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A36787 The information of Stephen Dugdale, gent. delivered at the Bar of the House of Commons, Munday the first day of November, in the year of our Lord 1680. Dugdale, Stephen, 1640?-1683. 1680 (1680) Wing D2475; ESTC R504 6,147 16

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I Appoint Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills to Print this Information According to the Order of the HOUSE of COMMONS And that no other Person presume to Print the same Novemb. 10 th 1680. Wi WILLIAMS Speaker THE INFORMATION OF Stephen Dugdale GENT. Delivered at the BAR of the HOUSE of COMMONS Munday the First day of November In the Year of our Lord 1680. Perused and Signed to be Printed according to the Order of the House of Commons By me WILLIAM WILLIAMS Speaker ·DIEV·ET·MON·DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE C2 R LONDON Printed by the Assigns of John Bill Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1680. THE INFORMATION Given at the BARR of the Honourable the House of Commons BY Mr. Stephen Dugdale On the 30th day of October Anno Dom. 1680. viz. THAT about two or three and twenty years since I was brought over from the Church of England to the Church of Rome by one Mr. Knight a Priest continuing some years under his care till at length he the said Mr. Knight through infirmity of body not being able to Officiate his Priestly Function he delivered me to the care of one Francis Evers a Jesuit who did not only take care to instruct me in matters relating to a future State as to a future State but in all things as far as he could in temporal things Likewise he the said Mr. Evers laid an injunction upon me to visit him every day once if I was ●t home and so by such means we grew to such an intimacy that scarcely any thing that the one knew but the other was privy to it So that sometimes as we were talking of affairs of State and the Revolutions of Governments we came to discourse of our own And he the said Evers often hath told me that it would not be long before we might expect good times for the Duke of York having declared himself to be a Roman Catholick had given a good assurance to the Pope besides he was a Prince of that resolution and worth that if ever he made any ingagement he would never revoke it particularly in so high a Concern as this where his Soul lies at stake So that never more Hopes than now of dispersing the dark Clouds of Heresie He hath not only engaged himself solemnly to us for the Establishing of Religion but that he would restore Us to all our Church Lands and other Priviledges taken from the Church formerly And this I had not from Mr. Evers alone but from several private Gentlemen besides Priests For my great intimacy with Mr. Evers did get me great acquaintance with most of the Gentry of our Religion So by that means I came with several of them to their private Meetings where it had been debated what the Duke of York's pleasure was that as he had given them an Assurance of his Part they should not be negligent to do theirs And that they should be in all readiness with all necessaries when the King should dye to assist the Duke against the Protestants For they must expect some opposition from the Protestant Party but good Care before-hand might prevent a great deal of Mischief and that it was thought fit that every Landlord amongst his Tenants and Servants have some twenty some thirty some fourty Catholicks and the Priest to instruct them That they should be ready at an hours warning and this was the course resolved upon And that the said Evers told me that there had been great care taken for an honest Gentleman to be Confessor to the Duke of York and they had found one a friend to the said Evers who was a worthy honest Gentleman one Mr. Moumford otherwise called Beddingfeild He was presented to the Duke sometime before the Dutch Wars and was with the Duke being his Ghostly Father in the Dutch Wars on Shipbbard Mr. Evers hath shewed me Letters from him dated from on Shipboard commending the Duke how good and zealous he was in the Roman Catholick Religion he thought him to be the hopefullest and zealousest Prince in the whole Universe I saw in one of those Letters from on Shipboard to Mr. Evers that he the said Beddingfeild had given the Duke the blessed Host twice in order for the Engaging himself with the Enemy That in the year 1677. Mr. Evers and I being in discourse Mr. Evers told me There were great fears and jealousies that the King would outlive the Duke of York and then all our hopes were at an end But to prevent that he told me that Cardinal Howard had sent a Letter that they had Excommunicated the King as an Heretick that he was deposed from being King and that any One that killed him might merit by it That he maintained a Damnable Heretical Doctrine and so consequently was an Enemy of Christ At this time I had all the Letters directed to me for the carrying on this Plot which were for Mr. Evers some of which I opened and read which all tended to lay hold of this Opportunity for if they missed this Point they must never look to have the like again for the Establishing of their Religion And about the Month of July or August 1677. soon after I was by Mr. Evers admitted into the secret of the Design for the Romish Government there came one Carrington to Tixall whom the Jesuits thereabouts imployed as a Messenger of Trust in their Business He brought a Letter to Mr. Evers from Mr. Vavasor who was then at Wolverhampton or Boscobell and meeting me in the Hall desired me to give it to Mr. Evers which I presently did The Letter from Mr. Vavasor did inclose in it several others as one from John Grove in London who in a part of the sheet of Paper writ some News in short but underneath his signing Mr. William Harcourt began a long Account how he lately had received the two enclosed Letters one of them from St. Omers which was signed by Monfort Warner and Peters as I remember and four more whose names I remember not at all And this Letter did refer to another Letter from Paris to the three Parties first named and the same was signed from Paris by two names whereof I think Clifford was one This Letter did contain the Opinion and Advice of those at Paris upon a Letter which it seems had been first writ from England to St. Omers and from St. Omers transmitted to them The scope of which Advice was this That by all means care should be taken not to let any Arms appear or any appear in Arms till after the Death of the KING because they had fully considered that when any sudden Death should befall the KING it might be easily laid to the Presbyterians who had killed the late KING and were still Enemies to the KING and Government Therefore they advised that all ways should be taken to give out and possess the People before-hand that the Presbyterians were the only Enemies so that when