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A59326
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A narrative written by E. Settle.
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Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.
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1683
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Wing S2700; ESTC R10691
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disturb them and so when Sir Edmond was got to the Bench Green who followed him whipt about his Neck a large twisted Handkerchief and thereupon they all assisted and dragged him into a Corner and twisted his Neck till they broke it one of them Thumping him on the Breast to make sure work on 't and all this without one Syllable of a Pistol or Pillow or any Questions ask't him or the least dispute about sending for Depositions Papers or any thing like it Here we may observe how strangely the Devil helps his Servants Hill Green and Gerald had dogg'd Sir Edmond-bury Godfrey to the Watergate at Sommerset-house where neither of them stirring from him to give notice of their coming only Hill just leaving them to step into the Watergate and out again with the Story of that sham quarrel yet Berry Prance and the Irishman are sitting on the Bench by the Stables and attending their coming having the Knowledge no doubt from some Infernal Intelligence not only that Hill Green and Gerald were at that time following Sir Edmond from St. Clements and that Sir Edmond would take the Watergate in his Walk but also that upon the Story of a Quarrel within the Queens Pallace Sir Edmond would Officiously thrust himself where he had nothing to do and all to part a Fray only with the Face of a Justice of Peace at Nine a Clock in a Winters Night and that upon that very spot of ground within sight of a Centry who had Ten times more Authority and Power to do it then he But to proceed with the Villany of these Popish Assassinates that very Night he was convey'd out from Sommerset-house Mr. Lephaire courts Mr. Bedloe with 2000. l. to be one with himself Mr. Walsh my Lord Bellasis Gentleman and Mr. Atkins Mr. Peppys Clerk to help convey him out Lords Journ jurat 12 N. 78 and the next minute Mr. Bedloe is showed the Body of Sir Edmond and the aforesaid Persons all there and all ready and agreed to do it but Mr. Bedloe disliking the Imployment leaves them by an excuse and the next day is chid for not keeping his last Nights promise of returning and assisting them But Mr. Prance does not finish here but finds new matter and new Nights work still for he does not only all along leave the Body in the Custody of his own Crew of Murderers Green Berry Hill c. but after many a Removal of it upstairs and down-stairs from Room to Room tost as I may say from Pillar to Post the aforesaid Green Berry Hill with Kelly Gerald himself and one Irishman more were the very numerical Persons that carried him to Primrose-Hill In all this admirable Variety mark how pat it falls out as Sir Edmond-bury was found with those Two fold marks of Assassination about him viz. both Strangled and Run Through so likewise 't is observable that Two-fold was the way of Trappanning him Two-fold the Fatal place and Two-fold his Murder oh how insatiate is the Popish Revenge that One Death could not suffice and even to the very last no less then a Double set of Night-walkers are employed for the Expedition to Primrose-Hill I shall insist no farther either upon the Cruelty or Strangeness of this Assassination and the Appurtenances thereunto belonging only to reconcile all doubts that these seeming Extremes or what else you please to call them may not grate the Gentle Reader let him but inquire farther and hee 'l soon learn that by that time those three Murderers Green Berry and Hill were apprehended and Tryed for the Fact all Difficulties were removed and all Differences adjusted whilst like East and West as they say differ but in a point or like Virtue placed between two Vices the Golden Mean was at last found out and the aforesaid three Blood thirsters received the condign reward of so outragious a Crime And I heartily wish that all the yet undiscovered Aiders Abettors or Actors in that Murder had their as just or more just Reward Fiat Lux. But to return to our Plot History and the Conduct of those Eternal Blunderers the Jesuits one most remarkable Observation is that in all those Numerous Letters and Pacquets seen and read by Dr. Oats delivered at Valladolid St. Omers c. or elsewhere beyond Sea or received from thence tho they contain'd no less then the whole summ of all their Consults in England or elsewhere and all the several Proposals and Methods for Regicides Massacres Assassinations and all the rest of their Villanies whatsoever The Jesuits in all their politicks were such stupid inconsiderate Fools as to Venture the bringing and carrying of all those dangerous Papers from and to all parts whatever with the contents excepting one or two in Latin or Spanish in plain downright English words at length only now and then intermixing such an inconsiderable Cypher as 48 for the King 66 for London or Barly-broth for the Parliament insomuch that the most dangerous Letter Mr. Oats ever broke open without the least trouble of a Key or the opposition of Figures or Characters he read Ex tempore Nay Mr. Dugdale in the 5 Jesuits Tryal p. 25 26. intercepted no less then a 100 Letters expresly upon Oath directed to other Men all containing Treason in them for Killing the King and Introducing of Popery and all too in plain English without any Cypher at all and those Letters more and above too sent by the Common post Jurat before the Hâ—use of Lords De. 3 78 Besides honest Bedloe's the greatest Plot Messenger of them all swears he never carried one Letter or Pacquet that he did not break open and read And now methinks in so subtle and hazardous an Enterprize never were such egregious Oversights committed by Men of the Jesuits Brains as to venture such notorious Treasons so nakedly drest to all Accidents that might occur when Coleman who had not one Syllable either of Killing the King Firing of London Massacres in England Scotland and Ireland Jago Pilgrims French Armies Popish Ruffians Black Bills Pistols Ponyards or Poysons not only writ but received all his Papers in Cyphers nay a great many of them too from those very Jesuits beyond Sea whose hand-writing with a 100 times more dangerous contents in it Oats Bedloe and Dugdale dayly saw and read without the least veil of Cypher Character or Disguise whatever when the intercepting of but one of all those innumerable Pacquets by any Protestant hand had certainly destroy'd the whole Fabrick of the Plot and laid both the Papists and their Cause in unavoidable Ruin Good Heavens that a Cabal of such prodigious Undertakers should most of them be Men of such Infinite Learning and yet to so little purpose But alas the Jesuits were those hardy Desperado's that they writ Treason and posted it about at random without either Fear or Wit insomuch that Dugdale after intercepting and breaking open so many of their Plot Letters swears he kept those he could