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religion_n	king_n	majesty_n	parliament_n	3,897	5	6.3360	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29401	A Breif [sic] account of many memorable passages of the life & death of the Earle of Shaftsbury ... who departed this life the 21st day of December, 1683 ...		1683 (1683)	Wing B4503; ESTC R17676	6,304	10

Arundel Lord Peters Lord Bellasis for high Treason and other high Crimes But I shall forbear mentioning any farther only instance how this noble Peer was struck at in the Hellish design I shall referr the Reader to what hath been allready published in Print onely note two or three things of some persons that made attempts on the life of this noble Peer first by Dangerfield who had a great summ offered him to have murdered the Earle of Shaftsbury on whom the rage of the bloody Romish party was now so great that they left no base and unwarrantable action unattempted To robb him of his life some were hyred to stab or Pistoll him others to swear Treason against him or any other way the Devil put in their heads Another design against this noble Peer was to have been acted by a woman called Madam C●llier a Popish Midwife which she attempted that cursed design under the pretence of a visite to the Earle and under pretence of her paying her thanks for favours received through his meanes but she had a consecrated Dagger under the skirt of her gown ready to have exprest her gratitude by opening the veins of this Protestant Peers heart Is then loyall innocency and Protestant integrity Armour of proof against Poysons Pistolls and Poniards no the Catholick Gallantry stops not here but pursues this noble Peer with forgery of his hand and other little sham-plotts what base and villainous acts the bloody Papists used to destroy the Earle of Shaftsbury by many endeavours to have stabb'd him as hath been deposed by many persons to whom the Parliament as well as the nation have given beleif I shall instance one more of their mischeifous practises in this kind There was a Gentleman who was a Commander of a Regiment of Horse in the late King's Army and lost all for his sake and his present Majesty's writ to this noble Peer about a remedy against the Gout which he used to be afflicted with very much this Letter was intercepted and the person then living in the French King's Dominions after adding to it an account that the Writer was able to furnish the Earle with forty thousand Souldiers from France to oppose the D. of Yorks Interest it was then conveyed to some of the French King's Ministers who they suppose would send a Copy hither but by a strange providence the original was returned into the Gentleman's own hands Nor were they yet wanting in throwing dirt and slandring this Noble Peer in his Reputation which faculty they are famous at for now a Pacquet of base Libels and treasonable reflections were by the Penny post sent to a Printer and Copies of the same disperst about the parts of Westminster All of venomous and malicious slanders and imputations tending to the taking away the Life of the Earl of Shaftsbury and divers other Peers of Honourable account but the Printer detesting such a designe published an invitation to any person that would discover the Author or publisher of that infamous Libel And now we are got into such a bog of Plots shamplots Perjurers subornations as the histories of no Age can parallel In October during the Sessions of the last Parliament its remarkable that Francisco de Faria Interpreter to the Portugal Embassadour amongst other matters relating to the Plot gave Information to the Bar of the house that he was tempted to kill the Earl of Shaftsbury by throwing a hand Granado into his Coach as he passed the rode into the Countrey But to summ up all several methods that were invented to be Executed against the Life of this Peer were innumerable by these Jesuited Crew who set all her inventions and engines on work to make away the Earl of Shaftsbury he was the Beam in their eye and that clog that hindred the motion of their curst designes what have they not attempted to make him distasteful to the King through the foulness of their treasons on him as was made appear before the King Councel in October 1681. that Fitzgerard told Mr. Haines that he the said Fitzgerard possessed his Majesty and had given it under his hand and Seal that the late Plot was a Presbyterian Plot and invented by the Earl of Shaftsbury on purpose to exterpate the Royal Family and to dethrone his present Majesty and turn England into a Common-weal or else to set the Crown upon the Earls own head with more such wicked treasonable matter a further Account you may have in his Tryal But a new Parliament was summoned to appear at Oxford where things of as high nature was Agitated as ever came before the consideration of a Parliament no less then preservation of the Kings Majesty's person the Protestant Religion the good of the people of England All which now was invaded by the bloody dsigns of the Papists but being very hot about the business of Fitzharris things of the like nature it pleased his Majesty to dissolve them Sometime after Fiezharris was tryed and Executed The Earle of Shaftsbury was again committed to the Tower of London the circumstance of his Examination and Aquital would take too much room here to be recited To finish this tragical story only I cannot omit that on the 15. August 1681. Mrs Fitzharris gave a deposition on Oath that her husband a little before his Execution not only told her what great offers he had made him if he would have charged that treasonable and infamous Libel for which he was executed afterwards for on this Noble Peer and the Lord Howard and that he advised her to do it to save his life though he protested at the same time that they were wholly innocent she likewise deposed that a certain Gentleman assured her that she should have what money she pleased if she would accuse the Earl and the Lord Howard as the Authors of the said Libel but they having tampered with so many on the account of this basted design but that it was impossible but their consult must take wind especially when we consider they were a people that either to supply their necessities or to feed their ambition or more probable thought inresistable fatility had blab'd and discovered the secrets of holy mother and had spake so unseasonably in her tip that they had spoyld her game what security could these Romish Sophisters have but that their cork'd vessel would prove leaky again I shall give one memorable passage said to have passed between the Earl and one of the Popish Lords soon after his Commitment the story is this meeting accidently with one of the Popish Lords he was asked by him what his Lordship did there and that he little thought to have his good company to which the Earl of Shaftsbury replyed that he had lately been sick of an Ague and was come there to take some Jesuits powder It was said during the whole time of his Lordship being in the Tower he remained very chearful beyond what could have been expected from a person