the long expected Time shall come that the Just Desires of those who long to see Peace and Tranquility once more establish'd in Europe shall be accomplish'd it will appear and be acknowledg'd by the grateful World that as England was deliver'd from Slavery and Oppression by the Blessing of God upon His Majestys generous Undertaking so 't was England that had the greatest share in the general Deliverance of the Christian World Time and Experience will ere long convince us of this great and important Truth and Posterity will for ever acknowledge the Immortal Obligation And even tho it were possible that future Ages shou'd forget their Great Benefactor the Benefit will remain notwithstanding their Ingratitude as long as there shall be Laws in England or a Free People in Europe FINIS Tâ—e People of England tâ—ank'd His Majestâ— â—y their Râ—presentatives for their Great and Miracuâ—ous Deliverance from Pâ—pery and Arbitrary Power of which he was the Instrumâ—nt Sâ—e the Parliament's Address May 18. 1689. The Parliamâ—nt of Scotland thank'd him also for thâ—ir Delivâ—rance and Preservation of which they acknowledg'd him next to God to be the great and only Instrumâ—nt Sâ—â— the Answer of the Convâ—ntion to His Majeâ—â—ie's Lâ—tter in 1689. History of the Revolutions in England Book II. pag. 437. See the Preface to the Third Time of the History of the Revolutions in England When the People stopt his Coach at Dort and ask'd whether he was their Statholder he reply'd that he was satisfy'd with the Honors that were conferr'd upon him But we are not answer'd the People unless we have you for our Governor An. 1674. The Dâ—puties of the Nobility and 〈◊〉 representing the 〈…〉 of the Dutchy of Guelderland and County of Zutphen osser'd him the Soverâ—ignty of the Province in the â—â—me of their Masteâ—s 'T is notoriously known that these Proposals were made by France * M. Fageâ— wrote on this occaâ—ion to Mr. Stewart And when the Court of England endeavor'd to perswade the World that thus was a supposititious letter and that it did not give a true aâ—â—ur of their Highnesses Sentiments having publish'd a Book to that Eâ—eâ—t call'd Parlamentum Pacificum Mr. Fagel complain'd openly of the dâ—singenuity of their Proceedings and by a second Letter confirm'd the Declaration he had formerly sent in their Highnesses Name * After the death of Charles II. he rejected the advice and assistance of the late Elector of Brandenburg and when that Prince wou'd have engag'd him to go over to England he reply'd that he wou'd never make any Attempt against the King his Father in Law without an absolute necessity but at the same time he protested that if he cou'd not otherwise prevent the subversion of the Laws and Religion of England he wou'd undertake the Voyage tho' he shou'd be oblig'd to Embark in a Fisher-boat His Enemies cou'd not forbear commending this Effect of his Moderation See the History of the Revolutions in Engl. Book II. See the Act 1 Gulielm Mariae entitl'd An Act declaring the Rights and Privileges of the Subjects to regulate the Succession to the Crown History of the Revolutions in Engl. Book II. 1689 The Discovery was made by a French Protestant who insinuated himself into the Favour and Confidence of the Conspirators by pretending to be engag'd in the same design He was hinder'd by several Accidents from giving such timely Notice to the Court that the Assassins might be apprehended The Discovery was communicated in Holland to some zealous Friends of the Government and in England to My Lord Sydney In this account I have neither magnify'd nor multiply'd the Disorders that were committed by the Government They were either corrected by the Late King himself upon the News of the Prince's Expedition or after his Flight by the Convention The Laws that were made upon that occasion by the Parliaments of England and Scotland are undoubted Testimonies of the several Attempts that were made to subvert our Laws and Religion nor will any reasonable Person expect any other Arguments to prove the Truth of a matter of Fact of which all the Inhabitants of these Nations were either Eye or Ear-Witnesses See his Proclamation publish'd in that Kingdom Dr. King the present Bishop of London-derry then Dean of Dublin in his Book entitul'd The State of the Protestants of Ireland under the Government of the late King The whole Book is full of Instances of this Nature of which I have not mention'd the Twentieth part * The Duke of Schomberg 1690. 1691. * The Magistrates of Roterdam imprison'd a Villain who offer'd to kill the French King They sent an acâ—ount of the project to Mr. Montausier and offer'd to deliver up the Offender †Another Proposal of the same naturewas made to the King when he was Prince of Orange The Person who offer'd to undertake the Murder gave an account of the place where he was to be sound and the Prince sent Mr. Dickfelt immediately to acquaint the Count d'Avaux with the whole Project November 1691. December 1691. Febr 1691 2. April 1692. History of the Revolutions in England Book II. History of the Revolutions in England Book II. p. 428. 1692. 1692. 1692. Larue in Charnock 's Tryal 1692. History of the Revolutions in Engl. Book II. Sr. Edmundbury Godfrey's Murder which cannot be reckon'd a Fable is a strong Confirmation of at least part of that Discovery See how they design'd to bring the Irish over to England The application of the rest of the Particulars is obvious History of the Revolutions in England Book II. p. 357. Deposition of Brice Blair March 12. 1695. See the Character of the Presbyterians in the History of the Revolutions in England Book II. 1692. His Depositions are in the Hands of the Government See his Letter to the Lords and Commons of that Kingdom Dared from on board his Ship July 1693. Decemb. 1693. January 1693. July 1694. July 14. 1694. July 17. 1694. Octob. 17. 1694. Sir William Williams took Post for London immediately after Taff's Declaration and gave a horrible Character of the Witnesses having obstinately resus'd to hear any thing that was offer'd to be alledg'd in their Favor or to comply with some of the Judges who wou'd have proceeded to the Examination of other Witnesses See the Votes of the House of Commons on that occasion 1695 Goodman 's Deposition April 24. 1696. This agrees with the Character that Brice Blair gives of him in his Depositions Good man 's Deposition April 2 d 1696. Brice Blair's Deposition March 13th 1696. Goodman 's Deposition April 24 th 1696 Goodman 's Deposition April 24 th 1696 Captain Porter 's Deposition April 24 th 1696. Goodman 's Deposition April 24. 1696. Capt. Porter 's Deposition April 15. 1696. Larüe 's Deposition February 26th 1696. Capt. Porter 's Deposition April 15. 1696 Capt. Porter 's Deposition April 15. 1696. This appears by Capt. Porter's Deposition April 15th 1696. King James wrote several Letters to him with his own
Usurpers England has been always look'd upon as one of the most considerable Kingdoms in Europe but the it were the meanest and most contemptible Nation in the World it cou'd not be depriv'd of the most ancient and fundamental Privilege of Mankind I mean that of Self-Preservation 'T is true a People may be Subdu'd and made Slaves by a Victorious Invader but they can never be robb'd of their natural Right to endeavor the recovering of their Liberty And supposing that this was formerly a Conquer'd Kingdom t is plain that the Conqueror cou'd not become a Lawful Monarch but by Treating with the Nation and preserving its ancient Privileges since a True King must be the Governor of Subjects and not of Slaves ' Twou'd be a direct overturning of the Order of Nature to pretend with our Enemies that the Soveraign Authority in England is originally Arbitrary and that the People are only Free by Usurpation since by the fundamental Constitution of our Government the People are originally free and the Royal Authority Limited The Roman Catholics were naturally dispos'd to embrace these pernicious Notions for 't is one of the Principles of their Religion that the Pope's Jurisdiction extends over the Temporal Authority of Kings and the Property of the People and that those whom he Deposes or Excommunicates are ipso facto depriv'd of all their Rights and Privileges 'T is true this Opinion has been look d upon as dangerous even by the Princes of that Persuasion who are not willing that their Authority shou'd depend on the Arbitrary Will of One Man And from thence some have taken occasion to call those Catholics who moderate the Power of the See of Rome and only to give the Name of Papists to those who require an unlimited Submission to the Pope But this Distinction was never so generally known or teceiv'd in this Kingdom as in other places For in Popish Countries 't is the Interest of the Prince to inspire his People with a less extravagant respect to the Head of their Church whereas in England where the Roman Catholics have neither a Prince nor Magistrate of their Perswasion they are wholly govern'd by their Directors and follow all their Maxims unless they have Sense enough to perceive the dangerous Consequences of these Opinions or by the Mildness and Integrity of their Temper are naturally inclin'd to detest such a barbarous and inhumane Doctrin But in the general they are easily perswaded to look upon Protestants as Men that have forfeited all their Privileges and are already doom'd to Death for the Crimes of Heresy and Schism by the repeated Sentences of several Councils And 't is plain that those who are possest with such a Prejudice will never heartily acknowledge the Title of a Protestant Prince since they reckon our Religion a sufficient ground to deprive a People of the natural Privileges of a Civil Society It has been upon all cccasions the constant Practice of the Faction to accommodate their Notions to the various Humours and Inclinations of those whom they endeavor to draw into their Party For as they entertain some of their Proselytes with Projects to destroy the Liberty and Privileges of the Nation they insinuate themselves into the good opinion of others by exclaiming against the Prerogative of the Crown When they meet with Persons that are fond of a Popular Government they pretend to be of the same opinion exasperate their Grievances and perswade 'em that 't is the Interest of the Nation to weaken the Power and Authority of the King that upon the first occasion they may be able withless difficulty to introduce a Republican Government At the same time they make use o other Artifices to delude those who are superstitiously addicted to Monarchy They exasperate their Zeal fill their Minds with unreasonable Jealousies and by scaring 'em with false Alarms of the Progress of the Republican Party endeavour to secure their Assistance for the Introducing of Arbitrary Power as the only Way to keep out a Common-wealth For 't is their usual custom to tamper with the most violent Persons of all Parties that by animating 'em one against another they may divide the Nation into opposite and irreconcileable Factions They labour'd to perswade the World that the late King might justly assume an Arbitrary Power that he might reign without a Parliament and absolutely renounce all Contracts with his People And even after he had deserted the Kingdom and was declar'd an Enemy to our Laws Religion and Liberties by the Representatives of the Nation they had the confidence to pretend that he was still our Lawful King But the Artifice was too gross to pass upon a whole Nation for in the first place they must have perswaded us that We were not a People but a Multitude of Rebels that had forfeited all our Privileges that were condemn'd by our Prince and had neither Laws nor Parliaments to protect us that like a company of Robbers who had escap'd the Execution of Justice we maintain'd our Illegal Possessions by an unjust Force and had no Title either to our Lives or Estates that we were Slaves by Law and Proscrib'd Malefactors and cousequently were in a more wretched Condition than if we had been actually Conquer'd and Subdu'd Blessed be that Almighty Goodness which defeated the Contrivances of our Enemies and gave us a King upon whom they cou'd never fasten the least Aspersion who manages the Reins of Government with an equal and Steddy Hand who never was and we have reason to believe never will be Guilty either of Tyranny or Remissness who will neither oppress us himself nor Suffer us to oppress one another and has always pursu'd such Maxims as are most agreable to the admirable Constitution of our Government which preserves the Just mean betwixt the arbitrary Tyranny of Despotic Power and the Tumultuary Liccntiousness of Anarchy or Democracy and will neither suffer the Parliament to make Laws without the Authority of the King nor the King to Govern without the Advice of his Parliament But since they cou d not Debauch the Fidelity of his People by controverting his Title to the Crown they made use of that pretext to encourage the desperate Bravo's of the Faction to murder him They told 'em that they cou'd not be accus'd of conspiring against the Life of a King since the Prince of Orange had no right to that Title And it appears that the same Pretence was alledg d as one of the Reasons for the design'd Invasion The whole Nation was alarm'd with the common Danger and the Parliament especially made serious Reflexions upon the Designs of our Enemies His Majesty's Speech to both Houses was seconded by Sir William Trumbal who in a Pathetic Harangue before the House of Commons acquainted that Illustrious Body with the particular Characters of the Witnesses the uniformity of their Evidence and the improbability of their Conspiring together to deceive us and from all these
Gordon Lunt and Thrilfall who came from Ireland with Declarations and Commissions from King James to the Roman-Catholics in several Counties of England They landed in Lancashire where they open'd their Commissions by which Gordon was appointed to go to Scotland Thrilfall to Yorkshire and Lunt to Staffordshire Cheshire and Lancashire In pursuance of these Orders they parted and went immediately to the respective Places that were allotted 'em where they executed their Commissions tho' with different Success Thrilfall had already finish'd his Negotiation in Yorkshire and was returning thro' Cheshire to Ireland when he was pursu'd upon Suspicion and kill'd as he was endeavouring to defend himself Lunt having perform'd his Commission was sent to London to levy Soldiers to be destributed among the Conspirators in the North. In his return from thence after he had Executed his Orders he was Seiz'd at Coventry by one of the Kings Messengers brought back to London and Committed to Newgate Five Months after he was set at Liberty having given Bail to appear next Hillary Term at the King's Bench from whence he was sent to be Try'd at the Assizes in Lancashire He was Committed for High-Treason to the Castle of Lancaster upon the Evidence of the Master of the Ship who brought him over from Ireland and the Officers of the Custom-house who found some of King James's Commissions among the Papers which he left in the Vessel But these were not the most Terrible Witnesses that were like to appear against him For about that time the Conspiracy was discover'd by two several Persons The first was Kelly who declar'd what he knew to the Mayor of Eversham in Worcestershire the Earl of Bellamont and some Persons of Quality in that Country who Communicated the Discovery to the Council But tho' his Deposition remain'd in the Hands of the Government his Person disappear'd so suddenly and in so strange a manner that we cou'd never afterwards hear an account of him His Fate continues a Mystery to this day but whether he was kill'd or carry'd away 't is certain that the Conspirators from that very time began to resume their Courage which was extremely sunk upon the News of his Discovery Dodsworth was the Second who alarm'd the Party by discovering the Conspiracy to a Member of Parliament who sent an account of it to one of the Secretaries of State by whose Order the Informer was brought from Lancashire to London And 't was found that his Deposition agreed exactly with that of Kelly tho' they were at a hundred Miles distance when they were examin'd Dodsworth was sent to the Castle of Lancashire to joyn his Evidence to the Testimony of the other Witnesses that were to appear against Lunt who nevertheless cou'd not be convicted according to the usual Forms of Law For when he was brought to his Tryal the Master of the Ship who brought him from Ireland either was or pretended to be sick And the Officers of the Custom-house cou'd not swear that the Papers which were produc'd in the Court were the same which they found in the Ship because they had forgotten to mark ' em Thus the whole Evidence being reduc'd to the single Testimony of Dodsworth Lunt tho' apparently Guilty was acquitted and both the Court and Jury chose rather to absolve a Criminal than to violate the least Circumstance of the Law A rare Instance of Justice and Moderation which at once may serve to convince us of the Mildness and Clemency of the present Government and of the extravagant Prejudice of those who wou'd exchange it for Arbitrary Power and of two things which seem to be equally the Objects of our Admiration leaves us in doubt whether we have greater reason to Love and Esteem the Former or to Hate and Detest the Latter Lunt by his Services and Sufferings had so far insinuated himself into the Favor and Confidence of his Party that in a Meeting of Jacobites at Standish-Hall in Lancashire he was chosen to go to France to acquaint King James with the present posture of his affairs here and to know what Assistance might be expected from him The Answer he brought was that the late King was preparing to come in Person to England the next Spring and that in the mean time he wou'd send 'em his last Instructions by a sure and faithful Hand Not long after Walmuly and Parker came to England by that Prince's Order and appointed a Meeting of the principal Persons of their Faction at Dungen-Hall where they deliver'd the Commissions and Presents they had brought from France and at the same time assur'd 'em that King James wou'd speedily land in England with a sufficient Force to support ' em In the mean they were putting all things in readiness at la Hogue for the intended Expedition The Preparations they made were very great and the Measures they had taken seem'd to promise Success as it will appear by the following account of ' em By the Articles that were agreed upon at the surrender of Limerick the French had cunningly reserv'd a Liberty to retain a very considerable Body of the Irish Forces in their Service whom they design'd upon the first convenient occasion to send over to England These Troops consisted of such as were most deeply engag'd in the routed Party and long'd for a Second War to make up the Losses they had sustain'd in the First They were rather irritated then discourag'd by their late Misfortunes and so unaccustom'd to Labor that the love of Idleness joyn'd to the desire of Booty had made 'em forsake their native Country Besides they look'd upon our Happiness with Envy and Rage and cou'd not endure to be Subject to those whom they once hop'd to enslave Such Men as these were the fittest to be employ'd in a Design of this Nature and in all probability wou'd have prov'd the most effectual Instruments of our Destruction if they cou'd have found an opportunity to join the Disaffected Party among us There were Three sorts of Persons in this Nation whom we might justly look upon as Domestic Enemies First the zealous and bigotted Roman-Catholics or rather all Roman-Catholics in general for tho' some of 'em appear'd more cautious and moderate than the Rest 't was the general opinion of the Party that all the Papists in England wou'd take up Arms on that occasion The Second Order of Jacobites consisted of the late King's Servants who ow'd their Fortune and Preferment to his Favor And the Third comprehends those whose Interest and Safety depended upon the Subversion of the Laws Men of turbulent Spirits and desperate Fortunes who hop'd to raise themselves upon the Ruins of their Country Such Persons as these are at once our Plague and our Reproach but the Breed is not peculiar to England for every Nation has its share in the common Calamity and has the misfortune to produce a Set of Men who seem to be in Love with Disorder and are never more
by Objections that were made against the Witnesses They were accus'd of Corruption and Misdemeanors some of the Judges were preingag'd and possess'd with groundless prejudices against 'em and care was taken to disguise the whole Affair to the Council The Witnesses were represented in the blackest Colors that Artful Malice cou'd invent and committed to Newgate upon suspicion of having Conspir'd against the Lives and Honor of the Lancashire Gentlemen The Affair was afterwards brought before both Houses of Parliament who heard the Witnesses and others who gave in new Informations Some of 'em discover'd the secret Treaty betwixt Taff and the Conspirators and all of 'em justify'd I unt and his Accusation And after a full Hearing and Examination that lasted about six Weeks or two Months 't was declar'd by both Houses That there had been a horrible Conspiracy against their Majesties Life and Government c. This Vote was an Illustrious Testimony that the Witnesses were not only Innocent but merited the Thanks of the Nation yet the Prejudice of those who ought to have protected 'em and the Interest of the Faction they had offended were so great that the Resolutions of a whole Parliament cou'd neither put a stop to their Prosecution nor procure 'em a fair Trial. They were indicted at the Lancashire Assizes and by the prevailing Force of the secret Springs that were employ'd against 'em were found Guilty of Perjury Thus by an unhappy and preposterous Turn the Criminals were become Witnesses and the horrible Conspiracy against Their Majesties was reduc'd to a Conspiracy against Traitors But their Artifices were at last defeated and Truth prevail'd over the Power and Treachery of its Enemies The Discoverers asserted their Innocency by the Testimony of Forty new Witnesses The Lancashire Gentlemen cou'd not prove their Allegations and those who were Guilty of no other Crime than endeavoring to serve the Government were sent away with assurances of a sutable Recompence In the mean time tho the Conspirators cou'd not succeed in their main design of discrediting the Witnesses they had spread such a Mist upon the whole Affair that they hop'd they might easily conceal their Intrigues for the future from the less penetrating part of Mankind The Discoveries that had been made were imperfect and controverted and serv'd only to give us a new instance of the difference betwixt the King and his Enemies He was so far from imitating either the Arbitrary Violence or Ungenerous Politics of some Princes in Europe that he openly protected those who had Conspir'd against his Life so long as there was the least appearance of Reason to doubt of their Guilt So dear is the Life or Honor of a Subject to a King that is what every Soveraign ought to be the Father of his Country On the other hand the Conspirators endeavor'd to prevent a new alarm by the Death of those whom they suspected For not to repeat what has been said concerning Kelly Dodsworth was kill'd by two Jacobite Brothers after he had discover'd what he knew of the Conspiracy And Redman was Murder'd two days after he had communicated his design to one who betray'd him While the Jacobites in Lancashire were pursuing their beloved Project of destroying the Nation with so much Heat and Diligence their Friends in London were continually forming new Designs against His Majesty's Life When Parker came to England to execute the Orders he had receiv'd from his Master he entertain'd an intimate Correspondence with Porter and Goodman Two of the most zealous Instruments and Promoters of the Treasonable Designs of the Party The First was born a Gentleman and a Protestant but had spent his Estate and renounc'd his Religion The other was a Comedian by Profession and had been formerly Try'd for endeavouring to Poyson the Dukes of Northumberland and St. Albans but either his Interest Innocency or Subtilty had sav'd him from the Punishment that is due to such a Crime Parker gave 'em the Two First Companies in his Regiment with a large share in his Confidence and in the secrets of the Faction but wou'd never acquaint 'em with some of the most Mysterious Circumstances of the Design He order'd 'em to take a House in or near London with large Stables fit to lodge and accommodate Fifty or Sixty Horses that they might be in a condition to receive the Troops of Horse that from time to time were to pass thro' London in their March to the Place of Rendezvous This is the account he thought fit to give them but if we consider what happen'd both before and afterwards 't will perhaps appear to be more than a bare conjecture that since the Design to Assassinate His Majesty was then on Foot these measures were taken to Facilitate the Execution of it His Imprisonment diverted his Thoughts to other Objects and found new Employment for his Friends among whom Charnock and Harrison deserve a particular Remembrance The First who went also by the Name of Robinson was Born and Educated a Protestant but chang'd his Religion to Merit the Late King's Favour which was the sure Reward of those that were willing to deliver up their Conscience as a Pledge of their Loyalty He and another were the only Persons who comply'd with King James's Order to Magdalen Colledge and his Complaisance on that Occasion procur'd him the Dignity of Vice-President But when Honest Men began to recover what they had lost 't was fit that Persons of another Character shou'd loose what they had gotten The Laws that were Re-establish'd by the Revolution render'd him incapable of enjoying his Place and by depriving him of his new Preferment made him an Enemy to the Government both by Interest and Resentment He had an equal Aversion to the Laws to the People and to their Deliverer for after he had incurr'd the Hatred of his Countrey-Men he thought he cou'd neither recover his Reputation nor Fortune but by destroying their Liberty Harrison alias Johnson was a Priest who for a considerable time had been entrusted with the Management of King James's Affairs He was a Violent Melfordian â—an Active and Zealous Agent of the Party and so far from being troubl'd with the Scruples and Checks of a tender Conscience that he never look'd upon any thing as Difficult or Criminal that might serve to promote the Interest of the Faction He had entertain'd a long Correspondence with Melfort who lost his Credit at the Court of St. Germains upon the miscarriage of the intended Invasion for as we observ'd before 't was the constant Practice of the Late King's Council in such Iunctures to advance Middleton in Complaisance to the Protestant Jacobites After Melford's Disgrace Harrison chose Caryl the Late Queen's Secretary for his Correspondent He was the Instrument of Delivering Colonel Parker out of the Tower which was an Important Service to the Party He agreed with those who suffer'd him to make his Escape for Five Hundred Pounds Three hundred
Kensington One of 'em was to give notice when the King went out and the other was to bring an account when the Guards began to March And that the Assassination might pass under the Notion of a Military Exploit they produc'd an Order to take up Arms against the Prince of Orange and his Adherents There was some Difference among the Conspirators concerning the Terms and Expressions of the Commission even after they had confess'd their Crime For some of 'em acknowledg'd that it contain d an express order to Kill the King whereas others pretended that it only authoriz'd em in the general to levy War against the Prince of Orange and all his Adherents 'T is the Opinion of several Judicious Persons that the most considerable Discovery was made by those who endeavour'd to put the fairest Construction on this execrable Project For to Levy War against the King and his Adherents after such a manner and in such Circumstances cou'd signifie nothing else than the Murdering of the King and Parliament and of all that lov'd and were resolv'd to maintain the Laws Religion and Liberty of England The Fifteenth of February was chosen for the Execution of the dire Attempt 'T was on that fatal Day that England or rather Europe was to lose its Deliverer and with him all its hopes of accomplishing the Great Work which he had so happily begun and 't was then that Heaven was resolv'd to work a new Miracle for our Preservation If we had foreseen the Danger that threaten'd him the remembrance of past Hazards wou'd have only serv'd to heighten our Apprehensions for the future His Subjects cou'd hardly have welcom'd him at his return from so glorious a Campaign and instead of celebrating his Victories wou'd have trembl'd at his Approaching Fate But we found to our Comfort that the same Providence which had so often cover d his Head in the Day of Battle and guarded him from the fiercest Assaults of his Enemies was also able to preserve him from the treacherous Fury of Assassins To prevent Suspicion they dispos'd their Men in different places of the Town and even in the remotest Parts of it Barclay and Rookwood expected the Signal in Holborn and Porter with some others waited upon the same account at the Blue Posts in Spring garden Charnock resolv'd to accompany the latter either because he mistrusted him and intended to animate him by his example or because he was willing to chuse a Post that was least expos'd to Danger as another of the Conspirators suspected And perhaps he had still so much Reason left notwithstanding the impetuous Paâ— on that disturb'd his Judgment as to decline acting in the most odious Part of the Tragedy Thus they lay expecting the News of the King's Departure for Richmond but his Majesty did not go out that day and some of the Conspirators were so alarm'd at this Disappointment that they began to reflect either upon the Danger or Infamy to which such an Attempt wou'd expose ' em Plowden who came purposely to Town to act under Porter went back to the Country and did not think fit to return according to his Promise Kenrick pretended that he was disabl'd by a Fall and appear'd for some days with his Arm in a String Sherbourn started so many Scruples when the Design was propos'd to him that they did not think fit to press him further And even the fiercest and most harden d Assassins began to be apprehensive of the Success of their Project But at last concluding that their Design was not discover'd because they were not secur'd Sir George Barclay Sir William Parkins Captain Porter and Goodman met on the 21st of February and resolv'd to make a new attempt to execute their Project without altering the Method of it In pursuance of this Resolution the Assassins were to be prepar'd for the bloody Action on Saturday the 22d of February which was to have been the last Day of our Liberty and the Fatal Aera of the irrecoverable Ruine of England The Morning was spent in an impatient Expectation of Advice from those whom they had appointed to give 'em notice when the King went out Charnock who for some days had been very uneasy and full of Jealousy and Suspicion sent a Man to Porter for a List of those who were to act in the Assassination He seem'd particularly to doubt Larue and perhaps was desirous to have some Satisfaction concerning him The List was sent to him with Larue's Name at the head of the rest and he sent it back again after he had inserted the Names of those whom he was to furnish Pendergrass was one of those who were with Porter They had sent for him out of the Country and wou'd have assign'd him a remarkable part in the Assassination Porter had a Musketoon that carry'd 6 or 8 Bullets with which Pendergrass was to shoot at the King and they desir'd him not to be afraid of breaking the Coach-glasses The Conspirators were disappointed a Second time and the boldest of 'em cou'd not forbear discovering their Fears when Keys acquainted 'em that the Guards were come back all in a foam and that there was an unusual muttering among the People This unexpected piece of News put 'em all into a Consternation the Cabal was entirely dispers'd and most of 'em endeavour'd to secure themselves by a speedy flight Nor was this meerly the effect of a Panic Dread or groundless Apprehension for the Conspiracy was actually detected Fisher Pendergrass Larue and another had separately given Information to Different Persons concerning it tho they had not yet discover'd the Particulars Captain Fisher was the Man whom God inclin'd to make the first Discovery of this inhumane Design He went to the Earl of Portland on the Tenth of February Five Days before the Time that was appointed for the Execution of it and inform'd him of the intended Enterprize without acquainting him either with the Time Manner or Circumstances which were not yet agreed upon but he promis'd to give him further notice as soon as they shou'd come to a positive Resolution And now we may justly reflect with an equal amazement upon the Sedateness and Generosity of his Majesty's Temper who cou'd hardly be perswaded to suspect those who only waited for a convenient opportunity to Murder him and the barbarous Fury of his Enemies who scrupl d not to conspire the Death of so Good and so Brave a Prince Any other Person wou'd have been startl'd at an Advice of this nature or at least wou'd have look'd upon it as too important to be neglected but the King secure in his own Vertue conscious of no Guilt and consequently incapable of Fear was so far from being alarm'd at the Discovery that he wou'd not give credit to it because the Circumstances were not particularly mention'd Three Days after Fisher return'd to Whitehall and gave the Earl of Portland an account not only of the Design
the Accounts he had receiv d agreed exactly with one another began to believe the Truth of the Discovery He order'd the Earl of Portland and Sir William Trumbal to make a more particular Enquiry into the Progress and Circumstances of the Design the Former as having receiv d the first Advice of the Conspiracy against His Person and the Latter as having been first acquainted with the Plot against the Nation 'T was a very Difficult Task to manage so nice an Enquiry for tho they had Four Witnesses they cou d not produce one Legal Evidence They cou'd not stifle the Informations they had receiv'd without exposing his Majesty's Life to the brutish Fury of Assassins who wou d soon find another Way to execute their Detestable Project Nor could they publish a Discovery which they cou'd not prove without running the hazard of being charg'd with the first Invention of it And besides the Divulging of these Advices wou'd have encourag'd the Conspirators to carry on their Design and perhaps made 'em hasten the Execution of it least they shou d at last be entirely discover'd and receive the just Reward of their Crimes In the mean time the King resolv'd to expose his Life to all the Dangers that threaten'd it if it cou'd not be secur'd without violating the usual Forms of Justice So that we were like to perish by those very Laws that were contriv'd and establish'd for our Preservation if the Earl of Portland had not found out an Expedient to ward off the Blow without having recourse to any indirect of unwarrantable Stratagem He consider'd that Pendergrass and Larue might be perswaded to discover the whole Mystery if the King himself shou'd speak to em and that even tho they shou'd refuse to yield to His Majesty s Solicitations the Information they were willing to give might serve to Convict the Conspirators if it were deliver'd in the presence of unexceptionable Witnesses who might Depose it at their Trials The King himself cou'd not be an Evidence and therefore 't was necessary that there shou'd be at least Two Witnesses present when he discours'd with 'em He spoke to Pendergrass and Larue separately to the First before the Earl of Portland and the Lord Cutts and to the Second in the Presence of the same Earl and Brigadeer Lewson After he had assur'd 'em that he esteem'd their Persons and was extremely pleas'd with their Proceedings he told 'em That he own'd himself oblig d to 'em for the Care they took to preserve his Life but desir d 'em to consider that the Service they had done him by discovering the Conspiracy cou d be of no use to him so long as they conceal'd the Names of the Conspirators that he cou d neither Punish nor so much as Convict the Criminals that the People wou d never be perswaded to believe that several Persons had discover'd a Conspiracy which they either cou'd not or wou d not justify that on the contrary they wou'd imagine that he had invented a Sham-plot to destroy his Enemies which wou'd render him odious to all the World that so general and Imperfect a Discovery wou'd expose his Honor without Securing his Life c. These Arguments produc d the desir d Effect and conquer'd the obstinacy of the Discoverers They cou'd not resist the awful Eloquence of an injur d Monarch and were at last prevail'd with to make an Atonement for their Guilt by discovering their Fellow-Criminals After his Majesty was acquainted with the Names and Designs of the Conspirators he told the Cabinet Council that he had for some time neglected the Advices he had receiv'd of a Conspiracy against his Person but since by the favourable Providence of God he was fully convinc d of the Truth of it he wou'd not tamely Suffer himself to be assassinated He added that he was inform'd the French were peparing to Invade the Kingdom but that he hop'd God wou'd enable him to frustrate their Designs Not long after he call'd the Great Council and communicated the Discovery to them He receiv'd from both particular Assurances of Fidelity and Affection and immediately issued out a Proclamation requiring all his loving Subjects to apprehend the Conspirators and promising a Reward of a Thousand Pounds for every one that shou d be seiz'd The Parliament was not yet acquainted with the Danger that threaten'd the Nation but assoon as His Majesty was convinc'd of the Reality of the Conspiracy and cou'd produce Witnesses to prove it he went to Westminster on the 24th of February and made the following Speech to both Houses My Lords and Gentlemen I Am come hither this Day upon an extraordinary Occasion which might have prov'd Fatal if it had not been Disappointed by the Singular Mercy and Goodness of God And may now by the Continuance of the same Providence and our own Prudent Endeavonrs be so Improv'd as to become a sufficient Warning to Vs to provide for Our Security against the Pernicious Practices and Attempts of Our Enemies I have receiv'd several Concurring Information of a Design to Assossinate Me and that Our Enemies at the same time are very forward in their Preparations for a sudden Invasion of this Kingdom And have therefore Thought it necessary to lose no Time in Acquainting My Parliament with these Things in which the safety of the Kingdom and the Public Welfare are so nearly Concern'd That I Assure My Self nothing will be Omitted on your Part which may be Thought proper for Our Present or Future Security I have not been Wanting to give the Necessary Orders for the Fleet And I Hope We have such a Strength of Ships and in such a Readiness as will be sufficient to Disappoint the Intentions of our Enemies I have also Dispatch'd Orders for bringing Home such a Number of Our Troops as may Secure Vs from any Attempt Some of the Conspirators against My Person are already in Custody and Care is taken to Apprehend so many of the rest as are Discover'd And such other Orders are given as the present Exigency of Affairs does absolutely Require at this Time for the Public Safety My Lords and Gentlemen Having now Acquainted you with the Danger which hath threaten'd Vs I cannot Donbt of your Readiness and Zeal to do every Thing which you shall judge Proper for Our Common Safety And I perswade My Self We must be all Sensible how necessary it is in Our present Circumstances That all possible Dispatch should be given to the Business before you The Proclamation and His Majesty's Speech publish'd the Conspiracy and made us Sensible of the dreadful Ruine which we had so narrowly escap'd All England was alarm d at the Surprizing News an universal Horror was diffus'd thro the whole Nation we trembl'd to think of the amazing Danger which humane Wisdom cou'd neither have foreseen nor prevented and were scarcely capable of reflecting upon our present Deliverance The Conspiracy was the only Subject both of our Thoughts and Discourse We look
Considerations concluded that there was never less reason to doubt the Truth of a Conspiracy than of This. Such a discourse as this was very Seasonable and even necessary at a time when several Persons were endeavoring to make the whole Discovery pass for a Fiction either because they imagin d that the King and Council had been impos'd upon or perhaps because they wish'd that we had been convinc'd of the reality of the Design by the Execution of it However Time and the Confession of the Criminals have stopt the Mouths of those who wou'd have stifl'd the Discovery And the Parliament to express their Zeal and Affection in such a dangerous Juncture made the following Address to His Majesty which was presented by both Houses in a Body WE Tour Majesties most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Aslembl'd having taken into our Serious Consideration what Tour Majesty has been Pleas'd to Communicate to us this Day Think it our Duty in the First Place to give Tour Majesty most Humble Thanks for having Acquainted Tour Parliament with the great Danger Tour Sacred Person hath been so nearly Expos'd to and the Design of an Invasion from our Enemies Abroad We Heartily Congratulate Tour Majesties Happy Preservation and Thankfully Acknowledge the Signal Providence of God in it and at the same time Declare our Detestation and Abhorrence of so Villanous and Barbarous a Design And since the Safety and Welfare of Tour Majesties Dominions do so entirely Depend upon Tour Life we most Humbly Beseech Tour Majesty to take more than ordinary Care of Tour Royal Person And we take this Occasion to Assure your Majesty of our utmost Assistance to Defend Tour Person and Support Tour Government against the late King James and all other Tour Enemies both at Home and Abroad hereby Declaring to all the World That in case Tour Majesty shall come to any Violent Death which God forbid we will Revenge the same upon all Tour Enemies and their Adherents And as an Instance of our Zeal for Tour Majestys Service we will give all possible Dispatch to the Public Business And we make it our Desire to Tour Majesty to Seize and Secure all Persons Horses and Arms that Tour Majesty may think fit to Apprehend upon this Occasion His Majesty receiv'd this Address in a very obliging manner and was pleas'd to return a most gracious Answer in these words My Lords and Gentlemen I Thank you heartily for this kind Address On My Part you may be Assur'd that I will do all that is within My Power for the Preservation of this Kingdom to which I have so many Obligations I will readily Venture My Life for Preserving it and Recommend My Self to the Continuance of Tour Loyalty and Good Affections At the same time both Houses enter'd into an Association to defend his Majesty's Life and to revenge his Death and particularly the House of Commons agreed to several important Resolutions 'T was order'd That leave should be given to bring in a Bill to Impower His Majesty to Secure and Detain such Persons as His Majesty should suspect were Conspiring against His Person or Government And Resolv'd That an Humble Address shou'd be presented to His Majesty that He wou'd please to issue out His Royal Proclamation to Banish all Papists from the Cities of London and Westminster and Ten Miles from the same That all the Members of the House shou'd either sign the Association or declare their Refusal so to do and that whosoever shou'd by Writing or otherwise affirm that the Association was Illegal shou'd be look d upon as Promoters of the Designs of the late King and Enemies of the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom 'T was also Resolved nemine contradicente that a Bill shou'd be brought in for the better security of his Majesty's Person and Government with these Clauses 1. That such as shall refuse to take the Oaths to his Majesty shall be Subject to the Forfeitures and Penalties of Popish Recusants Convict 2. To inflict a Penalty on such as shall by Writing or otherwise Declare that King William is not Lawful and Rightful King of these Realms or that the late King James or the pretended Prince of Wales or any other Person than according to the Act of Settlement of the Crown has any Right to the Crown of these Realmâ— 3. To ratify and confirm the Association enter'd into all his Majestys good Subjects for the Preservation of His Majesty's Person and Government 4. That no Person shall be capable of any Office of Profit or Trust Civil or Military that shall not sign the said Association And 5. That the same Penalties be inflicted on such as come out of France as upon those that go thither Nor must we forget that wise and important Resolution of the same honorable Body in pursuance of which 't was enacted That whenever it shall please God to afflict these Realms by the Death of His Present Majesty the Parliament then in being shall not be dissolv d thereby but shall continue until the next Heir to the Crown in Succession according to the late Act of Settlement shall dissolve the same 'T was also Order'd That the Speaker upon Presenting the Association to His Majesty shou'd make it the Request of the House that His Majesty wou'd please to order that the said Association of the House and all other Associations by the Commons of England be lodg'd among the Records in the Tower to remain as a perpetual Memorial of their Loyalty and Affection to His Majesty The Associations of both Houses were almost the same as to the sense and therefore I shall content my self with inserting that of the House of Commons because of its Conformity to the abovemention'd Resolutions WHereas there has been a Horrid and Detestable Conspiracy Formed and Carried on by Papists and other Wicked and Traiterous Persons for Assassinating his Majesty's Royal Person in Order to Incourage an Invasion from France to Subvert our Religion Laws and Liberty We whose Names are hereunto Subscribed do Hertily Sincerely and Solemnly Profess Testifie and Declare That his Present Majesty King William is Rightful and Lawful King of these Realms And we do Mutually Promise and Engage to Stand by and Assist each other to the utmost of our Power in the Support and Defence of His Majesty's most Sacred Person and Government against the late King James and all his Adherents And in case his Majesty come to any Violent or Untimely Death which God forbid We do hereby further Freely and Unanimously Oblige our Selves to Unite Associate and Stand by each other in Revenging the same upon his Enemies and their Adherents and in Supporting and Defending the Succession of the Crown according to an Act made in the First Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary Intituled An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown His
Majesty receiv'd the Association very graciously and express d the Sense he had of the Zeal and Affection of his Subjects in these obliging Terms Gentlemen I Take this as a most Convincing and most Acceptable Evidence of your Affection And as you have freely Associated your Selves for Our Common Safety I do Heartily enter into the same Association and will be always ready with you and the rest of My Good Subjects to Venture My Life against all who shall endeavour to subvert the Religion Laws and Liberties of England And afterwards His Majesty was pleas'd to say That he would take care that this and all other Associations presented to Him shou'd be Lodg'd among the Records in the Tower While the Parliament was taking such effectual measures for the Security of his Majesty and the Nation 't was thought fit in the most legal and regular manner to satisfy offended Justice by the Conviction and Punishment of some of the most notorious Conspirators ' Twou'd be needless to give the Reader a particular account either of the Proceedings at the Trials or of the Behaviour of the Dying Criminals since there can be nothing added to the public Relations of the former and there is nothing remarkable in the latter but Hypocrisy and Passion This is the genuine Character of the Declarations they left us of their last Thoughts One of 'em owns the Crime for which he was condemn'd with a kind of impious Ostentation and yet in another place of the same Paper he seems to acknowledge the Infamy of it by endeavouring to vindicate his Party from having any hand in it Another in spite of Nature wou'd act the Part of a Hero and was not asham d to pretend that he dy'd a Martyr tho 't is plain both by his Conviction and Confession that his Punishment was the just Reward of his Treasonable Practices to betray the Nation to Papists and Foreigners One of 'em is angry with the King because he wou d not pardon a barbarous Assassin and was the first Person that ever had the Confidence to charge His Majesty with Cruelty And another leaves us a terrible Instance of the Divine Justice in hardening impenitent Offenders by ending his Life in a Transport of Fury But since nothing can excuse us from doing Justice even to our most barbarous and implacable Enemies I think my self oblig'd to make a more honorable mention of Sir William Parkins He acknowledges the Assassination to be a Crime and repents that he was concern'd in it He seems to have been acted by a mistaken Notion of Honor and to have aim'd at an Appearance of Magnanimity which he did not well understand For he wouâ—d not be perswaded to name the Complices of his Crime tho he had some reason to believe that an ingenuous Confession might have procur'd him a Pardon A generous Principle if it had been better plac'd and if by preserving his Friends he had not sav'd the Enemies of his Country The Convicted Criminals receiv'd the Sentence and Punishment which the Law appoints for Traitors and their Quarters were expos'd in the most oublic places as a terrible Example of the just Severity of an injur'd Nation and an Admonition to their Traiterous Friends that those who are not capable of nobler Sentiments might at least be restrain'd by Fear In the mean time the Faction perceiving that all their pernicious Artifices were either discover'd or defeated resolv'd at least to pay the last Honors to their expiring Cause Three Jacobite Clergy-men pretending to be Ministers of the Church of England under pretext of assisting Sir John Friend and Sir William Parkins aâ— their Death gave 'em a general Absolution for all their Sins without obliging 'em either to confess or declare their Abhorrence of the particular Crime for which they suffer'd and by such an impudent and irregular Action put a public Affront upon the Government and the Nation Two of 'em were apprehended in order to be prosecuted for so heinous a Misdeameanor and in the mean time the Church of which they pretended to be Members condemn'd their Proceedings in a Public Declaration of its Judgment on that occasion which was sign'd by Fourteen Bishops who were then in Town and approv'd by those who were absent In that Paper they declare that they disclaim and detest the Principles and Practices both of the Criminals and the Three Ministers who assisted 'em that they disown and abhor 'em as highly Schismatical and Seditious dangerous both to the Church and State c. Thus while our Enemies both at home and abroad were mourning the Fate of their blasted Project while they suffer'd all the Horrors and Torments of Rage and Despair the constant Attendants of Disappointed Revenge we had the pleasure to behold the happy Period of the dismal Tragedy and the blest Event of the blackest and most barbarous Design that ever was set on foot We observ'd with inexpressible satisfaction that our Almighty Protector had convinc'd our Enemies by a very unwelcome Experience of two important Truths which they cou'd never endure to believe That His Majesty's Life is necessary for the Preservation of his People and that his Subjects are inseparably united to him both by Duty Interest and Inclination This is a glorious Confirmation of the Title which they presume to controvert and a convincing Proof of the Justice of his Cause which God himself has vouchsaf'd to establish and confirm by the execrable Projects that were form'd against him The World has been so long accustom'd to see his Majesty expose his Life for the Preservation of his Subjects he has brav'd Death so often and run thro so many Dangers in our Defence that it cannot be suppos'd we shou'd be surpriz'd at every new Instance of his Generosity But that the Preservation of his single Life shou'd secure a whole Nation from impending Ruine that the Rebels at home durst not attempt to disturb our Quiet because they knew that he was alive that our Foreign Enemies shou'd immediately retire upon the News of his Deliverance that the whole Nation shou'd place their only Confidence in the Person of their Soveraign and enter into a solemn and unanimous Confederacy to Defend his Life and Revenge his Death there is something so surprizingly Great in such a Combination of Wonders and so conspicuous Marks of the Finger of God in the several Instances of our Happiness that 't wou'd be equally impious and absurd to ascribe our Deliverance to a lucky concourse of fortuitous Accidents As His Majesty's Life is our only Security and the Foundation of all our Hopes the happy Union that is now so firmly establish'd betwixt us and our Soveraign is of no less importance to the rest of Europe To this we owe the advantageous Change in the Posture of Affairs abroad 't is this that has reduc'd our Enemies to more reasonable Terms and makes way for the Conclusion of a general and solid Peace When
Hand Brice Blair in his Depositions Bertram 's Deposition March 3. 169â— Capt. Porter 's Deposition March 3. 1695 6. La Ruë 's Deposition Febru 26. 1695 6. The Earl of Aylesbury and Sir John Friend Capt. Porter 's Deposition March 14. 1695 6. Goodman 's Deposition April 24. 1696. Goodman 's Deposition April 24. 1696. Brice Blair's Deposition March 16. 1695 6. Sweets 's Deposition March 18. 1695 6. La Ruë 's Deposition Febr. 26. 1695 6. James Ewbanks 's Deposition March 23. 1695 6. Goodman 's Deposition April 24. 1696. Capt Porter 's Deposition April 15. 1696. Brice Blair 's Deposition March 16. 1695 6. They represent us as an â—ntractable Seditious and R belliâ—us People always Jealous of our Neighbors and seldom in Quiet among ourselves See the Second Book of the History of thâ— Revolutions in England Brice Blair in his Deposition March 9. 1695 6. Brice Blair 's Deposition March 9. 1695 6. Father d'Orleans wrote the History of the Revolutions iâ— England according to the Memoirs and Informations which he receiv'd from the Earl of Castlemain Skelton and Sheridon an Irish-Man And besides he tells us that he had the Liberty to Discourse with King James as long as he pleas'd See the Advertisement before the Third Tome Book II. p. 371. Book II. p. 370. 〈◊〉 II. p. 471. ' Twou'd have been thought ridiculous if even before the Late Persecution of the Protestants one shou'd have talk'd of the Popish Cabal in France * So he terms the Vertue and Magnanimity of 〈◊〉 who hazarded their Lives and Estates for the Preservation of their Country They came over in a Vessel which usually past betwixt Calais and Rumney Marsh bringing over Packets to the Conspirators with French Goods and certain Jacobite Passengers who were wont to go and come betwixt these two places And among them there there were certain Priests who oftentimes exported Contraband Goods c. James Hunt s Depositioh April 6. 1696. George Harris 's Deposition April 15. 1696. George Harris 's Deposition April 15. 1696. * T was Maxwell who acquainted the Conspirators with this passage * Chambers Knightly April 2. 1696. Francis de Larue 's Deposition February 26. 1695 6. Capt. George Porter's Deposition March 3. 1695 6. Brice Blair 's Deposition March 9. 1695 6. George Harris 's Deposition April 15. 1696. The brave Grillon refus'd to assassinate the Duke of Guise tho the Proposal was made to him by his Soveraign Henry III. of France And when King John of England would have perswaded Debray the Captain of his Guards to assassinate a Prince that pretended a right to his Crown that generous Officer reply'd That he was a Gentleman and not a flangman and immediately retir'd to his House Richard Fishers 's Deposition February 25. 1695 6. Larne's Deposition February 26. 1695 6. Capt. Porter's Declaration upon Oath before a Committee of the Council March 3. 1695 6. Capt. Porter March 3. 1695 6. Capt. George Porter's Deposition March 3. 1695 6. Larue 's Deposition February 25. 1695 6. * Chambers †Durant * Sir William Parkyn own'd that 〈◊〉 such a â—â—mmisiâ—n which he understood to be King James's that it had a Seal to it that he saw it in the Hand of a Friend c. See the Votes of the House of Commons April 2. 169â— * King Francis de Larue 's Deposition February 26. 1695 6. Capt. Porter 's Deposition March 3. 1695 6. Febr. 13. Febr. 14. The Salic Law which is said to be as ancient as Pharamond is an undeniable Argument that the French suppos'd their Government to be as it really was a Hereditary Monarchy * Mezeray says expresly That if the French had ascrib'd that Regulation to the Pope they would have discover'd themselves to be ignorant of their own Right Abreg Chronol p. 206. †Mezeray affirms that the Consent of the People of France was the best Title which Hugh Capet who succeeded Charles cou'd pretend to his Crown Abreg Chron. p. 454. ð„ Two Races of Kings have enjoy'd the Crown of France by Virtue of these Regulations that were made for the good of the State †He deserves not the Name of an Englishman who believes with Father d' Orleans That the Power of the English Monarchs is originally as absolute and arbitrary as any Power can possibly be that 't is founded on a Right of Conquest which the Conqueror exercis'd and settl'd in its utmost extent that at first the Parliaments were only Seditious Conventicles erected upon the occasion of a Successful Revolt of the English Nobility who sinding themselves able to prescribe Laws to their Masters assum'd the Power of granting Subsidies c. that afterwards the Kings being oblig'd to call 'em when they stood in need of Supplies these Meetings began to be look'd upon as a lawful Senate and by degrees acquir'd an establish'd Form and the Authority which they enjoy at present History of the Revolutions in England Book III. p. 294. When Father d' Orleans declaims against the Republicans he usually runs to the opposite Extremity and commends the most pernicious Maxims of Despotic Tyranny such as Governing without a Parliament is and will always be Reputed in this Kingdom See the History of the Revolutions in England Book II. * Capt Fisher's Deposition †See the Bishop of Soissons s Order about the beginning of April * Capt Fisher's Deposition Charnock Sir John Freind Rookwood Cranbourn A Declaration of the sense of Archbishops Bishops c.