PART V.] [TO BE CONTINUED.
INDEX EXPURGATORIUS ANGLICANUS:
OR A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE PRINCIPAL BOOKS PRINTED OR PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND, WHICH HAVE BEEN SUPPRESSED, OR BURNT BY THE COMMON HANGMAN, OR CENSURED, OR FOR WHICH THE AUTHORS, PRINTERS, OR PUBLISHERS HAVE BEEN PROSECUTED.
BY W. H. HART, F.S.A.
PRICE ONE SHILLING AND SIXPENCE.
LONDON: JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE.
1878.
HART AND SON, PRINTERS,] [SAFFRON WALDEN.
261.
A letter to Mr. Miles Prance in relation to the murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey.
A copy of this publication is preserved in the British Museum Library. It is in folio, and contains three pages. For its condemnation see article 265.
262.
A second letter to Miles Prance in reply to the Ghost of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey.
A copy of this publication is preserved in the British Museum Library. It is in folio, and contains four pages. For its condemnation see article 265.
263.
The Loyal Protestant and True Domestic Intelligence, or News both from City and Country. No. 125, Tuesday, March 7, 1682.
A copy of this newspaper is preserved in the British Museum Library. For its condemnation see article 265.
264.
The Loyal Protestant and True Domestic Intelligence, or News both from City and Country. No. 127, Saturday, March 11, 1682.
A copy of this newspaper is preserved in the British Museum Library. For its condemnation see next article.
265.
The Loyal Protestant and True Domestic Intelligence, or News both from City and Country. No. 136, April 1, 1682.
For this, and the publications described in articles 261 to 264 importing that Sir Edmundbury Godfrey murdered himself, a prosecution was instituted against Nathaniel Thompson, William Pain, and John Farwell, and on Tuesday, June 20th, 1682, they were tried at the Guildhall, London, and found guilty. Thompson and Farwell were sentenced to stand on the pillory in the Palace Yard, the last day of Term, between the hours of Ten and One o'clock, for the space of an hour, and each of them to pay a fine of £100, and to be imprisoned until they paid it. Pain was only to pay a fine of £100. Accordingly, on Wednesday, the 5th of July, 1682, Thompson and Farwell stood in the pillory, in the Old Palace Yard, at Westminster, with this writing over their heads--
"For libelling the Justice of the Nation, by making the world believe that Sir Edmundbury Godfrey murdered himself."
The following is a copy of the information:--
Memorandum quod Robertus Sawyer miles, Attornatus domini Regis nunc Generalis, qui pro eodem domino Rege in hac parte sequitur, in propria persona sua venit hic in curiam dicti domini Regis, coram ipso Rege apud Westmonasterium, die Mercurii proximo post quindenam Paschæ isto eodem termino, et pro eodem domino Rege dat curiæ hic intelligi et informari, quod die Martis proximo post crastinum Purificationis Beatæ Mariæ Virginis, termino Sancti Hillarii annis regni domini Caroli Secundi nunc Regis Angliæ &c. tricesimo et tricesimo primo, in curia dicti domini Regis coram ipso Rege apud Westmonasterium, eadem curia apud Westmonasterium in comitatu Middlesexiæ tunc tenta existente, per sacramentum duodecim juratorum proborum et legalium hominum comitatus Middlesexiæ prædictæ tunc et ibidem juratorum et oneratorum ad inquirendum pro dicto domino Rege et corpore comitatus prædicti, extitit præsentatum quod Robertus Greene nuper de parochia Sanctæ Mariæ le Strond in comitatu Middlesexiæ Laborer, [ ] Gerrald nuper de parochia prædicta in comitatu prædicto clericus, Henricus Berry nuper de parochia prædicta in comitatu prædicto Laborer, Laurencius Hill nuper de parochia prædicta in comitatu prædicto Laborer, Dominicus Kelly nuper de parochia prædicta in comitatu prædicto clericus, et Philbert Vernat nuper de parochia prædicta in comitatu prædicto Laborer, Deum præ oculis suis non habentes, sed instigatione diabolica moti et seducti, duodecimo die Octobris anno regni domini Caroli Secundi Dei gratia Angliæ Scotiæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ Regis Fidei Defensoris &c. tricesimo, vi et armis &c. apud parochiam Sanctæ Mariæ le Strond prædictæ in comitatu Middlesexiæ prædictæ in et super quendam Edmundum Berry Godfrey militem, in pace Dei et dicti Domini Regis nunc adtunc et ibidem existentem, felonice, voluntarie, et ex malitia sua præcogitata, insultum fecerunt. Et quod prædictus Robertus Greene quoddam sudarium panni lini _anglice a linen handkerchiffe_, valoris sex denariorum, circa collum ipsius Edmundi Berry Godfrey adtunc et ibidem felonice, voluntarie, et ex malitia sua præcogitata, plicavit, et fixavit _anglice did fold, and fasten_. Et quod prædictus Robertus Greene cum prædicto sudario sic per ipsum Robertum Greene plicato et fixato circa collum ipsius prædicti Edmundi Berry adtunc ipsum prædictum Edmundum Berry Godfrey felonice, voluntarie, et ex malitia sua præcogitata, suffocavit et strangulavit _anglice, choake and strangle_, de quibusquidem suffocatione, et strangulatione ipsius Edmundi Berry Godfrey prædicti, per ipsum prædictum Robertum Greene in forma prædicta factis et perpetratis, ipse prædictus Edmundus Berry Godfrey adtunc et ibidem instanter obiit. Et quod prædicti [ ] Gerrald, Henricus Berry, Laurentius Hill, Dominicus Kelly, et Philbert Vernat, adtunc et ibidem felonice, voluntarie, et ex malitia sua præcogitata fuerunt præsentes, auxiliantes, abettantes, comfortantes, assistentes, et manutenentes præfatum Robertum Greene ad prædictum Edmundum Berry Godfrey in forma prædicta felonice, voluntarie, et ex malitia sua præcogitata, interficiendum et murdrandum. Et sic juratores prædicti adtunc dixerunt super sacramentum suum prædictum quod prædictus Robertus Greene, [ ] Gerrald, Henricus Berry, Laurencius Hill, Dominicus Kelly, et Philbert Vernat, modo et forma prædictis, præfatum Edmundum Berry Godfrey felonice, voluntarie, et ex malitia sua præcogitata, interfecerunt et murdraverunt, contra pacem dicti domini Regis nunc, coronam et dignitatem suas &c., per quod præceptum fuit vicecomiti comitatus prædicti quod non omitteret &c. quin caperet eos si &c., ad respondendum &c. Quodque postea, scilicet die Mercurii proximo post crastinum Purificationis Beatæ Mariæ Virginis, termino Sancti Hillarii, anno regni domini Caroli Secundi nunc Regis Angliæ &c. tricesimo et tricesimo primo supradicto coram domino Rege apud Westmonasterium venerunt prædicti Robertus Greene, Henricus Berry, et Laurencius Hill sub custodia Willielmi Richardson generosi tunc custodis gaoli dicti domini Regis de Newgate virtute brevis dicti domini Regis de Habeas Corpus ad subjiciendum, recipiendum &c. in cujus custodia præantea ex causa predicta commissi fuerunt ad barram prædictæ curiæ dicti domini Regis tunc et ibidem ducti in propria persona sua, et adtunc et ibidem statim de præmissis prædictis eis superius impositis separatim allocuti qualiter se velint inde acquietari separatim, dixerunt quod ipsi in nullo fuerunt inde culpabiles et inde de bono et malo posuerunt se separatim super patriam. In quaquidem causa taliter processum fuit quod prædictus Robertus Greene, Henricus Berry, et Laurencius Hill postea scilicet die Lunæ proximo post octabas Purificationis Beatæ Mariæ Virginis termino Sancti Hillarii annis regni dicti domini Regis nunc tricesimo et tricesimo primo supradictis, in prædicta curia dicti domini Regis coram ipso Rege apud Westmonasterium prædictum in comitatu Middlesexiæ prædictæ, pro felonia et murdro prædictis in indictamento prædicto specificatis et contentis per quandam juratam patriæ debito modo triati fuerunt et adtunc et ibidem legitimo modo pro felonia et murdro prædictis convicti et attincti fuerunt, prout per recordum inde in prædicta curia dicti domini Regis coram ipso Rege apud Westmonasterium in comitatu Middlesexiæ prædictæ remanens filatum plenius liquet et apparet. Qui quidem Robertus Greene, Henricus Berry, et Laurencius Hill postea debito modo executi fuerunt, et pænam mortis subierunt juxta formam et effectum judicii et attincturæ prædictorum. Cumque etiam quidam Milo Prance, super triationem prædictum fuit testis productus et juratus ex parte dicti domini Regis nunc adtunc et ibidem legitimo modo dedisset materialem evidenciam versus prædictos Robertum Greene, Henricum Berry, et Laurencium Hill ad probandum ipsos fore culpabiles de felonia et murdro prædictis in indictamento prædicto specificatis. Et quidam Willielmus Bedlowe, Johannes Browne, Elizabetha Curtis, Zacharias Skillarne, et Nicholaus Cambridge super triationem prædictum fuerunt testes similiter producti et jurati ex parte dicti domini Regis, et diversas materiales evidentias versus prædictos Robertum Greene, Henricum Berry, Laurencium Hill, ad probandum ipsos fore culpabiles de felonia et murdro prædictis in eodem indictamento mentionatis dederunt. Cumque etiam prædicti [ ] Gerrald, Robertus Greene, Laurencius Hill, Dominicus Kelly et Philbert Vernat tempore feloniæ et murdri prædictorum fuerunt Papistæ et manutentores Romanæ superstitionis. Et prædicti [ ] Gerrald, Dominicus Kelly, et Philbert Vernat fugam fecerunt et ad indictamentum prædictum adhuc non comparuerunt nec aliquis eorum comparuit. Cumque etiam super visum corporis prædicti Edmundi Berry Godfrey mortui jacentis quædam inquisitio debito modo capta fuit coram Johanne Cooper generoso tunc uno coronatorum dicti domini Regis comitatus Middlesexiæ prædictæ per sacramentum proborum et legalium hominum comitatus Middlesexiæ ultra numerum duodecim personarum per quamquidem inquisitionem compertum fuit quod quidam malefactores ignoti felonice et ex malitia sua præpensa ipsum Edmundum Berry Godfrey strangulaverunt et suffocaverunt de qua obiit. Et quod quidam Nathaniel Thompson nuper de parochia Sancti Dunstani in Occidente Londoniæ Typhographus, Willielmus Payne nuper de parochia prædicta infra civitatem Londoniæ generosus, et Johannes Farwell nuper de Westmonasterio in comitatu Middlesexiæ generosus præmissa prædicta satis scientes, et existentes personæ diabolice effecti ac machinantes practicantes et totis viribus suis intendentes pacem et communem tranquillitatem hujus regni Angliæ perturbare et quantum in ipsis fuit debitum legis cursum corrumpere, subvertere, et evadere, et justitiam hujus regni Angliæ in ea parte defamare et scandalizare et tam præfatos Milonem Prance, Willielmum Bedlowe, Johannem Browne, Elizabetham Curtis, Zachariam Skillarne, et Nicholaum Cambridge quam prædictos Johannem Cooper et probos et legales homines super inquisitionem prædictam super visum corporis prædicti juratos in maximum odium contemptum et vilipendium cum omnibus ligeis subditis dicti domini Regis nunc inducere et inferre ac ad deterrendum subditos dicti domini Regis a comparendo detigendo et probando machinationes Papistorum contra dominum Regem nunc et veram religionem per legem nunc stabilitatam et impie et nefarie machinantes et intendentes ipsos prædictos [ ] Gerrald, Dominicum Kelly et prædictum Philbertum Vernat a subeundo pænas et sententias per legem super ipsos infligendas pro murdro prædicto ac ad auxiliandum et assistandum ipsos quamvis inde culpabiles fore compertos minime culpabiles ac ad decipiendum et fallandum subditos dicti domini Regis de et in præmissis cum falsis affirmantiis et agreamentis suis et causare et procurare quod creditum foret et estimaretur quod prædicti Robertus Greene, Henricus Berry, et Laurencius Hill personæ, sic ut præfertur, pro felonia et murdro prædictis prædicti Edmundi Berry convicti et executi minus rite convicti et executi fuissent, quodque prædictus Edmundus Berry Godfrey fuit felo de se et seipsum felonice murdrasset, ipsi prædicti Nathaniel Thompson, Willielmus Payne, et Johannes Farwell ad nequissimas, nefandissimas, et diabolicas intentiones suas prædictas perimplendas et proficiendas postea scilicet vicesimo tertio die Februarii anno regni domini Caroli Secundi nunc Regis Angliæ &c. tricesimo quarto apud parochiam Sanctæ Mariæ le Bow Londoniæ vi et armis &c. falso, illicite, injuste, nequiter, malitiose, scandalose, et diabolice, fecerunt, composuerunt et imprimi causaverunt quendam falsum, scandalosum, et defamatorium libellum intitulatum, _A Letter to Mr. Miles Prance, in relation to the murther of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey_, in quoquidem libello inter alia continetur prout sequitur. _And hearing that the Coroner's Jury or Inquest were first of opinion, and accordingly declared, he was felo de se; and that there was much art and skill used to procure their verdict to the contrary; more particularly, the refusing of the body, (at their instance and request) to be opened._ Ac in alio loco ejusdem libelli ulterius continetur prout sequitur. _They say, that if a man, or any other creature be strangled, or hanged, and his body cold, and the blood settled in the veins_ (_as he must needs be, if your evidence be true_) (evidentiam prædicti Milonis Prance innuendo) _run twenty swords through such a body, not one drop of blood will come out; but on the contrary, his body, when found, was full of blood, in so much that (over and above the cakes or great gobbets of congealed putrified blood found afterwards in his cloaths) the constable when he pulled the sword out of his body, it crashed against his back bone, and gobbets of blood and water gushed or gubbled out of that wound in abundance, not only in that very place where the sword was pulled out but in all his passage to the Whitehouse; especially there where his body was lifted over two high stumps; and also when he was laid upon the table, the blood and water so issued out of that wound, that it ran from off the table upon the floor, and from thence into the cellar. So that they do aver, that that wound that he received by that sword, must of necessity be the cause of his death._ Ac in alia parte ejusdem libelli ulterius continetur prout sequitur, _They observe, that Bedloe's, (before the Committee of Lords), and your evidence in relation to this gentleman's death, are as different as the East is from the West; for you dog him out of St. Clement's; the other decoys him from Charing Cross; you swear he was strangled with a handkerchief near the stables going to the water-side; Bedloe, that he was smothered with a pillow in a room in the great Court in Somerset-house. You say, he took horse at Soho; Bedlow says, he took Coach at Clarendon-house, with many more such like contradictions; and considering the old proverb, fore-warn'd, fore arm'd; a further and fuller account of the whole matter expect._ Quodque prædicti Nathaniel Thompson, Willielmus Payne et Johannes Farwell ad nequissimas nefandissimas et diabolicas intentiones suas prædictas perimplendas et proficiendas postea scilicet tertio die Marcii anno regni dicti domini Regis nunc tricesimo quarto [_word defaced_] apud parochiam Sanctæ Mariæ le Bow Londoniæ prædictæ vi et armis et falso, illicite, injuste, nequiter, malitiose, scandalose, et diabolice, fecerunt composuerunt et imprimi causaverunt quendam alium falsum scandalosum et defamatorium libellum intitulatum, _A Second Letter to Miles Prance, in reply to the Ghost of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey_, in quoquidem ultimo mencionato libello inter alia continetur prout sequitur. _Next, whereas my letter saith, (and that truly) that the Coroner's Jury were first of opinion and accordingly declared he was felo de se; and that much art and skill was used to procure their verdict to the contrary._ Ac in alio loco ejusdem ultimo mencionati libelli inter alia continetur prout sequitur. _And it would be very material, if the Coroner would declare, what he received for that job, and of whom, and what evidence he had to induce the Jury to find (as the inquisition imports) that he was strangled with a linen cloth, a matter of fact never so much as spoken of, until you came in with your evidence, which was not in some weeks after. And I do again aver, that the body was required by the jurors to be opened, and was refused; and if the body was in their and the Coroner's power (as the Ghost insinuates) such power was concealed from and denied the Jury._ Et in alio loco ejusdem ultimo mentionati libelli inter alia continetur prout sequitur, _He is to understand that Mr. Brown, the two surgeons_ (prædictos Zachariam Skillarne, et Nicholam Cambridge innuendo) _and Mrs. Curtis are not competent (nor can be material) witnesses in this case._ Et in alio loco ejusdem ultimo mentionati libelli inter alia ulterius continetur prout sequitur, _But Mr. Prance, it will be fully proved, that the body was full of blood, and that there were cakes or gobbets of dry blood found in his cloaths, which (with his body) stunk extremely. And it will be also fully and effectually proved that his eyes, nostrils, and corners of his mouth were fly-blown._ Ac in alio loco ejusdem ultimo mentionati libelli inter alia continetur prout sequitur, _And as to the seventh and last paragraph, which relates only to the difference betwixt yours and Mr. Bedlow's evidence, I must take notice, that what you and he swear are very contradictory._ Et in alio loco ejusdem ultimo mentionati libelli inter alia ulterius continetur prout sequitur, _But I cannot omit to take further notice of Mrs. Curtis's affidavit in relation to the drops of wax found upon the cloaths, in which I cannot say but she may swear true: but this I do aver, that if it be so, those drops were put upon the cloaths long after he was found, and after the jury had sat on the body; for there was no such thing then on the cloaths. And I suppose this was some artifice used by those, who, either out of interest or design, were desirous to confirm his being murthered at Somerset-House._ Ac ulterius idem Attornatus dicti domini Regis nunc Generalis pro eodem domino Rege dat curiam hic intelligi et informari quod prædicti Nathaniel Thompson, Willielmus Payne, et Johannes Farwell in ulteriorem prosecutionem prædictæ falsæ nequissimæ et malitiosæ machinationis et intentionis suarum prædictarum postea scilicet septimo die Marcii anno regni dicti domini Regis nunc tricesimo quarto supradicto apud parochiam Sanctæ Mariæ le Bow Londoniæ prædictam vi et armis &c. falso, illicite, injuste, nequiter, malitiose, scandalose, et diabolice composuerunt, fecerunt, et imprimi causaverunt quendam alium falsum scandalosum et defamatorium libellum intitulatum, _The Loyal Protestant, and True Domestic Intelligence, or News both from City and Country_, in quoquidem ultimo mentionato libello continetur prout sequitur, _That there is not in the said letter_ (prædictum falsum scandalosum et defamatorium libellum intitulatum A Letter to Mr. Miles Prance, in relation to the murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey præantea primo mencionatum innuendo) _the least item or circumstance, but what will be by undeniable evidence made out to be the truth: So the said Mr. Prance, having not as yet vouchsafed an answer to that letter, he will speedily receive a further letter relating to that murther; wherein the further truth will not only be fully set forth, and other circumstances set out._ Et ulterius idem Attornatus dicti domini Regis nunc Generalis pro eodem domino Rege dat curiam hic intelligi et informari quod prædictus Nathaniel Thompson, Willielmus Payne, et Johannes Farwell in ulteriorem prosecutionem prædictæ falsæ nequissimæ et malitiosæ machinationis et intentionis suarum prædictarum postea scilicet undecimo die Marcii anno regni dicti domini Regis nunc tricesimo quarto supradicto apud parochiam Sanctæ Mariæ le Bow Londoniæ prædictam vi et armis, falso, illicite, injuste, nequiter, malitiose, scandalose, et diabolice composuerunt, fecerunt, et imprimi causaverunt quendam alium falsum scandalosum et defamatorium libellum intitulatum, _The Loyal Protestant and True Domestick Intelligence, or News both from City and Country_, in quoquidem ultimo mentionato libello inter alia continetur prout sequitur, _Whereas Dick Janeway in this Day's Mercury, promises an answer to the late Letter to Mr. Prance, &c. This is to give him and all the world notice, that such an answer is impatiently expected by the author of that letter, who questions not but to prove every tittle of that letter to the satisfaction of all mankind: And besides he is very desirous that the Courantier (according to his last Pacquet of Advice from Rome) would go on, and use his interest, to procure the Lord Mayor, Court of Aldermen and Common Council of London, to inspect the Truth of that letter; whereby it will appear inevitably that there is not one Papist or popishly affected person concerned in that letter, or in the proof of the particulars thereof; but the same (with divers other material circumstances relating to the murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, and the fraud and blind put upon the world in relation thereto) will be more fully, plainly and manifestly proved, without giving ill words, or scurrilous language, or reflections to any person that really are or supposed to be therein concerned in any circumstance whatsoever_. Et ulterius idem Attornatus dicti domini Regis nunc Generalis pro eodem domino Rege dat curiam hic intelligi et informari quod prædicti Nathaniel Thompson, Willielmus Payne et Johannes Farwell in ulteriorem prosecutionem prædictæ falsæ nequissimæ et malitiosæ machinationis et intentionis suarum prædictarum postea scilicet primo die Aprilis anno regni dicti domini Regis nunc tricesimo quarto supradicto vi et armis &c. apud parochiam Sanctæ Mariæ le Bow Londoniæ prædictam falso, illicite, injuste, nequiter, malitiose, scandalose, et diabolice fecerunt composuerunt, et imprimi causaverunt quendam alium falsum, scandalosum et defamatorium libellum intitulatum, _The Loyal Protestant, and True Domestic Intelligence, or News both from City and Country_, in quoquidem ultimo mentionato libello inter alia continetur prout sequitur, _Last Wednesday, Nathaniel Thompson, (upon summons) appeared before the Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, about the letters to Mr. Miles Prance, concerning the death of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey where he justified the matter, and produced the authors, who are ready to prove (by undeniable and substantial witnesses, not in the least accused, or suspected of Popery, as the malicious party do suggest) that every tittle and iota of those letters are true._ Quodque in alia parte ejusdem ultimo mentionati libelli inter alia continetur prout sequitur, _Mr. Thompson and the gentlemen his friends, are to attend the next Wednesday at Council where they do not doubt but that Honourable Board will put them into a method to prove the whole, or any particular which their Honours in their great wisdom shall think convenient to be brought to the test or examination_. Et ulterius idem Attornatus dicti domini Regis nunc Generalis pro eodem domino Rege dat curiæ hic intelligi et informari quod prædicti Nathaniel Thompson, Willielmus Payne, et Johannes Farwell vicesimo tertio die Februarii anno regni dicti domini Regis nunc tricesimo quarto supradicto diversis aliis diebus et vicibus inter prædictum vicesimum tertium diem Februarii anno tricesimo quarto supradicto et diem exhibitionis hujus informationis apud parochiam Sanctæ Mariæ le Bow Londoniæ prædictam scienter, et quilibet eorum scienter prædictos separales libellos fore falsos malitiosos et scandalosos et seditiosos vi et armis &c. falso illicite injuste nequiter malitiose scandalose et diabolice prædictos falsos malitiosos scandalosos et seditiosos libellos utteraverunt, publicaverunt et quilibet eorum utteravit et publicavit, in contemptum legum hujus regni Angliæ manifestum, ac scandalum et defamationem publicæ justitiæ ejusdem, in malum exemplum omnium aliorum in tali casu delinquentium, ac contra pacem dicti domini Regis nunc coronam et dignitatem suas &c.
266.
The Memoirs of James Lord Audley Earl of Castlehaven, his engagement and carriage in the Wars of Ireland, from the year 1642 to the year 1651. Written by himself. London. 1680.
On August 3rd, 1682, Lord Castlehaven was summoned before the Council, the King being present, respecting the publication of this book, which he owned; and it was resolved that the book was a libel against the government.[221] A copy of this publication is preserved in the British Museum Library.
267.
The Loyal Protestant, and true Domestic Intelligence, or News both from City and Country, No. 166, Saturday, June 10th, 1682.
For publishing this periodical a prosecution was instituted against Nathaniel Thomson and Mary his wife. The following is a copy of the information:--
Londonia. Memorandum quod Samuel Astry armiger Coronator et Attornatus domini Regis in curia ipsius Regis coram ipso Rege qui pro eodem domino Rege in hac parte sequitur in propria persona sua venit hic in curiam dicti domini Regis coram ipso Rege apud Westmonasterium die Lunæ proximo post tres septimanas Sancti Michaelis isto eodem termino, et pro eodem domino Rege dat curiæ his intelligi et informari quod Nathaniel Tompson nuper de parochia Sancti Dunstani in Occidente Londoniæ Yeoman et Maria Tompson uxor prædicti Nathanielis existentes personæ maledispositi ac machinantes practicantes et intendentes pacem et communem tranquillitatem hujus regni Angliæ perturbare et diversas personas infra hoc regnum Angliæ in odium et contemptum dicti domini Regis et subditorum ipsius domini Regis inducere et inferre, et ad nequissimas machinationes practicationes et intentiones suas prædictas perimplenda et perficienda prædicti Nathaniel Tompson et Maria Tompson decimo die Junii anno regni domini Caroli Secundi nunc Regis Angliæ &c. tricesimo quarto vi et armis &c. apud parochiam prædictam infra Civitatem Londoniæ prædictam falso, illicite, injuste, nequiter, seditiose et scandalose imprimi causaverunt et publicaverunt et uterque eorum tunc et ibidem imprimi causavit et publicavit quoddam falsum, malitiosum, scandalosum, et defamatorium libellum intitulatum _The Loyal Protestant and True Domestick Intelligence_, in quoquidem falso, scandaloso, et defamatorio libello inter alia contenta fuerunt hæ falsæ, scandalosæ, et defamatoriæ sententiæ in his Anglicanis verbis et figuris sequentibus _Windsor_. _June 7, 1682. This day the Court of Verge sate here, where the 2 Portugal Cooks came to their tryals, and were (upon hearing the whole matter) found guilty of poysoning Mr. Benning the Turnbroach; the Foreman of the Jury was one Mr. White, the King's Plummer, near this place. We cannot hear of any sentence given against them as yet Benning excepted against a House-Jury, by reason he had formerly disobliged some of the Servants; wherefore he thought Justice would not be done him; they having had a prejudice against him ever since._ Et ulterius idem Coronator et Attornatus dicti domini Regis pro eodem domino Rege dat curiæ hic intelligi et informari quod prædicti Nathaniel Tompson et Maria Tompson die et anno supradictis apud parochiam prædictam infra civitatem Londoniæ prædictam scientes prædictum falsum, scandalosum, et defamatorium libellum fore falsum et defamatorium libellum, falso, illicite, injuste, nequiter, malitiose, et seditiose vendiderunt, utteraverunt, et publicaverunt, et uterque eorum vendidit, utteravit, et publicavit, in malum exemplum omnium aliorum in tali casu delinquentium, ac contra pacem dicti domini Regis nunc coronam et dignitatem suas &c.[222]
The result of this prosecution does not appear. A copy of this publication is preserved in the British Museum Library.
268.
The True Protestant Mercury: or Occurrences Foreign and Domestic. No. 149. From Wednesday, June 7, to Saturday, June 10, 1682.
For publishing this periodical a prosecution was instituted against Thomas Snowden, printer, of the parish of St. Andrew by the Wardrobe, and Jane Curtis, wife of Langley Curtis, of the parish of St. Bride's, Fleet Street. The following is a copy of the information:--
Londonia. Memorandum quod Samuel Astry Armiger Coronator et Attornatus domini Regis in curia ipsius Regis coram ipso Rege qui pro eodem domino Rege in hac parte sequitur in propria persona sua venit hic in curia dicti domini Regis coram ipso Rege apud Westmonasterium die Lunæ proximo post tres septimanas Sancti Michaelis isto eodem termino et pro eodem domino Rege dat curiæ hic intelligi et informari quod Thomas Snowden de parochia Sancti Andreæ Wardrope Londoniæ Typographus et Jana Curtis uxor Langley Curtis nuper de parochia Sanctæ Bridgettæ Londoniæ Yeoman existentes personæ male dispositi ac machinantes practicantes et intendentes pacem et communem tranquillitatem hujus regni Angliæ perturbare et diversas personas infra hoc regnum Angliæ in maximum odium contemptum et vilipendium non solum cum dicto domino Rege, verum etiam cum aliis subditis ipsius domini Regis inducere et inferre et ad nequissimas machinationes practicationes et intentiones suas prædictas perimplenda et perficienda prædicti Thomas Snowden et Jana Curtis vicesimo die Junii anno regni domini Caroli Secundi nunc Regis Angliæ &c. tricesimo quarto vi et armis &c. apud parochiam Sanctæ Bridgettæ Londoniæ prædictam, falso, illicite, injuste, nequiter, seditiose et scandalose, imprimi causaverunt et publicaverunt, et uterque eorum adtunc et ibidem imprimi causavit et publicavit quoddam falsum malitiosum scandalosum et defamatorium libellum intitulatum _The true Protestant Mercury or occurrences foreign and domestic_, in quoquidem libello inter alia contenta fuerunt hæ falsæ, fictæ, et scandalosæ sententiæ in hiis Anglicanis verbis, _The two Portugal Cooks mentioned in our last had their tryals on Wednesday last at Windsor, and were found guilty of poysening Benning the Turnbroach. The foreman of the jury was Mr. W. the King's Plummer, who lives near Windsor, but we do not hear of any sentence given as yet against them. But we hear that his Majesty declared before the trial, that whosoever was found in the fault, should have no favour showed him. The reason that he had excepted against the Jury of the King's servants, was because he had formerly some quarrel with some of them, and had discovered something against them, and therefore thought they would not do him justice._ Et ulterius idem Coronator et Attornatus dicti domini Regis pro eodem domino Rege dicit quod prædicti Thomas Snowden et Jana Curtis dicto vicesimo die Junii anno supradicto apud parochiam Sanctæ Bridgettæ Londoniæ prædictam falsum et scandalosum libellum falso, illicite, injuste, nequiter et malitiose vendiderunt utteraverunt et publicaverunt et uterque eorum vendidit utteravit et publicavit, in malum exemplum omnium aliorum in tali casu delinquentium, ac contra pacem dicti domini Regis nunc coronam et dignitatem suas &c.[223]
A copy of this publication is preserved in the British Museum Library.
269.
A second letter from a person of quality to his friend about abhorrers and addressors, &c. 1682.
This was written by Thomas Stringer, who appears to have been Secretary or Steward to the Earl of Shaftesbury; and for writing the same, a prosecution was instituted against him. The following is a copy of the indictment:--
Londonia. Juratores pro domino rege super sacramentum suum præsentant quod Thomas Stringer nuper de Londonia generosus machinans et intendens serenissimum dominum nostrum Carolum Secundum Dei gratia Angliæ Scotiæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ Regem Fidei Defensorem &c., et regimen suum in odium et infamiam inter subditos suas inferre, et pacem et communem tranquillitatem hujus regni Angliæ molestare et perturbare, et diversas differentias inter eosdem subditos excitare et procurare vicesimo die Junii anno regni dicti domini Regis nunc tricesimo quarto apud Londoniam videlicet in parochia Sancti Botulphi extra Aldersgate in Warda de Aldersgate Londoniæ prædicta vi et armis &c. falso seditiose et malitiose scripsit et publicavit et scribi imprimi et publicari causavit quendam scandalosum libellum intitulatum, _A Second letter from a person of quality to his friend about abhorrers and addressors, &c._ in quoquidem libello continentur hæc falsa ficta et scandalosa verba sequentia videlicet _Tis plain these men_ (ligeos et subditos dicti domini regis nunc innuendo) _mean and intend by this abhorrence_ (quandam detestationem versus associationem in papiris scriptam prætensam fore inventam inter quosdam papiros Anthonii Comitis Shaftesbury innuendo) _and under this notion to create an association for all the Tories to maintain a Popish Successor and to introduce arbitrary power. And whosoever joins with or doth not vigorously oppose such practices is guilty of these designs._ Et in altera parte ejusdem libelli continentur hæc falsa et scandalosa verba sequentia videlicet, _That which concerns the mercenary forces is no more than every man's duty as much as in him lies (which means as lawfully he may) to endeavour entirely to disband all such mercenary forces as we have reason to believe are raised to advance arbitrary power._ In malum et perniciosissimum exemplum omnium aliorum in consimili casu delinquentium ac contra pacem dicti domini regis nunc coronam et dignitatem suas &c.[224]
270.
The Addresses importing an abhorrence of an Association pretended to have been seized in the Earl of Shaftesbury's closet, laid open and detected. In a letter to a friend. 1682.
This was the production of Mr. Robert Ferguson, and for writing, printing, and publishing the same he was prosecuted. The following is a copy of the indictment:
Juratores pro domino Rege super sacramentum suum præsentant quod Robertus Ferguson nuper de Londonia generosus, Deum præ oculis suis non habens sed instigatione diabolica motus et seductus, machinansque et intendens serenissimum dominum nostrum Carolum Secundum Dei gratia Angliæ Scotiæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ Regem Fidei Defensorem, et regimen suum in odium et infamiam inter subditos suos inferre ac pacem et communem tranquillitatem hujus regni Angliæ perturbare et diversas differentias inter eosdem subditos procurare vicesimo die Junii anno regni dicti domini regis nunc tricesimo quarto apud Londoniam videlicet in parochia Sancti Martini Ludgate in warda de Farringdon extra Londoniam prædicta vi et armis &c. falso seditiose et malitiose scripsit, impressit, et publicavit et scribi, imprimi et publicari causavit quondam scandalosum libellum intitulatum, _The Addresses importing an abhorrence of an association pretended to have been seized in the Earl of Shaftesbury's closet, laid open and detected. In a letter to a friend_. In quoquidem libello continentur hæc falsa ficta et scandalosa verba sequentia, _And as all Addresses of this nature tend to render the King, who ought to reign in the hearts of all his people, the Head meerly of one party and that a very inconsiderable one if compared with the bulk of the Nation; so they only serve to publish to all the world the distractions of the Kingdom, and to proclaim in the face of the Sun the weakness of the Government. What do the foreigners say upon the perusal of our Gazets, but that either things are not managed in England according to the Laws of the Constitution, or that his Majesty of Great Britain reigns precariously, seeing his Ministers seek to support the Transactions of State, by courting the applause of a few little folk here and there through the Kingdom?_ In malum et perniciosissimum exemplum omnium aliorum in consimili casu delinquentium ac contra pacem dicti domini regis nunc coronam et dignitatem suas &c.[225]
A copy of this publication is in the British Museum Library. It is in folio and occupies four pages.
271.
An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England, from the first times to the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. With a vindication of the ancient way of Parliaments in England. Collected from some manuscript notes of John Selden, Esq.; by Nathaniel Bacon, of Gray's Inn, Esquire. London. 1682.
This is one of the reprints of the original edition of 1651. For publishing this reprint, a prosecution was instituted against John Starkey. The following is a copy of the indictment against him:--
Londonia. Juratores pro domino Rege super sacramentum suum præsentant quod Johannes Starkey nuper de Londonia Stationer machinans et intendens Serenissimum Dominum nostrum Carolum Secundum Dei gratia Angliæ Scotiæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ Regem Fidei Defensorem &c. supremum et naturalem Dominum suum et regimen suum in odium infamiam et contemptum inter subditos suos inducere et inferre ac pacem et communem tranquillitatem hujus regni Angliæ perturbare vicesimo die Junii anno regni dicti domini Regis nunc tricesimo quarto apud Londoniam videlicet in parochia Sancti Dunstani in Occidente in Warda de Farringdon extra London prædicta vi et armis &c. falso seditiose et malitiose impressit et publicavit et imprimi et publicari causavit quendam librum scandalosum intitulatum _The continuation of the Historicall and Politicall Discourse of the Laws and Government of England until the end of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth with a vindication of the antient way of Parliaments in England_. In quo quidem libro de et concernente præfato domino Rege nunc continentur hæc falsa ficta et scandalosa verba sequentia videlicet, _I do easily grant that Kings have many Occasions and Opportunities to beguile their People, yet can they do nothing as Kings, but what of right they ought to doe: They may call Parliaments, but neither as often or seldome as they please, if the Statute-Laws of this Realme might take place._ Et in altera parte ejusdem libri continentur hæc falsa et scandalosa verba sequentia videlicet, _And though Kings may be chiefe Commanders, yet they are not the chiefe Rulers_. In malum et pernitiosissimum exemplum omnium aliorum in consimili casu delinquentium ac contra pacem dicti domini regis nunc coronam et dignitatem suas &c.[226]
Upon this indictment Starkey was outlawed, but in the first year of Will. and Mary he brought a writ of error and the outlawry was reversed.
272.
Mr. Hunt's postscript for rectifying some mistakes in some of the inferiour clergy, mischievous to our government and religion. With two Discourses about the Succession, and Bill of Exclusion. In answer to two Books affirming the unalterable right of Succession, and the unlawfulness of the Bill of Exclusion. London. 1682.
Thomas Hunt, Esq., of London, was prosecuted for publishing this. The information charges that Thomas Hunt, late of London, esquire, being a pernicious and seditious man, and contriving and maliciously intending to disturb the peace of England, and to create false opinions and suspicions among the king's subjects concerning the king and his government, and to cause them to think that the king was an abettor of Papists and most pernicious men conspiring to procure the subversion of the government of the kingdom and also the Protestant religion established by law, called _plotters_, and to excite rebellious seditions and discords between the king and his subjects, and to bring the king's government into contempt and hatred, did in order to carry out his most wicked and diabolical intentions, on the twentieth day of January in the thirty fourth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, at the parish of St. Michael Cornhill in London, unlawfully, wickedly, maliciously, scandalously, and seditiously make, compose and write, and cause to be printed, published and sold a certain false, scandalous, libellous, seditious, and defamatory book intituled _Mr Hunt's Postscript_, in which book in writing of and concerning the Papists and the _plots_ in the same book mentioned to have been perpetrated, among other things is contained as follows--_Nay, as if they_ [meaning Papists] _did not fear or care to loose the favour of their most indulgent Prince, which they have possest since he used Papists in making his Escape at Worcester; they have contrived these two last Plots with such Art, as to bring them under his Majesties Observation, and represented them as things fit for his encouragement. Sure if they were not urged with the fears of a real guilt, and a restless Conscience of the Plot, they would never have adventured thus to have interested the honor of the King, and to tempt him to abandon them to the publick Justice of the Nation: which begins to grow impatient by the delays of it against this hellish Plot. For we have had four Parliaments dissolved since the discovery of it, one a darling to the Crown. The bringing into question the Dissolution of that Parliament in the House of Peers, upon the reason of an unnatural Prorogation, was not long before censured, and some great Lords imprisoned therefore; proceedings so unwarrantable, that it was after thought fit by that House to obliterate the Memory of them; soe necessary was that Parliament then thought to the service of the Crown. The Dissolution of that Parliament, gave us reason to fear that the King had no more business for Parliaments. By these Dissolutions, no publick ends that are intelligible are served, no Interest but that of the Plot is gratified; no persons of any sort receive their satisfaction but the Plotters, who are respited thereby from publick Justice, and gain time to bring their Plot to effect._[227]
The result of this prosecution does not appear. A copy of the book is preserved in the British Museum Library.
273.
The Presbyterian Paternoster; Creed, and Ten Commandments. 1681.
This is a single sheet printed on both sides. A copy is preserved in the Library of the British Museum.
In a newspaper of the period, The True Protestant Mercury of February 23, 1680-1, we find the following account of this production:--"Feb. 18, 1680-1. Complaint being made to the Bishop of London of a most vile and blasphemous pamphlet, lately published by one Hindmarsh, a bookseller in Cornhill, intituled _The Presbyterian's Paternoster, Creed, and Decalogue_, wherein the sacred form of prayer taught by our Blessed Saviour to his disciples, the Ten Commandments, written with the finger of the Almighty, and delivered with dreadful Majesty, together with that Brief Summary of our Holy Faith, commonly called _The Apostle's Creed_, were most impudently depraved and profaned, and to the horror of all pious ears, the scandal of Christianity, and indelible shame of the Nation, turned into ridicule and impiety; his Lordship detesting such abominations, presented the said pamphlet to the consideration of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council; and 'tis said, the said Bookseller will at the Sessions beginning to be holden this week for London be indicted (as he most justly deserves) for blasphemy; in the mean time all sober men of the Church of England (for which every true Protestant has a profound deference and respect, though dissenting from some superfluous ceremonies, so much perhaps the more eagerly contended for by domineering spirits, by how much the less necessary they are) will take notice what kind of persons these are, who so studiously make it their business to render Dissenters odious and suspected, with those swarms of seditious libels, daily spawned by _Th. Too. S. M._ this worthy gentleman in Cornhill, and others. And that the authors of such pamphlets, whatever they scribble, are no real sons of the Church of England, but a disparagement unto her, by shrouding themselves under her mantle, being in truth, either disguised Papists, or else mere Ruffians, debaucht rakehells and Atheists."
Very soon afterwards at the Sessions of Peace held at Guildhall, the Grand Jury found a true bill against Hindmarsh, Thomson the printer and Parson Ashington the alleged writer of this "detestable blasphemous pamphlet." To quote the forcible words of the next number of The True Protestant Mercury--"The Secretary of Hell that contrived this horrid piece is confessed to be one Ashington, credibly reported to be a beneficed parson in Northamptonshire, but non-resident; and skulking here about town to practise more freely debauchery and do mischief. There are warrants issued forth against him; and some say, he was once seiz'd, and by negligence suffered to escape; at present we cannot hear that he is in custody."
Hindmarsh brought a certiorari to remove the indictment into the King's Bench, but Mr. Justice Dolben forthwith granted a procedendo to try it immediately; and the indictment being read, Hindmarsh pleaded guilty, and was immediately ordered to be taken into custody, and was afterwards bailed, "the Court resenting so justly the heinousness of the offence, that they deferred giving sentence till next term, resolving to do it in a public manner at the King's Bench, all the Judges being present."[228]
On the 24th June Hindmarsh appeared in the Court of King's Bench and moved to have his bail discharged; the Lord Chief Justice told him he deserved to be severely punished, and asked him what he had done to expect such a favour? His Counsel alleged, that he had discovered the author, who had already done penance for it. Notwithstanding which the Lord Chief Justice ordered him to prosecute the said author at common law by the first day of the next term, and then they would consider of discharging his bail.[229]
The following is a copy of this curious paper.
The Presbyterian PATERNOSTER; CREED, and TEN COMMANDMENTS.
---- ---- Manent veteris vestigia fraudis. _Virg._
The Pater Noster.
Our Father which art in Hell, magnify'd be thy name; thy Arbitrary Kingdom come, thy Tyranical will be done in _England_ now, as it was in _Forty One_; Give us in this our Day a holy occasion of Rebellion; and forgive us our shew of Godliness for thy sake, as we forgive others their holy Hypocrisy for our _good Cause_; and lead us not into an agreement of _King_ and _Parliament_; But Deliver us from _Monarchy_ and _Hierarchy_; and then thine shall be this Kingdom, its Power and Glory, for ever and ever, _Amen_.
THE CREED.
[Sidenote: {**} They the only Saints {*} Dominion is founded in Gr]
I Believe in _John Calvin_, the Father of our Religion, disposer of {**} Heaven and {*} Earth; and in _Owen_, _Baxter_ and _Jenkins_ &c. his dear Sons our Lords, who were Conceived by the _Spirit_ of _Fanaticism_, born of _Schism_ and _Faction_, suffer'd under the _Act of Uniformity_; were Silenced, Dead and Buried; and had descended into Hell, but that they arose again in the year of _Toleration_; ascended into _Tub-Pulpits_, and now sit at the right hand of the Lord S---- from whence they are coming to judge both the _Church_ and the _State_. I Believe in the Holy _Assembly of Divines_, the Holy _National Synod_, the _Seperate Meetings_, the _Act of Oblivion_, the _Resurrection from Dead Rites_, and _Toleration Everlasting_. Amen.
_The Ten Commandments._
The same which _John Presbyter_ hath spoken in 20 Chapters of his _Works_; saying, _I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the Land of Antichrist, out of the House of Ceremonious Bondage_.
I.
Thou shalt have no other Gods but Me.
II.
Thou shalt not make any Image, or likeness of any _Saint_ in Heaven above, (except _S. Oliver &c._) or bow down at the Adorable name of _Jesus_ here on Earth; nor use the Sign of the _Cross_ in the _Waters of Baptism_; For I the Lord thy God in my Jealousie murder'd the Father, and will visit his _Superstitious Iniquity_ upon his Children, unto the third and fourth Generation of them that hate me; but shew Mercy unto thousands in them that love me, and keep my Damnable and Rebellious Commandments.
III.
Thou shalt not make the _Solemn League_ and _Covenant_ vain, nor subscribe the _Declaration;_ nor take the Oaths of _Allegiance_ and _Supremacy_, unless (with a Jesuitical _salvo_,) to obtain places of Honour and Power.
IV.
Remember that thou keep holy the Remembrance of Forty One. Many years didst thou labour, yet could'st not do all that thou hadst to do; But in _Forty One_ the Lord thy God sent thee a Sabbath of Deliverance; Thou shalt therefore now remember to do all manner of work that thou didst then, Thou, and thy Son, and thy Daughter, thy Man-Servant, and thy Maid-Servant, the Brutes and Proselytes that are within thy Conventicles; For in _Forty One_ the Lord thy God made ENGLAND and SCOTLAND Rebellious; thou shalt therefore Bless the year Forty One; and hallow it.
V.
Honour _Fanaticism_ thy Father, and _Schism_ thy Mother, that thy Days may be long in the Land which the Lord thy God will once more give thee.
VI.
Thou shalt do no Murder, but upon _Majesty_, _Episcopacy_ and _Loyalty_.
VII.
Thou shalt not commit Adultry, save with the _Holy Sisterhood_, to get Babes of Grace.
VIII.
Thou shalt not steal, unless by _Sequestration_, _Composition_, or _Publick Faith_.
IX.
Thou shalt not bear False witness against a _Brother_, but may'st swallow Perjury by a Popish Reservation for the good of Holy Cause.
X.
Thou shalt Covet nothing but _Crown-Lands_, _Bishops Lands_, and the Estates of _Malignants_.
_POSTSCRIPT._
_Thus is our_ New Religion _Model'd by that of_ Forty One; _And we must root up_ Monarchy _To stop the growth_ of Popery; _And undermining_ Church _and_ State, Rome's _Practices we'll Antedate_; _The better to prevent the_ PLOT, _Ourselves will do what they cou'd not_. _We'll cure all fear of_ French Invasion, _By ruining at home the Nation_. _And since_ Petitions _do no good, And all our Tricks are understood: Since He who never us'd to fail, Doth now, our little_ Matchiavel; _We'll to the World Proclaim aloud,
The_ King _and_ Duke _thirst after_ Bloud. Curtis, Harris, Smith and Care, _Shall Thrice a Week the Kingdom scare_, As if the_ Devil, Turk, _or_ Pope, _Were just arrived in the_ Hope, _We'll authorize Men to Rebel, By Tales from_ Hatfield, _and from_ Hell: _And then perswade the silly Nation, That_ Treason _comes by_ Revelation: _And that_ Imaginary Ghosts _Are_ Envoys _from the Lord of_ Hosts. _Nor will We cease, till we pull down_ Episcopacy _and the_ Crown.
Printed for _Tom Tell-troth_ at the Sign of the _Old King's Head_ in _Axe Yard in King Street, Westminster_.
274.
An Apostrophe of the Loyal Party to his Majesty. 1681.
At the Sessions for the City of London held on June 1, 1681, the Jury made a presentment against this "seditious pamphlet, contrived by Papists, and believed to be printed by the Popish Printer in Fetter Lane, the design of it being to overthrow the ancient constitution of this kingdom."[230] The Editor has not been able to discover a copy.
275.
The Vindication of the English Roman Catholics. 1681.
On Monday October 10. 1681 a complaint was made by Justice Warcup of this "popish invective libel" dated from Antwerp. The publisher was had before the Council, and was to answer the same before the King and Council, on the following Friday.[231] No further proceedings can be found, neither can the Editor discover a copy of the book.
276.
Smith's Protestant Intelligence; Domestic and Forein. Numb. 21. From Thursday April 7. to Monday April 11. 1681.
For publishing this newspaper, a copy of which is preserved in the British Museum Library, a prosecution was instituted against Francis Smith. The information charges that Francis Smith, the elder, late of the parish of St. Christopher, London, Yeoman, being a pernicious and seditious man, contriving and maliciously intending to disturb the peace and common tranquillity of this kingdom, and to make, excite and procure discord between the King and his subjects did, on the first day of October, in the thirty third year of the reign of King Charles the Second, in the parish aforesaid, falsely, unlawfully, unjustly, wickedly, seditiously and scandalously cause to be printed, sold, uttered and published a certain false, malicious, scandalous, and seditious libel intituled _Smith's Protestant Intelligence, Domestick and Forein_ in which are contained these false, malicious, and scandalous sentences following, _April 9. Mr Everard having two Orders of Council sent him for to attend on his Majesty at the Board Yesterday, he there Appearing, constantly refused to give a Bond for to Prosecute Fitzharris; but, that the Reasons that made others (whose Office it was) to decline it, ought to make him much more shie to do it, It was thereupon granted to him that the King's Attorney General would prosecute. But it being insisted that he should give in his Evidence, as the law required (if what he had discovered were true). Everard, (as 'tis said) replied, that he would think of that, and return his Answer after some convenient time, if he were resolved as to some Difficulties and Quæries; viz.--Whether it was the Opinion of that Honourable Board, that Fitzharris could be tried elsewhere than in Parliament, and whether it were safe enough for Mr. Everard to give his Evidence elsewhere non obstante the Impeachment of the said Fitzharris by the Commons, especially after the Impeachment was lodged with the Lords, and entred in their Books, because the Lords might receive and reassume the Impeachment in another Parliament (as in case of the Lords of the Tower) and then the Commons might become Prosecutors themselves._[232]
277.
Del Teatro Brittanico o vero Historia dello Stato, Antico, e Presente, Corte, Governo Spirituale, e Temporale, Leggi, Massime, Religioni, et Euuenimenti della Grande Brettagna. By Gregorio Leti. London. 1683.
For writing this work the author was banished the kingdom, and seven hundred copies were seized. A copy exists in the British Museum Library. It is in two volumes, quarto size.
278.
The Impartial Protestant Mercury, N^o 89. From Friday Feb. 24 to Tuesday February 28. 1681/2.
At the Easter Sessions for Bristol in the year 1682 the Grand Jury presented this and the four following publications as being "infamous, scandalous, and seditious"; and the Court thereupon ordered that at its rising these libels be publicly burnt by the Beadle or Common Executioner.[233] A copy is preserved in the British Museum Library.
279.
The Impartial Protestant Mercury, N^o 96. From Tuesday March 21 to Friday, March 24. 1681/2.
A copy is preserved in the British Museum Library.
280.
The sad and lamentable cry of oppression and cruelty in the City of Bristol. 1682.
The editor has not met with a copy of this work.
281.
More sad and lamentable news from Bristol. 1682.
The editor has not met with a copy of this work.
282.
The devouring informers of Bristol &c. Being an additional account of some late proceedings of those ravenous beasts of prey, against Dissenting Protestants. Bristol. April 22. 1682.
A copy of this tract is preserved in the British Museum Library. It is in quarto, and contains four pages.
283.
Smith's Currant Intelligence, or an impartial account of transactions both forraign and domestick. Published from Tuesday, March 23 to Saturday March 27. (1680).
For publishing this newspaper, a copy of which is preserved in the Library of the British Museum, a prosecution was instituted against John Smith of Queen Street, in the County of Middlesex, Printer. The information charges that the defendant being a pernicious person, and contriving and maliciously intending to excite discord and scandal between the King and his people and the nobles of the kingdom, did on the twenty seventh day of March, in the thirty second year of the reign of King Charles the Second, in the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Co: Midd:, publish and cause to be published a certain false, scandalous, and malicious libel intituled _Smith's Currant Intelligence, or an impartial account of transactions both forraign and domestick_ containing among other things as follows:--_The Project for carrying and recarrying of Letters from place to place throughout all the Cities of London and Westminster, for a penny a Letter, so often mentioned in the Intelligences, is, as Dr. Oates says, a farther branch of the Popish Plot; for that he is credibly informed, it is the most dextrous Invention of Mr. Henry Nevill alias Pain, who is notoriously known to be a great asserter of the Catholick cause, and shrewdly suspected to be a promoter of this way of Treasonable Correspondencies; And it is to be feared, as that good Invention of Pipes hath wholly destroyed the Trade of Tankard Bearer, so this silly Invention will only serve to ruine the poor Porters._[234]
284.
England's Alarm: or, a most humble declaration, address, and fervent petition to his most Excellent Majesty Charles the Second, King of Great Britain and Ireland; and to his most honourable and grand Council the Parliament of England; as also to the City of London, and the whole nation in general. Concerning the great Overtures, Catastrophes, and Grand Occurrences about to inundate and pour in upon us, as the Judgments of Almighty God upon Antichrist and his adherents, and the Pride, Nauseancy, and Errour of Professors, in the years 1680 and 1681. Written by a true lover of the true Protestant Religion, and of his Tottering poor Native Country of England _Johannes Philangus_.
London. Printed for Thomas Pasham, in Fleet Lane. 1679.
This book is ascribed by the compilers of the Catalogue of the Museum Library to William Petyt; and there are several other productions of Johannes Philangus; but it does not appear upon what authority Petyt is considered the author. A copy is preserved in the British Museum Library. It is in folio, and contains six pages.
For printing this work a prosecution was instituted against James Cottrell, a printer of the parish of St. Sepulchre in London. The information charges that he, being a pernicious person, and contriving and maliciously intending to create discord and scandal between the King and his people, and the nobles of the kingdom, did on the twenty sixth day of March in the thirty second year of the reign of King Charles the Second, at the parish of St. Sepulchre in the City of London publish and cause to be published a false scandalous and malicious libel intituled _England's Alarm, &c._ (as in title), containing among other things as follows: _Remember, England, if thou art not mad drunk with the Whores Charms how that thy preaching Ministers are turn'd into dumb Dogs and ravening Wolves. And they bear rule by thy means, and thou lovest to have it so._[235]
285.
The Neck of the Quakers broken; or cut in sunder by the two-edged sword of the Spirit which is put into my Mouth. First, in a Letter to Edward Bourne a Quaker. Secondly, in answer to a letter to Samuel Hooton and W. S. Thirdly, in a letter to Richard Farnsworth, Quaker. Fourthly, in answer to a printed pamphlet of the said Richard Farnsworth, entituled, Truth Ascended: or, The Anointed and Sealed of the Lord defended, &c. Written by Lodowick Muggleton, one of the two last Prophets and Witnesses unto the High and Mighty God, the Man Christ Jesus in Glory. Amsterdam: Printed in the year of our Lord God, 1663. And are to be had in Great Trinity Lane, over against the Lyon and the Lamb.
The author of this book was founder of the sect called Muggletonians. He was born in 1609, and was bred up to be a tailor. Abandoning his trade in 1651, he set up himself and his companion John Reeves as the "two last witnesses" mentioned in the apocalypse as having power to prophesy, and to smite mankind with plagues. They began to fulfil their "commission" by denouncing all religious sects, and especially the Ranters and the Quakers. An exposition of their doctrines, was published in "The Divine Looking-Glass." In this work, among other wild vagaries, were propounded the views that the Trinity are merely the three different names, and not the three distinct persons, of one God; that God has a real human body; and that he left Elias as his vicegerent in heaven when he came down to the earth to die on the cross. These profane heresies provoked much opposition. They were attacked by William Penn, the Quaker, in a book entitled _The New Witnesses proved Old Hereticks_. 1672.
For writing this book Muggleton was prosecuted; and was tried at the Old Bailey on Wednesday, the 17th of January, 1676/7; he was found guilty, and sentenced by the Court to stand three days in the Pillory, one day in Cornhill near the Royal Exchange; the next day in Fleet Street near the end of Chancery Lane; and the third day in West Smithfield, from eleven to one o'clock each day, with a paper over his head describing his offence in large letters, and his books to be seized, and divided into three parts, to be burnt before his face near the Pillory by the Common Hangman; and besides, to be fined £500, and to continue in gaol till payment, and afterwards for his life, unless he procured good bail, "such as the Court should accept of, and not of his own gang, faction or sect," for being of good behaviour. Full particulars of his trial will be found in a little book, entituled, A true narrative of the Proceedings at the Sessions-house in the Old Baily, at a Sessions there held on Wednesday the 17th of January 1676/7, giving a full account of the true tryal and sentence of Lodowick Muggleton for blasphemous words and books. London. 1676/7.
The indictment charges that Lodowick Muggleton, late of London, labourer, being a pernicious, blasphemous and heretical man in his opinions, pretending and affirming that he was one of the two last prophets of the New Testament, designing and intending to disseminate his pernicious, blasphemous, seditious, heretical and monstrous opinions, and to disturb the common peace and tranquillity of this kingdom, and to deprave the true religion rightly established and exercised within this kingdom, also to move, make, and excite discords between the king and his subjects, and to bring into great hatred and contempt the king and his royal government in ecclesiastical causes, did on the thirtieth day of August in the twenty eighth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, at the parish of St. Giles without Cripplegate, London, with force and arms, falsely, unlawfully, wickedly, maliciously, scandalously, blasphemously, seditiously, schismatically, and heretically write, cause to be printed, sold, uttered and published a certain malicious, scandalous, blasphemous, seditious, and heretical book intituled _The neck of the Quakers broken, &c._ (setting out full title) in which book are contained these false, unlawful, blasphemous, seditious, schismatical, heretical, and scandalous sentences following, viz.:--_I write these lines unto you Edward Bourne, knowing you to be of the seed of the serpent, and appointed to eternal damnation before you were born, though you know it not, I do know it by your speaking evil of that Doctrine which is declared by us the Witnesses of the Spirit, by calling of it Deceit, Confusion, and Lies, with many more wicked speeches against the purest Truth that ever was declared by Prophet or Apostle, because this is the Commission of the Spirit, and the last Witness of God on earth. Therefore for these your hard sayings against the Doctrine of this Commission of the Spirit, in obedience unto my Commission, I do pronounce you cursed and damned soul and body from the presence of God, elect men and Angels, to eternity; neither shall that light within you, nor any God deliver you from this Curse, but according to my word it shall be upon you, because you shall know that God hath given power unto man to curse you to eternity, and that there is a Prophet of the Lord now in the Land. Written by Lodowick Muggleton, one of the two last Witnesses and Prophets unto the High and Mighty God the Man Christ Jesus in Glory._ Vale. And in another place of the same book are contained these false, feigned, malicious, scandalous, blasphemous, seditious and heretical sentences following, viz.:--_Now in this last age God hath given me power, and discerning to determine and give judgement upon men and women according as I do discern by their words, and I thereby also know what nature and seed they are of, and accordingly I give judgment upon them, for I do go by as certain a rule as the Judges of the Land do, when they give true Judgment according to the Law. For God hath ordained me the chief Judge in the world at this day to give sentence upon men and women's spiritual and eternal estate what will become of them after death. Full of this cursing I confess my mouth is, and I do rejoice in it too, I know that God is well pleased in the damnation of those that I have cursed, and I am wonderous well satisfied in giving judgement upon them, according to the tenor of my Commission; and this is that which you call swelling words._ And in another place of the same book are contained these other false, feigned, malicious, scandalous, blasphemous, unlawful, seditious and heretical sentences following, viz.:--_Therefore I shall speak a few words unto you two in particular, because you two have committed that unpardonable sin that never will be forgiven in this world, nor in the world to come; for you have done despite unto the Spirit of Truth, in speaking evil of things you do not know, for you have called the Doctrine and Declaration of the Spirit, Blasphemy, Deceit, and Lies, with many other railing speeches, with high impudency, from a light within you, and from the dead letter without you, and hath presumptuously lifted up your selves with that light within you, to speak evil of the Commission of the Spirit, which we received from the true personal God without us, even the Man Christ Jesus in Glory. Therefore in obedience to my Commission, I do pronounce Samuel Hooton and W. S., for this their Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit that sent me, cursed and damned soules and bodies from the presence of God, elect men and Angels, to eternity. Your light within you, nor God without you shall deliver you from this Sentence which I have declared upon you, because you shall know that there is a true Prophet now in the last Age, as well as there hath been in former times. And this Sentence shall be the mark of your Reprobation in your foreheads to eternity, even as your great Grandfather had in his forehead, and all the Seed of Faith that shall read this Epistle and see you, shall see the mark of Reprobation in your foreheads, neither shall you scrape it out, but it will be seen by the Elect as long as you live. And when you dye, you shall pass through this first death into the second death, and in the Resurrection you shall never see the face of God, nor man, nor Angels, nor your own faces, to eternity: but you shall be in utter darkness, where is weeping, and gnashing of teeth for evermore._ To the great scandal and contempt of the King, his Crown and Dignity, also of the religion rightly established in this kingdom, to the bad and pernicious example of all others in like case offending, and against the peace of the King, his Crown and Dignity.
The indictment also further charges that--Nathaniel Powell late of the parish of St. Clement Danes, London, yeoman, being a pernicious, blasphemous, impious and profane person, and not having the fear of God in his heart, but moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil, and contriving and intending to deprave, scandalize and vilify the true Christian Religion rightly established and exercised within this kingdom; also to blaspheme the wisdom, omnipotence and majesty of the Holy Trinity, and the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to strengthen, confirm and ratify the aforesaid pernicious, seditious, heretical and monstrous opinions of the said Lodowick Muggleton within the kingdom of England, did, on the first day of April, in the thirty third year of the reign of King Charles the Second, at the parish of St. Clement Danes, aforesaid, say, pronounce, and publish falsely, scandalously, maliciously, profanely, blasphemously, and heretically these false, scandalous, profane, blasphemous, and heretical words in the presence and hearing of divers liege subjects of the said lord the King, viz.--_I rather believe in Muggleton that stood on the Pillory, than in Jesus Christ, I have power to damn and to save, and if thou_ (meaning a certain Gilbert Soper then and there present) _art not damned I never desire to see the face of God. I do believe in that Muggleton, that stood on the Pillory, next to God Almighty. That Muggleton had power to damn whom he pleased, whom he damned were damned to eternity, and whom he saved, were saved. I have power to damn and to save, I believe more in Muggleton than in Jesus Christ. I thank God, never offended God in my life, I have no sin to ask God pardon for, I say drunkenness is no sin, I have had the knowledge of my own salvation these twelve months, I have the power of damning and saving, I damn thee_ (meaning a certain Richard Sharpe then and there present) _and God cannot save thy soul_. To the great scandal of the true profession of the Christian Religion, to the manifest contempt of the Holy Trinity, and blasphemy of the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the bad and most pernicious example of all others in such case offending, and against the peace of the King his Crown and dignity.[236]
286.
No Protestant-Plot; or the present pretended Conspiracy of Protestants against the King and Government discovered to be a conspiracy of the Papists against the King and his Protestant Subjects. London. 1681.
For printing this book, a prosecution was instituted against Richard Baldwin of the parish of St. Sepulchre in London. The information charges that the defendant, being a malicious and a seditious man, and contriving and maliciously intending to disturb the peace and common tranquillity of this kingdom, and to excite, move, and procure discord between the king and his subjects, and to bring into hatred and contempt the king's government and the due course of law of this kingdom, did, on the twentieth day of October in the thirty-third year of the reign of King Charles the Second, in the parish of St. Sepulchre aforesaid, falsely, unlawfully, wickedly, maliciously, seditiously, and scandalously cause to be printed, sold and published, a certain false, malicious, scandalous and seditious libel, intituled _No Protestant Plot_, containing among other things as follows:--_The King is of too much goodness, and a Prince of Greater Wisdom and more unstained justice, than that any of his subjects should apprehend or fear anything illegal from him while he acts free and unconstrained; but how far his Ministers, especially those who have been exasperated by the proceedings of Parliaments, may render his Authority a cloak to their malice, and make the pretence of his preservation and safety subservient to their revenge, is what we are jealous of. And tho' we would fain persuade ourselves that they are persons of more honour and integrity than to make reprisals upon the Lives of Peers for the injury which they suppose was done them; yet the imprisoning my Lord Shaftsbury upon the credit of Witnesses whose testimony they refused to believe in the case of my Lord Stafford, doth not a little surprize the thinking part of mankind. Now nothing can be more disservicable to his Majesty, or lessening to the honour of his Government, than to have his Authority abused to countenance a personal quarrel, and his Laws applied to revenge a private offence. And in another part as follows:--Nor can men persuade themselves to believe, but that the Imprisonment of my Lord Shaftsbury is built upon something which will not abide the Test, when they consider the way and method according to which he hath been all along treated. Before either Coleman or the Jesuits were sent to prison, they were allowed both to know and see the persons who had deposed against them. And it is generally believed, that every Englishman may demand it as his right. And therefore, the refusing it to my Lord Shaftsbury, does seem to intimate either that the Witnesses are not of a credit sufficient to support the confinement of so great a Peer, or else that it was not convenient to trust their carriage in this matter, as well as the general course of their lives, to an early and exact scrutiny. But as if this were not enough to create a suspition of some undue and indirect dealing in this affair, the refusing to administer an oath to those that were ready to swear to Indictments of Subornation against the Witnesses, doth exceedingly heighten all men's jealousies. For not to debate about the legality or illegality of this procedure, being obliged till this business do either before this or a higher judicature come under a review, to acquiesce silently in the Judgement of the Court; I shall only say: That as it is the first president of this kind, so the reducing it into common practice, would prove a general obstruction of the justice of the Law. And to make the receiving of Indictments depend upon the pleasure of the Attorney General were to settle on him a more Arbitrary Power than the Laws of England have placed in the King himself._ And in another part as follows:--_And we are the more inclined to believe this whole Conspiracy wherein the Earl of Shaftsbury and other Protestants are said to be engaged against the King and the Government, is only a malicious piece of revenge upon the zealous patriots of our Religion; by considering that Justice Warcup, and Mr. David Fitzgerald, are employed to conduct and manage the detection and discovery of it._[237]
A copy of the pamphlet is preserved in the British Museum Library. It is in quarto and contains 37 pages.
287.
A Satire, 1680.
This is a set of verses satirizing the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs, apparently very similar to those printed on p. 216, for which Jane Curtis was prosecuted.
For publishing them a prosecution was instituted against John Howe, of the parish of St. Michael, Cornhill, bookseller.
The information charges that the defendant, contriving and maliciously intending to bring into hatred and contempt Sir William Scroggs, Lord Chief Justice, in those things which touch him and his judicial office and the King's authority, did, on the twenty-fourth day of May, in the thirty-second year of the reign of King Charles the Second, within the parish of St. Michael, Cornhill aforesaid, get into his hands a certain false, malicious, infamous, scandalous, and odious libel intituled _A Satire_, in which libel is contained among other things as follows:--_The Judge is a base butcher's sonne_ (meaning the Lord Chief Justice.) _Most sly of nocent blood. But for ten thousand pound has done The Pope a deal of good. 'Twas he that villaine Wakeman cleared, Who was to have poysened the King, As plaine to all but twelve appeared, For which he deserves to swing._ (meaning again the Lord Chief Justice.) And that the said John Howe, knowing the aforesaid libel to be a scandalous and infamous libel, did on the said twenty-fourth day of May, publish and expose to sale the same libel, to the great scandal and contempt of the said Lord Chief Justice and the King's authority.[238]
There was also a prosecution against one Enoch Procer for publishing the same.[239]
288.
The Impartial Protestant Mercury. From Tuesday October 4 to Friday October 7, 1681. N^o 48.
For publishing this newspaper, a copy of which is preserved in the British Museum Library, a prosecution was instituted against Janeway the printer.
The information charges that the defendant described as of London, yeoman, being a pernicious and seditious man, contriving and maliciously intending to disturb the peace and tranquillity of this kingdom, and to create, move, and excite discord between the king and his subjects, and to bring the king's government into contempt, did falsely, maliciously, and seditiously, with intent to persuade and induce the king's subjects to believe that this kingdom of England was governed by the advice of the king of France, and that the secrets of the government of this kingdom were notified to the king of France, and that to fulfil his most wicked intentions, on the twentieth day of October in the thirty-third year of the reign of King Charles the Second, in the parish of St. Michael, Cornhill, London, falsely, unlawfully, wickedly, maliciously, scandalously, and seditiously cause to be printed, sold, and published a certain, false, scandalous, and defamatory libel, intituled _The Impartial Protestant Mercury_, containing among other things as follows:--_There has been a fresh rumour of a Parliament like to be called to meet on the twenty-eighth of the next month, but we cannot find any foundation for that report, more than that a Person of Quality lately arrived from France relates, that he was told of such a thing at Paris._[240]
On April 5, 1682, Janeway was called before the Council for printing and publishing false and seditious news, and he was thereupon ordered to give good security, to appear personally at the King's Bench Bar the first day of the next term, to answer such matters as should be exhibited against him on his majesty's behalf, and in the mean time to be of good behaviour; and he accordingly entered into recognizances for that purpose.[241]
289.
The Protestant Domestick Intelligence; or, News both from City and Country. Published to prevent false reports. Friday, March 12th, 1679/80. No. 72.
For publishing this newspaper, a copy of which is preserved in the British Museum Library, a prosecution was instituted against Nathaniel Crouch.
The information charges that the defendant, who is described as of the parish of St. Margaret, Lothbury, London, gentleman, being a pernicious person, and contriving and maliciously intending to incite and move discord and scandal between the king and his people, and the magnates of this kingdom, did on the twelfth day of March, in the thirty-second year of the reign of King Charles the Second, at the parish of St. Margaret, Lothbury, publish and cause to be published a certain false, scandalous, and malicious libel entituled _The Protestant Domestick Intelligence; or, News both from City and Country_, containing (among other things) as follows:--_Yesterday we are informed that Mrs. Le-Mair, alias Loveland, the mother of Philip Le-Mair was taken into custody, and that she has declared there is a Person of Honour, as well as one of the Lords in the Tower, concerned with her in the conspiracy against the Life of the Duke of Buckingham._[242]
290.
Mercurius Civicus; or, a true account of affairs both foreign and domestick. Monday, 29 March, 1680. N^o 3.
For publishing this newspaper, a copy of which is preserved in the British Museum Library, a prosecution was instituted against James Astwood, of the parish of St. Christopher, London, printer.
The information charges that the defendant, being a pernicious person, and contriving and maliciously intending to incite and move discord and scandal between the king and his people and the magnates of this kingdom, did on the thirtieth day of March, in the thirty-second year of the reign of King Charles the Second, at the parish of St. Christopher, London, print and cause to be printed, a certain false, scandalous, and malicious libel intituled _Mercurius Civicus: or, a True Account of affairs both foreign and Domestick_, containing (among other things) as follows:--_It is advised from the several places where the Lord Chief Justice North has been in circuit, that his Lordship hath been pleased to declare that the Act of Parliament for the Conviction of Popish Recusants ought to be put in force against none but Papists. And though several Protestants had been indicted hereon, he gave it as his Opinion. That the intention of that Act was purely to suppress Popery, and so directed the Jury not to find the Bill against Protestants as Popish Recusants but as Protestant Dissenters, which hath given a great deal of satisfaction to people, several protestants having been severely dealt withall by reason of that Act, which point the Parliament were in great consultation about rectifying._[243]
291.
A Faithful relation of the most remarkable transactions which have happened at Tangier: since the Moors have lately made their attacques upon the Forts and Fortifications of that Famous Garrison, likewise the strength and good posture of defence it remains now in. With an account of the Trenches, Lines and Works they have already drawn in order to their besieging several of the said forts strongly guarded by the English, and the advantageous success the English have obtained over those infidels, in a late fight between them; burning and demolishing their works, beating them out of their trenches, killing them, and pursuing them even to their Camp.
A pamphlet of four pages; a copy of which is preserved in the British Museum Library. For its publication David Mallett, of the parish of St. Martin, Ludgate, printer, was prosecuted.
The information charges that the defendant published the same with the intent to create discord and scandal between the king and his people and the magnates of this kingdom; but it does not set out any of the alleged objectionable passages as is usually done.
292.
The Speech of the late Lord Russel to the Sheriffs; together with the paper deliver'd by him to them, at the Place of Execution, on July 21, 1683. London. Printed by John Darby, by direction of the Lady Russel. 1683.
A copy of this speech is preserved in the Library of the British Museum. It is in folio and contains four pages.
For publishing the same, a prosecution was instituted against John Darby, bookseller, of the parish of St. Bartholomew the Great, London.
The information charges that the defendant being a pernicious and seditious man, and contriving and practising, and falsely, and maliciously, and wickedly and seditiously intending to disturb the peace of the king and the common tranquillity of this kingdom, and to weaken and bring into discredit and bad repute the laws and customs of this kingdom, and the ancient government and the common justice thereof, and to excite and procure discords and seditions between the king and his subjects, also to bring into discredit the trial and sentence of Lord William Russell, did, on the fourteenth day of August in the thirty-fifth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, at the parish of St. Bartholomew aforesaid, falsely, unlawfully, unjustly, wickedly, seditiously, maliciously, and scandalously, make, compose, and print and sell, utter, and publish a certain false, seditious, malicious, and scandalous libel intituled _The speech of the late Lord Russell to the Sheriffs, together with the paper delivered by him to them at the place of execution_, containing, among other things, these false, malicious, seditious and scandalous sentences, viz., _I wish with all my soul all our unhappy Differences were removed, and that all sincere Protestants would so far consider the danger of Popery, as to lay aside their Heats, and agree against the Common Enemy; and that the Churchmen would be less severe, and the Dissenters less scrupulous; For I think Bitterness and Persecution are at all times bad, but much more now. For Popery, I look on it as an Idolatrous and Bloody Religion, and therefore thought myself bound, in my Station, to do all I could against it. And by that, I foresaw I should procure such great Enemies to myself, and so powerful ones, that I have been now for some time expecting the worst. And blessed be God, I saw by the Axe, and not by the Fiery Tryal_, And in another part, these other false, seditious, scandalous and defamatory sentences, viz., _I did believe and do still, that Popery is breaking in upon the Nation; and that those who advance it, will stop at nothing, to carry on their Design: I am heartily sorry that so many Protestants give their helping hand to it._ And in another place are contained these other false, scandalous, seditious and defamatory sentences, following, _I cannot but give some touch about the Bill of Exclusion, and shew the Reasons of my appearing in that Business; which in short is this: That I thought the Nation was in such danger of Popery, and that the Expectation of a Popish Successor (as I have said in Parliament) put the King's life likewise in such danger, that I saw no way so effectual to secure both as such a Bill. As to the limitations which were proposed, if they were sincerely offered, and had pass'd into a Law, the Duke then would have been excluded from the Power of a King, and the Government quite altered, and little more than the Name of a King left. So I could not see either Sin or Fault in the one, when all People were willing to admit of t'other; but thought it better to have a King with his Prerogative, and the Nation easy and safe under him, than a King without it, which must have bred perpetual jealousies, and a Continual Struggle. All this I say, only to justify myself, and not to inflame others; Though I cannot but think my Earnestness in that matter has had no small Influence in my present Sufferings._ And in another place are contained these other false, scandalous, and seditious sentences following:--_I pray God lay not this to the charge, neither of the King's Counsel, nor Judges, nor Sheriffs, nor Jury: And for the Witnesses, I pity them, and wish them well. I shall not reckon up the Particulars wherein they did me wrong: I had rather their own Consciences should do that, to which, and the Mercies of God I leave them._ And in another place are contained these other false, malicious, scandalous and seditious sentences following:--_From the Time of chusing Sheriffs, I concluded the Heat in that Matter would produce something of this kind; and I am not much surprised to find it fall upon me. And I wish what is done to me, may put a stop, and satiate some Peoples' Revenge, and that no more innocent Blood be shed, for I must, and do still look upon mine as such, since I know I was guilty of no Treason; and therefore I would not betray my Innocence by Flight._
On November 20th, 1683, Darby was tried, and found guilty, and on February 1, 1683/4 he was brought to the Court of King's Bench to receive judgment, which, he humbly submitting himself to the Court, and begging pardon, with a promise never to commit the like offence, the Court ordered to be, That he should pay 20 marks for a fine to the king, and find securities for good behaviour for twelve months, and that till this be paid and done, he should be committed to prison.[244]
293.
The Night Walker of Bloomsbury.
A single sheet in folio printed on both sides. A copy is preserved in the British Museum Library.
Langley Curtis, the bookseller, was prosecuted for publishing this sheet. The indictment charges that the defendant, contriving and intending to disturb the peace and common tranquillity of this kingdom, and to bring the king into the greatest hatred, contempt, and infamy with all his subjects; and to cause, incite, and procure divers differences and false rumours concerning the pretended ghost of Lord William Russell, lately attainted and executed for high treason, did, on the twelfth day of October in the thirty-fifth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, at the parish of St. Bride aforesaid, unlawfully, seditiously, and maliciously print and publish, and cause to be printed and published, a certain feigned, false, seditious, and scandalous libel of and concerning the pretended ghost aforesaid, intituled _The Night Walker of Bloomsbury_, containing these false, feigned, and scandalous sentences following, viz., _Ralph: D'ye hear the newes. Will. What newes_, &c., &c., to _Caball of bigotted Papists_. And in another part as follows,--_Will_. _In this Meremaid's attire_, &c., &c., _to quickly changed the colour of his ghostly habit_.
Upon this indictment Curtis was tried on February 14, 1683/4, found guilty, and on April 21, 1684, sentenced to stand in and upon the Pillory in Bloomsbury Market between the hours of eleven and one o'clock, with a paper on his head denoting his offence in large letters, and at the same time the libel was to be burned by the Common Hangman. He was also sentenced to pay a fine of £500, to be committed to the Marshalsea until payment, and to find security for good behaviour during life.
The following is a complete copy of this publication:--[245]
THE NIGHT WALKER OF BLOOMSBURY:
Being the Result of several late Consultations between a Vintner, Judge Tallow-chandler, a Brace of Fishmongers, and a Printer, &c. In a Dialogue between _Ralph_ and _Will_.
_Entred according to Order._
_Ralph._ D'ye hear the News?
_Will._ What News?
_Ralph._ Why, they say my Lord _Russel_ walks.
_Will._ And do you believe it?
_Ralph._ Why not? may not Lords walk as well as other people?
_Will._ That's not the business--but I perceive you have heard but a piece of the Story--you have not heard how the Ghost came to be rais'd nor how he was laid.
_Ralph._ Rais'd and Laid!--why then I warrant you take it to be nothing but a piece of Imposture.
_Will._ Nothing more certain,--a meer silly, idle, foppish contrivance of a Cabal of bigotted _Papists_.
_Ralph._ I must confess a Bigotted _Papist_ is a very sottish sort of Animal.--But what did this deep design drive at?
_Will._ Why, Sir, a certain _Vintner_ not far from _Southampton Square_, a well-wisher, you may be sure, to any Religion he could get by, had a mind to draw custome to his empty House--For he had a vast prospect of gain from the success of the Action,--For, quo he to himself, the people will cry, whether shall we go? Go! says another, we'l go to the _Hobgoblin_ that counterfeited the Lord _Russel's_ Ghost--for, thought he, everybody will be glad to see a _Hobgoblin_.
_Ralph._ Puh--this is some invention of yours to put a trick upon the poor _Papists_.
_Will._ An Invention of mine! Tis all about the Town--and besides, there is nothing more common among the _Papists_ than to counterfeit Spirits and Ghosts--I find you never read the Story of the four Monks of _Bearn_ in _Switzerland_, that were hang'd for counterfeiting the _Virgin Mary_; nor of the Country Curate that lay with his Neece in the shape of _St. Barbara_. But the Fryer had not so good luck: For he living in a young widow's House, would fain have frighted the young Widow into his Lascivious Embraces--and to that purpose haunted her chamber every Night in a Winding Sheet: But she, being a Woman of mettle, hid a Friend of hers privately in her chamber, that gave the Spirit such a severe Cudgel-correction, as made him quickly beg Quarter for his bruised Bones.
_Ralph._ But all this while, where was the Profundity of the design?
_Will._ The profundity of the Design was to put the Lord Russel's Speech upon Dr. Burnett--And of this they were resolv'd to have an acknowledgment out of the Lord Russel's own Mouth.
_Ralph._ That was hard to do, when his Head was cut off.
_Will._ Oh--but though the Head of his body was cut off, the Head of his Ghost was still on.--However, tho' it be not to be deny'd, that a Spirit without a Head has a very brisk motion, yet the Committee were not so cunning as to know how to bring his Ghost out of _Buckinghamshire_ into _Bloomsbury Square_--and therefore another expedient was to be found out.--The Committee was extreamly puzl'd to find out this Expedient, till the _Vintner_, inspir'd no doubt with his own _Pipes_ and Tierces, had it presently in his Pate.--Quo he Ladies and Gentlemen, why may not I act a Ghost, as well as Matt. Medbourn?
_Ralph._ Frolick for frolick now, it would be a very good humour to Indict this Vintner upon the Statute of 21 Jacob, 26, for endeavouring to personate the Lord _Russel's_ Ghost, on purpose to procure an acknowledgment contrary to his will and consent.
_Will._ Faith, _Sir_, the very action itself procur'd him punishment enough, to be well drub'd, and two such lovely forehead marks of _Knave_ and _Fool_, that Ten Fountains, with all the Soap in the City, will never wash off.
_Ralph._ Pardon me, _Sir_, I have a greater opinion of the _Vintner_, and that he acted what he did in the imitation of _Theseus_ and _Eneas_, who both went to visit _Pluto'_s Dominions; but this same _Vintner_ undertook to be even a tormented Inhabitant of the Lower Shades himself, to advance the Popish Interest, which was much a more daring deed then that of _Theseus._ The _Vintner_ had Listed himself in Hell, which _Theseus_ never did.
_Will._ Ay--but _Theseus_ was _Theseus_; Theseus kicked _Proserpina's_ Dog before her Face, in her own Dining-Room: But this Bugbear of a _Vintner_ suffer'd himself to be thrash'd like any mortal Coward, and yet the Fool had not the wit to _vanish_.--They say, had the Earth yielded never so little, the first blow the Beadle hit, had struck him down to the place from whence he pretended to come.
_Ralph._ But can you tell who hatched this Chicken of a Design?
_Will._ Politick Heads, _Sir_, Politick Heads,--very Politick Heads--and of both Sexes too I assure ye.
_Ralph._ I must confess I admire neither of their ingenuities; and as for the Women, I find 'em much more famous for the crafty carrying on a Love intrigue, or concealing their private enjoyments, then in managing _Hobgoblin_ Plots.
_Will._ Sir, I do tell ye, this Committee consisted of several Persons, Male and Female--_Imprimis_, The Man of the House, and his Wife, chief _Presidences_ of the Council. In the next place, two _Fishmongers_ in _Bloomsbury_, if you hunt after the name of the one, you may easily find it: the other a most rude and ungraceful acknowledger of the Lord _Russel's_ former favours, as who had all along serv'd his Table from his own Shop; his Grandfather seems to have bin the Son of _Tomlins_.
_Ralph._ These _Fishmongers_, Sir, were notably drawn into this Conspiracy--twas emblematical--For as great undertakings require great silence, so none more likely then _Fishmongers_ to bear the Proverb always in mind, _As mute as a Fish_.
_Will._ The next was a _Tallow-chandler_, who, tho' he live by the Night, takes his name from Noon-Day.
_Ralph._ Why that was it that spoil'd the whole Plot, to engage a _Tallow-chandler_ in deeds of Darkness.
_Will._ Oh, Sir, but he was to have been a Witness--and none so fit to be witness as a man of Light--besides, Sir, he was to attend the _Hobgoblin_, and none so fit as a _Tallow Chandler_ to hold a Candle to the Devil. But observe how the _Tallow Chandler_ was match'd; for the other witness was to be a _Papistical Printer_ in the Neighbourhood.
_Ralph._ There y'are right again--for if the Truth should chance to slip out of the _Chandler's_ memory, the _Printer_ had always a _Register_ ready to refresh it.
_Will._ By what I hear, theres no such need of rubbing up the _Tallow-chandler's_ memory. A my word Sir, y'are got into pleasant company--Here's a _Vintner_ acts the Devil--and a _Tallow-chandler_ acts a Judge--and Judges, Sir, are no fools to have their memories rub'd.
_Ralph._ Who the Devil made the _Tallow-chandler_ a Judge?
_Will._ Wine and Fat Venson, Sir, at the _Crown-Tavern_, in _Bloomsbury_; For there it was that the _Tallow-chandler_ a Witty, Jocose, Droll of a _Tallow-chandler_, finding there was something to be done to gratify the Company (for it was at a public Venson-Feast) took upon him the Dignity of the Coife, and causing Mr. _Hamden_ to be arraign'd before him, Mercilesly condemn'd him to be hang'd.
_Ralph._ What had the _Tallow-chandler_ to do with Mr. _Hamden_.--Surely he is to stand or fall by another sort of Judicature then six ith Pound.
_Will._ Oh, Sir, 'twas done to please a brace of Reverend Justices that were Stewards of the Feast--and such frolicks as these, Lord Sir, you cannot imagin how they digest Venson, Pasty Pudding Crust--There are some people so hot, that you would admire they do not melt their Grease, and get the Scratches with Galloping after such fancies as these.
_Ralph._ And yet when this _Tallow-chandler_ serv'd Mr. _Hamden_ with Candles, he did not scruple to take his Money, notwithstanding he might not then be of his severe Judges present opinion: And therefore there is some hope yet left, that Mr. _Hamden_ may sweeten up his Judge into a Reprieve, upon a promise of laying in his _Winter_ store out of _Bloomsbury_.
_Will._ There was an _Apothecary_ too, whose spleen was extreamly tickl'd at the conceit of their design. Repute makes him a person of a bulky stature, famous for the beauty of his Wainscot Lady, and the wit of his Son, whom he teaches to curse the D. of M.
_Ralph._ Why truly, this _Pothecary_ is highly to be applauded for his Loyalty: for to shew the Exquisiteness of his Allegiance, he sends his child to the Devil to confirm it.
_Will._ There were several others that met at two or three of these consults, that have open'd their Purses to save their Reputation.
_Ralph._ I am not apt to believe that people who concerned themselves with such a ridiculous Sham as this, had much Reputation to lose; and therefore their _Peter-Pence_ were ill bestow'd. The Proverb is, _Discover, and shame the Devil_.
_Will._ That never could be better don then by the Dress with which they disguis'd him: For certainly all the _Fools_ and _Zanies_ in _Bartholomew-Fair_ were never so quaintly rigg'd, as this same _Hob-thrush_ of a _Vintner_ was equipped to act his Tragick-Comedy.
_Ralph._ As how?
_Will._ First they hung about his Neck a large _Night-Rail_, which the Gentlewoman of the House lent him out of her Zeal.
_Ralph._ Most Enigmatical, Problematical, Emphatical, and Emblematical--for a _Night-Rail_ being a kind of a Cloak, was most proper to cover a piece of Knavery.
_Will._ To hide his lower parts, the _Fishmongers_ lent him their _Aprons_.
_Ralph._ More Enigmatical still.--For _Fishmongers_ being men of Lent and Fasting days--the _Fishmongers' Aprons_ were to put the Ghost in mind of his sorrow, contrition, and repentance for owning a Speech that was none of own.
_Will._ By your favour, Sir, here's a Breach of an Act of Parliament discovered, to bring a Spirit out of his Grave in _Linnen_, whereas he ought to have appear'd in _Crape_; and being a Lord in Lac't _Crape_ too.
_Ralph._ Well! But what had the Goblin about his Head?
_Will._ His head was muffl'd up in a White Diaper Napkin--to shew that the Letter was drapered with the Inventions of several Writers, and not of one plain Woofe.
_Ralph._ Shame faw the Luggs on 'em for a Company of Dotards--as if the Devil were grown as fantastical as the _French_, to change his old fashions.--Now the old fashions of Ghosts, ever since I heard of Ghosts was always the same, a Winding-sheet with two Knots and a Taper in the Spirit's hands, with which the _Chandler_ might easily have furnished the Devil. Or if the Spirit must needs rise in the same Cloaths he was burr'd, the Cabal had much better ha' club'd for a new _Crape_ Funeral Suit--'Twould ha' serv'd the Goblin of a Vintner another time, when the juice of his own _Lime-Fats_ had burnt up his Liver. I'le undertake there's ne're a Booth in _Pork Fair_ but would have dressed up a Hobgoblin more artificially than such a consultation of Ninny Hammers--But when the Devil was thus betrumpery'd what did he do?
_Will._ In this Mere-maid's Attire, he went attended with the two _Fishmongers_ for his Guard, and the _Chandler_ and _Printer_ were to be Witnesses they saw the Apparition.--At length when he came to his Posts, as the Contrivers had laid it, 'tis to be supposed, near the House where the Lord _Russel_ liv'd, he fell a groaning like an Oxe at the first sticking; nay, he groan'd even like the Groaning-board itself; and after a short preamble of Lamentations lewdly uttered, He cried out, _Oh--I have no rest because of the Speech that I never made, but_ Dr. Burnet.
_Ralph._ There's no fear on't, but he'l be taught to groan better when he comes to groan for himself. One would have thought he should have practised the Art of Groaning more accurately before he went to groan upon such an Occasion as this--He should have groaned as if he had been groaning for his Life, that had taken such a part upon him--but it seems he rather fell a braying then a groaning, and so discover'd himself--for upon the noise, as some Report, or at least, as the Goblin deserv'd, one of the Watch coming up to him, and perceiving by his shoes, that he had no Cloven-Feet, _Can't ye be quiet_., quo he, _in your Grave_? _I'le make ye quiet_; and with that, gave him such a Palt o'th Pate and the Thigh, as quickly chang'd the colour of his Ghostly Habit.
_Ralph._ I' good faith, the Watchmen did more then all the Committee could do--for they only strove to make him a faigned Goblin, but the Watchman made him a real _Raw-Head and Bloody-Bones_.--A Catastrophe that such an enterprize justly deserv'd.--But what became of poor Raw-Head and Bloody-Bones?
_Will._ The now real Goblin was forc'd to confess his name, and the names of his Associates, and to chear up the Watch with Drink and Money for the fright he had put 'em in, and so they let him go, to groan forth his own Lamentations to the Gulls that set him at Work.
_Ralph._ Well, I will say nothing of the Speech one way nor other, but sure it was an act neither generous nor christian-like, to raise up an Impostor to disturb the silence of a Gentleman's Grave that had paid his last debt to Justice.
_Will._ Barbarous and papistical, which is as much as needs be said of it.
FINIS.
London: Printed by J. Grantham, MDCLXXXIII.
294.
The true Englishman speaking plain English. By Edward Fitzharris. 1681.
There does not appear to be a copy of this book preserved in the British Museum Library: but it is printed in extenso in the fourth volume of Cobbett's Parliamentary History. For writing the same, a prosecution was instituted against Fitzharris. The indictment charges first, that the defendant, described as late of the parish of St. Martin in the Fields, Middlesex, gentleman, did, on the twenty-second day of February, in the thirty-third year of the reign of King Charles the Second, compass treason with one Edmund Everard against the king; and further, that the defendant as a false traitor did treasonably, maliciously and advisedly write and publish a certain most wicked and traitorous libel intituled _The true Englishman speaking plain English_, in which libel are expressed and declared the treasons and treasonable compassing, imaginations, and purposes of the defendant to excite and persuade the subjects of the King to rise up and rebel against the King and to deprive and depose the King from the style, honour, and royal name of the Imperial Crown of this kingdom, as follows: _If James_ (meaning James, Duke of York) _be conscious and guilty, Charles_ (meaning the King) _is so too, believe me, both these are brethren in iniquity, they are in confederacy with Pope and French to introduce Popery and Arbitrary Government as their actions demonstrate. The Parliament, Magna Charta, and liberty of the subject, are as heavy yokes they'd willingly cast off, for to make themselves as absolute as their Brother of France; and if this can be proved to be their aim and main endeavour, why should not every true Briton be a Quaker thus far? And let the English spirit be up and move all as one man to self defence, nay send if need be to open action and fling off those intolerable Riders._ (meaning the King and the Duke of York.) And in another part of the aforesaid most wicked and traitorous libel are contained among other things these false, seditious, and traitorous sentences following:--_J. and C._ (meaning James, Duke of York and the King) _both brethren in iniquity, corrupt both in root and branch as you have seen, they study but to enslave you to a Romish and French-like yoke. Is it not plain? Have you not eyes, sense, or feeling? Where is that old English noble spirit? Are you become French asses to suffer any load to be laid upon you? And if you can get no remedy from this next parliament, as certainly you will not, and that the K. repents not, complies not with their advice, then up, all as one man. O brave Englishmen, look to your_
(HERE ENDS THE ORIGINAL WORK)
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Life and Reign of Queen Elizabeth, p. 486.
[2] Strype's Annals, Vol. 2, p. 562.
[3] Judgment Roll, Queen's Bench, Mich., 26 & 27 Eliz., roll 37.
[4] Missionary Priests, p. 84.
[5] Dom. Elizabeth, 1599, June, July, Bundle 271, No. 11.
[6] Collier's Bibliographical Catalogue, vol. 1, p. 526.
[7] Dom. Eliz., vol. 274, no. 58.
[8] Dom. Elizabeth, vol. 274, no. 59.
[9] Dom. Elizabeth, vol. 275, no. 25.
[10] Dom. Elizabeth, vol. 275, no. 28.
[11] Dom. Elizabeth, vol. 275, no. 31 and 31 I.
[12] Pag. 4, 5, 6, 11, 39, 41, 43, 53, 75, description of the councell. Pag. 4, 25, 75, he describeth the erle.
[13] Pag. 54 of his owne.
[14] Dom. Elizabeth, vol. 278, no. 17.
[15] Commons' Journals, Vol. 1, pp. 226 and 244.
[16] Commons' Journals, Vol. 1, pp. 399, 400, 404, 407, 408, 415, 416.
[17] Pat. Roll, 8 James I, part 30 dorso. A printed copy of this proclamation will be found among the Domestic State Papers, James I.
[18] Domestic State Papers, James I, Vol. 26, no. 48.
[19] Domestic, James I, Vol. 28, nos. 51 and 128, and Vol. 31, no. 2.
[20] Wilson's Life and Reign of James I, contained in Kennet's History of England, vol. 2, p. 715, ed. 1706.
[21] Court and Times of James I, vol. 1, pp. 279, 280. Also Domestic State Papers, James I, vol. 75, no. 28.
[22] Court and Times of James I, vol. 1, p. 248.
[23] Court and Times of James I, vol. 1, page 251.
[24] Proclam. Collection, Dom. State Papers, James I, no. 23.
[25] Domestic State Papers, James I, vol. 78, no. 78.
[26] Domestic State Papers, vol. 80, art. 6, 26, 38; vol. 81, art. 67; and vol. 86, art. 111.
[27] Court and Times of James I, vol. 1, p. 291; also Domestic State Papers, James I, vol. 80, no. 1.
[28] See Edinburgh Review for July, 1871, page 179.
[29] Domestic, James I, vol. 121, art. 7.
[30] See Court and Times of James I, vol. 2, pp. 146, 157, 158, 160; also Howell's State Trials.
[31] Domestic, James I, vol. 109, no. 14.
[32] Wood's History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, ed. Gutch, vol. 2, pp. 341-345; Cooper's Annals of Cambridge, vol. 3, pp. 143, 144; Domestic State Papers, James I, vol. 132, nos. 47 and 48.
[33] Dom. James I, vol. 153, no. 75.
[34] See Domestic State Papers, James I, vol. 157, nos. 40 and 41.
[35] Dom. James I, 1624, Aug. 14th.
[36] Dom. Charles I, vol. 44, no. 78.
[37] Dom. James I, vol. 171, no. 49.
[38] Ibid, art. 60.
[39] Domestic, James I, vol. 171, art. 64.
[40] Howell's State Trials; Commons' Journals, vol. 1, pp. 805, 806.
[41] Domestic State Papers; Charles I, vol. 54, nos. 4 and 5.
[42] Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 205, no. 34.
[43] Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 135, no. 40.
[44] Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 142, no. 22.
[45] Ibid, Charles I, vol. 205, no. 102.
[46] Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 351, no. 101.
[47] Lords' Journals, vol. 4, pp. 161, 180; Howell's State Trials, vol. 5, p. 765.
[48] Laud's Chancellorship, fol. 1700, p. 129.
[49] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, p. 29.
[50] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, p. 116.
[51] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, pp. 268, 269.
[52] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, p. 166.
[53] Ibid, pp. 206, 319, 324.
[54] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, pp. 266, 268, 269.
[55] Ibid, vol. 2, p. 324.
[56] Ibid, vol. 2, p. 349.
[57] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, p. 404.
[58] Ibid, p. 208.
[59] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, p. 142.
[60] Ibid, vol. 2, pp. 146, 148, 160.
[61] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, p. 148.
[62] Commons' Journ., vol. 2, p. 190.
[63] Ibid, pp. 206, 269.
[64] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, p. 206.
[65] Ibid, p. 221.
[66] Ibid, p. 293.
[67] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, pp. 393, 396, 408, 415.
[68] Commons' Journals, vol. 2, p. 408.
[69] Com. Journals, vol. 2, pp. 411, 414.
[70] Com. Journals, vol. 2, p. 472.
[71] Ibid, p. 500.
[72] Ibid, p. 500.
[73] Ibid, p. 501.
[74] Com. Journ., vol. 2, p. 501.
[75] Ibid, p. 546.
[76] Commons' Journals, Vol. 2, p. 612.
[77] Ibid, pp. 612, 613, 615, 626.
[78] Com. Journ., Vol. 2, pp. 617, 622.
[79] Ibid, p. 623.
[80] Com. Journals, vol. 2, p. 624.
[81] Com. Journ., vol. 2, p. 624.
[82] Commons' Journals, Vol. 2, p. 625.
[83] Commons' Journals, Vol. 2, pp. 661, 662, 679, 683, 690, 691.
[84] Commons' Journals, Vol. 2, p. 685.
[85] Ibid, p. 762.
[86] Ibid, pp. 769, 798, 894.
[87] Commons' Journals, Vol. 2, p. 769.
[88] Ibid, p. 769.
[89] Ibid, p. 795.
[90] Commons' Journals, Vol. 2, p. 801.
[91] Ibid, p. 12.
[92] Commons' Journals, Vol. 2, p. 831.
[93] Commons' Journals, Vol. 2, pp. 900, 951.
[94] Ibid, pp. 910, 911, 953.
[95] Ibid, p. 925.
[96] Commons' Journals, Vol. 3, pp. 40, 52.
[97] Commons' Journal, Vol. 3, p. 202.
[98] Ibid, p. 549.
[99] Commons' Journals, Vol. 3, p. 585.
[100] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, p. 25
[101] Ibid, p. 111.
[102] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, p. 152.
[103] Ibid, pp. 170, 420.
[104] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, p. 206.
[105] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, p. 336.
[106] Ibid, pp. 342, 348.
[107] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, p. 419.
[108] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, p. 420.
[109] Ibid, p. 451.
[110] Ibid, pp. 483, 505, 516.
[111] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, pp. 505, 531, 639.
[112] Ibid, pp. 505, 507, 517.
[113] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, pp. 507, 508, 510, 511, 516, 517.
[114] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, p. 517.
[115] Lords' Journals, Vol. 8, pp. 645-50, 657, 658.
[116] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, p. 664.
[117] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, p. 682.
[118] Commons' Journals, Vol. 4, p. 682.
[119] Commons' Journals, vol. 4, pp. 731, 732.
[120] Ibid, p. 735.
[121] Ibid.
[122] Commons' Journals, vol. 5, pp. 72, 73.
[123] Commons' Journals, vol. 5, p. 109.
[124] Commons' Journals, Vol. 5, p. 109.
[125] Commons' Journals, Vol. 5, pp. 123, 124.
[126] Commons' Journals, vol. 5, p. 153.
[127] Howell's State Trials, vol. 4, p. 926.
[128] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 4, p. 926.
[129] Commons' Journals, vol. 5, p. 224.
[130] Commons' Journals, vol. 5, p. 293. Wood's Athen. Oxon, (Bliss), vol. 3, p. 594.
[131] Commons' Journals, vol. 5, p. 370.
[132] Commons' Journals, Vol. 5, p. 371.
[133] Ibid, p. 395.
[134] Commons' Journals, vol. 5, p. 405.
[135] Ibid.
[136] Ibid, p. 428.
[137] Commons' Journals, vol. 5, pp. 469, 471.
[138] Commons' Journals, vol. 5, pp. 614, 630.
[139] Ibid, p. 420.
[140] Commons' Journals, Vol. 6, pp. 111, 112, 115, 116.
[141] Ibid, p. 131.
[142] Commons' Journals, Vol. 6, p. 168.
[143] Ibid, pp. 168, 170.
[144] Ibid, p. 170.
[145] Commons' Journals, Vol. 6, pp. 174, 183.
[146] Commons' Journals, Vol. 6, p. 278.
[147] Ibid.
[148] Ibid, p. 312.
[149] Commons' Journals, Vol. 6, pp. 354, 475.
[150] Ibid, pp. 374, 378.
[151] Commons' Journals, Vol. 8, p. 259.
[152] Ibid.
[153] Timperley's Encyclopædia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote, (second edition) p. 547.
[154] Commons' Journals, Vol. 8, p. 259.
[155] Pepys' Diary, Vol. 1, p. 236, (third edition).
[156] Commons' Journals, Vol. 6, pp. 529, 536, 539.
[157] Commons' Journals, Vol. 6, pp. 427, 444, 474, 475.
[158] Commons' Journals, Vol. 7, pp. 71, 72, 73.
[159] Commons' Journals, Vol. 7, p. 73.
[160] Ibid, pp. 86, 113, 144.
[161] Commons' Journals, Vol. 7, p. 144.
[162] Ibid, p. 195.
[163] Ibid.
[164] Commons' Journals, Vol. 7, p. 236.
[165] Ibid, p. 383.
[166] Commons' Journals, Vol. 7, pp. 400, 416.
[167] Commons' Journals, Vol. 7, p. 405.
[168] Commons' Journals, Vol. 7, p. 442.
[169] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 5, p. 791.
[170] Commons' Journals, Vol. 8, p. 259.
[171] Ibid.
[172] D'Israeli's Amenities of Literature, Vol. 3, p. 325.
[173] Howell's State Trials, vol. 7, p. 946. See also a Tract published by Smith, entitled "An account of the injurious proceedings of Sir George Jeffreys, Knight, late Recorder of London, against Francis Smith, Bookseller."
[174] Commons' Journals, Vol. 8, p. 74.
[175] Commons' Journals, Vol. 8, pp. 183, 186, 192, 194, 198. Howell's State Trials, Vol. 5, p. 1363.
[176] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 7, p. 946.
[177] Domestic State Papers, Charles II, Vol. 38, Nos. 56, 57, 58.
[178] Ibid, Vol. 39, No. 132.
[179] Domestic State Papers, Charles II, Entry Book 5, p. 39.
[180] Ibid, Vol. 43, No. 130.
[181] Ibid, Vol. 45, No. 28.
[182] Ibid, Nos. 74, 75.
[183] Domestic State Papers, Charles II, Vol. 33, No. 23.
[184] Domestic State Papers, Charles II, Vol. 34, No. 64.
[185] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 6, p. 513.
[186] Domestic State Papers, Charles II, Vol. 88, No. 76.
[187] Commons' Journals, Vol. 8, p. 467.
[188] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 6, p. 702.
[189] Domestic State Papers, Charles II, Vol. 98, No. 116.
[190] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 7, p. 950.
[191] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 7, p. 950.
[192] For a full account of Coleman's trial see Howell's State Trials, Vol. 7, p. 1. Burnet, in his history of his own time, Vol. 1, p. 393, speaks thus of Coleman: "The Duchess of York had one put about her to be her Secretary, Coleman; who became so active in the affairs of the party, and ended his life so unfortunately, that since I had much conversation with him, his circumstances may deserve that his character should be given, though his person did not. I was told he was a clergyman's son: but he was early catched by the Jesuits, and bred many years among them. He understood the art of managing controversies, chiefly that great one of the authority of the church, better than any of their priests. He was a bold man, resolved to raise himself, which he did by dedicating himself wholly to the Jesuits: and so he was raised by them. He had a great easiness in writing in several languages; and writ many long letters, and was the chief correspondent the party had in England. He lived at a vast expence. And talked in so positive a manner, that it looked like one who knew he was well supported. I soon saw into his temper; and I warned the Duke of it. For I looked on him as a man much liker to spoil business than to carry it on dexterously. He got into the confidence of P. Ferrier the king of France's confessor; and tried to get into the same pitch of confidence with P. de la Chaise, who succeeded him in that post. He went about everywhere, even to the jails among the criminals, to make proselytes. He dealt much both in the giving and taking of bribes."
[193] King's Bench Judgment Roll, Easter, 31 Car. 2, rot. 68.
[194] Domestic State Papers, Charles 2, Vol. 179, No. 114.
[195] Domestic State Papers, Charles 2.
[196] Domestic State Papers, Charles 2, Vol. 113, No. 128.
[197] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 7, p. 926. Indictments, London and Middlesex. Mich. 31 Car. 2, No. 42.
[198] Commons' Journals, Vol. 9, p. 100.
[199] Commons' Journals, Vol. 9, p. 602.
[200] Commons' Journals, Vol. 9, p. 579.
[201] Commons' Journals, Vol. 9, pp. 572, 574, 576.
[202] State Trials, Vol. 8, p. 188.
[203] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 8, p. 189.
[204] Indictments, London and Midd., Hilary 31 and 32 Car. 2, No. 9. King's Bench Judgment Roll, Easter 32 Car. 2, rot. 88 a.
[205] Indictments, London and Middlesex, Hil. 31 and 32 Charles 2, No. 10.
[206] Indictments, London and Middlesex, Hilary, 31 and 32 Chas. 2, No 1. King's Bench Judgment Roll, Easter 32 Car. 2, rot. 77.
[207] Howell's State Trials. Vol. 8, p. 191.
[208] Indictments, London and Middlesex, Mich. 31 Car. 2, No. 43.
[209] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 7, p. 931; Vol. 8, p. 191.
[210] Howell's State Trials, Vol. 7, p. 950.
[211] Indictments, London and Middlesex, Hil. 31 and 32 Car. 2, No. 2.
[212] Indictments, London and Middlesex, Hil. 32 and 33 Car. 2, No. 28.
[213] Treasury Records; King's Warrant Book, No. 5, p. 105.
[214] Commons' Journals, vol. 9, pp. 649, 651, 652, 654, 656.
[215] This word is in the printed book, but is omitted in the indictment.
[216] Indictments, London and Middlesex, Hil. 33 Charles 2, No. 22.
[217] King's Bench Judgment Roll, Easter, 32 Charles 2, rot. 84.
[218] Indictments, London and Middlesex, Hilary 33 Charles II, No. 21.
[219] Indictments, London and Middlesex, Mich. 34 Charles 2, No. 85.
[220] Indictments, London and Middlesex, Mich. 34 Charles 2, No. 84.
[221] See London Mercury, No. 36, Aug. 8, 1682.
[222] Indictments. Lond. and Midd., Mich. 34 Car. 2, No. 81.
[223] Indictments. London and Midd., Mich. 34 Charles 2, No. 80.
[224] Indictments. Lond. and Midd., Hilary 34 and 35 Charles 2, No. 22.
[225] Indictments. Lond. and Midd., Hilary 34 and 35 Charles 2, No. 23.
[226] Indictments. Lond. and Midd., Hil. 34 and 35 Charles 2, No. 24.
[227] Indictments, London and Midd., Hil. 34 and 35 Charles 2, No. 95.
[228] The True Protestant Mercury, No. 32, April 13 to April 16, 1681.
[229] Ditto No. 49, June 22 to June 25, 1681.
[230] The Impartial Protestant Mercury, From Tuesday May 31, to Friday June 3. 1681. No. 12.
[231] The Impartial Protestant Mercury, No. 50, From Tuesday October 11 to Friday October 14, 1681.
[232] King's Bench Judgment Roll, Trin. 35., Charles 2 rot., 81.
[233] London Gazette. No. 1717. From May 1 to May 4. 1682.
[234] King's Bench Judgment Roll, Easter 35, Charles 2. No. 310 rot. 23, 34 & 103.
[235] King's Bench Judgment Roll, Trinity 35, Charles 2., part 2, m. 89.
[236] King's Bench Judgment Roll, Mich. 33, Car. 2, part 2, m. 137.
[237] King's Bench Judgment Roll, Charles 2. No. 302, rot. 114.
[238] King's Bench Judgment Roll. Charles 2. No. 300, m. 88.
[239] King's Bench Judgment Roll. Charles 2. No. 298, m. 109.
[240] King's Bench Judgment Roll. Charles 2. No. 302, rot. 113.
[241] London Gazette. No. 1709. April 3 to April 6, 1682.
[242] King's Bench Judgment Roll. Charles 2. No. 298, rot. 106.
[243] King's Bench Judgment Roll. Charles 2. No. 298, rot. 107.
[244] London Gazette, No. 1900. King's Bench Judgment Roll. Charles 2. No. 314, rot. 100.
[245] King's Bench Judgment Roll. Charles 2. No. 316, rot. 88.
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