The narrative declared that in April, 1677, the deponent was
employed to carry letters from the Jesuits in London to members
of their order in Spain; these he broke open on the journey, and
discovered that certain Jesuits had been sent into Scotland to
encourage the presbyterians to rebel. Arrived in Valladolid, he
heard one Armstrong, in a sermon delivered to students, charge
his majesty with most foul and black-mouthed scandals, and use
such irreverent, base expressions as no good subjects could
repeat without horror. He then returned to England, and was soon
after sent to St. Omer with fresh letters, in which was mentioned
a design to stab or poison his majesty--Pere la Chaise, the
French king's confessor, having placed ten thousand pounds at the
disposal of the Jesuits that they might, by laying out such a
sum, the more successfully accomplish this deed. While abroad
the deponent had read many letters, relating to the execution of
Charles II., the subverting of the present government, and the
establishment of the Romish religion. Returning again to
England, he became privy to a treaty with Sir George Wakeham, the
queen's physician, to poison the king; and likewise with an
agreement to shoot him, made between the Jesuits and two men,
named Honest William and Pickering. He had heard a Jesuit preach
a sermon to twelve persons of quality in disguise, in which he
asserted "that protestants and other heretical princes were IPSO
FACTO deposed because such; and that it was as lawful to destroy
them as Oliver Cromwell or any other usurper.
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