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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53414	An exact and faithful narrative of the horrid conspiracy of Thomas Knox, William Osborne, and John Lane, to invalidate the testimonies of Dr. Titus Oates, and Mr. William Bedlow by charging them with a malicious contrivance against the E. of Danby, and the said Dr. Oates with an attempt of sodomy wherein are exemplified from the originals I. Four forged letters dictated by Thomas Knox, II. Five false informations, one paper of memorials, and one other information against Dr. Oates for sodomy, forged by Knox in the names of Lane and Osborne, III. The informations, depositions, examinations, and confessions of the said Knox, Osborne, and Lane, taken upon oath before Sir William Waller and Edmund Warcup, Esq., IV. An account of some depositions taken before the Lords Committees of Secresie, relating thereunto, V. The breviates of the councel for the King at the trials of the said Knox and Lane, Nov. 25, 1679, wherein full satisfaction is given to the world of the whole cause, by the particular evidences of the witnesses in behalf of the King / published by the appointment of me, Titus Oates.	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1680 (1680)	Wing O41; ESTC R4560	41,985	38

us all I confess that we are not touch't and healed is not your Majesties fault but our own who lye pining and languishing under our Maladies and perhaps as uncivilly as unjustly complaining of others when we should complain of our own sluggishness that we make not our frequent Addresses to your Majesties Grace and Favour for this divine Medicine 't is past your Majesties Obligations and I believe your Skill too to cure a People whether they will or no 't is but decent we complain to though not of the Physitian that we may learn to prize restored health at greater rates and testifie the gratitude of those that have been at the Shrine of AEsculapius by some Noble Fee which I dare promise you for a through-cure would be the most noble that ever a saved Nation tendered to their Preservers I know not how I am fallen into this odd way of expressing my self I am sure I ought to beg your Majesties pardon that I have imitated those affected modes of expressions which your great Soul does justly scorn But I shall pursue the Humour no further then to represent to your sacred Majesty that as some learned Observators have proved that English Simples are most congenial to English Bodies and work more benignly upon us than all the far-fetcht and dear-bought Drugs of Pontus so the Wholsom Laws and Customs of your own Kingdom duly and properly applyed will work more glorious and admirable effects to the composing all our differences preventing all recidivations and relapses then all your boasted Catholicons of our exotick chymical Empiricks and at once disappoint Hell and Rome and preserve your Majesties Person and our Religion if your Majesty pleases Which is the daily prayers and humble petition to the King of Kings Whitehal Decemb. 4th 1679. Your Majesties Most humble Most loyal Subject and Serant Titus Oates The Introduction 'T Is the great unhappiness of extraordinary surprizing evils that they disarm us at once of Counsel and Self-defence and render our Reasons Tongues and Hands most unserviceable when we have most need of their service As little griefs are querulous and talkative shallow brooks loquacious when great sorrows like deep rivers slide away without noise Such is the posture of our souls in reference to dangers if they be ordinary we know perhaps what to advise upon what to say what to do but if extream we are no longer Masters of Wisdom we lose the freedom of the Tongues to plead our Cause and the use of our Hands to make a just and vigorous opposition against those evils I know not how but so it is our implacable enemies the Papists have got the Gorgons Head or the great secret of the Torpedo that we seem all to be Petrified and turned into sensless Statues whilst they cut our throats and practice at their own leisure our final Ruine Had the Protestants of France burnt the smallest Village had they murdered the meanest Peasant had they attempted the least disturbance of the Civil or Ecclesiastical Government they must not have expected due forms of Law nor the picking out of the guilty Individuals to be sacrificed to Justice but Popish fury had let it self loose in some universal Massacre to the utter extirpation of the name of Hugonots for they that have once done the same thing without the least provocation may be presum'd ready to do it upon a very slighty occasion But they must thank the goodness of our Natures or rather the excellency of our Laws and Religion that we have proceeded with them in other methods and have chosen to oppose Law to violence Patience to fury Moderation and Mercy to malice and cruelty rather than to stain our Religion with the least blot of precipitated Revenge But were I worthy to be their Counsellor I would mildly warn them not to provoke English men any further nor awaken their just indignation with repeated importunities who knows what an exasperated people may do there 's none can be guarranty against the Rage of a Nation blown up to a flame by the bellows of continued and renewed and growing Insolencies It had been happy for us and them too if the unanimous Resolve of the Late House of Commons had reduced the restless Papists to more moderation in their Villanies I will remind them fairly of it May 11. 1679. Resolved Nemine contradicente That this House will stand by His Majesty with their lives and fortunes and that if it shall happen that His Majesty shall be taken away by any untimely death which God forbid this House will avenge the same to the utmost upon the Papists The wisdom justice and reasonableness of which Vote is founded visibly upon that Act of Parliament 27 Eliz. 1. whereby the people are authoriz'd to prosecute with the utmost extremities the bloody Papists who with unwearied endeavours were contriving the Death of that Queen of famous and blessed memory in hopes to better their condition by the succession of one who gave proof to the loss of her Head of her addictedness to the Romish Heresie and Idolatry I meet with nothing in story that can parallel the obstinacy of our Romish Conspirators except perhaps that of the desperate Soldier who laid hold on the Enemies Galley and when his right hand was cut off yet he seized it with the left and when that was also topt off he fastened his teeth to the Vessel resolving tooth and nail to hold his hold till his head taken off too put a period at once to his life and bruitish Courage The Justice of the Nation had already cut off their right hand the Jesuites or at least some of the fingers of the right hand It has not spared their laity the left hand in their bold and bloody Conspiracies and yet they proceed at the same undaunted rates of pertinacy and will do so till the heads of the Faction which influence the whole body with spirit life and activity be separated by the same stroke of exemplary Justice from it That they have formed the most horrid treason against the Person life and government of his Sacred Majesty against the Protestants and the Protestant Religion that they have endeavourd to corrupt all the evidence which providence has summond in to discover their villanies that they have devilishly suborned Knights of the Post to take away the credibility of their testimony and with the same malice peculiar to themselves have now at last attempted to devolve the Odium and Guilt of their abominable villanies upon the innocent Protestants is now so notorious as to be past a Question with all mankind whom either Interest or Impudence has not so far gulled that they are given up to Infidelity And yet amongst all those worthy persons whom God has raised up as Saviours and deliverers to England there is none against whom their poisoned spleen does more swell than ag●inst Him who being the first and fullest Evidence against them had drawn all the lines of their

about the Earl of Danby and Dr. Oates He confesses the writing the Letters and informations That they often shifted lodgings that Knox bore their expences and promised them great rewards That Lane being taken Knox sent my Lord Duneblanes Coachman with a hackney-Coach for him that in that Coach they went to Whitefriers where Knox acquainted him that the taking of Lane would expedite the buisiness That Knox gave him money That when Osborne was in the Gate-house Knox sent him a Note to this purpose you will be examined this afternoon we alwayes clubbed and you paid two shillings at the Sugar-leaf Tare this which note Knox has confessed and upon his Examination acknowledged he threw down a Guinny upon the table which Lane took up but to colour the business said it was only lent him but even this gives just ground of suspition to the design and now what will the whole world think and say of the Impudence of these men that after all these disappointments and bafflings after their own confessions retractions yet that they should be buoyed up to that height of confidence as to make a farther attempt upon the Doctors reputation And yet this they did for upon the nineteenth day of this instant November 1679. John Lane had mustered up so much of his declined courages as to prefer an Indictment against Dr. Oates for an attempt to commit upon him the horrid and Abominable sin of Sodomy Which Indictment being brought to the Grand Jury the Incoherence and slightness of his evidencence caused them to return an Ignoramus Dr. Oates not willing to suffer his Good name and the Credit of his Testimony to depend upon the throwing out of that bill brought an Indictment for the King against the said Knox and Lane for Osborne had withdrawn himself which came to be openly tryed at the Kings-bench bar November twenty five 1679. An account whereof the whole Nation does expect and wherein satisfaction shall be now given Novem. 25 1679. Dominus Rex versus Thomam Knox Johanem Lane For the King The Indictment sets forth that whereas Edward Coleman William Ireland and John Groves and other false Traytors to the Jury unknown 24th of April in the thirtieth year of the King that now is at the Parish of Saint Margarets Westminster did trayterously conspire consult and agree amongst themselves to kill and destroy the King and to raise War against his Majesty within this Kingdome and to change the Religion by Law established to the Superstition of the Church of Rome for which Treasons Trayterous Conspiracies Consultations and Agreements the said Coleman Ireland and Groves were afterwards attainded and put to death for the same And whereas William Earl of Powis William Viscount Stafford John Lord Bellasis Henry Lord Arundel of Wardour William Lord Petre and Sir Henry Tichbourn Baronet the thirtieth of Nov. last at Westminster were accused of the Treasons aforesaid and thereupon according to due forme of law were committed to the Tower of London to be there safely kept to answer the said Treasons whereof the said Earl of Powis and the other four Lords were by the Commons in Parliament assembled Impeached And whereas Thomas Earl of Danby afterwards that is to say the thirtieth of Nov. last at Westminster was in lawful manner accused of certain Treasons and other misdemeaners and thereupon according to due forme of law was committed to the Tower there to be safe kept to answer the Treasons and misdemeanours aforesaid of which said Treason and misdemeanours the said Earl of Danby is Impeached by the Commons in Parliament assembled And that the Defendants knowing the said Lords to be accused of the Treason and misdemeanours aforesaid and the said defendants being diabolically affected towards the King their natural Lord and contriving and endeavouring with all their might to disturb hinder and stifle the discovery of the said Treasons by the said Earl of Powis Viscount Stafford Lord Bellisis Henry Lord Arundel William Lord Petre supposed to be committed as aforesaid and as much as in them lay to elude the due Course of law and retard the prosecution of justice against the said five Lords Sir Henry Tichbourn and Thomas Earl of Danby They the said Defendants the thirtieth of April last past at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid falsely maliciously and unlawfully amongst themselves did consult and agree to scandalize Titus Oates Clerk and William Bedlow Gent. Who had given informations of the Treasons aforesaid and whom the said Defendants knew to have given Information of the Treasons aforesaid against the Earl of Powis Viscount Stafford Lords Bellasis Arundel and Petre and to represent them upon the Trial of the said five Lords to be persons of evil Conversation and Witnesses not to be believed And that the Defendant Knox afterwards that is to say the 30th of April last at Westminster aforesaid in the Names and with the consent and agreement of the Defendant Lane and William Osborne to villifie the Information of the said Titus Oates and William Bedlow to be given for the King against the said five Lords last mentioned falsly maliciously subtilly and advisedly did write and cause to be written four Letters and those Letters so written falsly c. did direct and cause to be delivered to himself the said Defendant Knox by which said Letters it was falsly craftily and deceitfully declared that the said Lane and Osborne were very much troubled in their Consciences by reason of certain matters which they well knew and did conceal concerning the unjust contrivances of the said Titus Oates and William Bedlow in accusing the said Earl of Danby to be guilty of the Treasons and other Misdemeanors aforesaid And that the said Titus Oates was a person of a wicked and vicious Life and did make an assault upon the said John Lane and did endeavour to commit with him the said Lane Sodomy And further that the Defendant Knox the sooner and effectually to perswade the said Lane and Osborne falsly to accuse the said Titus Oates and William Bedlow that they the said Titus Oates and William Bedlow had unjustly contrary to all Truth accused the said E. of Danby of the Treasons and other Misdemeanours aforesaid and so to affirm against the Kings Evidence against the Trial to be had of the said Earl of Danby for the Treasons and Misdemeanors aforesaid afterwards the 30th of April last at Westminster falsly advisedly corruptly and against the duty of his Allegiance did give to the said Lane and Osborne divers great summs of Money And did promise to the said Lane and Osborne within a certain time by the said Defendant Knox proposed that they the said Lane and Osborne should have and receive other great summs and other rewards for the same to the great delay obstruction and suppression of Justice c. To this the Defendants pleaded not Guilty The Names of the Jury Empanelled and Sworn were as followeth Sr. John Kirke Knight Thomas Harriot