disposing of a Person whom the Deponent supposes to be himself Their Words were these This Man hath Betrayed us and therefore we will give a Coach-man Twenty Pound to take him up and Carry him directly to Rochester to Esquire Lees House who lives near the Town and from thence to Dover by some By-way because he is acquainted at Sittingburn and said that if they could but get him on the other Side of the Water 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 went down the Stairs with all the speed he could make and durst not return to his lodgings that night but lay in another place LXXX Item That the Deponent on the Seventh of September at night returned to his lodging where he intended not to lye but only to take some Necessaries for his use the next day but meeting with one Grigson a Papist at whose house he had formerly lodged near the Red-Lyon in Drury-Lane who told him the Jesuits were displeased with him because he had not answered their Expectations in being true to them and that the Jesuits were dangerous persons and would ruin him the Deponent if they could And the said Grigson said further That he had known their Roguery these Twelve or Fourteen Years And the Deponent being through Discourse detained by the said Grigson was forced to lye in his lodging in Drury-Lane and when he was lain down in his bed one Stratford a Person utterly unknown to the Deponent and whom he never discoursed or any way provoked endeavoured to break open the house where the Deponent lay and did break down a door to get into his lodging but was forced to Retreat because he law himself observed by some of the servants of the house And when he saw he could not come to Assassinate him as the Deponent verily believes he Reviled him and broke several Quarries of Glass in a Window under the lodgings of the Deponent And therefore being verily perswaded that the said Stratford was Imployed by the said Jesuits to do him a mischief made his escape thence early on Sunday Morning and did not return thither again because the said Stratford threatned to Kill him Now the house in which the Deponent lay Was a School where the within-mentioned Blundel used to Catechize every Sunday in the Afternoon LXXXI Item The Eighth day being Sunday whilst that the Deponent was going to attend the publique Worship of God in the City a Papist who goes by the Name of Nevil as the Deponent remembers met him in the Strand and told him That there was a very great Murmuring amongst the Jesuits against him because of a Complaint that was made against them by some Persons of whom they suspected him to be one And said further That the Deponent must either destroy the Jesuits or the Jesuits destroy the Deponent And told him Moreover That the Bishop of Rochester was made acquainted with the Complaint and would lead them such a dance as they never followed since the Fool their Founder appeared in the World To which the Deponent made no Reply suspecting this Person to be a Trappan and when at parting he asked the Deponent Where he Lodged the Deponent gave him not that account as he desired A List of such Noble-men and Gentry as are in this Conspiracy whose Names occur at present LOrd Arundel of Wardour Lord Chancellor Lord Powis Lord high Treasurer of England Sr. William Godolphin Lord privy Seal Coleman Secretary of State Stafford The Sea-Officers were named to the Deponent but their Names being most French and some Irish occur not Militia Lord Bellasis Lord General Lord Peters Lieutenant General Sr. Francis Radcliff Major General John Lambert Adjutant General Langhorn Advocate General Mr. Arundel of Wardour Commissary General All these had their Commissions or Patents stamped by the General of the Jesuits Johannes Paulus d' Oliva and sent from Rome to Langhorn and were delivered to them with pleniary Indulgences sent also from Rome and additional Patents stamped by the Provincials Strange or VVhite VVhite and his Seal are taken Collonels Who have their Commissions from the Provincial Lord Baltimore Collonel of Horse at whose Lodgings Five Hundred Case of Pistols c. were found as is reported Collonel Thomas Howard deceased confessed he had received and accepted his Commission Lassels Roper VVinter or VVitter received their Commissions from the Deponent and accepted them Captains Roper Son to the Collonel afore-named Radciff Esq Medburn the Player Penny Caryl Junior Townly did also receive their Commissions from the Informant and accepted them Sir George VVakeman Physitian to the Army Irish Officers Lord Legate Bishop of Cassal in Italy Peter Talbot Lord Chancellor Richard Talbot Esq Lord General Viscount Mountgarret Lieutenant-General His Office to be Executed by Mr. Butler his Son John Pipard Esq Collonel Note That the Major Part of the Collonels appointed for the English-Army are also Irish Note also That Mr. Pierson Secretary to the Lord Powis did in the Informant's Presence promise on the Behalf of his Lord that he should raise and furnish Three Hundred Horse and had Three Hundred Armed Men ready to rise in less than Twenty Four Hours These Words were spoken a little aster the Consult to White the Provincial at Wild-House The said Lord Powis hath also Contributed Three Hundred Pound towards the Jesuits Design Note That Lord Stafford is a principal Officer of State and a chief Conspirator having Contributed several Sums of Money not remembred by the Deponent The Names of the Conspirators Benedictines Mr. Howard at Doway Mr. Hitchcock at Doway Mr Reaves at Doway Mr. Anderton in England Mr. Conyers in England Mr. Rumly in England Mr. Corker in England Mr. Skinner in England Mr. Crosby in England Carmelites Dr. Handson in England Mr. Trevers in England Mr. Kimball in England Franciscans Dr. Armstrong Mr. Napper Dominicans David Joseph Keimash in England Mr. Dominick in England Mr. Collins in England Mr. Vincent in England Mr. Fidding in England Mr. Mansell in England Mr. Lumsdale in England Mr. Bingly in England Mr. Cooper at Rome Mr. Munson in England Jesuits England Tho. White Provincial England Rich. Strange late Provincial England Rich. Ashby alias Thimbleby England Mr. Harcourt England Mr. Jennison England Mr. Keines England Mr. Wright England Mr. Blundel Mr. Pennington in England Mr. Gray Mr. Pool in England Mr. Mico in England Mr. Bennyfield in England Mr. Simmons in England Mr. Langworth in England Mr. Morgan in England Mr. Rich. Peters in England Mr. Dorrington in England Mr. Lacy in England Mr. Vanghan in England Mr. Ewry in England Mr. Conyers in England Jo. Peters in England Mr. Wilkinson in England Mr. VVolf in England Sir Tho Preston at Leige Mr. Saunders at Leige Sir Jo. Warner at Watton Mr. Williams at Watton Mr. Eggleston at Watton Mr. Janion at Watton Mr. Crane at Watton Sir
those at Madrid by John Cross alias Blake and those at Valladolyd by Daniel Armstrong Jesuits which Letter of the 20th of July the Deponent saw in the Chamber of the said Suiman at Madrid at the same time when he saw the Letters of the tenth of July mentioned in the sixth paragraph or number Item VIII That on the third of Novemb. Stylo novo Father Pedro Jeronymo de Corduba Provincial of the Jesuits in New-Castile did write to Richard Strange and John Keines that if the business of dispatching the King of England could be effected they should have ten thousand pound for their pains which Letter the Deponent brought from Valladolyd to Bilbao and embarqued in a Ship within five daies after his arrival thither and in five daies more arrived at a little Town near Exeter and in six daies more came to London and delivered the Letter to Richard Strange and when opened it was written in Latin and read by the said Strange and he said that all means should be used to answer Father Pedro's expectation And in the Letter to Strange was one enclosed to this Keines by the name of Juan de Neoporto de la Compania de Jesu which Letter the said Keines offered the Deponent to read but being written in Spanish the Deponent did not well understand the Letter and could make but little of it by reason of the Spanish abbreviations therefore the said Strange did give the Deponent the Letter directed to himself saying he thought the Deponent did understand Latin better than Spanish so that the Deponent read the said Letter and in it the Contents above-mentioned and the said Strange being then ill upon Keines his bed said that he hoped God would strengthen honest William's heart to do his work Now this honest William is a Servant to the Society in London This Strange did then lye at one M rs Saunders house a part of Wildhouse in Wildstreet where the Deponent heard this discourse from the said Strange and Keines Item IX That the said Richard Strange and John Keines Basil Langworth Father Harcourt John Fenwick Father Ireland Father Gray Father Jennison Father Saunders and Father Ecclesdon did write a Letter and subscribed it and sent it to St. Omers to Richard Ashby Rector of the English Seminary there in which he and the rest of the Fathers were given to understand that the King was altogether given to his pleasures and that they had an intent to procure one to stab him at his Court of Whitehall and if that could not be conveniently done they would employ one of his Physicians to poison him for which work they had ten thousand pounds in the hands of one Worsly a Goldsmith in London which mony was procured for them 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 persons above-mentioned and carried it to St. Omers He went to Dover by Coach a place in which was taken up for him by the said William their servant whose name indeed is John Groves The Letter that the Deponent carried bore date the beginning of December old Style Item X. That Letters were enclosed in this Letter aforementioned to the said Leshee in which thanks was given him by the said Fathers that had subscribed the said Letter to Richard Ashby for his great Charity to them and his Care for the propagating the Catholick Religion and that all means should be used to destroy the opposers of it both root and branch which Letters bore date either the sixth or seventh of Decemb. and the Deponent carried them inclosed in those of Richard Ashby to St. Omers and from St. Omers to Paris and delivered them into the hands of the said Father Leshee about the 18th of December as near as the Deponent can remember Item XI That other Letters bearing date December the 12th 1677. were sent from Richard Strange and others of the Society in London to those of the Society in the English Seminary at St. Omers and in them Letters were enclosed to Father Leshee in which they told him that they had stirred up the Presbyterians in Scotland to a Rebellion and that twenty thousand would be in Arms if that His Majesty of France would break with the King of England and that a way also was made for the French King 's landing an Army in Ireland And further that the Irsh Catholicks were ready to rise in order to which there were forty thousand black Bills provided to furnish the Irish souldiers withal Which Letters were subscribed by Rich. Strange John Keines and John Fenwick and the out-side Letter directed to Richard Ashby Rector which Letter was shewed to the Deponent at his return from Paris to St. Omers by the said Richard Ashby and told the Deponent that the Letters to Leshee for which the said Messenger had ten Patacoons or Royals of eight as the said Ashby informed the Deponent And the said Messenger was a Drummer in the Town of St. Omers Item XII That in another Packet bearing date Decemb. the 18th 1677. in which was specified that the Father General of the Society of Jesus had written from Rome and had removed Richard Strange from being Provincial and had conferred the Provincialship upon Thomas White alias Whitebread and the said Thomas Whitebread ordered that one Father George Coniers should Preach on St. Thomas of Canterbury's day in the Sodality-Church in the English Seminary against the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and that he should exhort the Fathers to stand by the new Provincial who would be as zealous to promote the bringing in of Catholick Religion into England as ever his Predecessor was and would not leave one stone unturned to promote the same Which said Letter was directed to and received by Richard Ashby and communicated by him to the Deponent about the 24th day of December Item XIII That in another Packet bearing date December the 26th it was ordered by Thomas Whitebread Richard Strange John Keines Basil Langworth John Fenwick Father Gray Father Harcourt Senior Father Harcourt Junior Father Micho Father Bennifield Father Ireland Father Blundell Father Jemison and some others of the Society that Father Leshee should be written unto by Rich. Ashby and the Fathers of St. Omers and informed that the Fathers before-mentioned had met together to contrive the Advancement of the Design of the happy disposal of His Majesty of Great Britain and of His Royal Highness if he should not appear to answer their expectations But the former giving no hopes at all they would endeavour his dispatch with all speed that might be that he might not hinder their Designs in bringing in Catholick Religion And if they could not find an opportunity to take him from his Kingdom they would soon take his Kingdom from him which Letter the Deponent saw in the hands of Richard Ashby and desired to read it but the said Richard would read it to
him in his Chamber on January 2. Item XIV That in the said Letters of December the 26th it was specified that Richard Nicholas Blundell was constituted by Pattent from the Provincial to be Ordinary at Newgate to go and visit the Condemned Prisoners and to reduce them to the Catholick Faith and Religion and to Catechize some Youth in the City of London and every day in the week he hath his several places where he Teacheth the Youth Treasonable and Mutinous Doctrines against the Interest and Person of His Sacred Majesty and giveth certain summs of mony to their Parents if poor to incourage them to send their Children to be thus instructed which passage was contained in the aforesaid Letters and afterwards practised in London ITEM XV. That another Packet came to Richard Ashby to Saint Omers from Thomas White John Keines and others of the Society of Jesus in London in which Letters from them and others were inclosed Letters to Father Thomas Stapleton Procurator at Brussels to perswade the Father Confessor of Duke de Villa Hermosa to inform that his Majesty of Great Britain 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 and heard read by Richard Ashby then Rector of Saint Omers in which it was further 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 Swiman 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 Kingdome of Ireland now at the Court at Madrid that he the said Swiman and he the said Arch-Bishop might jointly give an account to the King of Spain of the motion made or to be made to the said Father Confessor of Duke de Villa Hermosa and also to advise the Spanish King to seize the estates of the English merchants in the several Factories in his Dominions for that they had endeavoured to transport their Estates and did transport them to England which would tend highly to the prejudice of the Kingdome of Spain and for the confirmation thereof they procured Letters from one Fonseca sometimes an Agent in London to attest the same to which the said Fonseca willingly condescended and sent his Letter to Saint Omers to be sent to the Court of Spain that the Fathers might give their approbation which Letter was long and large attestations therein made against the merchants resident in their several Factories concerning the matter of Fact before-mentioned and also other Letters to Daniel Armstrong at Valledolid and to John Cross at Madrid in the which they were ordered to confirm this affirmation made or to be made by the Fathers in England and of the English Seminary at Saint Omers and of the said Stappleton together with that of the said Fonseca the abovementioned Spanish Agent who now liveth at Bruges in Flanders All which Letters bore date the first or second of January 1678. Stilo Novo and all of them the Deponent saw at Saint Omers and in the two Letters to those two Fathers in Spain viz. Daniel Armstrong and John Cross was contained an especial order that the former if he could not go to Madrid should send his attestations to Don Juan of Austria for the carrying on of which two hundred pounds sterling was transmitted by bills of Exchange to the said father Swiman and the said English Fathers ITEM XVI That when the Letters came from England about the business afore-mentioned to Saint Omers Edward Nevil and Thomas Fermor did say that they would not let this black Bastard go to his grave in peace meaning the King of England for that he had cheated them so often and that now they were resolved to be served so no more But the Deponent standing by said what if the Duke should prove slippery They both replyed his pasport 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 of Saint Omers ITEM XVII That on the fourth of January 1678. Stylo novo Letters were sent by Richard Ashby Edward Hall Edward Nevil Charles Peters Michael Constable William Busby James Janon and Thomas Fermor Jesuits of the English Seminary at Saint Omers as also Francis Williams Rector of Watton and Master of the Novices there Sir John Warner Baronet alias Clare Father Sanches alias Ditchling to the Father Confessor of the Emperours Majesty to advise the Emperours Majesty that his Majesty of Great Brittain had treacherously ploted the ruine of the Confederates especially of the German Empire and of his Catholick Princes under him and had under hand stirred up the Hungarian Rebels against his Imperial Majesty and found them money to go on with their rebellion and that his design was not to keep any alliance with his Imperial Majesty but onely in shew that he might advance his Nephew the Prince of Orange and make him absolute and therefore prayed that the States of Holland might be acquainted with it Which Letter was seen and perused by the Deponent it being written in Latine all which Letters were sent away by a Lay-Brother that was a Dutch-man and when these Letters were sending away one of the Lay-brothers whose name was George did say That the Prince of Orange was more fit to rob an Orchard than to be General of an Army ITEM XVIII That Letters bearing date January the first 1678. Spylo novo arrived at Saint Omers January the twentieth from Talbot Arch-bishop of Dublin wherein it was expressed that the Fathers of the Society in Ireland were very vigilant to prepare the people to arise for the defence of their Liberty and Religion and to recover their Estates and that if the Parliament that was to fit in England should joyn with the King in declaring War against France that a place should be open to receive the French Kings Army in Ireland when his most Christian Majesty should think fit to land one there And in the Letter head advised the Fathers of Saint 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 Brittain was brought to that pass that if any Male content amongst them should not prove true to their design his Majestie would never give ear to their information and therefore prayed them to be dilligent for now was the time or never which Letter the Deponent saw and read and in order to the Fathers compliance with the Letter of the said Arch Bishop they dispatched away 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
made his Visit within his Province and that he had ordered Twelve Jesuits to go for Holland and to inform the Dutch that the Prince of Orange did intend to assume the Crown of a King and that he resolved to bring them under another Government Which Missioners took their leaves of the said Thomas White on St. Ignatius's day July 31 but got no farther than Watton by reason of a mischance they met withall upon the way By which mission the said Thomas White did design to beget in the Dutch an evil Opinion of the Prince of Orange and to cause a Commotion there amongst the Dutch against the said Prince and his Party Which Letter the Deponent saw and read in Mr. Fenwick's Chamber on the Eleventh of August XXXIX Item That another Letter of the Tenth of August came to Blundel and the Fathers in London from Thomas Whitebread in which he blamed the Fathers in London for not giving him an account of what progress they had made in their proposal made or to be made unto Sir George Wakeman And if made how he resented it If hot made to make it quickly for it would not be convenient to defer it and told them Ireland was safely arrived to him at St. Omers who only told him That the King was very secure and therefore he the said Provincial admonished the Fathers to be very vigilant Which Letter Blundel shewed the Deponent on the Nineteenth of August XL. Item That another Packet of the 15th of August came from St. Omers from Thomas White Provincial to Father John Fenwick in the which were Letters inclosed to Father Harcourt Jennison and others which the Deponent did not see but that to John Fenwick the Deponent did see and read it Therein the said Thomas White did say that the Figure 365 should lie as low as ever 666 did and if Poyson would not take the King away Fire should for Catholique Religion would never Flourish unless IHS took this Course Now the Deponent saith that 365 is to be understood Westminister and the Figure 666 London they being the Ciphers for both those places and the letters IHS Jesuits they using it always XLI Item That the Deponent was informed by the said John Fenwick and others of the Society then in his Chamber that the Jesuits have 60000 l. per annum good Rents and 100000 l. in Bank and that he and the rest of the Society have in the name of their Trustees Lent out Mony at 50 l. per Cent. the improvement of which Money in Bank is used about these practices and that it costeth them 4000 l. per annum in intelligence besides their daily special Messengers on which vast Sums of Mony are spent and besides another part is transported beyond the Seas by Bills of Exchange which the Deponent himself knoweth in a great part to be true and of the rest they themselves have informed him at several times All which tends highly to the damage of the Kingdom XLII Item That on Monday the 5th of August Father Harcourt Father Keines John Fenwick and another of the Society whose name the Deponent doth not remember did say that they did intend to raise a Commotion in the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales which also did appear to the Deponent by several Letters which the Deponent did see and read The date of which Letters the Deponent doth not well remember but saw them in August 1678. XLIII Item That two new Messengers were sent into Scotland on the said 5th of August one by the name of Father Moore and the other by the name of Father Saunders aliàs Brown with instructions to carry themselves like Nonconformist Ministers and to Preach to the disaffected Scots the necessity of taking up the Sword for the defence of Liberty of Conscience These the Deponent saw dispatch'd and order'd to go by Father Harcourt in the name of Thomas White Provincial XLIV Item That they have several times communicated and do still communicate what secrets they can have revealed to them of the King which they purchase by giving Mony and then send them over to Leshee the French Kings Confessor And the Deponent hath seen several particulars as they pretend bow the King standeth affected for War or Peace And this they do by one Smith who daily lurketh about White-Hall and in Parliament time about Westminster-Hall and the Lobby And the said Smith did say that he was in fee with the Clerks of the Parliament who give him the Intelligence and with the Clerks Officers of the Privy Council and Cabinet Council The Deponent saith further that one Coleman formerly Secretary to her R. Highness doth assist this Smith with private intelligence as John Keines Jesuit and this Smith have told the Deponent several times in the Months of July and August XLV Item That these Jesuits drive several Trades in Town as Merchants Tobacconists Goldsmiths Scriveners and by means of their Scriveners they come to the knowledge of several Estates of several Persons of Quality and by other Scriveners of their Religion and Practices By which means they take an estimate of the strength of the Nation their Scriveners having great practice in the City of London as John Keines informed the Deponent in the Month of August XLVI Item That on Friday the 9th of August came Letters of the 16th Stylo novo by an especial Messenger from Thomas White Provincial and subscribed by the Fathers at St. Omers in which they did rejoyce very much that Sir George Wakeman had taken the business into his hand and if he did it the 15000 l. should be paid But ordered that Pickering and his Companion viz. Honest William should not desist their endevouring to Assassinate the King's Person Which Letters the Deponent read and asked Fenwick how the Provincial came to understand that Sir George Wakeman had undertaken the business He the said Fenwick told the Deponent that they had dispatched away a special Messenger and that the said Messenger brought this answer and withal the said Fenwick did tell the Deponent that it cost Ten pound to send him word of it XLVII Item That because one William Berry now a Secular Priest who had formerly been a Jesuit had written and was about to print some sheets of Paper in Vindication of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and in it perswaded Roman Catholiques to a more charitable Compliance with Protestants Basil Langworth and others of the Society did offer 10 l. to the Deponent to kill the said Berry and if the Deponent dared not to do it himself to procure some other to do it assuring the Deponent that whosoever did it and were questioned for it should have a Pardon This was proposed August 9th 1678. XLVIII Item That on the 9th of August in the evening in the Chamber of John Keines Jesuit in Warwick-street where John Fenwick and the Deponent were together there came one Rich. Heath a Lay-Brother of the Society who after some
Villain the KING should not live to eat any more Christmas Pies and the other Gentleman did lay that he would So that the Deponent saith That Keines told him no more of the Concern of Coniers than the Deponent had heard of the said Coniers before on the 14th of August But the Deponent before he parted from Keines asked him What news about the Town Keines replyed That all the news about the Town was War with the French and Keines did say that if that held true then Have at the Rogues of the House of Commons they should be remembred for all their Long Bills against the Catholicks The Deponent replyed that with submission he thought the Revenge proposed against them would not do the business and therefore not a Resolution consistent with a Catholick Spirit for the Enterprise must be more Noble And withal the Deponent urged that he feared the Death of the King would scarcely do the business and effect the Design unless his R. Highness would pardon those that did the business and stand by them in it To which the said Keines reply'd that the Duke was not the strength of their Trust for they had another way to effect the setting up the Catholick Religion For when they had destroyed the King they had a List of 20000 Catholicks in London that were substantial persons and fit for Arms that would Rise in twenty four hours time and less And if James did not comply with them to Pot he must go also It being late in the Night the said John Kienes prayed the Deponent to come to him the next morning and he would have one hours discourse with him before he went to Mass and being about to take leave of the Deponent asked him What he meant by those Words He could not be guilty of any such thing as to assist in dispatching the King there being no guilt in the Case the Deponent smiled and said He could not be guilty of so much Courage Besides the Deponent saith That he told the said Keines that it was his opinion that it would be more safe to let Sir George Wakeman try his skill and then the People would not apprehend it so much LXI Item That the Deponent went to the Chamber of the said Keines about eight or nine in the morning on the 18th of August but he was gone abroad and ordered the Deponent to call upon him about four in the afternoon and then he would have some discourse with him And the Deponent accordingly went but met with the said Keines in the Mews who told the Deponent that he was to meet with some Fathers in Covent Garden and there would meet them some Dominicans and would have the Deponent go along with him and at the House where they were appointed to meet the Dominicans were already met viz. Mr. Vincent Provincial of the Domiminicans in England Joseph David Keimash Mr. Dominick Mr. Collins Mr. Fedding Mr. Mansel and Mr. Lumsdale as they said in the Name of all the rest of the Order in England to consult and comply with the Fathers of the Society to propagate the Catholick Faith and when John Keines was set with the Fathers of the Society by him all of a side viz. John Keines Father Harcourt Fa. Fenwick Fa. Wright Fa. Blundel the said John Keins propounded to the Dominicans to contribute to the design of killing the King and carrying on the business of England and Scotland The Dominicans replied by their Provincial that they were poor and not able to do much for they had but little or no money but they would let them have their personal assistance and counsel and would procure what Interest they could but as for Mony they could not part with any at all for they were in debt and had scarce 400 l. in stock and the most they could make per annum of their Estate was not above 360 l. At which Consult the Deponent was to and fro and what was more said he cannot tell for he was sent with the Proposals to the Carmelites viz. Dr. Handson Mr. Kimbal Mr. Trevers and they said that they had not one penny in stock nor any In-come besides what the Spanish Embassador allowed them for assisting in his Chappel But they by the Deponent did present their Service to the Fathers met together and bad the Deponent tell them that their Prayers to God and our Blessed Lady should not be wanting All this was acted by Order from the Provincial of the Society LXII Item That the Deponent went to see John Fenwick on August Nineteenth in the afternoon and whilst he was with him in came John Keines and presently after him Mr. Blundel and after a Salutation was passed they asked the Deponent What Newes The Deponent told them he heard none but what was in the Gazett And Blundel said he had been with his Workmen and they wanted Oyle What the meaning of this was the Deponent cannot tell but believes it was Sheeps Fat and the said Blundel would not tell the Deponent his meaning when asked by him The Deponent asked Keines When he was for Windsor He replied The Court was scarcely setled as yet but said that Mr. Conyers and one Anderson was to go down on the morrow Aug. 20. in the morning and if they did any thing as to the business in hand it would hasten his going down and therefore as yet could not be certain when The Deponent asked further How honest VVilliam did Keines replyed that he was troubled with a sore Throat and was very bad with it and so indispos'd that he could not Ride down to VVindsor and that it would be dangerous for him to go by water lest a Cold being by that means Contracted he should be unfit for Service And then the Deponent took his leave of them it being near six of the Clock in the afternoon and went to the Monkes Convent and inquired of one Rumly a Lay-brother of that Order for Mr. Conyers he said he was not within but not far off however not to be spoken withal for he was with some of the Benedictine Fathers about business and would go out of Town to morrow betimes hi the morning And so the Deponent left him and being but a little way from the place met the said Conyers who laughing upon the Deponent told him That the Hill People were Fools to set upon 48. at Windsor because he was seldome in a posture to receive their kindness But he would see his Worship and talk with him in some other Language than in Tormentilio The Deponent asked How He Replied that if the shirt on his back should know he would burn it But if that should not take effect no opportunity should be neglected in order to the dispatch of 48. He further told the Deponent he was in hast and his time was short and his business great but told him also that honest William and Pickering should stay in Town seeing the party concern'd was Hic
of the Clock at Mr. Keines his Chamber And at four of the Clock the Deponent met where he saw Dr. Fogarty who shewed him a Letter written to Mr. Bedingfield by his own hand And likewise the Deponent saw Letters from Blundell and John Fenwick with one from Father Ireland at St. Omers That of Dr. Fogarty to Mr. Bedingfield did contain in it an account of Eighty Letters that were written to the Jesuits in England some of which were delivered to the Post-office in Russel-street others to the Post-office General others were sent by private Messengers and one to Mr. Peters a Jesuit that liveth now with Sir Charles Shelly in Sussex that married the Relict of the Baron of Abergaveny In which the said Peters was ordered to meet the Provincial at London about the Designe in hand which if it took not effect at Windsor speedily then John Keines was to go to Windsor to meet with Coniers who was designed to go out of Town on the 20th of August with Mr. Anderton to 440 which number is by them put for Windsor And after their business was done in Keines his Chamber the Deponent left them LXVIII Item That the Deponent being to meet with Dr. Tonge on the 22th of August at the Kings head in Grays-Inne-lane about six of the Clock at night accordingly went and finding that the said Doctor was not there he walked in Grays-Inne-walks and there he met with Coniers who was supposed to be gone to Windsor The Deponent asked him how it happened that he did not go his Journey he replied that his horse fell so lame that he could scarce carry him five miles on the way and so was forced to return and that he himself was taken ill with the Sciatica which had given him great trouble for all the night before The Deponent was then urgent with him to tell him how he would kill the King seeing he did laugh at the means the Fathers intended to use viz. by shooting him Then the said Coniers by reason of the Deponents importunity shewed him a Dagger or Knife two edged with a very sharp point and it was broader and broader towards the haft which was of Buckhorn and was a foot long in the blade and neer half a foot in the haft With this said he the Villain shall fall to the ground if possible Coniers demanded of the Deponent what he thought it might cost him the Deponent said he could not tell Coniers replied Ten shillings or thereabouts The Deponent told him it was too dear he replied Nothing could be too dear for the King The Deponent asked him where he bought it Coniers replied Of the old Cutler in Russel-street The Deponent asked him why he would have it so long he replied That the Villain might fall by it The Deponent asked How he replied Through my Cloak will I stab him The Deponent asked him how he thought to escape Coniers answered that he doubted not but to obtain a Pardon if he were not knockt on the head upon the place The Deponent after some discourse went to the Kings head where he met with Dr. Tonge between six and seven of the Clock LXIX Item That the Deponent did on the 22th of August about nine of the Clock meet with Blundell and seeing him have a Bag asked him what he had and he replied Tewxbury Mustard-balls a notable biting Sawce and would furnish Westminster when he had enough of them The Deponent saith that by Tewxbury Mustard-balls we are to understand Fire-balls LXX Item That on the 24th of August Blundell told the Deponent in Fenwick's Chamber that it would be so ordered by the Society that the Catholicks of England would advance the designe of shortning the Kings days and bad the Deponent be of good Cheer for Protestant Religion was on its last legs LXXI Item That the Deponent met with Blundell on August the thirtieth who told him that he must shew him what Westminster and the houses on both sides the Water were to be done withal and carried him to Fenwick's Chamber and there drew out of a Paper-Case a Paper in which was the manner of Firing Westminster and Wapping Toolies-street Barnaby-street and St. Thomas Apostle First for Westminster if the wind blew nothernly then they were to begin at the next house to the Palsgraves-head Tavern where the Jesuits and their Agents were to carry on the Fire to the Savoy and then the Benedictines and they to carry it on both sides to Charing-Cross and then the Fire was by them and their Agents to be carried to Whitehall and neer the end of the Stone-gallery another Company is to begin and carry it on to Kings-street and Channel-Row which was first designed to be acted in the time of the great Frost in the year 1676 but then they were not assured of the French Kings assistance of which they are now assured by Leshee the French Kings Confessor At the same time Wapping and the Ships in the River were to be burnt and the said Fire in case the Wind blow up the River is to begin at a place neer Bugbies-hole or Limehouse-hole and is to be carried on by four men of whom they had made choice to Wapping middle-stairs and then four or five more were to carry it up higher And the Deponent found himself with seven more ordered to ply about the Armitage and his business was to encourage the seven men committed to his care and for his reward One thousand pound was therein promised him besides Eighty pound for his former services But the Deponent saith if the Wind stood contrary they were to change the Commencement of the Fire At the same time others were to have the Charge in Barnaby-street Toolies-street and St. Thomas Apostles on the other side of the Water committed to them and the Fire was to begin at Redriff when it was begun on Wapping-side And this is to be done when the Water is low that the Ships might not get off from the Keys In order to the Deponents managing that part of the Fire that was to be begun about the Armitage he was ordered to remove his Lodging into Wapping as soon as order was given him and he should have a Priest come and say Mass unto him in his Chamber every day for a good success on the Designe But the Deponent saith he did not know he was to be an Agent in the business till he saw that Paper which Paper was signed by the Provincial Tho. White in the name of the whole Society LXXII Item That the Deponent saith the Pope hath issued out a Bull a Copy of which Blundell shewed the Deponent on the said 30th of August and as neer as the Deponent doth remember it bears date either the month of November or December last in which the Pope hath been pleased to order and dispose of Bishopricks of England and other Dignities of the same as followeth ARCHBISHOPS Canterbury Cardinal Howard with an Augmentation of 40000
Pob Bret at St. Omers Tho. Stapleton at St. Omers Tho. Fermour at St. Omers Tho. Ditchling at St. Omers Edw. Hall at St. Omers Mr. Cannel at St. Omers Charles Peters at St. Omers Mr. Nevile at St. Omers Mr. Constable at St. Omers Mr. Sabrand at St. Omers Mr. Walter at St. Omers Mr. Roper at St. Omers JESUITS Mr Marsh at Ghent Mr Blake alias Gross in Spain Mr Mundford Vore in Spain Armstrong Mr Cary at Rome English JESUITS in SCOTLAND Mr Lovel Mr Saunders Mr Moore Twelve Scotch JESUITS lately gone into Scotland whose names I know not but I know their persons Secular Persons Dr Fogarthy Sir George Wakeman Mr Coleman John Groves Four Irish Ruffians Lay-Brothers Pickering Smith These Fourteen Secular Priests I have only by Information from Thomas Whitebread Mr Perrot In England Mr Morgan In England Mr Wilmot In England Dr Godden In England Mr Jones Senior In England Mr Jones Junior In England Mr Gerard In England Mr Henrique In England Mr Fisher In England Mr Jackson In England Mr Pinchard In England Mr Sharp In England Dr Bettam In England Mr Wolf in France at the Sorbon Other Persons Archbishop Talbot Archbishop Lynce Hierom Swiman Sir William Godosphin Lord Ambassador in Spain Titus Oates Clerk maketh Oath That the Information set down in these Papers containing Eighty One Articles all Written and subscribed by his own Hand are true in the whole and every particular thereof that is to say that such Particulars as he hath set down to be seen heard done or known by him he knows to be true and what he hath set down only to be heard by him and related to him were so heard and related as he hath set them down and he believes to be true Witness his hand the 27th day of Sept. 1678. TITUS OATES SEPTEMBER 27. 1678. Sworn before me Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey one of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex Edm. B. Godfrey Witnessed Ez. Tonge Chr. Kirby The General Design of the POPE Society of JESVS and their Confederates in this PLOT is the REFORMATION that is in their sense the Reduction of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND and all His Majesties Dominions by the Sword all other wayes and means being judged by them ineffectual to the Romish Religion and Obedience To effect this Design 1. THe Pope hath Entitled himself to the Kingdomes of England and Ireland 2. Sent his Legate the Bishop of Cassal in Italy into Ireland to declare his Title and take possession of that Kingdom 3. He hath appointed Cardinal Howard his Legat for England to the same purpose 4. He hath given Commission to the General of the Jesuites and by him to White their Provincial in England to issue and they have issued out and given Commissions to Captain Generals Lieutenant Generals c. namely the General of the Jesuites hath sent Commissions from Rome to Langhorn their Advocate-General for the Superiour Officers And White hath given Commissions here in England to Colonels and inferiout Officers 5. He hath by a Consult of the Jesuits of this Province Assembled at London condemned His Majesty and ordered Him to be assassinated c. 6. He hath Ordered That in case the Duke of York will not accept these Crowns as forfeited by his Brother unto the Pope as of his Gift and settle such Prelates and Dignitaries in the Church and such Officers in Commands and places Civil Naval and Military as he hath Commissioned as above extirpate the Protestant Religion and in order thereunto ex post facto consent to the assassination of the KING his Brother Massacre of His Protestant Subjects firing of his Towns c. by pardoning the Assassins Murderers and Incendiaries that then he be also poysoned or destroyed after they have for some time abused His Name and Title to strengthen their Plot weakned and divided the Kingdoms of ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND thereby in Civil Wars and Rebellions as in His Fathers Time to make way for the French to seize these Kingdoms and totally ruine their Infantry and Naval Force Besides this Papal there appears also another French Plot or Correspondence carried on by Sir Ellis Layâ—â—on Mr Coleman and others More particularly 1. The Royal Family of the STUARTS are condemned to be Cut off Root and Branch and namely the KING Duke of YORK and Prince of Orange because that Family hath not answered their expectations nor have they any hopes that any of them will comply fully with this their bloody design when fully discovered to them 1. The King person which stands in their way they more especially and in the first place design to remove with all possible speed by Dagger Pistol or Poyson To Stabb Him Conyers and Anderton Benedictine Monks and Four Irish Ruffians are employed To Shoot Him Groves and Pickering are furnished with joynted Carabines To Poyson him Five Thousand pound hath been told out entred in their Books and affirmed to be paid to Sir George Wakeman in part of Fifteen Thousand pound upon a Contract made with him in presence of Doctor Fogarthy and Mr. Coleman 2. The Duke of York notwithstanding they acknowledge his sincerity and affection to their Religion and the Society and his demonstration thereof by his taking Bedingfield a Jesuit for his Confessor they design to dispose of him as is abovesaid 3. The Prince of Orange is also condemned and designed against by Name and Twelve Missioners sent into Holland have in charge to put that People in Mutiny against his Person and Government 4. The Conquest and subduing of his Majesties Dominions is designed and contrived in this manner I. The Conquest of Ireland and subduing it to the Tyranny of the Pope and French 1. By a general Rebellion and Massacre of the Protestants as formerly which they term another Demonstration of Zeal for the Catholick Faith This to be done immediately upon the Assassination of the Duke of Ormond as the Watch-word for which four Jesuits are employed 2. By the Popes Nuntio sent thither and Commissions there given out by the Provincial of the Irish Jesuits c. to a General Lieutenant-General c. 3. By Arms and Money already sent whereof Eight hundred Thousand Crowns by the Pope 4. By Traiterous Officers who are dispensed with by the Archbishop of Dublin and the Clergy there to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy upon promise to betray their Garrisons and other Trusts 5. By the Assistance of the French Forces to be landed there and received by Twenty five thousand Irish ready to joyn with them II. England and Scotland are to be divided weakned wasted and exhausted of their Infantry Naval Force and Wealth by Civil War Rebellion c. and finally exposed to forreign Force of French c. To attain to this Design they apply themselves and Agents 1. By impudently Questioning and Denying the Kings Legitimation and consequently his present Right and Title to his Crown and so exposing him as a Tyrant without Title 2. By Confuting and Weakening as much as possibly they can the Obligation of the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy causing them to be Renounced rendring them very Odious as Blasphemous and Heretical and terrifying all of their Communion from Writing for them offering Money to have Berry the Priest murdered for writing in favour of them III. By Disaffecting the Kings best Friends at home and abroad and Subjects against his Person and Government 1. Charging him with Tyranny and Designs of Oppressing Governing by the Sword and without Parliaments and exposing his mod faithful and valiant Subjects to be wasted and slain in foreign service 2. By aspersing deriding exposing and declaiming against his Person Counsels and Actions in Parliament and elsewhere and particularly scoffing at his Security and Confidence in them and by this means animating and encouraging their Party and Assassins especially to attempt upon his Life and to hasten his Ruine 3. By disclosing the Kings Counsels to France by Coleman Smith and others 4. By mis-reporting and raising false Newes of his Affairs c. 5. By disaffecting his Majesties Allies Holland Spain the German Emperour and Princes by false Intelligence c. 6. By disturbing Trade 7. By seditious Preachers and Catechists set up sent out maintained and directed what to Preach in their own or other private or publick Conventicles and Field-meetings 8. By setting up pretended false Titles to the Succession of the Crown and animating different Parties one against another on this or such like false pretences to Arm and put the People in Blood upon the Kings Death 9. By Firing and Plundering our best Cities and Towns by Irish French Lay-Brethren and others disguised in Frocks and otherwise directed by Order under the Provincials hand how to carry on these Designs 10. By Poysoning and Assassinating by pickt Quarrels or otherwise those whom they suppose to be ready or able to detect or otherwise obstruct their Designs of whom they keep Catalogues in their Books 11. By horrid worse than Jewish Interest Transportation of Trading People Stock and Money adulterating Money and Plate To which ends they have Bankers Brokers Merchants Goldsmiths and other Traders whom they stock and set up with Money of their Society of which they boast to have a Hundred thousand pound Cash c. 12. By suborning Felons condemned by Blundell their Newgate Ordinary through hopes of Pardon or Transportation to turn Papists and then putting such as they find fit and desperate on Firing Houses Plundering and other wicked and mischievous Designs FINIS