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A43880	Historical collections, or, A brief account of the most remarkable transactions of the two last Parliaments consisting of I. The speeches, votes, accusations, addresses, and article of impeachment, &c., II. The bills of association, exclusion, and repeal of 35 Eliz. &c., III. The several informations, messages, narratives, orders, petitions, protestation of the Lords, and resolves of both Houses, etc., IV. The tryal and sentence of William Howard Lord Viscount of Stafford in Westminster Hall, his speech and execution on the scaffold at Tower Hill with many other memorable passages and proceedings of the two last Parliaments, held and dissolved at Westminster and Oxford, V. A perfect list of each Paraliament, VI. His Majesty's declaration, shewing the causes and reasons that moved him to dissolve the two last Parliaments.		1682 (1682)	Wing H2100; ESTC R32032	89,184	314

adtunc ibidem recipiatis ipsum sic in custodia vestra existentem statim usque usualem Locum super le Tower-hill ductatis Ac Caput ipsius Willi. Vicecomitis Stafford adtunc ibidem amputari ac à Corpore suo omnino separari faciatis aliquo Judicio Lege Ordinatione seu Mandato preantea habit ’ fact ’ ordinat ’ seu dat ’ in contrarium non obstante Et hoc sub periculo incumbente nullatenus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westm decimo octavo die Decembris Anno Regni nostri tricesimo secundo BARKER Englished thus CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. To the Sheriffs of London and Sheriffs of Middlesex Greeting Whereas William Viscount Stafford has been Impeached by the Commons of our Kingdom of England in Parliament Assembled of High Treason and other Crimes and Offences by him perpetrated and committed And thereupon by the Lords Temporal in our present Parliament conven'd was try'd convicted and in due Form of Law attainted and is adjudg'd to die of which Judgment Execution yet remains to be done We charge and by these Presents firmly conjoyning command you That in and upon the 29 th Day of this Instant December between the hours of Nine and Eleven before Noon of the same Day that the said Viscount Stafford without the Gate of our Tower of London then and there to be to you deliver'd as by another Writ to the Lieutenant of our Tower of London directed we have given Command you then and there receive into your Custody and him so being in your Custody that you presently conduct to the usual place upon Tower-hill and cause the Head of him William Viscount Stafford then and there to be chop'd off and altogether separated from his Body any Judgment Law Ordinance or Command before had made ordain'd or given to the contrary notwithstanding And of this upon penalty thereof to ensue you are not to fail Witness our selves at Westminster the 18 th day of December in the 32 d. year of our Reign Upon Wednesday the 29 th of December about Ten of the Clock in the Morning the Sheriffs received the Prisoner from the Lieutenant of the Tower and conducted him to the Scaffold Upon which the Prisoner being come after a short pause produc'd a Paper out of his Pocket which contain'd the following Speech which he read with his Hat off and gave several Copies thereof Signed with his own Hand to Sheriff Cornish and other Gentlemen about him THE SPEECH OF WILLIAM HOWARD Late Lord Viscount Stafford Vpon the Scaffold on Tower-Hill immediately before his Execution Wednesday Decemb. 29. 1680. BY the permission of Almighty God I am this day brought hither to suffer Death as if I were guilty of High Treason I do most truly in the presence of the Eternal Omnipotent and All-knowing GOD protest upon my Salvation That I am as Innocent as it is possible for any man to be so much as in a Thought of the Crimes laid to my Charge I acknowledge it to be a particular Grace and Favour of the Holy Trinity to have given me this long Time to prepare my self for Eternity I have not made so good use of that Grace as I ought to have done partly by my not having recollected my self as I might have done and partly because not only my Friends but my Wife and Children have for several dayes been forbid to see me but in the presence of one of my Warders This hath been a great Trouble and Distraction unto me but I hope God of his Infinite Mercy will pardon my Defects and accept of my good Intentions Since my long Imprisonment I have considered often what could be the Original Cause of my being thus accused since I knew my self not culpable so much as in a Thought and I cannot believe it to be upon any other Account than my being of the Church of Rome I have no reason to be ashamed of my Religion for it teacheth nothing but the Right Worship of God Obedience to the King and due Subordination to the Temporal Laws of the Kingdom And I do submit to the Articles of Faith believed and taught in the Catholick Church believing them to be most consonant to the Word of God And whereas it hath so much and often been objected that the Church holds That Sovereign Princes Excommunicated by the Pope may by heir Subjects be Deposed and Murdered as to the Murder of Princes I have been taught as a matter of Faith in the Catholick Faith that such Doctrine is diabolical horrid and detestable and contrary to the Law of God Nature and Nations and as such from my Heart I renounce and abominate it As for the Doctrine of deposing Princes I know some Divines of the Catholick Church hold it but as Able and Learned as they have writ against it But it was not pretended to be the Doctrine of the Church that is any point of Catholick Faith Wherefore I do here in my Conscience declare That 't is my true and real Judgment That the same Doctrine of deposing Kings is contrary to the Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom injurious to Sovereign Power and consequently would be in me or any other of his Majesties Subjects impious and damnable I believe and profess that there is one God one Saviour one Holy Catholick Church of which through the Mercy Grace and Goodness of God I die a Member To my great and unspeakable Grief I have offended God in many things by many great Offences but I give him most humble thanks not in any of those Crimes of which I was accused All the Members of either House having liberty to propose in the House what they think fit for the Good of the Kingdom accordingly I proposed what I thought fit the House is judge of the fitness or unfitness of it and I think I never said any thing that was unfitting there or contrary to the Law and use of Parliaments for certainly if I had the Lords would as they might have some way punished me So t am not culpable before God or Man It is much reported of Indulgences Dispensations Pardons to Murder Rebell Lye Forswear and commit such other Crimes held and given in the Church I do here profess in the Presence of God I never learned believed or practised any such things but the contrary and I speak this without any Equivocation or Reservation whatsoever And certainly were I guilty either my self or knew of any one that were guilty whosoever that were so of any of those Crimes of which I am accused I were not only the greatest Fool imaginable but a perfect Mad-man and as wicked as any of those that so falsly have accused me if I should not discover any ill Design I knew in any kind and so upon discovery save my Life I having so often had so fair occasions proposed unto me and so am guilty

of the way That in Rome he saw Colemans Letters and read them once a Month wherein he gave Intelligence of several Passages that happened in the Court how that the Duke the Queen and the cheif of the Nobility were of their side How they carried Matters what waies the Lord Clifford and Sir William Godolphin used to effect the work and that they did not Question but to get the Lord Treasurer Danby on their side That coming into England he found the Popish Clergy of England of the same Opinion that they did not doubt the Romish Religion would soon come in That he knew nothing as to the Lord Stafford but only that one Smith wrote a Letter up to the Lord Stafford out of the North near where he lived to complain of two or three Justices of the Peace that were active against Popery Upon which Sir Henry Calverley was turned out of Commission That upon the first Glimpses of the discovery the aforesaid Smith writing to the Prisoner whether he intended to make over his Estate or no The Prisoners Answer was That several did but he would not in regard he expected a sudden alteration of the Government and Religion Mr Dugdale being called next upon the General Plot gave an accompt That he had been acquainted with a design for bringing in the Popish Religion about Fifteen years That he had been several times informed by Ewers his Ghostly Father that several Lords in several Parts of England were to carry it on that is that they were to have Money and Arms ready for those that wanted upon the death of the King That he had seen several Letters from Paris Rome and St. Omers encouraging Mr. Ewers to goe on and encourage the rest that were engaged That he heard nothing till lately about Killing the King That there came a Letter from the Prisoner to Ewers to shew that things went on all well beyond Sea and hoped they did so here That of late he had been with several Priests and Gentlemen in the Countrey when they have had Consultations for introducing their own Religion and taking away the Kings Life which was alwaies intended to be effected either in November December or January 1678. That he received 500 l. at one time which he gave to Mr. Ewers who return'd it to London to carry on the design That it was agreed that the Lord Aston Sir James Symons and others should go in October 1678. to dispose of a certain Quantity of Arms which they had received somwhere to the value of 30000 l. That he was by when he heard it discours'd that the King of France was acquainted with the design and that he had promis'd to furnish the Papists with Men and that he would not be wanting with other Assistances That he opened a Letter sent to Mr. Ewers dated the day of Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey's Murder containing this Expression This night Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey is dispatched That Sir James Symonds the Lord Aston Mr. Draycot Mr. Howard and Mr. Gerard did to his knowledge contribute toward the carrying on of the charge for raising Arms and paying for them and saw Letters from beyond Seas that all things were ready as to the Arms and that there wanted only Orders how they should be dispos'd That Mr. Gawen declared in the private Chappel at Boscobel that whosoever was active for introducing the Romish Religion or killing the King should have a free Pardon of all his sins That he had heard that when the King should be kill'd several should be provided with Arms and rise of a suddain upon the Protestants and cut their Throats That he had heard of Mr. Oates and Bedlow before the Plot was detected that they were Messengers entrusted but no otherwise That he saw a Letter from Whitebread to Oates cautioning him whom he entrusted in the design not mattering who they were so they were stout and trusty That he heard the Pope had promised to assist the Irish with Men and Money and that there should be nothing wanting on his part Mr. Prance being next called declared That one Singleton a Priest in the year 1678. told him at one Hall's a Cook in Ivy-Lane that he did not fear but in a little time to be a Priest in a Parish-Church and that he would make no more to stab forty Parliament Men than to eat his Dinner Dr. Oates being called declared That in the year 1676. he was advised by one Kemish and one Singleton both Priests to hasten betimes home to the Church of Rome for that the Protestant Religion was upon its last Legs That being sent by the Jesuites to Valladolid he opened certain Letters which the Jesuites in England had given him to deliver to their Cor-respondents which Letters did express what hopes they had to effect their design in England for carrying on the Catholick cause and for advancing the Interest of the Pope of Rome That Coming into England with Letters to Strange Provincial of the Jesuites he found Keines lying ill upon Strange's Bed at what time Keines said he was sorry that honest William meaning Grove that was hang'd had miscarryed All this in the year 1677. But generally that they had been brooding over their design long before the Fire In 1678. He observed by several Letters that they were as busie in Ireland as in England and that the Talbots and others were very busie in raising Forces and were resolved to let in the French King if the Parliament should urge the King to break with France And that Morgan was sent into Ireland as a Visitor to take an accompt of the readiness of the Irish That in March intelligence came to the Jesuites of an Attempt that had been made upon the King but that he had escaped through the negligence of Pickering in fixing the Flint of his Fire-lock Mr. Dennis an Irish man being then sworn confirm'd Dr. Oats's being in Spain and particularly at Valladolid where he knew him a Student That from thence he carried a Letter from him to the Archbishop of Tuam who in discourse told him that Oats would be a fit man for their Purpose saying farther that Plunket the Titular Primate of Ireland was resolv'd with the first convenience to go for Ireland to carry over a French Power with him to support the Roman Catholicks in England and Ireland and that he himself would not be long out of Ireland to assist in that pious work That he had both heard of and seen money gathered in Ireland for the support of the Plot. Then Mr. Jenison declared that he had heard Mr. Ireland and Mr. Jenison both Jesuits speak of a Design on foot to gain a Toleration by procuring a great sum of Money from their Party and bribing the Parliament and also of securing the D. or York's Succession That at another time he heard Mr. Ireland say that the Roman Catholick Religion was like to come into England and that there was but one stood in the way and that it

Treason should be pronounced upon the Prisoner Which being concluded the Lords return'd to the Court and the Lord High Steward attended by all the Officers before-mention'd upon their Knees directed his Speech to the Prisoner to this Effect That what his Lordship had said in Arrest of Judgment was found to be of no Moment at all it being no Essential part of any Tryal neither was there any Record made of it when it was done That as for the Proviso's of the 13 th Year of this King their Lordships found that they were in no sort applicable to his Lordships Case the proceedings against him not being grounded upon that Statute That no Man would have thought that a Person of his Quality so nobly descended so considerable in Estate so eminent a Sufferer in the late Times so interested in the Preservation of the Government so obliged to the Moderation of it and so personally and particularly oblig'd to the King and his Royal Father should ever have enter'd into a Conspiracy to contrive the Murther of the King Ruin of the State and Subversion of Religion and yet his Impeachment amounted to no less and the Lords have found him Guilty That as the Plot in general had been most manifest so his Lordships Part in it had been too plain Three things therefore he recommended to his Lordship's Consideration That he was now fallen into the very Pit that he was digging for others That he would think a little better than he had done what kind of Religion it was that had brought him to the Destruction that was like to befall him Lastly That he would consider that true Repentance is never too late That there were some that thought it a Mortal Sin to confess that Crime in Publick for which they had been absolv'd in Private but that God forbid his Lordship should be found among the number of those poor mistaken Souls Then assuring him that their Lordships would not cease to pray that the End of his Life might be Christian and Pious He concluded That it was then the last time he was to call him My Lord for that his next words would attaint him And having so said he pronounced the Sentence of the Court which was That he was to be Hang'd Drawn and Quarter'd The Day for Execution being appointed to be the 29 th of the same Month two Writs were issued out under the Great Seal of England the first to the Lieutenant of the Tower in Form following CAROLUS Secundus Dei Gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor ’ c. Locumtenenti Turris nostrae London ' salutem Cum Will ' Vicecomes Stafford per Communes Regni nostri Angliae in Parliamento assemblat ' de altâ proditione necnon diversis aliis criminibus offensis per ipsum perpetrat ’ commissis impetit ’ fuit ac superinde per Dominos Temporales in praesenti Parliamento nostro convent ' triat ' convict ' debita juris forma attinct ’ fuit morti adjudicat ’ existit Cujus quidem Judicii Executio adhuc restat facienda Cumque praedictus Vicecomes Stafford in Turri nostra London sub custodiâ tuâ de●ent ’ existit Praecipimus tibi per praesentes firmiter injungendo mandamus quòd in super vicesimum nonum diem instantis mensis Decembris inter horas nonam undecimam ante Meridiem ejusdem dici ipsum Vicecomitem Stafford usque locum usualem extra Portam Turris praedict● ducas ac ipsum Vicecomitibus Civitatis nostrae London Middlesex adtunc ibidem deliberes Quibus quidem Vicecomitibus nos per aliud Breve eis inde direct ’ praecepimus praedictum Vicecomitem Stafford adtunc ibidem recipere ut fiat Executio Judicii praedicti modo formâ prout dictis Vicecomitibus London Middlesex per aliud Breve nostrum praedictum praecepimus Et hoc nullatenus omittas sub periculo incumbente aliquo Judicio Lege Ordinatione seu Mandato praeantea habit ’ fact ’ ordinat ’ seu dat ’ in contrarium non obstante Teste meipso apud Westm decimo octavo die Decembris Anno Regni nostri tricesimo secundo BARKER Englished thus CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To the Lieutenant of Our Tower of London Greeting Whereas William Viscount Stafford has been impeach'd by the Commons of our Kingdom of England in Parliament Assembled of High Treason and several other Crimes and Offences by him perpetrated and committed and thereupon by our Lords Temporal in our present Parliament conven'd has been tried and convicted and in due Form of Law was attainted and adjudg'd to die Of which Judgment Execution yet remains to be done And whereas the said Viscount Stafford is detain'd in your Custody in our Tower of London We charge and by these presents firmly enjoyning command you That in and upon the twenty ninth day of this Instant December between the hours of Nine and Eleven before Noon of the same Day you conduct the said Viscount Stafford to the Usual Place without the Gate of the Tower aforesaid and him then and there deliver to the Sheriffs of our City of London and Middlesex To which Sheriffs We by another Writ to them directed have given Command the aforesaid Viscount Stafford then and there to receive that Execution of the aforesaid Judgment may be done in Manner and Form as we have given Command by our other Writ to the said Sheriffs of London and Middlesex And of this you are not to fail upon peril thereon to ensue Any Judgment Law Ordinance or Command before had made ordain'd or given to the contrary notwithstanding Witness Our Selves at Westminster the 18 th Day of December in the 32 d. Year of Our Reign The Second Writ was directed to the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex in Form following CAROLUS Secundus Dei Gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Vic ’ London Vic ’ Middlesex salutem Cum Will ’ Vicecomes Stafford per Communes Regni nostri Angliae in Parliamento assemblat ’ de altâ proditione necnon diversis aliis criminibus offensis per ipsum perpetrat ’ commissis ’ impetit ’ fuit Ac superinde per Dominos Temporales in praesenti Parliamento nostro convent ’ triat ’ convict ’ debitâ juris formâ attinct ’ fuit morti adjudicat ’ existit Cujus quidem judicii Executio adhuc restat facienda praecipimus vobis per praesentes firmiter injungendo mandamus quòd in super vicesimum nonum diem hujus instantis Decembris inter horas nonam undecimam ante meridiem ejusdem diei dictum Vicecomitem Stafford extra Portam Turris nostrae London vobis tunc ibidem deliberandum prout per aliud Breve Locumtenenti Turris nostrae London directum praecepimus in custodiam vestram

I am come to visit you as you are a Minister of State and as I am sent as Embassador from the Prince of Portugal to the King of England and am likewise to thank you for the Justice you have done yesterday to Sir George Wakeman To which my Lord C. J. answered I am plac'd to do Justice and will not be curb'd by the Rabble Which Information amongst the rest was Printed as it was deliver'd more at large by order of the House The same day also the Commons made new Resolves Nemine Contradicente to proceed to the full Examination of the Popish Plot in order to the bringing of the Offenders to Justice To which purpose they appointed a Committee to inspect the Journalls of the two last Parliaments and make their Report and order'd an humble Address to be made to his Majesty that all the Letters Papers and Evidences which had been delivered to the Privy Council relating to the Popish Plot might be delivered in to the House And thus ended October Fame By the way what became of the Address for the preservation of his Majesties Person and Government Truth Thou shalt hear For though the Address were made upon the Saturday before according to his Majesties appointment yet the House had no accompt of it in a Parliamentary way till the Munday following which was the First of November But first Mr. Secretary Jenkins made his Report concerning the Address that had been orderd to be made for delivery to the House of all Papers Letters and Evidences concerning the Plot in the Custody of the Privy Council To which he gave an accompt in short That they were already delivered to the Committee of Lords appointed for the examination of the said Plot. Which being done Mr. Speaker acquainted the House with his Majesties Answer to their Address declaring their Resolutions to preserve and support his Person and Government c. which was to this effect That he thanked them heartily for their Zeal to the Protestant Religion and assur'd them that there should be nothing wanting both at home and abroad to preserve it Little was done the rest of this day nor much the beginning of the next which was Tuesday the Second of November till Mr. Treby having given a full Information to the House of all matters by him reported in the last Parliament relating to the Popish Plot the House came to three most Remarkable Resolves of which two were carryed with a Nemine Contradicente The first was That the D. of York's being a Papist and his hopes of coming to the Crown had given the greatest countenance to the present designs and Conspiracies against the King and the Protestant Religion Secondly That in defence of the Kings person and Government and of the Protestant Religion the House did declare That they would stand by his Majesty with their Lives and Fortunes and that if his Majesty should come by any Violent death which God forbid they would revenge it to the utmost upon the Papists Thirdly That a Bill should be brought in to disenable the D. of York to inherit the Imperial Crown of England In order whereunto a Committee was appointed to sit and prepare a Bill Upon Wednesday the third of November little pass'd of remark only that the Lords by a Message desired their concurrence to an Act for the better Regulating of Peers in England and that in the House of Commons a Resolve was made Nemine Contradicente That a Bill should be brought in for the better Uniting his Majesties Protestant Subjects Thursday the Fourth of January was less remarkable for business then the day beforegoing unless I should trouble thee Fame to carry the relation of preparatory Votes or the Examinations of breaches of priviledges or contests about Elections which are nothing to the Generall Concernment Fame Thou art in the right they are not for my purpose and therefore thou dost well to leave it out Truth However I must not omit to tell thee that the Bill for disabling James Duke of York to inherit the Imperial Crown of England and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging was this day read the first time The next day being the Fifth of November the Houses were both adjourned till Saturday the Sixth of November at what time the House taking into their Consideration the business of the dissenting Protestants came to a unanimous Resolve that it was The Opinion of the House that the Acts of Parliament made in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth and King James ought not to be extended against Protestant Dissenters And thereupon they order'd a Bill to be brought in for repeal of all or any part of the Act of Parliament made in the Thirty fifth year of Queen Elizabeth Chapter the first printed in the Statute-book of Pulton This done Mr. Jenison being call'd in gave his Information at the Bar relating to the Popish Plot. At the conclusion of which he was orderd to put it in writing and present it to the House on the Munday following The Sum of the Information was this That about the beginning of the year 78. he had heard Mr. Ireland and Mr. Tho. Jenison both Jesuits discourse of a designe by the Roman Catholiks to obtain a Toleration for the open profession of their Religion in England which was to be done by collecting a good round Sum of Money among them and bribing the Parliament That they also discoursed of securing the Duke of Yorks succession by granting out Commissions to those of the Religion to rise upon the death of the King That he heard the said Ireland say at another time that there was only one in the way who hindred that Religion from flourishing in England and that it was an easie thing to poison the King by the means of Sir George Wakeman That in August of the same year coming from Windsor he went to Mr. Irelands Chamber where he found him pulling off his boots being as he said newly come Post from Wolverhampton That discoursing of the Kings pastimes at Windsor and particularly of his going a fishing with a small retinue of two or three the said Ireland made answer that then he might be easily taken off That the said Ireland offered him to quit him of a debt if he would be assisting to the taking off the King urging how meritorious it would be and how much to the glory of God That upon his refusall Mr. Ireland ask'd him if he knew any stout Irish Gentlemen upon which he nam'd Lavallin Karney and Brahal together with one Wilson an Englishman Of which Gentlemen the said Mr. Ireland did approve as fit for the design That at another time he heard Mr. Tho. Jenison say that if C. R. would not be R. C. he should not be long C. R. Adding that the King being excommunicate and depos'd he was no longer King Having heard this Information the Bill against the Dukes Inheritance was read a Second time and two Resolves made First That the Bill