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A51531	The narrative of Lawrence Mowbray of Leeds, in the county of York, Gent., concerning the bloody popish conspiracy against the life of His Sacred Majesty, the government, and the Protestant religion wherein is contained I. His knowledge of the said design, from the very first in the year 1676, with the opportunity he had to be acquainted therewith, ... II. How far Sir Thomas Gascoigne, Sir Miles Stapleton, &c. are engaged in the design of killing the King and firing the cities of London and York, for the more speedy setting uppermost the popish religion in England, III. An account of the assemblings of many popish priests and Jesuits at Father Rishton's Chamber ..., IV. The discovery of the erecting a nunnery at Dolebank in Yorkshire ..., V. A manifestation of the papists fraudulent conveying of their estates, himself being privy to some of them, VI. A probable opinion concerning the Jesuits, the grand instruments in these affairs : together with an account of the endeavours that were used to stifle his evidence, by making an attempt upon his life in Leicester-Fields.	Mowbray, Lawrence.	1680 (1680)	Wing M2994; ESTC R10191	28,403	35

to Sir Thomas Gascoign produced a List of Names which he did declare were engaged in and contributaries to the said Design And farther deposeth That the said William Rushton read over many of the Names of the said List in the hearing of this Informant amongst which he mentioned Robert Dolman Esq And this Informant farther deposeth That Dr. Peter Vavosor's Name was in the List aforesaid Capt. jurat coram Richard Shaw Major al 's Lawrence Mowbray County of York and Lancaster The Information of Lawrence Mowbray taken upon Oath the Second of November 1679. before us Henry Marsden and John Ashton Esquires two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said Counties AT an Assembly of divers Popish Priests at Sir Thomas Gascoign's at Barmbow was produced a List of Names who were concerned and Contributors to a Design of killing the King and Establishing the Roman Catholics in England and amongst many others there was the Names of Mr. Sherburn of Stonyhurst Walmesley of Dungney Richard Townley and Francis Townley of Townley Mr. Stephen Tempest of Braughton Richard York and divers others which this Informant doth not at present remember Lawrence Mowbray The rest of our time was spent in executing other parts of the said Commission His Majesty's Officers of Justice assisting us in all places whither we came and accordingly several Popish Trinkets Books and Vestments were taken by us and disposed as the Law directs And the effect of our Journey having been presented to His Majesty at our return was graciously accepted and entertained both by himself and by the whole Council upon confidence of whole favour I count it my Honour as well as Duty to stand ready to observe His Majesty's farther Directions in any thing which may hereafter conduce to the preservation of His Person and the Establishment of the true Protestant Religion amongst us Mention having been made by me of an Assault made upon me the manner of it as it was by His Majesty's Command given in to him by Council is as followeth Upon October 14. 1679. I being to attend upon the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury at the Treasury-Chamber at Whitehall departed from thence about Six or Seven a Clock at night and going over Leicester-Fields towards my Lodgings at the Kings-Arms in St. Martin's Lane but intending in the way to call upon Mr. Bolron at the Bear and Ragged-Staff in Leicester-Fields I was overtaken about the middle of the Fields by a person unknown whom I heard follow me very fast I supposed his speed was to get out of the Rain but as he came up to me being on my left hand he with a Dagger or such like Instrument stabbed me upon my left breast the thrust entering my Coat and Wastcoat and lighting upon the Whale-bone of my Bodice which unknown to the bloody Assailant I did wear for my convenience it prevented his design notwithstanding by continuing his thrust I fell down to the ground being slippery by reason of the Rain the party then ran away supposing that I had been slain But still I not daring to speak or call out lest he should renew his attempt while he was near but presently after his departure I called a Link-boy who was at the other side of the Fields who lighted me to my Lodgings another way Lawrence Mowbray The Conclusion BEcause the Jesuits are justly look'd upon as having a Grand influence on the forementioned designs I shall close this dicourse with a Scholastical velitation which I hope will not be unacceptable to the learned for it is worthy of a Pen far superiour to mine The question I would discusse is this Whether that Order of men in this our Age may be supposed to be at their vertical or highest Exaltation Whether they stand at a stay or verge towards their declension I Take the more boldness to propound such a question because a secular Priest hath led me the way for Watson in his first quodlibet hath these two queries 1. Whether the Jesuits having gone astray from their first institution there be any likelihood of their continuance or if not of their downfall and he inclines perhaps prophetically to this latter Artic. 9. 2. Whether any danger to God's Church to erre and utterly to be Overthrown by the Jesuits ruin if it happen or no danger at all which he resolves in the Negative Artic. 10. I Know the Jesuits are much for Probable opinions wherefore in consideration of their Rise Progress and the Ways and Methods they have taken to advance themselves together with their immoral and unlawful practices I shall propound the reasons why some men suppose that they are at their height or rather declining Arg. 2. Their Original is affirmed by some of their own Church to be by surprize and imposition upon the See of Rome For upon the first coming of Ignatius and his Partners to Rome in the time of Paul the third the Rules of their order being presented to him he committed them to three Cardinals to examine who thought good to refuse them because their Obedience to their General was seemingly Superiour to their Subjection to the Pope for Maffaus speaking of their General says without controversie one must be chosen to whom all must be obedient as if it were to Christ to his word they must swear and esteem his beck and his will as an Oracle of God Lib. 2. vit Ignat. Cap. 9. I pray what greater obedience could the Pope himself claim hereupon being repuls'd they reformed their Rule and made their Obedience to the Pope and their General both alike for these be the words of Ribadeneira who also afterward wrote the life of Ignatius Lib. 2. Cap. 7. The order of these Clarks must be that by their institution they be ready to obey the Pope at a beck and live by such a line as he shall well consider and determine off Upon the insertion of which passage the Pope having as he thought secured his own Authority lent a more favourable ear to them and confirmed their Order yet with some jealousie and with many scruples of Conscience as some of their own Authors speak for at first he allowed them not to exceed the number of Sixty and therefore well may their Constitutions begin with this little Congregation c. To improve this Argument if there be a worm in the Root the verdure of any plant will in time decay An Errour committed in the first concoction is never remedied in the second as Physicians say no marvel then if homebred-jealousies do increase upon this Body of Men now grown numorous if not formidable to the Pope himself ab origine fuit Sic and therefore notwithstanding their pretended submission and vow to the Papal Chair when the Pope Crosses their purposes as Xistus quintus did he incurred their great displeasure and hatred to the shortning as some think of his life After whose death they most Maliciously depraved him and

February the 5th 1679 80 I Do appoint Thomas Simmons and Jacob Sampson to Print this my Narrative and that no other Print the same nor any part of it Lawr. Mowbray THE NARRATIVE OF Lawrence Mowbray Of LEEDS In the County of YORK Gent. Concerning the Bloody Popish Conspiarcy against the Life of His Sacred Majesty the Government and the Protestant Religion Wherein is Contained I. His Knowledge of the said Design from the very first in the year 1676. with the opportunity he had to be acquainted therewith and the Reasons why he concealed it so long with the manner of his discovering the said wicked Project to His Majesty and His most Honourable Privy Council II. How far Sir Thomas Gascoigne Sir Miles Stapleton c. are engaged in the design of Killing the King and Firing the Cities of London and York for the more speedy setting uppermost the Popish Religion in England III. An Account of the Assemblings of many Popish Priests and Jesuits at Father Rishton's Chamber at Sir Tho. Gascoigne's House at Barmebow with their Consultations and Determinations IV. A Discovery of the Erecting a Nunnery at Dolebank in Yorkshire by the Popish Party especially by Sir Thomas Gascoigne with an Account of an Estate of ninety pounds per Annum settled thereupon by him V. A Manifestation of the Papists fraudulent conveying of their Estates himself being privy to some of them VI. A probable opinion concerning the Jesuits the grand Instruments in these Affairs With other Considerable Matters relating to the Plot. Together with an Account of the Endeavours that were used to stifle his Evidence by making an Attempt upon his Life in Leicester-Fields LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Princes Arms and Jacob Sampson next door to the Wonder-Tavern in Ludgate-Street MDCLXXX To the Right Honourable Heneage Lord Finch Baron of Daventry Lord High Chancellor of England and One of His Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council My LORD I Dare not permit the ensuing Papers to approach your Lordships presence without an Apology For had not your Lordship afforded some signal Encouragement to the poor Author nothing of This had presumed to interrupt your Lordships great Thoughts and Cares And yet the subject matter herein contained besides your particular Favours afforded to my self which I hope at least in my desires and design is contributory to the prevention of eminent dangers to King and Kingdom may plead my excuse as not unworthy of your Lordships Consideration who is so great a Lover of them both and hath so immediate a concern in their preservation If I had the Pen of a Demosthenes or a Cicero or to sum them up both in one your own I might then have adventured to enlarge on the Theme of your Lordships Merit which is able to inspirit the most jejune and barren Orator but in regard it Transcends the small pittance of my disused skill I shall rather be silent than speak too little of what I am never able to speak enough I have read in our Chronicles concerning Q. Elizabeth that never any Prince who swayed the English Scepter had more sapient and vigilant Councellors than Her Majesty Amongst whom I have heard it reported of Sir Francis Walsingham Secretary of State in Queen Elizabeths time that he was so prudently watchful over the designs of the Popish Emissaries and Priests that he maintained divers private Agents for that purpose in Rome it self who did so cunningly and dissemblingly carry the matter that the Pope himself in suae infallibilitatis opprobrium paid Pensions to some of those Setters who probably pretended to do service on both sides for no such Key to unlock the Apostolical Chamber nay the very Conclave as a disguised yet fugitive Privado It cannot be denied but those days were very critical when Parry Squire c. were suborned and encouraged by the Jesuited party to Murther that Queen and upon that account extraordinary diligence was required in the Ministers of State to prevent any inconvenience which by the policy of the Romanists might accrue to their Queen Lady and Mistress And herein she was as happy in her Servants as they were prosperous in their success leaving her to expire in a good old age as a fruit of their vigilance and care next to Gods blessing and protection over her I know our times are as designing as theirs and the means used to accomplish their purpose of destroying our King and Government is suitable to what methods were then put in practise either by Poyson Assassination or the like And therefore it is Gods goodness to our King and Kingdom to raise up many Walsinghams I mean Honourable and Faithful Councellors who watch night and day for the preservation of His Majesties person and the true Protestant Religion amongst us Amongst these your Lordship is placed in the highest Orb and that not by a casual frolick by which yet some are advanced of blind Favour but by a just and acknowledged desert after several remarkable Gradations of Dignities and Offices which were but praevious to that Eminency wherewith your Lordship now shines It is therefore the happiness of His Majesty to be so served and secured and not his alone but all those concerned in the discovery of this wicked and hellish Design have reason to bless God for the acknowledged protection and encouragement which you are pleased to afford them and in particular to my self The Tribute I am to pay your Lordship is only my humble acknowledgment more I cannot less I may not the same which God is pleased to accept from thankful supplicants I had it first in my thoughts to have made my Epistolary Address to His Majesty himself and I was encouraged thereunto by some Instances wherein mean persons have addressed themselves unto great Potentates to forewarn them of their dangers I shall only cite two Examples both being of our Kings Predecessors one sitting on the Scotish another on the English Throne both which are now happily united in the person of our Royal Soveraign 1. When King James the 4th of Scotland was preparing his Army to fight against the English in the battel of Floddin being in the midst of his Nobles and Collonels at prayer a Grave ancient Country-man pressed in through the crowd to the Kings Chair and leaning familiarly thereon told him That he and his followers should not prosper in that War and therefore he wished him to desist Buchan Hist Scot. lib. 13. The King not hearkning to his counsel was slain in that Fight together with the Flower of the Scots Nobility and Gentry There are enough which will sow Pillows under the elbows of Princes and flatter them even in their evils for as one says as soon a hot May without Flies as Courts without Flatterers But 't were well if the Chambers of Kings were sometimes open to the persons of Loyal and well-affected Plebeians who being but standers by to speak proverbially yet many times may see more than the Gamesters and

engaged in the Design many of which Names he read unto them and amongst them this Informant very well remembreth he read the Names of Sir Thomas Gascoign Thomas Gascoign Esq Mr. Middleton Sir Miles Stapleton Mr. Sherburn Richard Townley and Francis Townley the Lady Tempest Mr. Stephen Tempest Sir Francis Hungate Sir John Savill Sir Walter Vavosor and his eldest Son Dr. Peter Vavosor Edward and Thomas Killingbeck Barney Robert Doleman Marwood Thomas Priscick and many others whose Names this Informant now remembreth not were contained in the said List And the Informant farther saith That Sir Thomas Gascoign did often bid this Informant to write Superscriptions to several Letters some whereof were directed to Mr. William Harcourt others to Mr. Corker others to Mr. Cornwallis in London and some of the said Letters to Mr. Cornwallis were directed to him by the Name of Pracid other Letters by like order this Informant directed to Mrs. Lassells Mrs. Twhing and Mrs. Beckwith who were to be Governesses or to have other Offices in the Nunnery erected at Dolbank to which the said Sir Thomas Gascoign contributed 90 l. per Annum and made a settlement of an Estate at Mauston the Tenant's name whereof was Alvery Lofthouse And this Informant farther saith That he often heard the said Priests in Mr. Rishton's Chamber say That they had Commission from the Pope to prosecute the said Design by all likely ways and that all the Jesuits were particularly engaged in the said Design and were to be the managers thereof And that the Priests through England were to assist therein and engage all the Families therein where they had any Interest And they did also tell one another that sums of Money was collected for buying of Arms for carrying on the Design and that several of their Friends had paid in 't their shares for that purpose And they sometimes said That they had Orders from the Pope to be as brief in their prosecution as possibly they could that they might proceed to Execution And that they did communicate their several Letters from their Friends beyond Sea to the persons whom they had persuaded into this Work And they also affirmed That the Pope would in a little time determin a settlement of both Ecclesiastical and Civil Preferments upon the Actors and Contributors of this meritorious Design as they termed it And that the Pope had Excommunicated the King and all other Heretics in England Scotland and Ireland and had granted a Plenary Indulgence of ten thousand years to those who should act either Personally or in Estate to kill the King or any other Heretic for promotion of their Religion besides a Pardon and other gratifications And this Informant farther saith That by the command of Sir Thomas Gascoign he went to Robert Bolron to direct him to go to Father Rushton to reconcile him to the Catholic Church which was performed accordingly And he farther saith That the Paper now produced dated the First of January 1677 8. hereunto annexed is all of this Informant's hand writing and is a Copy of a Letter which he directed to a Person of Quality at Whitehall and that he sent the said Letter by the Post from Leeds to London on the First of January on which day this Informant wrote the said Copy hereunto annexed Jurat die anno superdict Coram me Edmund Warcup Afterwards His Majesty having received Informations of several persons in the Counties of York Northumberland Lancashire and Bishoppric of Durham who were suspected to be Papists or favourers of Popery or who could give Information touching the Plot against His Majesty was pleased to employ my self and Robert Bolron Gentleman to repair into those parts and to execute that Commission which is contained in the following Order of Council VVHereas Information hath been given to His Majesty in Council upon Oath That the several persons in the List annexed mentioned are suspected to be favourers of Papists and to harbour and lodge Popish Priests and Jesuits and to have in their keeping Writings and Papers relating either to the horrid Plot against the Life of His Sacred Majesty and his Government or to Collusive conveyances of Lands to superstitious uses His Majesty was thereupon pleased to command and accordingly We do hereby Will and Require all and every of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace to whom the Bearers hereof Laurence Mowbray and Robert Bolron or either of them shall make Application to receive in due form of Law the Informations they shall exhibit against all or any of the said persons in the List mentioned or any others which the said Laurence Mowbray and Robert Bolron shall justly suspect to be concerned in the aforesaid Practices and thereupon to proceed according to Law for the more speedy and effectual discovery of the Offenders and bringing them to condign Punishment And the said Justices of Peace are hereby further required to issue out their Warrants if they see occasion for searching the respective Houses of the several persons in the said List mentioned or any other suspected Houses as well for Popish Priests and Jesuits as for Papers Letters Crucifixes Agnus Dei's Popish Books and Vestments and other superstitious Trinkers and to proceed according to Law against such Popish Priests and Jesuits as shall be apprehended And also to dispose of such Papers Letters Crucifixes Agnus Dei's Popish Books and Vestments and other superstitious Trinkets as shall be found in the said search as the Law directs except such Papers or Writings as relate to the said Plot which are to be safely conveyed unto us with all speed And of what the said Justices of the Peace or any of them shall do in pursuance of this His Majesty's Pleasure they are to return unto us from time to time an exact account For all which this shall be unto them and every of them a sufficient Warrant Dated at the Council-Chamber in Whitehall the 17th day of October 1679. Anglesey Lauderdale Henry Coventry Bridgewater Fra. North. Sunderland J. Ernle John Nicholas According to which Order Mr. Bolron and my self with the assistance of some of His Majesty's Messengers repaired into the Northern Parts where in obedience to the said Commission and in pursuance thereof I made the two following Informations Civitas Ebor. The Information of Lawrence Mowbray taken upon Oath the 27th day of October 1679. who saith and deposeth THat about Michaelmas Anno 1676. there was an Assembly of several Priests or Jesuits at the House of Sir Thomas Gascoign at Barmbow in the County of York and that the said Assembly did then generally conclude and agree That the King meaning the King of England was to be kill'd for that he was a Heretic and Excommunicated by the Pope and that it was not only lawful but meritorious to kill the said King or any other Heretic and that they likewise said That all or most of the Catholics in England were engaged in the same Design After which discourse one William Rushton Priest