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A59378	The Several informations of Mr. Simeon Wright, Thomas Launders and Richard Perkin concerning the horrid Popish Plot in England : and the several ways that have been used to take off the Kings witnesses, and to hinder the further discovery of it : the two former, being witnesses in the trial of the late Lord Stafford, their informations were taken upon oath by Edmond Warcup, Esq., one of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for Middlesex and Westminster, in December last 1680 : the latter was taken upon oath by Sir Robert Atkyns, kt. at the assizes at Stafford, 1679 : the whole informations being nothing but matter of fact.	Wright, Simeon.; Lander, Thomas.; Perkin, Richard, 17th cent.	1681 (1681)	Wing S2767A; ESTC R10186	11,345	30

VALE THE INFORMATION OF Symeon Wright BARBER CHIRVRGEON IN CHANCERY-LANE IN LONDON Taken upon Oath this 17th day of December 1680. before me Edmond Warcup Esq One of His Majesties Justices of the Peace in the said County and City Mr. Plessington coming from beyond the Seas went into Stafford-shire and at the Right Honorable Lady Gerards at Saudon he became acquainted with a Sister of mine that then waited on the young Lord by whose meanes he came to the knowledg of my Father and Mother who then and still live at Stone in Stafford-shire at his return to London he brought recommendations from them to me to my Masters a Barber and Periwig maker in Chancery-lane This was the beginning of our acquaintance which was afterwards improved to those wicked ends I am now about to relate This was about the year 1672 or 1673 and to the best of my memory he did then belong to Lincolns-Inn from thence he went to serve the Lady Marchioness of Clinrickard in Covent-Garden and was from thence advanced to be the Lord Bellasis his Steward which place I suppose he still holds After the discovery of the Hellish and damnable Popish Plot I gave him a visit in German-street and told him the talk of the Town about his Lord whereupon he replyed dear Child it is a false thing and my Lord is as clear as the Child unborn and is with the King at New-Market and as great a Favorite as any one whatever It is well said I if it prove so and he told me I need not fear it When strict enquiry was made after the Murtherers of Sir Edmond-bury Godfrey Mr. Plessington was upon suspition taken into the Custody of Mr. Wickham a Messenger and upon a Saturday Night came to the Ship Tavem without Temple Barr with his Keeper whether he sent for me and when I came to him after some other discourse told me his condition and pull'd out a small book with a lock and key to it which his keeper immediatly searched but upon perusal of it restored it to him again then at his request I went to the Lord Marques of Winchesters to acquaint his Lordship with the greatness of his Charge and to beg his Lordships favour his Lordship sent for me into his Bed-Chamber and asked me how Mr. Plessington did and after I had delivered my Message he bad me remember his kind respects to Mr. Plessington and tell him he did not think it convenient so soon to move for his enlargment but that it should not be long before he should hear from him It was upon the Lords day that I waited on the Marques and on the Tusday following he was discharged and came to return me thanks for my care and paines adding that he would not be ungrateful to me when occasion should serve Whereupon I replyed Sir I am very glad that you have so good a friend meaning my Lord Marques of Winchester to which he thus answered Ah Child if you were in my condition you would have as good and better Upon the first rumour of Mr. Stephen Dugdales discovery Mr. Plessington was very inquisitive whether I knew him I told him yes very well upon which he answered that he was sorry that I knew such a base fellow or words to that effect And after Mr. Dugdales coming to Town he observing a great intimacy betwixt us Told me that he would come oftner to see me but that he did not care to see Dugdale and yet at the same time would express his desire to see him but would bid me take no notice of it to Dugdale and was very frequently asking questions concerning him alwayes speaking very scurrilously of him He told me he was very well satisfied of my truth and honesty and that it should not be long before I should know more of his mind which discourse was soon over Not long after he came to me again and told me he wanted some secret discourse with me and thus went on You are said he Dugdales Barber still yea said I I am pray said he where do you trim him I answered in my shop with three or four Souldiers about him Do you said he never trim him privatly I told him I never yet had but was once asked by him to trim him at his Chamber at the Cock-pit VVell said he if that fellow were aside it would be well for him that did it and he thought me a very fit man to be imployed in that affair and went on making me very fair promises of great rewards and at length came to a sum certain saying that If I would destroy him or blast his Evidence I should have seven hundred pounds paid me And to confirm me that he was real he bid me make provision to have it secured to me accordingly I spoak to Mr. Reaves an Apothecary and one Mr. Cross at the Horshoo-Tavern both in Chancery-lane about security for such a summe Mr. Cross went twice with me to speak with Mr. Plessington about one of the hundred pounds but my great necessity dayly encreasing upon me I was the more inclined to attempt Mr. Dugdales person which accordingly I did after this manner Mr. Dugdale being late one Evening at the Horseshoo-tavern in Chancery-lane sent so me as he used frequently to do to accompany him home to his Lodging at the Cock-pit and calling a Coach we two only went into it this was an opportunity I had expected and accordingly had provided a Dagger which cost me 3s and 6d which I bought at a shop near Walling ford house when we came into the Strand near Summerset House I sitting opposite to Mr. Dugdale in the Coach felt how low his bodice came that I might know were to stab him securely but Mr. Dugdale mistrusted me so far that he called to the Coach-man to stop but I perswaded him on but at Charing-cross I again was attempting him and he again was calling to the Coach-man to let him out but I endeavoured to perswade him that I intended him no harm yet he still so far mistrusted me that when we came to the Cook-pit he immediatly stept out of the Coach and paid the Coach man and gave him a 1 s. more then his pay to carry me back to the Hors-shooe Tavern I would have come out with a design to follow him pretending to return by water but he would not admit of it but would have the Coach-man carry me back When I saw I had missed this opportunity of Murthering him I bid the Coachman take notice where I had left him well fearing he might be dispatcht by some other hand and that I should be questioned for it The Coach stood at the Sarazens head in Camomil-street near Bishops gate this was in the Month of July 1679. Mr. Dugdale perceiving his person was attempted obscur'd himself for several dayes and then his Enemies reported that he was run away from his Evidence which Mr. Plessington understanding he beleived I had given Mr. Dugdale

Son Bromley lodged and either of them would be my Baile Sir Thomas was subpaena'd as a witness for the Lord Aston and was a witness for the Lord Stafford I therefore was forced frequently to shift my lodgings and was entertained at Major General Egertons he being from home within a short time Mr. Germin Drayton Butler both to Mr. Heningham and Sir James Symonds and one Samuel Holt a Black smith to the Lord Aston of Tixal which Holt was also a witness in the Lord Staffords trial came to me frequently to the Bull-tavern in Southampton street Mr. Drayton oftner than the other and did interceed with me to write somthing that might blast Dugdale which I did and he called for it at the time appointed Two or three dayes after Mr. Drayton told me that he must bring a Gentleman to speak with me but would not name him accordingly the next day he called me and we went together to the Crown in Kings street in Blooms-bury whether he brought one Mr. Longner reputed to be the Lord Staffords Solicitor vvho thus accosted me that he was glad to see so honest a good face appear in their cause and that any one would take me for an honester man than ever Dugdale was adding that Sir James Symons was better able to perform than Dugdale was to promise and that I should not need to fear a gratuity for they were the strongest side Upon this I replyed that I was I ready to serve them in such ways as they should propose to me then they desired me to write a Paper to Destroy Dugdales Evidence I told them that I had already written one yea said Mr. Drayton but this we now desire is to satisfie Sir James Symonds yet I often denyed them for that very reason because I had before given them one but at last agreed to vvrite a Paper in their method and they vvere to pick the best out of both for their purpose which when done I vvas to svvear to I cannot undertake to remember the very vvords of it but they dictated to me and I wrote to this purpose Sir I can I bless GOD for it with a safe Conscience swear that Mr. Dugdale did at a private meeting betwixt him and my self proffer me money and a maintenance and protection as one of the Kings Evidence if I would stand by and swear for him against Sir James Symons and Mr. Gerard and others this I do neither for fear nor favour nor in hopes of any future gratuity as I hope to be saved SIMEON WRIGHT This was by their direction and then Mr. Drayton invited me to the Kings-bench Prison whither I went and after Dinner Sir James Symonds sent for me to him to Mr. Coolings and when I came told me he hoped I was sensible how great his future gratitude should be and that he hoped I would stand and fall by them when occasion should serve and that he was sorry that he had no occasion for me at present and then thrust twenty shillings into my hand Many other contrivances they had which I omit because I would not be tedious but can easily prove this and a great deale more This paper before mentioned is the Paper that William Viscount Stafford produced in Court upon his Trial. They have another Paper of this nature would they be so just to produce it which I delivered to Mr. Drayton but I know not in whose hands it is now Mr. Henry Lee Bayliff to Walter Heningham Esq who was accused to be one concern'd in this Hellish Popish Plot did frequently make it his business to revile and asperse Mr. Dugdale especially about the beginning of October last to one Mr. Moore at the House of Thomas Aspery of Aston in Stafford-shire which Mr. Moore then questioning him for and asking his name he reply'd his name was Simeon VVright a Barber in Chancery-lane by which it is very plain that he was knowing to my being imployed to ruine Mr. Dugdale as aforesaid as indeed he was and therefore made use of my Name to obscure his own They had within three Monthes last past told me that theirs is the strongest side and have given me severe charge to stand or fall with them and not be danted from which encouragement I did all that in me lay to blast Mr. Dugdale whereever I came but it hath pleased God to bring me to an acknowledgment of the truth partly by meanes of His Majesties late Proclamation for the encouragment of witnesses and partly by the good Advice of severall Friends but especially my own Conscience prompting me to this Declaration of the truth for the clearing of the Innocent and exposing the Guilty SIMEON WRIGHT Jurat ' 17. December 1680. Cor ' me EDMOND WARCUP FINIS THE INFORMATION OF Thomas Lander OF Shutborrow in the County of Stafford Another of the Witnesses in the TRYAL OF The late Lord Stafford As it was taken upon Oath By Edmund Warcup Esquire one of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex and City and Liberties of Westminster on the 24th day of December 1680. LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Princes Arms in Ludgate-street M DC LXXXI THE INFORMATION OF Thomas Lander OF Shutborrow in the County of Stafford Taken upon Oath the 24th of December 1680. before me Edmund Warcup Esquire one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex and City and Liberties of Westminster as followeth viz. THIS Informant saith That having been employed as a Workman several times at the House of my Lord Aston at Tixall in the County aforesaid he was sollicited by Mr. Francis Hind Steward to the Lord Aston to become a Witness against Stephen Dugdale late Steward to the Lord Aston any way to invalidate or take off his Evidence in relation to the Popish Plot and he served this Informant with a Subpoenae to come up to London for that purpose at the late intended Tryal of the said Lord Aston in June last past but before his coming up the said Mr. Hind Francis Aston Son to the Lord Aston and Thomas Sawyear Servant to the said Lord Aston c. sent for this Informant into a private Room in the said Lord Aston's House and there told him That if he would swear such things as should be dictated to him by the Persons aforesaid to invalidate or take off the said Dugdale's Evidence he should have such a Reward as should be to his own content and not want for Money and Horse as might become a man of better Quality than himself And this Informant agreeing to their Proposals came up to London accordingly They perswaded this Informant likewise to swear that Dugdale was a Cheating Rogue and had cheated this Informant and many more in the Country whilst he was the Lord Aston's Steward To which this Informant answered he would and saith that Hind told him That if he would do according as they directed him that he should besides the Rewards