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A61154 Copies of the information and original papers relating to the proof of the horrid conspiracy against the late king, his present Majesty, and the government Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713. 1685 (1685) Wing S5029; ESTC R18024 133,469 144

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in this Case And at one of the late Meetings for carrying on the last Insurrection Mr. Goodenough reported that an Engineer told the said Goodenough that he would recommend some honest stout Fellows to be Labourers and Workmen in the Tower who should be acquainted with the Design and ready to assist in it Another way proposed was to surprize it by night but that was full of difficulty and all that this Examinant remembers to have been proposed was that a parcel of Faggots should be carried down to the Gate and fired and to some other Part this Examinant thinks the Water-Gate if it were practicable and a great quantity of Faggots should be prepared to throw into the Ditch and to make up Works That which most perplexed the business was that to surprize the Tower by night was very difficult and to begin an Insurrection in the day time was as difficult and would lose many advantages that the night or break of day would afford and therefore no resolution was taken These were only the Debates of the meetings of this Examinant and the other Persons in this former Examination named but this Examinant never heard what the Principal Managers considered of or resolved on in the Case And this Examinant further saith That Mr. Ferguson used to go by the name of Roberts and told this Examinant he was to go for Holland with or soon after the Bill for the Money to be paid to the Scots and that the intention was to Land the Arms at Edinburgh-Frith to the best of this Examinant's remembrance And this Examinant further saith Mr. William Rumbald told this Examinant that after it was violently suspected that Mr. Keeling had made a Discovery but had denyed it it was proposed to Mr. Keeling for the satisfaction of his Friends that he should go into the Country for sometime where it was easie to Kill him and Bury him privately And this Examinant further saith That after it was certainly known that a Discovery was made it was said by Mr. VVade to the best of this Examinant's remembrance that if a Thousand Men could be got together it were better to venture a push here or in the West and die like Men than be hanged like Dogs To which it was answered by Colonel Romzey as this Examinant believes It is in vain to think of it the Hearts of the People are down and our Great Men are good for nothing or used expressions to that effect And this Examinant further saith That on Monday was Sennight last Mr. Ferguson perceiving this Examinant much dejected and Colonel Romzey Mr. VVade Mr. Norton Goodenough and Nelthorp in some Confusion laught and said to them Gentlemen you are Strangers to this kind of Exercise I have been used to flie I will never leave off as long as I live and I hope to see some of you at Dunbarr before Michaelmas or to that effect Robert West The further Examination of Robert West of the Middle-Temple Barrister at Law THis Examinant further saith That at some meetings concerning a General Insurrection it was discoursed that a Body of Five hundred Horse would be necessary to scour the Streets to prevent the Kings Party from embodying and for Fighting the Horse Guards or for a pursuit and to that end it was proposed that some endeavours should be used to bring up a Party of Horse from the Adjacent Counties and that some means should be thought on to seize the Life-Guard Mens Horses in their Quarters and the Citizens and Gentlemens Horses in the Livery Stables and if there were success and a great Body of Horse should be necessary the great number of Hackney Coach-Horses in Town would make a good force It was further proposed that Baricadoes should be made in several great Streets and several Churches be used for lodging the men And this Examinant further saith That at some of the said meeting● it was reported that the Kings Regiments of Foot had not their full Compleatment of men but wanted a great number and that the Officers used to lend one another men when they went upon the Guard and therefore the Foot were not so terrible as might be apprehended And this Examinant further saith That it was intended in the beginning of the general Insurrection in the VVest to send out a Pa●ty of Horse to seize the Marquess of VVorcester now Duke of Beaufort and his eldest Son and another Party to seize the Bishop of B●th and VVells and some other eminent Men of that Party if they were ●en in those parts And this Examinant further saith That some time before Christmass last he was informed by Mr. Roe to the best of this Examinant's remembrance that the Country expected the City would have been in Arms on Michaelmas-Eve when the present Sheriffs of London and Middlesex were Sworn and that he was Credibly Informed that there were Five hundred Horse in the Adjacent Counties ready to be marched to their Assistance upon the first notice and that they continued in a readiness for two days expecting notice but this Examinant doth not remember that he named any person from whom he had this Information And this Examinant further saith That Mr. Ferguson told this Examinant that some Nonconforming Ministers had told him they suspected he was driving on a Design to Assassinate the King and Duke and beg'd of him to desist for that it would bring a Reproach upon the Protestant Religion whatsoever the event might be and that he was forced to assure them there was no such thing intended but alas said he they are weak silly men and not fit for these thing who cannot distinguish between Destroying a Prince meerly for his Opinion in Religion and Destroying Tyrants who Design to overthrow the Laws Religion and all Civil Rights and hate the Nation It is a pious glorious Action and such as will teach all Princes to use their Subjects kindly or to that effect Robert West The further Examination of Robert West of the Middle-Temple Barrister at Law THis Examinant upon further Recollection saith That after Capt. Walcot had acquainted this Examinant of the Insurrection intended to have been made in November last the said Walcot came the second time to this Examinant and told this Examinant that the Lord Sha●tsbury had prevailed with him to engage in it and that if it proceeded he would engage in it and desired this Examinant to buy for him the said Walcot a long stiff Tuck of some Cutler this Examinant knew which this Examinant undertook and bespoke but was so long before he could procure it that the said Walcot had otherwise provibed himself and the Design was laid aside first and this Examinant was forced to keep the said Tuck the Cutler refusing to take it again And the said Mr. Walcot told this Examinant to the best of his remembrance that the Lord Shaftsbury had formerly sent for Sir George Cambel and Sir Iohn Cockran about settling a Scotch Colony or Plantation in