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A63173	The tryal of Edward Coleman, Gent. for conspiring the death of the King, and the subversion of the government of England and the Protestant religion who upon full evidence was found guilty of high treason, and received sentence accordingly, on Thursday, November the 28th, 1678.	Coleman, Edward, d. 1678, defendant.; England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.	1678 (1678)	Wing T2185; ESTC R4486	80,328	98

as to know your Person and that I have an Opportunity of putting this Letter into the hands of Father St. German ●s Nephew for whose Integrity and Prudence he has undertaken without any sort of hazard In order then Sir to the plainness I profess I will tell you what has formerly passed between your Reverence's Predecessor Father Ferryer and my self About three years ago when the King my Master sent a Troop of Horse Guards into his most Christian Majesties Service under the Command of my Lord Durass he sent with it an Officer called Sir William Throckmorton with whom I had a particular Intimacy and who had then very newly embrac'd the Catholick Religion To him did I constantly Write and by him address my self to Father Ferryer The first thing of great Importance I presumed to offer him not to trouble you with lesser matters or what passed here before and immediatly after the Fatal Revocation of the Kings Declaration for Liberty of Conscience to which we owe all our Miseries and hazards was in July August and September 1673. when I constantly inculcated the great danger Catholick Religion and his most Christian Majesties Interest would be in at our next Sessions of Parliament which was then to be in October following at which I plainly foresaw that the King my Master would be forced to something in prejudice to his Allyance with France which I saw so evidently and particularly that we should make Peace with Holland that I urg'd all the Arguments I could which to me were Demonstrations to convince your Court of that mischief and press'd all I could to perswade his most Christian Majesty to use his utmost endeavour to prevent that session of our Parliament and proposed Expedients how to do it But I was answered so often and so positively that his most Christian Majesty was so vvell assured by his Embassador here our Embassador there the Lord Arlington and even the King himself that he had no such apprehensions at all but vvas fully satisfied of the contrary and lookt upon what I offered as a very zealous mistake that I was forced to give over arguing though not believing as I did but confidently appealed to time and success to prove who took their measures rightest When it happened what I foresaw came to pass the good Father was a little surprized to see all the great men mistaken and a little one in the right and was pleased by Sir William Throckmorton to desire the continuance of my correspondence which I was mighty willing to comply with knowing the Interest of our King and in a more particular manner of my more immediate Master the Duke and his most Christian Majesty to be so inseparably united that it was impossible to divide them without destroying them all Upon this I shewed that our Parliament in the circumstances it was managed by the timerous Councels of our Ministers who then governed would never be useful either to England France or Catholick Religion but that we should as certainly be forced from our Neutrality at their next meeting as we had been from our Active Alliance with France the last year That a Peace in the Circumstances we were in was much more to be desired then the continuance of the War and that the Dissolution of our Parliament would certainly procure a Peace for that the Confederates did more depend upon the power they had in our Parliament then upon any thing else in the World and were more encouraged from them to the continuing of the War so that if they were Dissolved their measures would be all broken and they consequently in a manner necessitated to a Peace The good Father minding this Discourse somewhat more then the Court of France thought fit to do my former urg'd it so home to the King that his Majesty was pleased to give him Orders to signify to his R. H. my Master that his Majesty vvas fully satisfyed of his R. H s. good intention tovvards him and that he esteemed both their interests but as one and the same that my Lord Arlington and the Parliament were both to be lookt upon as very unuseful to their interest That if his R. H. would endeavour to dissolve this Parliament his most Christian Majesty would assist him with his Povver and Purse to have a nevv one as should be for their purpose This and a great many more expressions of kindness and confidence Father Ferryer was pleased to communicate to Sir William Throckmorton and Commanded them to send them to his R. H. and withall to beg his R. H. to propose to his most Christian Majesty what he thought necessary for his own concern and the advantage of Religion and his Majesty would certainly do all he could to advance both or either of them This Sir William Throckmorton sent to me by an Express who left Paris the 2d of June 1674 Stilo novo I no sooner had it but I communicated it to his R. H. To which his R. H. commanded me to answer as I did on the 29th of the same month That his R. H. was very sensible of his most Christian Majesties friendship and that he would labour to cultivate it with all the good Offices he was capable of doing for his Majesty that he was fully convinced that their Interests were both one that my Lord Arlington and the Parliament vvere not only unuseful but very dangerous both to England and France That therefore it was necessary that they should do all they could to Dissolve it And that his R. H's opinion was that if his most Christian Majesty would Write his thoughts freely to the King of England upon this Subject and make the same proffer to his Majesty of his Purse to Dissolve this Parliament which he had made to his R H. to call another he did believe it very possible for him to succeed with the assistance we should be able to give him here and that if this Parliament were Dissolved there would be no great difficulty of getting a new one which would be more useful The Constitutions of our Parliaments being such that a new one can never hurt the Crown nor an old one do it good His R. H. being pleased to own these Propositions which were but only general I thought it reasonable to be more particular and come closer to the point we might go the faster about the work and come to some issue before the time was too far spent I laid this for my Maxim The Dissolution of our Parliament will certainly procure a Peace which proposition was granted by every body I Conversed withall even by Monsieur Rouvigny himself with whom I took liberty of discoursing so far but durst not say any thing of the Intelligence I had with Father Ferryer Next that a Sum of Money certain would certainly procure a Dissolution this some doubted but I am sure I never did for I knew perfectly well that the King had frequent Disputes with himself at that time whether

he should dissolve or continue them and he several times declared that the Arguments were so strong on both sides that he could not tell to which to incline but was carried at last to the continuance of them by this one Argument If I try them once more they may possibly give me Money if they do I have gain'd my point if they do not I can dissolve them then and be where I am now so that I have a possibility at least of getting Money for their Continuance against nothing on the other side But if we could have turn'd this Argument and said Sir their Dissolution will certainly procure you Money when you have only a bare possibility of getting any by their Continuance and have shewn how far that bare possibility was from being a foundation to build any reasonable hope upon which I am sure his Majesty was sensible of and how much 300000l sterl certain which was the sum we propos'd was better than a bare possibility without any reason to hope that that could ever be compassed of having half so much more which was the most he design'd to ask upon some vile dishonourable terms and a thousand other hazards which he had great reason to be afraid of If I say we had had power to have argued this I am most confidently assured we could have compassed it for Logick in our Court built upon Money has more powerful Charms then any other sort of reasoning But to secure his most Christian Majesty from any hazard as to that point I propos'd his Majesty should offer that sum upon that condition and if the condition were not performed the Money should never be due if it were and that a Peace would certainly follow thereupon which no body doubted his Majesty would gain his Ends and save all the vast expences of the next Campaign by which he could not hope to better his Condition or put himself into more advantagious Circumstances of Treaty then he was then in but might very probably be in a much worse considering the mighty opposition he was like to meet with and the uncertain Chances of War But admitting that his Majesty could by his great strength and Conduct maintain himself in as good a Condition to Treat the next year as he was then in which was as much as could then reasonably be hoped for he should have saved by this Proposal as much as all the men he must needs lose and all the charges he should be at in a year would be valued to amount to more then 300000l sterl and so much more in case his Condition should decay as it should be worse then it was when this was made and the Condition of his R. H. and of the Catholick Religion here which dep●nds very much upon the success of His most Christian Majesty ●●●ivered from a great many frights and real hazards F. Ferryer seem●d to 〈…〉 sensible of the Benefit all parties would gain by this Proposal But yet it was unfortunately delay'd by an unhappy and tedious fit of sickness which kept him so long from the King in the France Comte and made him so unable to wait on His Majesty after he did return to Paris But so soon as be could compass it he was pleased to acquaint his Majesty with 〈◊〉 and wrote to the Duke himself and did me the Honour to write unto me also on the 15th of September 1674. and sent his Letter by Sir William Throckmorton who came express upon that Errand In these Letters he gave his R. H. fresh assurance of his most Christian Majesties friendship and of his Zeal and Readiness to comply with every thing His R. H. had or should think fit to propose in favour of Religion or the business of Money And that he had commanded Monsieur Rouvigny as to the latter to Treat and deal with his R. H. and to receive and observe his Orders and Directions but desired that he might not at all be concerned as to the former but that his R. H. would cause what Proposition he should think fit to be made about Religion to be offered either to Father Ferryer or Monsieur Pompone These Letters came to us about the middle of September and his R. H. expected daily when Monsieur Rouvigny should speak to him about the Subject of that Letter but he took no notice at all of any thing till the 29th of September the evening before the King and Duke went to Newmarket for a fortnight and then only said that he had Commands from his Master to give his R. H. the most firm assurance of his Friendship imaginable or something to that purpose making his R. H. a general Complement but made no mention of any particular Orders relating to Father Ferryer's Letter The Duke wondering at this proceeding and being obliged to stay a good part of October at Newmarket and soon after his coming back-hearing of the Death of Father Ferryer he gave over all further prosecuting of the former Project But I believe I saw Monsieur Rouvigny's policy all along who was vvilling to save his Masters Money upon assurance that we would do all we could to stave off the Parliament for our own sakes that we would struggle as hard vvithout money as with it and vve having by that time upon our ovvn Interest prevailed to get the Parliament Prorogued to the 13th of April he thought that Prorogation being to a day so high in the Spring vvould put the Confederates so far beyond their Measures as that it might procure a Peace and be as useful to France as a Dissolution upon these Reasons I suppose he vvent I had several discourses vvith him and did open my self so far to him as to say I could vvish his Master vvould give us leave to offer to our Master 300000l for the Dissolution of the Parliament and shewed him that a Peace vvould most certainly follow a Dissolution which he agreed with me in and that vve desir'd not the Mony from his Master to excite our vvills or to make us more industrious to use our utmost povvers to procure a Dissolution but to strengthen our Povver and Credit vvith the King and to render us more capable to succeed vvith his Majesty as most certainly vve should have done had vve been fortified vvith such an Argument To this Purpose I press'd Mounsieur Pompone frequently by Sir Will. Throckmorton who returned hence again into France on the Tenth of November the day our Parliament should have met but was Prorogued Mounsieur Pompone as I was informed by Sir William did seem to approve the thing but yet had Two Objections against it First That the Sum we proposed was Great and could be very ill spared in the circumstances his Most Christian Majesty was in To which we Answer'd That if by his Expending that Sum he could procure a Dissolution of our Parliament and thereby a Peace which every body agreed would necessarily follow his Most Christian Majesty would gain his

satisfaction and I assure you that its length did not make it seem tedious I should be very glad on my part to assist in seconding your good intentions I will consider of the Means to effect it and when I am better informed than I am as yet I will give you an Account to the end I may hold Intelligence with you as you did with my Predecessour I desire you to believe that I will never fail as to my good will for the service of your Master whom I Honour as much as he deserves and that it is with great truth that I am Your most Humble and most Obedient Servant D. L. C. At. Gen. We made mention of a Declaration by his long Narrative it plainly appears that Mr Coleman would have had another Parliament And the reason why he was pleased to publish a Declaration was thereby to shew the Reasons for its Dissolution Sir Philip Floyd did you find this Writing among Mr Coleman's Papers Sir P. F. I did finde it among his Papers At. Gen. Pray read the Declaration Clerk of the Crown reads the Declaration The Declaration which Mr. Coleman prepared thereby shewing his Reasons for the Dissolution of the Parliament WE having taken into our Serious Consideration the heats and animosities which have of late appeared among many of our very Loyal and Loving Subjects of this Kingdom and the many fears and jealousies which some of them seem to lye under of having their Liberties and Properties invaded or their Religion altered and withal carefully reflecting upon our own Government since our happy Restauration and the end and aim of it which has always been the ease and security of our People in all their Rights and Advancement of the beauty and splendour of the true Protestant Religion established in the Church of England of both which we have given most signal Testimonies even to the stripping our Self of many Royal Prerogatives which our Predecessours enjoyed and were our undoubted due as the Court of Wards Purveyances and other things of great value and denying to our Self many advantages which we might reasonably and legally have taken by the Forfeitures made in the times of Rebellion and the great Revenues due to the Church at our Return which no particular person had any right to instead of which we consented to an Act of Oblivion of all those Barbarous usages which our Royal Father and our Self had met withal much more full and gracious than almost any of our Subjects who were generally become in some measure or other obnoxious to the Laws had confidence to ask and freely renounced all our Title to the Profit which we might have made by the Church-Lands in favour of our Bishops and other Ecclesiastical Ministers out of our zeal to the glory of our Protestant Church which Clemency to wards all and some even high Offenders and zeal for Religion we have to this day constantly continued to exercise Considering all this we cannot but be sensibly afflicted to see that the frowardness of some few Tumultuous heads should be able to infect our Loyal and good people with apprehensions destructive of their own and the general quiet of our Kingdome and more especially their perverseness should be powerful enough to distract our very Parliament and such a Parliament as has given as such Testimonies of its Loyalty Wisdom and Bounty and to which we have given as many Marks of our affection and esteem so as to make them mis-conster all our endeavours for to preserve our People in ease and prosperity and against all reason and evidence to represent them to our Subjects as Arguments of fear and disquiet and under these specious pretences of securing Property and Religion to demand unreasonable things manifestly destructive of what they would be thought to aim at and from our frequent Condescentions out of our meer grace to grant them what we conceived might give them satisfaction though to the actual prejudice of our Royal Prerogative to make them presume to propose to advance such extravagancies into Laws as they themselves have formerly declared detestable of which we cannot forbear to give our truly Loyal Subjects some instances to undeceive our innocent and well-minded people who have many of them of late been too easily misled by the factious endeavours of some turbulent Spirits For example we having judged it necessary to declare War against the States of Holland during a recess of Parliament which we could not defer longer without loosing an advantage which then presented it self nor have done sooner without exposing our Honour to a potent Enemy without due preparation we thought it prudent to unite all our Subjects at home and did believe a general Indulgence of tender Consciences the most proper expedient to effect it and therefore did by our Authority in Ecclesiasticks which we thought sufficient to warrant what we did suspend penal Laws against Dissenters in Religion upon Conditions expressed in our Declaration out of Reason of State as well as to gratifie our own nature which always we confess abhorr'd rigour especially in Religion when tenderness might be as useful After we had engaged in the War we Prorogued our Parliament from April to October being confident we should be able by that time to shew our People such success of our Arms as should make them cheerfully contribute to our charge At October we could have shewn them success even beyond our own hopes or what they could possibly expect our Enemies having lost by that time near 100 strong Towns and Forts taken in effect by us we holding them busie at Sea whilst our Allies possessed themselves of their Lands with little or no resistance and of which the great advantage would most visibly have been ours had not the fewds we now complain of which have been since unhappily started and factiously improved by some few dis-united our people distracted our Counsels and render'd our late endeavours vain and fruitless so that we had no reason to doubt of our peoples ready and liberal concurrence to our Assistance in that Conjuncture Yet our Enemies proposing to us at that time a Treaty for Peace which we were always ready to accept upon Honourable Terms and considering with our self that in case that Treaty succeeded a far less sum of Money would serve our occasions than otherwise would be necessary We out of our tender regard to the ease of our People Prorogued our Parliament again to February to attend the success of our Treaty rather than to demand so much Money in October as would be fit to carry on the War But we soon finding that our Enemies did not intend us any just Satisfaction saw a necessity of prosecuting the War which we designed to do most vigourously and in order to it resolv'd to press our Parliament to supply us as speedily as may be to enable us to put our Fleet to Sea early in the Spring which would after their Meeting grow on apace And being informed that