sayes that looking upon my Horoscope it Prognosticated a bold and Adventurous man but does not remember that he said to Mrs. Cellier that I would be hang'd but that it was possible I might That he cast likewise the Lord Powis his Nativity as he used to do of all persons of Quality the certain time of whose Birth he could be assured of 2. Matthew Hopkinson a Scrivener over against Somerset House acknowledged that he subscribed a List of Names and a Letter of mine in a Room two pair of stairs high but he did not remember that it was of a Womans hand-writing and the List and Letters being shewn to him he owned them to be his own hand 3. Sir James Butler owned the Taking of an Affidavit of Lane about Buggery charged upon Mr. Oates and that a Woman came with the said Lane to him 4. Thomas Jolly the Tayler being sworn said he carried a Letter from Mrs. Cellier to the Lady Powis and brought back an answer and that when he returned I was present and that he had seen me half a dozen times at Mrs. Celliers Upon full hearing of these several Informations and Examinations this was the result of the Council Whitehall November 2. Mr. Thomas Dangerfeild alias Willoughby having been examined the twenty seventh past by the Lords of his Majesties Privy Council concerning certain dangerous and Treasonable Papers seized in Mr. Roderick Mansell's Chamber which it appeared to their Lordships had been by him conveyed thither was thereupon by Order of the Board committed to Newgate And having since given in an Information to the Lord Mayor of London of several Treasonable practices against his Majesties Person and Government and of hishaving been prevailed with by several of the Popish Religion to Counterfeit the above-mentioned Papers and Letters by which divers Noble-men and other Protestants were to have been brought under a suspicion of carrying on a Plot against his Majesties Government And the said Information being yesterday morning brought to his Majesty by the Lord Mayor and by his Majesty sent to the Council Board Mr. Dangerfeild was sent for and farther examined by their Lordships who thereupon the last night Committed the Earl of Castlemaine to the Tover and Mrs. Cellier to Newgate and did this day likewise Commit Mr. Gadbury to the Gate-house and Mr. Rigaut to Newgate several other persons accused being in the Custody of his Majesties Messengers And their Lordships have appointed the further examination of this matter on Tuesday next Middlesex and Westminster The Information of Mrs. Jane Bradley of Westminster Widdow taken upon Oath this first day of November 1679. before me Edmund Warcup Esquire one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace in the said County and City THis Informant saith that upon a Saturday about three weeks ago one Thomas Curtice late of Lancashire now in or about London came to Heaven where this Informant lives and as she was lighting him out of Doors he told her that he heard there were Commissions giving forth and that Mr. Bloud had the giving them out and added that if he could get one of them it would be five thousand pounds in his way and that this Informant should have part of it Whereupon this Informant asked him what way he propounded to get one of them who answered by Captain Brown who was one of his Countrey-men with whom he was acquainted Some time after which the said Thomas Curtice brought the said Capt. Brown to the same house but they then discoursed nothing of the business in her hearing but this Informant did and doth apprehend that the said Curtice meant that those Commissions were to be given out against the King And she further saith that she sent for Mr. Bloud and acquainted him with the said discourse who answered 't was very well done to tell him thereof but there was no such thing in being and about a week after Mr. Bloud gave this Informant a Broad piece of Gold saying you are a poor woman and directed her to know as much as she could of the matter And accordingly this Informant did enquire of the said Curtice about the 5000 l. but could get nothing out of him more than that he was well assured of the 5000 l. And she further saith that Mr. Bloud and Captain Brown had been at Heaven together before that time And she remembers that she did tell the said Brown that one Lawton one Pember and one Tresby were acquainted with the said Curtice And she heard the said Lawton was a Priest-taker And further saith not at present Jane Bradley Jurat Die Anno supradict Coram me Edmund VVarcup The said Jane Bradley doth further say upon her Oath that the last time she spoke to the said Thomas Curtice which was when he fetcht a Straw-hat from Heaven she said unto him words to this effect When is it that we must get the 5000 l. to which he answered I will not meddle in it it troubles my Conscience and it were but Treachery in me if it were done and it is to no purpose to meddle in it for there is a list found out or to that effect Jane Bradley Jurat Die Anno supradict Coram me Edmund VVarcup November 2 the same day 1. The Deposition of William Woodman taken upon Oath on Novemb. 2. 1679. before the Lords of His Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council WHO saith That he hath known Mr. Willoughby at the Lord Powis his house for about two Months time and that he hath seen him and Mrs. Cellier write together very often That he carried a Pacquet of Letters from Mr. Willoughby or Mrs. Cellier to the Lady Powis at the Tower and that her Ladyship opened the Pacquet and read some of the Letters and gave others to him the said woodman who carried them to one Nevill in the Kings Bench and that he hath carried Letters divers times between Mrs. Cellier and Mr. Willoughby and Nevill William Woodman 2. The Information of Mary Ayray taken upon Oath the second day of November 1679. before the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council THis Informant saith upon her Oath That she went with Willoughby and Duddell to Nevill in the Kings Bench and left VVilloughby at a Coffee-house by the way and carried a sheet of Notes taken at Langhorn's Tryal which VVilloughby writ but was given her by Mrs. Cellier to carry to Nevill And she saith she carried a Letter from Nevill to Mrs. Cellier and a Letter from Mrs. Cellier to the Lady Powis she hath also seen Singe with Mrs. Cellier and she has seen VVilloughby write the Speeches of the five Jesuites the which Mrs. Cellier did dictate to him and saith also that she hath seen Lane at Powis-house who went by the name of Johnson and that Mrs. Cellier ordered him to be called by that name This Informant also saith that she went with my Lady Abergavenny last Winter to the Earl of Shaftsbury about her being Indicted as a
Celliers charity He said that the second discourse he had with me at Powis's house was concerning Mrs. Celliers having offered to procure me an Ensigns place under the Duke of Monmouth in the late expedition to Scotland or else that I should stay and depend upon her He said farther That Mrs. Cellier from being his friend became his enemy I replied That Mrs. Cellier had sent him 80 l. and that her husband had been his security to keep him from prison but that upon some difference arising upon complaint made that Nevils daughter was like to turn Whore old Celliers withdrew his security and so Nevil was returned to prison Nevil in answer to this reviled with many passionate expressions and as to the writing the Pamphlet Timothy Touchstone he denies it and says he knew nothing of Mr. Jeane the Priest in Buckinghamshire As to one Cox in Covent-Garden he said he had been his Agent about his business in Ireland but denied to have heard any thing from him about Ten thousand pound which I objected he acknowledged that he was still for the advice of Indicting false witnesses and had twenty times advised the Indicting Oates and Bedloe but as for the framing a Presbyterian Plot and to draw men into it it had been a great villany and he utterly denies the same That he only had from Mrs. Cellier Fifteen pound but that she had of his money Seventeen pound That the commerce between her and me was very scandalous and she was suspected to defraud the Charity which came through her hands which by the Collection of all forts of Catholicks was about Twenty two pounds per week He acknowledged that he advised me to compound my debts and not to depend upon shifts of Law He owned that he received all the Trials that were printed and had fingered them out as would still appear by the Books he had by him for that seeing how ill things hung together and that some things looked like perjury he thought it would be easie to frame Indictments against the Witnesses That as to his informing me of a List of mutinous Coffee-houses he denied the same having never been in above four or five in his life but it was notorious enough how all the Coffee-houses were factious He declared his great hatred and animosity against Mrs. Cellier who formerly indeed came to him every day but that she caused her husband to withdraw his Bail and he was again clapt up To this I objected That it was not altogether Mrs. Cellier but the advice of the Lords in the Tower that he should be again confined forasmuch as when he was formerly in that Condition he had been very industrious about writing of Papers in their business but that being at Liberty he chiefly followed the Play-House Nevil here reflects upon me as a Lewd and Infamous person to which I replied That if I were such as he said it was the more plain that I could not proceed in such weighty undertakings as I had managed without considerable Counsel and Direction which is agreeable to what I have affirmed The Lady Powis said She hoped the Oath of an Infamous person should not bring her in danger for that no person of Common sense would ever trust such a Creature as I was with any thing of importance Mrs. Cellier said She never caused me or any body else to put forth Pamphlets but that indeed I did make some and put them forth which were very inconsiderable things that I did once read to her two Pamphlets wherein was no matter of hurt but the things were foolish and mere Chimaera's and then she railed upon me c. The Lord Peterborough called in said That he gave his servants charge to admit me whenever I came and that he did call me Captain Willoughby yet his Lordship told the Board he could not but be troubled to have his name mentioned by so infamous a person as I was Mr. Nevil alias Payne called into the Council on Friday Novem. 7. 1679. saith That I had writ him a kind of a Challenge which he knowing my life rejected besides that I was grown in behaviour proud and high as a Prince Midd. and Westmin The Information of Thomas Curtis of Westminster Cloth-worker taken the Fifth day of Novem 1679. before Edmund Warcup Esq one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace in the said County and City THis Informant saith that about half a year ago he became acquainted with Mr. Willoughby taking him to be a very Civil Gentleman and not knowing that he had any other name and about the second day of October last he met the said Willoughby at the Hoop-Tavern on Fishstreet-hill and there drank a Bottle of Rhenish-Wine with him in the drinking whereof he the said Willoughby told this Informant that he looked on him as an honest man and one that loved his King and Country and expressed himself to be a Protestant and much against Rebellion and further added that he would put this Informant into a Way to serve his King and Countrey whereunto this Informant replyed that he would serve his King and Countrey to the last drop of his bloud in anything that was just to which the said Willoughby replyed that he would not put this Informant on any thing but what was honourable and just and that he would make it easie but at that time refused to tell the business but appointed this Informant to dine with him at Mrs Celliers the next day following which this Informant did and after Dinner the said Willoughby took this Informant into a private room and there told this Informant that there were Commissions given out privately by the Fanaticks and perswaded this Informant to get one and if this Informant did so he would bring this Informant to the King and that it should be 5000 l in this Informants way besides being taken care of for the future But this Informant replying that he did not believe there was any such thing the said Willoughby answer'd that he knew it to be true and that he had been at several meetings with them and named one in Holbourn another which he called Sir Thomas Player's or my Lord Shaftbury's in London a third that was Sir Robert Peyton's and particularly said that Bloud 's party issued out these Commissions And this Informant had heard before that Mrs Cellier had harboured the Gentlemen that came over from St. Omer's and that she was a Papist but the said Willoughby did never intimate to this Informant that he was imployed by the Papists in this Affair and charged this Informant not to say any thing of this Matter to Mr. Nevil because he had no Correspondence with him nor desired any nor to Mrs. Cellier because she was a woman And then this Informant promised him to see what could be done and so left him resolving not to insinuate into any secret Trust on purpose to betray it about Four days after which this Informant returned to Mr. Willoughby
and told him he had been at the Club in Westminster-market but could not learn any such thing and when this Informant had seen the said Willoughby this Informant went to Mr. Nevil and Mr. Nevil bid this Informant never to meddle with such villanous treacheries and this Informant further saith that he likewise told Mrs. Jane Bradley the same story and that he heard that Mr. Blouds party the Fanaticks had the giving out these Commissions and she then said she would use her interest with one Captain Brown who had formerly been her Sweet-heart to get one And the said Jane Bradley had several times since wished we could get the 5000 l. saying she would share therein and this Informant did tell her that he heard those Commissions were given out by Mr. Blouds party by those people where he was concerned and that this Informant would beg his Bread before he would be guilty of such Treacherous designs and that it was to no purpose to meddle in it for there is a list found out as he heard and this Informant remembers the said Willoughby asked this Informant if he knew Collonel Mansel which this Informant said he did and he also told this Informant that he had been in the Earl of Shaftsbury's Company or Club and further saith not Tho. Curtis Jurat die anno supradict cor me Edm. Warcup And this Informant saith that Mrs. Bradley asked him in whose name the said Commissions were to issue out whereunto this Informant Answered that he heard that it was in the name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England and did farther say he heard some should hold that the Long Parliament was not yet Dissolved but this Informant doth not remember from whom he heard these particulars Tho. Curtis Jurat eodem die cor me Edm. Warcup Middlesex and Westminst The Examination of Henry Blasedall Apothecaryâ—… Arundel-Street taken this Sixth day of November 1679. before me Edmund Warcâ—… Esq one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace 〈◊〉 the said County and City WHO saith that a Bill was brought to this Examinants Shop by one Margaret a Servant-maid to Mrs. Cellier about the Seventeenth day of May last past which Note contains as folloeth Nine Grains of Opium dissolved in Syrup of Clove-Gilliflowers of Balneo vaporis by it self Ê’jss which this Examinaâ—… not judging fit to be given inwardly sent in lieu thereof two Graâ—… of Laudanum in a little Spirit of Wine and a little Syrup of Gilliflowers and this Examinant believes the said Note or Bill to be tâ—â— hand-writing of Mr. Willoughby and as this Informant hath since un derstood the said Dose was intended for some Prisoner in the Marshalseas to make him deliver some Writings when he might bâ— lulled asleep by the said Dose and this Examinant doth conceive bâ— what Mr. Bedlow said at the Council-Chamber that it might be intended for one Stroude who 't is said was then Prisoner there as further saith not Henry Blasedall  Capt. coram me Edmund Warcup The further Examination of Mary the Wife of Henry Blasedall taken as aforesaid THis Examinant saith that Margaret declared when she 〈◊〉 back again to her Husbands Shop that they had as good 〈◊〉 sent a little fair water for it did no good and the same Dose beâ—… sent a second time by the same Margaret she said if there werâ—… better Physick in the Shop than that they were not fit to keep 〈◊〉 it was good for nothing and she further saith that the 〈◊〉 lay among her Mother Mrs. Celliers Hoods and Scarfs and 〈◊〉 this Examinant 't was waste-paper and good for nothing but to 〈◊〉 whereupon this Examinant took it as such but observing 〈◊〉 upon it she read as much of it as she could which to the best remâ—…