DIE Mercurii, 30 die Octobris.
REX.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
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His Royal Highness the Duke of Yorke. | |
Arch. Cant.
Epus. Durham.
Epus. Sarum.
Epus. Rochester.
Epus. Ely.
Epus. Glouc.
Epus. Bath & Wells.
Epus. Oxon.
Epus. St. David's. |
Dux Cumberland.
Ds. Cancellarius.
Ds. Thesaurarius Angl.
Ds. Custos Privati Sigilli.
Dux Norff.
Dux Bucks.
Dux Albemarle.
Dux Monmouth.
Marq. Winton.
Marq. Dorchester.
L. Great Chamberlain.
L. Chamberlain.
Comes Oxon.
Comes Kent.
Comes Huntingdon.
Comes Bedford.
Comes Suff.
Comes Dorset & Midd.
Comes Bridgwater.
Comes Leycester.
Comes Denbigh.
Comes Manchester.
Comes Mulgrave.
Comes Peterborough.
Comes Thannet.
Comes Strafford.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Scarsdale.
Comes St. Alban.
Comes Clarendon.
Comes Essex.
Comes Bath.
Comes Craven.
Comes Aylesbury.
Comes Shaftesbury.
Comes Guilford.
Comes Feversham.
Vicecomes Hallyfax.
Vicecomes Newport. |
Ds. Mowbray.
Ds. Awdley.
Ds. Berkeley.
Ds. De Grey.
Ds. Stourton.
Ds. Eure.
Ds. Wharton.
Ds. North & Grey.
Ds. Hunsdon.
Ds. Pawlet.
Ds. Maynard.
Ds. Vaughan.
Ds. Asteley.
Ds. Lucas.
Ds. Gerard.
Ds. Wotton.
Ds. Cornwallis.
Ds. Freshevile.
Ds. Arundell de T.
Ds. Butler de M. Park. |
PRAYERS.
Report concerning Coleman's Papers, and about Aspersions on the Duke of York.
The Lord Bishop of Rochester reported from the
Committee appointed to enquire into the horrid Design
against His Majesty, "That their Lordships are unsatisfied with the Delivery of some Papers to Mrs
Coleman by one Captain Berkeley, which were not read
at Council; who was examined at the Committee,
and now attends at the Door."
His Lordship reported further, "That the Lord Annesley, Eldest Son to the Earl of Anglesey Lord Privy
Seal, informed the Committee, That Titus Otes told
him, he could say somewhat to the House towards
the clearing of his Royal Highness the Duke of
Yorke from the Aspersions which were cast on him; and
that Tytus Otes is attending in the Lord Chancellor's
Room."
Upon which, Captain Berkeley, being called in,
gave Account to the House, "That he delivered those
Papers to the Duke of Monmouth; and, receiving
them again from the Duke of Monmouth, did give
them to Mrs. Coleman; pleading his Ignorance of the
Way he ought to have proceeded in, for which he is
very sorry."
Upon which (the House being satisfied that the
Duke of Monmouth did give the said Papers to His
Majesty, who perused them, and returned them to the
Duke of Monmouth), the Lord Chancellor, by Command
of the House, gave him public Reprehension for his
Indiscretion. And so he withdrew.
Oates's Examination, to clear the Duke of York from Aspersions against him.
Then Titus Otes, being called in, was sworn at the
Bar; and required to answer to what he is now called in
for, concerning his Discourse with the Lord Annesly last
Night, about the Duke of Yorke.
He spake to this Effect:
"That he was informed that Mr. Coleman had highly
impeached the Duke of Yorke by Letters; to which,
he said, he thought the Duke was wholly innocent,
for these Reasons:
"1. Because they have a counterseit Seal of his
and her Royal Highness's; and that he was
sent into Spaine with Credentials under that
Seal."
Being asked, "Where that Seal is?" He
said, "It is in the Custody of Richard
Strange the late Provincial of the Jesuits.
That the Party who signed his Credentials writ James; but he was not then
so well acquainted with the Jesuits, as to
know who it was."
"2. Because, in February or March last, a Proposal was made by the Fathers at Gant, "that
they wondered the Duke was not acquainted
with it." To which Answer was made, "Because his Love was so great to the King his
Brother, that he would not be true to them,
though he was a very good Catholic.
"3. Because there was a Letter writ to Blundell,"
saying, "They longed to see the Duke trepanned into the Business."
"4. Because there were a Parcel of Letters at
Windsor, to be delivered to his Royal Highness,
that he might burn them, thereby to draw
the Duke into the Plot: This, he said, he
was not certain of; but Meredith Lloyd said,
they brought them to the Duke for that
Purpose;" and he would bring him hither to
attest it.
"5. He said (being asked), That he carried no
Letters into Spaine signed James, by the
Duke; but the Credentials he had to Spaine
with him were signed and sealed in his Presence, by the Jesuits, James, and the counterseit Seal; so that he was received like a
Kind of Ambassador both as from the Duke
and the Society.
"6. Because they have made Officers of State and
War without the Duke's Privity."
Then he was commanded to withdraw.
Upon Consideration of what Titus Otes had said, he
was called in again; and told by the Lord Chancellor,
"That the House hath directed he shall be heard again
To-morrow at Nine a Clock; and the Lords do expect that, by the Oath he hath now taken, he should
go through with what he hath to say; and therefore,
he should prepare himself to deliver the whole Truth
of what he knows concerning the Design against the
King's Person and the Government of this Kingdom."
Thompson committed.
ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in
Parliament assembled, That Nathaniell Thompson, who
is now in the Custody of William Sorocold, for printing
Popish Books for James Thompson, shall stand committed to the Prison of The Gatehouse, at Westm. during the
Pleasure of this House; and this shall be a sufficient
Warrant on that Behalf.
To the Keeper of the Prison of The Gatehouse at Westm.
ORDERED, That the Earl of Shaftesbury is added to
the Sub-committee for examining the Murder of Sir
Edmond Bury Godfrey.
Time for receiving Appeals, &c. enlarged.
Whereas, by reason of the Public Affairs wherewith
this House hath been so employed since the Meeting of
the Parliament, that the Time limited for bringing in
Appeals and Writs of Error is near expired; wherein
this House hath not had Leisure to admit the presenting
thereof:
It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal
in Parliament assembled, That the said Time for receiving Appeals by Petition, or Writs of Error be, and is
hereby, enlarged to the Twenty-seventh Day of November next.
Report about Ld. Bellasis' Health.
This Day Doctor Scarborough gave the House an Account: "That he did visit the Lord Bellasis this Morning, and finds him in good Health; and that his Lordship is ready to be removed, as their Lordships shall
think fit."
King to be moved for Lds Stafford & Bellasis, Col. Roper, et al. to be removed to The Tower.
ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in
Parliament assembled, That the Lords with White
Staves do attend His Majesty, humbly to desire him
from this House, "That the Lord Viscount de Stafford,
and the Lord Bellasise, and Colonel Roper and his
Son, and Mr. Ratcliffe, being Prisoners in the Prison
of The King's Bench, by Warrant of the Lord Chief
Justice of England, for Treason, may be removed, to
remain Prisoners in His Majesty's Tower of London."
Committee to sit P. M. to examine Papers about the Plot.
ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in
Parliament assembled, That the Lords Committees appointed to examine Papers relating to the horrid Design
against His Majesty do proceed this Afternoon in reading the Papers before them; and so return them to
Sir Phillip Lloyd, to be delivered to the King.
Adjourn.
Dominus Cancellarius declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque in diem Jovis, 31um
diem instantis Octobris, hora nona Aurora, Dominis sic
decernentibus.
Hitherto examined, this 21th of
November, 1678, by us,
J. Bridgewater.
Scarsdale.
Craven.
Seth Sarum.
P. Bath & Wells.