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A81180	A Cunning plot to divide and destroy, the Parliament and the city of London. Made knowne (at a common hall) by the Earle of Northumberland, Master Solliciter, and Sir Henry Vane. The design is fully discovered in the severall examinations and confessions, of Master Riley. Several examinations and confessions, of Sir Basill Brook. Severall examinations and confessions, of Master Violet. Proclamations from his Majesty. Letters from his Majesty. Letters from the Lord Digby. Letters from Colonell Read.	Northumberland, Algernon Percy, Earl of, 1602-1668.; Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I). Proclamation for the removing of the Courts of Kings-Bench and of the Exchequer from Westminster to Oxford.	1644 (1644)	Wing C7586; Thomason E29_3; ESTC R11898	34,816	59

only darlings in his Majesties eye whereby they might have served their turns and their ends of you In that therefore you must have as fair and good words as possible may be But now in this on the contrary side when it is to work upon the Parliament then you must be called an odious and rebellious City to draw them from you to Oxford This sufficiently discovers how palpable and grosse they are that all this faire and foule weather is made up only to shift hands to work the same designe of sowing division and dissention among us that so their party might prevaile you may likewise observe from the title of this Proclamation which is by occasion of the invasion of the Scots that they themselves have forgotten the cessation of Ireland whereby they have let loose worse then a forraign nation a nation imbrued in the Protestant blood and settled upon principles for the utter destruction of the Religion and Lawes of this Kingdom I say you may discerne thereby how far forth the cessation of Ireland is forgotten that complyes with all this For after they had murthered almost all the Protestants there and after they have layd that Kingdom waste they must have an opportunity to be let into this Kingdome and no councell called about it to hinder them but rather the councell to bring them over and the princiall actors in that rebellion must be neerest his Majesties heart For the comming of the Scots I believe you all know very well that the Parliament did think fit finding how neer the interest of these two Nations were conjoyned in one finding the constant love and amity of that Kingdome to this and how in its greatest extremity it was very punctuall to it how that the last time it was here it was very punctuall and carefull to observe all conditions and at the desire of the Parliament return back again according to their promise they thought it fit to enter into a Treaty with them in a solemn Covenant which Treaty is now solemnly ratified by both Kingdomes yet this must be called an Invasion When they were last in the Kingdome if they would have joyned with that Army to have come up against the Parliament they might have had very large conditions but that is now forgotten the offers that were then made to them I believe you have heard of already which was that they should have the foure Northern Counties formerly esteemed their ancient bounds that they should have three hundred thousand pounds in mony paid them down at Newcastle that they should have the plunder of the City of London and that all manner of grace or honour that his Majesty could bestow upon particular persons this is that which those that have been in Scotland know was then sent by way of Proposition by Sir Iohn Hinderson who is now at Oxford they then rejected those with scorn and did refuse to make an Invasion upon this Parliament but kept true and faithfull to the Parliament And upon this experience the Parliament thought fit to make use of them again against the publike danger against the ruine of the Protestant Religion which is threaned in all his Majesties three Dominions and therefore as for that point though for the present we cannot give you the full and large Declaration as hereafter will come forth from both Houses yet it is necessary to acquaint you with thus much that you may not be amazed by any such printed Papers as these are Here is a second paper in the forme likewise of a Proclamation whereby you shall see the unevennesse and unsteddinesse of His Majesties Councels at least in appearance for though they be steddy and united in that which is to bring destruction and ruin upon the Parliament and Kingdom yet you may see them halt in their expressions Before you were called a famous Citie you had deserved so well and had all encouragements offered you here on the contrary you shall see what language is given you and because the welfare of this Citie consists much in the residence of this Parliament and Courts of Iustice that are here And of such persons of quality as are necessarily attendant thereupon It is not now only thought fit to call away the Parliament from you but the Courts of Iustice that so you might be left a miserable confused Citie notwithstanding all the faire words and promises that have been given you BY THE KING A Proclamation for the removing of the Courts of Kings-Bench and of the Exchequer from Westminster to Oxford WHereas the sole power of appointing the Place or Places in which Our Great Courts of Iustice shall be kept and of removing them from one place to another as urgent occasion shall move Vs by the Lawes of this kingdom is inherent in Our Royall Person And whereas it is of great importance to Our service in these times of difficulty and distraction to have Our Iudges of Our said Courts to attend neer unto Vs by whose advice We may the better proceed in in all those Cases wherein the Iudgement and knowledge of the Lawes is required And whereas more especially the Chancellor or Lord keeper of the Great Seal of England and the Iudges of Our Court called the Kings-Bench were and are to follow the King and Our Court of Exchequer being the proper Court of Our Revenue ought to attend Vs as We shall appoint And whereas Our Cities of London and Westminster have been and yet are the chief Causers and Maintainers of this present Rebellion against Vs. And We taking into Our serious consideration that while Our Courts of Kings-Bench Common-Pleas and of Our Exchequer are kept at Westminster many of Our good and Loyall Subjects might be compelled or injoyned by Process in Our name to make their appearance there which they could not do without hazard of Imprisonment or other dammage or violence from the fomentors of this Rebellion and many might suffer prejudice by Verdicts and Iudgements had and obtained against them by default or otherwise when they could not with safety come to make their just defences thereupon We did re●olve to remove those Courts from Westminster to Our City of Oxford whether other of Our Courts of Iustice hath been and are already removed by Our former Proclamation And to the end that there might not be any prejudice to any of Our Subjects by discontinuance of their Suits in those Courts or otherwise We did send Our severall Writs of Adjournment directed to Our Iudges of Our said Courts of Kings-Bench and Common-pleas and to Our Barons of Our Exchequer thereby commanding and giving Warrant and authority to them respectively to adjourn all Pleas and Process depending before them in and from the Two and Twentieth day of November last past to the first return of Hillary Terme next commonly called Octabis Hillary to be holden then at Our City of Oxford But our Messenger sent with those Writs as We have been informed for no other cause

it was the Examination of Theophilus Reyley Who saith THat since Newbery fight one Pitsons wife whose Husband was taken at Newbery fight was a Quartermaster and formerly imployed by this Examinant as an Intelligence did move this Examinant to speak to Colonel Harvey for some way to get her husband to be released who replyed He would doe what he could but conceived the best way was to apply her self to Col. Harvey who could doe it having Interest in my Lord Generall VUpon this occasion it is necessary for me to give you this account likewise of this exchange that it is very true Colonell Harvey did hereupon move his Excellency that is now here present with you but it was so conveyed as it seems to Col. Harvey whose merit is known very well among you and how well he hath deserved of the Common-Wealth that he did acquaint my Lord General with it under the Notion of a person called Cap. Reade that should be taken at Burlee Castle in a fight here in the Warres in England thereby to disguise him to his Excellency that so he might be induced to grant this Exchange and by this handsome shift it should seem as you will hear by and by that this warrant was procured from his Excellency who had he known it as he was not bailable by the law so his Excellency from the tendernesse he had to the good of the Common-Wealth he would have had a care to have prevented it but by this shift it was gotten Wherupon a warrant was procured from my L. Gen. for the release of Col. Read in exchange for James Pitson and the said Col. Harvey did write a letter to this Examinant to take security of Col. Read for the exchange aforesaid and directed him to call for the Warrant which Pitsons wife by the direction of this Examinant did fetch from Col. Harveys wife and brought the warrant to this Examinant who thereupon did proceed as he was directed to take security from Colonel Reade by which occasion this Examinant began to be acquainted with the said Reade who said that now he was released he protested to God no man was more wronged then he that he had never born arms that none wished happier to the State for a good Peace then hee and that he would upon his going to Oxford make it appear and endeavour the procuring of a Peace at which time Master Violet a Goldsmith was present who said That the said Reade would be found to be as likely a man to procure Peace as any in England the security being given the said Reade went to Oxford and about a fortnight after Violet came to this Examinants house and desired to speak with him for he had heard from Reade and that he should see the said Reade would be a good Instrument for procuring of Peace at which time Violet produced a Paper of Propositions for Peace and asked his opinion how they would relish with the Parliament who replyed That he did verily thinke that the Parliament would not agree unto them all in his opinion the particulars this Examinant doth not well remember that during the imprisonment of the said Violet the said Violet came Two times to this Examinant and told him That Reade would worke the Queene to a Peace as hee should see shortly this Examinant further saith That upon the newes of Sir Arthur Haselrigs kinsman-being taken Prisoner at Beaver by the Enemy this Examinant comming to my Lady Haselriggs she speaking of Pitson sayd Shee would be glad this Examinant would think of somebody for the exchange of her Kinsman to which this Examinant then replyed nothing but after that the said Violet comming to him he demanded of Violet if he could think of any one to be exchanged for Sir Arthars kinsman who replyed to this Examinant Doe you thinke I might be exchanged for him or to that effect to which this Examinant answered He would speak to Sir Arthur Haselrigge concerning him who did so accordingly and Sir Arthur Haselrigge prayed this Examinant to send Violets name which this Examinant did and thereupon by Order of the House this exchange was appointed between Sir Arthur Haselriggs kinsman and Violet and security taken accordingly and the Bonds left at this Examinants house Vpon Saturday night last Violet came to this Examinants house to know if the said warrant were obtained from my Lord Generall for his release and this Examinants man told him it was the said Violet upon taking his leave of this Exam. told him he would be back with him within three or foure dayes and bring the Discharg of Sr Arthur Haselrigs Kinsman and that there was a Letter already agreed upon at Oxford to be written from the King to the City about Petitioning him and that it would be here on New-yeers day and that accordingly the said Violet yesterday returned from Oxford and this morning told this Examinant That he had brought a Letter and a Message to Master Alderman Gibbs and the Lord Major and appointed him to meet with him againe to morrow at Nine of the Clock the Examinant being then very busie THEOPHILUS RILY This is the examination that was first taken of Master Riley and at the same time when the Committee finished this examination there chanced to fall from Master Riley without any observation at that time by the Committee a paper upon the roome which afterward the Comnsittee also by accident hardly observing what it should be took up and found it to be the Letter as was afterward confest from Read at Oxford to Master Riley which Letter you shall now heare read and in the second place Master Riley his confession that this letter was directed to him and was the letter of Read to him the letter is directed on the back of it for the man in the Moone for when Master Read left this towne there was a threefold character agreed upon for intelligence between Master Read Violet and Master Riley Master Riley was to bee called the man in the Moone Master Violet to be called James Morton and Colonell Read to be called Colonell Lee so according to this threefold character Master Riley himselfe acknowledged this was that which was to be applied to him the letter ye shall now heare read Sir I Wrote to you formerly but never had any answe I assure you faithfully I have not bin wanting to doe what you desired as you may perceive by the effects and if you have not your desire blame your selfe but give me leave to tell you that if you neglect the opertunity now offered to you it may bee you shall never have the like again for I have made those whom you have given just occasion to bee your worst friends to be your best and the only instrument to procure what here is sent you and be you confident she shall still be so provided you do your part consider I beseech you what a gap is open'd by bringing in of the Scots for the

therby to delude simple people if it were possible that might take place to subvert the Lawes of this Kingdome and subject al our liberties to an arbitrary power under pretence of Law to the worst of all evils By this you may easily understand the drift of the Councels that are at Oxford and this use we ought to make of it to unite our selves with more strong resolutions and unwearied affections then ever with our purses lives and estates to labour to redeeme our selves from this misery and thraldome that is threatned us and now appearing in more cleare Demonstrations than ever yet it hath You shall now heare the Proclamation it selfe read this Paper that is now to be read to you is that which commeth in the forme of a Proclamation for as you well know the great Seale of England is now with the Parliament and the other great Seal by the Ordinance is made voide and such is the confidence they have of this good doctrine of theirs and to set up another Parliament in the roome of it and to proceede upon these principles and grounds they think it necessary to send it beyond sea hoping hereby to unite all Popish Princes upon this point who know very well the true Protestant Religion must inevitably be rooted out if this Protestant Parliament be made no Parliament or destroyed in which all our other Lawes at the same time and upon the same grounds are no Lawes but must perish also By the King A Proclamation for the Assembling the Members of both Houses at Oxford upon occasion of the Invasion by the Scots VVhereas we did by Our Proclamation hearing date the twentieth day of June last upon due consideration of the miseries of this kingdom and the true cause thereof warn all Our good Subjects no longer to be missed by the Notes Divers and pretended Ordinances of One or Both Houses by reason the Members do not enjoy the freedom and Liberty of Parliament which appears by severall instances of Force and Violence and by the course of their proceedings mentioned in Our said Proclamation and severall of Our Declarations since which time Our Subjects of Scotland have made great and Warlike preparations to enter and inhave this Kingdom with an Army and have already actually invaded the same by possessing themselves by force of Armes of Our Town of Barwick upon presence that they are invited thereunto by the desires of the two houses the which as we doubt not all Our good Subjects of this kingdom will look upon as the most insolent Act of ingratitude and dissoyalty and to the apparent breach of the late Act of Pacification so solemnly made between the Kingdoms and is indeed no other then a designe of Conquest and so impose new Lawes upon this Nation they not so much as pretending the least probecation or violation from this Kingdom so We are most assured that the Major part of both Houses of Parliament do from their souls abhorre the least thought of introducing that for raigne Power to encrease and make desperate the mile ries of their unhappy Country And therefore that it may appear to all the world how far the Maior part of both Houses is from such Actions of Treason and disloyalty and how grossely those few Members remaining at Westminster have and do impose upon Our People We do Will and require such of the Members of both Houses as well those who have been by the faction of the Malignant Party expelled for performing their duty to Us and into whose roomes no Persons have been since chosen by their Country as the rest who have been driven thence and all those who being conscious of their want of freedom now shall be willing to withdraw from that Rebellious City to assemble themselves together at Our City of Oxford on Munday the twenty second day of January where care shall be taken for their severall Accomodations and fit places appointed for their meeting and where all Our good Sujects shall see how willing We are to receive Advice for the preservation of the Religion Lawes and safety of the kingdom and as far as in Us lies to restore it to its former Peace and Security Our chief and only end from those whom they have trusted though We cannot receive it in the place where We appointed And for the better encouragement of those Members of either House to resort to us who may be conscious to themselves of having justly incurred Our displeasure by submitting to or concurring in unlawfull actions And that all the World may see how willing and desirous We are to forget the Injuries and Indignities offered to Us and by an Union of English hearts to prevent the lasting miseries which this forraigne Invasion must bring upon this kingdom We do offer a free and Generall Pardon to all the Members of either House who shall at or before the said twenty second day of January appear at Our City of Oxford and desire the same without Exceptions which considering the manifest Treasons committed against Us and the condition We are now in improved by Gods wonderfull blessing to a better degree then We have injoyed at any time since these Distractions is the greatest instance of Princely and fatherly Care of Our People that can be expressed and which Malice it self cannot suggest to proceed from any other ground And therefore We hope and are confident that all such who upon this Our gratious Invitation will not return to their duty and Allegiance shall be no more thought Promoters of the Religion Lawes and Liberty of the Kingdom which this way may be without doubt setled and secured but Persons engaged from the beginning out of their own Pride Malice and Ambition to bring confusion and desolation upon their Country and to that purpose having long once contrived the Designe to invite and joyne with a forraigne Nation to ruine and extinguish their own and shall according be pursued as the most desperate and malitious Enemies of the kingdom And Our Pleasure is That this Our proclamation be read in all Churches and Chappell 's within this Our kingdom and Dominion of Wales Given at Our Court at Oxford the 22th day of December in the Nineteenth yeer of Our Reigne 1643. God save the King GENTLEMEN I believe upon the reading of this Paper which is put forth in the forme of a Proclamation you cannot but discerne a great affinity in it to this present businesse that is now before you which is to occasion division between the City and the Parliament to raise factions in both and to say open as much as possible may be to the power and malice of their enemies howsoever they cover themselves under these fair and specious expressions which you have heard before This Proclamation doth very ill agred with his Majesties Letter here it is called the disobedient and Rebellious City in this Proclamation and here the Parliament is indeavoured to be brought from you though before you are the