X.

Thou shalt Covet nothing but _Crown-Lands_, _Bishops Lands_, and the Estates of _Malignants_.

_POSTSCRIPT._

_Thus is our_ New Religion _Model'd by that of_ Forty One; _And we must root up_ Monarchy _To stop the growth_ of Popery; _And undermining_ Church _and_ State, Rome's _Practices we'll Antedate_; _The better to prevent the_ PLOT, _Ourselves will do what they cou'd not_. _We'll cure all fear of_ French Invasion, _By ruining at home the Nation_. _And since_ Petitions _do no good, And all our Tricks are understood: Since He who never us'd to fail, Doth now, our little_ Matchiavel; _We'll to the World Proclaim aloud,

The_ King _and_ Duke _thirst after_ Bloud. Curtis, Harris, Smith and Care, _Shall Thrice a Week the Kingdom scare_, As if the_ Devil, Turk, _or_ Pope, _Were just arrived in the_ Hope, _We'll authorize Men to Rebel, By Tales from_ Hatfield, _and from_ Hell: _And then perswade the silly Nation, That_ Treason _comes by_ Revelation: _And that_ Imaginary Ghosts _Are_ Envoys _from the Lord of_ Hosts. _Nor will We cease, till we pull down_ Episcopacy _and the_ Crown.

Printed for _Tom Tell-troth_ at the Sign of the _Old King's Head_ in _Axe Yard in King Street, Westminster_.

274.

An Apostrophe of the Loyal Party to his Majesty. 1681.

At the Sessions for the City of London held on June 1, 1681, the Jury made a presentment against this "seditious pamphlet, contrived by Papists, and believed to be printed by the Popish Printer in Fetter Lane, the design of it being to overthrow the ancient constitution of this kingdom."[230] The Editor has not been able to discover a copy.

275.

The Vindication of the English Roman Catholics. 1681.

On Monday October 10. 1681 a complaint was made by Justice Warcup of this "popish invective libel" dated from Antwerp. The publisher was had before the Council, and was to answer the same before the King and Council, on the following Friday.[231] No further proceedings can be found, neither can the Editor discover a copy of the book.

276.

Smith's Protestant Intelligence; Domestic and Forein. Numb. 21. From Thursday April 7. to Monday April 11. 1681.

For publishing this newspaper, a copy of which is preserved in the British Museum Library, a prosecution was instituted against Francis Smith. The information charges that Francis Smith, the elder, late of the parish of St. Christopher, London, Yeoman, being a pernicious and seditious man, contriving and maliciously intending to disturb the peace and common tranquillity of this kingdom, and to make, excite and procure discord between the King and his subjects did, on the first day of October, in the thirty third year of the reign of King Charles the Second, in the parish aforesaid, falsely, unlawfully, unjustly, wickedly, seditiously and scandalously cause to be printed, sold, uttered and published a certain false, malicious, scandalous, and seditious libel intituled _Smith's Protestant Intelligence, Domestick and Forein_ in which are contained these false, malicious, and scandalous sentences following, _April 9. Mr Everard having two Orders of Council sent him for to attend on his Majesty at the Board Yesterday, he there Appearing, constantly refused to give a Bond for to Prosecute Fitzharris; but, that the Reasons that made others (whose Office it was) to decline it, ought to make him much more shie to do it, It was thereupon granted to him that the King's Attorney General would prosecute. But it being insisted that he should give in his Evidence, as the law required (if what he had discovered were true). Everard, (as 'tis said) replied, that he would think of that, and return his Answer after some convenient time, if he were resolved as to some Difficulties and Quæries; viz.--Whether it was the Opinion of that Honourable Board, that Fitzharris could be tried elsewhere than in Parliament, and whether it were safe enough for Mr. Everard to give his Evidence elsewhere non obstante the Impeachment of the said Fitzharris by the Commons, especially after the Impeachment was lodged with the Lords, and entred in their Books, because the Lords might receive and reassume the Impeachment in another Parliament (as in case of the Lords of the Tower) and then the Commons might become Prosecutors themselves._[232]

277.

Del Teatro Brittanico o vero Historia dello Stato, Antico, e Presente, Corte, Governo Spirituale, e Temporale, Leggi, Massime, Religioni, et Euuenimenti della Grande Brettagna. By Gregorio Leti. London. 1683.

For writing this work the author was banished the kingdom, and seven hundred copies were seized. A copy exists in the British Museum Library. It is in two volumes, quarto size.

278.

The Impartial Protestant Mercury, N^o 89. From Friday Feb. 24 to Tuesday February 28. 1681/2.

At the Easter Sessions for Bristol in the year 1682 the Grand Jury presented this and the four following publications as being "infamous, scandalous, and seditious"; and the Court thereupon ordered that at its rising these libels be publicly burnt by the Beadle or Common Executioner.[233] A copy is preserved in the British Museum Library.

279.

The Impartial Protestant Mercury, N^o 96. From Tuesday March 21 to Friday, March 24. 1681/2.

A copy is preserved in the British Museum Library.

280.

The sad and lamentable cry of oppression and cruelty in the City of Bristol. 1682.

The editor has not met with a copy of this work.

281.

More sad and lamentable news from Bristol. 1682.

The editor has not met with a copy of this work.

282.

The devouring informers of Bristol &c. Being an additional account of some late proceedings of those ravenous beasts of prey, against Dissenting Protestants. Bristol. April 22. 1682.

A copy of this tract is preserved in the British Museum Library. It is in quarto, and contains four pages.

283.

Smith's Currant Intelligence, or an impartial account of transactions both forraign and domestick. Published from Tuesday, March 23 to Saturday March 27. (1680).

For publishing this newspaper, a copy of which is preserved in the Library of the British Museum, a prosecution was instituted against John Smith of Queen Street, in the County of Middlesex, Printer. The information charges that the defendant being a pernicious person, and contriving and maliciously intending to excite discord and scandal between the King and his people and the nobles of the kingdom, did on the twenty seventh day of March, in the thirty second year of the reign of King Charles the Second, in the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Co: Midd:, publish and cause to be published a certain false, scandalous, and malicious libel intituled _Smith's Currant Intelligence, or an impartial account of transactions both forraign and domestick_ containing among other things as follows:--_The Project for carrying and recarrying of Letters from place to place throughout all the Cities of London and Westminster, for a penny a Letter, so often mentioned in the Intelligences, is, as Dr. Oates says, a farther branch of the Popish Plot; for that he is credibly informed, it is the most dextrous Invention of Mr. Henry Nevill alias Pain, who is notoriously known to be a great asserter of the Catholick cause, and shrewdly suspected to be a promoter of this way of Treasonable Correspondencies; And it is to be feared, as that good Invention of Pipes hath wholly destroyed the Trade of Tankard Bearer, so this silly Invention will only serve to ruine the poor Porters._[234]

284.

England's Alarm: or, a most humble declaration, address, and fervent petition to his most Excellent Majesty Charles the Second, King of Great Britain and Ireland; and to his most honourable and grand Council the Parliament of England; as also to the City of London, and the whole nation in general. Concerning the great Overtures, Catastrophes, and Grand Occurrences about to inundate and pour in upon us, as the Judgments of Almighty God upon Antichrist and his adherents, and the Pride, Nauseancy, and Errour of Professors, in the years 1680 and 1681. Written by a true lover of the true Protestant Religion, and of his Tottering poor Native Country of England _Johannes Philangus_.

London. Printed for Thomas Pasham, in Fleet Lane. 1679.

This book is ascribed by the compilers of the Catalogue of the Museum Library to William Petyt; and there are several other productions of Johannes Philangus; but it does not appear upon what authority Petyt is considered the author. A copy is preserved in the British Museum Library. It is in folio, and contains six pages.

For printing this work a prosecution was instituted against James Cottrell, a printer of the parish of St. Sepulchre in London. The information charges that he, being a pernicious person, and contriving and maliciously intending to create discord and scandal between the King and his people, and the nobles of the kingdom, did on the twenty sixth day of March in the thirty second year of the reign of King Charles the Second, at the parish of St. Sepulchre in the City of London publish and cause to be published a false scandalous and malicious libel intituled _England's Alarm, &c._ (as in title), containing among other things as follows: _Remember, England, if thou art not mad drunk with the Whores Charms how that thy preaching Ministers are turn'd into dumb Dogs and ravening Wolves. And they bear rule by thy means, and thou lovest to have it so._[235]

285.

The Neck of the Quakers broken; or cut in sunder by the two-edged sword of the Spirit which is put into my Mouth. First, in a Letter to Edward Bourne a Quaker. Secondly, in answer to a letter to Samuel Hooton and W. S. Thirdly, in a letter to Richard Farnsworth, Quaker. Fourthly, in answer to a printed pamphlet of the said Richard Farnsworth, entituled, Truth Ascended: or, The Anointed and Sealed of the Lord defended, &c. Written by Lodowick Muggleton, one of the two last Prophets and Witnesses unto the High and Mighty God, the Man Christ Jesus in Glory. Amsterdam: Printed in the year of our Lord God, 1663. And are to be had in Great Trinity Lane, over against the Lyon and the Lamb.

The author of this book was founder of the sect called Muggletonians. He was born in 1609, and was bred up to be a tailor. Abandoning his trade in 1651, he set up himself and his companion John Reeves as the "two last witnesses" mentioned in the apocalypse as having power to prophesy, and to smite mankind with plagues. They began to fulfil their "commission" by denouncing all religious sects, and especially the Ranters and the Quakers. An exposition of their doctrines, was published in "The Divine Looking-Glass." In this work, among other wild vagaries, were propounded the views that the Trinity are merely the three different names, and not the three distinct persons, of one God; that God has a real human body; and that he left Elias as his vicegerent in heaven when he came down to the earth to die on the cross. These profane heresies provoked much opposition. They were attacked by William Penn, the Quaker, in a book entitled _The New Witnesses proved Old Hereticks_. 1672.

For writing this book Muggleton was prosecuted; and was tried at the Old Bailey on Wednesday, the 17th of January, 1676/7; he was found guilty, and sentenced by the Court to stand three days in the Pillory, one day in Cornhill near the Royal Exchange; the next day in Fleet Street near the end of Chancery Lane; and the third day in West Smithfield, from eleven to one o'clock each day, with a paper over his head describing his offence in large letters, and his books to be seized, and divided into three parts, to be burnt before his face near the Pillory by the Common Hangman; and besides, to be fined £500, and to continue in gaol till payment, and afterwards for his life, unless he procured good bail, "such as the Court should accept of, and not of his own gang, faction or sect," for being of good behaviour. Full particulars of his trial will be found in a little book, entituled, A true narrative of the Proceedings at the Sessions-house in the Old Baily, at a Sessions there held on Wednesday the 17th of January 1676/7, giving a full account of the true tryal and sentence of Lodowick Muggleton for blasphemous words and books. London. 1676/7.

The indictment charges that Lodowick Muggleton, late of London, labourer, being a pernicious, blasphemous and heretical man in his opinions, pretending and affirming that he was one of the two last prophets of the New Testament, designing and intending to disseminate his pernicious, blasphemous, seditious, heretical and monstrous opinions, and to disturb the common peace and tranquillity of this kingdom, and to deprave the true religion rightly established and exercised within this kingdom, also to move, make, and excite discords between the king and his subjects, and to bring into great hatred and contempt the king and his royal government in ecclesiastical causes, did on the thirtieth day of August in the twenty eighth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, at the parish of St. Giles without Cripplegate, London, with force and arms, falsely, unlawfully, wickedly, maliciously, scandalously, blasphemously, seditiously, schismatically, and heretically write, cause to be printed, sold, uttered and published a certain malicious, scandalous, blasphemous, seditious, and heretical book intituled _The neck of the Quakers broken, &c._ (setting out full title) in which book are contained these false, unlawful, blasphemous, seditious, schismatical, heretical, and scandalous sentences following, viz.:--_I write these lines unto you Edward Bourne, knowing you to be of the seed of the serpent, and appointed to eternal damnation before you were born, though you know it not, I do know it by your speaking evil of that Doctrine which is declared by us the Witnesses of the Spirit, by calling of it Deceit, Confusion, and Lies, with many more wicked speeches against the purest Truth that ever was declared by Prophet or Apostle, because this is the Commission of the Spirit, and the last Witness of God on earth. Therefore for these your hard sayings against the Doctrine of this Commission of the Spirit, in obedience unto my Commission, I do pronounce you cursed and damned soul and body from the presence of God, elect men and Angels, to eternity; neither shall that light within you, nor any God deliver you from this Curse, but according to my word it shall be upon you, because you shall know that God hath given power unto man to curse you to eternity, and that there is a Prophet of the Lord now in the Land. Written by Lodowick Muggleton, one of the two last Witnesses and Prophets unto the High and Mighty God the Man Christ Jesus in Glory._ Vale. And in another place of the same book are contained these false, feigned, malicious, scandalous, blasphemous, seditious and heretical sentences following, viz.:--_Now in this last age God hath given me power, and discerning to determine and give judgement upon men and women according as I do discern by their words, and I thereby also know what nature and seed they are of, and accordingly I give judgment upon them, for I do go by as certain a rule as the Judges of the Land do, when they give true Judgment according to the Law. For God hath ordained me the chief Judge in the world at this day to give sentence upon men and women's spiritual and eternal estate what will become of them after death. Full of this cursing I confess my mouth is, and I do rejoice in it too, I know that God is well pleased in the damnation of those that I have cursed, and I am wonderous well satisfied in giving judgement upon them, according to the tenor of my Commission; and this is that which you call swelling words._ And in another place of the same book are contained these other false, feigned, malicious, scandalous, blasphemous, unlawful, seditious and heretical sentences following, viz.:--_Therefore I shall speak a few words unto you two in particular, because you two have committed that unpardonable sin that never will be forgiven in this world, nor in the world to come; for you have done despite unto the Spirit of Truth, in speaking evil of things you do not know, for you have called the Doctrine and Declaration of the Spirit, Blasphemy, Deceit, and Lies, with many other railing speeches, with high impudency, from a light within you, and from the dead letter without you, and hath presumptuously lifted up your selves with that light within you, to speak evil of the Commission of the Spirit, which we received from the true personal God without us, even the Man Christ Jesus in Glory. Therefore in obedience to my Commission, I do pronounce Samuel Hooton and W. S., for this their Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit that sent me, cursed and damned soules and bodies from the presence of God, elect men and Angels, to eternity. Your light within you, nor God without you shall deliver you from this Sentence which I have declared upon you, because you shall know that there is a true Prophet now in the last Age, as well as there hath been in former times. And this Sentence shall be the mark of your Reprobation in your foreheads to eternity, even as your great Grandfather had in his forehead, and all the Seed of Faith that shall read this Epistle and see you, shall see the mark of Reprobation in your foreheads, neither shall you scrape it out, but it will be seen by the Elect as long as you live. And when you dye, you shall pass through this first death into the second death, and in the Resurrection you shall never see the face of God, nor man, nor Angels, nor your own faces, to eternity: but you shall be in utter darkness, where is weeping, and gnashing of teeth for evermore._ To the great scandal and contempt of the King, his Crown and Dignity, also of the religion rightly established in this kingdom, to the bad and pernicious example of all others in like case offending, and against the peace of the King, his Crown and Dignity.

The indictment also further charges that--Nathaniel Powell late of the parish of St. Clement Danes, London, yeoman, being a pernicious, blasphemous, impious and profane person, and not having the fear of God in his heart, but moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil, and contriving and intending to deprave, scandalize and vilify the true Christian Religion rightly established and exercised within this kingdom; also to blaspheme the wisdom, omnipotence and majesty of the Holy Trinity, and the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to strengthen, confirm and ratify the aforesaid pernicious, seditious, heretical and monstrous opinions of the said Lodowick Muggleton within the kingdom of England, did, on the first day of April, in the thirty third year of the reign of King Charles the Second, at the parish of St. Clement Danes, aforesaid, say, pronounce, and publish falsely, scandalously, maliciously, profanely, blasphemously, and heretically these false, scandalous, profane, blasphemous, and heretical words in the presence and hearing of divers liege subjects of the said lord the King, viz.--_I rather believe in Muggleton that stood on the Pillory, than in Jesus Christ, I have power to damn and to save, and if thou_ (meaning a certain Gilbert Soper then and there present) _art not damned I never desire to see the face of God. I do believe in that Muggleton, that stood on the Pillory, next to God Almighty. That Muggleton had power to damn whom he pleased, whom he damned were damned to eternity, and whom he saved, were saved. I have power to damn and to save, I believe more in Muggleton than in Jesus Christ. I thank God, never offended God in my life, I have no sin to ask God pardon for, I say drunkenness is no sin, I have had the knowledge of my own salvation these twelve months, I have the power of damning and saving, I damn thee_ (meaning a certain Richard Sharpe then and there present) _and God cannot save thy soul_. To the great scandal of the true profession of the Christian Religion, to the manifest contempt of the Holy Trinity, and blasphemy of the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the bad and most pernicious example of all others in such case offending, and against the peace of the King his Crown and dignity.[236]

286.

No Protestant-Plot; or the present pretended Conspiracy of Protestants against the King and Government discovered to be a conspiracy of the Papists against the King and his Protestant Subjects. London. 1681.

For printing this book, a prosecution was instituted against Richard Baldwin of the parish of St. Sepulchre in London. The information charges that the defendant, being a malicious and a seditious man, and contriving and maliciously intending to disturb the peace and common tranquillity of this kingdom, and to excite, move, and procure discord between the king and his subjects, and to bring into hatred and contempt the king's government and the due course of law of this kingdom, did, on the twentieth day of October in the thirty-third year of the reign of King Charles the Second, in the parish of St. Sepulchre aforesaid, falsely, unlawfully, wickedly, maliciously, seditiously, and scandalously cause to be printed, sold and published, a certain false, malicious, scandalous and seditious libel, intituled _No Protestant Plot_, containing among other things as follows:--_The King is of too much goodness, and a Prince of Greater Wisdom and more unstained justice, than that any of his subjects should apprehend or fear anything illegal from him while he acts free and unconstrained; but how far his Ministers, especially those who have been exasperated by the proceedings of Parliaments, may render his Authority a cloak to their malice, and make the pretence of his preservation and safety subservient to their revenge, is what we are jealous of. And tho' we would fain persuade ourselves that they are persons of more honour and integrity than to make reprisals upon the Lives of Peers for the injury which they suppose was done them; yet the imprisoning my Lord Shaftsbury upon the credit of Witnesses whose testimony they refused to believe in the case of my Lord Stafford, doth not a little surprize the thinking part of mankind. Now nothing can be more disservicable to his Majesty, or lessening to the honour of his Government, than to have his Authority abused to countenance a personal quarrel, and his Laws applied to revenge a private offence. And in another part as follows:--Nor can men persuade themselves to believe, but that the Imprisonment of my Lord Shaftsbury is built upon something which will not abide the Test, when they consider the way and method according to which he hath been all along treated. Before either Coleman or the Jesuits were sent to prison, they were allowed both to know and see the persons who had deposed against them. And it is generally believed, that every Englishman may demand it as his right. And therefore, the refusing it to my Lord Shaftsbury, does seem to intimate either that the Witnesses are not of a credit sufficient to support the confinement of so great a Peer, or else that it was not convenient to trust their carriage in this matter, as well as the general course of their lives, to an early and exact scrutiny. But as if this were not enough to create a suspition of some undue and indirect dealing in this affair, the refusing to administer an oath to those that were ready to swear to Indictments of Subornation against the Witnesses, doth exceedingly heighten all men's jealousies. For not to debate about the legality or illegality of this procedure, being obliged till this business do either before this or a higher judicature come under a review, to acquiesce silently in the Judgement of the Court; I shall only say: That as it is the first president of this kind, so the reducing it into common practice, would prove a general obstruction of the justice of the Law. And to make the receiving of Indictments depend upon the pleasure of the Attorney General were to settle on him a more Arbitrary Power than the Laws of England have placed in the King himself._ And in another part as follows:--_And we are the more inclined to believe this whole Conspiracy wherein the Earl of Shaftsbury and other Protestants are said to be engaged against the King and the Government, is only a malicious piece of revenge upon the zealous patriots of our Religion; by considering that Justice Warcup, and Mr. David Fitzgerald, are employed to conduct and manage the detection and discovery of it._[237]

A copy of the pamphlet is preserved in the British Museum Library. It is in quarto and contains 37 pages.

287.

A Satire, 1680.

This is a set of verses satirizing the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs, apparently very similar to those printed on p. 216, for which Jane Curtis was prosecuted.

For publishing them a prosecution was instituted against John Howe, of the parish of St. Michael, Cornhill, bookseller.

The information charges that the defendant, contriving and maliciously intending to bring into hatred and contempt Sir William Scroggs, Lord Chief Justice, in those things which touch him and his judicial office and the King's authority, did, on the twenty-fourth day of May, in the thirty-second year of the reign of King Charles the Second, within the parish of St. Michael, Cornhill aforesaid, get into his hands a certain false, malicious, infamous, scandalous, and odious libel intituled _A Satire_, in which libel is contained among other things as follows:--_The Judge is a base butcher's sonne_ (meaning the Lord Chief Justice.) _Most sly of nocent blood. But for ten thousand pound has done The Pope a deal of good. 'Twas he that villaine Wakeman cleared, Who was to have poysened the King, As plaine to all but twelve appeared, For which he deserves to swing._ (meaning again the Lord Chief Justice.) And that the said John Howe, knowing the aforesaid libel to be a scandalous and infamous libel, did on the said twenty-fourth day of May, publish and expose to sale the same libel, to the great scandal and contempt of the said Lord Chief Justice and the King's authority.[238]

There was also a prosecution against one Enoch Procer for publishing the same.[239]

288.

The Impartial Protestant Mercury. From Tuesday October 4 to Friday October 7, 1681. N^o 48.

For publishing this newspaper, a copy of which is preserved in the British Museum Library, a prosecution was instituted against Janeway the printer.

The information charges that the defendant described as of London, yeoman, being a pernicious and seditious man, contriving and maliciously intending to disturb the peace and tranquillity of this kingdom, and to create, move, and excite discord between the king and his subjects, and to bring the king's government into contempt, did falsely, maliciously, and seditiously, with intent to persuade and induce the king's subjects to believe that this kingdom of England was governed by the advice of the king of France, and that the secrets of the government of this kingdom were notified to the king of France, and that to fulfil his most wicked intentions, on the twentieth day of October in the thirty-third year of the reign of King Charles the Second, in the parish of St. Michael, Cornhill, London, falsely, unlawfully, wickedly, maliciously, scandalously, and seditiously cause to be printed, sold, and published a certain, false, scandalous, and defamatory libel, intituled _The Impartial Protestant Mercury_, containing among other things as follows:--_There has been a fresh rumour of a Parliament like to be called to meet on the twenty-eighth of the next month, but we cannot find any foundation for that report, more than that a Person of Quality lately arrived from France relates, that he was told of such a thing at Paris._[240]

On April 5, 1682, Janeway was called before the Council for printing and publishing false and seditious news, and he was thereupon ordered to give good security, to appear personally at the King's Bench Bar the first day of the next term, to answer such matters as should be exhibited against him on his majesty's behalf, and in the mean time to be of good behaviour; and he accordingly entered into recognizances for that purpose.[241]

289.

The Protestant Domestick Intelligence; or, News both from City and Country. Published to prevent false reports. Friday, March 12th, 1679/80. No. 72.

For publishing this newspaper, a copy of which is preserved in the British Museum Library, a prosecution was instituted against Nathaniel Crouch.

The information charges that the defendant, who is described as of the parish of St. Margaret, Lothbury, London, gentleman, being a pernicious person, and contriving and maliciously intending to incite and move discord and scandal between the king and his people, and the magnates of this kingdom, did on the twelfth day of March, in the thirty-second year of the reign of King Charles the Second, at the parish of St. Margaret, Lothbury, publish and cause to be published a certain false, scandalous, and malicious libel entituled _The Protestant Domestick Intelligence; or, News both from City and Country_, containing (among other things) as follows:--_Yesterday we are informed that Mrs. Le-Mair, alias Loveland, the mother of Philip Le-Mair was taken into custody, and that she has declared there is a Person of Honour, as well as one of the Lords in the Tower, concerned with her in the conspiracy against the Life of the Duke of Buckingham._[242]

290.

Mercurius Civicus; or, a true account of affairs both foreign and domestick. Monday, 29 March, 1680. N^o 3.

For publishing this newspaper, a copy of which is preserved in the British Museum Library, a prosecution was instituted against James Astwood, of the parish of St. Christopher, London, printer.

The information charges that the defendant, being a pernicious person, and contriving and maliciously intending to incite and move discord and scandal between the king and his people and the magnates of this kingdom, did on the thirtieth day of March, in the thirty-second year of the reign of King Charles the Second, at the parish of St. Christopher, London, print and cause to be printed, a certain false, scandalous, and malicious libel intituled _Mercurius Civicus: or, a True Account of affairs both foreign and Domestick_, containing (among other things) as follows:--_It is advised from the several places where the Lord Chief Justice North has been in circuit, that his Lordship hath been pleased to declare that the Act of Parliament for the Conviction of Popish Recusants ought to be put in force against none but Papists. And though several Protestants had been indicted hereon, he gave it as his Opinion. That the intention of that Act was purely to suppress Popery, and so directed the Jury not to find the Bill against Protestants as Popish Recusants but as Protestant Dissenters, which hath given a great deal of satisfaction to people, several protestants having been severely dealt withall by reason of that Act, which point the Parliament were in great consultation about rectifying._[243]

291.

A Faithful relation of the most remarkable transactions which have happened at Tangier: since the Moors have lately made their attacques upon the Forts and Fortifications of that Famous Garrison, likewise the strength and good posture of defence it remains now in. With an account of the Trenches, Lines and Works they have already drawn in order to their besieging several of the said forts strongly guarded by the English, and the advantageous success the English have obtained over those infidels, in a late fight between them; burning and demolishing their works, beating them out of their trenches, killing them, and pursuing them even to their Camp.

A pamphlet of four pages; a copy of which is preserved in the British Museum Library. For its publication David Mallett, of the parish of St. Martin, Ludgate, printer, was prosecuted.

The information charges that the defendant published the same with the intent to create discord and scandal between the king and his people and the magnates of this kingdom; but it does not set out any of the alleged objectionable passages as is usually done.

292.

The Speech of the late Lord Russel to the Sheriffs; together with the paper deliver'd by him to them, at the Place of Execution, on July 21, 1683. London. Printed by John Darby, by direction of the Lady Russel. 1683.

A copy of this speech is preserved in the Library of the British Museum. It is in folio and contains four pages.

For publishing the same, a prosecution was instituted against John Darby, bookseller, of the parish of St. Bartholomew the Great, London.

The information charges that the defendant being a pernicious and seditious man, and contriving and practising, and falsely, and maliciously, and wickedly and seditiously intending to disturb the peace of the king and the common tranquillity of this kingdom, and to weaken and bring into discredit and bad repute the laws and customs of this kingdom, and the ancient government and the common justice thereof, and to excite and procure discords and seditions between the king and his subjects, also to bring into discredit the trial and sentence of Lord William Russell, did, on the fourteenth day of August in the thirty-fifth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, at the parish of St. Bartholomew aforesaid, falsely, unlawfully, unjustly, wickedly, seditiously, maliciously, and scandalously, make, compose, and print and sell, utter, and publish a certain false, seditious, malicious, and scandalous libel intituled _The speech of the late Lord Russell to the Sheriffs, together with the paper delivered by him to them at the place of execution_, containing, among other things, these false, malicious, seditious and scandalous sentences, viz., _I wish with all my soul all our unhappy Differences were removed, and that all sincere Protestants would so far consider the danger of Popery, as to lay aside their Heats, and agree against the Common Enemy; and that the Churchmen would be less severe, and the Dissenters less scrupulous; For I think Bitterness and Persecution are at all times bad, but much more now. For Popery, I look on it as an Idolatrous and Bloody Religion, and therefore thought myself bound, in my Station, to do all I could against it. And by that, I foresaw I should procure such great Enemies to myself, and so powerful ones, that I have been now for some time expecting the worst. And blessed be God, I saw by the Axe, and not by the Fiery Tryal_, And in another part, these other false, seditious, scandalous and defamatory sentences, viz., _I did believe and do still, that Popery is breaking in upon the Nation; and that those who advance it, will stop at nothing, to carry on their Design: I am heartily sorry that so many Protestants give their helping hand to it._ And in another place are contained these other false, scandalous, seditious and defamatory sentences, following, _I cannot but give some touch about the Bill of Exclusion, and shew the Reasons of my appearing in that Business; which in short is this: That I thought the Nation was in such danger of Popery, and that the Expectation of a Popish Successor (as I have said in Parliament) put the King's life likewise in such danger, that I saw no way so effectual to secure both as such a Bill. As to the limitations which were proposed, if they were sincerely offered, and had pass'd into a Law, the Duke then would have been excluded from the Power of a King, and the Government quite altered, and little more than the Name of a King left. So I could not see either Sin or Fault in the one, when all People were willing to admit of t'other; but thought it better to have a King with his Prerogative, and the Nation easy and safe under him, than a King without it, which must have bred perpetual jealousies, and a Continual Struggle. All this I say, only to justify myself, and not to inflame others; Though I cannot but think my Earnestness in that matter has had no small Influence in my present Sufferings._ And in another place are contained these other false, scandalous, and seditious sentences following:--_I pray God lay not this to the charge, neither of the King's Counsel, nor Judges, nor Sheriffs, nor Jury: And for the Witnesses, I pity them, and wish them well. I shall not reckon up the Particulars wherein they did me wrong: I had rather their own Consciences should do that, to which, and the Mercies of God I leave them._ And in another place are contained these other false, malicious, scandalous and seditious sentences following:--_From the Time of chusing Sheriffs, I concluded the Heat in that Matter would produce something of this kind; and I am not much surprised to find it fall upon me. And I wish what is done to me, may put a stop, and satiate some Peoples' Revenge, and that no more innocent Blood be shed, for I must, and do still look upon mine as such, since I know I was guilty of no Treason; and therefore I would not betray my Innocence by Flight._

On November 20th, 1683, Darby was tried, and found guilty, and on February 1, 1683/4 he was brought to the Court of King's Bench to receive judgment, which, he humbly submitting himself to the Court, and begging pardon, with a promise never to commit the like offence, the Court ordered to be, That he should pay 20 marks for a fine to the king, and find securities for good behaviour for twelve months, and that till this be paid and done, he should be committed to prison.[244]

293.

The Night Walker of Bloomsbury.

A single sheet in folio printed on both sides. A copy is preserved in the British Museum Library.

Langley Curtis, the bookseller, was prosecuted for publishing this sheet. The indictment charges that the defendant, contriving and intending to disturb the peace and common tranquillity of this kingdom, and to bring the king into the greatest hatred, contempt, and infamy with all his subjects; and to cause, incite, and procure divers differences and false rumours concerning the pretended ghost of Lord William Russell, lately attainted and executed for high treason, did, on the twelfth day of October in the thirty-fifth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, at the parish of St. Bride aforesaid, unlawfully, seditiously, and maliciously print and publish, and cause to be printed and published, a certain feigned, false, seditious, and scandalous libel of and concerning the pretended ghost aforesaid, intituled _The Night Walker of Bloomsbury_, containing these false, feigned, and scandalous sentences following, viz., _Ralph: D'ye hear the newes. Will. What newes_, &c., &c., to _Caball of bigotted Papists_. And in another part as follows,--_Will_. _In this Meremaid's attire_, &c., &c., _to quickly changed the colour of his ghostly habit_.

Upon this indictment Curtis was tried on February 14, 1683/4, found guilty, and on April 21, 1684, sentenced to stand in and upon the Pillory in Bloomsbury Market between the hours of eleven and one o'clock, with a paper on his head denoting his offence in large letters, and at the same time the libel was to be burned by the Common Hangman. He was also sentenced to pay a fine of £500, to be committed to the Marshalsea until payment, and to find security for good behaviour during life.

The following is a complete copy of this publication:--[245]

THE NIGHT WALKER OF BLOOMSBURY:

Being the Result of several late Consultations between a Vintner, Judge Tallow-chandler, a Brace of Fishmongers, and a Printer, &c. In a Dialogue between _Ralph_ and _Will_.

_Entred according to Order._

_Ralph._ D'ye hear the News?

_Will._ What News?

_Ralph._ Why, they say my Lord _Russel_ walks.

_Will._ And do you believe it?

_Ralph._ Why not? may not Lords walk as well as other people?

_Will._ That's not the business--but I perceive you have heard but a piece of the Story--you have not heard how the Ghost came to be rais'd nor how he was laid.

_Ralph._ Rais'd and Laid!--why then I warrant you take it to be nothing but a piece of Imposture.

_Will._ Nothing more certain,--a meer silly, idle, foppish contrivance of a Cabal of bigotted _Papists_.

_Ralph._ I must confess a Bigotted _Papist_ is a very sottish sort of Animal.--But what did this deep design drive at?

_Will._ Why, Sir, a certain _Vintner_ not far from _Southampton Square_, a well-wisher, you may be sure, to any Religion he could get by, had a mind to draw custome to his empty House--For he had a vast prospect of gain from the success of the Action,--For, quo he to himself, the people will cry, whether shall we go? Go! says another, we'l go to the _Hobgoblin_ that counterfeited the Lord _Russel's_ Ghost--for, thought he, everybody will be glad to see a _Hobgoblin_.

_Ralph._ Puh--this is some invention of yours to put a trick upon the poor _Papists_.

_Will._ An Invention of mine! Tis all about the Town--and besides, there is nothing more common among the _Papists_ than to counterfeit Spirits and Ghosts--I find you never read the Story of the four Monks of _Bearn_ in _Switzerland_, that were hang'd for counterfeiting the _Virgin Mary_; nor of the Country Curate that lay with his Neece in the shape of _St. Barbara_. But the Fryer had not so good luck: For he living in a young widow's House, would fain have frighted the young Widow into his Lascivious Embraces--and to that purpose haunted her chamber every Night in a Winding Sheet: But she, being a Woman of mettle, hid a Friend of hers privately in her chamber, that gave the Spirit such a severe Cudgel-correction, as made him quickly beg Quarter for his bruised Bones.

_Ralph._ But all this while, where was the Profundity of the design?

_Will._ The profundity of the Design was to put the Lord Russel's Speech upon Dr. Burnett--And of this they were resolv'd to have an acknowledgment out of the Lord Russel's own Mouth.

_Ralph._ That was hard to do, when his Head was cut off.

_Will._ Oh--but though the Head of his body was cut off, the Head of his Ghost was still on.--However, tho' it be not to be deny'd, that a Spirit without a Head has a very brisk motion, yet the Committee were not so cunning as to know how to bring his Ghost out of _Buckinghamshire_ into _Bloomsbury Square_--and therefore another expedient was to be found out.--The Committee was extreamly puzl'd to find out this Expedient, till the _Vintner_, inspir'd no doubt with his own _Pipes_ and Tierces, had it presently in his Pate.--Quo he Ladies and Gentlemen, why may not I act a Ghost, as well as Matt. Medbourn?

_Ralph._ Frolick for frolick now, it would be a very good humour to Indict this Vintner upon the Statute of 21 Jacob, 26, for endeavouring to personate the Lord _Russel's_ Ghost, on purpose to procure an acknowledgment contrary to his will and consent.

_Will._ Faith, _Sir_, the very action itself procur'd him punishment enough, to be well drub'd, and two such lovely forehead marks of _Knave_ and _Fool_, that Ten Fountains, with all the Soap in the City, will never wash off.

_Ralph._ Pardon me, _Sir_, I have a greater opinion of the _Vintner_, and that he acted what he did in the imitation of _Theseus_ and _Eneas_, who both went to visit _Pluto'_s Dominions; but this same _Vintner_ undertook to be even a tormented Inhabitant of the Lower Shades himself, to advance the Popish Interest, which was much a more daring deed then that of _Theseus._ The _Vintner_ had Listed himself in Hell, which _Theseus_ never did.

_Will._ Ay--but _Theseus_ was _Theseus_; Theseus kicked _Proserpina's_ Dog before her Face, in her own Dining-Room: But this Bugbear of a _Vintner_ suffer'd himself to be thrash'd like any mortal Coward, and yet the Fool had not the wit to _vanish_.--They say, had the Earth yielded never so little, the first blow the Beadle hit, had struck him down to the place from whence he pretended to come.

_Ralph._ But can you tell who hatched this Chicken of a Design?

_Will._ Politick Heads, _Sir_, Politick Heads,--very Politick Heads--and of both Sexes too I assure ye.

_Ralph._ I must confess I admire neither of their ingenuities; and as for the Women, I find 'em much more famous for the crafty carrying on a Love intrigue, or concealing their private enjoyments, then in managing _Hobgoblin_ Plots.

_Will._ Sir, I do tell ye, this Committee consisted of several Persons, Male and Female--_Imprimis_, The Man of the House, and his Wife, chief _Presidences_ of the Council. In the next place, two _Fishmongers_ in _Bloomsbury_, if you hunt after the name of the one, you may easily find it: the other a most rude and ungraceful acknowledger of the Lord _Russel's_ former favours, as who had all along serv'd his Table from his own Shop; his Grandfather seems to have bin the Son of _Tomlins_.

_Ralph._ These _Fishmongers_, Sir, were notably drawn into this Conspiracy--twas emblematical--For as great undertakings require great silence, so none more likely then _Fishmongers_ to bear the Proverb always in mind, _As mute as a Fish_.

_Will._ The next was a _Tallow-chandler_, who, tho' he live by the Night, takes his name from Noon-Day.

_Ralph._ Why that was it that spoil'd the whole Plot, to engage a _Tallow-chandler_ in deeds of Darkness.

_Will._ Oh, Sir, but he was to have been a Witness--and none so fit to be witness as a man of Light--besides, Sir, he was to attend the _Hobgoblin_, and none so fit as a _Tallow Chandler_ to hold a Candle to the Devil. But observe how the _Tallow Chandler_ was match'd; for the other witness was to be a _Papistical Printer_ in the Neighbourhood.

_Ralph._ There y'are right again--for if the Truth should chance to slip out of the _Chandler's_ memory, the _Printer_ had always a _Register_ ready to refresh it.

_Will._ By what I hear, theres no such need of rubbing up the _Tallow-chandler's_ memory. A my word Sir, y'are got into pleasant company--Here's a _Vintner_ acts the Devil--and a _Tallow-chandler_ acts a Judge--and Judges, Sir, are no fools to have their memories rub'd.

_Ralph._ Who the Devil made the _Tallow-chandler_ a Judge?

_Will._ Wine and Fat Venson, Sir, at the _Crown-Tavern_, in _Bloomsbury_; For there it was that the _Tallow-chandler_ a Witty, Jocose, Droll of a _Tallow-chandler_, finding there was something to be done to gratify the Company (for it was at a public Venson-Feast) took upon him the Dignity of the Coife, and causing Mr. _Hamden_ to be arraign'd before him, Mercilesly condemn'd him to be hang'd.

_Ralph._ What had the _Tallow-chandler_ to do with Mr. _Hamden_.--Surely he is to stand or fall by another sort of Judicature then six ith Pound.

_Will._ Oh, Sir, 'twas done to please a brace of Reverend Justices that were Stewards of the Feast--and such frolicks as these, Lord Sir, you cannot imagin how they digest Venson, Pasty Pudding Crust--There are some people so hot, that you would admire they do not melt their Grease, and get the Scratches with Galloping after such fancies as these.

_Ralph._ And yet when this _Tallow-chandler_ serv'd Mr. _Hamden_ with Candles, he did not scruple to take his Money, notwithstanding he might not then be of his severe Judges present opinion: And therefore there is some hope yet left, that Mr. _Hamden_ may sweeten up his Judge into a Reprieve, upon a promise of laying in his _Winter_ store out of _Bloomsbury_.

_Will._ There was an _Apothecary_ too, whose spleen was extreamly tickl'd at the conceit of their design. Repute makes him a person of a bulky stature, famous for the beauty of his Wainscot Lady, and the wit of his Son, whom he teaches to curse the D. of M.

_Ralph._ Why truly, this _Pothecary_ is highly to be applauded for his Loyalty: for to shew the Exquisiteness of his Allegiance, he sends his child to the Devil to confirm it.

_Will._ There were several others that met at two or three of these consults, that have open'd their Purses to save their Reputation.

_Ralph._ I am not apt to believe that people who concerned themselves with such a ridiculous Sham as this, had much Reputation to lose; and therefore their _Peter-Pence_ were ill bestow'd. The Proverb is, _Discover, and shame the Devil_.

_Will._ That never could be better don then by the Dress with which they disguis'd him: For certainly all the _Fools_ and _Zanies_ in _Bartholomew-Fair_ were never so quaintly rigg'd, as this same _Hob-thrush_ of a _Vintner_ was equipped to act his Tragick-Comedy.

_Ralph._ As how?

_Will._ First they hung about his Neck a large _Night-Rail_, which the Gentlewoman of the House lent him out of her Zeal.

_Ralph._ Most Enigmatical, Problematical, Emphatical, and Emblematical--for a _Night-Rail_ being a kind of a Cloak, was most proper to cover a piece of Knavery.

_Will._ To hide his lower parts, the _Fishmongers_ lent him their _Aprons_.

_Ralph._ More Enigmatical still.--For _Fishmongers_ being men of Lent and Fasting days--the _Fishmongers' Aprons_ were to put the Ghost in mind of his sorrow, contrition, and repentance for owning a Speech that was none of own.

_Will._ By your favour, Sir, here's a Breach of an Act of Parliament discovered, to bring a Spirit out of his Grave in _Linnen_, whereas he ought to have appear'd in _Crape_; and being a Lord in Lac't _Crape_ too.

_Ralph._ Well! But what had the Goblin about his Head?

_Will._ His head was muffl'd up in a White Diaper Napkin--to shew that the Letter was drapered with the Inventions of several Writers, and not of one plain Woofe.

_Ralph._ Shame faw the Luggs on 'em for a Company of Dotards--as if the Devil were grown as fantastical as the _French_, to change his old fashions.--Now the old fashions of Ghosts, ever since I heard of Ghosts was always the same, a Winding-sheet with two Knots and a Taper in the Spirit's hands, with which the _Chandler_ might easily have furnished the Devil. Or if the Spirit must needs rise in the same Cloaths he was burr'd, the Cabal had much better ha' club'd for a new _Crape_ Funeral Suit--'Twould ha' serv'd the Goblin of a Vintner another time, when the juice of his own _Lime-Fats_ had burnt up his Liver. I'le undertake there's ne're a Booth in _Pork Fair_ but would have dressed up a Hobgoblin more artificially than such a consultation of Ninny Hammers--But when the Devil was thus betrumpery'd what did he do?

_Will._ In this Mere-maid's Attire, he went attended with the two _Fishmongers_ for his Guard, and the _Chandler_ and _Printer_ were to be Witnesses they saw the Apparition.--At length when he came to his Posts, as the Contrivers had laid it, 'tis to be supposed, near the House where the Lord _Russel_ liv'd, he fell a groaning like an Oxe at the first sticking; nay, he groan'd even like the Groaning-board itself; and after a short preamble of Lamentations lewdly uttered, He cried out, _Oh--I have no rest because of the Speech that I never made, but_ Dr. Burnet.

_Ralph._ There's no fear on't, but he'l be taught to groan better when he comes to groan for himself. One would have thought he should have practised the Art of Groaning more accurately before he went to groan upon such an Occasion as this--He should have groaned as if he had been groaning for his Life, that had taken such a part upon him--but it seems he rather fell a braying then a groaning, and so discover'd himself--for upon the noise, as some Report, or at least, as the Goblin deserv'd, one of the Watch coming up to him, and perceiving by his shoes, that he had no Cloven-Feet, _Can't ye be quiet_., quo he, _in your Grave_? _I'le make ye quiet_; and with that, gave him such a Palt o'th Pate and the Thigh, as quickly chang'd the colour of his Ghostly Habit.

_Ralph._ I' good faith, the Watchmen did more then all the Committee could do--for they only strove to make him a faigned Goblin, but the Watchman made him a real _Raw-Head and Bloody-Bones_.--A Catastrophe that such an enterprize justly deserv'd.--But what became of poor Raw-Head and Bloody-Bones?

_Will._ The now real Goblin was forc'd to confess his name, and the names of his Associates, and to chear up the Watch with Drink and Money for the fright he had put 'em in, and so they let him go, to groan forth his own Lamentations to the Gulls that set him at Work.

_Ralph._ Well, I will say nothing of the Speech one way nor other, but sure it was an act neither generous nor christian-like, to raise up an Impostor to disturb the silence of a Gentleman's Grave that had paid his last debt to Justice.

_Will._ Barbarous and papistical, which is as much as needs be said of it.

FINIS.

London: Printed by J. Grantham, MDCLXXXIII.

294.

The true Englishman speaking plain English. By Edward Fitzharris. 1681.

There does not appear to be a copy of this book preserved in the British Museum Library: but it is printed in extenso in the fourth volume of Cobbett's Parliamentary History. For writing the same, a prosecution was instituted against Fitzharris. The indictment charges first, that the defendant, described as late of the parish of St. Martin in the Fields, Middlesex, gentleman, did, on the twenty-second day of February, in the thirty-third year of the reign of King Charles the Second, compass treason with one Edmund Everard against the king; and further, that the defendant as a false traitor did treasonably, maliciously and advisedly write and publish a certain most wicked and traitorous libel intituled _The true Englishman speaking plain English_, in which libel are expressed and declared the treasons and treasonable compassing, imaginations, and purposes of the defendant to excite and persuade the subjects of the King to rise up and rebel against the King and to deprive and depose the King from the style, honour, and royal name of the Imperial Crown of this kingdom, as follows: _If James_ (meaning James, Duke of York) _be conscious and guilty, Charles_ (meaning the King) _is so too, believe me, both these are brethren in iniquity, they are in confederacy with Pope and French to introduce Popery and Arbitrary Government as their actions demonstrate. The Parliament, Magna Charta, and liberty of the subject, are as heavy yokes they'd willingly cast off, for to make themselves as absolute as their Brother of France; and if this can be proved to be their aim and main endeavour, why should not every true Briton be a Quaker thus far? And let the English spirit be up and move all as one man to self defence, nay send if need be to open action and fling off those intolerable Riders._ (meaning the King and the Duke of York.) And in another part of the aforesaid most wicked and traitorous libel are contained among other things these false, seditious, and traitorous sentences following:--_J. and C._ (meaning James, Duke of York and the King) _both brethren in iniquity, corrupt both in root and branch as you have seen, they study but to enslave you to a Romish and French-like yoke. Is it not plain? Have you not eyes, sense, or feeling? Where is that old English noble spirit? Are you become French asses to suffer any load to be laid upon you? And if you can get no remedy from this next parliament, as certainly you will not, and that the K. repents not, complies not with their advice, then up, all as one man. O brave Englishmen, look to your_

(HERE ENDS THE ORIGINAL WORK)

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Life and Reign of Queen Elizabeth, p. 486.

[2] Strype's Annals, Vol. 2, p. 562.

[3] Judgment Roll, Queen's Bench, Mich., 26 & 27 Eliz., roll 37.

[4] Missionary Priests, p. 84.

[5] Dom. Elizabeth, 1599, June, July, Bundle 271, No. 11.

[6] Collier's Bibliographical Catalogue, vol. 1, p. 526.

[7] Dom. Eliz., vol. 274, no. 58.

[8] Dom. Elizabeth, vol. 274, no. 59.

[9] Dom. Elizabeth, vol. 275, no. 25.

[10] Dom. Elizabeth, vol. 275, no. 28.

[11] Dom. Elizabeth, vol. 275, no. 31 and 31 I.

[12] Pag. 4, 5, 6, 11, 39, 41, 43, 53, 75, description of the councell. Pag. 4, 25, 75, he describeth the erle.

[13] Pag. 54 of his owne.

[14] Dom. Elizabeth, vol. 278, no. 17.

[15] Commons' Journals, Vol. 1, pp. 226 and 244.

[16] Commons' Journals, Vol. 1, pp. 399, 400, 404, 407, 408, 415, 416.

[17] Pat. Roll, 8 James I, part 30 dorso. A printed copy of this proclamation will be found among the Domestic State Papers, James I.

[18] Domestic State Papers, James I, Vol. 26, no. 48.

[19] Domestic, James I, Vol. 28, nos. 51 and 128, and Vol. 31, no. 2.

[20] Wilson's Life and Reign of James I, contained in Kennet's History of England, vol. 2, p. 715, ed. 1706.

[21] Court and Times of James I, vol. 1, pp. 279, 280. Also Domestic State Papers, James I, vol. 75, no. 28.

[22] Court and Times of James I, vol. 1, p. 248.

[23] Court and Times of James I, vol. 1, page 251.

[24] Proclam. Collection, Dom. State Papers, James I, no. 23.

[25] Domestic State Papers, James I, vol. 78, no. 78.

[26] Domestic State Papers, vol. 80, art. 6, 26, 38; vol. 81, art. 67; and vol. 86, art. 111.

[27] Court and Times of James I, vol. 1, p. 291; also Domestic State Papers, James I, vol. 80, no. 1.

[28] See Edinburgh Review for July, 1871, page 179.

[29] Domestic, James I, vol. 121, art. 7.

[30] See Court and Times of James I, vol. 2, pp. 146, 157, 158, 160; also Howell's State Trials.

[31] Domestic, James I, vol. 109, no. 14.

[32] Wood's History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, ed. Gutch, vol. 2, pp. 341-345; Cooper's Annals of Cambridge, vol. 3, pp. 143, 144; Domestic State Papers, James I, vol. 132, nos. 47 and 48.

[33] Dom. James I, vol. 153, no. 75.

[34] See Domestic State Papers, James I, vol. 157, nos. 40 and 41.

[35] Dom. James I, 1624, Aug. 14th.

[36] Dom. Charles I, vol. 44, no. 78.

[37] Dom. James I, vol. 171, no. 49.

[38] Ibid, art. 60.

[39] Domestic, James I, vol. 171, art. 64.

[40] Howell's State Trials; Commons' Journals, vol. 1, pp. 805, 806.

[41] Domestic State Papers; Charles I, vol. 54, nos. 4 and 5.

[42] Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 205, no. 34.

[43] Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 135, no. 40.

[44] Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 142, no. 22.

[45] Ibid, Charles I, vol. 205, no. 102.

[46] Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 351, no. 101.

[47] Lords' Journals, vol. 4, pp. 161, 180; Howell's State Trials, vol. 5, p. 765.

[48] Laud's Chancellorship, fol. 1700, p. 129.

[49] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, p. 29.

[50] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, p. 116.

[51] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, pp. 268, 269.

[52] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, p. 166.

[53] Ibid, pp. 206, 319, 324.

[54] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, pp. 266, 268, 269.

[55] Ibid, vol. 2, p. 324.

[56] Ibid, vol. 2, p. 349.

[57] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, p. 404.

[58] Ibid, p. 208.

[59] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, p. 142.

[60] Ibid, vol. 2, pp. 146, 148, 160.

[61] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, p. 148.

[62] Commons' Journ., vol. 2, p. 190.

[63] Ibid, pp. 206, 269.

[64] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, p. 206.

[65] Ibid, p. 221.

[66] Ibid, p. 293.

[67] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, pp. 393, 396, 408, 415.

[68] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, p. 408.

[69] Com. Journals, vol. 2, pp. 411, 414.

[70] Com. Journals, vol. 2, p. 472.

[71] Ibid, p. 500.

[72] Ibid, p. 500.

[73] Ibid, p. 501.

[74] Com. Journ., vol. 2, p. 501.

[75] Ibid, p. 546.

[76] Commons' Journals, Vol. 2, p. 612.

[77] Ibid, pp. 612, 613, 615, 626.

[78] Com. Journ., Vol. 2, pp. 617, 622.

[79] Ibid, p. 623.

[80] Com. Journals, vol. 2, p. 624.

[81] Com. Journ., vol. 2, p. 624.

[82] Commons' Journals, Vol. 2, p. 625.

[83] Commons' Journals, Vol. 2, pp. 661, 662, 679, 683, 690, 691.

[84] Commons' Journals, Vol. 2, p. 685.

[85] Ibid, p. 762.

[86] Ibid, pp. 769, 798, 894.

[87] Commons' Journals, Vol. 2, p. 769.

[88] Ibid, p. 769.

[89] Ibid, p. 795.

[90] Commons' Journals, Vol. 2, p. 801.

[91] Ibid, p. 12.

[92] Commons' Journals, Vol. 2, p. 831.

[93] Commons' Journals, Vol. 2, pp. 900, 951.

[94] Ibid, pp. 910, 911, 953.

[95] Ibid, p. 925.

[96] Commons' Journals, Vol. 3, pp. 40, 52.

[97] Commons' Journal, Vol. 3, p. 202.

[98] Ibid, p. 549.

[99] Commons' Journals, Vol. 3, p. 585.

[100] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, p. 25

[101] Ibid, p. 111.

[102] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, p. 152.

[103] Ibid, pp. 170, 420.

[104] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, p. 206.

[105] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, p. 336.

[106] Ibid, pp. 342, 348.

[107] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, p. 419.

[108] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, p. 420.

[109] Ibid, p. 451.

[110] Ibid, pp. 483, 505, 516.

[111] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, pp. 505, 531, 639.

[112] Ibid, pp. 505, 507, 517.

[113] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, pp. 507, 508, 510, 511, 516, 517.

[114] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, p. 517.

[115] Lords' Journals, Vol. 8, pp. 645-50, 657, 658.

[116] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, p. 664.

[117] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, p. 682.

[118] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, p. 682.

[119] Commons' Journals, vol. 4, pp. 731, 732.

[120] Ibid, p. 735.

[121] Ibid.

[122] Commons' Journals, vol. 5, pp. 72, 73.

[123] Commons' Journals, vol. 5, p. 109.

[124] Commons' Journals, Vol. 5, p. 109.

[125] Commons' Journals, Vol. 5, pp. 123, 124.

[126] Commons' Journals, vol. 5, p. 153.

[127] Howell's State Trials, vol. 4, p. 926.

[128] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 4, p. 926.

[129] Commons' Journals, vol. 5, p. 224.

[130] Commons' Journals, vol. 5, p. 293. Wood's Athen. Oxon, (Bliss), vol. 3, p. 594.

[131] Commons' Journals, vol. 5, p. 370.

[132] Commons' Journals, Vol. 5, p. 371.

[133] Ibid, p. 395.

[134] Commons' Journals, vol. 5, p. 405.

[135] Ibid.

[136] Ibid, p. 428.

[137] Commons' Journals, vol. 5, pp. 469, 471.

[138] Commons' Journals, vol. 5, pp. 614, 630.

[139] Ibid, p. 420.

[140] Commons' Journals, Vol. 6, pp. 111, 112, 115, 116.

[141] Ibid, p. 131.

[142] Commons' Journals, Vol. 6, p. 168.

[143] Ibid, pp. 168, 170.

[144] Ibid, p. 170.

[145] Commons' Journals, Vol. 6, pp. 174, 183.

[146] Commons' Journals, Vol. 6, p. 278.

[147] Ibid.

[148] Ibid, p. 312.

[149] Commons' Journals, Vol. 6, pp. 354, 475.

[150] Ibid, pp. 374, 378.

[151] Commons' Journals, Vol. 8, p. 259.

[152] Ibid.

[153] Timperley's Encyclopædia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote, (second edition) p. 547.

[154] Commons' Journals, Vol. 8, p. 259.

[155] Pepys' Diary, Vol. 1, p. 236, (third edition).

[156] Commons' Journals, Vol. 6, pp. 529, 536, 539.

[157] Commons' Journals, Vol. 6, pp. 427, 444, 474, 475.

[158] Commons' Journals, Vol. 7, pp. 71, 72, 73.

[159] Commons' Journals, Vol. 7, p. 73.

[160] Ibid, pp. 86, 113, 144.

[161] Commons' Journals, Vol. 7, p. 144.

[162] Ibid, p. 195.

[163] Ibid.

[164] Commons' Journals, Vol. 7, p. 236.

[165] Ibid, p. 383.

[166] Commons' Journals, Vol. 7, pp. 400, 416.

[167] Commons' Journals, Vol. 7, p. 405.

[168] Commons' Journals, Vol. 7, p. 442.

[169] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 5, p. 791.

[170] Commons' Journals, Vol. 8, p. 259.

[171] Ibid.

[172] D'Israeli's Amenities of Literature, Vol. 3, p. 325.

[173] Howell's State Trials, vol. 7, p. 946. See also a Tract published by Smith, entitled "An account of the injurious proceedings of Sir George Jeffreys, Knight, late Recorder of London, against Francis Smith, Bookseller."

[174] Commons' Journals, Vol. 8, p. 74.

[175] Commons' Journals, Vol. 8, pp. 183, 186, 192, 194, 198. Howell's State Trials, Vol. 5, p. 1363.

[176] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 7, p. 946.

[177] Domestic State Papers, Charles II, Vol. 38, Nos. 56, 57, 58.

[178] Ibid, Vol. 39, No. 132.

[179] Domestic State Papers, Charles II, Entry Book 5, p. 39.

[180] Ibid, Vol. 43, No. 130.

[181] Ibid, Vol. 45, No. 28.

[182] Ibid, Nos. 74, 75.

[183] Domestic State Papers, Charles II, Vol. 33, No. 23.

[184] Domestic State Papers, Charles II, Vol. 34, No. 64.

[185] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 6, p. 513.

[186] Domestic State Papers, Charles II, Vol. 88, No. 76.

[187] Commons' Journals, Vol. 8, p. 467.

[188] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 6, p. 702.

[189] Domestic State Papers, Charles II, Vol. 98, No. 116.

[190] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 7, p. 950.

[191] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 7, p. 950.

[192] For a full account of Coleman's trial see Howell's State Trials, Vol. 7, p. 1. Burnet, in his history of his own time, Vol. 1, p. 393, speaks thus of Coleman: "The Duchess of York had one put about her to be her Secretary, Coleman; who became so active in the affairs of the party, and ended his life so unfortunately, that since I had much conversation with him, his circumstances may deserve that his character should be given, though his person did not. I was told he was a clergyman's son: but he was early catched by the Jesuits, and bred many years among them. He understood the art of managing controversies, chiefly that great one of the authority of the church, better than any of their priests. He was a bold man, resolved to raise himself, which he did by dedicating himself wholly to the Jesuits: and so he was raised by them. He had a great easiness in writing in several languages; and writ many long letters, and was the chief correspondent the party had in England. He lived at a vast expence. And talked in so positive a manner, that it looked like one who knew he was well supported. I soon saw into his temper; and I warned the Duke of it. For I looked on him as a man much liker to spoil business than to carry it on dexterously. He got into the confidence of P. Ferrier the king of France's confessor; and tried to get into the same pitch of confidence with P. de la Chaise, who succeeded him in that post. He went about everywhere, even to the jails among the criminals, to make proselytes. He dealt much both in the giving and taking of bribes."

[193] King's Bench Judgment Roll, Easter, 31 Car. 2, rot. 68.

[194] Domestic State Papers, Charles 2, Vol. 179, No. 114.

[195] Domestic State Papers, Charles 2.

[196] Domestic State Papers, Charles 2, Vol. 113, No. 128.

[197] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 7, p. 926. Indictments, London and Middlesex. Mich. 31 Car. 2, No. 42.

[198] Commons' Journals, Vol. 9, p. 100.

[199] Commons' Journals, Vol. 9, p. 602.

[200] Commons' Journals, Vol. 9, p. 579.

[201] Commons' Journals, Vol. 9, pp. 572, 574, 576.

[202] State Trials, Vol. 8, p. 188.

[203] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 8, p. 189.

[204] Indictments, London and Midd., Hilary 31 and 32 Car. 2, No. 9. King's Bench Judgment Roll, Easter 32 Car. 2, rot. 88 a.

[205] Indictments, London and Middlesex, Hil. 31 and 32 Charles 2, No. 10.

[206] Indictments, London and Middlesex, Hilary, 31 and 32 Chas. 2, No 1. King's Bench Judgment Roll, Easter 32 Car. 2, rot. 77.

[207] Howell's State Trials. Vol. 8, p. 191.

[208] Indictments, London and Middlesex, Mich. 31 Car. 2, No. 43.

[209] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 7, p. 931; Vol. 8, p. 191.

[210] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 7, p. 950.

[211] Indictments, London and Middlesex, Hil. 31 and 32 Car. 2, No. 2.

[212] Indictments, London and Middlesex, Hil. 32 and 33 Car. 2, No. 28.

[213] Treasury Records; King's Warrant Book, No. 5, p. 105.

[214] Commons' Journals, vol. 9, pp. 649, 651, 652, 654, 656.

[215] This word is in the printed book, but is omitted in the indictment.

[216] Indictments, London and Middlesex, Hil. 33 Charles 2, No. 22.

[217] King's Bench Judgment Roll, Easter, 32 Charles 2, rot. 84.

[218] Indictments, London and Middlesex, Hilary 33 Charles II, No. 21.

[219] Indictments, London and Middlesex, Mich. 34 Charles 2, No. 85.

[220] Indictments, London and Middlesex, Mich. 34 Charles 2, No. 84.

[221] See London Mercury, No. 36, Aug. 8, 1682.

[222] Indictments. Lond. and Midd., Mich. 34 Car. 2, No. 81.

[223] Indictments. London and Midd., Mich. 34 Charles 2, No. 80.

[224] Indictments. Lond. and Midd., Hilary 34 and 35 Charles 2, No. 22.

[225] Indictments. Lond. and Midd., Hilary 34 and 35 Charles 2, No. 23.

[226] Indictments. Lond. and Midd., Hil. 34 and 35 Charles 2, No. 24.

[227] Indictments, London and Midd., Hil. 34 and 35 Charles 2, No. 95.

[228] The True Protestant Mercury, No. 32, April 13 to April 16, 1681.

[229] Ditto No. 49, June 22 to June 25, 1681.

[230] The Impartial Protestant Mercury, From Tuesday May 31, to Friday June 3. 1681. No. 12.

[231] The Impartial Protestant Mercury, No. 50, From Tuesday October 11 to Friday October 14, 1681.

[232] King's Bench Judgment Roll, Trin. 35., Charles 2 rot., 81.

[233] London Gazette. No. 1717. From May 1 to May 4. 1682.

[234] King's Bench Judgment Roll, Easter 35, Charles 2. No. 310 rot. 23, 34 & 103.

[235] King's Bench Judgment Roll, Trinity 35, Charles 2., part 2, m. 89.

[236] King's Bench Judgment Roll, Mich. 33, Car. 2, part 2, m. 137.

[237] King's Bench Judgment Roll, Charles 2. No. 302, rot. 114.

[238] King's Bench Judgment Roll. Charles 2. No. 300, m. 88.

[239] King's Bench Judgment Roll. Charles 2. No. 298, m. 109.

[240] King's Bench Judgment Roll. Charles 2. No. 302, rot. 113.

[241] London Gazette. No. 1709. April 3 to April 6, 1682.

[242] King's Bench Judgment Roll. Charles 2. No. 298, rot. 106.

[243] King's Bench Judgment Roll. Charles 2. No. 298, rot. 107.

[244] London Gazette, No. 1900. King's Bench Judgment Roll. Charles 2. No. 314, rot. 100.

[245] King's Bench Judgment Roll. Charles 2. No. 316, rot. 88.

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