We Our Self should assist that Our Commission in Our Person for not being excepted is implyed with the other made by this very Parliament in the 14th year of Our Reign which all Our Subjects or at least many of them were obliged to Swear viz. That the Doctrine of taking up Arms by the King's Authority against His Person was detestable and We soon found that the Design was levelled against the good Protestant Religion of Our good Church which its Enemies had a mind to Blemish by sliding in slily those damnable Doctrines by such an Authority as that of Our Parliament into the Profession of Our Faith or Practices and so expose Our whole Religion to the Scorn and Reproach of themselves and all the World We therefore thought it Our duty to be so watchful as to prevent the Enemies sowing such mischievous Tares as these in the wholsom Field of Our Church of England and to guard the unspotted Spouse of Our Blessed Lord from that foul Accusation with which she justly charges other Churches of teaching their Children Loyalty with so many Reserves and Conditions that they shall never want a distinction to justifie Rebellion nor a Text of Scripture as good as Curse ye Meroz to encourage them to be Traitors whereas Our truly Reformed Church knows no such Subtilties but teaches according to the simplicity of Christianity To submit to every Ordinance of Man for God's sake according to the natural signification of the words without equivocation or Artificial turns In order to which having thought to dissolve that Body which We have these many years so tenderly Cherished and which We are sure consists generally of most Dutiful and Loyal Members We were forc'd to Prorogue Our Parliament till November next hoping thereby to cure those Disorders which have been sown amongst the Best and Loyallest Subjects by a few malicious Incendiaries But understanding since that such who have sowed that Seditious seed are as industriously careful to water it by their Cabals and Emissaries instructed on purpose to poison Our People with discourses in publick places in hopes of a great Crop of Confusion their beloved fruit the next Sessions We have found it absolutely necessary to Dissolve Our Parliament though with great reluctancy and violence to Our inclination But remembring the dayes of Our Royal Father and the progress of Affairs then how from a Cry against Popery the people went on to complain of Grievances and against Evil Councellors and His Majesties Prerogative untill they advanc'd into a formal Rebellion which brought forth the most dire and fatal Effects that ever were yet heard of amongst any men Christians or others and withal finding so great a resemblance between the Procedings then and now that they seem both Broth of the same brains and being Confirm'd in that Conceit by observing the Actions of many now who had a great share in the management of the former Rebellion and their zeal for Religion who by their lives give us too much reason to suspect they have none at all VVe thought it not safe to dally too long as Our Royal Father did with submissions and condescentions endeavouring to cure men infected without removing them from the Air where they got the disease and in which it still rages and increases daily For fear of meeting with no better success than He found in suffering his Parliament to Challenge Power they had nothing to do with till they had bewitch'd the people into fond desires of such things as quickly destroyed both King and Country which in Us would be an intollerable Error having been warn'd so lately by the most Execrable Murther of Our Royal Father and the inhumane Usage which We Our Self in Our Royal Person and Family have suffered and Our Loyal Subjects have endured by such practices And least this Our great Care of this Our Kingdomes Quiet and Our own Honour and Safety should as Our best Actions have hitherto been be wrested to some sinister Sence and Arguments be made from it to scare Our Good People into any apprehensions of an Arbitrary Government either in Church or State We do hereby solemnly declare and faithfully engage Our Royal Word That VVe will in no case either Ecclesiastical or Civil violate or alter the known Lawes of Our Kingdom or invade any man's Property or Liberty without due course of Law But that We will with Our utmost Indeavours preserve the true Protestant Religion and Redress all such things as shall indifferently and without passion be judg'd Grievances by Our next Parliament which We do by God's blessing intend to Call before the end of February next In the mean time We do strictly Charge and Command all manner of persons whatsoever to forbear to talk seditiously slightly or irreverently of Our Dissolving of the Parliament of this Our Declaration or of Our Person or Government as they will answer it at their perils VVe being resolv'd to prosecute all Offenders in that kind with the utmost rigour and severity of the Law And to the end that such Licentious persons if any shall be so impudent and obstinate as to disobey this Our Royal Command may be detected and brought to due Punishment We have Ordered Our Lord Treasurer to make speedy payment of Twenty pounds to any person or persons who shall discover or bring any such seditious slight or irreverent Talker before any of Our Principal Secretaries of State Record I would have the Jury should know the Declaration ends To one of his Majesties Principal Secretaries of State whereof he hoped to be one Att. Gen. This is written in the name of the King for Mr. Coleman thought himself now Secretary of State and he penns the Declaration for the King to give an Account why the Parliament was Dissolved Serj. Maynard The long Letter it appears was to dissolve the Parliament and to make it Cock-sure he provides a Declaration to shew the Reason of it It was done in order to bring in Popery that may appear by the subsequent proof Att. Gen. I have other Evidence to offer to your Lordship which is That Mr. Coleman was not onely so bold as to prepare a Declaration for the King but also out of his own further ingenuity prepares a Letter contrary to the Duke's knowledg for the Duke which before several Lords he confessed and Sir Philip Floyd is here ready to justifie it Sir Phil. Floyd I did attend a Committee of the House of Lords to Newgate who examined Mr. Coleman and told him of the Letter Mr. Attorney mentioneth he then confessed That it was prepared without the Order and Privity of the Duke and when he was so bold as to shew it the Duke the Duke was very Angry and rejected it L. Chief Just He hath been a very forward undertaker on the behalf of the Duke Mr. Att. Gen. I desire the Letter may be read The Copy of the Letter written to Monsieur Le Chese the French King's Confessor which Mr. Coleman confessed he
but Twenty thousand Pounds sent him from France he would he content to be a Sacrifice to the utmost malice of his Enemies if the Protestant Religion did not receive such a blow as it could not subsist And the receipt of this Letter was acknowledged by Monsieur Le Chese in an answer which he wrote to Mr. Coleman dated from Paris Oct. 23. 75. in which he gives him thanks for his good Service in order to the promoting the Popish Religion Several other Letters have been produced and read which were written by Mr. Coleman to Monsieur Ferrier and others and more particularly one Letter dated August 21. 74. written by Coleman to the Popes Internuntio at Brussels wherein he says the Design prospered so well that he doubted not but in a little time the businesse would be managed to the utter ruine of the Protestant Party And by other Letters he writes to the French Kings Confessor that the assistance of his most Christian Majesty is necessary and desires Money from the French King to carry on the Design But there is one Letter without Date more Bloody than all the rest which was written to Monsieur Le Chese in some short time after the long Letter of September 29. 1675. wherein amongst many other things Coleman expresses himself thus We have a mighty Work upon our Hands no less than the Conversion of three Kingdoms and the utter subduing of a Pestilent Heresie which hath for some time domineer'd over this Northern part of the World and we never had so great hopes of it since our Q. Mary's days And in the Conclusion of the Letter he implores Monsieur Le Chese to get all the aid and assistance he can from France and that next to God Almighty they did rely upon the mighty mind of his most Christian Majesty and therefore did hope le Chese would procure Money and Asistance from him Now any Man that considers the Contents of these Letters must needs agree that the latter part of the Indictment to wit the Treason of endeavouring the Subverting the Government and the Protestant Religion is fully proved upon Mr. Coleman the Prisoner at the Bar and that these Letters were written by him and the Answers received he does not deny But all he has to say for himself is that it was to make the King of England great whereas the contrary is most manifest because the Jesuits who love Force and Tyranny always adhere to those Princes that are greatest in Strength and Power For it appears in History that when the House of Austria were in their greatness and like to arrive to the Vniversal Monarchy in these parts of the World the Jesuits all adhered to that House But since the French King hath grown more mighty in Power and Greatness they declined the Interest of the Austrian Family and do now promote the Councels of France thinking that now that King will become the Vniversal Monarch I shall therefore now conclude the Evidence only observing to the Jury that the several Treasons in the Indictment are fully proved The first as to the destruction of the Royal Person of the King by two Witnesses Mr. Oates and Mr. Bedlow the other part of it viz. the subversion of the Government and extirpation of the Protestant Religion by the several Letters which have been before remembred which have not been denyed by the Prisoner to be his Therefore I hope Gentlemen when you meet with Offenders that are guilty of such stupendious Crimes you will do Justice upon them which will be a great Comfort and Satisfaction to the King and all his good Protestant Subjects Serj. Pembert Gentlemen You hear the Crime is of the highest nature it 's the subversion of three Kingdoms and the subduing of that Religion which he defames by the name of Pestilent Heresie It concerns us all to look about us and all the Kingdom when there shall be a Design managed in this manner to destroy our King and to take away our Religion and to enslave us all to the Pope and make us all truckle to the Priests It is wonderful it is capable at this day of so great Evidence there is Digitus Dei in it or else it would be impossible such a thing should be made so manifest All the rest that is said in the Indictment are but Circumstances that declare it There is a strong Evidence of many matters of Fact in this Design which declare the Intention hatched in his Breast for many years together Here hath been a Design to kill the King and he doth not only consent to it but commend it what can be said to his giving the Money to him that was to pay the fourscore pieces of Gold to those Ruffians sent to Windsor and adding 5000 l. to the 10000l for the Doctor that was to poyson the King He denies all No question but a Man that hath had a Heart to design such Contrivances will have the Face to deny it publickly It 's a thing to be acted in the dark but there 's both Mr. Oates and Mr. Bedlow plainly prove it upon him that he consented to the acting the Kings death What 's the Sence of his Letters but to shew his design and to beg the Assistance of France to them in their necessities the whole Current is to destroy our Religion I think you Gentlemen of the Jury have had such Evidence as will satisfie any Man Pris I deny all Mr. Oates his Testimony for his saying to the Council he did not know me because he could not see me when I was as near as the next Gentleman but one but knew me when I spake and I spoke to almost all the matters asked He accuseth me of a thing in August but names not the day Now if there be one Error in his Testimony it weakens all the rest I went out of Town the 10th of August it was the latter end I came home about the middle of Bartholomew Fair the last day of August L. Ch. Just. Have you any Witness to prove that Pris I cannot say I have a Witnesse L. Ch. Just Then you say nothing Pris People cannot speak to a day to a thing they neither imagined or thought of L. Ch. Just I ask your Servant do you know when Mr. Coleman went out of Town Coleman's Serv. In August I cannot say particularly the day L. Ch. Just Do you know when he came home Serv. I cannot remember Just Wild. Where was you the last Bartholomew day Serv. I was in Town Just Wild. Where was your Master Serv. I do not remember L. Ch. Just You say you went out of Town the 10th and came home the last of August you say it is impossible that he should say right but yet you do not prove it Pris I have no more to say but I entered down all my Expences every day in a Book which Book will shew where I was L. Ch. Just Where is your Book Pris At my
is the Charge in general of the Indictment We will proceed unto particulars whereby it may appear and whereupon he indeavoureth to accomplish his ends One or two Letters written to Mounsieur Le Chese he is a Foreigner and we have nothing to say to him being Confessor to the French King it was to excite and stir him up to procure aid and assistance and you know what aid and assistance means from a Foreign Prince Arms and other Levies We charge him with it that he did receive this Letter I and received an answer with a promise that he should have assistance He writ other Letters to Sir William Throckmorton who trayterously conspired with him and had intelligence from time to time from him This is the Charge in the Indictment To which he hath pleaded not guilty We will go on in our Evidence I shall but more generally open our method that we intend to take For it may seem strange and is not reasonably to be imagined that a private Gentleman as the Prisoner at the Bar is should have such vast and great designs as this to alter Religion destroy the Government I and destroy the Subjects too in a great measure But 't is not himself alone but he imploys himself for Forreign assistance great Confederacies and Combinations with the Subjects of that King many of whom he did pervert In the course of the Evidence I shall not open the particulars Mr. Attorney I think will do that by and by those that we have occasion to speak of and shall in proof mention to you will be these Le Chese the French Kings present Confessor we have mentioned before him there was one Father Ferryer with whom he held Correspondence That Ferryer being removed by death the Prisoner had an imployment here amongst us by which he gave to Le Chese instructions how to proceed This Gentleman is the great Contriver and Plotter which gives him instructions how to proceed He doth give him an account by way of Narrative how all things had stood upon former treaties and negotiations how businesses were contrived and how far they were gone this he diligently and accurately gives an account of This my Lord doth discover and delineate what had been done before until 1674. My Lord there was likewise Sir William Throckmorton and some others that are Englishmen too there are none of them but what were first Protestants but when they once renounced their Religion no wonder they should renounce their Nation and their Prince too He was gone beyond the Seas several Letters past between them and all to promote and encourage and accomplish this design My Lord there is likewise a consult of Jesuits used too where in express words they designed to murther the King or contrived and advised upon it My Lord there were four Irish men I open but the heads of things sent to Windsor to murther the King this Gentleman received and disbursed money about this business and one Ashby a Jesuit here had instructions from him to prosecute the design and to treat with a Physitian to poyson the King This the Prisoner approved of and contributed to it There were Commissions as I take it delivered from Ferryer or by his hand that came from Forreign powers Sir Henry Titchburn was another that received and delivered Commissions Pompone the French Gentleman he maintains intelligence with him about this business the Titular Arch-bishop of Dublin There 's Cardinal Norfolk by him he had accession to the Pope There was likewise the Popes Nuncio I do not open the transactions of these Iustructions these particulars will be made out not only by Witness Viva Voce and not single only but by Letters of this Mr. Colemans own writing But I offer that to the consideration of the Jury Mr. Oats was the first Man that we hear of that discovered this Treason he was the single man that discovered so many active Agents in so great a Treason as this was and it needed to be well seconded but he being found to be but single the boldness and courage of these Complotters in it grew great thereupon We know what followed the damnable murther of that Gentleman in Execution of his Office so Hellishly contrived and the endeavours that were used to hide it every body knows How many Stories were told to hide that abominable Murther how many lies there were about it but it could not be supprest The Nation is awaken'd out of sleep and it concerns us now to look about us But all this while Mr. Coleman thought himself safe walked in the Fields goes abroad Jealousie increasing and he himself still secure The Letters that are produced go but to some part of the year 75 from 75 unto 78 all lies in the dark we have no certain Proof of it but we apprehend he had Intelligence until 78 That there were the same persons continuing here and his Company increasing here But this I speak but as probable but very exceeding probable that there was other passages of Intelligence between this Person and other Confederates It seems my Lord that this Coleman was aware that he was concerned but God blinded and infatuated him and took away his reason It 's no question but he carried away some of those Papers those that were left behind and are produced he forgot and neglected and by that my Lord those which are produced are evidence against him at this time Surely he thought we were in such a condition that had eyes and could not see and ears that could not hear and understandings without understanding for he was bold and walked abroad and that until this prosecution was made upon him he endeavoured to murther the King change the Government make an alteration of Religion and destruction of Protestants as well as the Protestant Religion And it will be proved by some Letters when they were rejected by the Duke that he sent them in the Dukes name And by this no man will doubt but he is a great Traitor Attorn Gen. May it please your Lordship and you Gentlemen of the Jury The Kings Serjeant hath opened the general parts of our Evidence and we have reason to foresee that our Evidence will be very long and will take up much of your time and therefore I shall spend no more time in opening of it than is just necessary And indeed my Lord Mr. Coleman himself hath saved me much of the labour which otherwise I should have bestowed for he hath left such Elegant and copious Narratives of the whole Design under his own hand that the reading of them will be better than any new one I can make But my Lord some short account I shall give you such as may shew you the course of our Evidence and will make our Evidence when it comes to be given to be more intelligible My Lord It will appear that there hath been for many years last past a more than ordinary design and industry to bring in the
many Members were dead during the long Recess we Issued out our Writs for new Elections that our House of Commons might be full at the first opening of the Sessions to prevent any delay in our Publick Affairs or dislike in our people as might possibly have risen from the want of so great a number of their Representatives if any thing of moment should be concluded before it had been supplyed Having govern'd our Actions all along with such careful respect to the ease of our Subjects we at the Meeting of our Parliament in February 1672. expected from them some suitable expressions of their sense of our Favours but quite contrary found our Self alarm'd with Clamorous Complaints from several Cabals against all our Proceedings frighting many of our good Subjects into strange Conceits of what they must look for by their Seditious and false Constructions of what we had so Candidly and Sincerely done for their good and surprised with a Vote of our House of Commons against our Writs of Elections which we intended for their satisfactions against many Presidents of ours or without any colour of Law of their side denying our Power to Issue out such Writs Addressing to us to Issue out others which we consented to do at their Request choosing rather to yield to our Subjects in that point than to be forced to submit to our Enemies in others hoping that our Parliament being sensibly touched with that our extraordinary condescention would go on consider the Publick concern of the Kingdom without any further to do But We found another use made of Our so easie compliance which serv'd to encourage them to ask more so that soon after We found Our Declaration for Indulging tender Consciences Arraigned Voted illegal though We cannot to this day understand the consistences of that Vote with Our undoubted Supremacy in all Ecclesiasticks Recognizing by so many Acts of Parliament and required to be Sworn to by all Our Subjects and Addresses made to Us one after another to recal it which We condescended to also from hence they proceeded to Us to weaken Our Self in an Actual War and to render many of Our Subjects of whose Loyalty and Ability We were well satisfied incapable to serve Us when We wanted Officers and Soldiers and had reason to invite as many Experienced Men as We could to engage in Our Arms rather than to incapacitate or discourage any yet this also We gratified them in to gain their Assistance against Our Enemies who grew high by these Our Differences rather than expose Our Countrey to their Power and Fury hoping that in time Our People would be confounded to see Our Concessions and be ashamed of their Errors in making such Demands But finding the unfortunate Effects of Our divisions the following Summer We found Our Parliament more extravagant at the next meeting than ever addressing to Us to hinder the Consummation of Our Dear Brother's Marriage contrary to the Law of God which forbiddeth any to separate any whom he hath joyned against Our Faith and Honour engag'd in the Solemn Treaty obstinately persisting in that Address after We had acquainted them That the Marriage was then actually ratifyed and that We had acted in it by Our Ambassador so that We were forced to separate them for a while hoping they would bethink themselves better at their meeting in January Instead of being more moderate or ready to consider Our wants towards the War they Voted as they had done before not to assist Us still till their Religion were effectually secur'd against Popery Aggrievances redressed and all obnoxious Men removed from Us which We had reason to take for an absolute denyal of all Aid considering the indefiniteness of what was to proceed and the Moral impossibility of effecting it in their sences for when will they say their Religion is effectually secured from Popery if it were in danger then by reason of the insolency of Papists When Our House of Commons which is made up of Members from every Corner of Our Kingdom with Invitations publickly Posted up to all Men to accuse them has not yet in so many years as they have complained of them been able to charge one single Member of that Communion with so much as a Misdemeanour Or what Security could they possibly expect against that Body of Men or their Religion more than We had given them or how can we hope to live so perfectly that study and pains may not make a Collection of Grievances as considerable as that which was lately presented to Us than which VVe could not have wish'd for a better Vindication of Our Government or when shall VVe be sure that all obnoxious Men are removed from Us when Common same thinks fit to call them so which is to every body without any proof sufficient to render any man obnoxious who is Popishly affected or any thing else that is ill though they have never so often or lately complyed with their own Tests and Marks of Distinction and Discriminations Finding Our People thus unhappily disordered We saw it impossible to prosecute the War any longer and therefore did by their Advice make a Peace upon such Conditions as we could get hoping that being gratified in that Darling Point they would at least have paid Our Debts and enabled Us to have Built some Ships for the future Security of Our Honour and their own Properties but they being tranâ—â—orted with their success in asking were resolved to go on still that way and would needs have Us put upon the removing of Our Judges from those Charges which they have always hitherto held at the VVill and Pleasure of the Crown out of Our Power to alter the ancient Laws of trying of Peers and to make it a Premunire in Our Subjects in a case supposed not to fight against Our Self nay some had the heart to ask that the Hereditary Succession of Our Crown which is the Foundation of all Our Laws should be changed into a sort of Election they requiring the Heir to be qualified with certain Conditions to make him capable of Succeeding and Out-doing that Popish Doctrine which We have so long and so loudly with good reason decryed That Heresie incapacitates Kings to Reign They would have had That the Heir of the Crown marrying a Papist though he continued never so Orthodox himself should forfeit his right of Inheritance not understanding this Paradoxical way of securing Religion by destroying it as this would have done that of the Church of England which always taught Obedience to their Natural Kings as an indispensable Duty in all good Christians let the Religion or Deportment of their Prince be what it will and not knowing how soon that Impediment which was supposed as sufficient to keep out an Heir might be thought as fit to remove a Possessor And comparing that Bill which would have it a Premunire in a Sheriff not to raise the Posse Comitatus against Our Commission in a Case there supposed though
likewise found Guilty of endeavouring to subvert the Protestant Religion as it is by Law Established and to bring in Popery and this by the aid and assistance of Forraign Powers And I would not have you Mr. Coleman in your last apprehension of things to go out of the World with a mistake if I could help it That is I would not have you think that though you only seem to disavow the matter of the death of the King that therefore you should think your self an Innocent man You are not Innocent I am sure for it is apparent by that which cannot deceive that you are guilty of Contriving and Conspiring the Destruction of the Protestant Religion and to bring in Popery and that by the aid and assistance of Forraign Powers and this no man can free you in the least from And know that if it should be true that you would disavow that you had not an actual hand in the Contrivance of the Kings death which two witnesses have sworn positively against you yet he that will subvert the Protestant Religion here and bring in consequentially a Forraign Authority do's an act in derogation of the Crown and in Diminution of the Kings Title and Soveraign Power and endeavours to bring a Forraign Dominion both over our Consciences and Estates And if any man shall endeavour to subvert our Religion to bring in that though he did not actually contrive to do it by the Death of the King or it may be not by the death of any one man yet whatsoever follows upon that contrivance he is guilty of Insomuch it is greatly to be fear'd that though you meant only to bring it in by the way of Dissolving of Parliaments or by Liberty of Conscience and such kind of innocent ways as you thought yet if so be those means should not have proved Effectual and worse should have been taken though by others of your Confederates for to go through with the work as we have great reason to believe there would you are guilty of all that blood that would have followed But still you say you did not design that thing but to tell you he that doth a sinful and unlawful Act must answer and is liable both to God and man for all the consequences that attend it therefore I say you ought not to think your self innocent 'T is possible you may be penitent and nothing remains but that And as I think in your Church you allow of a thing called Attrition if you cannot with our Church have Contrition which is a sorrow proceeding from Love Pray make use of Attrition which is a sorrow arising from Fear For you may assure your self there are but a few moments betwixt you and a vast Eternity where will be no dallying no arts to be used therefore think on all the good you can do in this little space of time that is left you all is little enough to wipe off besides your private and secret offences even your publick ones I do know that Confession is very much owned in your Church and you do well in it but as your offence is publick so should your Confession be and it will do you more service then all your Auricular Confessions Were I in your case there should be nothing at the bottom of my heart that I would not disclose Perchance you may be deluded with the fond hopes of having your sentence respited Trust not to it Mr. Coleman you may be flatter'd to stop your mouth till they have stopt your breath and I doubt you will find that to be the event I think it becomes you as a man and as a Christian to do all that is now in your power since you cannot be white to make your self as clean as you can and to fit your self for another world where you will see how vain all resolutions of obstinacy of concealment and all that sort of bravery which perhaps may be instil'd by some men will prove They will not then serve to lessen but they will add to your fault It concerns Us no farther than for your own good and Do as God shall direct you for the truth is There are perswasions and inducements in your Church to such kind of Resolutions and such kind of Actions which you are led into by false Principles and false Doctrines and so you will find when you come once to experiment it as shortly you will that hardly the Religion of a Turk would own But when Christians by any violent bloody Act attempt to propagate Religion they abuse both their Disciples and Religion too and change that way that Christ Himself taught us to follow him by 'T was not by blood or violence By no single mans undertaking to disturb and to alter Governments To make hurly burlies and all the mischiefs that attend such things as these are For a Church to perswade men even to the Committing of the highest Violences under a pretence of doing God good service looks not in my Opinion like Religion but Design like an Engine not a Holy institution Artificial as a Clock which follows not the Sun but the Setter Goes not according to the Bible but the Priest whose Interpretations serve their particular ends and those private advantages which True Religion would scorn and Natural Religion it self would not endure I have Mr. Coleman said thus much to you as you are a Christian and as I am one and I do it out of great Charity and Compassion and with great sense and sorrow that you should be mislead to these great offences under pretence of Religion But seeing you have but a little time I would have you make use of it to your best advantage for I tell you that though death may be talkt of at a distance in a brave Heroick way yet when a man once comes to the minute death is a very serious thing then you will consider how trifling all Plots and Contrivances are and to how little purpose is all your concealments I only offer these things to your thoughts and perhaps they may better go down at such a time as this is then at another and if they have no effect upon you I hope they will have some as to my own particular in that I have done my good will I do remember you once more that in this matter you be not deluded with any fantastick hopes and expectations of a Pardon for the Truth is Mr. Coleman you will be deceived therefore set your heart at Rest for we are at this time in such disorders and the people so continually Alarm'd either with secret Murthers or some Outrages and Violences that are this day on foot that though the King who is full of mercy almost to a fault yet if he should be inclined that way I verily believe both Houses would interpose between that and you I speak this to shake off all vain hopes from you for I tell you I verily believe they would not you should have any Twigg