in which it was ordered that if the said Father Confessor should not be ready to comply with the said Stapleton that Messengers should be forthwith sent to Father Sinman at Madrid to inform His Majesty of Spain of the said concern and to make the same relation of the business to the Arch-Bishop of Tuam in the Kingdom of Ireland now at the Court of Madrid That he the said Arch-Bishop and the said Sinman might jointly give an account to the King of Spain of the motion made or to be made to the said Father Confessor to the Duke De Villa Hermosa and also to advise the Spanish King to Seize the Estates of the English Merchants in several Factories in this Kingdom For that they have endeavoured to Transport them to England which would tend highly to the prejudice of Spain and for the Confirmation whereof they procured Letters from one Fausica sometimes an Agent in London to attest the same To which the said Fausica willingly condescended and sent his Letters to St. Omers to be sent to the Court of Spain that the Fathers might give their approbation which Letter was long and large with attestations therein made against the Merchants residents in their several Factories concerning the matter of Faith before mentioned and also other Letters to Daniel Armstrong at Valladolidd and John Armstrong at Madrid which they were ordered to Confirm this affirmation made or to be made by the Fathers in England and of the English Seminaries at St. Omers Or if the said Stapleton together with that of Fausica the above mentioned Spanish Agent now lives at Bruges in Flanders All which Letters bore Date the First Second of January 1678. Stilo Novo and were seen by the Deponent at St. Omers and in the Letters to the Two Fathers Armstrong and Cross in Spaein was contained a special Order that if the fermer could go to Madrid he should send his Attestation to Don John of Austria and to carry on which 200 l. was made over by Father Sinman and the English Fathers 16. That when the Lords came from England about the business before mentioned to St. Omers Edward Nevil and Thomas Farmer did say that they would not let this Black Bastard go so to His Grave in peace meaning the King of England for that he had cheated them so often and that now they resolved to be served so no more That this Deponent standing by said if the Duke prove slippery they both replyed that his Pas-Port was ready when ever he should appear to fail them These words were heard by the Deponent on the Third of January in the Afternoon in the Library of the Jesuits at St. Omers 17. That on the Fourth of January 1678. Stilo Novo Letters were sent from Richard Ashbey Edward Hall Edward Novil Christ Peters William Busby James Junior Thomas Farmer Michael Constable Jesuits of the English Seminary at St. Omers as also from Father Williams Rector of Watton and Master of the Novices there Sir Jo. Warner Barroner alias Clare Franois Samby alias Ditz-Biling to the Father-Confessor of the Emperours Majesty That His Majesty of Great Britain hath treatherously been the ruin of the Confederates especially of the Germain Empire and of his Catholick Princes under him and has under hand stirred up the Hungarian Rebellion against his Imperial Majesty and found them Money to go on in their Rebellion His design being not to keep any Alliance with his Imperial Majesty but only in shew that he might advance the Prince of Orange his Nephew and make him absolute and therefore prayed the States of Holland might have notice of it Which Letter was seen and perused by the Deponent it being writ in the Latine Tongue All which Letters were sent away by a Lay Brother who was a Dutch Man and when these Letters were sending away one of the Lay Brothers whose name was George did say the Prince of Orange was more fit to Roban Orchard than to be a General of an Army 18. That Letters bearing Date the 1. of January Stilo Novo arrived at St. Omers January the 20. from Arch-Bishop Talbot Arch Bishop of Dubline wherein it was expressed that the Fathers of the Society in Ireland were very vigilant to prepare the people to rise for the defence of their liberty and Religion and to recover their estates and if the Parliament that was to fit in England shall joyn with the King in declaring war against France and should put His Majesty to ingage in a War with France that a place in Ireland should be open to receive the French Kings Army when His Most Christian Majesty should think fit to Land one their And in the Letter he advised the Fathers of St. Omers to advertise Father Leshee of the same and other Jesuits that had an interest in the French King and that His Majesty of Great Britain was brought to that pass that if any Male content amongst them should not prove true to their designs His Majesty would never give ear to their information and prayed them to be diligent for now was the time or never Which Letter this Deponent saw and read and in order to the Fathers Compliance with the said Arch-Bishops Letters to Father Leshee to Paris and appointed Edward Nevil and William Busby to carry and deliver them to the said Leshee which Letters were answered with all speed by the aforesaid Messengers Jesuits as above The one of them being Prefect of Studies and the other Procurator for the Seminaries and by them writ Letters to Thomas White Provincial to the Rector of St. Omers viz. Richard Ashbey but of that to the Provincial the Deponent can give no account but of that to Ashbey the Deponent faith there was expressed in it that the General of the Society of the Jesuits would Contribute 500000. Crowns to be paid in June next coming and that his Holiness the Pope would not be wanting to supply them when they had made some progress in that glorious attempt 19. That another Packet arrived at St. Omers directed to Richard Ashbey Rector there the Date whereof is not well remembred by this Deponent but as near as he doth remember it was about the beginning of the Parliament for then came the Kings and Lord Chancellors Speeches and Votes of Parliament which were put into ridiculous Phrases in contempt of the King and both Houses of Parliament and for the Fathers and Scholars to Laugh at and then Translated into French and given to the Governor of St. Omers who sent them to the French King his Master and in the Packet was contained the account of the attempt of one Pickering a Lay Brother that waited on the Jesuites lying at Sommerset-house to Shoot the King as he was Walking in St. James's Park when he was at some distance from his Nobles and Attendants but the Flint of his Pistol being loose he did defer the Action till another opportunity and if he had done it and had
not One Penny in Stock nor any Income besides the Spanish Embassadors Allowance for assisting in his Chappel They by the Deponent did present their Service to the Fathers met together and bad him tell them their prayers to God and our Blessed Lady should not be wanting all which was acted by Order of the Provincial of the Society 62. Item the Deponent went to see John Fenwick on the 19. of August in the afternoon and whilst he was there in comes John Keines and presently after him Richard Blundel after Salutation past they asked the Deponent what news he answered he had heard none but what was in the Gazett then Blundel said he had been with his Work-men and they wanted Oyle what the meaning of this is the Deponent cannot positively tell but believes it was Sheeps Fat for the said Blundel would not tell the Deponent his meaning by it when asked Then the Deponent asked of Keines when he was for Windor he replied the Court was scarcely setled as yet but said Mr. Coniers and Mr. Anderton were to go down on the Morrow August the 20. and in the Morning And if they did any thing as to the business in hand it would hasten his going down and therefore as yet could not certainly tell when the Deponent asked further how honest William did Keines replied he was troubled with a sore Throat and very bad with it that he could not ride to Windsor and it would be dangerous for him to go by Water and that cold would be contracted and he rendred unfit for service Then the Deponent took his leave of them if being near Six of the Clock in the afternoon and went to the Monks Convent and enquired there of one Rumley a Lay Brother of the Orders for Mr. Coniers who said he was not within yet not far off yet not to be spoken withal for he was with some of the Benedictine Fathers about business and on the Morrow Morning was to go out of Town betimes So the Deponent left him and being but a little way from the place met Coniers who laughing said the †Roone Still People were fools to set upon * The King 48. at Windsor because he was seldome in a posture to receive their kindness but he would see his Worship and talk with him in some other Language †Gun-powder Then Formillio the Deponent asked him how he replyed that if the Shirt on his back knew he would Burn it if that should not take effect no means or opportunity should be neglected in order to the dispatch of 48 he further told the Deponent he was in hast his time short and business great but told the Deponent honest William and Pickering should stay in Town seeing the Person concerned was hic Vbique never long in one place 63. Item That on Tuesday the 21 of August a consult was held by the Jesuits then in London with certain Benedictine Monks about a Letter received from the Arch-bishop of Dubline Talbot to the Fathers of the Society in which they were given to understand that Four Irish Jesuits had undertaken the death of the Duke of Ormond and upon his death the Irish were ready to rise and in his Letter told them that a Legate was arrived in Ireland from the Pope and that he had asserted the Popes right to that Kingdom and that the Kings of England ceasing from being Roman Catholicks were no longer concerned therein being given them during the good pleasure of his Holiness and therefore did incourage the said Arch-Bishop to contrive and use all means for the Recovery of that Kingdom out of the hands of the English and in the said Letter it was mentioned that if opportunities did not permit the said Jesuits to do their business that they should send over one Dr. Foggarlie now lodging at Mr. Symmonds the Widow of Symmonds and Apothecary and that he and the Fathers in Ireland together with the said Foggerlie would find out an expedient way for the death of the said Duke of Ormond Furthermore he did specifie that they had procured several Irish to be made Commissioned Officers in the Garrisons in Ireland and that he and the rest had dispenced with them to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and that the Irish that had so gotten Commissions by the Arch-bishops means had promised to betray their interest into their hands when the business should be ripe and therefore desired the Fathers to be diligent in England as he and the rest of the Clergy were in Ireland which Letter John Keines did shew to and read to this Deponent Keines and Blundel giving this Deponent an account of the consultation also Foggerlie did tell the same to the Deponent on the 21. of August and that he had great Interest in the Court of Ireland 64. Item That the said Foggerly is a main Agent in this Hellish Plot and hath promised if the Arch-bishop Talbot will make use of him he will do him all the Service he can as the Deponent is ready to justifie to the face of the said Foggerlie who did tell the Deponent that himself and Coleman were in the Consult when Wakeman was contracted withal in order to Poyson the King and said if he had the interest in the King that Wakeman had he would have undertaken it himself and all this was told the Deponent on the 21 of August in Foggerlies Chamber And furthermore the said Foggerlie did then and there tell the Deponent that he had hired Four Irish Russians whose names he did neither tell the Consulters that met that day nor the Deponent and they were to mind the Kings posture at Windsor but the Deponent telling the said Foggerlie he heard the King was gone to Porch-mouth he was wonderfully troubled by reason as the said Foggerlie did say it did much impede their design and nothing would be attempted as long as absent from Windsor 65. Item That the Lord Embassador at the Court of Spain Sir William Godalphin holdeth great correspondency with Jerom Sinman the Irish Jesuit before mentioned Procurator for the Jesuits in England and Ireland also with the Arch-bishop of Tuam now at Madrid as is a friend in his business as the said Sinman did inform the Society in a Letter of the 30 of July 1678 Stilo Novo And likewise in one to the Deponent wherein he did specifie that Sir William was as industrious as any one could be to answer the expectations of the Society and that he had one Protestant Servant and his Chapline in the House viz. the the Cook which makes a couple and the Deponent knows that Godolphin is a Papist and has perverted a Kinsman of his own also the Deponent knoweth the Embassador is very familiar with the Irish Jesuits the Arch Bishop Tuam and Sinman and the Deponent doth verily believe that Mr. Hodges sometimes Chaplain to the Lord Embassador if required testifie as much and this Deponent further saith
THE DISCOVERY OF THE Popish Plot BEING The several Examinations of TITUS OATES D. D. Before the High Court OF PARLIAMENT The Lord CHIEF JUSTICE Sir EDMUND-BURY GODFRY And several other of His MAJESTY's JUSTICES of the PEACE London Printed 1679. Titus Oates D. D. his Journal and Affidavit of his Discovery of the Conspiracy before Sir Edmund-Bury Godfry Septemb. the 27th 1678. IMprimis Richard Strange Provincial John Keines Bazil Longworth John Fenwick and Mr. Hartcourt Jesuites did Write a Treasonable Letter to Father Sinman an Irish Jesuite at Madrid in the Kingdom of Spain in which was contained their Plotting and Contriving a Rebellion in Scotland of the Presbyterians against the Episcopal Government in order to which they have imployed one Matthew Wright William Morgan and Mr. Ireland to go and Preach under the Notion of Presbyterians and give the disaffected Scots a true understanding of their sad States and Conditions which they were in by reason of Episcopal Tyranny exercised against them and withall to tell them now they had a fair opportunity to Vindicate their Liberty and Religion and that it could be done by no other way but the Sword and that now the King was addicted to his Pleasure that he would and could take but little care of that Concern In the said Letter it was expressed they had gotten an Interest in His Royal Highness but they deal with him as they think fit and that they were resolved by all means to weaken the King of England's Interest by informing his Friends of his intent to betray them into the Hands of Forraign Powers viz. to send them to fall by the Sword in the French King's Service against the Confederate Princes which Letter bares Date April 19 27 1677. 2. That the Persons abovementioned gave the Deponent 10 l. to carry the said Letter to Father Sinman into the Kingdom of Spain to Madrid the said Sinman being the Provincial General for the Kingdom of England and Ireland and in order to which Message the Deponent Embarked himself in the Ship called the Bâ—sca Merchant whereof Luke Bath-Roch was then Master to go for Bâ—lboa and there took Mules for Valladolydd but staying a day at Burgos in Spain the Deponent broke open the said Letter and found these Contents in the same 3. That they of the Society of Jesus in the English Seminary at St. Omers sent a Mission of Twelve Students into the Kingdom of Spain viz. Eight to Valladolydd and Four to Madrid there being English Colledges in both places in order to Study Philosophy and Divinity which Missioners were sent by Richard Ashbey Richard Peter Nicholas Blundel and Charles Peter by the Patents of the several Missioners by which they had power to demand Admission into the respective Colledges to which they were sent which Missioners were obliged by the Jesuits of the Colledges to renounce their Allegiance to His Majesty of Great Britain in the hearing of the Deponent and those of Valladolydd were taught by Daniel Armestrong a Jesuite Minister of the English there That First the Oath of Allegiance is Heretical and Anti-christian and Divellish and that Charles Stuart King of England is no Lawful King but comes of aspurious Rase and 〈◊〉 his Father was a Black Scotch-man and not King Charles the First This was delivered in a Sermon the 29th of Sept. 1677. to the Students there which Sermon the Deponent did hear and in this Sermon the said Daniel Armestrong in plain words did say that the King of England was a Bastard now that Daniel Armestrong goeth in Spain by the Name of Joseph Munford in Spanish by John Montefortio 4. That the said John Munford alias Armestrong did bring Letters from St. Omers to the English Colledge at Valladolydd to the Father there in Latin by reason they were Spaniards in which was expressed and related from the Fathers at St. Omers that the Fathers of the Society of London hath procured one Father Beningfield to be Confessor to His Royal Highness but if they saw that His Royal Highness did not answer their expectation they would dispose of him as they did intend to dispose of His Brother the King which they hoped to effect within a year which Letter bares Date June 1677. and Subscribed by Richard Ashbey alias Shimbleby Rector of the English Jesuites at St. Omers Richard Peter Minister Edward Nevil Prefect of the Studies Ch. Peters Prefect of Sodality John Farmor Prefect of Manors which Letters the Deponent saw in the Month of September 1677. at Valladolydd in the Kingdom of Spain 5. That Father Sinman above mentioned Writ to the English Colledge and the Fathers there said that the King of England was Poysoned to the great Joy of the English Fathers and that they would serve King James so if he did not give them a good assurance of bringing in the Catholick Religion and of rooting out the Protestant this Letter bore Date July the And was seen and read by the Deponent at Valladolydd near the latter end of July 1677. 6. That one Father John Blake alias Cross who went with the Four Students to Madrid did bring Letters from Richard Strange Provincial of the Jesuits and one Father Gray a Jesuit and John Keines to Father Sinman above mentioned in which was specifyed the great diligence was used by the said Richard Strange Father Gray and John Keines to procure such persons to dispatch the King and to put a period to his dayes which Letter bore date June the 10. 1677. Stilo Novo And the Deponent being sent to Madrid in August read it in Father Sinmans Chamber he shewing it also at the same time to James Arch-Bishop of Tuam of the Kingdom of Ireland 7. That the said Father Sinman received another Letter July the 20. 1677. Stilo Novo from Richard Strange Father Gray John Keines Bazill Longworth John Fenwick Father Ireland and Father Hartcourt in which they did manifest they were very sorry for informing him that he might assure himself that the business was done there man William being faint harted could not then do it though he had 15000 l. promised for his pains of which Letters the English Missioners by one information that at Madrid by John Cross alias Blake and those of Valladolydd by Daniel Armestrong Jesuit which Letters the deponent saw in the Chamber of Mr. Synman at Madrid at the same time that he saw the Letters of the _____ June mentioned in the fore-going paragraph or number 8. That on the 3. of November Stilo Novo Father Petro Jeronymo de Cordela Provincial of the Jesuits in New Castle did write to Richard Strange and John Keines that if the business of dispatching of the King of England could be effected they should have 10000 l. which Letter the deponent brought from Valladolydd to Bilboa and imbarked in a Ship within 5 dayes after his Arrival thither and in five dayes more arrived at a little Town near Exeter and in five dayes more at London and delivered
suffered he should have had 300000. Masses said for the Health of his Soul which Letters were signed by Thomas White alias Whitebread Provincial when received the Fathers of the English Seminaries were in great trouble for Pickâ—rings negligence which Letters the Deponent saw and read in the latter end of January and the Votes put into such Mock-Phrases as also the Kings and Lord Chancellors Speeches in the Month of February 20. That the Deponent went out the 29th of January to know of his Confessarious whether he might keep the Thirtieth day of January as a Fast the Confessor replyed that the account with them was the Ninth of February by reason the account with England did differ from that on that side of the Water the Deponent then asked if he might keep the Ninth of February the Confessarious asked him why the Deponent replyed because of the Martyrdom of the late King He answered the late King was no Martyr but a Heretick and withall added that he was not King James's Son but a Bastard begotten on the Body of Queen Anne of Denmark by her Taylor this Confessarious is a Jesuite and his name is Charles Peters Prefect of the Sodality 21. That Letters bearing Date 18. of February Stilo Novo from Thomas Whitebread John Keines John Fenwick Father Ireland Father Micho Father Richard Ashby Rector of St. Omers then ill of the Gout to the English Fathers there and did let them know that they had sent William Morgan into Ireland to see how Affairs stood there in that Kingdom and expected his return by the end of March and that he set out the 26th of January with Instructions to order the Affairs in Hand and to encourage the Irish Natives to defend their Religion and Liberty and his Companion was one Francis Lovell who was to go into the North of Ireland to see the Fathers of the Society there and carry 2000 l. to supply their present wants and to promise 4000 l. in case of action 22. That another Packet came from Thomas White alias Whitebread Father Micho Father Ireland Father Hartcourt and others of the Society of London bearing Date Feb. 7. 1678. in the which was contained an account of the Fathers Progress in Berk-shire Oxford Essex in perswading the Catholicks who are Votaries for the Order of St. Ignatius to Contribute to the Irish Rebellion and maintaining of a Civil War in that Kingdom in case the French King should break with the King of England and also have received Letters from Scotland in which they were informed that the people would rise to oppose Duke Lauderdale and the Royal Party in that Kingdom by which means they thought to weaken both Parties and also that they would endeavor by themselves their Agents and Purse to provoke the Scots against the English and withall told the Affairs at St. Omers to whom this Packet was directed and by whom it was read that they should be glad to effect such a design which Packet the Deponent saw and read Letter by Letter 23. That the Fathers of St. Omers viz. Richard Ashbey Rector Edward Hall Edward Nevil and others of the English Seminary did Write to Thomas Whitebread and other Fathers in the which it was exprest that it was now apparent that the Catholick Religion was to be brought in the same way that they had used for the Destruction of the Father of this King and as that could not be effected by the effusion of Blood and withall prayed them to Prosecute their design in taking away the King and if His Royal Highness should not comply with them to dispatch him also for they did fear that never any of the Stuarts were men for the effecting of their ends and purposes and this Letter and Instructions were given to the Fathers how to feel His Royal Highness stood affected which Letter bore Date February the Ninth Stilo Novo and was signed by the Persons abovesaid in the presence of the Deponent who did Compose the said Letters for them according to Directions given him by them which Letter was to this Deponents knowledg carryed into England by one Father Eury who then went thither 24. That an answer of the aforesaid Letter February the 19th Stilo Novo came Dated the 20th of February from Thomas White John Keines Bazil Longworth Richard Peters John Fenwick Father Ireland Father Hartcourt Father Blundel Father Matthew Wright Father Thomas Wright Father Jenison and Father Sinman who some times belong to Summerset-house who also Signed with the rest the said answer which told the Fathers of St. Omers viz. Richard Ashbey to whom the Letter was Directed that they found that although the Duke was a good Catholick yet he had a tender affection for the King his Brother and would scarcely be engaged in the concern and if they should but once intimate the designs and purposes unto him they might not only be frustrated of their design but also might loose his favor which Letter the Deponent saw and read in February 25. That the Fathers of the English Seminaries at St. Omers did oblige one Brother George a Lay Brother in that Seminary to go to Ghent in Flanders to the Englâ—sh Jesuites there with a Letter from St. Omers Dated the 26th of February from London and the said Brother Arrived there as they advised the Father the First of March that the Secular Clergy should be Treated with about the business but they finding them at that time to be men inclined to live in Peace and Obedience to their Prince the Father with Thomas White c. answered them in one of the Tenth of March Stilo Novo That the Clergy were a sort of Rascally Fellows that had neither Wit nor Courage to Manage such a Great Design and did pray them of Ghent and those of St. Omers to be of god Chear for they went on well both in Scotland and Ireland and the Fatal Blow shall be given the Black Boy of White-Hall with all the speed that might which Letter to them at Ghent and from them to the Provincial they being brought to St. Omers before they went as also those of March the Tenth the Deponent saw and read 26. That there was an attempt to make an assassination on the Person of His Sacred Majesty in the Month of March several days as he was Walking in the Park and once as he was going to the Parliament-House by Honest William and Pickering but opportunity did not offer it self for the which the former was Chidden and the later had a Penance of Twenty stroakes with a Discipline on his shoulders it being judged by the Fathers the effect of his negligence Which passage the Deponent saw mentioned in a Letter from Thomas White to Richard Ashbey bearing Date the 26. of March 1678. 27. That on the 5. of April Letters came from Thomas White and the Fathers in London to Richard Ashbey and those in St. Omers in the which the former gives the latter to understand
several Letters which the Deponent did see and read the Date whereof the Deponent doth not know nor now well remember but he saw them in August 43. Item That Two New Messengers were sent into Scotland on the Fifth of August one by the name of Father More the other Father Saunders alias Brown with instructions to carry themselves like Presbyterian Ministers and to Preach to the disaffected Scots and the necessity of taking up the sword for the defence of liberty of Conscience these the Deponent saw dispatched and ordered to go by Father Hartcourt in the name of Tho. White Provincial 44. Item They have several times communicated and doe still what they have revealed to them of the Kings Secrets Which they purchase by giving Money and then send them over to Leshee the French Kings Confessor and the Deponent hath seen several particulars as others pretend how the King stands affected to War or Peace and this they do by one Smith who dayly lurketh about Whitehall and Westminister Hall in time of Parliament and is as he saith in Fee with the Clerks of the Parliament who gives him the intelligence and with the Clerks and Officers of his Majesties Privy Council and Cabinet Council The Deponent saith further that one Coleman doth assist this Smith with private intelligence as John Keines Jesuit and this Smith have told this Deponent several times in the Moneths of July and August 1678. 45. Item That these Jesuits drive several Trades in Town as Merchants Tobacconists Gold-Smiths Scriveners and by means of the last come to the knowledge of several Estates of several Persons of Quality and other Scriveners of their Religion and Practices by which they take an estimate of the strength of the Nation as this Deponent was informed by John Keines in August and 't is probable their Scriveners have great Imployment 46. Item That on Fryday the Ninth of August Came Letters of the Sixteenth Ditto by an especial Messenger from Thomas White Provincial and subscribed by the Fathers of St. Omers in which he and they did rejoyce very much that Sir George Wakeman had taken the business into his hands and if he did it the 15000. pound should be paid but ordered that Pickering and his companion honest William should not desist their endeavoring to Assassinate the Kings Person which Letters the Deponent read and asked Fenwick how the Provincial came to understand that Sir George had undertaken the business he the said Fenwick told the Deponent that he had dispatched a special Messenger away to give him notice and that the said Messenger brought this Answer and withal said Fenwick it cost at least Ten Pound to give him word of it 47. Item That one Wil. Berry now a secular Priest that had formerly been a Jesuit because that the said Berry had written and was about to Print some sheets of Paper in vindication of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and in it persuaded Roman Catholicks to a more charitable complyance with the Protestants Bazil Longworth and others did offer it to the Deponent to kill the said Berry and if he durst not do it himself to procure some others to do it assuring the Deponent who ever did it should have a pardon This was proposed August the Ninth 1678. 48. That on the Ninth of August in the Evening in the Chamber of John Keines Jesuit in Warkwickstreet where John Fenwick a Jesuit and the Deponent were together there came one Richard Heath a Lay Brother of the Jesuits who after some discourse of the design of Killing the King did say he was a Bastard and indeavored to Rule by the Sword which words the Deponent did hear and so did Keines and Fenwick and replyed one after another in the hearing of the Deponent that the Bastard should not trouble the World long 49. That on the 10 20 August the Deponent did meet with John Groves In Wild-street in the afternoon as near as he remembers about Five a Clock and Groves having made several promises to the Deponent to give an account of South-wark Fire in 1676. The said Groves took the Deponent into Wild-house Garden and and thus began he said that he had certain Fire-works made for that very purpose and he and Three Irish Men more that were his assistants went into the Burrow and not finding an opportunity went to St. Margarets Hill where they found an Oyl-shop which the said Groves bragged he Fired the Deponent asked Groves how he came acquainted with these Three Irish Men he said his acquaintance was not much but they were procured by Foggerly an Irish Doctor For which the Society Richard Strange Provincial gave him and his Assistants 1000 l. Viz. 400 l. for him and 200 l. a piece for the Irish and the said Groves told the Deponent that the Society got at least 1000 l. in the Fire which was also told the Deponent another time by Richard Strange 50. That on the 15. of August Sunday this Deponent saw Letters from St. Omers Ditto vvritten by Father Ireland in the name of the Provincial Thomas Whitebread to John Fenwick in which Letter by the contents thereof there was Letters to John Keines Mr. Jenison Blundel and others which the Deponent did not see but in that to John Fenwick it was specified what diligence was used in Ireland by the Jesuits there for the destruction of the Duke of Ormond and for the procuring another demonstration of zeale for the promoting of the Catholick Religion and interest in that Kingdom and that which arts would not effect the Sword should to the great vexation of the Protestants there and he intimated to the greatest joy he had that there was yet hopes the disaffected Scots would not lay aside their endeavors for and after the defence of their Liberties and Religion and that the Catholicks in Scotland had promised to use their Utmost Indeavors to keep up the Commotion there and the said Father Ireland bad the said Father Fenwick to exhort the Fathers there to be earnest in their design for now was the time that the English Nation was to be reduced And further more ordered in the name of the Provincial that Letters should be written to all the Societies in England that they make it their business to incourage their friends to braveness of mind for that God had hitherto given them such a hopeful Prospect of things and that no opportunity on his part should be lost and that they In London if they thought fit to communicate these things that they should have a care that they did it not to more then one at a time least they should be bafled in their Enterprise which Letter when read by the Deponent Fenwick to whom the Letter was directed told the Deponent it was his duty to offer up a Mass or Two that God would prosper the design of these Holy endeavors of the Society to promote the Catholick Religion and Faith and told the Deponent further that if
out of this World before their times by what means and by whom he gave an account how the last Rebellion begun and what the Jesuits were concerned in the death of the Late King how they Fired the City in 66. what Persons managed every street what Ingredients the Fire-works were made of and where they were made he further giveth an Account of the Firing St. Katharines and Southwark and that lately at Limehouse and several other places in the Country he acquaints them that the Rector of St. Omers gives the French King an account of the Transactions here and relates these Correspondencies in Town he tells this Conspiracy hath been hatching ever since King James's time only the Measures and Instruments have been altered according to the several ages he names the Jesuits that are in Scotland under the Character of Presbyterian Ministers to Preach up Rebellion there he saith that the French King hath already Landed a great Army in Ireland being those Forces that left Messina and it is to make them up 25000. which are to joyn with the Irish Papists in a second Massacre to Fire the City of Dublin and destroy the Duke of Ormond and his Adherents and that part of the Conspiracy was managed by Coleman and that the King was to be killed by Three persons whom he named any of them to take an Opportunity and use all means they thought most effectual that there was a Fire to be begun without Temple-bar and to be carried on to Charing-cross several Porters being assigned to manage it he saith the Cyphers used for the Kings Name in all their Breviates was 48. for the Nation 66. for the Parliament they called them Barly-broth he tells them there was such and such Jesuits in Holland to stir up Animosities among the people and to set them against the Prince of Orange The Examination of Titus Oates before the Lord Chief Justice October 24 1678. This Examinant saith that in the Moneth of May last he saw a Patent under the Seal of the Father General of the Society of Jesuat Rome called Johannis Paulus de Oliva at the Chamber of Mr. Langhorn wherein it was expressed that by vertue of a Breviat from the Pope he did constitute the Lord Arundel of Warder Lord High Chancellor of England which Patent was sent to the Lord Arundel of Warder by a Messenger who was the Son of Mr. Langhorn and this Examinant saith that he saw a Letter subscribed by the Lord Arundel of Warder as he believed wherein he acknowledged the receipt of the same Patent and accepted of the same and promised to ask acceptation of the Society This Examinant saith that in June last he saw the Patent wherein my Lord Powis was Constituted Lord Treasurer of England which Patent was carried by one Parsons Secretary to the Lord Powis from one Sanders's house in Wildstreet to be delivered to the Lord Powis and at the delivery of the Patent 300 l. was paid by Parsons to one Fenwick and Ireland to carry on the design of the Jesuits which was to rase Rebellion in the Three Kingdoms and destroy the King In the Month of July this Examinant saw a Letter subscribed Powis directed to Fenwick wherein his Lordship did own the receipt of the said Patent and did accept of the same and said he had 300. Men and Horse ready for the design and that he would venture his life and fortune for the Affair In the Month of August last This Examinant saw a Letter directed to Mr. Langhorn by the outside but within to the Society of Jesuits wherein Sir William Godolphin acknowledged he had received the like patent to be Lord Privy Seal and he accepted thereof and in July 1677. This Examinant saw the same Patent in the hands of the Arch-bishop of Evan at Madrid in Spain This Examinant saith in July last Mr. Coleman acknowledged and confessed to John Fenwick in this Examinants presence that he received the like Commission or Patent to be Secretary of State this was a good exchange This Examinant saith that in May June July and August last this Examinant saw Two Letters Signed Stafford whereby it did appear that my Lord Stafford was in the Conspiracy against His Majesty and that he had returned several Summs of Mony to the Jesuits to carry on the design these Letters were directed to Fenwick and Ireland And in August this Examinant saw another Letter directed to the same persons signed Stafford wherein my Lord writ that although he hath sent his son to Lisbone yet he would be never the worse friends to the Jesuits and this Examinant conceives the reason of that Letter was because there was a difference between the English Colledge at Lisbone and the Jesuits In July last this Examinant saw in the hands of Fenwick a Commission directed to my Lord Bellasis from the persons aforesaid to be General of the Army to be raised in England against his Majesty and in the same Month this Examinant saw a Letter directed from my Lord to Fenwick wherein his Lordship acknowledged the receipt thereof and thanked the Society for the same and he accepted of and would do what in him lay to answer their exspectation in May last this Examinant saw a patent in the hand of Mr. Langhorne to make the Lord Peters Lievtenant General of the Army and in June last this Examinant did hear my Lord Peters in the presence of Mr. Langworth his Confessor acknowledge the receipt of the same and that he accepted thereof and his Confessor presently wished him much joy thereof This Examinant in July last at the Phesant in Fullers-rents on a Sunday did give one Penny a Commission to be a Captain of Foot this Pennys Sister is Servant to the Queen as Penny said the like Commission for Mr. John Carrol to be a Captain of Horse at my Lady Dramants in July last and gave the Examinant Twenty Shillings that is to say Four new Crowns This Examinant saith he delivered a Commission to one Mr. Townly at the Red-Posts in Wildstreet to be Captain of Foot this was delivered in July or August This Examinant saith that in July last he saw Mr. Fenwick fill a blank Commission which he informed this Examinant was a Commission to Sir George Wakeman to be Physician to the Army and this Examinant saith that he knoweth that Sir George Wakeman is Physician to the Society of Jesuits and hath seen his Patent This Examinant saith that in August last there was a Consultation at which Sir George Wakeman William Herrent John Fenwick Nicholas Blundel John Keines Thomas Jenison Edward Coleman and Dr. Foggarly was present and that 15000 l. was proposed to Sir George Wakeman to Poyson the King who accepted thereof and then received of Coleman 5000 l. in part this Examinant not being well was not present at that Consultation but was informed of it by Foggarly Fenwick and Blundel and this Examinant saw the Levy thereof with Fenwicks hand and Foggarlie told this Examinant that he told Sir George Wakeman if he had such Interest at Court as Wakeman had that he would have undertaken it himself and so he told this Examinant that he would have done it Sworn before me by Titus Oates William Scrogs This following Examination taken upon Oath before us Sir Edmund Windham Sir Thomas Stringer and Sir Gilbert Gerard. AS to the circumstance of time and place this Examinant saith he cannot certainly depose as to such particulars but saith in the Moneths of June or July last this Deponent did in Wild-garden deliver to Sir Francis Ratcliff Baronet a Commission to be Major General of the Army in the presence of his Eldest Son who at the same time received from this Examinant a Commission to be Captain in the said Army and at the delivering of the said Commission Sir Francis Ordered his Son to give this Examinant Three Ginneys which he did accordingly this Examinant never saw Sir Francis Ratcliff before then other then his Son who he was very well acquainted with who told this Examinant that Sir Franois was his Father This Examinant saith that in June last he saw in the hands of Fenwick a Commission or Patent to John Lambert to be Adjutant General to the Army and in July after this Examinant saw a Letter directed to Fenwick wherein Lambert confessed the receipt of the said Commission and accepted of the same and this Examinant is well acquainted with Lamberts Hand This Examinant saw Mr. Langhorn to have a Commission to be Advocate General in his Own hands in May last This Examinant in May last saw a Commission to the Eldest Son of the Lord Arundell of Warder to be Commission General of the Army and heard he accepted of the same at the same time his Father received it This Examinant in June last saw a Commission in the hands of Fenwick to my Lord Baltimore to be Colonel of Horse in the Army and Fenwick delivered it to Groves and this Examinant went with Groves to my Lord Baltimores door and Grove carried the Commission into the house and told the Examinant he delivered it to my Lord and this Examinant within Two or Three days after saw a Letter from my Lord wherein he acknowledged the receipt of it There was a Commission to Colonel Thomas Howard delivered him by this Examinant to be Colonel in the Army but he is since dead this was delivered in June and July last in Wild Garden This Examinant in August last delivered a Commission to Mr. Leshley to be a Colonel of Horse in the Army to be raised against His Maiesty this was delivered in a house in the Strand near the Savoy and this Leshley gave this Examinant a Ginney the same time Another Commission delivered in the same Moneth to one Roper to be a Colonel by this Examinant and another to Ropers Son to be a Captain and the Father gave this Examinant Ten shillings In June or July last he delivered on to Matthew Medborn to be a Captain this was delivered at his house in Plough-yard in Fetter-lane and at the same time he gave his Examinant a Black Hat for a White one This Examinant in August last delivered a Commission to one Winter or Wittor to be a Colonel of Foot FINIS