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A Relation of other Material Circumstances and Discourses, in reference to the before menti∣oned design.
LEst the Jesuitical party should say of the following Proceedings, that they are false and ••eigned, as their Impudence affirmeth in all other inventions of theirs, when de∣tected; 'Tis necessary the World should understand the occasional circumstances, intro∣ducing this hellish attaque to be made upom this honest. Gentleman, Captain Bury, who for his worth and reputation is known to several persons of Honour and good Quality in this Nation.
The affairs that brought him into England, from his habitation in the Kingdom of Ireland, was to Petition His Majesty, and the Honourable Privy-Council, touching a debt due to his Father, Sir William Bury of Grantham in Lincolnshire, deceased for his service in being one of His Majesties Lords Commissioners for managing the Government of Ireland; and in prosecution thereof, being several times in company with Mr. Netervile, who was for∣merly a Clerk in the Court of Claims, in Dublin, and who pretend••d to inform the Cap∣tain of several concealed Lands and houses in Ireland, which he might place his debt up∣on; And upon the Captains receipt of his said Letter of the 11th of January, 1678, de∣siring a speedy conference with the Captain, touching matters which may redound to his advaintage, which the Captain readily embraced (supposing it referred to the said con∣cealed Houses and Lands); and according to Netterviles request by his Note, on the said 13th of January last, the Captain visited the said Nettervile in the Marshalsey in Southwark; when in stead of a communication as to the aforesaid concerns (the said Nettervile being no stranger to the Captains long abode here, and the expence he had been at in his soli∣citation) took the opportunity to feel the Captains pulse, as to the horrid fact before-mentioned.
Prima facie. It astonished the honest Captain to think that Netterviles had discovered a matter of that nature to him; and considering if he should reveal it to any one, there would be but his asserting it, and Netterviles denial, besides the censure the World would pass on the Captains Reputation, from the apprehension in Netterviles breast, that the Captain would be, or was fit to be profligated in such a concern, which with the danger and hazard he might expose his life to by such discovery, and the urgency of his particular affairs requiring his personal and speedy attendance in Dublin (having two Conditional Decrees awarded against him, which would have been made absolute this last Hillary-term for want of his appearance there). All these Considerations made him sometimes resolve within himself, to stifle the wicked proposals of Nettervile.
But weighing the direful effects of such a contrivance, which if prosecuted by some other Instruments, when he was departed this Kingdom, would not only have been the destructi∣on of his intimate friend, and old acquaintance, Mr. Blood but prejudicial to his Maje∣stie, and the whole Kingdom, in taking off the evidence of Mr, Oats and Mr. Bedlow, and thereby the Papists might still carry on their devilish design and Plot, when they had wash∣ed their own hands, and made such an alteration; when the innocent would have been ruined, and the true Bloodsuckers acquitted.
This Consideration so affected the Captain, that he resolved to leave the event o•• his particular concerns to Providence; and as you read by his Deposition, he repaired to Mr. Blood, and gave him intelligence thereof. And having so imparted the same to him, the goodnes•• of God appeared much to the Captains satisfaction, touching his troublesome thoughts about his particular concerns, by his Majesties Gracious pleasure, in ordering