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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

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

us'd by the Lord Powis and his Lady when he was well us'd To attest which he brought one to attest that he was permitted to lie in a Room near the Lord Powis's Chamber To which it was reply'd that that Testimony might not hear what unkind Words might pass between them or how he was thwarted in his Expectations from the Earl And as to the Kindness of Mr. Turbervill's Relations all that the Prisoner could prove was that his Brother and Sister had given him Seven Pounds never to see him more The next Objection was That Turbervill had sworn that the Earl of Castlemain was at Powis-Castle such a time which must be in the Years 72 73 or 74 which he endeavoured to prove by the Attestation of one Lydcot once a Servant to the Earl of Castlemain and with him all those Years But he was observed to be so out in his Calculation so mistaken in the Year and such an exact Follower of the Romish New Stile that Notice was taken of it by the Court. On the other Side it was sworn by Mr. Arnold That he had not heard a better Character of any Man from all sorts of People in his Life By Mr. Hobby That he had never known or heard but that he had behav'd himself like a Worthy Honest Gentleman By one Mr. Matthews a Divine that he never knew him guilty of an Evil Action but that he was a person of a fair Reputation By one Mr. Seys That he never knew in his Life any person that could asperse him The same also or to the same Effect was sworn by Captain Scudamore It was farther objected That Mr. Turbervill was a Stranger to the Prisoner and that the Design of the King's Death was too great a Secret for a Stranger to be acquainted with To which it was answered That the Quality of the Persons that introduced him to his Lordship was to be considered They were Priests and therefore it was no wonder that when they brought him to his Lordship for such a purpose that they should prevail with his Lordship to give him Credit and to deal with a person so likely in his Circumstances to make such an Attempt But the main Objection was That Mr. Turbervill had sworn that his Lordship returned into England by the way of Calice with Count Grammont neither of which was true To which it was answered That Mr. Turbervill swore only according to Information and by a Lettet which signified to him that his Lordship would return by the way of Calice and he knew nothing of the Change of his Lorships Resolution That it appeared upon Oath that Mr. Turbervill staid at Diep in expectation of his Lordships coming but being inform'd that he went another way took the first Opportunity of a Passage without which Information there was no Reason for him to have invented such a thing or to have advised his Companion to make haste to Calice to take the Advantage of my Lord's Conveniency a thing which he did out of Friendship The Evidence on both sides being thus clos'd as it was thought the Court adjourn'd and the Lords being return'd to their House gave notice to the Commons that they had order'd the Prisoner to be sent for again the next day by ten of the Clock The First Day being Saturday Dec. 4. The Prisoner being brought to the Bar made a new Request that he might call some Witnesses that he had forgot the day before to impeach the Evidence that had sworn against the Credit of his Witnesses and farther to impeach those that had sworn against himself which though it were at first oppos'd as a thing not customary was at length condescended to by the Managers to spare the Lords the trouble of withdrawing The first was the Lord Ferrers as to the Reputation of Mr. Southal one of Mr. Dugdale's Witnesses who attested that all he could say was by Hear-say That he had the Reputation of being active in the late Times against the King and was counted a pernicious Man against the Government In answer to which the Lord Brook being desired to speak what he knew of the said Mr. Southal gave him the CharaCharacter of an honest an able and a good Church-man and Mr. Levenson Gower called to the same purpose gave him the Character of a Zealous Prosecutor of the Papists and one of whom they that were principled by the Preservation of the King and the Protestant Religion spoke well The next was one Dale to whom the Prisoner put the Question what he knew about Dugdale's offering him Money and whether Dugdale never persuaded him to swear against my Lord Aston something he knew not To which be answered positively in the Negative After this the Prisoner having summed up all his Objections before recited against the King's Evidence insisted upon several Points of Law First That there was no President that Proceedings Criminal did ever continue from Parliament to Parliament this having continued three Secondly Whether a Man in Capital Cases was not to be proceeded against by Indictment first found by a Grand Jury and not by Impeachment either of a single Person or Body of Men. Thirdly He conceiv'd there was no Overt Act alledged in the Impeachment Fourthly He desired to prove they were not Competent Witnesses that swore against him for they swore for Money Fifthly Whether a Man could be condemned for Treason by one Witness there not being two Witnesses to any one Point As to the First it was answered that it could be no doubt in regard their Lordships had resolved and sent it down to the Commons and that it was entered in their Books as the Law and Constitution of Parliaments that not only Impeachments but all Judicial Proceedings continue from Parliament to Parliament that it was now the Law of their House and consequently the Law of the Kingdom And therefore they having declared it and sent it down to the Commons they had good reason to proceed upon the present Impeachment To the Second That an Impeachment of the House of Commons which is the Grand Inquest of the Nation was more than an Indictment and more effectual to bring an Offender to Justice To the Third That there were Overt Acts enough in Proof and sufficient in the Impeachment as the receiving a Commission to be Pay-Master of an Army the offering Money to a person to hire him to kill the King and consulting with several persons met together about killing the King and changing the Government of the Nation All which were laid in the Impeachment as fully as made out in Proof To the Fourth His Lordship insisted very much that his Council might argue it whether there were a necessity of two Witnesses to every Overt Act alleadg'd as Evidence of High Treason But the Council for the Prisoner waving the Argument as a thing impossible to apply themselves to the Study of a Case unforeseen the Lords returned to their House to consider upon it In an hours time

Speaker they resolv'd into a Committee of the whole House After which the Speaker resuming the Chair they came to several Resolves Nemine contradicente 1. That one way for the suppressing of Popery was to banish all the Considerable Papists out of England That as long as the Papists had any hopes of the D. of York's Succession both the Protestant Religion and the Lives Liberties and Properties of the King's Protestant Subjects were in Danger to be destroy'd 3. That there should be a Bill brought in for the Association of his Majesties Protestant Subjects for the Safety of King Religion and People against all Invasions or Oppositions whatsoever and to prevent the Succession of the D. of Y. or any other Papist Thursday the 16 th was spent for the most part in reading of Bills The next day being Friday the 17 th of December upon a Report by Sir William Poultney from the Committee appointed to draw up the Impeachment against Mr. Seymour the Articles of Impeachment were order'd to be Ingross'd and Mr. Seymour to be taken into Custody by the Serjant at Arms who was impowered to take Security for his forth-coming Saturday being the 18 th they took into serious Consideration his Majesties Last Speech and after some debate resolv'd that an Address should be prepar'd in answer to it Monday the 20 th produc'd nothing at that time remarkable but only the Address which was then read and agreed to and presented the next day Tuesday the 21 th of December not much more was done than upon the day before only that an Information was given into the House that one Henry Carew a Fryar of Saint Maloes in France had for several Years last past executed the Office of Surveyor of the Customes in the Port of Bristol and thereupon it was referr'd to the Committee appointed to receive Informations concerning the Plot to examine the Business and make their Report In the Afternoon they presented their Addresses to his Majesty in the Banquetting-House in Answer to his Last Speech of which the Chief Heads were these That they did gratefully acknowledge his Majesties Goodness in renewing his Assurances of his Readiness to concurr with them for the Security of the Protestant Religion but that they observ'd there was a Reservation annex'd which if insisted on would render all his other Inclinations of no Advantage to them That as to the preservation of the Succession in its Legal Course they had not endeavour'd any Interruption except only of the Descent upon the Person of the D. of York whom the Instruments of the Church of Rome had perverted to their Religion For which Reason they did represent it as the Issue of their most deliberate Thoughts That for the Papists to have their Hopes continued in the Expectation of a Popish Prince was utterly inconsistent with the Safety of his person the Preservation of the Protestant Religion and the Welfare of his people They farther represented to him the Danger of his Person from the principles of the Papists which allow the Excommunication and Deposition of Princes That the Expectation of a Popish Successor had not only encreas'd the Number of Papists in the Kingdom but also prevail'd with others to desert Protestantism that they might be prepar'd for the Favor of the Popish Prince That it had hardened the Papists of this Kingdom to make a Common purse provide Arms and sollicite the Aid of Foreign Princes to impose Popery upon the Nation That it was his Majesties Glory and true Interest to be the Protector of all Protestants both at Home and Abroad But if such Hopes should remain what Alliances could be made for his Majesties Allies and the Protestants abroad to trust to Then they laid before his Majesty the Evils that would befal from a Popish Succession The Protestant Religion would be totally overthrown The Pope would be acknowledg'd a Supreme and all things be brought under his Jurisdiction The Lives Liberties and Estates of all Protestants that value their Souls will be adjudged forfeited in regard that the Extirpation of Hereticks was used as an Argument to invite Foreign Princes to assist the Duke Farther they desir'd him to consider whether in Case the D. should attempt to Succeed whether the Opposition probable to be made against him might not endanger the Descent of the Royal Line but even Monarchy it self For which Reasons they besought his Majesty that when a Bill should be tender'd him in a Parliamentary way he would give his Royal Assent thereto and as necessary to fortifie the same that he would also assent to another Bill to enable his Protestant Subjects to associate for the Defence of his Person the Protestant Religion and the Security of the Kingdom And that as a farther Means for the Preservation of the same the Judges might be Persons of Integrity and true Zeal to the Protestant Religion and might hold their Employments only quamdiu se bene gesserint and that the Lord Lieutenants Deputie-Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace might be persons of the same Principles and all others displac'd and so likewise for the Military Officers and Commanders in the Fleet. Which Requests of theirs being granted they would be ready to assist his Majesty for the preservation of Tangier and to put the Fleet into a Condition both to preserve the Sovereignty of the Seas and defend the Nation Fa. What Answer was given to this Address Tr. You shall hear more of that in due time The two next days being the 23 d. and 24 th of December produc'd little for our purpose Only that upon the last of the two upon a Report from the Committee appointed to examine the Complaint against Mr. Thompson a Minister it was unanimously resolved by the House That the said Thompson had publickly defam'd his Majesty preach'd Sedition villify'd the Reformation and promoted Popery by asserting Popish Principles denying the Plot and turning the same upon the Protestants and that he had endeavored to subvert the Liberty and Property of the Subject and the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament and that he was a Scandal and Reproach to the Function and thereupon order'd a Committee to prepare an Impeachment against him After which the Holydays approaching the House adjourn'd till the 30 th of the same Month. Fa. Can you tell me what Mr. Thompson had done to deserve so severe a Sentence Tru. Yes Fa. Pray do then as short as you can Tru. The First Witness upon Examination at the Committee said That in a Sermon preach'd by the said Mr. Thompson upon the 30 th of Jan. 79. He publickly declar'd That the Presbyterians were persons which the Devil blush'd at and that they were worse than either Priests or Jesuits and that the Villain Hampden grudg'd more to give the King Twenty Shillings which was his due by Law for Ship-money and Loan than to raise a Rebellion against him The Second Witness said the same and added that Thompson should say He hoped the Presbyterians

Then taking into consideration the Message which had been sent them the day before by the Lords They also in concurrence with the Peers voted an Address to be made to his Majesty on their part to request the same Pardons and Favour for limited Discoverers as the Lords had already done Which being done Mr. Dangerfield of whom I question not but that you have had a sufficient accompt already was called to the Barr there to deliver his knowledge concerning the Plot. Fame That will be very necessary for my Pacquet Truth It will so and therefore you shall have it as briefly as possibly I can sum it up He declared to the House That when Mrs. C. and He waited on the Lord Peterborough to be introduced to his R. H. his Lordship ask'd him whether the Lady Powis had given him any directions how to discourse the D. and desired to know what they were Whereupon he produced a little Book which contain'd a scheme of the pretended discovery he had made of the Presbyterian Plot. Wherein his Lordship finding some Omissions order'd him to Write from his own Mouth that the Presbyterians intended to rise in the North and joyn with the Scots which done his Lordship carry'd him with Mrs. C. into the Dukes Closet at White-Hall where he delivered the said Book to the Duke who not only thank'd him for it and his diligence in the Catholick Cause but wished him success in his Undertakings Adding withall of what mighty consequence the Presbyterian Plot was if well manag'd and that he questioned not but that the effects of it would answer expectation especially in the North where he was assur'd of the Major Part of the Gentry That after that his H. in the hearing of the Lord Peterborough order'd him and Mrs. C. to be careful what they communicated to such as were to be Witnesses in the Plot for fear they should be caught in the Subornation That the D. also informed them that in a Month or two Cmmissions would be ready as from the Presbyterians to which purpose he was order'd to find out trusty persons that would be ready to accept them which should be deliver'd them by a person that should be known by them to be no other then a Presbyterian that they might be the more fit to swear in the Plot. That the D. also for their Encouragement to proceed in that sham-Plott promis'd them that he would take care that Money should not be wanting and bid them discover the same to the King with all expedition they could That the D. made divers Vows and bitter Execrations to stand by them in the thing and engag'd on his Honour to be their Rewarder That being withdrawn from thence to the Lord Peterborough's Lodgings they continu'd there till his Lordship had introduc'd Sir Robert Peyton to the Duke That about four days after the said Earl took the said M. D. again to the D's Lodgings at White-Hall who then told him that he had gained by his diligence a good reputation among the Catholicks adding withall that he should in a short time see the Catholick Religion flourish in these Kingdoms and Heresie torn up by the Roots That the D. gave him twenty Guinies and said if he would be but vigorous in what he had undertaken already he would so order it that Mr. D's life should not be in the least danger with several other Circumstances relating to the said Plot too tedious to relate Fame 'T is well enough so long as here is the main and chief substance of the rest Truth There is so and we are not to make Enlargements where we intend Epitome's Mr. Dangerfeild having made an end of his Relation withdrew But the House taking a more particular notice that he had made mention of Sir Robert Peyton in his Information presently ordered a Committee to examine the matters touching Sir Robert Peyton and to report the same and came to a Resolution Nemine Contradicente to proceed effectually to suppress Popery and prevent a Popish Successor Upon the twenty seventh of October the Address of the Commons to his Majesty in concurrence with the Lords for a Proclamation to assure all such Persons their Pardons as should make their Discoveries within two Months after the date of the Proclamation being prepar'd and finish'd by the Commitee was read in the House upon the Report of Mr. Treby and ran much to this Effect We your Majesties most Loyal Subjects the Commons of England assembled being highly zealous for the preservation of the Protestant Religion your Majesties Sacred Person and Government and resolving to pursue with a strict and impartial enquiry the execrable Papist Plot which was detected in the two last Parliaments and has been supported and carried on by potent and restless Practises and Machinations especially during the late Recesses of Parliament whereby several Persons have been terrified and discourag'd from declaring their knowledge thereof most humbly beseech your Majesty that for the security of such Persons who shall be willing to give Evidence and make further satisfactory discovery concerning the same to this House your Majesty would be pleas'd to issue your Royal Proclamation assuring all the said persons of your Gracious Pardon if they shall give such Evidence or make such Discovery within two Months after the date of the Proclamation With this Address the Speaker attended by several Members of the House waited upon his Majesty the next day in the Afternoon To which his Majesty was pleas'd to return his Answer to this Effect That he did intend to direct such a Proclamation and was resolved not onely to prosecute the Plot but Popery also and to take care of the Protestant Religion establish'd by Law adding That if the House did but go on Calmly in their Debates without heat that he did not doubt but to beat down Popery and all that belong'd to it But to return where we left off so soon as the report of this Address had been made and that it had pass'd Approbation the House fell the same day upon the business of Petitions which they resented so high that they came to several Resolves First that it was the undoubted Right of the Subjects of England to Petition the King for the calling and sitting of Parliaments and Redressing of Grievances That to traduce such Petitioning as a violation of Duty and to represent it to his Majesty as Tumultuous and Seditious was to betray the Liberty of the Subject and contributed to the design of subverting the ancient Legal Constitutions of this Kingdom and introducing Arbitrary Power Which Resolves passing Nemine Contradicente they appointed a Committee to enquire of all such Persons as had offended against the Rights of the Subjects Thereupon the House being inform'd that Sir Francis Withens one of the Members had offended against the said Right of the Subject he was order'd to attend the next Morning After which they pass'd a Resolve to make an Address to his Majesty with

the Nobility and the Commons of England having taken their several and distinct places in Court And the Prisoner being brought to the Bar the Lord High Steward spake to him to this Effect That the Commons of England had impeached him of High Treason for which he was then to he Try'd that he was not try'd upon the Indictment found by the Grand-Jury but prosecuted by the Loud complaints of the Commons and to be try'd upon the presentment of the Grand Inquest of the whole Nation That he was to be therefore Judg'd by the whole Body of the House of Peers where the ballance would be exactly kept And that therefore if his zeal had engag'd him in such deep and black designes as he was charg'd with he must expect to reap what he had sown Admonishing him lastly to hear with patience what should be said against him The Charge being then read the substance of the Impeachment was I. That there had been a Traiterous Plot and Conspiracy both in England and other Places to alter and subvert the Ancient Government and true Religion established in the Land which Plot was carried and contrived by Persons of several Qualities and Degrees II. That for the accomplishing of the said wicked and traiterous design he had agreed and conspir'd with others to imprison depose and murther the King and to Subject the Kingdom to the Pope and his Government To restore the Abbys Monasteries c. so long agoe Suppressed for their Idolatry and Superstition And by that means to destroy his Majesty Extirpate the Protestant Religion and overthrow the Rights and Properties of his Majesties Subjects III. That he with the rest of the Traytors had held several Meetings and Consultations where it was contriv'd and design'd by what means and what Instruments should be us'd to murther his Majesty That it was there resolv'd to Effect the same by Poisoning Shooting Stabbing and that at the same places rewards were offered to several Persons to execute the same IV. That he with the rest had Consulted to raise Men Money Armes and Ammunition and had Corresponded with the Pope his Cardinals and Nuntio 's and with other Forein Ministers for the raising and obtaining of Men Money c. for the raising of War within the Kingdom and invading the same with Forein Forces V. That he with the rest had procured and delivered out several Instruments and Commissions made and granted by the Pope and other unlawful Authortities for the raising and disposing Men Money c. and particularly for him the said Lord Viscount Stafford to be paymaster of the Army VI. That to hinder the discovery af the said Plot and to secure themselves from Justice He with the rest had caused Oathes of Secresie to be administred to the Confederates and the Priests to give them absolutions for their encouragement aforesaid to conceal the Conspiracy VII That he with the rest had contriv'd to lay the Imputation of their crimes upon the Protestants aforesaid To this his Lordships Plea was That he was not Guilty and for his Tryal put himself upon his Peers In the opening of this Impeachment Mr Serjeant Maynard beginning told the Lords that the Charge was General and Particular General the Subversion of the Nation Murther of the King and suppression of the Protestant Religion which General was charg'd in Particular upon the Prisoner in regard that in a general design as this was wherein so many were concern'd the Act of One is the Act of All and the Act of All is the Act of every One But his part being only to open the General Conspiracy he made out the Universal Hatred of the Papists against the Protestants by their continual Practcies of Murthers Massacrees and Treasons in Spain France England and other parts of Europe and their Doctrine of the Legality of deposing and Killing Heretick Kings Then bringing his Arguments home he called to mind the Murther of Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey The Tampering with Bedlow to corrupt and lessen his Testimony and Their Charging Oates with Infamous Crimes by falshood and Subornation to invalidate his Testimony The particular Evidence was open'd by Sir Francis Winington Shewing first The extraordinary advantages the Papists had to enter upon the Conspiracy The creeping of Papists at the bottom and others that drove on their Interest into his Majesties Councils The easiness of some Men to favour the Papists new projects set on foot for a Reconciliation between the two Religions by distingushing the Church from the Court of Rome Papists of Loyal and disloyal Principles Which gave them great Encouragement to see how freely the Pen was drawn in their favour The Kings Commands of putting the Laws in Execution frustrated by the Publick Ministers of their faction and the severity of those Laws turned upon the Protestant dissenters Lastly their great hopes of a Popish Successor As for the proof of the Plot in general he Cited the Attainders of Coleman and Langhorn and several Priests and Jesuites The Attainders of Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey's Murther and the Conviction of the Assassinator of Mr. Arnold And in short the Convictions not only of Treasons and Murthers but of almost all other Villianies whatsoever To this he added that proof would be made of the discourses of the Preists and Jesuits abroad of the great alteration that would be in England e're long And that the King was a Heretick and might be destroyed which Doctrine was dispersed by the industry of several in England As to particulars against the Prisoner he urg'd that proof would be made of his being at a Consult at the Lord Aston's House at Tyxal for the Killing the King That he offered 500 l. out of his own purse for carrying on the Plot and particularly that part of Killing the King That the Prisoner himself had tempted one of the Witnesses to Kill the King with several other Circumstances tending to that and the General design Then Mr. Treby proceeded to call the witnesses to shew the Universal Conspiracy The first was Mr. Smith whose Education had given him great Opportunities of knowing the inside of the Papists Affairs He testified That upon his first arrival in France he came acquainted with Abbot-Montague Gascoyn and several other Priests and Jesuites who promis'd him preferment both among them and in England if he would turn Catholick for that they did not doubt but that the Popish Religion would come into England very soon as not questioning a Toleration first by which they should bring it in without Noise And Secondly because their party was very Strong in England and in a few years would be able to bring it in right or wrong That Cardinal Grimaldi whom he met by Accident in Provence told him he had great Assurances the Popish Religion would prevail in England and that there was but one that obstructed it who though a good natur'd Person yet they could not so far prevaile upon him but that they must be forc'd to take him out