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A44229	The free and voluntary confession and narrative of James Holloway addressed to His Majesty written with his own hand, and delivered by himself to Mr. Secretary Jenkins ; as also the proceedings against the said James Holloway in His Majesties King-Bench Court, Westminster, and his petition to His Majesty ; together with a particular account of the discourse as passed between the sheriffs of London and the said James Holloway at the time of his execution for high-treason at Tyburn, April 30. 1684 ; with his prayer immediately before, and the true copy of the paper delivered them at the same time and place.	Holloway, James, d. 1684.	1684 (1684)	Wing H2509; ESTC R2717	28,093	16

him a sense of his Sins and a sense of whose Servant he is Lord make him thy true and faithful Servant Lord bless all thy People wheresoever they are and continue thy Gospel every where let it not be rooted out O Lord thou knowest what Contrivances have been made against it Lord continue it here let it Flourish more than ever it hath done Lord make England a Place thou wilt delight to dwell in and make them know than hast not dealt so with overy Nation Lord hear the Prayers of all thy People Lord continue the Gospel in England Let not Popery let not Arbitrary Government come in O Lord there are good Laws in England Lord let them be put in Excecution Lord hear me for thy Mercies sake I am now ●…ing unto thee Lord I have but a minute or two to be here let thy Spirit receive me to thee I commit my Spirit Lord hear me and answer me for thy Sons sake who is at thy right hand interceeding for me to whom with thee and thy Eternal Spirit be al Honour and Glory and Praise both now and evermore Then being asked who was in Council at the delivery of the Letter he answered Holloway There was the Duke of York and the Lord Keeper I did not deliver it It was intercepted in a Letter or given i● I did not know how it was for I have been kept so that I had not the Liberty to see any Friend till yesterday in the afternoon I had the Liberty of 2 or 3 hours with my Wise Cap. Richardson You had your Wife with you before and your Sister and some other Friends Holloway But that was never without a Keeper Sir Cap. Richardson You are in the right Mr. Sh. Daniel They do not use to allow men under you Circumstances such a Liberty as you talk of Holloway I Pray God that no other people may concern themselves with publick Affairs out of their own way and that the Scriblers might be put down for they do more hurt to the Kingdom than any thing else Mr. Sh. Daniel Have you any thing more to say Holloway No Sir Mr. Sh. Daniel Then God have Mercy upon your Soul The PAPER delivered to the Sheriffs APRIL 26. 1684. TO stop the Mouths c. of all Pamphleteers and News-Scriblers who have done more Prejudice to his Majesty and Kingdoms by their Impudent endeavours to Sham all Plots and to fill the Country with False News than they will ever be able to Retrieve and to satisfie all I leave behind me I thought good to draw up a short Account of what I knew of the Late Protestant Plot how I came to be Concerned what Induced me to it and how far I was Concerned also my now Opinion of it c. It was my Unhappiness to have too Publick a Spirit for one of my Capacity and as soon as I came to be a Free-man to prefer the Kings and Kingdoms Interest before my own for having some knowledg in Linnen Cloath upon the Prohibition of French Linnens c. I thought the Linnen Manufacture might be brought to Perfection in England to the very great advantage of the Poor and so made some tryal of it in Warwickshire where I employed some Hundreds of Poor and in about Eighteen Months time brought it to such Perfection that I could make as good Cloath as the French and so well Imitate it that few could know it from French but the Prohibition being not so strict as at first seemed to be French Cloath was brought in Cheaper than ever so that I was forced to leave off with loss but considering that by an Act of Parliament for its encouragement in a method I had thought upon it might be setled much to the Kings and Kingdoms Interest advancing the Kings Revenue near two hundred thousand Pounds a Year and would have employed about 80 Thousand Poor people and about 40 Thousand Acres of Land concerning which I was about June 1680. brought acquainted with the Earl of Essex to whom I related the business who immediately had me to the now Earl of Rochester then President of the Treasury and he had me to Sir Edward Deering who when they understood my Proposals gave me something to bear my Charges and encouraged me to attend the next Parliament to endeavour the Promotion thereof which I did almost the whole Session and brought to the Speakers Chamber some of the Cloath which was compared with French c. and the Design well approved of by all which brought me into too large Acquaintance for one of my Capacity from whom I heard too much as hath proved for my Interest of things that were then in hand concerning the Popish Plot which prevented the doing any thing as to my Design So after that I was encouraged to attend the Oxford Parliament which I did and was desired there by the Earl of Clarendon and others to prepare a Bill the Heads of which I drew up though it proved to no purpose but my Ruin I wish my King and Country might reap the Benesit of what I pay so dear for The more I knew during my Attendance on those two Parliaments the more was desirous to know and did by some Scriblers and News-mongers constantly know most Publick Assairs that were Acted which they undertake to represent according to their own homour many Actions being represented very Illegal much against the Protestant Interest in favour of Papists c. Shamming the Popish Plot and laying Sham-Plots upon Protestants abusing the Rights and Priviledges of the Subject the Truth of which I leave to the Judgment of all but hearing many such like things was easily prevailed with to be Concerned in the PLOT according as it was proposed to me viz. About July 1682. I met with a Person who then being come from London gave me a Relation at large concerning the Election of Sheriffs that had been in June the manner of which is well known to all he represented it to me as a very Illegal Action and that there was a Devilish Design of the Papists in it to Cut off the Kings Friends the Stirring men in both the last Parliaments as to the Prosecution of the Popish Plot who I always took to be both the Kings and the Nations Friends That there was Witnesses had been ready a long time to Swear against them but they could not get Jurors to believe them but now they had by force of Arms c. got Sheriffs who would find Juries to believe them and so Hang them up at their Pleasure that there was none but bad Counsel about the King who kept all Ill Actions from his knowledge and if they proceeded to Swear North and Rich at Michaelmas and to chuse Lord Mayor as they had done Sheriffs the Protestant Gentry were resolved naming some to remedy what was Designed by an Insurrection in several parts of England and if possible to get the King off from his Evil Counsel and bring all

Popish Offenders to Justice saying That they were sure that when the King knew the Occasion of their Rising he would presently give up all Offenders and come in to them That it should begin in November in London Bristol Exeter Taunton Chester York New-Castle and that we should hear more of it in a Months time therefore desired we might Consider how it might be managed in Bristol which we did and concluded that Bristol with about 350 men might be easily secured by a Surprise without the Blood-shed of one man About a Month after that came the Person he mentioned we should hear more by but he could declare no more then the former did only that the Design went on and there would be timely Notice given to all parts but we heard of nothing but Disappointments and Delays putting it off from time to time In April I heard of another Design against the King and Duke of York as they were to come from Newmarket some time in March but when I enquired into that found it was Carried on by Three or Four and never could hear the Names of above Five that were for it When I heard it I declared my Abhorrence of any such thing and that I was Consident none in our Parts would be for such a base Action After that enquired farther into it and could find that although it was intended to be done Six Weeks before that they had only a Parcel of Arms ready and that they had neither Men nor Horses but one said if they could have raised 6 or 800 li. to have bought Horses and also something to encourage men they should have found men enough so that I looked upon that only to be the Design of Five or Six Persons and no way likely to be Acted but the General Design for the Insurrection was Carried on by others who though they had made a great Stir in the Nation trying the Inclinations of People and had Treated with the Scots and Irish as I heard who were to be ready at the same time yet were never come to any Resolution as to any Time or Method before all was Discovered though they had been Eleven Months Contriving of it from the time I first heard of it This I hope will be enough to satisfie all People that there was a PLOT I mention no Names here having given his Majesty a more large Account of what I knew of it mentioning the Names of all that I knew Concerned The Arguments before mentioned with many others to the same Effect not only soon prevailed with me but made me indeed think it my Duty to do what I could for my King and Countries Safety being then fully perswaded that not only Popery but Arbitrary Government was Intended not then Considering as I have since Considered Low much Bloodshed it might have caused in the Nation for then I thought all would have been ended in little time supposing things to be as to me was Reported But I do now declare my Hearty Sorrow for my Yielding thereto and Acting therein though I can safely say I was not for taking the Kings Life but wholly for his Preservation yet am Satisfied that it might have caused very much Bloodshed in the Nation and am glad it did not take effect Also I declare that I am Satisfied it was a very great Sin against God not only in distrusting his Providence but in offering to take the Work out of his Hand who knows the Hearts Thoughts and Actions of All though never so Secret whose Mercy and Pardon I most humbly beg and trust shall have and in Confidence thereof through the Merits of the Blood of our Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus can willingly Die Nothing next to This and all other my Sins is more trouble to me than the thoughts how Dying I shall leave all my Relations and Friends in trouble corcerning my Worldly Affairs being by reason of this unhappy Concern not in such a Posture they should be so that by my Death my Dearest Friends will not only be left in great Trouble but lye under the Censure of many none understanding how things are my Wise and Children Ruined and my Creditors great Losers whereas might I have been thought worthy to live I should have taken the trouble off them all and hope in time to have paid every man to a Penny for I can from my Heart say that as I hope for Salvation I never designed any Fraud to any man but to pay every man his due I have heard that some should say I took up money at Interest to carry on the Plot which I disown for I never was at any Charge therein more than common expenses nor never heard of any Money raised upon that Account though I heard of ten thousand Pounds that was to be raised for the Scots but suppose it was not done I bless God I am pretty well satisfied and hope shall be fully as to my future State and can willingly leave the World but upon the Account of my Friends and Creditors Considering the Condition they will be left in could gladly have lived some time that I might have taken off that Scandal that I fear will be laid upon me when I am gone but God knows my Heart I am free and always was from any thoughts of Frand or Deceit I am satisfied that all means that could 〈◊〉 thought on hath been used to get as much out of me as possible but had it not been my Resolution to declare all that I knew concerning the Plot and also to do what in me lay to prevent all Plottings for the future that there might be an end put to such Heats Differences and Heart-burnings that is one against another That his Majesty and his Subjects might live in such Love and Union as ought to be between a Prince and his People I had not Wrote what I did for I was never a man to be wrought upon by severity and what I Wrote was not without due Consideration being nothing but Truth I do suppose that making such a full and large Confession at first and some expressions that might be observed in my Letters which I perceive were intercepted may cause some thoughts that I still reserve some Persons undiscovered but as to my Confession it was not rashly done I had had some Weeks at Sea to call things to mind and as for Persons I gave a true account and of all passages I could remember though others do and may come into mind What I suppose was observed in my Letters might be some Feolish expressions concerning some of any Acquaintance and that I would betray no Friend meaning that no soverity should cause me to accuse any Friends falsely to save my self although if I had thought the accusing of a number of Person would have saved my life and had been one that would do any such thing to save life I had the most cause of any man for when I first absconded those in Bristol and elsewhere that were my most intimate Acquaintance refused to do any thing for me nay would not receive Letters when I Wrote to them fearing they should be fourd to hold Correspondence with me When I gave in my Confession I stood not upon terms of a Pardon being Confident if Truth would merit Mercy from the King I should have his Pardon and that it was the only way to gain mercy with God I find already that people are passing their Censures upon me some one way and some another for my not Pleading and accepting of another Tryal when it was offered saying that I confessed the whole Indictment which I disown for I said thus What I was Guilty of I had Confessed to his Majesty and wholly depended upon his Mercy besides I had some ether reasors why I did not Plead which at present I conceal and also why I did not speak what I intended More I may say at the place of Execution before I leave the World which will be according as I find things but as to a Discovery of any more Persons I cannot than hath been already mentioned Should I mention any whom I thought would have been Concerned I may much abuse them though I believe many thousands in the Nation would have appeared for the reasons afore-mentioned which caused me to be Concerned I doubt not but several that were Concerned who are or may be Cleared for want of sufficient preof against them or by his Majestics Mercy will blame me for Confessing what I knew and not much grieve that I sailed of a Pardon or at my Death But I repent not my Confession and could I Discover more would do it willingly though I find not Mercy with man James Holloway We Appoint Robert Horn John Baker and John Redmayne to Print these Papers and that none other Print the same Peter Daniel Samuel Dashwood LONDON Printed for Robert Horn John Baker and John Redmayne 1684.