A summary account of the proceedings upon the happy discovery of the Jacobite conspiracy in a second letter to a Devonshire gentleman. B. J. 1696 Approx. 23 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2008-09 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A46604 Wing J4 ESTC R27443 09859549 ocm 09859549 44268 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1689-1702. Great Britain -- History -- William and Mary, 1689-1702. 2006-03 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-05 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-05 Robyn Anspach Sampled and proofread 2007-05 Robyn Anspach Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A Summary Account OF THE PROCEEDINGS Upon the HAPPY DISCOVERY of the Jacobite Conspiracy . In a SECOND LETTER to a Devonshire Gentleman . London , March 3. 1695. Dear Sir , JUST now is come to Hand yours of the 27th past , calling for my Answer to that of the 18th , which I hope is now with you ; for I sent it by the last Post , and also a Duplicate thereof , as you desired , under cover to our Friend at Totness . However , lest those should be intercepted , I here give you a Transcript of it , with the addition of some things which since occur , omitting the Minutes which you requested me to hand to you of Gadbury's and Partridge's Predictions of this Hellish Plot , having sent you their Almanacks , and also that of Woodward's , by the Exeter Carrier , which I know is a safe way . Mine told you that on Monday the 24th , the King came to the House of Lords , and in a Speech acquainted both Houses ; That he was come on an extraordinary Occasion , which might have proved fatal if it had not been disappointed by the singular Mercy and Goodness of God. That he had received several concurring Informations of a Design to assassinate him and that our Enemies were very forward in their 〈…〉 for a sudden Invasion of the Kingdom . That His Majesty had not been wanting to give the necessary Orders for the Fleet , and that he hoped there was a Strength of Ships , and in such a Readiness , as would be sufficient to disappoint the Intentions of our Enemies . That he had dispatched Orders for bringing Home such a Number of our Troops , as might secure us from any Attempt ; and exhorted them to do every thing which they should judg proper for our Common Safety , &c. Upon this astonishing News the House of Commons ( Nemine Contradicente ) resolved to address His Majesty to congratulate his happy Deliverance , and to give him their Thanks for imparting the Horrid Design to the House , and to desire His Majesty to take more than ordinary Care of his Royal Person , assuring him that they will stand by , assist , and defend His Majesty with their Lives and Fortunes , against the late King James and all other His Enemies both at Home and Abroad ; and that in case His Majesty should come to any violent Death ( which God forbid ) they would revenge the same upon all his Enemies and their Adherents , &c. The House of Lords also unanimously agreed upon an Address to His Majesty , to which they desired the Concurrence of the Commons ; who made some Amendments thereunto , to which the Lords agreeing : The same Evening both Houses attended His Majesty therewith . You have here a Copy thereof . WE your Majesty's most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects , the Lords Spiritual and Temporal , and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled ; having taken into our serious Consideration , what your Majesty hath been pleased to Communicate to us this day , think it our Duty in the first place to give Your Majesty most Humble Thanks , for having acquainted Your Parliament , with the great Danger Your Sacred Person hath been so nearly expos'd to , and the Design of an Invasion from our Enemies Abroad ; We heartily Congratulate Your Majesty's Happy Preservation , and thankfully acknowledge the signal Providence of God in it ; and at the same time Declare our Detestation and Abhorrence of so Villanous and Barbarous a Design : And since the Safety and Welfare of Your Majesty's Dominions do so intirely depend upon Your Life , We most Humbly Beseech Your Majesty to take more than Ordinary Care of Your Royal Person : And we take this Occasion to Assure Your Majesty of our utmost Assistance , to Defend Your Person , and Support Your Government against the late King James , and all other Your Enemies , both at Home and Abroad ; hereby Declaring to all the World , That in case Your Majesty shall come to any Violent Death , ( which God forbid ) we will Revenge the same upon all your Enemies , and their Adherents . And as an Instance of our Zeal for Your Majesty's Service , we will give all possible Dispatch to the Publick Business : And we make it our Desire to Your Majesty , to Seize and Secure all Persons , Horses , and Arms , that Your Majesty may think fit to Apprehend upon this Occasion . To which His Majesty gave a gracious Answer to the effect following , viz. My Lords and Gentlemen , I Thank you heartily for this kind Address : On my Part you may be assured ; that I will do all that is within my Power for the Conservation of this Kingdom , to which I have so many Obligations . I will readily adventure my Life for the Preservation of it , and recommend my self to the Continuance of your Loyalty and good Affections . The House of Commons also the same day resolved upon the following Association to be signed by their Members . WHereas there has been a Horrid and Detestable Conspiracy , Formed and Carried on by Papists , and other Wicked and Traiterous Persons , for Assassinating his Majesty's Royal Person in Order to Incourage an Invasion from France , to Subvert our Religion , Laws , and Liberty : We whose Names are hereunto Subscribed , do Heartily , Sincerely , and Solemnly Profess , Testify and Declare , That his Present Majesty King William is Rightful and Lawful King of these Realms . And we do Mutually Promise and Engage to stand by and assist each other , to the utmost of our Power , in the Support and Defence of his Majesty's most Sacred Person and Government , against the late King James and all his Adherents . And in case his Majesty come to any Violent or Vntimely Death ( which God forbid ) We do hereby further Freely and Vnanimously Oblige our Selves , to Vnite , Associate , and Stand by each other , in Revenging the same upon his Enemies , and their Adherents ; and in Supporting and Defending the Succession of the Crown , according to an Act made in the First Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary , Intituled , An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject , and Settling the Succession of the Crown . There is also an A●●●●iation agreed upon by the House of Lords , which was carried by a Majority , which will appear to be of a Comfortable Importance . Their Lordships Association differs so little from that of the Commons , that I do not transcribe it ; but shew you how they vary : Instead of the Words [ King William is RIGHTFVL and Lawful King ] their Lordships insert , That His present Majesty King William hath A RIGHT BY LAW to the Crown of this Realm , and that neither the late King James , nor the pretended Prince of Wales , nor any other Person hath any Right whatsoever to the same , &c. Ninety six of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal , have already subscribed their Association , and others , who were at first absent , come in daily ; it hath been refused only by 15 , whose Names lying in a narrow Compass , I here give you . Marquiss of Hallifax . Marquiss of Normanby ( who when King James Abdicated we knew by the Title of Earl of Mulsgrave . ) Earls of Nottingham . Chesterfield . Thanet . Winchelsea . Scarsdale . Earls of Craven . Feversham . Aylesbury . Lord Jeffries . Lord Chandois . Lord Ferrers . Dr. Sprat , Bishop of Rochester . Dr. Watson , Bishop of St. Davids . Their Lordships have also ordered Letters to be sent to these undernamed Peers , who are in the Country , to attend the House ; and their subscribing is not doubted . The Dukes of Beaufort , and Richmond . Earls of Rutland . Derby . Bristol . Lord Viscount Weymouth . The Lords Fitz-Water . Leigh . Lempster . Osulston . Willoughby . Coventry . Rockingham . The House of Commons having , as I told you , agreed upon the above-written Association , ordered it to be engrossed , to be Signed by their Members ; and near 400 of that August Assembly , which consists of 513 , have already ( with great Alacrity ) subscribed it . But some at present hesitate , some others refuse it , their Names are underwritten . Berks Sends 9. Members : WIlliam Jennyngs Simon Harcourt . Bucks . 14. Alexander Denton Mountague Drake Sir James Etheridge . Cornwall . 44. Henry Lord Hyde John Manley Daniel Eliot Henry Fleming Francis Buller John Tredenham Seymour Tredenham Sir William Coryton John Mountstevens Bernard Granvile Charles Lord Cheney * Francis Gwyn . Cheshire . 4. Sir Thomas Grosvenor . Derbyshire . 4. Sir Gilbert Clarke . Devon. 26. Francis Courteney * Sir Edward Seymour John Granville . Dorsetshire . 20. * Thomas Strangways Thomas Freke * Richard Fownes . Chor. 30. * Robert Byerly Sir Mannaduke Wivill Sir Michael Wentworth . Essex . 8. Sir Eliab Harvey . Glocester . 8. Robert Payne William Frye Richard How John How. Herefordshire . 8. Robert Price . Huntington . 4. Anthony Hammond . Kent . 18. * Sir John Banks . Lancashire . 14. Leigh Banks Thomas Brotherton Sir Roger Bradshaw Peter Shakerley . Lincolnshire . 12. George Lord Castleton Sir John Bolles . Norfolk . 12. Sir John Wodehouse . Northampton . 9. Thomas Cartwright * Gilbert Dolben . Northumbecland . 8. * William Foster . Oxford . 9. * Mountague Lord Norris * Sir Robert Jenkinson Heneage Finch Sir Edward Norris Thomas Rowney James Bertie Sir Robert Dashwood . Salop. 12. * Edward Kynaston John Kynaston * Andrew Newport * George Weld . Somerset . 18. Sir John Trevillian * Edward Berkley * John Sandford Sir Charles Carterett Sir John Smith . Southampton 26. Henry Holmes * Thomas Done Staffordshire . 10. * Robert Burdett Sir John Leveson Gower * John Grey * Sir Henry Gough . Surrey . 14. John Parsons . Sussex . 28. * Sir William Morley John Lewknor Sir Thomas Dyke William Stringer . Warwickshire . 6. William Bromley Andrew Archer George Bohun * Lord Digby Francis Grevill . Westmoreland . 4. Sir William Twisden * Sir Christopher Musgrave . Wiltshire . 34. Robert Bertie William Harvey Henry Pynnill Thomas Bennet William Daniel . Worcestershire . 9. Samuel Swift * Henry Parker . Wales . 24. * Edward Jones Jeffery Jefferies * Sir Richard Middleton * Edward Brereton Sir John Conway * Thomas Mansel , In all but 93 Dissenters . Pardon me , Sir , that I forgot to insert the name of Wi : Williams , who you may remember Spew'd Sir Robert Peyton out of the House of Commons , for corresponding with the late King when Duke of York . And who told King Charles II. That the Commons were not given to Change ; but it is now evident that some of their Quondam Speakers are . On Tuesday the House ordered that their absent Members , as they come to the House , do come up to the Table , and sign the Association ; or , in their Places , declare their Refusal so to do : and On Thursday it was ordered that the Association , and the Subscriptions thereunto , be entred upon the Journal of the House ; and Resolved that it be presented to His Majesty , by the Speaker , and the whole House , before the end of the Session . It was also , the same day , ordered that such Members who have not already , shall by Monday Fortnight Sign the Association , or declare their Refusal ; and I do on as good Ground , as Gadbury foretold the Plot , predict that the Body of Refusers in this Honourable House will scarce , at the summing up , amount to the number of one hundred . Permit me now ( Dear Sir ) to Recreate my self a little in remarking on what I have laid before you . As the Doubting Lords are but few ; so of the twenty six Members of your Large and Rich County of Devon , you find but three Dissenters : and but one ( I include not their Bishop ) of the eighteen in the Spacious County of Kent . No more than one out of twelve in another of the largest Counties of England , I mean Norfolk . To augment their Number , Essex ( another of our greatest Counties ) furnishes one out of eight . Cheshire one out of their four . Derbyshire one out of four also ; and Herefordshire such another one out of eight . The Diminutive , but Opulent , County of Huntington , has lent them another out of four : and that Honest County of Surrey one out of fourteen , but I assure you it is a very Sorry One. You find not one of the sixteen Members for the Cinque Ports in this Non-Association ; and the twelve Counties of Wales have of their twenty four Members but eight Refusers , of whom one is now His Majesties Counsel , and was of King James's Counsel against the Bishops . Indeed they have a Recusant Bishop to head them , of King James's own making ; but unless I misremember he was not one of the seven golden Candlesticks . You want ( Sir ) in the above-written List eleven of our English Counties , which are these , Bedfordshire Sends 4 Members . Cambridgshire . 6. Cumberland . 6. Durham . 4. Hertfordshire . 6. Leicestershire . 4. London , Middlesex and Westminster . 8. Monmouthshire . 3. Nottinghamshire . 8. Rutland . 2. Suffolk . 16. Of which Number , being 67 , I tell you for their Honour , there is not one Recusant . I farther observe to you , that in the seven old Associated Counties , viz. Essex , Suffolk , Norfolk , Cambridge , Huntington , Bedford and Hertford , there are but 3 Recusants ; and you will find above 4 times that Number of Associating Lords there . In London and the contiguous Counties , viz. Middlesex , Bucks , Berks , Wiltshire , Hantshire , Surrey , Sussex , Kent , Lincoln , and Northampton , which make another 11 Counties , and send no less than 172 Members ; you will find , upon review of the foregoing List , that there had been but 19 Refusers , had not Mr. Done and Mr. Parsons added two to their Number . Now to detain you no longer in discoursing of the House of Commons ; let this assure you that the City of London had like to have been as unanimous as the first 11 Counties . A Common Council was this last Week summoned , where the foregoing Association being proposed it was agreed unto and signed by every Member present ( that whole Body consisting of 234 ) , one only excepted ; whose name may not be forgot , it is Lawrence Cole , a Man of little Note before he was one of honest Mr. Bateman's Jury . I hope Sir , this pleasant Scheme of the Kingdom , and its Affairs , will in some measure relieve you from the Panick fear into which you say Gadbury and Partridge had put you . Now for the Service of the Government , you have my free consent to shew this to your Honest Neighbours ( especially to our Friends of Exeter and Totness . ) Nay to any Man , for , tho as you know I pay a Deference to Sir E. Seymour , and a far greater to the Nations Representatives , I am confident I shall not in this Juncture incur their displeasure by naming a squeamish Conscienced Gentleman , who ( after 7 years Apprenticestip ) will not go the Length to avow K. William's Right to the Crown . When a Town is on Fire , the blowing up a House is surely justifiable . Our Neighbour Nation once upon a time told a bigger Man than Sir E. S. that a King for some Crimes might Forefault ; and had Sir E. been thrown out of the House last Week , I should not have laid it to Heart . I have long agoe resolved to run a Muck against all the Enemies of this Government , and know by Consequence that I am to expect no Quarter when it is overturned , which makes me now as fearless of being called to a Reckoning , as I am of this Plot ; but should that betide me , I wish it may be before the present Commissioners for Accounts . I have Sir , been so prolix that I cannot now enter into the particulars of this Diabolical Conspiracy , but for your Comfort it is happily discovered , and most miraculously disappointed . Admiral Russell now blocks up the French Fleet about Calais , and I hope to tell you by the next that he has destroyed them . The Tower of London was to have been delivered up to the French Cut-Throats , and they say by Major Hawley an Officer there ; it is certain he is secured . Take Heart my Friend , for our Enemies will not easily get possession of the Powder there , and I am confident all the Salt-Petre in Devonshire , ( should 200 Tuns be discovered in any Vault there ) will not supply enough to blow up this Government . For my part come what will , I resolve never to be bribed into the Jacobite Party ; no , tho I should be tempted with the value of such a Cargo , which Sir E. S. well knows is not less worth than 12000 l. You must not expect a License to this , for Sir Roger L'Estrange had last Night the Mishap to be committed Close Prisoner to Newgate . I am , Sir , Yours sincerely B. J. P. S. Sir , I esteem my self obliged to beg pardon , that I have here repeated the Name of Worthy Mr. Cartwright of Northampton-shire 〈…〉 yesterday , upon second Thoughts , signed the Association ; and I question not but the rest will fellow the good Example he has set them .