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An historical review of the late horrid phanatical plot in the rise, progress, and discovery of the same.
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F. N. W.
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1684
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Wing W28; ESTC R6864
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Carbines Eighteen Inches and Thirty Cases of Pistols Fourteen Inches That he was put upon it to Buy the same the rather for that he had a Plantation in America and might have on that Account a Pretence but Mr. Ferguson was to pay the Money which in some great time afterwards he did saying he had but just then received the same and paid him Ninety Three Guineas which he supposed the Moneys of Mr. Charleton That in Case this Assassination had gone on it was Designed the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs should be Killed and as many of the Lieutenancy as they could get and the Principal Ministers of State my Lord Hallifax my Lord Rochester my Lord Keeper and that they would Hang him on the said Tree that Colledge had Hung Sir John Moore was to be Killed and to be Hung up in Guild-Hall as a Betrayer of the Rights and Liberties of the City and the then Lord Chief Justice Pemberton Fleyd and Hung up in Westminster-Hall with a great many of the Pentional Parliament as Betrayers of the Peoples Rights That the Prisoner was sometimes by at these Discourses That Mr. Ferguson Declared he had told some Nonconformists and they desired him to forbear but adds he They are Silly People and do not know how to distinguish between Killing a Prince for difference in Religion and Destroying a Tyrant for Preservation of the Right and Liberties of the People That it was an Action would make all the Kings in the World Tremble and Teach them to use their Subjects Kindly That it was the Design at the same time the Mayor and Sheriffs were to be Killed that Mr. Papillion and Mr. Dubois should be forced to take the Sherievalty on them and if they refused it they should be used as others and that Sir Thomas Gold Sir John Shorter Alderman Cornish should be set up for Mayor but rather the last as the fittest Person That the Kings Natural Sons were good Lusty Lads and it would do well to keep them for Porters and Watermen and my Lady Ann should be Married to some Countrey Gentleman for a Breed to keep out Foreign Pretences I have been something larger in the Repetition of this Evidence then was at first intended but the same being so material to Prove the Horridness of the most Barbarous part of the Design it self as well as that Concern which the Prisoner had therein and on which his Fate depended that I hope the Reader will Excuse me and from the whole Consider with himself That nothing less then the Watchful Eye of Heaven could possibly have Guarded His Sacred Majesty from the several Attempts so often renewed against him by this Malevolent Party Set on and Encouraged by the Cant and Hypocritical Zeal of a Scotch Whig Whose only Design it was to Murder His Royal Person and overthrow the Government because not Squared to his Precise and Rebellious Measures But to return to my Subject The Evidence abovesaid so plainly and palpably made out did admit of no Plea nor Excuse in the Wretched Prisoner nor indeed could he have any Face to deny the same there being besides this a Letter that was intercepted under his own Hand to the Secretary of State wherein he doth as much as plainly Confess the same Acknowledging it as his first Crime and that his Life was at the Kings Mercy and that if his Death would do Him more Service he was willing to Surrender it That if His Majesty would admit him to Come in use Mercy he would tell all he knew concerning England Scotland and Ireland which he thought would be more material then any other Discoverer could Tell Which plainly shews that he had a deeper Hand in this Mischief then any of those that had given Evidence against him Upon the whole when my Lord Chief Justice came to Sum up the Evidence having taken Notice of the Material Passages aforesaid and given his Directions to the Jury they Brought him in deservedly Guilty of the Indictment The next in order who came to Tryal for the aforesaid Treasons was William Hone a Joyner with whom in short I shall no further trouble the Reader then his own Confession That he was drawn in by Mr. Goodenough and was one of those that was to Murder His Majesty and his Royal Highness whose Names they Disguised under that of the Blackbird and Goldfinch Nor shall I much Enlarge the Bulk of these Sheets with that of John Rouse who could not deny his Concern in the Treasons aforesaid tho his Post was something of another Nature then the Two former which I shall forthwith give you some Account of begging leave only to take Notice of the Justice of Heaven which now overtook this Miserable Wretch he having been too long known in the Government for a most Malitious Disturber of it and had once before been brought to the Bar for High Treason at a Time as Sir George Jeffries our present worthy Lord Chief Justice then took Notice of When the Common Justice of the Nation could not be Obtained in that place insomuch that the Judges who came to Execute Justice had more reason to fear being Executed upon the Bench then the Prisoner at the Bar. To proceed This Gentleman was to take Care to Manage a Party of Men who were to take the Tower of London and the Evidence against him were first Mr. Lee who Testified That Mr. Goodenough having Acquainted him that there was an Apprehension that the Rights and Priviledges of the Nation were Invaded and that it was time to look to themselves for Popery was Designed and Arbitrary Power and Asked him whether he would Engage in that Affair to prevent it and withal that the City was to be divided as is before mentioned and desired to know whether he would Engage in one part of it He Answered His Acquaintance was not where he Lived but he would get a part where he was known and afterward told Mr. Rouse of this as also that Mr. Goodenough had further informed him the Design was to Set up the D. of Monmouth and Kill the King and Duke of York but that all Parties must not know of it and the People should be only Acquainted there was like to be a Foreign Invasion c. and if they seemed ready complyant therein to Assist then to discourse them nearer That Mr. Rouse told him he had before known it and that he would provide Arms for 100 Men and that nothing was to be done unless the King was seized adding That he remembred since 41 the King went and set up his Standard but that he was then for seizing him not taking his Blood and that 't was a convenient thing for a Ball to be playd upon Black-heath and to that end that several Sea-Captains should be spoken to that he himself had ingaged Ten and that the Affair should be managed that he that won should take it that when they had so done every Captain should take his
you afforded us Yet these Villains hardned in Impiety were not hereby discouraged from pursueing the same Bloody Design but Resolved to Travel forward therein till they reach'd the outmost step to effect the same and proposed with themselves that it might be done either in His Majesties passing from Windsor to Hampton-Court or in His then intended Journey to Winchester or when He should go by Water in His Barge or under Bedford-Garden-Wall in Covent-Garden when He should pass that way or at the Bull-Feast which was then shortly after intended in Red-Lyon-Fields they being informed His Majesty and Royal Highness would be there And that they might be the better prepared when the occasion should offer it self by having a certain Number of Arms lying always ready for that purpose Arms were bespoke for Forty Men in all hast viz. Thirty Carbines with Belts and Swivels Thirty Cases of Pistols and Ten Blunderbusses which were accordingly made and paid for And for their more easie drawing their Party together against the time of Execution they contrived to divide the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs into Twenty parts from each of which they expected Five Hundred Men to be ready on the first Onset and some Agitators were to give an Account of Men to be furnished in each Division and give out Orders to them as there should be occasion And to the end the Forces they should Raise might be the sooner Modeled into the Form of an Army there were a Hundred old Officers who had been Engaged in the late Rebellion thereby the better fitted for this ready in Town to take the Command of them in the pursuit of which Desperate Cruel and Ineterate Projects they continued till they knew that Discovery had been made thereof to His Majesty During all which time the other more principal Conspirators were not unemployed but carried or managed their other Design for a general Insurrection in both Kingdoms and the late Earl of Shaftsbury who had at first pressed them to a sudden Insurrection which he would have had to have been before or at least on the 17th of November being the Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth when People generally gave themselves the Liberty of Solemnizing the same in Extraordinary Crouds and on that Account would be less suspected and the sooner Raised sent to the rest of the Conspirators at a Meeting appointed by them to know their Resolution and finding them either timorous or unprepared to Venture upon the same Conveyed himself with some others of his Crew secretly into Holland to avoid the Danger he might be in by a Discovery the greatest piece of Policy perhaps that ever that said Earl tho a Famed Machiavel ever in his Life was to be Esteemed for but his thus withdrawing himself from their Councels did not discourage them from pursueing their Pernicious Infernal Designs tho it made them a little more Cautious whereupon a New Councel was appointed of Six Persons that were to have the Chief Management of Affairs in order to the aforesaid Insurrection by a Correspondency with their Party in Scotland and the several parts of this Kingdom and because an Intercourse of Letters was thought dangerous it was held necessary that some Person should be Intrusted with a Message into Scotland to Invite the Heads of the Disaffected Party there to come hither under pretence of Purchasing Lands in Carolina but in truth to Concert with them the best Means for carrying on the Design Jointly in both Kingdoms and a Treaty was thereupon had with Archbold Cambell late Earl of Argile who then stood Attainted of High Treason and had made his Escape from Justice who Demanded 30000l at first but afterwards Agreed to Accept of 10000l for Buying of Arms in Holland and making other Provisions previous to the said Rebellion in Scotland in which said Councel of Six several Debates were managed As whether the Rising in this Kingdom should be first in the City of London where by reason of the vast Number of the Disaffected that might readily Unite they might easily Master the Guards or rather in some Remote Parts whereby His Majesty would be under a necessity of sending His said Guards to Suppress them and thereby the Rising in the said City would become more Secure and Effectual but at last it came to this Resolution as most convenient That it should be in all parts at the same time least the City might be Defended by the Militia thereof without help of the Guards which might be sent for Suppressing any Insurrection in the Countrey to which they all Consented and disposed themselves for Compassing the said Design which was very near taking Effect just as the same by the Mercy of the Almighty on the 12th of June 1683. came to a Discovery by the Confession of Mr. Keeling who greatly troubled at his Concernt herein being one of those who should have been Employed in the Assassination mentioned thought he did very ill in not discovering the same in so much that he had no Peace Satisfaction or Content nor could he mind his Business or take that Rest that at other times he was wont Ruminating with himself that if it were a Sin in David to Cut off the Hem of Saul's Garment much more would the same have been in him to have Murdered so Good and Gracious a King Which the said Conspirators coming to hear of they began each of them to shift for their Safety and met about the same at the Lodgings of Captain Walcot since Executed very early on the Monday Morning following where some of them having Hired a Boat to whom they had given Five Pounds in Earnest intended for Holland whilst others lingred about the Town and particularly Rumbald who having got this Keeling to a Tavorn began to Charge him as a Discoverer which he was forced by several Imprecations to deny or he had never been suffered to have gone thence Alive This Grand Design coming thus to the Knowledg of His Majesty and Council Warrants were forthwith Issued out against several of the Conspirators as particularly J. D. of M. the Lord Melvin Sir Jokn Cockrane Sir Thomas Armstrong Robert Ferguson who was the common Agitator and Intrusted by all Parties in the several Conspiracies Richard and Francis Good enough Richard Rumbald William Rumbald Richard Nâ—lthrope Nathaniel Wade William Thompson James Burton Joseph Elby Samuel Gibbs Francis Charleton Joseph Tiley Mr. Casteers and Mr. Loâ—â— both Non-Con-Preachers Edward Norton John Row John Ayloff and John Atherton but these too soon warned by the quick Monitions of a Guilty Conscience had made their Escapes from the Hand of Justice which in due time is more then probable will be too swift for such Wretched Criminals besides these Ford Lord Gray being Apprehended and Examined before His Majesty in Council was Committed to the Tower but in his way thither got from the Custody of the Serjeant at Arms and made his Escape and Arthur Earl of Essex being likewise