almost agreed and that the Mony they were to be supplied with would be ready in three or four days being ten thousand pounds which was to be returned to Holland to buy Arms c. for Scotland He also told us that the Scotch Gentlemen had made another Proposal to the Managers thus if they would supply them with thirty thousand pounds they would begin it in Scotland first which they could soon have and then would Invade England desiring the Managers only to get a Party in the North of England ready to oppose any Force from coming out of England against them before they had setled Scotland but this was not approved of the Managers chusing rather to supply them with 10000 l. and to begin it in England the same time Then we daily expected to hear when the Mony would be paid but still found nothing but delays the Managers not agreeing how to raise the Mony and that if the Mony had been ready they were come to no Conclusion as to any method more than they were nine months before having done nothing but talked to ensnare people reporting about in all parts how the Liberties of the people were daily more and more infringed and that Arbitrary Government and Popery was coming in apace which incensed people very much and made such a grumbling in all parts that we fear'd longer delays would make the common people in many parts mutiny it being as we thought so gen'rally known except something was suddenly done it was impossible it should remain undiscovered so the next time we met with Rumsy and Ferguson tho never together we declared our dissatisfaction by Reason of such long delaies and spoke it so as that it might come to the managers Ears as we suppose it did being to this effect That we thought they had only a designe to betray people drawing many thousands into a snare for their actions shewed little otherwise being so long discoursing a thing of that nature and done so little towards it few daies after meeting with Rumsy again he told us they were of different opinions concerning a method some for beginning the Insurrection only in London and Scotland some for it in all places at once as at first proposed others for leveral places in England and Scotland and not in London saying that if it was not begun in London but in other places there would be forces raised in London to send out against them which would take out most of their strength and that then London might be casily secured somtimes they were for beginning it only in London and Scotland and to have people come up to London from all parts of England to which we answered that we thought no way better than what was first proposed viz. the beginning of it in many places at once as before mentioned for although we had engaged none in or about Bristol nor should not endeavour it till all things were concluded yet with the assistance we were promised from Taunton did not doubt but to get men enough to secure it and that we knew not where to get ten men that would come for London and supposed it might be so in other places men might be willing to secure their own Countrey who would not be willing to leave all and come for London Rumsy then said if he knew where to get at the head of 1000 men he would begin it presently and desired that we might meet the next night with some others and consider of things so the next afternoon we met at Richard's Coffee-House near Temple-Barr and from thence to a Tavern near I think called the little or young Devil Tavern were met eight persons viz. Collonel Rumsy Robert West Capt. Norion Capt. Walcot Richard Goodenough Francis Goodenough Nathaniel Wade and my self this was the first time I knew Walcot When we were all sit Collonel Rumsy spoke to this effect as near as I can remember the same words Gentlemen if we can raise three thousand men in and about London there is a person of Honour will appear at the head of them and begin the business which we supposed to be the Duke of Monmouth and do not well remember whether he mentioned his name or not Which proposal much surprized Mr. Wade and I that he should then question the raising of 3000 men whereas when it was first mentioned to us we thought they had been sure of many thousands in London at an hours warning Then it was considered how 3000 men might be raised and how they might do something to the purpose then we declared what method we had concluded on for the management of Affairs in Bristol which was as followeth and they could think of no better way so

News of the Discovery first came to Bristol and some time before I was in some trouble by my Creditors and forced to abscond tho' thought I had sufficient to pay them only desired time to get in my effects their mercy I feared more than your Majesties and thought if I should come in and find mercy with your Majeslly I could at first expect no better than a Prison and if from it discharged by your Majesty to be kept in by them upon account of my debts Secondly hearing there was very many in and about Bristol supposed to be concerned and I tho' knowing so much being able to prove so little against any man but such against whom there was sufficient proof without me feared that if I should come in more would be expected from me than I could prove and so might fail of mercy it having been our resolution not to discover the Design to any of our Friends till the Managers had agreed both upon time and method therefore considered how to make my escape there being then a strict search in all Ports thought best to continue in England for some time till the heat might be over and so got an ordinary habit and a little horse about 40 shillings price and travell'd the Country as a man dealing in Wool in Gloucester-shire Oxford-shire and Summerset-shire till about the middle of August then repaired towards Bristol and by Letter with my Wifes Assistance all other Friends thereabout fearing to act for me prevailed with a poor man Who had a small Boat about ten Tuns for twenty Pounds reward and the like per Month for six Months to go with me for France and from thence to the West-Indies or where I would my Name being then in no Proclamation or Declaration if it had I should not have prevailed with the man to go with me So the twenty third of August Sailed from Kings-Road for Rochell the 25th proving bad weather crackt our Mast and so put into St. Ives in Cornwall where we stayed till the fourth of September then put out again for Rochell but meeting with contrary Winds was forced into several places in France and gained not our Port till the seventeenth In Rochell I loaded her with Brandy and other Goods and the fourth of October sailed from thence for the West-Indies being willing to know how my Concerns lay there that my Creditors might have their own tho' I knew I might be much safer in France and arrived at Barhadoes the eleventh of November there I heard of my Name being in the Gazette therefore stayed but two days landing part of my Cargo from thence I went to Antigua where I landed and disposed of the remaining part staying there about ten days but it being too soon for the Crop and my charge being the same lying still or going farther also thinking it not safe to lie long there resolved to see the rest of the Caribby Islands and so went down to Mounserat Nevis St. Christophers St. Estatia and Anguilla and so back again to St. Christophers supposing that to be the safest place I being known to none there where I stayed about three weeks About the fourteenth of January I wrote to my Factor in Nevis about what was due to me who on receit of my Letter discover'd me so that Sir William Stapleton presently sent his Warrant to St. Christophers to Apprehend me but before it came I was gone down to St. Estatia expecting to meet my Vessel there which I had sent up to Barbadoes and it being known where I was gone the Deputy-Governor of St. Christophers sent five men with his Warrant after me to whom on sight thereof I submitted tho' had an Opportunity and might have escaped but was rather willing to cast my self at His Majesties Feet for mercy than live such a Life any longer not daring to appear where there was need of me among my Factors who I doubt will take too much Advantage by my Troubles for my Creditors Interest In Nevis I was kept a Prisoner 13 days where I promised Sir William Stapleton that I would make what Discovery I could giving him the Names of some who I had acquainted with it in Bristol which I suppose he hath given an Account of desiring him that it might be kept private for if it was known they would have Advice of it but it was not kept so private as I expected for the Night I came off I was told of it therefore suppose they were advis'd by a Bristol Ship that came away before us by which I wrote not a word I suppose she might be at home long before us we being nine Weeks and five Days All that I can say against any of them except William Wade who is before-mention'd is That I Acquainted them with the business as I believe many Thousands in England were and do suppose they would have been concern'd Hereunder is an Account of many other Persons that I have heard was concerned in the Design for an Insurrection which is all that I can call to mind of any thing material that ever I heard concerning the Plot. Here he mention'd the Names of several Persons Now if your Majesty is graciously pleased to spare me it will be a sufficient warning to me for ever medling in things of that nature again and I hope I shall have the Opportunity of serving your Majesty and my Country in the promotion of that which brought me into this and cost me many hundred pounds with some years pains to bring it to that perfection I did viz. the Linnen Manufacture which many Honourable Persons about your Court have heard of and I can make it appear that it will imploy near eighty thousand poor People and forty thousand Acres of Land and bring in and save your Majesty near two hundred thousand pounds per An. Another thing which I think I may serve your Majesty in abroad is this when I left England I knew there was many who were in trouble about their Opinions would willingly have left England if they knew where to go that they might have liberty There is a very fine Island in the West Indies good land and well watered which by such people would be soon setled and prove a great advantage to your Majesty and Successors for it would soon exceed any Island except Barbadces and Jamaica it lies so near a bad neighbour the Spaniard Portrico that except a considerable number go together it will be dangerous living there but if no great alteration in affairs since I left England with your Majesties leave enough might be prevailed with to go and settle it at once which will not only serve your Majesty as before but clear the Nation of some hundreds of disaffected people Die Lunae 21 April 36 Car ' Secund. Regis Anno Dom ' 1684. B. R. Dominus Rex versus Jacobum Holloway HIS Majesties Artorney General having on Frida last moved the Court of Kings Bench for an Habeas