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A70215 The Irish-evidence convicted by their own oaths, or, Their swearing and counter-swearing plainly demonstrated in several of their own affidavits herewith faithfully published as also a full and impartial account of their past & present practices. Hetherington, William. 1682 (1682) Wing H1626; ESTC R10355 17,276 20

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not to try any more of the Lords in the Tower and after the Parliament was Prorogued he told the said Witnesses or some of them that he would remove their Nests 10. That the said Fitz-Gerald had kept continuall correspondency and familiarity with the four Witnesses which were brought over by a Messenger from Ireland and a Person of Quality perceiving it told him that he had not observed the Orders the Committee gave him which was That he should not come near any of the Evidence nor Converse with them The said Fitz-Gerald replyed that he was Commanded by the King to come there and also gave the said Person of Quality very scurrilous abusive language 11. The said Fitz-Gerald also abused the said four Witnesses or some of them and asked them if they came to hang poor Plunket 12. That the said Fitz-Gerald said he was abused because he would not accuse the Duke of Ormond and the Chancellor of Ireland which he knew to be as honest men as any in the three Kingdoms THe Examination of these Articles being referred to a Committee Mr. Hetherington produced all the Evidence that Fitz-Gerald had been tampering with and gave full satisfaction to the Committee of his villanous Practises of which indeed his own Insolent Behaviours before the said Committee might alone have been a very pregnant proof And the Chair-man of that Committee was making his Report to the House when the Black Rod came to Prorogue them soon after which a Dissolution followed otherwise 't is probable this Plot-shammer would have been severely dealt with according to Law But escaping Justice then so luckily has encouraged him and his Accomplices to proceed since more boldly in their endeavours to sham the Popish Plot and Suborn Witnesses against the Earl of Shaftsbury Mr. Hetherington c. The first course he took to shock the Integrity of the other Witnesses was to fright them with impudent lies and scandalous Aspersions upon the Person and Honour of His Sacred Majesty assuring them with Horrid Oaths That His Majesty did not send for them nor regard whether they were all hang'd or drown'd That His Majesty did not believe there was any Popish Plot at all nor care for prosecuting it That they should never get any allowance if they would not be ruled by him c. Such brazen-fac'd slanders on the best of Monarchs who on all occasions has so vigorously shewn himself a true Defender of the Protestant Faith that no good Subject can repeat them without Horror and Wonder that the Villian that broach'd them has so long escaped the Pillory or rather the Gallows In the next place he braves it out with fine clothes and Insults over the other Witnesses poverty and shews them whole handfulls of temptation bright charming Gold Insinuating that they should have the like encouragment if they would but embark with him in the same design Some of them indeed had so much conscience and sparks of honesty remaining or at least such regard to their future repute and safety as for some time to struggle with these Temptations and then freely upon Oath discovered the profered Subornations and wheadling devices yet afterwards as may reasonably be judged by the sequel over-swayed with the suggestions of the Devil and his Instruments so as to value neither Truth nor Conscience nor even their former Oaths pinched with necessities and Brow-beaten with the frowns of Grandees and abandoned almost by all the World they began to hearken to the voice of this Man-catching Syren and forget the Popish Plot and set up the Irish Ha-loo-loo against Protestants and being once engaged and having slung their Consciencies over-board nothing remains that they will Boggle at or which their grand Plot-shamming Masters and dayly Feeders please to put them upon This may seem a bold charge and would appear very unjust had we only suspitions and probable proofs or violent presumptions to justifie it but we have it under several of their own hands nay more upon their Oaths which for the Readers satisfaction we shall here faithfully recite The following Depositions being by several of them ere they were so totally debauched voluntarily sworn before the respective Magistrates therein mentioned London ss The Information of Maurice Fitz-Gerald Gent. taken this Eighteenth Day of March 1680. upon Oath before me Sir John Frederick Knight and Alderman one of the Kings Majesties Justices of the Peace for the City of London THis Informant being duly sworn saith That whereas it is reported in and about the City of London and Westminster and other places That he hath retracted from the Evidence and Information that he gave upon Oath before John Odell Nicholas Mouncton and George Aylesmer three of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Limerick in the Kingdom of Ireland against several Persons in the said Information mentioned being concerned in the Horrid Popish Plot contrived against His Majesty and His Protestant Subjects there it is altogether false and untrue And further declareth That whatsoever he hath related in the said Information is altogether true and will upon no account whatsoever retract from the same but will justifie the same Information whensoever he this Informant shall be thereunto required And further saith That whereas there was a Petition lately presented in the name of this Informant and others as he hath heard to the King and Council by David Fitz-Gerald That he this Informant had disowned any Information that he had given against Sir John Fitz-Gerald and Colonel Pierce Lacy He this Informant doth declare That he knew nothing of the said Petition till after it was presented and was not any waies concerned in the same Maurice Fitz-Gerald Jur. Coram me John Frederick Vera Copia E. B. Which Information given by the said Maurice Fitz-Gerald in Ireland follows in these words Com. Limerick The Information of Maurice Fitz-Gerald Gent. taken before us John Odell Nicholas Muncton and George Aylsmer three of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Limerick THe Informant being duely sworn on the Holy Evangelist saith That on or about Winter 1676. after Captain Thomas Mac-Inerina returned out of Flanders and France whether he had been imployed as Agent from the Irish Gentry there was a very great meeting at Colonell Peirce Lacy's House at Curroe where met besides the said Colonel the Lord of Brittas Molowney the Popish Titular Bishop of Killalow Brenan the Popish Bishop of Waterford Duley the Popish Bishop of Limerick two Jesuits whose names this Informant knows not Sir John Fitz-Gerald John Power Son to David Power late of Killbolan John Hurley Eustace White John Bourke of Cahormohill William Bourke his Brother Captain John Purdon Captain Thomas Mac-Inerina Captain Richard Stephenson David Fitz-Gerald and he this Informant and several others whose names this Informant knows not where and at which time the said Captain Mac-Inerina gave an account of his Agency and what Force the French King had promised to send over