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A47895 Notes upon Stephen College grounded principally upon his own declarations and confessions, and freely submitted to publique censure / by Roger L'Estrange. L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. 1681 (1681) Wing L1281; ESTC R7200 31,704 54

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Confidence does most notoriously appear in the contrivance of the Raree-Show which in truth looks liker a Song of Triumph as for a thing already done then a bare Project and Exhortation toward the doing of it Insomuch that they have in this Ballad delineated the very Scheme of their Intentions It is a thing very remarkable too that the same Pulse beats still in all their Pamphlets of Appeal to the Multitude which speaks them clearly to be animated with the same souls and directed to the same end As Vox Patriae for the purpose among forty others What is it but under the Notion of Petitions and Addresses in the name of the People of England a certain Compendium of Instructions toward the Forming and carrying on of a Conspiracy This Libel lays out the very Model of the Plot for which College was Try'd Condemn'd and Executed It prescribes the Removal of Councellors and Officers the ordering of the Militia the Retrenching the Power of the King the Dissolving the Order of the Church the setting all sorts of Heretiques at liberty the Calling and Continuing of Parliaments at the Peoples pleasure And all this Address'd to the Commons in Parliament in such a manner as if his Majesty were scarce worth Consulting upon the matter only instead of Seizing the King and Governing without him they have found out a way of giving their Representatives some blind and general hints of what they would be at and then honestly tell them that they 'l stand by them with their Lives and Fortunes let them do what they please It is also a further Confirmation of this Plot the Correspondence betwixt Mr. Fitz-Harris's Declaration and the several Points given in Evidence against College Mr. Fitz-Harris declar'd that there was a design to Seize the King Of this he spake often and said when the Party had Seiz'd the King they would have oblig'd him to call a Parliament which should sit until the Bill of Exclusion against the Duke were pass'd all evil Councellors remov'd and men of their Chusing put into places of Trust the Militia settled and the Navy put into Good hands all Grievances Redress'd and all things order'd to their own liking And had this Design succeeded he said the Bishops and others of the Clergy would have suffer'd severely Dr. Hawkins's Narrative Pag. 4 This Account of a Combination does not only Nick the several parts of the Evidence against College but it does most exactly answer the Method of One and forty which College justifies and consequently approves of the same thing over again in so doing Now Mr. Fitz-Harris being demanded as a Dying man whether this that he had declared concerning the Design to seize the King were true He call'd God to witness that it was every word true And does not the Information against George Wetheridge taken September 21. 1681. speak as home to the same effect Is not the tyde strangely turn'd says he Were not the Parliament men at Oxford and those that were with 'em being to the number of 40000 men Arm'd great Fools that they did not seize the King there And if that they had wanted strength says he I would have been one to have assisted them And that they should have brought the King to London to Guild-Hall and there the Parliament should have sat and have kept his Majesty there till they had made their own Terms with him And the same Information adds further that Wetheridge said the King was a Papist and had a design to bring in Popery and Arbitrary Power and Reign as the King of France c To m●ltiply Instances would be to over-do the thing that I pretend wherefore this shall suffice If I were bent upon unnecessary Cavils I might enlarge my self abundantly in farther Observations upon the Insincerity both of College himself and some of his Evidence and prove that one of his prime Compurgators how honest a man soever he reputed him in the Court has more than once declar'd what warnings he had given him to have a care of his tongue and that he talk'd at such a desperate rate that it was not safe for any man to keep him company Colleges dying words are that he rode his own Horse spent his own Money and neither was invited or had dependency on any person whatsoever When yet the People of the Red Lyon in Henly do affirm that he and a Companion of his drank one quart of raw Sack one of Mull'd one of Butter'd and then a Pint more of the last beside one Quart of Butter'd Sack in the Morning which was all plac'd to the Account of another Person It will not become me to descant upon any Inconsistencies among Colleges Evidence's at his Tryal out of the Respect and Veneration that I both owe and bear to the Honour of the Court and to the Methods of Publique Justice I could otherwise in the case of Lun and even of Dr. Oats himself find Mr. Colleges Advocates picking-work Nay they were so hard put to 't that they brake in upon Justice Warcup himself a Person that has been even by themselves celebrated all along for his zeal in the Discovery of the Horrid Plot a Person particularly Interessed by the Lords in several Examinations and by their Lordships particularly recommended to the King for his Faith and Sedulity in that great affair But these People understand no other measures of Honesty then as it squares with their designs As to Turbervile and Dugdale the two Principal Evidences College himself had very little to say against them In one word the matter is here plainly and nakedly set forth The Protestant Ioyner has left the World wholly at a loss for his Religion He has both in his Words and Practices declar'd himself a deadly Enemy to the Government His last Speech is a Compound of Equivocations and Disguise He Justifies those that destroy'd the late King and by the same reason he may justifie the same design upon This. To conclude let the Reader judge upon what is here deliver'd whether or no there was a Design against the King at Oxford and how far College was engag'd in the Conspiracy THE END