And for the proof hereof , then appeared William Casters , who deposed , That on the 14th Instant , about 11 a Clock in the Day , he saw Stayley with another , a Frenchman , in a Victualling-house , who called for a Pot of Ale , and a Slice of Roast-Beef ; which when it was called for , his Landlord said it should be brought him . He was in another Room opposite to him , both the Doors being open , Stayley standing at one Door , and he at the other , his Face strait towards him , and within 7 or 8 foot of him ; and discoursing with the French-man , he heard Stayley twice over , in French say , The King was a Grand Heretick , making his Demonstration , with his Hand upon his Breast , stamping five or six times with his Foot , in great fury . — That the old Man Fromante , his Friend , said , That the King of England was a Tormenter of the People of God ; and that Stayley answered again in a great fury , He is a great Heretick , and the greatest Rogue in the World : There 's the Heart , and here 's the Hand that would kill him : And the King and Parliament think all is over , but the Rogues are mistaken : Then stamping said , I would kill him my self , I would kill him my self .

Then Alexander Southerland deposed that he also was there , and perfectly saw Stayley while he Apoke those words , which presently he writ down in French , as they were spoken : And then ( the Prisoner being gone ) they enquired his Name , and where he live ; and the next day got him apprehended .

The third Witnes was one Philip Garret , who not understanding French , could only depose , That being with the other two , he heard Stayley speak : Whereupon his Captain , William Casters , cam to him in a great passion , and said , he could not suffer it , he would run upon him , he could not be quiet .

To all which the Prisoner made but a weak Defence , relating the manner of his Apprehension , and saying , That his discourse with Fromante was about the King of France ; and that he said , he would kill himself , instead of , I will kill him my self ; alleadging his Loyalty , and protesting his Innocence ; and how that the Witnesses , after his apprehension , would have had him took it up .

Then the Statue of Decimo tertio was read ; and Sir John Kirke one of the Jury , who understood French , attested , that Translation of his words to be true .

Then the Prisoner's Witnesses were called , who were one Anselm , the Master of the Cross-Keys in Covent-Garden , where the Prisoner was brought when he was apprenhended ; who deposed , That they kept him in his House from 8 till 11 , without any Constable . — Which the Witnesses answered was , because they could get no Constable to come along with them , without a Warrant from a Justice of Peace ; and that they sent to White-hall and desired a Guard , but the Officer said it was the Constables part .

Another Witness appeared for the Prisoner , who testified , that he had often heard him declare much Loyalty to his Prince , and an aversion to the Jesuits , insomuch that if he knew any of the Persons concerned in this Plot , he would be their Executioner himself ; and that he would lose his Blood for the King . — But the Ld. Ch. Justice reply'd , That was his discourse only when he spoke to a Protestant .

Then the Prisoner having no more Witnesses , nor any thing more to say for himself , the Ld. Ch. Justice made a Speech to the Jury , setting forth the Treasonableness of the Words , and the manner of speaking them , and the plainness of the Proof , with great zeal against the Jusuits and their Tenants , ( whom he look'd upon as the Foundations of all this Mischief ) excusing his warmness ; saying , 'T was better to be warm here than in Smithfield ; and that he hoped he should never go to that Heaven , where Men are made Saints for killing Kings .

The Jury then presently brought the Prisoner in Guilty ; who said , he had nothing more to say ; so Sentence was pronounced against him , to be Hang'd , Drawn , and Quartered ; and the same was accordingly executed upon him at Tyburn , on Tuesday following , being Novemb. 26.

It was his Majesty's pleasure ( because of the Prisoner's seeming Penitence , and his Relations humble Petition ) to suffer his Body to have a decent & private Burial : But his Friends abusing this gracious Favour , with a publick and more than ordinary Funeral Pomp , his buried Quarters were ordered to be taken up , and to be disposed by the Common Executioner upon the Gates of the City .

He deposed likewise , that a Consult had been held in the Savoy with the Jesuits & Benedictine Monks , for the murthering of the Duke of Ormond , and raising a Rebellion in Ireland ( the Pope's Right to that Kingdom being asserted ) and 40000 black Bills provided to be sent thither for the use of the Catholick Party ; Coleman being privy thereto , and the main Agent therein , being heard to say to Fenwick , that he had found a way to transmit the 200000 l. for the carrying on this Rebellion in Ireland .

That he saw likewise , several Commissions come from Rome in Mr. Langhorn's Chamber , among which was one for Mr. Coleman to be Secretary of State ; the receipt of which he hath since heard him acknowledg .

The Prisoner then offer'd something against the Informant ; from his telling the King , when he was examin'd before the Council , that he never saw him before ; Which the Informant obviated , by confessing , that there and then he did say that he would not swear that he had seen him before , his Sight being bad by Candle-light , and being then wearied and tired out , but that when he had heard him speak he could have sworn it was he , but it was not then his Business .

The other Witness then produced against the Prisoner was Mr. Bedloe , Who deposed that he heard Sir Henry Tichbourn say , that he had a Commission , and that he brought one for Mr. Coleman ( and the rest of the Lords ; from the Principal of the Jesuits at Rome , by order of the Pope ) to be Principal Secretary of State . And that he was imployed by Harcourt to carry Letters to Le-Chese ( the French King's Confessor ) and was at a Consult in France , where the Plot was discoursed on for killing the King , and did bring back an Answer from Le-Chese to Harcourt in London , and on the 24th or 25th of May , 1677. he was with Harcourt at Coleman's House , where he heard Coleman speak these words , That if he had a Sea of Blood , and an hundred Lives , he would lose them all to carry on the Design : And if to effect this , it were necessary to destroy an hundred Heretick Kings , he would do it . The Prisoner then asking Mr. Bedlow , if he ever saw him in his life : He answer'd ; You may ask that question : But in the stone Gallery in Somerset-House , when you came from a Consult where were great Persons , which I am not to name here , that would make the bottom of your Plot tremble : You saw me then .

The Court then proceeded to other evidence , which were the Prisoners Papers ; and proved the manner of finding them by Mr. Bradley ( a Messenger ) and that those , which were then produced in the Court , were his , by the Clerks of the Council , and his own Servant ; Ordering them afterwards to be read .

The first Paper was a long Letter , dated Sept. 29. 1675 , sent to Le-Chese ; wherein he gives him an account of the Transactions of several Years before , and of the Correspondence between him and Monsieur Ferrier , Predecessor to Le-Chese ; Asserting , that the true way to carry on the Interest of France , and the promoting of Popery here in England , was to get that Parliament dissolved ; which ( says he ) had been long since effected , if 300000 l. could have been obtained from the French King . And that things yet were in such a posture , that if he had but 20000 l. sent him from France , he would be content to be a Sacrifice to the utmost Malice of his Enemies , if the Protestant Religion did not receive such a Blow as it could not subsist .

The receipt of this Letter was acknowledged by Le-Chese , in an Answer he wrote to Mr. Coleman ( and was then read in the Court ) dated from Paris , October 23. 1675. wherein he gives him thanks for his good Service , and promises his Assistance , in order to the promoting the Popish Religion .

Then was produced and read , a Declaration which Mr. Coleman ( as Secretary ) had penned in the King's Name , shewing his Reasons for the Dissolution of the Parliament .

Then also was read a Copy of a Letter written to Le-Chese , which Mr. Coleman confessed he himself wrote , and counterfeited in the Duke's Name ; and that when he was so bold as to shew it to the Duke , the Duke was very angry and rejected it .

Several other Letters were read of Mr. Coleman's to Monsieur Ferrier and others ; and particularly one dated August 21. 1674. to the Pope's Internuncio at Brussels , wherein he says , The Design prospered so well , that he doubted not , but in a little time , the Business would be managed to the utter Ruin of the Protestant Party . And by other Letters he writes to the French King's Confessor , that the Assistance of his most Christian Majesty is necessary , and desires Mony from him to carry on the Design .

But there was one Letter without Date , more bloody than all the rest , which was written to Le Chese , in some short time after the long Letter of Sept. 29 , 1675. wherein among many other things , Mr. Coleman expresses himself thus . We have a mighty Work upon our hands , no less than the Conversion of three Kingdoms , and the utter subduing of a Pestilent Heresy , which hath for some time domineer'd over this Northern Part of the World ; and there never were such hopes of success since the Death of our Queen Mary , as now in our days . And in the Conclusion of this Letter he implores Le Chese to get all the Aid and Assistance he can from France ; and that next to God Almighty , he did rely upon the mighty Mind of his Most Christian Majesty , and therefore did hope Le Chese would procure Mony and Assistance from him .

Then Dr. Oates at the desire of the Prisoner was call'd again , concerning the time of the Consult ; Coleman offering to prove that he was the most part of that Month in Warwickshire , offering something to excuse himself from the Guilt of Treason ; but being clearly convic'd in both Points , Sir Francis Winnington ( his Majesty's Solitcior General ) sum'd up the Evidence ; to which Serjeant Pemberton added something ; and then the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs spoke to the Jury , who presently brought the Prisoner in Guilty ; who on the Morrow Morning being brought to the Bar , offered again something as to his being out of Town , and pleaded the King's Act of Grace , the insufficiency of which , as to him , being shewn , the Ld. Ch. Justice directed a very excellent and Christian Speech to him , pronouncing Sentence upon him , to be hang'd , drawn and quartered . And on Tuesday Decemb. 3. following , he was accordingly drawn on a Sledg from Newgate to Tyburn , where he declared , that he had been a Roman Catholick for many Years , and that he thanked God he died in that Religion : and he said he did not think that Religion at all prejudicial to the King and Government .

The Sheriff told him , if he had any thing to say by way of Confession or Contrition he might proceed , otherwise it was not seasonable for him to go on with such like Expressions . And being asked if he knew any thing of the Murther of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey , he declared upon the words of a dying Man , he knew not any thing of it ; for that he was a Prisoner at that time .

Then after some private Prayers and Ejaculations to himself , the Sentence was executed upon him .

Then the Seals also were shewn in Court that were made use of to sign Commissions , taken out of Whitebread's Chamber .

Then the King's Counsel here ending their Evidence , the Lord Chief Justice took notice to the Jury , that there had only one Witness sworn against Whitebread and Fenwick ; Bedloe charging them with nothing of his own knowledg ; and that therefore he would discharge them of them , and accordingly he sent them back to the Goal . And the other three were called upon to make their Defence , which was only a bare denial of the Matter of Fact . Only Ireland being charged in August laboured very much to prove that he was out of Town all that Month , by the Testimony of his Mother , and Sister , and one Harrison ( Sir John Southcott's Coachman ) and one Gifford . His Mother and Sister saying expresly that he went out of Town August 3d , and Harrison that he saw him at St. Albans August 5th , and continued in his Company to the 16th , and Gifford that he saw him at the latter end of August and beginning of September at Wolverhampton , tho it was reproved by very good Circumstances , and upon Oath for the King , by Sarah Pain ( Servant to Grove ) that she saw him at his own door in London about the 12th or 13th of the same Month. His next Defence was a weak Reflections upon Dr. Oates's Credit , to which purpose an Indictment for Perjury never prosecuted , was urged against him , but the Attourny-General made slight of it , as of a thing that had nothing in it . Neither was that which Sir Dennis Ashbournham said of greater force , concerning the Irregularities of his Childhood , which he said would have staggered his Belief of what the Doctor had deposed if the matter had depended solely upon his Testimony , but being so corroborated with other Circumstances , he was convinced of the Truth of what he had discovered ; nor did he think any thing could be said against Dr. Oates to take off his Credibility .

The Lord Chief Justice then summ'd up the Evidence , smartly inveighing against the Principles and Doctrines of Popery . After which the Jury retired for a very little while , and then brought those three Prisoners in Guilty . And then the Court Adjourn'd till the Afternoon , when being met about five a Clock Mr. Recorder ( the Judges being gone home ) made an excellent Speech against Popery , to the Prisoners , sentencing them to be drawn hang'd and quartered ; which accordingly was executed upon them at Tyburn on Friday , Jan. 24th following .