Memoires of the life and death of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey, late justice of the peace for Middlesex, who was barbarously murthered by the papists, upon the first discovery of the horrid plot together with a full account of the strange discovery of the murther, the tryal of the murtherers, and the sham-plot of the papists to charge the murther of Sir Edm. Godfrey upon himself, detected.
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             Memoires of the life and death of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey, late justice of the peace for Middlesex, who was barbarously murthered by the papists, upon the first discovery of the horrid plot together with a full account of the strange discovery of the murther, the tryal of the murtherers, and the sham-plot of the papists to charge the murther of Sir Edm. Godfrey upon himself, detected.
             Tuke, Richard, fl. 1672.
          
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           Godfrey, Edmund Berry, 1621-1678.
           Popish Plot, 1678.
        
      
    
     
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               The
               true
               Effigies
               Of
               S
               
               r.
               EDMONDBURY
               GODF●●●
               Knight
               and
               Iustice
               Of
               the
               Peace
               who
               〈◊〉
               MURTHERED
               by
               Papists
               the
               12
               th
               day
               of
               October
               An̄
               .
               Dom̄
               .
               1678.
               
            
             
               
                 F.
                 H.
                 van
                 Hove
                 .
                 Sculp●●●
              
            
          
        
      
       
         
         
           Memoires
           OF
           THE
           LIFE
           and
           DEATH
           OF
           Sir
           
             Edmondbury
             Godfrey
          
           ,
           LATE
           Justice
           of
           the
           Peace
           for
           Middlesex
           ,
           who
           was
           Barbarously
           Murthered
           by
           the
           Papists
           ,
           upon
           the
           first
           Discovery
           of
           THE
           
             Horrid
             Plot
          
           :
           TOGETHER
           WITH
           A
           full
           Account
           of
           the
           strange
           Discovery
           of
           the
           Murther
           ,
           the
           Tryal
           of
           the
           Murtherers
           ,
           and
           the
           Sham-Plot
           of
           the
           Papists
           to
           charge
           the
           Murther
           of
           Sir
           
             Edm.
             Godfrey
          
           upon
           himself
           ,
           Detected
           .
        
         
           
             Protomartyr
             pro
             Patriâ
          
           
             Moriendo
             restituit
             rem
             .
          
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           for
           
             John
             Hancock
          
           at
           the
           three
           Bibles
           over
           against
           the
           
             Royal
             Exchange
          
           in
           Cornhill
           ,
           and
           
             Enoch
             Prosser
          
           at
           the
           Rose
           and
           Crown
           at
           the
           East
           end
           of
           the
           
             Royal
             Exchange
          
           in
           Cornhill
           ,
           1682.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           TO
           THE
           KINGS
           Most
           Excellent
           Majesty
           .
        
         
           
             Most
             Gracious
             and
             dread
             Soveraign
             ,
          
        
         
           THat
           I
           should
           presume
           to
           lay
           this
           little
           Treatise
           at
           your
           Royal
           Feet
           ,
           and
           to
           implore
           your
           Majesties
           most
           gracious
           Patronage
           of
           it
           ,
           is
           not
           out
           of
           any
           vain
           Ostentation
           of
           leaping
           from
           the
           distances
           of
           my
           mean
           Station
           to
           approach
           Majesty
           ;
           But
           rather
           to
           do
           that
           right
           to
           
           my
           Subject
           ,
           as
           to
           shelter
           it
           against
           malicious
           Censurers
           ,
           under
           your
           Royal
           and
           powerful
           protection
           .
           Those
           that
           Persecuted
           him
           while
           living
           ,
           and
           at
           last
           took
           away
           his
           Life
           ,
           at
           once
           bereaving
           your
           Majesty
           of
           a
           faithful
           Subject
           ,
           and
           the
           Nation
           of
           a
           useful
           Member
           ,
           will
           I
           question
           not
           ,
           endeavour
           (
           as
           they
           have
           often
           attempted
           )
           to
           bear
           down
           the
           true
           Value
           of
           his
           Merits
           by
           unjust
           Slanders
           :
           but
           he
           was
           too
           well
           known
           to
           be
           Scandaliz'd
           by
           such
           men
           ,
           who
           are
           as
           well
           known
           (
           as
           they
           were
           his
           ,
           so
           )
           to
           be
           Enemies
           to
           your
           Sacred
           Majesty
           ,
           your
           Kingdoms
           ,
           and
           the
           true
           Protestant
           Religion
           .
           It
           was
           for
           his
           firm
           adherence
           to
           all
           these
           that
           he
           fell
           an
           Innocent
           Sacrifice
           to
           their
           Revenge
           and
           Malice
           .
           He
           faithfully
           served
           your
           Majesty
           and
           Countrey
           ,
           while
           he
           had
           
           Life
           to
           spend
           in
           such
           Services
           .
           'T
           is
           fit
           the
           World
           should
           know
           what
           he
           was
           .
           He
           dyed
           for
           his
           Zeal
           in
           such
           Services
           ,
           for
           his
           Loyalty
           to
           your
           Majesty
           ,
           and
           Constancy
           to
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           .
           To
           whom
           then
           should
           the
           Protection
           of
           his
           Memory
           upon
           such
           accounts
           be
           better
           (
           though
           with
           a
           humble
           respect
           to
           your
           greatness
           )
           dedicated
           ,
           than
           to
           our
           
             Gracious
             King
             and
             Defender
             of
             the
             Faith
             ?
          
        
         
           
             Honorantes
             me
             honorabo
          
           ,
           is
           the
           Royal
           Promise
           of
           the
           King
           of
           Kings
           to
           his
           Worshippers
           .
           Sir
           
             Edmondbury
             Godfrey
          
           was
           one
           that
           dutifully
           Honoured
           and
           Served
           your
           Majesty
           :
           And
           your
           Majejesty
           ,
           according
           to
           your
           Native
           Clemency
           and
           Goodness
           ,
           and
           (
           after
           the
           pattern
           of
           him
           whose
           Vicegerent
           
           you
           are
           )
           was
           pleased
           in
           compensation
           of
           his
           Duty
           ,
           to
           confer
           many
           Honours
           upon
           him
           .
           You
           Honoured
           him
           with
           the
           Dignity
           of
           Knighthood
           ,
           with
           admitting
           him
           into
           the
           Commission
           of
           
             the
             Peace
          
           ,
           and
           that
           great
           Character
           your
           Majesty
           was
           pleased
           to
           give
           him
           of
           his
           Abilities
           for
           that
           Service
           .
           He
           was
           honoured
           with
           the
           freedom
           of
           access
           to
           your
           Royal
           Presence
           ,
           and
           being
           imployed
           for
           your
           Majesty
           in
           some
           great
           Services
           .
           After
           his
           Death
           ,
           your
           Majesty
           was
           pleased
           so
           far
           to
           Honour
           him
           by
           your
           gracious
           Sympathy
           with
           your
           People
           in
           his
           loss
           ,
           as
           to
           extend
           your
           Justice
           by
           your
           
             Royal
             Proclamation
          
           for
           the
           Discovering
           of
           his
           Murtherers
           ,
           and
           then
           to
           grant
           a
           special
           Commission
           
           of
           Oyer
           and
           Terminer
           for
           their
           Tryal
           ,
           and
           to
           bring
           them
           to
           condign
           Punishment
           .
        
         
           Unto
           all
           these
           Honours
           that
           living
           and
           Dead
           your
           Majesty
           has
           graciously
           been
           pleased
           to
           extend
           to
           him
           ;
           May
           it
           please
           your
           
             Sacred
             Majesty
          
           to
           grant
           one
           more
           in
           his
           behalf
           ,
           in
           graciously
           condescending
           to
           Vouchsafe
           your
           
             Royal
             Patronage
          
           to
           these
           Memoires
           of
           your
           late
           faithful
           ,
           Loyal
           and
           Protestant
           Subject
           ;
           and
           of
           your
           Princely
           goodness
           ,
           as
           well
           to
           pardon
           the
           presumption
           of
           the
           Author
           ,
           as
           the
           defects
           of
           his
           undertaking
           .
        
         
           May
           the
           divine
           goodness
           that
           hath
           hitherto
           (
           to
           the
           unspeakable
           Joy
           of
           your
           Subjects
           )
           preserved
           your
           
             Sacred
             Person
          
           and
           your
           Government
           against
           all
           the
           Plots
           and
           
           Contrivances
           of
           your
           Enemies
           ,
           continue
           to
           defend
           you
           ,
           and
           increase
           such
           Loyalty
           in
           the
           hearts
           of
           your
           Subjects
           ,
           as
           this
           man
           dyed
           for
           .
        
         
           That
           the
           Crown
           may
           long
           flourish
           on
           your
           Royal
           Head
           ,
           and
           that
           you
           may
           be
           bless'd
           with
           a
           long
           ,
           happy
           and
           peaceable
           Reign
           over
           these
           Kingdoms
           ,
           is
           the
           hearty
           Prayer
           of
           ,
        
         
           
             Great
             SIR
             ,
          
           
             Your
             Majesties
             most
             humble
             ,
             Loyal
             and
             Obedient
             Subject
             and
             Servant
             ,
             Ric.
             Tuke
             .
          
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           Memoirs
           OF
           THE
           LIFE
           and
           DEATH
           OF
           Sir
           
             Edmondbury
             Godfrey
          
           .
        
         
           A
           
             Good
             Name
          
           (
           sayes
           the
           Royal
           Moralist
           )
           
             is
             better
             than
             precious
             Oyntment
             ,
             Eccl.
          
           7.
           1.
           
           't
           is
           this
           ,
           that
           while
           the
           Body
           of
           a
           good
           Man
           is
           prey'd
           upon
           by
           corruption
           ,
           
           and
           insected
           with
           stench
           and
           faetor
           in
           the
           Grave
           ,
           perfumes
           the
           World
           with
           the
           Odours
           of
           grateful
           and
           pleasing
           remembrances
           fit
           as
           well
           for
           the
           delight
           ,
           as
           use
           of
           the
           Living
           .
        
         
           That
           the
           worthy
           Sr.
           
             Edmondbury
             Godfrey
          
           left
           such
           a
           Name
           behind
           him
           ,
           needs
           not
           the
           confirmation
           of
           this
           Narrative
           ;
           there
           is
           no
           place
           where
           ever
           he
           had
           a
           mention
           ,
           but
           is
           scented
           with
           it
           .
        
         
           The
           confection
           of
           those
           great
           and
           imitable
           Vertues
           with
           which
           this
           Good-Name
           was
           by
           himself
           in
           his
           life
           time
           compounded
           ,
           I
           am
           now
           to
           spread
           before
           you
           ,
           and
           to
           open
           this
           Box
           of
           Nard
           for
           your
           delight
           and
           benefit
           .
        
         
           The
           very
           last
           Act
           and
           Apotheosis
           of
           his
           Life
           ,
           though
           Tragical
           and
           bitter
           to
           him
           ;
           yet
           ,
           as
           it
           was
           occasioned
           by
           that
           loyal
           Zeal
           and
           Resolution
           for
           the
           Service
           of
           his
           King
           and
           Country
           ,
           which
           provoked
           the
           malitious
           Papists
           to
           
           cut
           him
           off
           ,
           was
           an
           Offering
           of
           a
           Sweet-smelling
           Savour
           ,
           and
           made
           this
           precious
           Unguent
           to
           savour
           in
           the
           Nostrils
           of
           all
           good
           Men
           with
           the
           greater
           redolencie
           and
           sweetness
           :
           And
           notwithstanding
           the
           cursed
           designs
           of
           his
           revengeful
           Enemies
           ,
           after
           having
           taken
           away
           his
           Life
           ,
           to
           take
           away
           his
           good
           Name
           too
           ;
           it
           was
           not
           in
           the
           power
           of
           those
           dead
           Flies
           to
           corrupt
           this
           Oyntment
           .
        
         
           If
           the
           accessions
           of
           a
           Gentile
           Stock
           ,
           and
           generous
           breeding
           thereto
           suitable
           ,
           might
           be
           any
           advantage
           to
           own
           Personal
           worthiness
           ,
           he
           might
           boast
           of
           both
           ;
           but
           
           he
           had
           more
           to
           boast
           of
           (
           had
           he
           been
           given
           to
           that
           idle
           humour
           ,
           which
           he
           never
           was
           )
           from
           his
           own
           acquirements
           ;
           so
           that
           whatever
           bequests
           of
           Honour
           or
           Estate
           he
           received
           from
           his
           worthy
           Ancestors
           ,
           were
           accumulated
           by
           the
           acquests
           of
           his
           own
           Industry
           and
           
           Vertue
           ;
           by
           both
           which
           he
           became
           
             tam
             famae
             quàm
             fortunae
             suae
             faber
          
           ;
           and
           Ennobled
           the
           Coat
           of
           his
           Ancestors
           with
           his
           own
           Atchievements
           :
           Yet
           ,
           to
           render
           him
           a
           Gentleman
           of
           the
           truest
           Stamp
           ,
           he
           was
           so
           qualified
           as
           well
           by
           Descent
           as
           Purchase
           .
           The
           Moralist
           thought
           the
           former
           sufficient
           ,
           
             That
             Nobility
             was
             nothing
             else
             but
          
           
           
             Ancient
             Wealth
             and
             Ancient
             Worship
          
           ;
           but
           this
           was
           not
           sufficient
           for
           him
           without
           building
           upon
           an
           Ancient
           Basis
           a
           New
           Superstructure
           of
           a
           Personal
           Merit
           .
        
         
           His
           Father
           was
           Sir
           
             Thomas
             Godfrey
          
           Knight
           ,
           of
           an
           Ancient
           and
           reputable
           Family
           in
           the
           County
           of
           Kent
           ,
           where
           not
           only
           his
           said
           Father
           ,
           but
           his
           Grandfather
           ,
           and
           Elder
           Brother
           were
           Justices
           of
           the
           Peace
           ,
           as
           was
           this
           worthy
           Knight
           himself
           afterwards
           for
           the
           County
           of
           Middlesex
           .
           So
           that
           in
           this
           kind
           of
           Series
           and
           Succession
           of
           Magistracy
           from
           Father
           to
           Son
           ,
           he
           seemed
           as
           
           't
           were
           
             Born
             to
             be
             a
             Justice
             of
             Peace
             ,
          
           as
           't
           is
           observed
           by
           that
           Learned
           and
           Worthy
           Prelate
           Dr.
           Lloyd
           in
           
           that
           excellent
           Sermon
           he
           preach'd
           at
           his
           Funeral
           .
        
         
           His
           Father
           (
           by
           several
           Wives
           )
           had
           a
           Numerous
           Issue
           ,
           no
           less
           than
           Ten
           Sons
           ,
           Our
           Sir
           Edmondbury
           being
           the
           Sixth
           by
           a
           Second
           Venter
           :
           yet
           though
           the
           Father
           himself
           was
           but
           a
           younger
           Brother
           ,
           the
           Grandfather
           left
           so
           plentiful
           an
           Estate
           to
           him
           as
           served
           to
           afford
           sufficient
           allowances
           to
           his
           Children
           ;
           None
           of
           them
           but
           with
           what
           was
           left
           them
           ,
           besides
           the
           laudable
           improvements
           they
           made
           to
           it
           by
           Trade
           and
           Traffick
           ,
           lived
           plentifully
           and
           in
           good
           repute
           .
        
         
           Sir
           Edmondbury
           had
           in
           his
           youth
           bestowed
           upon
           him
           an
           Education
           suitable
           to
           his
           Birth
           and
           Quality
           ,
           being
           first
           put
           to
           Westminster
           School
           (
           that
           Prime
           Nurserie
           and
           Pae
           dagogie
           of
           Tyronick
           
           Learning
           ,
           )
           where
           in
           a
           little
           time
           by
           the
           strength
           of
           his
           extraordinary
           Parts
           he
           arrived
           to
           that
           proficiency
           as
           to
           be
           sent
           to
           the
           University
           in
           order
           to
           his
           maturation
           in
           Studies
           of
           an
           higher
           Nature
           .
        
         
           Having
           continued
           there
           for
           some
           time
           a
           diligent
           and
           industrious
           Student
           in
           those
           parts
           of
           Learning
           ,
           which
           afterwards
           qualified
           him
           for
           great
           and
           worthy
           Employments
           ;
           he
           was
           afterwards
           sent
           over
           to
           Travel
           in
           Foreign
           parts
           ,
           to
           advance
           the
           Theorie
           of
           his
           speculative
           acquirements
           by
           Observation
           of
           Men
           and
           Manners
           ,
           and
           became
           thereby
           the
           better
           qualified
           to
           discharge
           himself
           in
           those
           publick
           Places
           to
           which
           he
           was
           afterwards
           called
           .
        
         
           During
           the
           time
           of
           his
           Travels
           ,
           he
           kept
           himself
           (
           by
           the
           aids
           of
           the
           Divine
           Grace
           )
           as
           well
           free
           from
           the
           contagion
           of
           the
           Immoralities
           as
           the
           (
           equally
           dangerous
           )
           
           
             false
             Religion
          
           of
           the
           places
           in
           which
           he
           conversed
           ;
           the
           two
           destructive
           Rocks
           ,
           upon
           which
           most
           of
           the
           unseasoned
           youth
           of
           the
           Gentry
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           ,
           when
           exposed
           to
           the
           like
           Temptations
           by
           their
           incautelous
           Parents
           (
           out
           of
           a
           vain
           humour
           of
           a
           fancied
           accomplishment
           to
           be
           gained
           by
           Travel
           )
           do
           infortunately
           split
           .
        
         
           For
           by
           those
           sound
           Principles
           of
           Religion
           and
           Vertue
           which
           he
           had
           imbibed
           by
           the
           means
           of
           his
           careful
           Parents
           and
           Instructors
           ,
           he
           was
           sufficiently
           antidoted
           against
           both
           ;
           returning
           home
           rather
           informed
           than
           corrupted
           ;
           like
           the
           laborious
           Bee
           extracting
           the
           Hony
           of
           useful
           Experience
           and
           Observations
           from
           the
           worst
           of
           things
           .
        
         
           After
           his
           return
           home
           to
           his
           Native
           Countrey
           ,
           his
           careful
           Father
           ,
           to
           render
           him
           as
           well
           accomplished
           in
           Domestick
           Learning
           as
           Foreign
           Experiences
           ,
           sent
           him
           
           next
           to
           〈…〉
           ,
           and
           admitted
           hi●
           〈◊〉
           Member
           of
           the
           Honourable
           Society
           of
           Greys-Inn
           ,
           there
           to
           Study
           the
           Regal
           and
           Municipal
           Laws
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           ;
           And
           in
           this
           place
           though
           he
           continued
           not
           long
           enough
           (
           according
           to
           the
           Rules
           of
           such
           Societies
           )
           to
           assume
           the
           Graduates
           Robe
           of
           that
           Profession
           ;
           yet
           he
           arrived
           to
           that
           mature
           proficiencie
           as
           gave
           him
           a
           good
           Title
           to
           it
           :
           And
           wanted
           nothing
           but
           a
           Complement
           of
           time
           to
           make
           him
           capable
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           But
           the
           reason
           of
           his
           so
           soon
           leaving
           the
           Societie
           was
           a
           sense
           he
           had
           in
           himself
           of
           a
           defect
           in
           his
           Hearing
           ,
           or
           a
           kind
           of
           Deafness
           ,
           which
           (
           though
           not
           very
           great
           )
           was
           alwayes
           Natural
           to
           him
           ,
           and
           was
           judged
           by
           himself
           and
           Friends
           might
           be
           an
           hindrance
           to
           him
           in
           the
           nice
           and
           difficult
           practice
           of
           Pleading
           ,
           where
           the
           circumstances
           of
           debated
           Matters
           
           from
           the
           Mouths
           of
           Pleaders
           or
           Witnesses
           not
           being
           audibly
           received
           might
           be
           a
           great
           prejudice
           to
           the
           Clyent
           's
           Business
           ;
           and
           withal
           some
           unhealthiness
           in
           his
           Body
           ,
           which
           in
           the
           laborious
           employment
           of
           the
           Law-practice
           might
           be
           prejudicial
           to
           him
           .
           For
           these
           Reasons
           after
           some
           Years
           continuance
           in
           that
           Inn
           he
           removed
           himself
           into
           the
           Countrey
           amongst
           his
           Friends
           .
        
         
           Amongst
           whom
           he
           diverted
           himself
           for
           some
           time
           :
           but
           his
           generous
           Soul
           being
           too
           active
           to
           be
           confined
           to
           the
           retirement
           of
           a
           private
           Solitude
           and
           conversation
           ,
           could
           not
           long
           rest
           in
           this
           inert
           and
           useless
           Capacity
           ,
           but
           put
           him
           upon
           some
           undertakings
           ,
           wherein
           he
           might
           improve
           the
           activity
           of
           his
           industrious
           Spirit
           for
           the
           good
           of
           himself
           and
           others
           ;
           Idleness
           being
           alwayes
           a
           burthen
           to
           him
           to
           whom
           Labour
           never
           was
           so
           ;
           the
           fatigues
           
           of
           the
           latter
           in
           its
           most
           difficult
           
           managements
           were
           so
           little
           ungrateful
           to
           him
           ,
           that
           he
           seemed
           never
           better
           pleas'd
           ,
           than
           when
           he
           had
           least
           case
           :
           for
           indeed
           Business
           was
           so
           natural
           to
           him
           that
           it
           was
           never
           uneasie
           ;
           He
           was
           most
           in
           his
           Element
           ,
           when
           he
           was
           employed
           in
           publick
           or
           private
           Offices
           of
           doing
           good
           ,
           and
           none
           was
           ever
           more
           indefatigable
           in
           such
           Offices
           than
           himself
           .
        
         
           And
           Providence
           was
           so
           auspicious
           to
           him
           in
           these
           generous
           designments
           ,
           as
           in
           a
           short
           time
           to
           offer
           him
           a
           fair
           occasion
           of
           putting
           them
           in
           Execution
           ,
           by
           means
           of
           an
           intimate
           Friend
           and
           Relation
           of
           his
           ,
           who
           had
           lost
           a
           great
           part
           of
           his
           Estate
           by
           reason
           of
           his
           Services
           for
           the
           King
           in
           the
           late
           Wars
           ;
           and
           having
           reduced
           the
           rest
           into
           Stock
           ,
           resolved
           to
           improve
           the
           same
           in
           way
           of
           Trade
           by
           taking
           a
           Wood-yard
           ,
           and
           Buying
           and
           Selling
           Wood
           
           and
           Coals
           ;
           an
           Employment
           not
           only
           creditable
           ,
           but
           known
           to
           be
           usually
           very
           gainful
           to
           the
           Undertakers
           ;
           especially
           such
           as
           have
           any
           considerable
           Stocks
           to
           manage
           it
           with
           .
        
         
           Sir
           
             Edmonbury
             Godfrey
          
           being
           a
           younger
           Brother
           ,
           and
           what
           Estate
           he
           had
           ,
           consisting
           in
           Moneys
           to
           the
           value
           of
           1000
           l.
           or
           thereabouts
           ,
           was
           advised
           (
           as
           a
           fair
           way
           of
           improvement
           )
           to
           join
           Stocks
           with
           the
           aforesaid
           Gentleman
           ,
           and
           to
           come
           in
           a
           Partner
           with
           him
           ,
           in
           managing
           the
           Trade
           of
           a
           Wood-wharf
           ,
           which
           he
           accordingly
           did
           ;
           setling
           themselves
           first
           at
           Dowgate
           ,
           within
           the
           City
           of
           London
           ;
           where
           in
           a
           few
           Years
           that
           they
           continued
           Trading
           together
           ,
           it
           pleased
           God
           so
           to
           bless
           their
           honest
           industry
           and
           indeavours
           ,
           that
           they
           advanced
           their
           Stocks
           to
           a
           very
           considerable
           increase
           &
           advantage
           ;
           so
           indulgent
           is
           
           Providence
           commonly
           to
           the
           honest
           endeavours
           of
           industrious
           Persons
           ,
           that
           the
           more
           laborious
           they
           are
           in
           the
           Employments
           they
           are
           called
           to
           ,
           the
           more
           they
           thrive
           and
           are
           blessed
           in
           them
           .
        
         
           How
           may
           the
           Example
           of
           these
           two
           Trading
           Gentlemen
           ,
           reproach
           the
           unthrifty
           humours
           of
           too
           many
           of
           the
           Gentry
           of
           these
           Dayes
           ,
           who
           study
           no
           other
           Arts
           but
           that
           of
           spending
           ,
           and
           wastefully
           to
           consume
           the
           Patrimonies
           ,
           that
           their
           careful
           Fathers
           had
           gathered
           for
           them
           ,
           in
           all
           the
           expensive
           Modes
           of
           Luxury
           and
           Riot
           ?
           and
           while
           they
           scornfully
           disdain
           those
           laudable
           Employments
           and
           means
           of
           Thrift
           by
           which
           they
           might
           be
           *
           serviceable
           to
           the
           Common-wealth
           and
           advance
           their
           Families
           ,
           what
           do
           they
           by
           taking
           the
           contrary
           courses
           ,
           but
           precipitate
           themselves
           upon
           the
           Rocks
           of
           unavoidable
           contempt
           
           and
           Beggery
           ?
           and
           so
           become
           themselves
           the
           Scorn
           of
           those
           industrious
           Persons
           whose
           wayes
           of
           Thriving
           they
           formerly
           contemned
           .
        
         
           Having
           thus
           by
           their
           joint
           Trading
           (
           as
           I
           have
           said
           )
           acquir'd
           considerable
           advantages
           to
           their
           particular
           Estates
           ,
           in
           a
           few
           Years
           that
           they
           dealt
           together
           ;
           It
           afterwards
           happened
           that
           Mr.
           Harrison
           ,
           Sir
           Edmondbury
           Godfrey's
           Partner
           ,
           altered
           his
           Condition
           by
           Marrying
           a
           near
           Relation
           of
           Sir
           
           Edmondbury's
           ;
           the
           other
           continuing
           still
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           Day
           of
           his
           Death
           in
           the
           state
           of
           Coelibacy
           :
           but
           whether
           it
           were
           upon
           this
           account
           ,
           the
           Family
           being
           too
           much
           inlarged
           for
           their
           commodious
           Cohabitation
           ;
           or
           that
           their
           Stocks
           being
           likewise
           so
           much
           inlarged
           ,
           there
           might
           be
           a
           necessity
           (
           as
           was
           the
           case
           once
           between
           Abraham
           and
           Lot
           )
           of
           a
           Separation
           ,
           I
           
           know
           not
           ;
           but
           these
           two
           Partners
           having
           first
           fairly
           and
           justly
           stated
           the
           Accounts
           betwixt
           each
           other
           ,
           agreed
           upon
           a
           parting
           :
           And
           accordingly
           Sir
           Edmondbury
           (
           resolving
           still
           to
           follow
           the
           same
           Employment
           )
           having
           found
           out
           a
           convenient
           House
           and
           Yard
           fit
           for
           his
           purpose
           at
           the
           other
           end
           of
           the
           Town
           ,
           at
           Hartshorn-Lane
           ,
           near
           Charing-Cross
           ,
           removed
           thither
           ;
           And
           having
           furnished
           his
           Yard
           with
           a
           good
           Stock
           of
           Wares
           ,
           began
           now
           to
           Trade
           for
           himself
           :
           And
           found
           the
           same
           Providence
           that
           had
           hitherto
           been
           propitious
           to
           him
           ,
           to
           succeed
           his
           industry
           and
           endeavours
           in
           this
           his
           new
           undertaking
           ,
           with
           a
           suitable
           Blessing
           .
        
         
           The
           Arts
           he
           used
           as
           means
           (
           subservient
           to
           the
           Divine
           Providence
           )
           of
           his
           Thriving
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           were
           no
           other
           than
           those
           of
           an
           ingenious
           industry
           and
           unreproveable
           Integrity
           ,
           the
           two
           best
           and
           most
           solid
           Bases
           of
           a
           prosperous
           condition
           .
           
           He
           being
           in
           his
           private
           Capacity
           ,
           as
           strict
           an
           Observer
           of
           the
           Rules
           of
           Commutative
           Justice
           ,
           as
           he
           was
           afterwards
           of
           the
           distributive
           ,
           when
           called
           to
           the
           exercise
           of
           a
           more
           publick
           Function
           .
        
         
           And
           it
           was
           not
           long
           that
           he
           continued
           in
           this
           private
           way
           of
           Commerce
           and
           Trading
           ;
           but
           that
           the
           great
           Abilities
           both
           of
           Estate
           and
           Parts
           of
           one
           so
           near
           residing
           to
           the
           Court
           being
           represented
           to
           his
           Majesty
           (
           who
           as
           of
           his
           piercing
           Wisdom
           ,
           he
           is
           most
           able
           to
           judge
           of
           ;
           so
           of
           his
           Native
           Clemency
           and
           Goodness
           is
           most
           ready
           to
           prefer
           such
           Persons
           to
           Places
           of
           Trust
           and
           Honour
           ,
           wherein
           they
           may
           become
           serviceable
           to
           himself
           and
           People
           )
           It
           pleased
           his
           Majesty
           to
           admit
           him
           into
           the
           Commission
           of
           the
           Peace
           ,
           as
           one
           of
           his
           Justices
           for
           the
           County
           of
           Middlesex
           ,
           and
           City
           of
           Westminster
           ;
           in
           which
           
           Place
           he
           faithfully
           served
           him
           ,
           till
           such
           time
           ,
           as
           for
           the
           last
           Services
           wherein
           he
           performed
           the
           greatest
           act
           of
           Loyalty
           to
           his
           Prince
           and
           Countrey
           ,
           that
           lay
           in
           the
           power
           of
           a
           Subject
           to
           do
           ,
           he
           was
           by
           the
           malice
           of
           his
           ,
           and
           our
           implacable
           Enemies
           ,
           the
           Papists
           ,
           taken
           from
           us
           .
        
         
           We
           are
           now
           therefore
           to
           consider
           him
           in
           his
           more
           publick
           Capacity
           as
           a
           Justice
           of
           the
           Peace
           ,
           in
           which
           place
           as
           he
           spent
           many
           and
           the
           last
           Years
           of
           his
           Life
           ,
           we
           may
           remark
           more
           solemnly
           those
           Graces
           and
           Excellencies
           which
           alwayes
           did
           illustrate
           his
           most
           imitable
           Conversation
           .
        
         
           But
           whether
           or
           no
           any
           happy
           Conjunction
           of
           Sydereal
           influences
           might
           auspicate
           this
           Honour
           to
           him
           by
           way
           of
           Succession
           to
           his
           worthy
           Ancestors
           ;
           't
           is
           
           certain
           one
           of
           the
           greatest
           of
           Princes
           thought
           him
           not
           unworthy
           the
           Office.
           
        
         
           And
           was
           so
           well
           satisfied
           in
           his
           choice
           of
           him
           ,
           that
           in
           confirmation
           of
           his
           approvement
           ,
           He
           [
           that
           ought
           to
           know
           best
           (
           sayes
           the
           Learned
           Doctor
           in
           his
           Threnodia
           )
           
           hath
           often
           said
           ,
           
             He
             took
             Sir
          
           Edmondbury
           Godfrey
           
             to
             be
             the
             best
             Justice
             of
             Peace
             in
             this
             Kingdom
             ;
             ]
          
           and
           adds
           a
           great
           Word
           of
           his
           own
           in
           the
           first
           Clause
           of
           that
           Paragraph
           ;
           That
           
             [
             He
             was
             perhaps
             the
             Man
             ,
             the
             Man
             of
             our
             Age
             ,
             that
             did
             the
             most
             good
             in
             that
             Station
             ;
             He
             did
          
           (
           saith
           he
           )
           
             Dedicate
             himself
             wholly
             to
             it
             ;
             made
             his
             Countrey
             his
             Family
             ;
             his
             Parish
             his
             Wife
             and
             Children
             ;
             attended
             wholly
             to
             their
             good
             ;
             to
             keep
             up
             Law
             and
             Justice
             ,
             and
             Safety
             and
             Liberty
             ;
             to
             save
             others
             from
             Violence
             and
             Wrong
             ,
             to
             reduce
             them
             from
             Disorder
             and
             Violence
             .
          
        
         
         
           What
           greater
           Testimonies
           ,
           than
           these
           of
           so
           judicious
           a
           Prince
           ,
           and
           so
           Learned
           a
           Prelate
           ,
           could
           be
           expected
           or
           desired
           to
           Illustrate
           the
           Merits
           of
           a
           worthy
           and
           deserving
           Magistrate
           ?
        
         
           But
           if
           we
           may
           Comment
           upon
           this
           Royal
           Theme
           ,
           it
           will
           be
           worth
           our
           while
           to
           consider
           those
           Excellencies
           apart
           which
           rendred
           him
           capable
           of
           so
           great
           a
           Character
           .
           And
           here
           we
           may
           not
           unfitly
           take
           the
           opportunity
           to
           give
           you
           in
           brief
           the
           Character
           of
           this
           Excellent
           Person
           ,
           both
           as
           to
           his
           Natural
           and
           Moral
           Indowments
           ;
           by
           which
           it
           may
           be
           easily
           judged
           ,
           how
           well
           qualified
           he
           was
           as
           well
           for
           the
           Honour
           as
           Trust
           of
           that
           Eminent
           Place
           in
           which
           he
           served
           .
        
         
           As
           to
           his
           Person
           ,
           the
           Graver
           hath
           furnished
           you
           in
           the
           Frontispiece
           with
           a
           Copy
           (
           not
           much
           disagreeing
           
           to
           the
           Life
           )
           of
           his
           comely
           and
           graceful
           Countenance
           ;
           in
           which
           ,
           as
           if
           Nature
           had
           cast
           him
           into
           a
           Mould
           fit
           for
           the
           purpose
           of
           his
           future
           Office
           ,
           we
           may
           perceive
           a
           duly
           composed
           Feature
           equally
           mixt
           with
           gravity
           and
           sweetness
           ,
           a
           becoming
           mien
           that
           carried
           as
           well
           Authority
           as
           ingenuity
           in
           it
           ,
           and
           commanded
           at
           once
           both
           awe
           and
           love
           from
           the
           beholders
           .
        
         
           The
           gracefulness
           of
           a
           Mans
           presence
           (
           in
           the
           Fancies
           of
           some
           )
           adds
           much
           of
           respect
           and
           reverence
           to
           their
           Persons
           ,
           especially
           where
           their
           Characters
           require
           it
           or
           deserve
           it
           .
           And
           therefore
           Howell
           treating
           of
           the
           qualifications
           of
           Embassadors
           ,
           gives
           this
           for
           one
           :
           
             That
             being
             to
             represent
          
           
           
             the
             Person
             of
             his
             Prince
             ,
             he
             ought
             to
             be
             a
             comely
             and
             graceful
             Person
             .
          
           And
           such
           an
           one
           was
           Sir
           Edmondbury
           ;
           
           his
           Stature
           was
           elevated
           somewhat
           above
           the
           common
           Size
           of
           ordinary
           tall
           Men
           :
           the
           habit
           of
           his
           Body
           spare
           ,
           far
           from
           Corpulencie
           ;
           but
           well
           set
           and
           exactly
           proportioned
           .
           He
           was
           indeed
           (
           as
           most
           tall
           Men
           are
           )
           somewhat
           inclined
           to
           stoop
           in
           his
           going
           ,
           which
           might
           be
           occasioned
           by
           the
           Thoughtfulness
           of
           his
           musing
           Head
           ,
           mostly
           working
           upon
           some
           good
           and
           generous
           Designs
           in
           the
           way
           of
           his
           Business
           .
           His
           disposition
           and
           humour
           were
           such
           as
           obliged
           love
           and
           respects
           from
           all
           that
           knew
           him
           ,
           being
           Naturally
           of
           a
           kind
           ,
           courteous
           ,
           and
           affable
           temper
           ,
           free
           of
           access
           ,
           and
           ready
           to
           hear
           the
           meanest
           Persons
           ,
           that
           in
           way
           of
           complaint
           ,
           or
           business
           ,
           had
           any
           thing
           to
           do
           with
           him
           ;
           and
           this
           accompanied
           with
           a
           faceteness
           and
           pleasancie
           of
           humour
           ,
           that
           was
           no
           less
           Natural
           him
           ,
           rendred
           his
           Conversation
           lovely
           
           and
           delightful
           to
           all
           Persons
           .
        
         
           If
           it
           may
           not
           seem
           impertinent
           ,
           I
           will
           give
           you
           one
           instance
           for
           all
           of
           the
           Urbanity
           of
           his
           temper
           .
           That
           he
           being
           one
           Night
           attending
           at
           the
           Council
           Table
           at
           Whitehall
           ,
           till
           it
           was
           somewhat
           late
           ,
           and
           being
           then
           to
           go
           to
           the
           Temple
           upon
           Business
           ,
           called
           a
           Coach
           at
           the
           Court
           Gates
           ;
           and
           perceiving
           a
           Gentleman
           standing
           there
           ,
           whom
           he
           had
           observed
           likewise
           attending
           upon
           Business
           at
           the
           Board
           ,
           was
           pleased
           courteously
           to
           enquire
           of
           him
           ,
           whether
           his
           way
           lay
           towards
           the
           Temple
           :
           understanding
           which
           ,
           he
           was
           pleased
           ,
           though
           a
           Stranger
           ,
           to
           take
           him
           into
           the
           Coach
           with
           him
           ,
           and
           gave
           him
           his
           passage
           thither
           .
        
         
           Civility
           and
           Courtesie
           were
           the
           Flowers
           and
           Ornaments
           of
           that
           excellent
           temper
           ;
           the
           ground
           
           of
           which
           consisted
           of
           an
           exact
           Justice
           and
           Compleat
           Charity
           ;
           both
           these
           were
           Eminent
           in
           this
           Worthy
           :
           None
           more
           punctual
           and
           exact
           as
           to
           the
           Commutative
           parts
           of
           Justice
           than
           he
           ;
           in
           his
           dealings
           ,
           in
           the
           keeping
           of
           his
           Accounts
           ,
           in
           performance
           of
           his
           promises
           ,
           rendring
           to
           every
           Man
           his
           right
           ,
           and
           discreetly
           looking
           to
           his
           own
           .
           And
           for
           his
           Charity
           ,
           as
           he
           was
           Naturally
           indued
           with
           a
           large
           and
           bountiful
           Spirit
           ,
           so
           the
           expressions
           of
           it
           were
           Visible
           in
           such
           circumstances
           and
           instances
           ,
           as
           may
           perhaps
           be
           parallel'd
           by
           few
           Men
           of
           this
           Age
           ,
           if
           we
           respect
           either
           the
           Charity
           of
           his
           Mind
           ,
           or
           the
           Charity
           of
           his
           Hands
           .
        
         
           And
           as
           to
           the
           First
           ,
           how
           free
           was
           he
           from
           a
           censorious
           Spirit
           ;
           the
           unhappy
           temper
           of
           too
           many
           of
           this
           Age
           ;
           and
           no
           doubt
           
           the
           main
           ground
           of
           our
           present
           differences
           both
           in
           Church
           and
           State
           ?
           when
           Men
           not
           content
           to
           enjoy
           the
           satisfaction
           and
           liberty
           of
           their
           own
           perswasions
           ,
           do
           injuriously
           censure
           and
           perhaps
           maliciously
           despight
           those
           that
           are
           of
           the
           contrary
           :
           But
           this
           Good
           Man
           was
           none
           of
           that
           Leaven
           ;
           he
           was
           himself
           of
           a
           Sound
           and
           Orthodox
           perswasion
           and
           principles
           ;
           yet
           censured
           none
           that
           differed
           from
           him
           in
           lesser
           Circumstances
           not
           material
           to
           the
           Essence
           and
           Vitals
           of
           Religion
           ;
           but
           honoured
           many
           such
           for
           the
           Characters
           of
           a
           solid
           goodness
           appearing
           in
           them
           from
           whom
           he
           differed
           in
           his
           own
           private
           Judgment
           and
           Opinion
           :
           though
           he
           was
           most
           strict
           in
           reproving
           and
           punishing
           grosser
           Enormities
           ;
           yet
           he
           could
           charitably
           bear
           with
           the
           lesser
           infirmities
           of
           such
           in
           whom
           a
           controuling
           Vertue
           did
           more
           eminently
           
           prevail
           .
           In
           fine
           ,
           though
           he
           had
           a
           severe
           regard
           to
           himself
           ,
           and
           his
           own
           actions
           ;
           yet
           he
           could
           bear
           with
           others
           for
           greater
           miscarriages
           than
           he
           allowed
           in
           himself
           :
           though
           he
           alwayes
           frown'd
           upon
           the
           frontless
           Sinner
           ;
           yet
           (
           such
           was
           his
           candour
           )
           that
           he
           would
           rarely
           put
           a
           modest
           Transgressor
           to
           the
           Blush
           .
        
         
           As
           to
           the
           Charity
           of
           his
           Hands
           ,
           it
           must
           be
           a
           labour
           (
           though
           a
           delightful
           one
           )
           to
           any
           that
           should
           go
           about
           to
           enumerate
           those
           labours
           of
           Love
           ,
           those
           Offices
           of
           a
           true
           Christian
           Charity
           in
           which
           he
           abounded
           .
        
         
           It
           may
           now
           be
           lawful
           to
           declare
           to
           the
           World
           ,
           that
           which
           in
           his
           Life
           he
           most
           laboured
           to
           conceal
           ;
           for
           indeed
           his
           Charity
           was
           so
           truly
           Christian
           and
           Heroick
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           expressions
           of
           it
           ,
           
           his
           left
           Hand
           was
           a
           Stranger
           to
           what
           his
           right
           Hand
           did
           :
           few
           have
           more
           merited
           applause
           in
           this
           kind
           than
           himself
           ,
           none
           sought
           it
           less
           ;
           being
           co●●ted
           to
           have
           done
           his
           duty
           ,
           expecting
           his
           reward
           from
           his
           Heavenly
           Father
           ,
           and
           leaving
           the
           fame
           of
           it
           to
           the
           contingent
           notice
           of
           a
           posthumous
           Memorie
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           now
           known
           which
           durst
           not
           before
           be
           mentioned
           ,
           how
           kind
           he
           was
           to
           a
           Religious
           ,
           but
           suffering
           Family
           in
           the
           City
           of
           Westminster
           ,
           allowing
           them
           Ten
           Pounds
           
             per
             Annum
          
           ,
           towards
           their
           support
           ,
           and
           this
           Annuity
           he
           continued
           to
           them
           for
           several
           Years
           together
           .
        
         
           But
           this
           was
           but
           one
           Family
           of
           many
           that
           were
           in
           the
           like
           nature
           ,
           though
           in
           different
           proportions
           ,
           relieved
           by
           him
           .
        
         
         
           Although
           he
           was
           ever
           severe
           against
           idle
           Beggers
           and
           Vagabonds
           ,
           such
           as
           refusing
           the
           honest
           wayes
           of
           Industry
           and
           Labour
           to
           maintain
           themselves
           ,
           lived
           altogether
           upon
           the
           Alms
           of
           others
           ;
           yet
           he
           was
           so
           much
           a
           friend
           to
           those
           that
           were
           necessitatedly
           poor
           ,
           and
           whose
           poverty
           was
           neither
           occasioned
           by
           ill
           Husbandry
           ,
           nor
           continued
           by
           idleness
           ,
           that
           such
           should
           never
           want
           his
           Charity
           ;
           but
           he
           would
           either
           set
           them
           on
           Work
           ,
           or
           otherwise
           relieve
           them
           by
           some
           charitable
           donation
           .
        
         
           Although
           ,
           as
           I
           have
           said
           ,
           it
           was
           the
           Christianity
           of
           his
           temper
           to
           do
           his
           Alms
           in
           secret
           ,
           there
           are
           many
           Hundreds
           of
           living
           Witnesses
           that
           are
           able
           to
           give
           in
           their
           Testimonials
           to
           this
           part
           of
           his
           Character
           ,
           that
           he
           was
           a
           truly
           charitable
           Man.
           
        
         
         
           And
           as
           he
           arrived
           to
           this
           grade
           of
           the
           
             beatifying
             Scale
          
           of
           being
           Merciful
           ;
           
           so
           he
           declared
           himself
           to
           be
           a
           true
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           a
           Child
           of
           God
           by
           ascending
           another
           ;
           he
           was
           a
           Peace-maker
           ,
           one
           that
           coveted
           not
           so
           much
           the
           Triumph
           of
           the
           Lawrel
           as
           the
           shadow
           of
           the
           Olive-bough
           :
           Moderation
           and
           Peace
           were
           the
           proper
           Elements
           of
           his
           Nature
           .
           If
           he
           observed
           any
           differences
           to
           arise
           betwixt
           any
           of
           his
           Friends
           or
           Neighbours
           ,
           how
           industrious
           would
           he
           be
           to
           reconcile
           them
           !
           nor
           would
           he
           rest
           ,
           whatever
           pains
           he
           was
           exposed
           to
           ,
           till
           he
           had
           accomplished
           his
           ends
           .
        
         
           The
           reputation
           of
           his
           Peace-making
           humour
           occasioned
           him
           much
           trouble
           by
           such
           as
           desired
           the
           benefit
           of
           it
           ,
           by
           putting
           him
           frequently
           upon
           Arbitrations
           and
           
           composing
           of
           differences
           :
           which
           province
           as
           by
           reason
           of
           his
           great
           judgment
           and
           experience
           ,
           he
           was
           very
           capable
           to
           manage
           ;
           so
           he
           rarely
           declined
           it
           ,
           though
           it
           were
           a
           great
           hindrance
           both
           to
           his
           Publick
           and
           Private
           Business
           ;
           it
           is
           well
           known
           by
           the
           Neighbourhood
           amongst
           whom
           he
           lived
           ,
           how
           much
           of
           his
           time
           and
           pains
           were
           laid
           out
           in
           such
           friendly
           Services
           .
        
         
           Thus
           was
           he
           as
           a
           Man
           :
           take
           him
           as
           a
           Christian
           ,
           and
           a
           Religious
           Man
           ;
           and
           I
           cannot
           give
           you
           his
           Character
           more
           truly
           and
           fully
           than
           is
           mentioned
           by
           the
           aforesaid
           
             Learned
             Prelate
          
           in
           his
           Funeral
           Sermon
           :
           one
           who
           as
           by
           reason
           of
           his
           intimacy
           with
           him
           ,
           he
           had
           the
           greatest
           opportunity
           ;
           so
           by
           his
           faculty
           was
           most
           capable
           to
           judge
           of
           him
           in
           this
           particular
           .
           His
           words
           are
           these
           :
        
         
         
           
             As
             to
             those
             things
             which
             belong
             
             to
             a
             private
             Christian
             ,
             I
             ought
             to
             know
             him
             better
             than
             most
             others
             .
             And
             I
             did
             know
             that
             by
             him
             which
             gives
             me
             abundant
             comfort
             in
             his
             Death
             .
             I
             knew
             him
             to
             be
             a
             just
             and
             charitable
             Man
             ;
             A
             Devout
             ,
             a
             Zealous
             ,
             and
             Conscientious
             Christian
             .
             His
             Religion
             was
             more
             for
             use
             than
             shew
             .
             And
             yet
             he
             was
             constant
             in
             all
             the
             Acts
             of
             Gods
             worship
             ,
             as
             well
             out
             of
             Judgment
             as
             Affection
             .
             And
             though
             the
             compassion
             that
             he
             had
             for
             all
             Men
             that
             did
             amiss
             ,
             extended
             it self
             to
             all
             manner
             of
             Dissenters
             ,
             and
             amongst
             them
             he
             had
             a
             kindness
             for
             the
             Persons
             of
             many
             Roman
             Catholicks
             :
             yet
             he
             alwayes
             declared
             a
             particular
             hatred
             and
             detestation
             of
             Popery
             .
             I
             say
             this
             on
             purpose
             to
             be
             remembred
             (
             because
             some
             would
             have
             him
             a
             Papist
             ,
             or
             inclined
             
             that
             way
             )
             I
             never
             pleased
             him
             with
             any
             duty
             I
             performed
             ,
             at
             least
             he
             never
             thanked
             me
             for
             any
             so
             much
             ,
             as
             he
             did
             for
             those
             Sermons
             which
             I
             preached
             here
             against
             Popery
             .
          
        
         
           Thus
           far
           the
           worthy
           Doctor
           ,
           whose
           words
           I
           have
           quoted
           at
           large
           ,
           as
           a
           Noble
           confirmation
           of
           what
           has
           been
           before
           hinted
           ,
           of
           his
           Piety
           ,
           Charity
           ,
           Moderation
           ,
           and
           Religion
           ;
           and
           withall
           (
           under
           this
           Head
           )
           to
           take
           off
           that
           groundless
           and
           malicious
           calumny
           ,
           devised
           no
           doubt
           by
           the
           Papists
           themselves
           ,
           of
           his
           inclination
           to
           their
           Religion
           ;
           a
           Scandal
           so
           grosly
           absurd
           (
           to
           them
           especially
           that
           were
           acquainted
           with
           his
           Conversation
           )
           that
           if
           the
           known
           opposition
           he
           made
           against
           them
           and
           their
           Practices
           in
           the
           first
           discovery
           of
           their
           present
           Plot
           ,
           and
           his
           dying
           for
           it
           by
           their
           violent
           and
           malicious
           
           Hands
           ,
           were
           not
           a
           sufficient
           refutation
           ;
           we
           have
           here
           an
           unexceptionable
           confirmation
           from
           the
           Mouth
           and
           Pen
           of
           this
           worthy
           Bishop
           ;
           whose
           judgment
           was
           too
           great
           ,
           and
           who
           knew
           him
           too
           well
           ,
           to
           be
           deceived
           in
           so
           material
           a
           cirstance
           .
        
         
           We
           have
           by
           these
           rude
           touches
           given
           you
           a
           rough
           draught
           of
           some
           of
           those
           lineaments
           that
           made
           up
           his
           Excellent
           composition
           ;
           some
           faint
           Ideas
           of
           his
           well
           featur'd
           Soul
           ,
           whose
           several
           Graces
           as
           they
           were
           singly
           most
           Excellent
           and
           Lovely
           ,
           so
           the
           Harmony
           of
           their
           contexture
           agreeing
           in
           an
           exact
           Symmetry
           ,
           rendred
           him
           a
           pure
           form
           of
           Vertue
           :
           the
           complexion
           of
           which
           was
           not
           of
           a
           faint
           or
           fading
           Nature
           ,
           like
           some
           tender
           Constitutions
           that
           change
           with
           every
           Air
           ;
           but
           strong
           and
           permanent
           ,
           not
           to
           be
           altered
           by
           any
           Vicissitudes
           of
           Fortune
           or
           Condition
           :
           
             What
             he
             was
          
           ,
           he
           was
           alwayes
           ,
           
           of
           whom
           it
           may
           be
           said
           ,
           as
           it
           was
           
           once
           of
           the
           great
           Athanasius
           ,
           That
           he
           was
           
             A
             living
             and
             immortal
             Pillar
             of
             Vertue
             .
          
        
         
           We
           shall
           lastly
           consider
           him
           in
           his
           more
           publick
           Capacity
           as
           a
           Magistrate
           or
           Justice
           of
           the
           Peace
           ,
           in
           which
           province
           as
           he
           stood
           more
           lyable
           to
           Vulgar
           notice
           ,
           we
           shall
           observe
           those
           remarkables
           of
           him
           that
           may
           be
           satisfactory
           to
           the
           Readers
           attention
           and
           his
           own
           due
           merits
           .
        
         
           How
           well
           he
           deserved
           this
           Office
           ,
           needs
           no
           higher
           or
           greater
           Confirmation
           ,
           than
           that
           he
           was
           elected
           to
           it
           ,
           and
           approved
           in
           it
           by
           him
           that
           bestow'd
           it
           on
           him
           :
           
             A
             Great
             and
             Wise
             Prince
          
           ,
           who
           as
           he
           is
           himself
           the
           Fountain
           of
           Justice
           ,
           cannot
           be
           thought
           to
           commit
           the
           Administration
           thereof
           (
           especially
           to
           one
           in
           vicinity
           ,
           so
           near
           ,
           and
           so
           well
           known
           to
           him
           ,
           as
           Sir
           
             Edmondbury
             Godfrey
          
           was
           )
           but
           to
           Persons
           of
           exact
           approvement
           .
        
         
         
           Besides
           ,
           what
           we
           have
           before
           hinted
           of
           his
           fitness
           for
           this
           Service
           by
           the
           happiness
           of
           his
           Education
           ,
           having
           been
           brought
           up
           a
           Student
           in
           the
           Laws
           of
           England
           ;
           he
           was
           otherwise
           qualified
           for
           it
           ,
           by
           many
           excellent
           Endowments
           of
           Nature
           ,
           requisite
           to
           the
           composition
           of
           a
           good
           Magistrate
           ;
           a
           deep
           and
           piercing
           Judgment
           to
           search
           into
           the
           Niceties
           and
           Intricacies
           of
           such
           difficult
           business
           as
           he
           often
           met
           with
           ,
           and
           to
           determine
           accordingly
           ;
           An
           indefatigable
           Patience
           mixed
           with
           a
           genuine
           serenity
           of
           Mind
           ,
           whereby
           he
           could
           bear
           with
           the
           Clamours
           and
           Impertinencies
           of
           such
           as
           came
           before
           him
           ,
           leisurely
           attending
           to
           the
           Allegations
           both
           of
           Appellants
           and
           Criminals
           ,
           and
           fully
           hearing
           whatever
           (
           and
           so
           long
           as
           )
           they
           had
           any
           thing
           in
           reason
           to
           offer
           to
           him
           ;
           rather
           than
           the
           Truth
           on
           either
           side
           should
           be
           undiscovered
           by
           any
           
           prejudicate
           fore-stalling
           of
           the
           Evidence
           .
        
         
           A
           right
           and
           sound
           Integrity
           of
           Mind
           ,
           the
           golden
           Vein
           that
           ran
           through
           the
           whole
           body
           of
           his
           Actions
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           parts
           of
           it
           ,
           not
           to
           be
           corrupted
           by
           gifts
           ,
           bribes
           ,
           or
           pensions
           (
           the
           common
           taint
           of
           Justice
           )
           nor
           to
           be
           warp'd
           or
           byas'd
           by
           any
           sinister
           Interests
           ,
           but
           plain
           and
           upright
           ,
           uninterested
           ,
           and
           regularly
           conformable
           to
           the
           exactest
           rules
           of
           Justice
           and
           Honesty
           ,
           in
           all
           the
           particular
           administrations
           of
           his
           Province
           ,
           being
           well
           known
           ,
           as
           to
           any
           partiality
           in
           his
           actings
           ,
           to
           be
           no
           Respector
           of
           Persons
           .
        
         
           Add
           unto
           all
           these
           ,
           an
           Heroick
           Fortitude
           ,
           and
           Invincible
           Courage
           of
           Mind
           ,
           which
           was
           the
           Shield
           of
           his
           other
           Vertues
           ,
           and
           whereby
           he
           was
           bravely
           armed
           and
           defended
           against
           all
           the
           difficulties
           and
           discouragements
           (
           which
           were
           not
           a
           few
           )
           that
           he
           met
           with
           ;
           still
           
           keeping
           his
           ground
           with
           a
           stedfast
           Uprightness
           ,
           and
           unmoved
           Vertue
           amidst
           such
           Tryals
           ,
           as
           persons
           of
           less
           Courage
           than
           himself
           would
           have
           sneaked
           and
           grovel'd
           under
           ;
           
           Fortitude
           is
           stiled
           by
           
             Plato
             ,
             One
             of
             the
             most
             Fair
             and
             Excellent
             Vertues
          
           ;
           And
           is
           by
           Aristotle
           in
           his
           Ethicks
           made
           to
           bring
           up
           the
           Van
           of
           the
           Four
           Cardinal
           Vertues
           ,
           
             Quia
             haec
             virtus
             circa
             res
             arduas
             &
             difficilimas
             versatur
             ;
             Virtutis
             autem
             proprium
             est
             versari
             inter
             difficiliora
             .
          
           A
           Vertue
           therefore
           certainly
           most
           becoming
           a
           
             Good
             Magistrate
          
           ,
           who
           must
           dare
           to
           be
           such
           in
           the
           worst
           of
           times
           ,
           and
           greatest
           of
           dangers
           .
        
         
           
             'T
             is
             vulgar
             Vertue
             (
             says
             the
             Learned
             Prelate
             ,
             speaking
             on
             this
             head
             )
             that
             puts
             men
             only
             upon
             Safe
             good
             things
             ;
             'T
             is
             Vertue
             
             in
             its
             perfection
             ,
             when
             one
             dares
             do
             well
             ,
             and
             suffer
             for
             it
             :
             And
             of
             this
             Degree
             he
             shewed
             some
             as
             great
             proofs
             as
             perhaps
             have
             
             been
             given
             in
             our
             days
             .
          
        
         
           We
           shall
           in
           the
           first
           place
           give
           you
           one
           Instance
           which
           (
           with
           due
           Allowance
           to
           the
           unusualness
           of
           the
           Practice
           )
           may
           give
           sufficient
           proof
           of
           the
           greatness
           of
           his
           Mind
           ,
           in
           daring
           to
           be
           just
           to
           himself
           ,
           (
           Justice
           as
           well
           as
           Charity
           beginning
           at
           home
           ,
           )
           in
           a
           case
           wherein
           a
           Sneaking
           Softness
           or
           Complyance
           might
           have
           betray'd
           him
           to
           the
           ruining
           advantages
           of
           a
           Sconc'd
           and
           Insulting
           Adversary
           .
        
         
           Having
           a
           considerable
           Debt
           owing
           to
           him
           from
           a
           Great
           Person
           at
           Court
           ,
           to
           whom
           he
           had
           made
           many
           and
           often
           applications
           for
           the
           Payment
           of
           it
           ,
           without
           any
           other
           satisfaction
           than
           that
           of
           fair
           promises
           ,
           from
           time
           to
           time
           ,
           and
           nothing
           performed
           :
           Sir
           Edmond-Bury
           well
           knowing
           the
           Ability
           of
           the
           Person
           ,
           and
           that
           his
           pretences
           were
           but
           so
           many
           formal
           delays
           to
           deferr
           the
           Payment
           
           of
           that
           which
           (
           though
           justly
           due
           )
           he
           knew
           (
           by
           reason
           of
           his
           priviledge
           )
           he
           could
           not
           in
           an
           ordinary
           course
           of
           Justice
           be
           troubled
           for
           ,
           resolved
           however
           to
           sue
           him
           at
           Common-Law
           ,
           (
           notwithstanding
           his
           said
           Priviledge
           )
           and
           rather
           to
           cast
           himself
           upon
           His
           Majesties
           Clemency
           ,
           for
           infringing
           the
           Priviledge
           of
           his
           Houshold
           ,
           than
           to
           suffer
           himself
           to
           be
           unjustly
           defrauded
           of
           his
           due
           Debt
           ,
           by
           one
           that
           would
           make
           such
           a
           Protection
           an
           Asylum
           to
           that
           Injustice
           ,
           which
           he
           knew
           His
           Majesty
           would
           never
           patronize
           or
           allow
           of
           .
        
         
           Accordingly
           after
           all
           other
           fair
           ways
           ,
           unsuccessfully
           attempted
           ;
           he
           got
           the
           said
           Courtier
           Arrested
           by
           vertue
           of
           the
           Kings
           Writt
           ,
           and
           a
           Warrant
           thereupon
           granted
           by
           the
           Sheriff
           :
           and
           the
           Defendant
           was
           thereupon
           taken
           into
           Custody
           ,
           till
           such
           time
           as
           he
           should
           give
           in
           sufficient
           Bail
           to
           answer
           
           the
           Action
           ,
           instead
           of
           which
           the
           Defendant
           insisting
           upon
           his
           Priviledge
           :
           sent
           to
           White-Hall
           ,
           and
           got
           an
           Order
           for
           the
           Commitment
           of
           Sir
           Edmond-Bury
           ,
           for
           breach
           of
           Priviledge
           ,
           upon
           which
           he
           was
           taken
           into
           Custody
           ,
           and
           so
           remained
           for
           the
           space
           of
           six
           days
           a
           Prisoner
           ,
           and
           was
           so
           to
           continue
           till
           such
           time
           as
           he
           should
           discharge
           the
           other
           of
           the
           Arrest
           ,
           which
           Sir
           Edmond-Bury
           would
           not
           consent
           unto
           ,
           but
           rather
           suffered
           the
           severity
           of
           that
           uneasie
           restraint
           ,
           than
           to
           gratifie
           his
           Adversaries
           stubbornness
           with
           a
           too
           easie
           compliance
           :
        
         
           His
           Majesty
           being
           then
           acquainted
           with
           the
           Circumstances
           of
           the
           Case
           ,
           was
           pleased
           graciously
           to
           Order
           Sir
           
             Edmond-Bury
             Godfreys
          
           discharge
           ;
           and
           taking
           notice
           ,
           in
           his
           Princely
           Judgement
           ,
           of
           that
           Magnanimity
           and
           Heroick
           disposition
           he
           shewed
           ,
           in
           hearing
           the
           brunt
           of
           this
           trouble
           ,
           
           was
           pleased
           not
           only
           to
           pardon
           the
           Misdemeanour
           ;
           but
           by
           this
           Action
           to
           take
           such
           farther
           notice
           of
           him
           ,
           as
           to
           conferr
           upon
           him
           the
           Honour
           of
           Knighthood
           :
           and
           as
           a
           more
           special
           token
           of
           his
           Grace
           and
           Favour
           ,
           to
           admit
           him
           again
           into
           the
           Commission
           of
           the
           Peace
           ,
           out
           of
           which
           he
           had
           ,
           by
           means
           of
           his
           Adversary
           ,
           been
           then
           lately
           before
           strucken
           out
           .
        
         
           But
           a
           more
           noble
           instance
           than
           this
           to
           prove
           the
           fortitude
           of
           his
           mind
           ,
           as
           well
           in
           daring
           dangers
           ,
           as
           bearing
           troubles
           ,
           appears
           in
           his
           staying
           in
           Town
           in
           the
           time
           of
           the
           last
           great
           Sickness
           ,
           when
           the
           two
           great
           Cities
           of
           London
           and
           Westminster
           were
           in
           a
           manner
           deserted
           by
           their
           Inhabitants
           ,
           and
           few
           left
           but
           such
           of
           the
           poorer
           sort
           who
           wanted
           Mony
           or
           Friends
           to
           remove
           themselves
           farther
           ;
           when
           the
           Arrows
           of
           the
           Almighty
           were
           scattered
           abroad
           in
           every
           corner
           :
           when
           almost
           every
           
           House
           was
           turned
           into
           a
           Sepulchre
           ,
           and
           Epitaph'd
           with
           the
           doleful
           Inscription
           of
           a
           
             Miserere
             Domine
          
           ,
           while
           the
           Dead
           and
           Living
           seemed
           buryed
           together
           ;
           when
           the
           fear
           of
           the
           Contagion
           rendered
           the
           few
           Inhabitants
           as
           unsociable
           to
           each
           other
           ,
           as
           they
           would
           with
           wild
           Beasts
           in
           a
           Wilderness
           ,
           every
           man
           fearing
           to
           come
           near
           another
           ,
           lest
           he
           should
           meet
           with
           his
           own
           Executioner
           ,
           when
           their
           very
           words
           (
           conveyed
           with
           a
           lethiferous
           Air
           )
           were
           feared
           as
           Bullets
           :
           when
           breath
           it self
           the
           Instruments
           of
           Life
           in
           one
           ,
           should
           be
           death
           to
           another
           as
           it
           passed
           from
           him
           .
           In
           fine
           when
           death
           and
           danger
           filled
           all
           places
           ,
           and
           turned
           the
           whole
           Town
           into
           one
           universal
           Scene
           of
           Misery
           and
           Mortality
           :
           then
           it
           was
           that
           this
           worthy
           Magistrate
           shewed
           the
           greatest
           proofs
           of
           a
           true
           Christian
           Courage
           and
           Resolution
           ,
           in
           adventuring
           to
           stay
           for
           a
           Publick
           
           Good
           in
           all
           the
           greatest
           heats
           of
           this
           dangerous
           Contagion
           .
           The
           famous
           
             Roman
             ,
             Curtius
          
           ,
           is
           celebrated
           in
           History
           for
           his
           unexemplary
           Courage
           ,
           in
           that
           for
           the
           love
           of
           his
           Country
           ,
           and
           to
           evert
           a
           great
           Judgment
           then
           upon
           them
           ,
           he
           fearlesly
           rode
           headlong
           into
           a
           vast
           devouring
           Gulph
           ,
           becoming
           so
           the
           Sacrifice
           of
           their
           Redemption
           .
           The
           action
           was
           full
           of
           Gallantry
           and
           Bravery
           ,
           suitable
           to
           the
           Heroick
           temper
           of
           a
           true
           Roman
           Spirit
           :
           but
           Sir
           Edmond-Bury
           ,
           from
           a
           better
           Principle
           ,
           of
           a
           truly
           Christian
           Zeal
           ,
           at
           least
           equalliz'd
           his
           Courage
           in
           this
           great
           undertaking
           ;
           wherein
           death
           in
           a
           thousand
           several
           appearances
           ,
           seemed
           ready
           to
           devour
           him
           ,
           if
           his
           Tutelar
           Angel
           (
           consigned
           by
           the
           Divine
           Providence
           )
           had
           not
           preserv'd
           him
           to
           greater
           purposes
           .
        
         
           It
           was
           no
           unadvised
           forwardness
           ,
           or
           injudicious
           temerity
           that
           
           put
           him
           upon
           an
           exploit
           so
           hazardous
           as
           this
           was
           to
           his
           life
           and
           safety
           ,
           neither
           any
           designs
           of
           advantage
           by
           it
           ,
           but
           a
           Just
           and
           Conscientious
           regard
           to
           his
           Duty
           in
           that
           place
           wherein
           he
           knew
           he
           might
           (
           in
           the
           absence
           of
           those
           his
           fellow
           Magistrates
           that
           were
           fled
           from
           the
           danger
           )
           be
           instrumental
           as
           well
           to
           preserve
           the
           Lives
           ,
           as
           Properties
           ,
           of
           such
           as
           should
           be
           exposed
           both
           to
           the
           danger
           of
           the
           Contagion
           ,
           and
           the
           Rapine
           of
           some
           ill
           minded
           people
           ,
           who
           frequently
           take
           the
           advantage
           of
           such
           Publick
           Calamities
           to
           inrich
           themselves
           with
           the
           spoils
           of
           the
           miserable
           Deceased
           .
        
         
           These
           were
           the
           only
           ends
           he
           had
           of
           his
           staying
           in
           Town
           ,
           for
           a
           
             Publick
             Good
          
           ,
           and
           was
           therefore
           esteemed
           by
           the
           Inhabitants
           of
           Westminster
           ,
           as
           their
           Guardian
           Genius
           ;
           as
           the
           Asylum
           and
           Sanctuary
           of
           their
           distressed
           conditions
           .
        
         
         
           
             He
             was
             the
             man
          
           (
           shall
           I
           say
           the
           
             only
             man
          
           of
           his
           Place
           ,
           )
           that
           stayed
           to
           do
           good
           ,
           and
           did
           the
           good
           he
           stayed
           for
           ;
           shall
           we
           go
           about
           to
           instance
           in
           particulars
           ?
           't
           is
           impossible
           ,
           they
           are
           innumerable
           .
           'T
           is
           easier
           to
           say
           ,
           what
           good
           did
           he
           not
           that
           lay
           within
           the
           Verge
           of
           his
           Province
           ?
           His
           House
           was
           not
           only
           the
           Seat
           of
           Justice
           ,
           but
           an
           Hospital
           of
           Charity
           ,
           where
           besides
           that
           Relief
           which
           he
           commonly
           afforded
           the
           Poor
           at
           other
           times
           for
           the
           necessity
           of
           Living
           ,
           he
           now
           extended
           his
           Charity
           to
           give
           them
           Physick
           ,
           to
           preserve
           them
           from
           dying
           ,
           when
           they
           were
           in
           a
           more
           immediate
           danger
           by
           the
           Contagion
           ,
           then
           of
           Starving
           ;
           
             He
             was
             the
             Man
          
           ,
           (
           and
           where
           was
           there
           such
           another
           ,
           )
           that
           laying
           aside
           the
           Grandeur
           of
           his
           Circumstances
           ,
           would
           familiarly
           visit
           his
           Poor
           Sick
           Neighbours
           ,
           and
           Administer
           suitable
           Reliefs
           to
           them
           ;
           
             He
             was
             the
             Man
          
           ,
           that
           at
           
           that
           time
           durst
           venture
           himsel●
           into
           the
           very
           Garrison
           of
           Death
           the
           Pest-house
           (
           the
           ordering
           o●
           which
           ,
           he
           took
           into
           his
           peculiar
           Care
           and
           Administration
           )
           and
           there
           amidst
           the
           deadly
           Fumes
           that
           arose
           from
           their
           Putrid
           Sores
           ,
           would
           he
           stand
           by
           the
           Diseased
           Lazars
           ,
           and
           see
           them
           dressed
           ,
           not
           denying
           them
           any
           Relief
           or
           Assistance
           that
           lay
           in
           his
           Power
           to
           afford
           them
           .
        
         
           His
           Justice
           was
           no
           less
           remarkable
           then
           his
           Charity
           ,
           when
           there
           was
           any
           need
           of
           it
           ,
           as
           many
           times
           there
           was
           ,
           to
           right
           the
           Dead
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           to
           relieve
           the
           Living
           ;
           a
           notable
           instance
           whereof
           ,
           we
           shall
           give
           you
           in
           this
           following
           Narration
           .
        
         
           A
           Profligate
           Wretch
           that
           had
           taken
           up
           a
           new
           way
           of
           Thieving
           ,
           (
           yet
           't
           is
           said
           too
           much
           Practised
           in
           those
           times
           )
           of
           Robbing
           the
           Dead
           ,
           notwithstanding
           the
           Horror
           that
           is
           naturally
           concomitant
           
           to
           such
           Actions
           ,
           had
           in
           the
           dead
           time
           of
           the
           Night
           used
           to
           Invade
           the
           Cemeteries
           and
           Church-yards
           that
           were
           now
           more
           Peopled
           then
           the
           places
           they
           belong'd
           to
           ;
           and
           there
           breaking
           up
           the
           mournful
           Clods
           ,
           would
           Sacrilegiously
           ransack
           the
           Graves
           ,
           and
           pillage
           them
           with
           as
           much
           freedom
           ,
           as
           Souldiers
           do
           the
           bodies
           of
           their
           vanquisht
           Enemies
           in
           the
           Fields
           of
           War
           ,
           taking
           from
           them
           their
           Dying
           Apparel
           ,
           the
           Sheets
           and
           other
           Linnen
           in
           which
           they
           were
           Inhumed
           ,
           and
           decently
           covered
           ,
           leaving
           the
           Poor
           Carcasses
           inhumanly
           Naked
           .
        
         
           This
           Trade
           he
           followed
           so
           long
           till
           he
           furnished
           a
           Ware-house
           with
           the
           Spoils
           of
           the
           Dead
           ;
           and
           had
           gotten
           into
           his
           Possession
           (
           some
           say
           )
           to
           the
           number
           of
           a
           Thousand
           Winding-sheets
           :
           when
           by
           some
           means
           being
           at
           last
           discovered
           ,
           information
           of
           these
           barbarous
           Actions
           being
           given
           in
           to
           
           Sir
           Edmnud-bury
           ,
           he
           condiscended
           to
           go
           himself
           with
           the
           Constables
           Guard
           ,
           to
           the
           Place
           where
           (
           he
           was
           informed
           )
           the
           Good
           ,
           were
           Harboured
           ,
           and
           Seized
           them
           .
           In
           the
           mean
           while
           the
           Criminal
           having
           got
           notice
           of
           the
           design
           against
           him
           ,
           was
           fled
           ;
           and
           being
           hardned
           against
           the
           fear
           of
           Infection
           by
           his
           too
           much
           familiarity
           with
           the
           Dead
           ,
           had
           taken
           Sanctuary
           in
           the
           Pest-house
           ,
           where
           he
           thought
           himself
           sufficiently
           secured
           against
           the
           Attacques
           of
           any
           that
           should
           pursue
           him
           ;
           for
           who
           should
           venture
           upon
           so
           imminent
           a
           danger
           ,
           as
           to
           seize
           a
           Malefactor
           in
           that
           place
           ,
           where
           possibly
           they
           might
           run
           upon
           their
           own
           Deaths
           ?
           And
           indeed
           ,
           the
           Officers
           to
           whom
           Sir
           Edmund-bury
           had
           directed
           his
           Warrants
           to
           that
           purpose
           ,
           were
           too
           faint-hearted
           to
           do
           it
           ,
           and
           declined
           the
           Service
           ;
           But
           then
           the
           
             Noble
             Knight
          
           himself
           (
           as
           a
           Pattern
           of
           unpresidented
           Magnanimity
           )
           
           out
           of
           his
           Zeal
           to
           Justice
           ,
           ventured
           in
           his
           own
           Person
           to
           go
           unto
           that
           Fatal
           Place
           (
           made
           Sacred
           against
           all
           Approaches
           by
           the
           danger
           of
           it
           ,
           )
           and
           there
           with
           his
           own
           hands
           Seized
           and
           carryed
           off
           the
           Offendor
           ,
           then
           delivering
           him
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           the
           Officers
           to
           be
           secured
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           be
           at
           a
           convenient
           time
           Examined
           about
           the
           Fact.
           
        
         
           And
           upon
           due
           proofs
           made
           out
           to
           him
           by
           several
           Witnesses
           ,
           the
           Criminal
           being
           Convicted
           ,
           Sir
           
             Edmond-Bury
             Godfrey
          
           in
           respect
           to
           Justice
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           so
           great
           a
           Villain
           an
           Example
           for
           the
           future
           to
           all
           that
           should
           be
           tempted
           to
           any
           such
           execrable
           designs
           ,
           pronounced
           this
           Sentence
           upon
           him
           ,
           as
           most
           suitable
           to
           the
           nature
           of
           his
           Crime
           ,
           That
           he
           should
           be
           carryed
           to
           the
           
             Church
             yard
          
           ,
           the
           place
           where
           he
           had
           perpetrated
           his
           Nefandous
           Villanies
           ,
           and
           there
           to
           be
           strip'd
           naked
           to
           the
           Waste
           ,
           and
           
           by
           the
           Beadle
           belonging
           to
           the
           Parish
           ,
           to
           be
           severely
           scourged
           round
           the
           place
           ;
           which
           Sentence
           was
           accordingly
           Executed
           upon
           him
           ,
           in
           the
           presence
           of
           a
           great
           number
           of
           Spectators
           ,
           who
           were
           assembled
           out
           of
           Curiosity
           to
           see
           so
           remarkable
           an
           Execution
           :
           
             Mortui
             non
             Mordent
          
           ,
           it
           is
           proverbially
           said
           ;
           but
           one
           that
           durst
           so
           boldly
           venture
           to
           spoil
           their
           passive
           Carkasses
           ,
           found
           an
           active
           revenge
           inflicted
           on
           him
           ,
           for
           so
           doing
           ,
           in
           the
           very
           prospect
           of
           their
           injured
           Relicks
           ;
           yet
           neither
           the
           smart
           ,
           nor
           shame
           of
           his
           punishment
           could
           mollifie
           the
           hardned
           wretch
           to
           any
           kind
           of
           relentings
           for
           his
           notorious
           Villanies
           ;
           but
           rather
           excited
           in
           him
           a
           Spirit
           of
           Revenge
           against
           the
           Authors
           of
           it
           :
           which
           he
           especially
           designed
           against
           the
           worthy
           Sir
           
             Edmond
             Bury
          
           ,
           by
           whose
           Sentence
           it
           was
           inflicted
           ,
           so
           that
           turning
           his
           Covetous
           designs
           against
           the
           Dead
           ,
           into
           a
           malicious
           
           Revenge
           against
           the
           Living
           ,
           he
           vowed
           and
           resolved
           upon
           his
           death
           whenever
           he
           should
           find
           an
           opportunity
           for
           it
           :
        
         
           And
           in
           pursuance
           of
           such
           his
           Devilish
           resolves
           ,
           being
           one
           time
           late
           at
           night
           ,
           unhappily
           befriended
           with
           an
           occasion
           of
           meeting
           Sir
           
             Edmond-Bury
             Godfrey
          
           ,
           in
           the
           Street
           going
           homewards
           towards
           his
           own
           House
           ,
           the
           Barbarous
           Villain
           ,
           in
           an
           inhumane
           manner
           ,
           assaults
           him
           with
           a
           Cudgel
           that
           he
           carryed
           about
           him
           (
           perhaps
           for
           that
           purpose
           )
           and
           had
           certainly
           brained
           him
           ,
           if
           Sir
           Edmond-Bury
           ,
           perceiving
           his
           design
           ,
           had
           not
           prevented
           it
           by
           a
           timely
           defence
           ,
           which
           he
           did
           by
           drawing
           out
           his
           Sword
           ,
           and
           therewith
           Warding
           the
           blows
           that
           were
           aimed
           at
           him
           ,
           yet
           without
           any
           offensive
           violence
           or
           hurt
           to
           his
           Adversary
           ,
           but
           only
           to
           defend
           himself
           ,
           which
           he
           did
           till
           such
           time
           as
           Company
           coming
           by
           ,
           and
           taking
           notice
           of
           
           the
           Out-rage
           ,
           Rescued
           him
           from
           the
           Assault
           ,
           and
           seized
           upon
           the
           Ruffian
           ,
           who
           was
           thereupon
           Committed
           to
           Newgate
           ,
           where
           he
           continued
           till
           the
           next
           Sessions
           of
           the
           Peace
           holden
           for
           London
           and
           Middlesex
           ,
           at
           the
           Old-Bayly
           ,
           and
           there
           (
           besides
           for
           this
           )
           several
           other
           Indictments
           comming
           in
           against
           him
           for
           Felony
           ,
           he
           was
           Convicted
           ,
           and
           received
           Sentence
           to
           dye
           ;
           but
           by
           the
           mercy
           of
           the
           Court
           he
           was
           only
           Transported
           into
           some
           Foraign
           Plantation
           ,
           where
           persisting
           still
           in
           his
           wicked
           Courses
           ,
           not
           withstanding
           these
           seasonable
           warnings
           ,
           being
           Convicted
           of
           some
           Criminal
           Fact
           ,
           that
           by
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Country
           deserved
           death
           ,
           he
           had
           Judgement
           of
           death
           accordingly
           passed
           upon
           him
           ,
           and
           was
           Hanged
           .
        
         
           During
           all
           the
           time
           of
           this
           great
           and
           dreadful
           Sickness
           ,
           Sir
           
             Edmond-Bury
             Godfrey
          
           ,
           (
           as
           we
           have
           said
           )
           continued
           his
           Station
           :
           and
           did
           
           worthily
           ,
           that
           while
           ,
           supply
           the
           defect
           of
           those
           that
           out
           of
           a
           Pusillanimous
           Phil-auty
           ,
           had
           deserted
           their
           Charges
           to
           secure
           themselves
           ;
           such
           selfish
           Principles
           as
           theirs
           were
           abhorrent
           from
           his
           Generous
           and
           Publick
           Spirit
           ,
           who
           durst
           attend
           his
           Duty
           in
           the
           Face
           of
           the
           greatest
           difficulties
           and
           dangers
           .
           And
           it
           pleased
           God
           (
           as
           an
           incouragement
           to
           others
           in
           the
           like
           discharge
           of
           their
           Duties
           )
           to
           reward
           his
           faithfulness
           with
           a
           singular
           Protection
           ,
           preserving
           him
           from
           those
           imminent
           Perils
           ,
           that
           he
           was
           (
           by
           his
           forwardness
           to
           be
           useful
           )
           continually
           exposed
           to
           ,
           that
           he
           might
           continue
           to
           be
           farther
           serviceable
           to
           his
           King
           and
           Country
           in
           better
           times
           .
        
         
           And
           many
           years
           after
           this
           it
           pleased
           God
           to
           continue
           him
           to
           us
           for
           a
           Publick
           Blessing
           :
           in
           which
           time
           ,
           though
           we
           cannot
           note
           any
           great
           remarkables
           of
           him
           to
           supply
           a
           History
           ,
           yet
           remarkable
           it
           
           is
           ,
           and
           worthy
           note
           ,
           that
           he
           was
           still
           the
           same
           ;
           the
           same
           
             Good
             Useful
             man
          
           that
           he
           always
           was
           ;
           none
           of
           the
           Fleeting
           Mobile
           that
           aspire
           at
           Names
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           made
           the
           Discourse
           of
           the
           World
           by
           their
           fluctuating
           and
           giddy
           Changes
           ,
           he
           kept
           his
           Station
           ,
           and
           contented
           himself
           with
           a
           private
           and
           retired
           acting
           in
           that
           Sphere
           ,
           wherein
           he
           had
           opportunity
           enough
           of
           doing
           Good
           ,
           and
           being
           Useful
           to
           the
           World
           ,
           the
           greatest
           thing
           that
           he
           ever
           aspired
           to
           .
        
         
           About
           the
           Year
           1678.
           
           Having
           been
           by
           the
           constant
           Fatigues
           and
           Labours
           of
           his
           Business
           ,
           reduced
           to
           a
           sickliness
           of
           Body
           ,
           and
           Distempers
           growing
           upon
           him
           ,
           he
           was
           advised
           by
           the
           Phisicians
           to
           go
           to
           Montpellier
           in
           France
           ,
           the
           Air
           of
           that
           Country
           being
           accounted
           very
           Restorative
           to
           wasting
           and
           decaying
           Constitutions
           ;
           according
           to
           whose
           advice
           ,
           having
           
           setled
           his
           Affairs
           in
           England
           for
           the
           short
           time
           of
           his
           intended
           stay
           ,
           he
           went
           over
           thither
           ,
           and
           took
           ,
           together
           with
           ,
           the
           benefit
           of
           that
           Salutiferous
           Air
           ,
           a
           Prospect
           of
           several
           remarkable
           Places
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           ;
           especially
           of
           a
           Great
           Work
           that
           the
           
             French
             King
          
           was
           then
           undertaking
           ,
           in
           making
           a
           
             Navigable
             River
          
           through
           those
           Countries
           into
           the
           Levant
           .
           He
           continued
           for
           some
           months
           in
           that
           Country
           (
           in
           which
           time
           it
           having
           pleased
           God
           to
           restore
           him
           to
           a
           good
           measure
           of
           Health
           ,
           (
           the
           end
           he
           went
           for
           )
           he
           returned
           again
           to
           bless
           his
           own
           Country
           ,
           and
           Relations
           ,
           with
           his
           much
           long'd-for
           presence
           .
        
         
           And
           not
           long
           after
           his
           return
           it
           was
           ,
           that
           the
           late
           (
           I
           fear
           we
           have
           too
           much
           reason
           to
           say
           the
           
             present
             )
             Hellish
             and
             Damnable
             Plot
          
           of
           the
           Papists
           against
           the
           King
           and
           Government
           ,
           broke
           out
           in
           England
           .
           An
           unhappy
           Juncture
           
           in
           which
           his
           last
           actings
           ,
           that
           concluded
           the
           Catastrophe
           of
           his
           worthy
           Life
           ,
           exposed
           him
           to
           an
           untimely
           and
           cruel
           Death
           ,
           by
           the
           hands
           of
           those
           bloudy-minded
           Papists
           ;
           the
           Proto-Martyr
           of
           those
           Innocents
           that
           were
           designed
           by
           them
           to
           a
           merciless
           destruction
           ;
           but
           blessed
           be
           God
           ,
           his
           Death
           ,
           however
           maliciously
           designed
           by
           them
           ,
           occasioned
           a
           prevention
           of
           the
           ill
           effects
           of
           their
           Malice
           against
           others
           ,
           by
           awakning
           the
           Magistrates
           ,
           and
           generally
           the
           whole
           Kingdom
           ,
           by
           this
           early
           instance
           of
           their
           Treachery
           to
           a
           more
           narrow
           watchfulness
           of
           them
           and
           their
           proceedings
           .
        
         
           The
           History
           of
           the
           first
           beginning
           and
           Discovery
           of
           this
           Plot
           ,
           is
           so
           generally
           known
           ,
           and
           mentioned
           in
           so
           many
           Narratives
           and
           Informations
           Published
           of
           it
           ,
           that
           it
           were
           needless
           for
           us
           to
           say
           much
           of
           it
           ,
           or
           more
           than
           is
           necessary
           to
           let
           you
           know
           how
           far
           
           Sir
           Edmond-Bury
           was
           concerned
           about
           it
           .
        
         
           Dr.
           Oates
           ,
           Reputed
           the
           first
           Discoverer
           of
           this
           Plot
           ,
           having
           been
           beyond
           the
           Seas
           ,
           and
           here
           in
           England
           ,
           a
           long
           time
           Conversant
           with
           the
           Managers
           of
           it
           ,
           as
           being
           Listed
           one
           of
           their
           Party
           ,
           and
           privy
           thereby
           to
           all
           their
           Designs
           and
           Managements
           ,
           Was
           resolved
           to
           make
           his
           Discovery
           of
           this
           
             Mystery
             of
             Iniquity
          
           ,
           and
           the
           Intrigues
           of
           it
           ,
           upon
           the
           first
           fair
           opportunity
           that
           offered
           it self
           to
           him
           .
           And
           having
           got
           into
           some
           acquaintance
           with
           Dr.
           Tongue
           ,
           a
           Worthy
           and
           Learned
           Person
           ,
           who
           had
           lately
           before
           Translated
           a
           Book
           ,
           Intituled
           the
           
             Jesuits
             Morals
          
           ,
           into
           English
           ,
           the
           said
           Book
           reflecting
           so
           severely
           upon
           that
           
             Brood
             of
             Vipers
          
           ,
           exasperated
           them
           to
           that
           height
           ,
           that
           nothing
           would
           satisfie
           them
           but
           his
           blood
           (
           the
           usual
           Alloy
           of
           their
           merciless
           Revenges
           )
           and
           Dr.
           Oates
           ,
           then
           a
           great
           Confident
           
           of
           that
           Party
           must
           be
           the
           man
           (
           injoyned
           thereto
           by
           their
           
             Provincial
             Whitebread
          
           )
           that
           should
           dispatch
           him
           .
           Dr.
           Oates
           could
           do
           no
           less
           than
           accept
           the
           service
           ,
           but
           (
           as
           it
           never
           was
           in
           his
           purpose
           )
           was
           so
           sar
           from
           Executing
           what
           he
           had
           promised
           that
           after
           a
           little
           time
           of
           acquaintance
           with
           the
           Doctor
           ,
           he
           Discovers
           to
           him
           not
           only
           what
           they
           had
           designed
           against
           his
           own
           life
           ,
           but
           the
           Plot
           in
           General
           ,
           with
           their
           designs
           against
           the
           King
           and
           Government
           ,
           and
           
             Protestant
             Religion
          
           Established
           in
           these
           Kingdoms
           ;
           and
           looking
           upon
           the
           Doctor
           (
           as
           he
           was
           )
           as
           a
           person
           of
           approved
           Trust
           and
           Integrity
           ,
           did
           at
           the
           same
           time
           Communicate
           to
           him
           the
           General
           Heads
           of
           this
           multi-form
           Treason
           ,
           with
           the
           names
           of
           the
           Actors
           concerned
           it
           it
           .
        
         
         
           But
           the
           business
           being
           of
           so
           Extraordinary
           Consequence
           ,
           and
           Mighty
           Opposition
           and
           Difficulty
           supposed
           to
           be
           met
           with
           upon
           the
           Discovery
           of
           it
           ;
           it
           was
           consulted
           between
           them
           ,
           what
           fit
           Person
           they
           should
           pitch
           upon
           to
           acquaint
           his
           Majesty
           with
           it
           .
        
         
           And
           accordingly
           they
           agreed
           upon
           
             Collonel
             Kirby
          
           ,
           a
           Person
           of
           known
           Fidelity
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           Zeal
           to
           the
           Protestant
           Interest
           ;
           the
           Collonel
           chearfully
           undertakes
           the
           Service
           ,
           and
           taking
           a
           convenient
           opportunity
           of
           meeting
           the
           King
           walking
           in
           St.
           
             James's
             Park
          
           ,
           begs
           his
           Attention
           ,
           and
           informs
           him
           some
           heads
           of
           the
           Treason
           ,
           and
           particularly
           ,
           of
           the
           Designs
           of
           the
           Papists
           ,
           to
           take
           away
           His
           Sacred
           Life
           ,
           and
           that
           Pickering
           and
           Grove
           ,
           besides
           others
           ,
           were
           Ingaged
           to
           Attempt
           it
           in
           that
           very
           place
           of
           His
           Recess
           ;
           His
           Majesty
           was
           much
           Surpriz'd
           ,
           to
           hear
           of
           a
           Danger
           ,
           (
           that
           by
           reason
           of
           
           his
           Native
           Innocency
           and
           Goodness
           )
           he
           needed
           not
           to
           have
           feared
           ,
           but
           graciously
           accepting
           at
           the
           hands
           of
           his
           Loyal
           Subject
           ,
           this
           seasonable
           Notice
           ,
           was
           pleased
           thereupon
           to
           Order
           him
           ,
           together
           with
           Dr.
           Tongue
           ,
           to
           wait
           upon
           Him
           that
           Evening
           at
           White-hall
           with
           the
           Informations
           ,
           which
           they
           accordingly
           did
           ;
           delivering
           to
           him
           an
           Information
           consisting
           of
           Forty
           three
           Articles
           ,
           drawn
           up
           by
           Dr.
           Oates
           :
           the
           Origional
           of
           which
           ,
           (
           this
           being
           but
           a
           Coppy
           )
           he
           kept
           in
           his
           own
           hands
           His
           ;
           Majesty
           graciously
           received
           the
           Papers
           ,
           but
           being
           to
           go
           the
           next
           Morning
           to
           Windsor
           ,
           was
           pleased
           to
           order
           them
           to
           be
           left
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           a
           great
           Lord
           and
           Eminent
           Minister
           of
           State
           ,
           whom
           His
           Majesty
           would
           intrust
           as
           well
           for
           the
           safety
           of
           them
           ,
           as
           his
           Secrecie
           in
           the
           Affair
           ,
           and
           accordingly
           they
           were
           left
           with
           him
           ,
           and
           several
           Attendances
           were
           spent
           
           upon
           his
           Lordship
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           acquaint
           him
           with
           other
           Matters
           relating
           to
           the
           Concern
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           mean
           while
           Dr.
           Oates
           discovered
           himself
           to
           
             Collonel
             Kirby
          
           ,
           who
           had
           not
           had
           all
           this
           time
           any
           acquaintance
           with
           him
           ;
           and
           gave
           him
           in
           some
           further
           Information
           ,
           as
           namely
           ,
           of
           the
           coming
           to
           Town
           of
           the
           
             Provincial
             Whitebread
             ,
             Bedingfield
          
           a
           Jesuite
           ,
           and
           others
           of
           that
           Gang
           and
           that
           they
           having
           by
           some
           means
           got
           intimation
           of
           this
           Discovery
           ,
           had
           him
           in
           Suspition
           for
           it
           ;
           And
           had
           design'd
           to
           prevent
           his
           Progress
           therein
           ,
           by
           making
           him
           away
           :
           this
           they
           thought
           in
           their
           devilish
           Policy
           the
           likeliest
           way
           to
           forward
           their
           Designs
           ,
           by
           first
           removing
           such
           Persons
           out
           of
           the
           way
           as
           should
           be
           likely
           to
           be
           Instrumental
           in
           the
           intended
           Discovery
           .
        
         
           This
           they
           then
           attempted
           against
           
             Dr.
             Oates
          
           ,
           and
           this
           they
           afterwards
           
           Executed
           upon
           the
           worthy
           Sir
           Edmund-Bury
           ,
           who
           was
           not
           so
           lucky
           to
           escape
           their
           Murderous
           Hands
           ,
           as
           he
           was
           .
           For
           the
           Doctor
           more
           than
           mistrusting
           their
           Designes
           against
           him
           ,
           had
           the
           good
           luck
           to
           avoid
           the
           brunt
           of
           their
           Revenge
           against
           him
           ,
           by
           a
           timely
           flight
           ;
           the
           particulars
           of
           which
           ,
           he
           related
           to
           Dr.
           Tongue
           :
           and
           that
           now
           having
           thus
           got
           himself
           loosed
           from
           his
           Treasonable
           Company
           ,
           he
           was
           resolved
           to
           cast
           himself
           upon
           the
           Mercy
           and
           Protection
           of
           his
           Majesty
           ;
           which
           Resolution
           of
           his
           ,
           Dr.
           Tongue
           very
           well
           approved
           ,
           and
           till
           such
           time
           as
           they
           could
           meet
           with
           a
           convenient
           opportunity
           of
           accomplishing
           it
           ,
           did
           kindly
           invite
           him
           to
           continue
           with
           him
           (
           as
           a
           good
           place
           of
           Safety
           and
           Retirement
           to
           him
           ,
           )
           at
           his
           Lodgings
           at
           Fox-hall
           .
        
         
           During
           which
           time
           ,
           Dr.
           Oates
           wrote
           over
           fair
           Copies
           of
           his
           Informations
           ,
           
           and
           upon
           the
           King
           's
           Return
           to
           White-hall
           ,
           Notice
           was
           one
           day
           given
           to
           Dr.
           Tongue
           and
           Collonel
           Kirby
           ,
           That
           it
           was
           his
           Majesties
           Pleasure
           ,
           that
           they
           two
           should
           Attend
           him
           the
           next
           Morning
           in
           Councel
           ,
           to
           be
           Examined
           before
           that
           great
           Presence
           ,
           about
           the
           Particulars
           of
           their
           Informations
           .
        
         
           In
           Order
           to
           which
           ,
           it
           was
           necessary
           ,
           that
           their
           several
           Copies
           should
           be
           Sworn
           to
           ,
           to
           render
           them
           the
           more
           Authentick
           when
           they
           should
           be
           delivered
           into
           the
           Councel
           ;
           And
           Sir
           Edmund-Bury
           ,
           as
           a
           Person
           of
           known
           Loyalty
           to
           his
           King
           and
           Country
           ,
           was
           the
           Magistrate
           whom
           they
           chose
           to
           be
           Sworn
           by
           ,
           and
           to
           intrust
           with
           this
           great
           Secret.
           
        
         
           A
           Loyal
           ,
           but
           unhappy
           piece
           of
           Service
           to
           this
           poor
           Gentleman
           ,
           who
           having
           with
           Horror
           and
           Astonishment
           perused
           the
           said
           Informations
           ,
           and
           taken
           their
           Oaths
           of
           the
           truth
           of
           them
           (
           which
           they
           
           Swore
           to
           before
           him
           )
           would
           needs
           desire
           a
           Copy
           of
           them
           ,
           to
           be
           left
           with
           him
           ,
           that
           he
           might
           in
           his
           own
           Loyal
           and
           Judicious
           thoughts
           take
           them
           upon
           an
           after
           view
           into
           a
           more
           serious
           consideration
           ,
           and
           so
           be
           the
           better
           inabled
           to
           Act
           in
           that
           Province
           he
           was
           in
           ,
           if
           need
           should
           be
           ,
           for
           the
           prevention
           of
           the
           growing
           mischief
           .
        
         
           Little
           dreaming
           (
           Dear
           Soul
           )
           at
           that
           time
           ,
           that
           his
           Loyal
           Intentions
           therein
           ,
           should
           expose
           him
           to
           that
           Malice
           of
           his
           Enemies
           (
           who
           too
           well
           knew
           the
           honesty
           and
           integrity
           of
           his
           mind
           ,
           not
           to
           be
           concern'd
           at
           it
           )
           that
           should
           be
           the
           occasion
           of
           his
           Death
           ;
           the
           sad
           and
           doleful
           Narrative
           of
           which
           ,
           as
           it
           was
           by
           this
           means
           occasioned
           ,
           we
           shall
           presently
           give
           you
           :
        
         
           The
           Two
           Informants
           having
           thus
           sworn
           to
           their
           Informations
           ,
           went
           with
           them
           before
           the
           King
           and
           Councel
           ,
           who
           afterwards
           sent
           
           for
           Dr.
           Oates
           ,
           and
           they
           were
           all
           Three
           severally
           Examined
           before
           them
           ,
           and
           their
           Services
           herein
           so
           well
           accepted
           ,
           that
           to
           secure
           them
           from
           the
           Malice
           of
           their
           Enemies
           ,
           His
           Majesty
           (
           out
           of
           his
           Native
           clemency
           and
           goodness
           )
           was
           graciously
           pleased
           to
           take
           Dr.
           Tongue
           and
           Dr.
           Oates
           into
           his
           Royal
           Protection
           ,
           and
           to
           order
           them
           Lodgings
           in
           his
           Pallace
           at
           White-hall
           .
        
         
           The
           Plotters
           (
           that
           had
           Spies
           in
           every
           Corner
           to
           observe
           the
           progress
           of
           their
           Designs
           ,
           and
           the
           successes
           of
           them
           )
           were
           now
           strangely
           surprized
           ,
           that
           the
           scent
           was
           taken
           ,
           and
           that
           we
           were
           already
           in
           pursuit
           of
           the
           game
           ,
           before
           they
           were
           aware
           of
           it
           ;
           They
           dreaded
           the
           Rumour
           of
           it
           more
           then
           any
           particular
           Informations
           ;
           They
           knew
           that
           Information
           had
           been
           given
           in
           and
           Sworn
           to
           ;
           They
           knew
           who
           it
           was
           that
           gave
           them
           their
           Oaths
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           had
           Copies
           
           of
           the
           Informations
           ;
           They
           knew
           so
           Loyal
           a
           Person
           ,
           so
           True
           a
           Protestant
           ,
           would
           be
           more
           then
           a
           Speculative
           or
           idle
           Observator
           upon
           such
           Treasonable
           Subjects
           ,
           they
           knew
           his
           Place
           ,
           they
           knew
           his
           Parts
           ,
           they
           knew
           his
           Power
           ,
           they
           knew
           his
           Interest
           at
           Court
           ;
           his
           free
           access
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           his
           esteem
           amongst
           the
           People
           ,
           and
           were
           not
           ignorant
           how
           able
           ,
           how
           ready
           he
           might
           be
           to
           improve
           all
           these
           advantages
           to
           the
           ruine
           of
           their
           Designes
           :
           They
           knew
           his
           Integrity
           ,
           that
           there
           was
           no
           hopes
           of
           corrupting
           him
           ,
           and
           therefore
           resolved
           to
           destroy
           him
           ;
           that
           by
           such
           an
           Execrable
           instance
           of
           their
           Revengeful
           temper
           they
           might
           deter
           all
           other
           Loyal
           Magistrates
           from
           intermedling
           with
           their
           Affairs
           ,
           and
           to
           render
           their
           
             Arcana
             inferna
          
           Sacred
           against
           all
           such
           intermedlings
           
           by
           the
           danger
           of
           their
           Revenges
           .
           His
           Murther
           now
           is
           fully
           resov'd
           upon
           ,
           and
           several
           persons
           imployed
           to
           effect
           it
           .
        
         
         
           The
           Persons
           principally
           concerned
           were
           
             Father
             Girald
          
           ,
           and
           
             Father
             Kelly
          
           ,
           two
           Irish
           Priests
           ,
           
             Robert
             Green
          
           Cushion-man
           to
           the
           Queens
           Chappel
           ,
           
             Laurence
             Hill
          
           ,
           Servant
           to
           Dr.
           Godden
           Treasurer
           of
           the
           said
           Chappel
           ,
           
             Henry
             Berry
          
           Porter
           of
           Somerset
           House
           ;
           Mr.
           
             Miles
             Prance
          
           a
           Goldsmith
           in
           Covent-Garden
           ,
           and
           Captain
           
             William
             Bedloe
          
           ,
           who
           though
           he
           was
           not
           an
           actor
           in
           the
           Design
           ,
           yet
           was
           made
           privy
           to
           it
           ,
           and
           afterwards
           made
           his
           discovery
           of
           it
           :
           besides
           there
           were
           others
           that
           were
           likewise
           privy
           to
           it
           ,
           as
           namely
           ,
           one
           Lawson
           a
           Priest
           ,
           and
           
             Phillip
             Vernatti
          
           (
           belonging
           to
           the
           Lord
           Bellasis
           )
           who
           afterwards
           fled
           ,
           
             Prichard
             ,
             Le
             Fair
             ,
             Welch
             ,
             Kains
             ,
          
           and
           others
           ;
           these
           last
           Five
           being
           all
           Jesuits
           .
        
         
           Vernatti
           and
           the
           Priests
           were
           the
           Persons
           (
           it
           is
           believed
           )
           that
           first
           undertook
           the
           Design
           ,
           and
           then
           drew
           in
           first
           
             Green
             ,
             Hill
          
           and
           
           Berry
           (
           the
           actual
           Murtherers
           )
           and
           afterwards
           Mr.
           Prance
           ,
           to
           engage
           with
           them
           in
           this
           Hellish
           Conjuration
           .
        
         
           The
           Scene
           of
           the
           contrivance
           was
           the
           Plough-Ale-house
           ,
           near
           the
           Water-gate
           by
           Somerset-house
           :
           the
           time
           upon
           a
           Sunday
           after
           Evening-prayer
           ,
           when
           the
           said
           Preists
           coming
           from
           the
           Chappel
           met
           with
           Mr.
           Prance
           there
           ,
           and
           upon
           conference
           with
           him
           ,
           told
           him
           ,
           That
           Sir
           
             Edmundbury
             Godfrey
             was
             a
             bitter
             Persecutor
             of
             Catholicks
             ,
             and
             a
             particular
             Enemy
             to
             her
             Majesties
             Servants
             ,
          
           (
           of
           whom
           Mr.
           Prance
           counted
           himself
           one
           ,
           as
           being
           imploy'd
           to
           work
           in
           work
           of
           Gold
           and
           Silver
           for
           Her
           Majesty
           :
           and
           
             that
             he
             had
          
           very
           lately
           Examined
           
             People
             against
             them
             ,
             and
             got
             Depositions
             to
             fix
             base
             Crimes
             and
             Scandals
             on
             their
             Religion
             ,
             and
             that
             Catholicks
             would
             be
             ruined
             unless
             he
             were
             taken
             off
             ;
             and
             therefore
             it
             was
             necessary
             ,
             for
             the
             Glory
             of
             God
             and
             
             good
             of
             the
             Church
             ,
             that
             it
             should
             be
             done
             :
          
           And
           when
           Mr.
           Prance
           seemed
           to
           scruple
           at
           what
           they
           proposed
           to
           him
           to
           ingage
           him
           in
           the
           Murther
           ,
           the
           two
           Priests
           Girald
           and
           Kelly
           told
           him
           ,
           It
           was
           a
           meritorious
           work
           ,
           and
           no
           sin
           ,
           but
           a
           work
           of
           Charity
           —
           How
           cruel
           are
           the
           very
           Mercies
           of
           the
           Wicked
           !
           How
           impious
           the
           Religion
           of
           such
           unsanctified
           Zealots
           !
        
         
           They
           prevailed
           with
           him
           ,
           at
           least
           he
           seemed
           to
           be
           prevailed
           upon
           ,
           to
           ingage
           himself
           in
           the
           Design
           ,
           and
           several
           consultations
           were
           afterwards
           had
           about
           the
           management
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           Upon
           Saturday
           the
           Twelfth
           of
           
             October
             ,
             Lawrence
             Hill
          
           ,
           one
           of
           the
           Conspirators
           (
           as
           they
           had
           laid
           their
           design
           )
           was
           imployed
           to
           go
           to
           Sir
           Edmondbury
           Godfrey's
           House
           in
           the
           Morning
           about
           the
           time
           of
           his
           stirring
           ,
           to
           speak
           with
           him
           ,
           but
           what
           his
           Errand
           
           was
           ,
           is
           unknown
           :
           afterwards
           the
           said
           Hill
           meets
           with
           Girald
           and
           Green
           ,
           and
           they
           three
           together
           way-lay
           Sir
           Edmonbury
           at
           his
           coming
           forth
           ,
           which
           was
           about
           Ten
           or
           Eleven
           a
           Clock
           (
           the
           usual
           time
           of
           his
           setting
           out
           )
           being
           
             all
             alone
          
           ;
           they
           follow'd
           him
           and
           watched
           him
           all
           that
           day
           from
           place
           to
           place
           ,
           till
           about
           Six
           or
           Seven
           a
           Clock
           in
           the
           Evening
           :
           And
           then
           these
           
             that
             lay
             in
             wait
             to
             shed
             Blood
             ,
          
           having
           lodg'd
           their
           innocent
           prey
           at
           a
           place
           where
           they
           saw
           him
           enter
           ,
           sent
           their
           fellow
           Green
           (
           while
           they
           in
           the
           mean
           watched
           his
           forth-coming
           )
           to
           Mr.
           Prance
           ,
           to
           summon
           him
           with
           all
           speed
           to
           hasten
           to
           Somerset-house
           Water-gate
           leading
           down
           to
           the
           Thames
           ,
           where
           Kelly
           and
           Berry
           the
           other
           two
           designed
           Executioners
           were
           to
           meet
           him
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           accomplish
           the
           Tragedy
           .
        
         
           These
           three
           Assassinates
           abided
           
           for
           some
           hours
           the
           Horrors
           of
           the
           Night
           ,
           with
           a
           devilish
           impatience
           of
           seeing
           their
           expected
           prize
           ;
           when
           about
           Nine
           a
           Clock
           their
           companion
           Hill
           comes
           with
           cruel
           hast
           to
           inform
           them
           he
           was
           coming
           :
           and
           now
           for
           a
           Gin
           wherewith
           to
           intrap
           him
           into
           their
           bloody
           Hands
           ,
           it
           is
           presently
           contrived
           ,
           That
           Kelly
           and
           Berry
           should
           begin
           a
           seeming
           quarrel
           ;
           and
           in
           the
           mean
           while
           Hill
           that
           watched
           for
           that
           purpose
           ,
           was
           to
           ingage
           Sir
           Edmondbury
           at
           his
           coming
           by
           ,
           to
           come
           down
           and
           use
           his
           Authority
           for
           the
           parting
           of
           them
           .
        
         
           
             When
             Theeves
             fall
             out
          
           (
           it
           is
           said
           )
           
             honest
             Men
             come
             by
             their
             Goods
          
           ;
           when
           Murtherers
           feignedly
           do
           so
           ,
           it
           appears
           such
           Men
           may
           lose
           their
           Lives
           .
        
         
           The
           Innocent
           Gentleman
           not
           dreaming
           of
           any
           other
           Treachery
           (
           if
           he
           thought
           of
           any
           )
           than
           what
           he
           knew
           intended
           against
           
           the
           Publick
           ,
           soon
           after
           comes
           by
           ,
           when
           Hill
           (
           the
           Judas
           in
           the
           Plot
           )
           having
           treacherously
           insinuated
           himself
           into
           so
           much
           acquaintance
           with
           him
           as
           to
           be
           known
           by
           him
           ;
           meets
           him
           upon
           his
           approach
           ,
           in
           a
           seeming
           great
           earnestness
           and
           counterfeit
           concernedness
           ,
           
             Intreating
             him
             for
             Gods
             sake
             to
             come
             in
             ,
             for
             there
             were
             two
             Men
             a
             quarrelling
             ,
             and
             he
             was
             afraid
             there
             would
             be
             blood
             shed
             :
          
           Murther
           be
           sure
           there
           was
           ,
           as
           it
           was
           by
           this
           artifice
           designed
           and
           executed
           ;
           his
           presence
           (
           as
           a
           Magistrate
           )
           was
           urged
           as
           a
           likely
           means
           to
           chill
           the
           heats
           of
           their
           fury
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           them
           quiet
           .
           Sir
           Edmondbury
           was
           unwilling
           to
           ingage
           himself
           ,
           especially
           at
           that
           season
           of
           the
           Night
           ;
           but
           the
           other
           by
           his
           importunity
           in
           a
           manner
           forced
           him
           to
           it
           ,
           Hill
           leading
           the
           way
           ,
           and
           Sir
           
             Edmondbury
             Godfrey
          
           following
           him
           through
           the
           Gate
           leading
           down
           toward
           the
           place
           ;
           
           Girald
           and
           Green
           were
           watching
           near
           by
           ,
           and
           observing
           the
           motion
           ,
           immediatly
           fell
           in
           after
           them
           ;
           Mr.
           Prance
           as
           soon
           as
           Sir
           Edmondbury
           was
           entred
           the
           fatal
           limits
           ,
           goes
           down
           to
           secure
           the
           Water-gate
           ,
           that
           no
           Body
           should
           enter
           that
           way
           to
           disturb
           their
           proceedings
           ;
           and
           Berry
           at
           the
           same
           time
           (
           that
           the
           Scene
           of
           their
           mischiefs
           might
           be
           altogether
           inaccessible
           )
           was
           to
           watch
           the
           Stairs
           and
           Passage
           by
           the
           Chappel
           ;
           but
           first
           He
           and
           Kelly
           the
           pretended
           Quarrellers
           stood
           about
           the
           Rails
           by
           the
           Queens
           Stables
           ;
           and
           as
           Sir
           Edmondbury
           went
           down
           towards
           them
           ,
           (
           sweet
           Soul
           whose
           Thoughts
           were
           only
           then
           affected
           with
           generous
           designs
           of
           hindring
           the
           Effects
           of
           a
           pretended
           Outrage
           ,
           and
           little
           dreaming
           that
           himself
           was
           the
           designed
           Subject
           of
           it
           )
           that
           Villa
           in
           Green
           suddainly
           threw
           a
           twisted
           Handkerchief
           about
           his
           Neck
           ,
           and
           forthwith
           
           all
           four
           of
           them
           pulled
           him
           down
           and
           throtled
           him
           ,
           drawing
           between
           them
           the
           ends
           of
           the
           strangling
           Instrument
           so
           hard
           ,
           that
           at
           last
           his
           pure
           and
           innocent
           Soul
           ,
           after
           some
           Convulsive
           struglings
           against
           the
           violences
           of
           such
           an
           unnatural
           dissolution
           ,
           was
           dislog'd
           from
           the
           Body
           ,
           and
           convey'd
           by
           Angels
           to
           the
           place
           where
           blessed
           and
           Martyr'd
           Saints
           lye
           under
           the
           Altar
           ,
           crying
           out
           their
           Quousque
           Domine's
           ,
           for
           a
           just
           revenge
           of
           their
           innocent
           Blood
           upon
           the
           Heads
           of
           their
           malicious
           Enemies
           :
           It
           was
           no
           easie
           death
           ,
           and
           he
           being
           a
           Man
           of
           a
           strong
           Make
           and
           Constitution
           ,
           they
           were
           fain
           to
           use
           the
           more
           violence
           to
           dispatch
           him
           ,
           giving
           him
           (
           when
           prostrate
           on
           the
           ground
           )
           many
           violent
           punches
           on
           the
           Breast
           with
           their
           Knees
           ;
           and
           Green
           to
           perfect
           the
           Execution
           ,
           wrung
           his
           Neck
           almost
           round
           with
           all
           his
           force
           .
        
         
           Prance
           and
           Berry
           being
           come
           
           to
           them
           by
           that
           time
           he
           vvas
           quite
           dead
           ,
           they
           alltogether
           help'd
           to
           carry
           the
           murthered
           Body
           into
           Dr.
           
           Goddin's
           Lodgings
           ,
           where
           the
           said
           Hill
           lived
           ;
           who
           went
           before
           and
           opened
           the
           Door
           ;
           when
           they
           were
           got
           in
           ,
           they
           carried
           him
           five
           or
           six
           Steps
           into
           a
           little
           Room
           on
           the
           right
           hand
           ,
           and
           there
           left
           him
           that
           Night
           and
           Sunday
           all
           Day
           and
           Night
           .
        
         
           There
           were
           some
           unhappy
           Omens
           of
           this
           Tragedy
           which
           Sir
           Edmondbury
           himself
           had
           conceived
           
           (
           it
           seem'd
           in
           his
           ovvn
           mind
           )
           some
           time
           before
           the
           Execution
           of
           it
           ,
           which
           he
           not
           long
           before
           declared
           to
           Dr.
           Oats
           ,
           after
           he
           had
           received
           the
           Informations
           ;
           
             That
             he
             had
             received
             Affronts
             from
             great
             Persons
             ,
             for
             being
             so
             zealous
             in
             that
             business
             of
             the
             discovery
             of
             the
             Plot
          
           ;
           and
           that
           (
           being
           threatned
           by
           
             some
             great
             Men
             of
             the
          
           Popish
           
             party
             )
             he
             went
             in
             fear
             of
             his
             life
             by
             that
             party
             ,
             having
             been
             dogged
             by
             them
             
             for
             several
             Dayes
          
           ;
           but
           (
           being
           advised
           to
           take
           his
           Man
           alwayes
           with
           him
           )
           Answer'd
           ,
           
             That
             he
             did
             not
             fear
             them
             ,
             if
             they
             did
             but
             come
             fairly
             .
          
        
         
           And
           to
           
             Thomas
             Robinson
          
           Esq
           ;
           (
           discoursing
           with
           him
           about
           the
           Plot
           )
           he
           declared
           himself
           to
           him
           in
           these
           Words
           :
           
             Upon
             my
             Conscience
             ,
             I
             shall
             be
             the
             first
             Martyr
             ;
             but
             I
             do
             not
             fear
             them
             if
             they
             come
             fairly
             ,
             I
             shall
             not
             part
             with
             my
             life
             tamely
             .
          
        
         
           But
           notwithstanding
           these
           (
           more
           than
           suspected
           )
           dangers
           ,
           being
           fortified
           with
           his
           own
           Innocence
           ,
           that
           meant
           wrong
           to
           no
           Man
           ,
           he
           adventured
           so
           far
           as
           
           to
           become
           at
           last
           a
           prey
           to
           his
           Malicious
           Enemies
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           return
           to
           our
           History
           :
           The
           Monday
           Night
           following
           ,
           Hill
           and
           some
           others
           of
           them
           removed
           him
           into
           a
           Room
           in
           the
           upper
           Court
           ;
           and
           Prance
           having
           a
           mind
           to
           see
           where
           they
           had
           laid
           him
           ,
           they
           all
           went
           together
           
           with
           a
           dark
           Lanthorn
           to
           the
           said
           place
           (
           Dr.
           Goddins
           Lodgings
           ,
           )
           where
           also
           Captain
           Bedloe
           came
           ,
           who
           had
           not
           hitherto
           before
           ingaged
           himself
           in
           any
           actual
           performance
           with
           them
           ,
           and
           perceiving
           Mr.
           Prance
           there
           amongst
           the
           rest
           ,
           took
           s●ch
           particular
           observation
           of
           him
           ,
           as
           served
           him
           aftervvards
           to
           make
           a
           discovery
           of
           him
           and
           the
           rest
           concerned
           in
           the
           Murther
           .
        
         
           On
           Tuesday
           Night
           they
           convey'd
           the
           Body
           to
           another
           Room
           in
           the
           long
           Entry
           over
           against
           Dr.
           Goddins
           Lodgings
           ;
           And
           the
           Wednesday
           Night
           following
           ,
           being
           removing
           it
           again
           from
           thence
           to
           the
           place
           where
           ,
           it
           was
           first
           lodged
           ,
           Mr.
           Prance
           happening
           to
           come
           suddenly
           upon
           them
           at
           unawares
           ,
           they
           fearing
           it
           had
           been
           a
           Stranger
           ,
           left
           the
           Body
           in
           the
           Entry
           and
           ran
           away
           together
           in
           a
           fright
           ,
           till
           such
           time
           as
           Mr.
           Prance
           (
           perceiving
           their
           
           mistake
           )
           called
           out
           to
           them
           ,
           and
           discovering
           who
           he
           was
           ,
           they
           went
           back
           together
           ,
           and
           carried
           the
           Body
           into
           the
           little
           Room
           where
           it
           was
           first
           placed
           .
        
         
           And
           now
           to
           perfect
           their
           Villany
           to
           the
           heighth
           of
           malice
           ,
           (
           that
           they
           might
           as
           well
           
             Murther
             his
             Reputation
          
           as
           they
           had
           done
           his
           Person
           ,
           a
           thing
           more
           than
           once
           by
           them
           attempted
           )
           the
           two
           
             Priests
             ,
             Girald
          
           and
           Kelly
           advised
           to
           carry
           him
           out
           into
           the
           Fields
           ,
           and
           there
           to
           leave
           him
           ,
           run
           through
           with
           his
           own
           Sword
           ,
           in
           some
           obsure
           place
           ;
           where
           (
           upon
           discovery
           )
           he
           might
           be
           supposed
           to
           have
           murther'd
           himself
           ;
           and
           therefore
           his
           Money
           ,
           Rings
           and
           such
           other
           things
           of
           value
           as
           he
           had
           about
           him
           ,
           were
           all
           to
           be
           left
           with
           him
           .
        
         
           Captain
           Bedloe
           had
           before
           the
           Murther
           been
           acquainted
           by
           them
           with
           the
           design
           ,
           and
           fain
           they
           would
           have
           ingaged
           him
           to
           have
           
           assisted
           them
           in
           the
           Execution
           ;
           for
           which
           they
           told
           him
           there
           was
           4000
           l.
           to
           be
           given
           by
           a
           great
           Lord
           of
           the
           
             Popish
             Party
          
           ;
           and
           acquainted
           him
           with
           the
           time
           when
           they
           intended
           to
           dispatch
           him
           ,
           then
           desiring
           his
           assistance
           ,
           but
           he
           honestly
           failed
           them
           ;
           which
           made
           Monsieur
           
             Le
             Faire
          
           (
           one
           of
           the
           Undertakers
           )
           very
           angry
           with
           him
           ;
           but
           meeting
           him
           on
           the
           Munday
           following
           ,
           told
           him
           that
           the
           business
           was
           done
           without
           him
           ;
           and
           having
           shewed
           him
           the
           Body
           (
           as
           we
           have
           before
           told
           you
           )
           would
           then
           have
           ingaged
           him
           to
           assist
           them
           in
           carrying
           it
           off
           ,
           according
           to
           their
           last
           mentioned
           contrivance
           ;
           and
           bound
           him
           to
           it
           upon
           the
           Sacrament
           he
           last
           took
           (
           a
           pretty
           knack
           of
           prophane
           Conjuration
           ,
           by
           which
           they
           usually
           adjure
           their
           Parties
           to
           Trust
           and
           Secrecy
           )
           Captain
           Bedloe
           promised
           to
           meet
           them
           at
           Twelve
           
           a
           Clock
           that
           Night
           to
           that
           purpose
           ,
           as
           judging
           that
           the
           fittest
           time
           for
           such
           deeds
           of
           Darkness
           to
           be
           transacted
           in
           ;
           but
           failed
           them
           again
           ,
           and
           came
           no
           more
           at
           them
           ;
           but
           instead
           thereof
           taking
           a
           journey
           to
           Bristoll
           ,
           where
           some
           time
           after
           ,
           the
           horror
           of
           this
           fact
           had
           made
           such
           impressions
           on
           him
           ,
           that
           thereupon
           changing
           his
           mind
           as
           well
           as
           he
           had
           done
           his
           Company
           ,
           he
           sent
           up
           to
           one
           of
           the
           Secretaries
           of
           State
           ,
           in
           writing
           ,
           together
           with
           a
           discovery
           of
           other
           matters
           relating
           to
           the
           Plot
           ,
           an
           Account
           (
           so
           far
           as
           he
           knew
           )
           of
           this
           Murther
           .
        
         
           But
           in
           the
           mean
           while
           the
           aforesaid
           Complices
           being
           thus
           defeated
           of
           his
           assistance
           ,
           went
           about
           the
           work
           themselves
           ;
           to
           which
           end
           they
           had
           procured
           a
           Sedan
           ,
           into
           which
           (
           though
           with
           some
           difficulty
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           its
           stiffness
           )
           they
           crouded
           the
           Murthered
           
           Body
           ;
           this
           was
           done
           about
           Twelve
           a
           Clock
           (
           the
           Hour
           appointed
           ,
           )
           Prance
           and
           Girald
           carrying
           him
           out
           at
           the
           great
           Gate
           ,
           the
           Door
           of
           which
           Berry
           the
           Porter
           opened
           to
           them
           ;
           having
           (
           to
           avoid
           their
           taking
           notice
           of
           the
           action
           )
           invited
           the
           Souldiers
           who
           used
           to
           attend
           there
           ,
           to
           his
           House
           ,
           and
           there
           treated
           them
           with
           Drink
           and
           Tabacco
           ,
           till
           such
           time
           as
           they
           had
           conveyed
           away
           the
           Body
           .
        
         
           What
           breasts
           besides
           those
           of
           these
           hardned
           and
           cruel
           wretches
           ,
           would
           not
           have
           quiver'd
           with
           the
           horror
           of
           such
           inhumane
           actions
           ?
           to
           deal
           so
           familiarly
           with
           the
           Carkass
           of
           a
           murder'd
           person
           ,
           a
           person
           murdered
           by
           their
           own
           hands
           ,
           and
           whose
           blood
           they
           could
           not
           but
           think
           at
           the
           same
           time
           cryed
           loud
           for
           vengeance
           upon
           their
           heads
           !
           But
           oh
           the
           Stiffness
           of
           a
           Romish
           Zeal
           !
           how
           immalleable
           does
           it
           render
           their
           Stony
           
           Natures
           to
           the
           force
           of
           all
           humane
           Impressions
           !
        
         
           Yet
           neither
           the
           horror
           of
           the
           Fact
           ,
           nor
           yet
           that
           of
           a
           dark
           night
           ,
           could
           scare
           them
           from
           their
           hideous
           purposes
           ;
           but
           they
           proceeded
           with
           their
           dead
           Burthen
           (
           carrying
           it
           in
           the
           Sedan
           by
           turns
           between
           them
           )
           till
           they
           came
           to
           
             So-hoe
             Fields
          
           ,
           near
           the
           
             Grecian
             Church
          
           there
           lately
           built
           ;
           and
           there
           Hill
           attended
           with
           an
           Horse
           ready
           for
           their
           purpose
           ,
           upon
           which
           they
           placed
           the
           Body
           before
           Hill
           ,
           who
           held
           it
           from
           falling
           ;
           (
           Oh
           horrid
           Boldness
           !
           )
           Mean
           while
           the
           rest
           conveyed
           the
           Sedan
           into
           an
           House
           that
           was
           building
           ,
           but
           unfinisht
           ,
           that
           stood
           near
           by
           ,
           to
           remain
           there
           till
           they
           came
           back
           :
           And
           then
           Girald
           the
           Priest
           said
           ,
           
             I
             wish
             we
             had
             an
             hundred
             such
             Rogues
             as
             secure
             as
             we
             have
             this
             .
          
        
         
           Mr.
           Prance
           then
           because
           he
           was
           an
           House-keeper
           ,
           took
           his
           
           leave
           of
           them
           and
           returned
           home
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           four
           went
           away
           with
           him
           ,
           one
           leading
           the
           Horse
           ,
           Hill
           riding
           and
           holding
           the
           Body
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           two
           walking
           by
           .
        
         
           They
           carried
           him
           into
           an
           obscure
           place
           ,
           about
           two
           miles
           out
           of
           Town
           ,
           towards
           Hamstead
           ,
           near
           a
           place
           called
           Primrose-Hill
           ,
           and
           there
           in
           a
           ditch
           they
           left
           the
           Body
           ,
           after
           all
           these
           harrasings
           to
           its
           quiet
           repose
           ;
           this
           was
           the
           Grave
           they
           had
           prepared
           for
           him
           ;
           but
           before
           they
           left
           him
           (
           as
           a
           token
           of
           their
           malicious
           design
           )
           Girald
           runs
           Sir
           
           Edmondbury's
           own
           Sword
           through
           him
           ,
           laying
           the
           Scabbard
           together
           with
           his
           Gloves
           on
           the
           bank
           ,
           at
           a
           small
           distance
           from
           the
           Body
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           mean
           time
           Sir
           
           Edmondbury's
           Servants
           ,
           and
           then
           his
           Friends
           ,
           and
           then
           the
           whole
           Town
           were
           not
           a
           little
           concerned
           for
           his
           absence
           ;
           and
           there
           was
           once
           a
           Proclamation
           order'd
           to
           
           discover
           him
           ,
           but
           countermanded
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           false
           Informations
           spread
           about
           by
           some
           of
           the
           Popish
           Party
           ,
           that
           he
           was
           living
           and
           well
           :
           And
           there
           were
           several
           persons
           that
           went
           designedly
           up
           and
           down
           to
           Coffee-houses
           to
           spread
           
             false
             Reports
          
           upon
           this
           Subject
           ;
           as
           that
           he
           was
           gone
           into
           the
           Countrey
           to
           be
           married
           to
           a
           certain
           Lady
           ,
           whom
           they
           took
           upon
           them
           to
           name
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           saw
           him
           in
           such
           and
           such
           places
           .
        
         
           Upon
           Saturday
           the
           twelfth
           of
           October
           ,
           the
           very
           Evening
           that
           Sir
           Edmundbury
           was
           Murthered
           ;
           Father
           Harcourt
           the
           Jesuit
           afterwards
           Executed
           ,
           sent
           away
           a
           Letter
           to
           Father
           Ewers
           a
           Priest
           at
           the
           Lord
           Astons
           in
           Stafford-shire
           ,
           wherein
           were
           these
           words
           ;
           
             This
             Night
             is
             Sir
          
           Edmondbury
           Godfrey
           dispatcht
           .
           This
           Letter
           was
           received
           there
           on
           the
           Monday
           ,
           and
           shewn
           to
           Mr.
           Dugdale
           ,
           as
           he
           
           hath
           since
           made
           Oath
           at
           seveveral
           Tryals
           ,
           and
           the
           same
           since
           confirmed
           by
           Mr.
           Chetwin
           a
           worthy
           Gentleman
           ,
           who
           being
           then
           in
           that
           Countrey
           ,
           heard
           a
           report
           of
           it
           there
           by
           means
           of
           that
           Letter
           on
           the
           Tuesday
           ;
           vvhich
           was
           before
           ever
           there
           was
           any
           discovery
           of
           it
           at
           London
           .
        
         
           But
           as
           Murther
           the
           great
           Object
           of
           the
           
             Divine
             Justice
          
           ,
           does
           most
           unseldom
           escape
           Discovery
           ;
           but
           that
           the
           Murther
           is
           detected
           ,
           and
           the
           Murtherer
           by
           some
           means
           brought
           to
           light
           ;
           God
           was
           pleased
           by
           his
           Providence
           so
           to
           order
           it
           ,
           that
           the
           Murther
           of
           this
           good
           Man
           (
           the
           miss
           of
           whom
           had
           caused
           great
           Thoughtfulness
           of
           Heart
           (
           I
           may
           say
           )
           all
           the
           Kingdom
           over
           )
           was
           in
           a
           fevv
           days
           after
           Discovered
           .
        
         
           For
           upon
           Thursday
           the
           Seventeenth
           Day
           of
           October
           ,
           which
           was
           the
           next
           Day
           after
           they
           had
           left
           him
           in
           his
           uncover'd
           Grave
           ,
           two
           
           Men
           by
           chance
           passing
           over
           the
           Fields
           ,
           spied
           the
           Gloves
           and
           Scabbard
           ,
           and
           upon
           further
           search
           discovered
           the
           Body
           it self
           lying
           in
           the
           Ditch
           ,
           with
           the
           Sword
           run
           through
           it
           ,
           in
           such
           manner
           as
           his
           Murtherers
           had
           left
           it
           ;
           besides
           that
           they
           found
           about
           him
           ,
           his
           Rings
           ,
           Watch
           ,
           and
           some
           Moneys
           both
           Gold
           and
           Silver
           ,
           all
           which
           the
           Covetousness
           of
           his
           Enemies
           dispensed
           with
           the
           loss
           of
           ,
           to
           gratifie
           a
           more
           unjustifiable
           end
           thereby
           ,
           of
           a
           malicious
           Slander
           ,
           which
           they
           thought
           might
           be
           thereby
           occasioned
           ,
           of
           being
           his
           own
           Murtherer
           .
        
         
           These
           two
           honest
           Discoverers
           well
           weighing
           the
           circumstances
           of
           what
           they
           had
           seen
           ,
           and
           that
           there
           was
           no
           Blood
           any
           where
           appeared
           ,
           upon
           the
           Wounds
           made
           by
           the
           Svvord
           run
           through
           him
           ,
           concluded
           it
           vvas
           some
           Extraordinary
           case
           ,
           and
           thereupon
           one
           of
           them
           fetching
           a
           Constable
           and
           
           some
           others
           to
           assist
           them
           ,
           convey'd
           the
           (
           yet
           restless
           )
           Body
           to
           an
           house
           ,
           vvhere
           he
           lay
           not
           long
           before
           upon
           the
           rumour
           the
           Body
           vvas
           ,
           knovvn
           to
           be
           the
           Relict
           of
           the
           much
           desired
           and
           wanted
           Sir
           
             Edmondbury
             Godfrey
          
           .
        
         
           The
           Coroner
           of
           Middlesex
           vvas
           then
           sent
           for
           (
           as
           is
           required
           in
           such
           Cases
           of
           unnatural
           Deaths
           )
           to
           inquire
           of
           the
           Death
           of
           this
           person
           ;
           who
           by
           the
           Oaths
           of
           a
           Jury
           of
           substantial
           Credits
           ,
           found
           that
           Sir
           
             Edmondbury
             Godfrey
          
           vvas
           murthered
           ,
           (
           not
           murthered
           himself
           as
           the
           design
           vvas
           laid
           )
           and
           the
           Verdict
           vvas
           recorded
           .
           But
           yet
           the
           Felons
           concerned
           in
           the
           Murther
           ,
           could
           not
           be
           yet
           discovered
           .
        
         
           His
           Majesty
           being
           graciously
           inclined
           to
           be
           concerned
           as
           vvell
           as
           others
           in
           the
           loss
           of
           this
           good
           man
           and
           faithful
           Subject
           ;
           understanding
           that
           vvhat
           vvas
           feared
           vvas
           novv
           certainly
           proved
           ,
           that
           he
           
           vvas
           Murthered
           ,
           vvas
           pleased
           upon
           the
           twentieth
           day
           of
           October
           following
           to
           issue
           out
           his
           Royal
           Proclamation
           ;
           
             Commanding
             all
             his
             Subjects
             and
             Officers
             to
             use
             their
             utmost
             Diligence
             to
             find
             out
             and
             Discover
             the
             Murtherers
             of
             Sir
          
           Edmondbury
           ,
           
             graciously
             promising
          
           500
           l.
           
             reward
             to
             any
             that
             should
             make
             such
             Discovery
             ;
             and
             if
             any
             one
             of
             the
             Murtherers
             should
             Discover
             the
             rest
             ,
             he
             should
             not
             only
             be
             Pardoned
             ,
             but
             likewise
             have
             the
             same
             Reward
             .
          
        
         
           But
           this
           Royal
           Offer
           could
           not
           prevail
           with
           them
           to
           come
           in
           for
           the
           present
           ,
           (
           guilty
           Consciencies
           are
           aw'd
           as
           well
           by
           the
           Clemency
           as
           Justice
           of
           the
           Magistrate
           )
           but
           they
           seem'd
           more
           hardened
           in
           their
           Wickedness
           by
           its
           Success
           .
        
         
           For
           it
           was
           not
           above
           a
           Fortnight
           afterwards
           ,
           that
           they
           drew
           up
           a
           Narrative
           of
           this
           so
           meritorious
           Act
           of
           theirs
           in
           killing
           a
           
           Protestant
           Magistrate
           ,
           in
           writing
           ,
           which
           Vernatti
           read
           in
           an
           insulting
           manner
           at
           a
           meeting
           they
           had
           at
           the
           Queens-Head
           at
           Bow
           ,
           where
           he
           declared
           that
           the
           same
           was
           drawn
           up
           to
           be
           shewed
           to
           one
           of
           the
           
             Popish
             Lords
          
           (
           now
           in
           the
           Tower
           )
           and
           other
           great
           Persons
           that
           were
           the
           Original
           Designers
           and
           Promoters
           of
           the
           business
           ,
           for
           their
           Satisfaction
           ,
           by
           whom
           it
           might
           possibly
           be
           sent
           to
           Rome
           ;
           and
           there
           no
           doubt
           it
           would
           find
           a
           great
           approbation
           and
           acceptance
           .
        
         
           The
           Murther
           we
           see
           is
           found
           out
           ,
           but
           the
           Murtherers
           yet
           undiscovered
           ,
           notwithstanding
           his
           Majesties
           gracious
           Proclamation
           ,
           with
           promises
           of
           reward
           (
           besides
           Pardon
           )
           to
           the
           Discoverer
           :
           Captain
           Bedloe
           had
           (
           as
           we
           have
           told
           you
           )
           sent
           up
           a
           general
           account
           of
           it
           ,
           but
           not
           being
           himself
           present
           at
           the
           Murther
           ,
           could
           not
           give
           a
           particular
           account
           
           of
           those
           that
           were
           actually
           concerned
           in
           it
           :
           So
           that
           the
           Assassinates
           for
           about
           ten
           weeks
           had
           lull'd
           themselves
           into
           a
           fond
           Security
           ,
           becoming
           almost
           as
           fearless
           as
           they
           were
           graceless
           :
           But
           the
           Keeper
           of
           
             Israel
             ,
             that
             neither
             slumbereth
             nor
             sleepeth
             ,
          
           and
           from
           whom
           no
           Secrets
           are
           hidden
           ,
           was
           then
           pleased
           (
           to
           make
           the
           Triumphs
           of
           his
           own
           Wisdom
           and
           Justice
           the
           more
           Illustrious
           ,
           when
           all
           humane
           attempts
           to
           that
           end
           seemed
           in
           a
           manner
           defeated
           )
           to
           work
           out
           a
           Discovery
           by
           such
           unthought-of
           means
           ,
           as
           plainly
           shewed
           it
           was
           
             Digitus
             Dei
          
           and
           the
           
             Lords
             own
             doing
          
           .
        
         
           We
           have
           before
           informed
           you
           that
           Mr.
           Prance
           was
           drawn
           into
           the
           cursed
           Combination
           ,
           and
           how
           far
           he
           Acted
           in
           it
           ;
           vvho
           as
           he
           was
           bound
           by
           the
           Tyes
           of
           Secrecy
           to
           a
           sinful
           Silence
           ,
           had
           hitherto
           concealed
           the
           Fact
           :
           But
           there
           
           happening
           some
           misunderstanding
           betwixt
           him
           and
           a
           Neighbour
           of
           his
           ,
           the
           latter
           knowing
           Mr.
           Prance
           to
           be
           a
           Zealous
           Papist
           ,
           and
           having
           understood
           by
           some
           of
           his
           Servants
           that
           one
           time
           about
           Michaelmas
           then
           last
           ,
           he
           had
           absented
           himself
           two
           or
           three
           nights
           from
           home
           ;
           an
           imagination
           came
           into
           his
           Head
           ,
           that
           Mr.
           Prance
           might
           be
           concerned
           in
           Sir
           Edmondbury
           Godfrey's
           Murther
           ;
           although
           indeed
           ,
           such
           his
           absenting
           was
           a
           fortnight
           before
           Sir
           
           Edmondbury's
           death
           ,
           not
           upon
           the
           account
           of
           that
           ,
           but
           some
           others
           more
           dangerous
           to
           him
           ;
           The
           Proclamation
           being
           then
           newly
           issued
           ,
           prohibiting
           all
           Papists
           and
           
             Popishly
             affected
          
           persons
           from
           staying
           in
           Town
           ;
           about
           which
           time
           ,
           when
           the
           Plot
           was
           first
           noised
           abroad
           ,
           
             Fenwick
             ,
             Ireland
          
           ,
           and
           others
           of
           the
           Conspirators
           were
           seized
           ,
           whom
           he
           was
           so
           Zealous
           to
           defend
           in
           a
           publick
           
           Coffee-house
           ;
           that
           for
           some
           Words
           then
           spoken
           ,
           he
           was
           threatned
           by
           some
           persons
           present
           to
           be
           Prosecuted
           ;
           and
           upon
           that
           account
           only
           lay
           from
           home
           the
           said
           two
           or
           three
           nights
           ,
           (
           as
           he
           was
           able
           to
           prove
           by
           credible
           Witnesses
           )
           till
           such
           time
           as
           the
           business
           might
           be
           composed
           ;
           However
           ,
           this
           Neighbour
           of
           his
           ,
           upon
           the
           bare
           suspition
           ,
           took
           out
           a
           Warrant
           against
           him
           to
           appear
           before
           the
           Council
           ;
           which
           Mr.
           Prance
           readily
           obey'd
           ,
           as
           knowing
           
           him
           not
           able
           to
           prove
           any
           thing
           against
           him
           upon
           that
           account
           .
           But
           being
           taken
           by
           Vertue
           of
           that
           Warrant
           ,
           upon
           the
           tvventy
           first
           of
           December
           ,
           and
           being
           first
           carryed
           into
           the
           Lobby
           by
           the
           
             House
             of
             Commons
          
           ,
           Captain
           Bedloe
           (
           whom
           he
           did
           not
           then
           know
           ,
           having
           been
           seen
           by
           him
           but
           once
           before
           ,
           
             (
             viz.
          
           )
           upon
           the
           View
           of
           Sir
           Edmondbury
           Godfrey's
           body
           in
           Somerset-house
           ,
           before
           
           mentioned
           ,
           at
           which
           time
           Mr.
           Prance
           took
           no
           great
           notice
           of
           him
           )
           knew
           his
           Face
           again
           ,
           and
           charged
           him
           with
           that
           Murther
           ,
           whereupon
           ,
           after
           a
           strict
           Examination
           ,
           he
           was
           Committed
           Prisoner
           to
           Newgate
           .
        
         
           The
           next
           day
           being
           the
           22
           th
           of
           December
           ,
           he
           made
           his
           Discovery
           ,
           (
           the
           Narrative
           of
           which
           is
           since
           by
           License
           of
           Authority
           Printed
           ,
           and
           thereby
           charged
           the
           before
           named
           
             Dominick
             Kelly
             ,
             Robert
             Green
             ,
             Henry
             Berry
             ,
          
           and
           
             Laurence
             Hill
          
           ,
           as
           Confederates
           in
           this
           Murther
           ;
           of
           whom
           the
           three
           last
           were
           apprehended
           ,
           but
           the
           two
           first
           Escaped
           ;
           the
           Subtil
           Priests
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           old
           Proverb
           of
           those
           that
           
             have
             the
             better
             luck
          
           ,
           shifting
           for
           themselves
           ,
           and
           leaving
           those
           whom
           they
           had
           
             drawn
             in
          
           to
           answer
           for
           themselves
           .
           Although
           afterwards
           Kelly
           was
           taken
           up
           in
           Surrey
           ,
           by
           the
           name
           of
           
             Daniel
             Edmonds
          
           ,
           as
           a
           Recusant
           ;
           
           but
           understanding
           Prances
           being
           taken
           ,
           got
           out
           upon
           Bail
           (
           hired
           by
           him
           for
           that
           Service
           )
           before
           he
           was
           known
           to
           be
           Kelly
           ,
           though
           afterwards
           the
           same
           was
           Discovered
           ;
           the
           account
           of
           which
           ,
           because
           it
           is
           not
           so
           pertinent
           to
           our
           present
           History
           ,
           we
           shall
           here
           Omit
           .
        
         
           The
           24
           th
           .
           of
           December
           Mr.
           Prance
           was
           Examined
           before
           the
           King
           and
           Council
           ,
           and
           having
           given
           in
           the
           particular
           Circumstances
           of
           the
           Murther
           ,
           and
           in
           what
           respective
           Rooms
           and
           places
           the
           Body
           was
           kept
           as
           aforesaid
           ,
           several
           Lords
           were
           ordered
           to
           go
           with
           him
           ,
           to
           see
           if
           there
           vvere
           such
           Rooms
           as
           he
           had
           described
           ,
           and
           whether
           he
           could
           readily
           go
           to
           them
           ;
           which
           he
           did
           to
           their
           full
           satisfaction
           .
        
         
           But
           some
           time
           after
           ,
           remaining
           in
           Prison
           without
           any
           assurance
           of
           his
           Pardon
           ,
           he
           was
           so
           far
           prevailed
           vvith
           ,
           to
           retract
           by
           vvord
           
           of
           Mouth
           what
           he
           had
           truly
           Confessed
           upon
           Oath
           ;
           As
           once
           upon
           a
           further
           Examination
           to
           say
           before
           the
           King
           and
           Council
           ,
           that
           
             He
             was
             Innocent
             ,
             and
             they
             All
             were
             innocent
             :
          
           But
           as
           to
           the
           Temptations
           he
           was
           under
           ,
           and
           the
           Circumstances
           that
           sway'd
           him
           to
           that
           ill
           Action
           he
           hath
           since
           (
           in
           that
           Narrative
           which
           he
           hath
           published
           to
           the
           World
           of
           these
           matters
           )
           so
           ingeniously
           set
           them
           forth
           ,
           as
           may
           satisfie
           any
           unbyass'd
           person
           ,
           and
           take
           off
           that
           Calumny
           vvherevvith
           the
           Papists
           have
           endeavoured
           to
           bespatter
           him
           ,
           and
           to
           Invalidate
           his
           Evidence
           on
           that
           account
           :
           In
           ansvver
           to
           vvhich
           ,
           he
           offers
           these
           considerations
           (
           as
           the
           just
           and
           
           true
           Sentiments
           of
           his
           Soul
           ;
           )
           These
           are
           his
           Words
           ,
           as
           you
           may
           find
           them
           in
           his
           Book
           ,
           pag.
           24.
           
        
         
           
             That
             vvhat
             he
             had
             declared
             
             concerning
             the
             Murther
             in
             manner
             herein
             before
             set
             forth
             ,
             was
             Solemnly
             upon
             Oath
             :
             That
             the
             supposed
             Retractation
             was
             suddenly
             done
             ,
             under
             Consternation
             and
             Fear
             ,
             and
             not
             upon
             Oath
             .
          
           
             2.
             
             That
             he
             vvas
             at
             this
             time
             under
             certain
             danger
             of
             his
             Life
             ,
             if
             he
             had
             persisted
             in
             that
             Confession
             ,
             for
             he
             had
             no
             Pardon
             granted
             ,
             nor
             any
             certainty
             of
             obtaining
             the
             same
             .
          
           
             3.
             
             That
             if
             he
             should
             obtain
             his
             Pardon
             ,
             he
             considered
             that
             yet
             his
             Life
             vvould
             be
             
               still
               in
               danger
            
             ,
             from
             the
             Revengeful
             and
             bloody
             Priests
             and
             Jesuits
             .
          
           
             4.
             
             That
             his
             mind
             vvas
             sorely
             troubled
             ,
             as
             vvith
             all
             these
             dangers
             ,
             so
             vvith
             this
             further
             Apprehension
             ;
             that
             if
             he
             should
             escape
             vvith
             his
             Life
             ,
             yet
             by
             this
             Discovery
             he
             should
             lose
             his
             Livelyhood
             ,
             and
             in
             all
             humane
             probability
             ,
             both
             he
             and
             all
             his
             Family
             be
             certainly
             undone
             ;
             
             For
             he
             vvas
             the
             Queens
             Servant
             ,
             and
             that
             his
             Trade
             and
             Subsistence
             chiefly
             or
             indeed
             vvholly
             depended
             on
             her
             Majesties
             Custom
             (
             vvhich
             vvas
             certain
             and
             considerable
             )
             and
             that
             of
             other
             
               Roman
               Catholicks
            
             ;
             so
             it
             vvas
             not
             to
             be
             doubted
             but
             the
             most
             crafty
             and
             implacable
             Priests
             vvould
             soon
             use
             means
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             Representations
             and
             Scandal
             to
             deprive
             him
             thereof
             ,
             if
             he
             proceeded
             in
             his
             Discovery
             .
          
           
             5.
             
             That
             he
             retained
             still
             a
             certain
             respect
             to
             the
             Popish
             Religion
             ,
             in
             which
             he
             had
             so
             long
             been
             educated
             ;
             for
             that
             he
             had
             not
             yet
             intirely
             got
             his
             Soul
             out
             of
             that
             Snare
             ;
             and
             therefore
             he
             did
             then
             conceive
             ,
             being
             swayed
             by
             such
             powerfull
             inducements
             ,
             that
             he
             might
             lawfully
             say
             he
             was
             Innocent
             ,
             and
             so
             they
             were
             all
             ;
             which
             
             in
             Popish
             Construction
             ,
             is
             not
             to
             
             deny
             that
             they
             killed
             Sir
             
               Edmondbury
               Godfrey
            
             ;
             for
             that
             ,
             according
             
             to
             their
             Divinity
             ,
             and
             what
             the
             said
             Priests
             had
             Solemnly
             declared
             ,
             was
             
               no
               Sin
            
             or
             Crime
             ,
             and
             consequently
             they
             might
             all
             in
             such
             their
             Catholick
             Sence
             still
             be
             innocent
             :
             Yet
             this
             he
             must
             acknowledge
             ,
             he
             somewhat
             doubted
             ,
             because
             he
             never
             was
             at
             Confession
             nor
             received
             Absolution
             since
             the
             Fact
             committed
             ;
             which
             all
             the
             rest
             (
             as
             some
             of
             themselves
             had
             declared
             )
             had
             done
             ,
             and
             so
             might
             more
             peremptorily
             persist
             (
             as
             they
             did
             )
             in
             averring
             themselves
             to
             be
             Innocent
             ;
             and
             he
             does
             ingeniously
             declare
             ,
             that
             had
             he
             received
             Absolution
             ,
             't
             is
             his
             Fear
             he
             should
             never
             without
             extream
             Difficulty
             have
             been
             brought
             to
             any
             acknowledgment
             .
          
           
             These
             Circumstances
             together
             
             with
             a
             great
             Distemper
             of
             Body
             ,
             contracted
             by
             the
             Incommodities
             of
             Confinement
             ,
             want
             of
             Air
             ,
             &c.
             occasioned
             that
             suddain
             revolt
             of
             his
             Reason
             and
             Duty
             ,
             under
             that
             perplexity
             of
             Spirit
             ;
             but
             as
             soon
             as
             he
             had
             done
             it
             ,
             Conscience
             slew
             in
             his
             Face
             ,
             and
             would
             no
             longer
             be
             laid
             asleep
             with
             any
             delusive
             Popish
             Charms
             .
             When
             he
             began
             to
             recollect
             himself
             ,
             the
             power
             of
             Truth
             dispersed
             all
             these
             Temptations
             of
             Interest
             ,
             Fear
             and
             Superstition
             :
             If
             it
             were
             true
             ,
             that
             he
             might
             hazard
             his
             Life
             and
             lose
             his
             Trade
             if
             he
             did
             persist
             in
             the
             Confession
             of
             the
             Murther
             ,
             it
             was
             as
             true
             ,
             and
             he
             found
             it
             by
             experience
             ,
             that
             he
             never
             should
             have
             peace
             of
             Conscience
             if
             he
             denyed
             it
             .
          
           
             And
             therefore
             ,
             he
             was
             no
             sooner
             returned
             from
             the
             King
             and
             Council
             to
             Newgate
             ,
             (
             which
             
             coming
             in
             a
             Coach
             ,
             't
             is
             certain
             was
             not
             half
             an
             hour
             )
             but
             he
             most
             earnestly
             requested
             
               Captain
               Richardson
            
             ,
             (
             who
             had
             been
             with
             him
             ,
             and
             heard
             what
             he
             had
             said
             that
             Morning
             )
             for
             Gods
             sake
             to
             go
             back
             ,
             and
             assure
             the
             King
             and
             that
             Honourable
             Board
             from
             him
             ,
             that
             the
             first
             Confession
             which
             he
             made
             on
             Oath
             ,
             
               was
               true
            
             in
             all
             Circumstances
             ,
             and
             that
             whatever
             he
             had
             said
             before
             them
             that
             Morning
             ,
             was
             occasioned
             only
             by
             the
             Consternation
             ,
             Fear
             and
             Perplexity
             of
             mind
             he
             was
             under
             :
             which
             the
             Captain
             immediately
             did
             ,
             and
             hath
             since
             declared
             the
             same
             upon
             Oath
             .
          
        
         
           Thus
           far
           the
           words
           of
           Mr.
           Prances
           own
           Narrative
           ,
           which
           we
           have
           thought
           pertinent
           to
           be
           inserted
           :
           The
           perusal
           of
           the
           Narrative
           it self
           ,
           may
           serve
           not
           only
           for
           the
           Readers
           Satisfaction
           in
           
           this
           ,
           but
           as
           vvell
           to
           inform
           him
           of
           the
           several
           notorious
           Villanies
           of
           a
           great
           number
           of
           
             Popish
             Priests
          
           ,
           therein
           by
           name
           exposed
           ;
           to
           vvhich
           as
           a
           very
           confirming
           circumstance
           vve
           may
           add
           ,
           that
           falling
           very
           dangerously
           ill
           soon
           after
           ,
           he
           then
           vvhen
           he
           had
           nothing
           but
           a
           certain
           Prospect
           of
           approaching
           Death
           before
           his
           Eyes
           ,
           declared
           and
           asserted
           to
           divers
           Persons
           his
           first
           Confession
           to
           be
           true
           in
           all
           points
           ;
           and
           also
           aftervvards
           as
           soon
           as
           he
           had
           recovered
           his
           health
           ,
           he
           repeated
           the
           same
           vvith
           all
           Stedfastness
           before
           the
           King
           himself
           ,
           and
           the
           Lords
           of
           the
           Council
           :
           whereupon
           his
           Majesty
           was
           most
           graciously
           pleased
           to
           grant
           him
           his
           Pardon
           .
        
         
           From
           all
           which
           it
           is
           most
           plain
           ,
           that
           all
           the
           noise
           which
           the
           Priests
           and
           Jesuits
           have
           made
           about
           this
           matter
           is
           but
           empty
           Air
           ,
           as
           good
           as
           nothing
           ,
           and
           the
           just
           Truth
           thereof
           is
           become
           
           Evident
           to
           any
           ingenious
           person
           that
           will
           but
           impartially
           look
           into
           these
           transactions
           ,
           and
           consider
           them
           as
           they
           are
           ,
           and
           not
           as
           they
           are
           Represented
           by
           their
           false
           Perspectives
           .
        
         
           Thus
           far
           we
           have
           given
           you
           (
           according
           to
           the
           most
           exact
           accounts
           that
           have
           been
           hitherto
           produced
           )
           a
           Narrative
           of
           the
           Discovery
           of
           this
           most
           Horrid
           and
           Execrable
           Murther
           ,
           and
           by
           what
           strange
           and
           unthought
           of
           means
           it
           pleased
           God
           to
           effect
           it
           .
        
         
           In
           Order
           of
           History
           ,
           we
           should
           before
           this
           have
           acquainted
           you
           with
           the
           Passages
           of
           his
           Funeral
           ;
           It
           was
           fit
           so
           
             good
             a
             Man
          
           ,
           so
           
             Loyal
             a
             Subject
             ,
             so
             great
             a
             Sufferer
          
           for
           the
           publick
           Interest
           ,
           should
           not
           goe
           without
           Honour
           to
           his
           Grave
           .
        
         
           After
           his
           Relicts
           ,
           so
           long
           disturbed
           by
           his
           restless
           Murtherers
           ,
           had
           been
           View'd
           by
           the
           Coroner
           ,
           and
           then
           quietly
           deposed
           
           into
           the
           Hands
           of
           his
           Relations
           ,
           care
           was
           taken
           that
           he
           should
           have
           a
           Burial
           suitable
           to
           that
           general
           Esteem
           that
           all
           persons
           had
           of
           him
           ;
           which
           accordingly
           upon
           31
           th
           of
           October
           next
           after
           the
           time
           of
           his
           Murther
           ,
           was
           performed
           by
           his
           said
           Relations
           in
           a
           most
           decent
           and
           becoming
           manner
           ,
           without
           any
           Pomp
           or
           Pageantries
           of
           Ostentation
           (
           that
           which
           in
           his
           Life-time
           he
           was
           most
           averse
           to
           ,
           and
           no
           man
           ever
           declined
           more
           than
           he
           did
           :
           )
           The
           Body
           being
           first
           carried
           to
           
             Old
             Bridewell
          
           ,
           a
           place
           agreed
           upon
           for
           that
           purpose
           ;
           as
           being
           for
           its
           amplitude
           most
           fit
           to
           receive
           the
           numerous
           Congress
           of
           Persons
           ,
           that
           out
           of
           the
           City
           and
           other
           places
           adjacent
           ,
           came
           thither
           to
           pay
           their
           last
           respects
           to
           this
           Martyr'd
           Worthy
           .
        
         
           From
           thence
           accompanied
           with
           great
           numbers
           of
           persons
           of
           Quality
           ,
           eminent
           Citizens
           ,
           Ministers
           
           and
           others
           ,
           that
           were
           all
           hearty
           Mourners
           upon
           this
           sad
           occasion
           :
           He
           was
           carryed
           in
           a
           Solemn
           manner
           through
           Fleet-street
           and
           the
           Strand
           ,
           to
           the
           Parish
           Church
           of
           St.
           Martins
           in
           the
           Fields
           ,
           and
           there
           decently
           Interred
           :
           The
           Funeral
           Sermon
           upon
           this
           occasion
           being
           then
           Preached
           by
           the
           late
           Reverend
           and
           Learned
           Prelate
           Dr.
           Lloyd
           ,
           then
           Incumbent
           there
           ,
           and
           since
           by
           him
           Published
           ;
           a
           Discourse
           so
           Sympathising
           with
           the
           Subject
           ,
           and
           so
           excellent
           in
           all
           its
           parts
           ,
           as
           deserves
           better
           than
           a
           transient
           Mention
           .
        
         
           WE
           have
           hitherto
           given
           you
           a
           Summary
           of
           the
           Excellent
           Life
           ,
           Tragical
           Death
           ,
           and
           lastly
           the
           Discovery
           of
           the
           Murther
           of
           this
           
             worthy
             Gentleman
          
           :
           It
           remains
           now
           (
           and
           it
           may
           be
           expected
           by
           the
           Reader
           )
           that
           we
           give
           some
           Account
           of
           the
           Trial
           
           and
           Execution
           of
           those
           Villains
           that
           were
           concerned
           in
           the
           Murther
           .
        
         
           You
           have
           heard
           before
           ,
           how
           that
           upon
           the
           discovery
           made
           thereof
           by
           Mr.
           Prance
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Actors
           in
           it
           ,
           Three
           of
           them
           ,
           
             viz.
             Robert
             Green
             ,
             Henry
             Berry
             ,
          
           and
           
             Lawrence
             Hill
          
           ,
           were
           taken
           and
           committed
           to
           the
           common
           Gaol
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           their
           Tryals
           .
        
         
           The
           Parliament
           sitting
           about
           that
           time
           ,
           were
           pleased
           to
           take
           such
           notice
           of
           the
           fact
           (
           considering
           what
           relation
           it
           had
           to
           the
           Plot
           ,
           about
           which
           they
           were
           then
           sedulously
           inquiring
           )
           that
           it
           was
           Order'd
           by
           the
           
             House
             of
             Commons
          
           ,
           that
           Sir
           
             John
             Earnly
          
           a
           Member
           of
           that
           House
           ,
           should
           immediately
           carry
           an
           Address
           from
           them
           to
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           That
           his
           Majesty
           would
           be
           pleased
           to
           issue
           out
           a
           Commission
           of
           Oyer
           and
           Terminer
           for
           the
           Tryal
           of
           the
           aforesaid
           Malefactors
           :
           Which
           Address
           his
           Majesty
           
           graciously
           accepted
           ,
           and
           was
           pleased
           to
           say
           ,
           That
           a
           Commission
           should
           forthwith
           be
           issued
           out
           for
           that
           purpose
           .
        
         
           Which
           was
           accordingly
           done
           ;
           and
           upon
           Wednesday
           the
           5
           th
           of
           February
           ,
           the
           said
           
             Green
             ,
             Berry
          
           and
           Hill
           ,
           were
           brought
           to
           their
           Tryals
           at
           the
           Kings-Bench
           Barre
           at
           Westminster
           ,
           where
           before
           the
           Judges
           there
           sitting
           ,
           they
           were
           severally
           Arraigned
           ,
           and
           pleaded
           
             Not
             Guilty
          
           —
           And
           a
           Rule
           of
           Court
           entred
           for
           their
           being
           brought
           to
           Tryal
           on
           Friday
           the
           tenth
           of
           the
           same
           Month
           ;
           and
           then
           a
           Jury
           of
           able
           and
           worthy
           persons
           (
           being
           Impannel'd
           by
           the
           Sheriff
           )
           were
           Sworn
           to
           trye
           the
           fact
           :
           Their
           Names
           were
           as
           follow
           ,
           viz.
           
        
         
           
             Sir
             William
             Roberts
             ,
             Bar.
             
          
           
             Sir
             Richard
             Fisher
             ,
             Bar.
             
          
           
             Sir
             Michael
             Heneage
             ,
             Kt.
             
          
           
             Sir
             Thomas
             Bridges
             ,
             Kt.
             
          
           
             William
             Avery
             ,
             
               Esq
            
          
           
             
             Charles
             Umphrevile
             ,
             
               Esq
            
          
           
             John
             Bathurst
             ,
             
               Esq
            
          
           
             Richard
             Gowre
             ,
             
               Esq
            
          
           
             Tho.
             Henslow
             ,
             
               Esq
            
          
           
             John
             Sharpe
             ,
             
               Esq
            
          
           
             John
             Haynes
             ,
             
               Esq
            
          
           
             William
             Moyle
             ,
             
               Esq
            
          
        
         
           
             Dominick
             Kelly
          
           and
           Girald
           the
           two
           Priests
           ,
           and
           
             Philip
             Vernatti
          
           ,
           (
           whom
           we
           have
           before
           mentioned
           to
           be
           principal
           Actors
           in
           this
           Murtherous
           Design
           )
           stood
           charged
           in
           the
           same
           Indictment
           for
           the
           Murther
           ,
           but
           they
           being
           more
           wary
           than
           the
           rest
           ,
           were
           fled
           ,
           and
           for
           that
           time
           escaped
           the
           hands
           of
           Justice
           .
        
         
           Mr.
           Prance
           (
           the
           principal
           Evidence
           )
           according
           to
           the
           Informations
           he
           had
           before
           given
           in
           to
           the
           Council
           ,
           declared
           the
           Series
           of
           the
           whole
           matter
           from
           first
           to
           last
           ,
           according
           as
           is
           before
           related
           ,
           but
           declared
           that
           he
           never
           had
           any
           Conference
           with
           
           Captain
           Bedloe
           in
           his
           life
           ,
           before
           he
           was
           committed
           to
           Prison
           .
        
         
           Captain
           Bedloe
           swears
           ,
           that
           a
           little
           before
           the
           Fact
           ,
           
             Le
             Fair
             ,
             Prichard
          
           and
           Keynes
           ,
           three
           of
           the
           Confederates
           and
           some
           others
           of
           them
           ,
           (
           all
           of
           them
           Priests
           )
           discours'd
           him
           about
           
             killing
             a
             cercain
             Gentleman
          
           ,
           whom
           they
           would
           not
           name
           :
           and
           incouraged
           him
           with
           the
           promise
           of
           a
           very
           considerable
           Gratuity
           to
           be
           assistant
           to
           them
           ;
           and
           then
           directed
           him
           to
           insinuate
           himself
           into
           Sir
           
             Edmondbury
             Godfreys
          
           acquaintance
           .
           Which
           in
           complyance
           to
           their
           Wicked
           humours
           ,
           (
           which
           he
           durst
           hardly
           refuse
           to
           do
           )
           he
           did
           :
           and
           did
           under
           several
           specious
           pretences
           insinuate
           himself
           into
           an
           Acquaintance
           with
           Sir
           Edmondbury
           ,
           (
           who
           was
           never
           hard
           of
           accesse
           to
           any
           )
           but
           made
           not
           that
           advantage
           of
           his
           acquaintance
           that
           they
           maliciously
           had
           designed
           .
        
         
         
           But
           he
           informed
           the
           Court
           ,
           that
           the
           very
           day
           Sir
           
             Edmondbury
             Godfrey
          
           was
           murther'd
           ,
           
             Le
             Fair
          
           (
           at
           a
           Tavern
           near
           Temple-Barr
           )
           told
           him
           there
           was
           a
           Gentleman
           to
           
             be
             put
             out
             of
             the
             way
             ,
          
           (
           that
           is
           ,
           in
           their
           Popish
           sence
           ,
           )
           to
           be
           murther'd
           ,
           that
           Night
           ;
           and
           would
           engage
           his
           assistance
           :
           And
           that
           there
           would
           be
           4000
           l.
           reward
           given
           by
           a
           Great
           Lord
           of
           the
           Popish
           party
           to
           recompence
           the
           Undertakers
           :
           For
           (
           said
           these
           devilish
           Polititians
           )
           should
           not
           this
           Gentleman
           be
           cut
           off
           ,
           things
           would
           be
           discovered
           to
           that
           degree
           ,
           that
           they
           should
           not
           be
           able
           to
           bring
           their
           designs
           to
           pass
           ;
           they
           knew
           what
           a
           Remora
           the
           activity
           of
           his
           Loyal
           Spirit
           would
           be
           to
           their
           proceedings
           :
           To
           prevent
           which
           ,
           they
           request
           
             Captain
             Bedloe
          
           to
           meet
           them
           at
           Somerset-house
           near
           the
           Cloysters
           that
           Evening
           ,
           being
           the
           place
           in
           which
           they
           designed
           to
           act
           the
           Tragedy
           .
           This
           he
           
           promised
           to
           do
           ,
           and
           (
           as
           we
           have
           said
           before
           )
           he
           durst
           do
           no
           less
           ;
           but
           knowing
           against
           whom
           their
           designs
           were
           intended
           ,
           he
           wilfully
           failed
           them
           .
           That
           on
           the
           Munday
           following
           ,
           
             Le
             Fair
          
           again
           meeting
           with
           the
           said
           
             Captain
             Bedloe
          
           ,
           charged
           him
           with
           breach
           of
           promise
           ,
           and
           appointed
           him
           to
           come
           to
           Somerset-House
           about
           Nine
           of
           the
           Clock
           that
           Evening
           ;
           where
           he
           told
           him
           he
           had
           done
           ill
           ,
           in
           that
           he
           denyed
           to
           assist
           them
           in
           this
           business
           ,
           but
           if
           he
           would
           help
           to
           carry
           him
           off
           ,
           he
           should
           still
           have
           part
           of
           the
           before
           mentioned
           reward
           :
           Why
           ,
           said
           the
           Witness
           (
           as
           surpriz'd
           at
           the
           News
           of
           it
           )
           
             is
             he
             murther'd
          
           ?
           Yes
           ,
           replyed
           
             Le
             Fair.
          
           Whereupon
           the
           Witness
           askt
           if
           he
           might
           not
           see
           him
           ?
           which
           was
           granted
           ,
           and
           
             Le
             Fair
          
           led
           him
           through
           a
           dark
           Entry
           into
           a
           Room
           where
           there
           were
           several
           people
           ,
           that
           had
           no
           light
           but
           a
           dark
           Lanthorn
           
           amongst
           them
           ,
           and
           were
           consulting
           together
           how
           to
           carry
           him
           off
           :
           When
           one
           of
           the
           company
           throwing
           off
           the
           Cloth
           with
           which
           the
           body
           was
           covered
           ,
           
             Captain
             Bedloe
          
           had
           a
           View
           of
           his
           face
           and
           presently
           knew
           it
           to
           be
           Sir
           Edmondbury
           Godfrey's
           ,
           with
           whom
           (
           by
           the
           instigation
           of
           these
           Murtherers
           ,
           )
           he
           had
           been
           so
           well
           acquainted
           as
           easily
           to
           remember
           him
           .
           The
           Captains
           advice
           to
           them
           was
           ,
           to
           tye
           weights
           to
           his
           Head
           and
           Feet
           ,
           and
           throw
           him
           into
           the
           River
           :
           but
           this
           they
           did
           not
           think
           fit
           to
           do
           ,
           but
           said
           they
           
             would
             put
             it
             upon
             himself
          
           .
           And
           to
           that
           end
           resolved
           to
           put
           him
           into
           a
           Chair
           (
           or
           Sedan
           )
           the
           Porter
           Berry
           being
           to
           sit
           up
           to
           let
           them
           out
           at
           the
           Court-gate
           ,
           and
           at
           Twelve
           a
           Clock
           that
           night
           was
           the
           hour
           appointed
           to
           carry
           him
           off
           ;
           
             Captain
             Bedloe
          
           promising
           to
           them
           ,
           upon
           the
           Sacrament
           which
           he
           
           had
           took
           the
           Sunday
           before
           ,
           to
           return
           again
           to
           them
           ,
           and
           help
           them
           ;
           but
           being
           got
           from
           them
           ,
           never
           came
           at
           them
           more
           .
        
         
           The
           Constable
           that
           View'd
           the
           body
           in
           the
           Ditch
           ,
           gave
           an
           account
           how
           he
           found
           it
           with
           the
           Sword
           Sticking
           through
           it
           ,
           but
           no
           blood
           appearing
           upon
           the
           ground
           .
           And
           that
           he
           found
           a
           great
           deal
           of
           Gold
           and
           Silver
           in
           his
           pockets
           .
        
         
           The
           two
           Chyrurgeons
           moreover
           Swore
           ,
           that
           they
           verily
           believed
           the
           Sword
           was
           run
           through
           him
           after
           he
           was
           dead
           and
           Cold
           ;
           but
           that
           he
           died
           of
           Suffocation
           and
           breaking
           of
           his
           Neck
           ,
           together
           with
           the
           bruises
           on
           his
           Breast
           .
        
         
           To
           confirm
           Mr.
           Prances
           Evidence
           ,
           that
           they
           had
           been
           several
           times
           at
           his
           house
           ,
           inquiring
           for
           him
           ,
           and
           that
           Hill
           (
           as
           he
           and
           the
           rest
           told
           Prance
           )
           was
           there
           on
           the
           morning
           of
           that
           day
           in
           which
           
           he
           was
           murther'd
           ,
           there
           was
           produced
           one
           
             Elizabeth
             Curtis
          
           ,
           that
           at
           the
           same
           time
           dwelt
           with
           Sir
           Edmondbury
           ,
           his
           menial
           Servant
           ;
           she
           Swore
           directly
           that
           Green
           had
           been
           at
           her
           Masters
           about
           a
           fortnight
           before
           her
           Master
           was
           killed
           ,
           and
           talked
           with
           him
           about
           a
           quarter
           of
           an
           hour
           in
           French
           :
           And
           that
           Hill
           was
           there
           that
           very
           
             Saturday
             morning
             on
             which
             he
             was
             murthered
             ,
          
           and
           spake
           to
           him
           before
           he
           went
           out
           ,
           and
           was
           there
           a
           good
           while
           in
           the
           Parlour
           with
           him
           ,
           but
           could
           not
           tell
           what
           his
           business
           was
           :
           That
           the
           night
           before
           ,
           there
           was
           a
           strange
           man
           brought
           a
           Note
           to
           her
           Master
           ,
           which
           she
           gave
           to
           him
           ,
           and
           the
           man
           staying
           for
           an
           Answer
           ,
           Prethee
           (
           said
           Sir
           
             Edmondbury
             Godfrey
             )
             tell
             him
             I
             do
             not
             know
             what
             to
             make
             of
             it
             :
          
           But
           this
           was
           none
           of
           the
           three
           persons
           at
           the
           Bar
           ,
           but
           supposed
           to
           be
           one
           of
           their
           Fraternity
           .
        
         
         
           As
           for
           
             Hill
             ,
             she
             was
             sure
             he
             was
             there
             on
             the
             said
             Saturday
             morning
             ,
          
           by
           the
           same
           token
           he
           had
           then
           on
           the
           same
           Cloaths
           as
           he
           now
           had
           at
           the
           Bar
           ;
           though
           now
           he
           denyed
           he
           was
           there
           ,
           yet
           he
           acknowledged
           he
           had
           not
           changed
           his
           cloaths
           ,
           but
           wore
           the
           same
           Suit
           ever
           since
           before
           that
           time
           .
        
         
           The
           man
           at
           the
           
             Plow
             Alehouse
          
           (
           where
           Mr.
           Prance
           swore
           the
           Murther
           was
           consulted
           )
           and
           his
           Servant
           ,
           did
           both
           Swear
           ,
           that
           Prance
           did
           use
           to
           come
           thither
           with
           
             Hill
             ,
             Girald
          
           and
           Kelly
           ,
           several
           times
           within
           five
           weeks
           before
           the
           Murther
           .
           The
           relation
           that
           Mr.
           Prance
           gave
           of
           the
           meeting
           at
           the
           Queens-head
           at
           Bow
           ,
           is
           confirmed
           by
           a
           Messenger
           that
           they
           sent
           for
           a
           Gentleman
           living
           about
           a
           Mile
           from
           that
           place
           ,
           to
           come
           to
           them
           .
        
         
           Sir
           
             Robert
             Southwell
          
           deposes
           ,
           that
           Mr.
           Prance
           having
           related
           
           these
           things
           to
           the
           Council
           ,
           and
           being
           to
           attend
           the
           Duke
           of
           Monmouth
           and
           the
           
             Earl
             of
             Ossery
          
           ,
           to
           shew
           them
           the
           places
           he
           mentioned
           ,
           
             He
             readily
             went
             to
             them
          
           ,
           and
           they
           appeared
           to
           be
           all
           such
           as
           he
           had
           described
           them
           ;
           only
           as
           to
           the
           Room
           in
           the
           upper
           Court
           ,
           where
           the
           Body
           was
           laid
           one
           Night
           ,
           having
           never
           been
           there
           but
           once
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           the
           dark
           too
           ,
           he
           said
           he
           could
           not
           positively
           assign
           it
           ,
           but
           pointed
           to
           some
           Rooms
           ,
           and
           said
           he
           was
           sure
           it
           was
           thereabouts
           ,
           and
           this
           doubtfulness
           the
           Court
           observing
           did
           give
           more
           credit
           to
           the
           rest
           of
           his
           Evidence
           .
           For
           a
           person
           that
           right
           or
           wrong
           will
           Swear
           any
           thing
           ,
           will
           stick
           at
           nothing
           .
        
         
           Lastly
           ,
           It
           was
           proved
           that
           Berry
           the
           Porter
           ,
           pretended
           Orders
           given
           him
           ,
           that
           he
           should
           Suffer
           no
           Strangers
           or
           persons
           of
           Quality
           to
           come
           into
           Somerset-house
           on
           the
           twelfth
           ,
           thirteenth
           
           and
           fourteenth
           days
           of
           October
           ,
           the
           first
           being
           the
           day
           on
           which
           Sir
           
             Edmondbury
             Godfrey
          
           was
           Murthered
           ,
           and
           the
           two
           days
           following
           the
           time
           that
           he
           lay
           there
           ;
           and
           that
           
             Prince
             Rupert
          
           coming
           in
           there
           within
           that
           time
           ,
           was
           denyed
           entrance
           .
        
         
           These
           were
           some
           of
           the
           principal
           heads
           of
           the
           Evidence
           that
           were
           given
           in
           against
           the
           Prisoners
           ,
           which
           ,
           notwithstanding
           the
           directness
           of
           the
           circumstances
           to
           prove
           the
           Fact
           upon
           them
           ,
           they
           had
           all
           the
           Stoutness
           to
           deny
           .
           And
           it
           was
           no
           wonder
           that
           men
           of
           such
           profligate
           Consciences
           that
           would
           not
           stick
           at
           the
           perpetrating
           such
           Villanies
           ,
           should
           not
           boggle
           at
           the
           denying
           of
           them
           .
        
         
           The
           defence
           they
           made
           for
           themselves
           was
           very
           Strained
           and
           unconvincing
           .
        
         
           Hill
           would
           needs
           except
           against
           Mr.
           Prances
           Testimony
           ,
           because
           
           he
           once
           formerly
           denyed
           it
           (
           the
           reason
           of
           his
           so
           doing
           you
           have
           had
           before
           related
           ,
           from
           the
           words
           of
           his
           own
           
             Narrative
             .
          
           )
           But
           this
           exception
           the
           Court
           easily
           over-ruled
           ,
           for
           that
           besides
           the
           before
           mentioned
           reasons
           that
           induced
           him
           to
           it
           ,
           he
           had
           now
           affirmed
           the
           truth
           upon
           Oath
           ,
           and
           his
           denying
           of
           it
           was
           but
           his
           
             bare
             saying
          
           ,
           and
           so
           he
           could
           not
           be
           now
           Perjured
           upon
           that
           single
           assertion
           ,
           nor
           the
           credit
           of
           his
           now
           Evidence
           be
           any
           wise
           the
           more
           mistrusted
           ,
           considering
           the
           circumstances
           he
           was
           then
           under
           .
        
         
           And
           further
           ,
           the
           said
           Hill
           to
           Evade
           ,
           offers
           some
           Witnesses
           of
           his
           own
           Religion
           ,
           to
           aver
           he
           was
           never
           from
           his
           Lodgings
           after
           nine
           a
           Clock
           at
           night
           .
           But
           these
           did
           it
           so
           nicely
           and
           generally
           ,
           that
           no
           Stress
           could
           be
           laid
           upon
           them
           ,
           it
           being
           proved
           that
           they
           had
           
             several
             Keys
          
           to
           the
           
           door
           ,
           and
           Hill
           might
           go
           in
           and
           out
           without
           their
           knowledge
           ;
           and
           one
           of
           his
           Witnesses
           makes
           
           a
           palpable
           mistake
           of
           an
           whole
           Month
           ,
           p.
           55.
           and
           two
           of
           
           Green's
           Witnesses
           a
           whole
           Week
           ,
           p.
           66.
           
           So
           unhappy
           were
           they
           in
           their
           Calculations
           of
           the
           time
           they
           were
           brought
           to
           speak
           to
           .
        
         
           The
           Evidence
           that
           Berry
           gave
           in
           to
           the
           Court
           were
           the
           Souldiers
           who
           were
           placed
           Sentinel
           at
           the
           Gate
           .
           They
           say
           they
           saw
           a
           Sedan
           come
           in
           ,
           and
           so
           far
           they
           agree
           with
           the
           Kings
           Evidence
           ,
           but
           then
           they
           confidently
           aver
           that
           they
           
             saw
             none
             go
             out
             all
             night
             .
          
           But
           what
           was
           this
           to
           matter
           of
           Fact
           ?
           or
           what
           did
           it
           relate
           to
           the
           Murther
           Committed
           ,
           so
           positively
           in
           all
           its
           circumstances
           Sworn
           to
           by
           the
           Kings
           Witnesses
           ?
           The
           Sentinel
           might
           be
           from
           his
           Post
           ,
           and
           't
           is
           most
           probable
           he
           was
           so
           :
           For
           Mr.
           Prance
           had
           before
           informed
           the
           Court
           that
           
           Berry
           had
           inveigled
           the
           Sentinel
           in
           to
           drink
           ,
           and
           so
           not
           being
           in
           the
           way
           at
           the
           time
           of
           doing
           it
           ,
           he
           might
           truly
           say
           without
           any
           discredit
           to
           the
           Evidence
           of
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           That
           he
           did
           not
           see
           the
           Sedan
           go
           out
           ,
           it
           might
           be
           morally
           impossible
           he
           should
           ;
           At
           least
           the
           Sentinel
           knowing
           he
           had
           committed
           a
           dangerous
           fault
           by
           so
           doing
           ,
           might
           be
           so
           wise
           for
           his
           own
           safety
           as
           to
           conceal
           it
           .
           Yet
           these
           poor
           and
           slender
           Evasions
           were
           the
           best
           defence
           these
           Wretches
           could
           make
           for
           themselves
           ;
           which
           besides
           their
           own
           weakness
           being
           opposed
           with
           so
           many
           undeniable
           Arguments
           of
           truth
           and
           certainty
           by
           the
           Witnesses
           of
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           found
           so
           little
           Credit
           with
           the
           Jury
           ,
           that
           after
           a
           little
           time
           of
           Consideration
           ,
           they
           brought
           them
           in
           all
           three
           
             Guilty
             of
             the
             Murther
          
           .
        
         
           Upon
           Tuesday
           the
           eleventh
           of
           
           February
           ,
           they
           were
           brought
           again
           to
           the
           Bar
           in
           Order
           to
           receive
           their
           Sentence
           ,
           which
           (
           after
           a
           grave
           and
           seasonable
           Speech
           made
           to
           them
           upon
           that
           occasion
           by
           Mr.
           
             Justice
             W●ld
          
           ,
           whose
           province
           it
           then
           was
           ,
           as
           being
           second
           Judge
           of
           the
           Court
           )
           was
           pronounced
           against
           them
           in
           common
           form
           :
           
             That
             they
             should
             be
             carried
             back
             to
             the
             place
             from
             whence
             they
             came
             ,
             and
             from
             thence
             to
             the
             place
             of
             Execution
             ,
             and
             there
             be
             Hang'd
             by
             the
             Necks
             ,
             till
             they
             were
             dead
             .
          
        
         
           According
           to
           which
           Sentence
           
             Robert
             Green
          
           and
           
             Lawrence
             Hill
          
           were
           Executed
           at
           Tyburn
           on
           the
           twenty
           eighth
           day
           of
           the
           same
           Month.
           At
           the
           place
           of
           Execution
           they
           behaved
           themselves
           with
           the
           Courages
           of
           true
           Romans
           of
           the
           new
           Stamp
           ,
           denying
           the
           Crime
           they
           Suffered
           for
           ,
           with
           that
           their
           formal
           Evasion
           of
           being
           
             Innocent
             as
             the
             Child
             unborn
          
           ;
           
           that
           is
           as
           no
           body
           .
           A
           Child
           unborn
           may
           be
           a
           
             Non
             ens
          
           —
           Had
           it
           been
           as
           a
           
             Sucking
             Child
          
           ,
           I
           question
           whether
           their
           dying
           Consciences
           could
           so
           well
           have
           dispensed
           with
           the
           Expression
           .
           But
           what
           other
           might
           be
           expected
           from
           Consciences
           so
           charmed
           as
           theirs
           was
           ,
           by
           the
           Sophisticating
           Juggles
           of
           their
           Superiours
           ,
           ty'd
           up
           by
           so
           many
           Oaths
           and
           Sacraments
           to
           conceal
           that
           truth
           which
           by
           the
           divulging
           must
           necessarily
           turn
           to
           the
           Scandal
           of
           the
           
             Romish
             Church
          
           —
           whose
           principles
           will
           rather
           admit
           the
           blame
           and
           punishment
           of
           a
           Crime
           than
           the
           shame
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           And
           that
           there
           were
           some
           designs
           contrived
           to
           oblige
           them
           to
           such
           a
           prophane
           concealment
           (
           in
           so
           solemn
           a
           case
           as
           dying
           I
           can
           give
           it
           no
           fitter
           an
           Epithet
           )
           is
           evident
           by
           one
           notorious
           Circumstance
           :
           That
           when
           Hill
           and
           Green
           were
           Hang'd
           and
           
           dead
           ,
           Captain
           Richardson
           the
           Keeper
           of
           Newgate
           ,
           with
           several
           others
           ,
           saw
           the
           Executioner
           (
           amongst
           other
           things
           )
           take
           a
           Paper
           out
           of
           
           Hill's
           Pocket
           ,
           purporting
           to
           be
           the
           form
           of
           the
           Speech
           that
           he
           should
           use
           to
           the
           People
           at
           the
           Gallows
           ,
           which
           being
           penn'd
           in
           a
           singular
           way
           of
           expression
           ,
           I
           shall
           take
           leave
           to
           insert
           Verbatim
           ,
           as
           followeth
           .
        
         
           I
           
             Am
             come
             now
             to
             the
             fatal
             place
             where
             I
             must
             end
             my
             Life
             ,
             and
             I
             hope
             with
             that
             Courage
             that
             may
             become
             my
             Innocence
             .
             I
             must
             now
             appear
             before
             the
             great
             Judge
             who
             knows
             all
             things
             and
             Judges
             rightly
             ;
             and
             I
             hope
             it
             will
             be
             happy
             for
             me
             a
             Sinner
             ,
             that
             I
             am
             thus
             wrongfully
             put
             to
             Death
             .
             I
             call
             God
             ,
             Angels
             and
             Men
             to
             Witness
             that
             I
             am
             wholly
             Ignorant
             of
             the
             Manner
             ,
             Cause
             ,
             or
             Time
             ,
             of
             the
             Death
             of
          
           Justice
           Godfrey
           ;
           
             although
             
             on
             that
             account
             by
             the
             Malice
             of
             wicked
             men
             brought
             to
             this
             shameful
             death
             ,
             which
             I
             hope
             will
             give
             me
             a
             speedy
             passage
             to
             Eternal
             Life
             .
             In
             this
             hope
             I
             dye
             chearfully
             because
             of
             mine
             Innocence
             ,
             and
             the
             benefit
             of
             the
             precious
             wounds
             of
             my
             blessed
             Saviour
             ,
             by
             whose
             Merits
             I
             hope
             for
             Salvation
             .
             I
             dye
             a
          
           Roman
           Catholick
           ,
           
             desiring
             all
             such
             to
             Pray
             for
             me
             :
             And
             I
             beseech
             God
             in
             his
             Justice
             to
             discover
             this
             horrid
             Murther
             ,
             with
             the
             Contrivers
             thereof
             ,
             that
             my
             Innocence
             may
             appear
             .
             And
             though
             from
             my
             Heart
             I
             forgive
             my
             Accusers
             ,
             Yet
             I
          
           Cite
           
             all
             such
             as
             have
             a
             hand
             in
             this
             bloody
             Contrivance
             ,
             before
             the
             great
             Tribunal
             of
             Gods
             Justice
             to
             answer
             for
             the
             wrong
             they
             have
             done
             the
             Innocent
             ;
             and
             particularly
             the
             Lord
          
           Chief
           Justice
           ,
           
             and
             the
             Brothers
             of
             Sir
          
           Edmondbury
           Godfrey
           ,
           
             with
             Jury
             ,
             Witnesses
             and
             all
             their
             Partakers
             .
             Oh
             Lord
             bless
             and
             Preserve
             his
             Majesty
             and
             be
             merciful
             
             to
             this
             poor
             Nation
             ,
             and
             lay
             not
             Innocent
             Blood
             to
             its
             Charge
             .
          
        
         
           
             Dying
             words
          
           ought
           to
           have
           their
           just
           allowances
           of
           credit
           ,
           as
           supposing
           men
           ,
           if
           ever
           they
           dare
           speak
           the
           truth
           ,
           will
           do
           it
           then
           when
           they
           are
           within
           an
           immediate
           prospect
           of
           a
           sudden
           appearance
           before
           the
           Omn●●ient
           and
           righteous
           Judge
           of
           Heaven
           and
           Earth
           ,
           to
           answer
           for
           what
           they
           have
           said
           and
           done
           .
        
         
           But
           when
           the
           truth
           has
           been
           once
           determined
           (
           as
           in
           this
           case
           )
           by
           no
           less
           than
           a
           Cloud
           of
           Witnesses
           ,
           some
           of
           them
           unknown
           to
           the
           other
           ,
           yet
           all
           of
           them
           harmoniously
           agreeing
           in
           the
           particular
           circumstances
           of
           the
           Fact
           ;
           and
           the
           Fact
           it self
           sufficiently
           proved
           on
           all
           hands
           by
           persons
           that
           prosess
           such
           a
           Religion
           as
           gives
           no
           allowances
           to
           lying
           or
           dissimulation
           .
        
         
           When
           on
           the
           other
           hand
           the
           
           truth
           so
           proved
           shall
           be
           denyed
           by
           persons
           instructed
           in
           such
           false
           principles
           as
           these
           ;
           to
           deny
           the
           truth
           when
           the
           secular
           Interest
           of
           their
           Idoliz'd
           as
           well
           as
           Idolatrous
           Church
           shall
           be
           indanger'd
           by
           it
           ;
           to
           invert
           the
           moral
           nature
           of
           good
           and
           evil
           ,
           and
           to
           account
           those
           actions
           and
           things
           good
           ,
           vertuous
           and
           meritorious
           ,
           which
           in
           their
           own
           nature
           (
           besides
           the
           express
           commands
           of
           
             Gods
             Word
          
           )
           are
           wicked
           and
           sinful
           ;
           No
           wonder
           if
           such
           persons
           upon
           such
           principles
           should
           deny
           or
           conceal
           the
           truth
           ,
           especially
           when
           they
           can
           make
           such
           unhappy
           distinctions
           betwixt
           the
           form
           and
           reality
           of
           a
           Fact
           ;
           as
           to
           deny
           the
           crime
           of
           Murther
           when
           they
           know
           themselves
           to
           be
           guilty
           of
           killing
           a
           person
           ,
           killing
           in
           their
           sence
           being
           sometimes
           no
           more
           Murder
           than
           it
           was
           for
           the
           Priests
           of
           old
           to
           kill
           a
           Sacrifice
           ,
           or
           for
           the
           Jews
           to
           slaughter
           the
           reprobated
           Amalekites
           ,
           they
           arrogating
           
           to
           themselves
           the
           same
           dominion
           over
           the
           lives
           and
           properties
           of
           Hereticks
           (
           as
           we
           are
           accounted
           by
           them
           )
           that
           the
           Jews
           (
           that
           priviledged
           people
           )
           of
           old
           had
           over
           the
           execrated
           Pagan
           Nations
           ;
           so
           that
           in
           their
           sence
           ,
           
             Killing
             is
             no
             Murder
          
           .
        
         
           Upon
           which
           considerations
           it
           〈◊〉
           easie
           for
           any
           impartial
           man
           to
           judge
           how
           much
           credit
           such
           
             dying
             attestations
          
           may
           admit
           of
           ,
           against
           such
           clear
           and
           undeniable
           proofs
           as
           were
           brought
           against
           them
           .
        
         
           And
           it
           is
           more
           than
           probable
           ,
           that
           the
           words
           of
           the
           aforesaid
           Paper
           were
           not
           
           Hill's
           own
           words
           ,
           but
           dictated
           for
           him
           in
           that
           form
           by
           those
           of
           his
           party
           that
           were
           afraid
           of
           a
           Confession
           ,
           and
           durst
           not
           trust
           the
           reputation
           of
           their
           cause
           to
           the
           hazard
           of
           any
           unwary
           expressions
           ,
           that
           the
           consternation
           of
           death
           might
           extort
           from
           him
           .
        
         
         
           Wherefore
           otherwise
           might
           not
           a
           verbal
           expression
           of
           his
           Innocency
           (
           if
           he
           were
           minded
           to
           declare
           it
           )
           be
           lookt
           upon
           as
           more
           credible
           from
           one
           in
           his
           dying
           circumstances
           ,
           than
           a
           set
           and
           Studyed
           form
           of
           Speech
           calculated
           for
           the
           purpose
           ?
        
         
           But
           they
           feared
           either
           the
           terrors
           of
           death
           would
           force
           him
           to
           a
           plain
           Confession
           ,
           or
           that
           the
           power
           of
           truth
           fortified
           with
           such
           awful
           Sentiments
           ,
           would
           over-bear
           his
           Tongue
           in
           some
           circumstance
           ;
           or
           at
           least
           that
           he
           would
           not
           deny
           the
           Fact
           so
           resolutely
           ,
           and
           in
           such
           a
           taking
           manner
           as
           might
           fix
           a
           Suspicion
           and
           odium
           upon
           the
           
             Witnesses
             ,
             Judge
          
           and
           Jury
           in
           the
           minds
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           which
           was
           the
           great
           thing
           they
           aimed
           at
           .
        
         
           No
           doubt
           therefore
           this
           form
           of
           what
           he
           should
           say
           at
           his
           Execution
           ,
           was
           drawn
           up
           for
           him
           by
           some
           of
           the
           Religion
           ,
           that
           
           every
           word
           might
           be
           according
           to
           their
           mind
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           purposes
           of
           their
           designs
           ,
           how
           remote
           soever
           it
           were
           to
           his
           thoughts
           or
           the
           truth
           .
        
         
           And
           no
           Wonder
           it
           is
           that
           they
           should
           instruct
           their
           Proselytes
           to
           make
           Speeches
           just
           as
           they
           say
           Prayers
           ,
           resting
           in
           the
           
             Opere
             Operato
          
           ,
           without
           any
           understanding
           or
           attention
           ,
           or
           consent
           of
           mind
           to
           the
           words
           they
           use
           ,
           when
           a
           bare
           doing
           or
           a
           bare
           saying
           can
           excuse
           an
           intention
           .
        
         
           To
           conclude
           ,
           It
           is
           evident
           that
           the
           words
           were
           framed
           by
           another
           for
           him
           to
           
             Con
             by
             heart
          
           ,
           and
           not
           of
           his
           own
           doing
           ,
           by
           this
           undenyable
           circumstance
           ,
           that
           he
           never
           had
           
             Pen
             ,
             Ink
          
           nor
           Paper
           all
           the
           while
           he
           was
           in
           Newgate
           ,
           and
           his
           Wife
           being
           Examined
           about
           it
           ,
           testified
           that
           it
           was
           not
           of
           his
           hand-writing
           ,
           nor
           did
           she
           ever
           see
           it
           before
           ,
           or
           know
           how
           he
           came
           by
           it
           ;
           yet
           he
           began
           his
           
           Speech
           with
           these
           very
           Words
           ,
           and
           repeated
           as
           much
           thereof
           as
           his
           memory
           under
           such
           confused
           circumstances
           would
           serve
           him
           to
           do
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           Speech
           it self
           we
           may
           observe
           the
           great
           Charity
           of
           the
           Author
           of
           it
           (
           whoever
           he
           were
           )
           in
           citing
           all
           such
           as
           had
           any
           hand
           in
           his
           Death
           ,
           before
           the
           great
           
             Tribunal
             of
             Gods
             Justice
          
           ,
           particularly
           the
           
             Lord
             Chief
             Justice
          
           ,
           Sir
           
             Edmondbury
             Godfrey's
             Brothers
          
           ,
           with
           the
           
             Jury
             ,
             Witnesses
          
           ,
           and
           all
           their
           partakers
           —
           And
           yet
           ,
           but
           in
           the
           words
           just
           before
           ,
           he
           declares
           
             that
             he
             does
             from
             his
             Heart
             forgive
             his
             Accusers
             .
          
           We
           may
           see
           by
           this
           Passage
           of
           what
           nature
           such
           mens
           Forgiveness
           is
           ;
           seeming
           to
           Pardon
           ,
           when
           at
           the
           same
           time
           they
           cry
           out
           for
           Vengeance
           upon
           their
           Adversaries
           .
        
         
           The
           Papists
           (
           for
           the
           still
           better
           colouring
           of
           the
           business
           )
           have
           commonly
           reported
           that
           Berry
           
           was
           alwayes
           or
           at
           least
           dyed
           a
           Protestant
           ,
           which
           is
           notoriously
           false
           ,
           having
           been
           known
           to
           be
           a
           Papist
           for
           many
           years
           ;
           induced
           thereto
           (
           as
           he
           confessed
           to
           the
           Ordinary
           )
           out
           of
           Lucre
           ,
           and
           to
           get
           an
           imployment
           ;
           And
           
             though
             he
             did
             not
             believe
             many
             things
          
           (
           as
           he
           declared
           a
           little
           before
           his
           Execution
           )
           
             which
             the
             Romish
             Doctors
          
           teach
           as
           necessary
           Articles
           of
           Faith
           (
           which
           is
           no
           more
           than
           many
           other
           Papists
           will
           affirm
           )
           Yet
           the
           said
           Berry
           neither
           before
           nor
           at
           his
           Execution
           ,
           would
           ever
           disown
           the
           
             Romish
             Church
          
           ,
           nor
           in
           the
           least
           declare
           himself
           a
           Protestant
           .
        
         
           I
           would
           not
           have
           these
           last
           Passages
           thought
           altogether
           an
           (
           at
           least
           impertinent
           )
           digression
           from
           our
           Subject
           ,
           the
           design
           of
           their
           rehearsal
           being
           chiefly
           to
           Evidence
           the
           truth
           ,
           against
           the
           subtil
           Designs
           of
           the
           Papists
           to
           suppress
           it
           ,
           which
           they
           have
           
           managed
           not
           only
           by
           suborning
           (
           if
           I
           may
           so
           say
           )
           or
           at
           least
           seducing
           their
           mischievous
           Agents
           to
           persist
           to
           the
           very
           death
           in
           denying
           of
           what
           they
           did
           :
           But
           (
           despairing
           upon
           just
           grounds
           of
           the
           success
           of
           that
           Imposture
           ,
           so
           lyable
           to
           detection
           )
           they
           have
           since
           by
           their
           malicious
           slanders
           endeavoured
           to
           remove
           the
           Charge
           of
           the
           fact
           from
           those
           that
           were
           the
           real
           Actors
           ,
           and
           from
           all
           their
           own
           party
           ,
           to
           those
           that
           were
           most
           clear
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           And
           perceiving
           that
           the
           Belief
           of
           their
           designs
           and
           actings
           against
           the
           Life
           of
           this
           
             Innocent
             Gentleman
          
           ,
           was
           in
           the
           length
           of
           time
           not
           only
           the
           more
           confirmed
           ,
           but
           that
           the
           credit
           of
           it
           had
           a
           fatal
           influence
           upon
           their
           further
           proceedings
           ,
           they
           were
           so
           effrontless
           in
           their
           Villanous
           Prosecution
           ,
           that
           they
           stuck
           not
           to
           commit
           a
           
             second
             Murther
          
           upon
           the
           
             good
             Name
          
           as
           well
           as
           they
           had
           before
           done
           upon
           
           the
           Person
           of
           this
           worthy
           Martyr
           for
           his
           King
           and
           Countrey
           ,
           by
           endeavouring
           to
           charge
           the
           Murther
           upon
           himself
           ,
           a
           brief
           account
           of
           which
           ,
           to
           shut
           up
           this
           Tragical
           discourse
           ,
           I
           shall
           now
           give
           you
           .
        
         
           But
           by
           the
           way
           it
           may
           be
           observed
           from
           this
           last
           account
           of
           Hills
           Confession
           ,
           that
           he
           or
           his
           Party
           had
           at
           that
           time
           no
           thoughts
           of
           fixing
           such
           a
           slander
           upon
           him
           ,
           of
           his
           being
           
             Felo
             de
             se
          
           ,
           but
           did
           own
           it
           as
           a
           Murther
           committed
           upon
           him
           by
           others
           (
           though
           Hill
           would
           have
           shifted
           it
           off
           from
           himself
           )
           as
           appears
           by
           the
           words
           of
           his
           Confession
           —
           
             I
             beseech
             God
             in
             his
             Justice
             to
             discover
             this
             Horrid
             Murther
             :
          
           The
           manner
           of
           the
           expression
           may
           sufficiently
           evince
           that
           he
           meant
           it
           not
           of
           his
           being
           Murther'd
           by
           himself
           ,
           but
           others
           .
        
         
           The
           
             Popish
             Plot
          
           ,
           which
           by
           the
           goodness
           of
           the
           divine
           Providence
           was
           hitherto
           prevented
           in
           its
           progress
           
           by
           surprizing
           discoveries
           ,
           was
           forced
           to
           shift
           its
           Scenes
           ,
           and
           assume
           new
           forms
           of
           Enterprize
           ,
           upon
           the
           defeats
           of
           the
           former
           :
           And
           now
           a
           new
           Instrument
           of
           theirs
           is
           brought
           upon
           the
           Stage
           :
           One
           Fitz-Harris
           lately
           Executed
           for
           Treason
           ;
           who
           upon
           his
           first
           Arraignment
           before
           the
           Justices
           of
           the
           
             Kings
             Bench
          
           ,
           did
           offer
           upon
           a
           private
           Examination
           to
           discover
           to
           them
           some
           persons
           (
           before
           unknown
           )
           who
           were
           instrumental
           in
           the
           Murther
           of
           Sir
           
             Edmondbury
             Godfrey
          
           ,
           himself
           (
           by
           his
           own
           confession
           )
           being
           one
           that
           was
           concerned
           in
           it
           ,
           and
           so
           had
           the
           better
           opportunity
           to
           know
           the
           rest
           .
        
         
           These
           Examinations
           were
           taken
           in
           private
           ,
           and
           therefore
           what
           the
           Effects
           of
           them
           were
           ,
           and
           who
           the
           persons
           particularly
           were
           that
           were
           thereby
           accused
           ,
           Time
           (
           the
           Parent
           of
           Truth
           )
           may
           hereafter
           discover
           .
        
         
           But
           whether
           the
           Accusation
           of
           
           some
           persons
           mentioned
           in
           the
           Informations
           might
           provoke
           them
           to
           it
           ;
           or
           that
           the
           Revival
           of
           this
           new
           Evidence
           might
           Stimulate
           the
           malicious
           party
           to
           the
           undertaking
           ,
           a
           new
           design
           is
           contriv'd
           to
           fix
           this
           Murther
           upon
           the
           
             Murther'd
             Person
          
           .
        
         
           This
           was
           one
           of
           their
           Sham-plots
           ;
           many
           of
           which
           they
           have
           set
           up
           with
           an
           irrefragable
           persistance
           ,
           by
           such
           Methods
           (
           if
           possible
           )
           to
           amuse
           us
           into
           a
           disbelief
           of
           the
           real
           one
           ,
           then
           and
           yet
           in
           Prosecution
           .
        
         
           They
           never
           want
           Instruments
           to
           effect
           their
           Villanies
           ,
           when
           they
           have
           once
           contrived
           them
           ;
           and
           had
           one
           at
           this
           time
           fit
           for
           their
           purpose
           ,
           an
           
             Irish-man
             ,
             Mac-gar
          
           by
           name
           ,
           a
           Zealous
           Papist
           ,
           and
           one
           of
           a
           suitable
           reputation
           ;
           who
           coming
           lately
           over
           from
           Ireland
           ,
           and
           judged
           by
           them
           to
           be
           a
           man
           fit
           enough
           for
           the
           purpose
           of
           an
           ill
           design
           ,
           they
           engage
           him
           to
           
           spread
           about
           reports
           up
           and
           down
           the
           Town
           ,
           that
           Sir
           
             Edmondbury
             Godfrey
          
           had
           Murthered
           himself
           ;
           but
           that
           to
           save
           his
           Estate
           from
           a
           forfeiture
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           his
           so
           doing
           ,
           
             His
             Brothers
          
           had
           engaged
           him
           (
           the
           Informant
           )
           to
           run
           Sir
           Edmondbury
           Godfrey's
           own
           Sword
           through
           him
           ,
           and
           so
           to
           leave
           him
           in
           that
           Condition
           in
           which
           he
           was
           found
           in
           the
           ditch
           upon
           the
           first
           Discovery
           .
        
         
           This
           Tale
           could
           get
           little
           credit
           amongst
           the
           Towns-men
           —
           who
           were
           upon
           just
           grounds
           more
           apt
           to
           abhorr
           it
           than
           believe
           it
           ;
           so
           that
           not
           succeeding
           with
           the
           mobile
           (
           as
           the
           People
           by
           the
           wits
           of
           this
           time
           are
           finely
           termed
           )
           it
           is
           resolved
           that
           he
           should
           apply
           himself
           to
           persons
           of
           greater
           note
           and
           influence
           .
           And
           to
           that
           purpose
           Mac-gar
           is
           next
           instructed
           to
           apply
           himself
           to
           a
           
             Great
             Person
          
           then
           a
           Prisoner
           in
           the
           Tower
           ,
           to
           whom
           he
           sends
           
           word
           ,
           that
           he
           had
           such
           a
           matter
           to
           inform
           him
           of
           concerning
           this
           murther
           .
           But
           the
           other
           refused
           to
           have
           any
           discourse
           with
           him
           about
           it
           ,
           till
           he
           had
           acquainted
           the
           Constable
           of
           the
           Tower
           with
           it
           ;
           who
           upon
           notice
           thereof
           came
           and
           Examined
           Mac-gar
           about
           what
           he
           had
           to
           say
           of
           the
           business
           ;
           he
           formally
           relates
           the
           Story
           as
           aforesaid
           :
           But
           the
           
             Constable
             of
             the
             Tower
          
           judging
           it
           to
           be
           a
           matter
           of
           too
           great
           importance
           to
           be
           slightly
           canvas'd
           ;
           resolved
           to
           acquaint
           the
           Privy
           Council
           with
           it
           ,
           and
           Mac-gar
           was
           carryed
           before
           them
           to
           be
           Examin'd
           about
           the
           particulars
           —
           He
           there
           gives
           in
           the
           same
           Information
           ,
           and
           obstinately
           persists
           in
           the
           asserting
           of
           the
           truth
           of
           it
           ;
           but
           that
           Honourable
           and
           
             Judicious
             Assembly
          
           ,
           though
           sufficiently
           convinced
           in
           their
           own
           minds
           of
           the
           maliciousness
           of
           this
           Calumny
           ,
           yet
           the
           better
           to
           find
           out
           the
           
           depth
           of
           the
           design
           of
           it
           ,
           Order'd
           the
           said
           Mac-gar
           to
           be
           taken
           into
           a
           Messengers
           hands
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           a
           further
           Examination
           at
           such
           time
           as
           he
           should
           be
           appointed
           again
           to
           be
           brought
           before
           them
           .
        
         
           While
           he
           continued
           thus
           in
           Custody
           ,
           being
           conscious
           to
           himself
           as
           well
           of
           his
           Crime
           ,
           as
           of
           the
           likelyhood
           of
           its
           Discovery
           ,
           and
           the
           disgrace
           that
           thereupon
           would
           fall
           upon
           him
           and
           his
           party
           ;
           he
           contrives
           with
           himself
           how
           to
           acquaint
           his
           Imployers
           with
           his
           condition
           ,
           and
           to
           desire
           their
           further
           direction
           and
           Assistance
           ,
           either
           to
           carry
           on
           the
           design
           ,
           or
           to
           bring
           him
           off
           (
           as
           to
           what
           he
           had
           already
           acted
           )
           impunè
           .
        
         
           To
           this
           purpose
           he
           gets
           leave
           of
           the
           Messenger
           (
           in
           whose
           Custody
           he
           was
           )
           to
           have
           
             Pen
             ,
             Ink
          
           and
           Paper
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           writing
           to
           one
           of
           the
           Secretaries
           of
           State
           some
           things
           that
           he
           had
           in
           his
           
           mind
           about
           the
           present
           business
           ;
           which
           favour
           being
           granted
           him
           ,
           he
           Seals
           up
           a
           Paper
           directed
           to
           one
           of
           the
           Secretaries
           as
           he
           pretended
           ,
           but
           withall
           ,
           at
           the
           same
           time
           had
           written
           a
           Letter
           to
           M
           ris
           Celliers
           the
           
             Popish
             Midwife
          
           ,
           (
           so
           notoriously
           infamous
           for
           her
           contrivances
           and
           actings
           in
           the
           
             Popish
             Plot
          
           )
           acquainting
           her
           with
           his
           Proceedings
           ,
           and
           what
           kind
           of
           success
           he
           had
           met
           with
           ;
           that
           if
           she
           and
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Friends
           that
           ingaged
           him
           in
           the
           design
           ,
           would
           not
           now
           stand
           by
           him
           ,
           the
           Cause
           must
           perish
           and
           he
           too
           .
        
         
           The
           aforesaid
           Letter
           to
           the
           Secretary
           ,
           was
           but
           a
           colour
           to
           make
           way
           for
           the
           pasport
           of
           this
           ;
           so
           having
           gotten
           a
           Messenger
           to
           carry
           the
           former
           (
           which
           was
           allow'd
           him
           )
           he
           slips
           the
           latter
           (
           directed
           to
           M
           ris
           Celliers
           )
           into
           his
           hands
           ,
           expecting
           no
           doubt
           but
           it
           would
           be
           delivered
           ,
           and
           
           to
           have
           a
           certain
           return
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           But
           his
           confidence
           failed
           him
           ,
           for
           the
           wary
           Messenger
           partly
           knowing
           his
           Circumstances
           ,
           and
           knowing
           what
           a
           person
           M
           ris
           Celliers
           (
           to
           whom
           the
           Letter
           was
           directed
           )
           was
           ;
           instead
           of
           carrying
           it
           to
           her
           ,
           convey'd
           it
           to
           White-hall
           to
           be
           perused
           by
           the
           Council
           ,
           who
           upon
           consideration
           of
           the
           particulars
           of
           it
           ,
           perceiving
           the
           Intriegues
           of
           the
           design
           ,
           were
           resolved
           to
           take
           it
           into
           a
           more
           strict
           Examination
           :
           And
           to
           that
           end
           Order'd
           Mac-gar
           (
           at
           a
           time
           appointed
           )
           again
           to
           be
           brought
           before
           them
           ;
           when
           at
           first
           taking
           no
           notice
           to
           him
           of
           the
           surprized
           Letter
           ,
           they
           began
           to
           Interrogate
           him
           about
           the
           points
           of
           his
           former
           Evidence
           ,
           which
           he
           still
           stiffely
           stood
           to
           the
           Justification
           of
           ,
           so
           far
           as
           Lying
           and
           Dissimulation
           would
           help
           him
           ,
           but
           at
           last
           perceiving
           his
           Incorrigible
           Obstinacy
           ,
           they
           
           produced
           the
           aforesaid
           Letter
           against
           him
           ,
           the
           Autography
           of
           which
           he
           had
           not
           then
           Confidence
           enough
           to
           deny
           ,
           but
           by
           the
           irresistible
           Convictions
           of
           his
           now
           over-powered
           Conscience
           was
           forced
           to
           Confess
           both
           the
           Writing
           of
           that
           ,
           and
           (
           upon
           Questions
           put
           to
           him
           )
           to
           Discover
           the
           whole
           Design
           ;
           upon
           what
           account
           it
           was
           contriv'd
           ,
           and
           who
           were
           the
           Contrivers
           of
           it
           ;
           denying
           all
           his
           former
           Evidence
           ,
           as
           false
           and
           Forged
           ,
           without
           any
           grounds
           of
           truth
           .
        
         
           So
           it
           pleased
           the
           Divine
           goodness
           ,
           alwayes
           propitious
           to
           the
           Innocent
           ,
           to
           detect
           this
           new
           upstart
           Villany
           ;
           which
           if
           it
           could
           have
           met
           with
           any
           hopeful
           Success
           ,
           must
           have
           been
           both
           a
           second
           fate
           to
           the
           Reputation
           of
           that
           Martyr'd
           worthy
           whom
           they
           themselves
           had
           Murther'd
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           repute
           of
           those
           worthy
           and
           honest
           Gentlemen
           his
           Brothers
           ;
           
           whose
           pious
           Zeal
           in
           Vindicating
           his
           Memory
           ,
           and
           pacifying
           the
           cryes
           of
           his
           Blood
           ,
           by
           a
           just
           Avenging
           it
           upon
           the
           Heads
           of
           his
           Murtherers
           ,
           is
           too
           well
           known
           to
           be
           in
           any
           wise
           contradicted
           by
           such
           sly
           and
           malitious
           Artifices
           of
           a
           plotting
           Faction
           .
        
         
           Thus
           we
           have
           given
           you
           some
           short
           (
           yet
           we
           hope
           ,
           not
           unsatisfactory
           )
           accounts
           of
           the
           most
           imitable
           Life
           and
           Tragical
           Death
           of
           this
           Excellent
           person
           ;
           taken
           off
           by
           the
           hands
           of
           his
           bloody
           Enemies
           in
           the
           six
           and
           fiftieth
           Year
           of
           his
           Age
           ,
           and
           in
           a
           time
           of
           our
           greatest
           expectations
           from
           him
           :
           Gods
           Providence
           Suffer'd
           it
           ,
           though
           wicked
           men
           contrived
           it
           ,
           and
           our
           sins
           deserved
           it
           ,
           that
           he
           must
           then
           dye
           :
           There
           was
           such
           a
           sinful
           necessity
           for
           it
           ,
           as
           was
           once
           pronounced
           by
           Caiaphas
           against
           the
           Life
           of
           our
           Redeemer
           ;
           he
           was
           too
           much
           a
           Friend
           to
           Religion
           
           and
           goodness
           ,
           too
           much
           an
           Enemy
           to
           Irreligious
           men
           and
           their
           Practices
           ,
           to
           be
           suffered
           to
           live
           by
           such
           men
           :
           had
           he
           been
           less
           good
           ,
           less
           useful
           ,
           less
           just
           ,
           he
           might
           have
           lived
           unto
           this
           day
           .
           But
           had
           he
           lived
           (
           they
           thought
           )
           their
           cause
           must
           have
           dyed
           ,
           their
           Treasons
           would
           not
           have
           prosper'd
           ;
           they
           knew
           he
           was
           firm
           and
           fixed
           to
           his
           duty
           ;
           
             They
             could
             not
             scare
             him
             from
             it
             ,
             they
             could
             not
             Bribe
             him
             ,
             but
             they
             could
             Kill
             him
             .
             They
             could
             not
             have
             thought
             of
             a
             more
             compendious
             way
             than
             this
             .
          
           
        
         
           We
           have
           related
           to
           you
           ,
           the
           strange
           manner
           of
           the
           Discovery
           of
           this
           Murther
           ,
           the
           Tryals
           of
           the
           Murtherers
           ,
           their
           Execution
           and
           manner
           of
           their
           Dying
           ;
           and
           lastly
           ,
           the
           happy
           discovery
           of
           their
           Sham-designes
           ,
           to
           turn
           off
           the
           Murther
           from
           themselves
           upon
           his
           Friends
           .
           We
           shall
           here
           conclude
           our
           Memoirs
           ;
           only
           by
           way
           of
           Postscript
           ,
           with
           which
           
           we
           shall
           entertain
           you
           ,
           instead
           of
           Musick
           ,
           upon
           the
           close
           of
           this
           Tragedy
           ,
           with
           some
           strains
           of
           excellent
           Poetry
           ,
           composed
           by
           two
           of
           the
           greatest
           Wits
           of
           this
           Age
           (
           as
           their
           writings
           testifie
           )
           upon
           this
           Subject
           ;
           the
           one
           a
           Pindarique
           Stanza
           ,
           Selected
           out
           of
           an
           ingenious
           Poem
           (
           by
           an
           unknown
           hand
           )
           called
           Bacchanalia
           ,
           or
           the
           
             drunken
             Club
          
           ,
           Printed
           in
           the
           Year
           1680.
           the
           other
           a
           Poem
           calculated
           for
           the
           very
           Purpose
           ,
           upon
           the
           issuing
           out
           of
           his
           Majesties
           Proclamation
           against
           the
           Murtherers
           ,
           by
           that
           late
           Prodigie
           of
           Wit
           and
           Fancy
           ,
           Dr.
           
             Robert
             Wild
          
           :
           We
           recommend
           and
           leave
           them
           to
           the
           Readers
           Judgment
           ;
           but
           as
           to
           our
           own
           present
           undertaking
           ,
           we
           shall
           here
           conclude
           with
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           Bacchanalia
           ,
           OR
           THE
           DRUNKEN
           CLUB
           .
        
         
           Stanza
           11.
           
        
         
           
             ARe
             these
             the
             Popes
             Grand
             Tools
             ?
          
           
             Worshipful
             Noddies
             !
             who
             but
             blundering
             Fools
          
           
             Would
             ever
             have
             forgot
          
           
             To
             burn
             those
             Letters
             that
             reveal'd
             their
             Plot
             ?
          
           
             Or
             in
             an
             Alehouse
             told
             that
             
             Godfrey's
             dead
             ,
          
           
             Three
             dayes
             before
             he
             was
             discovered
             ;
          
           
           
             Leaving
             the
             silly
             world
             to
             call
             to
             mind
          
           
             That
             common
             Logick
             ,
             
               They
               that
               hide
               ,
               can
               find
               ?
            
          
           
             But
             see
             their
             Master
             Policy
          
           
             On
             Primrose-Hill
             ,
          
           
             Where
             their
             great
             Enemy
          
           
             Like
             Saul
             upon
             Mount
             Gilboa
             doth
             〈◊〉
             ,
          
           
             Fal'n
             on
             his
             Sword
             ,
             as
             he
             himself
             〈◊〉
             .
          
           
             But
             oh
             the
             Infelicity
             !
             〈◊〉
             ,
          
           
             That
             blood
             was
             fresh
             and
             gusht
             〈◊〉
             the
          
           
             This
             so
             congeal'd
             that
             not
             one
             spot
             was
             sound
             ,
          
           
             No
             not
             upon
             his
             Sword
             ,
             as
             if
             it
             wou'd
          
           
             Tell
             us
             't
             was
             guiltless
             of
             its
             Masters
             blood
             ;
          
           
             Some
             Carkasses
             by
             bleeding
             do
             declare
             ,
          
           
             This
             by
             not
             bleeding
             ,
             shew'd
             the
             Murtherer
             .
          
        
         
           
             But
             to
             his
             broken
             Neck
             I
             pray
          
           
             What
             can
             our
             Politicians
             say
             ?
          
           
             He
             hangd
             ,
             then
             Stab'd
             himself
             ,
             for
             a
             sure
             way
             ;
          
           
             Or
             first
             he
             Stab'd
             himself
             ,
             then
             wrung
             about
          
           
             His
             head
             for
             madness
             that
             advis'd
             him
             to
             't
             ;
          
           
             Well
             Primrose
             ,
             may
             our
             
             Godfrey's
             Name
             on
             thee
          
           
             (
             Like
             Hyacinth
             )
             inscribed
             bee
             :
          
           
           
             On
             Thee
             his
             memory
             shall
             flourish
             still
          
           
             (
             Sweet
             as
             thy
             flower
             ,
             and
             lasting
             as
             thy
             Hill.
             )
          
           
             Whil'st
             blushing
             Somerset
             to
             her
          
           
             Eternal
             Shame
             shall
             this
             Inscription
             bear
             ,
          
           
             The
             Devil
             's
             an
             Asse
             ,
             for
             Jesuits
             on
             this
             spot
          
           
             Broke
             both
             the
             Neck
             of
             Godfrey
             and
             their
             Plot.
             
          
        
      
       
         
         
           THE
           PROCLAMATION
           Promoted
           ,
           OR
           AN
           HUE-and-CRY
           and
           Inquisition
           AFTER
           TREASON
           and
           BLOOD
           ;
           UPON
           The
           Inhumane
           and
           horrid
           Murder
           of
           that
           Noble
           Knight
           ,
           Impartial
           Justice
           of
           Peace
           ,
           and
           Zealous
           PROTESTANT
           ,
           Sir
           
             EDMONDBURY
             GODFREY
          
           of
           WESTMINISTER
           .
        
         
           An
           Hasty
           POEM
           .
        
         
           
             O
             Murder
             !
             Murder
             !
             let
             this
             Shriek
             fly
             round
             ,
          
           
             Till
             Hills
             and
             Dales
             ,
             and
             Rocks
             and
             Shores
             rebound
             .
          
           
           
             Send
             it
             to
             Heav'n
             and
             Hell
             ;
             for
             both
             will
             be
          
           
             Astonish'd
             and
             concern'd
             as
             much
             as
             we
             .
          
           
             First
             send
             to
             Endor
             where
             of
             old
             did
             dwell
          
           
             An
             Hagg
             ,
             could
             Fates
             of
             Kings
             and
             Kingdoms
             tell
             .
          
           
             If
             that
             cannot
             be
             found
             ,
             to
             Ekron
             go
             ,
          
           
             To
             
             Pluto's
             Oracle
             and
             Hell
             below
             .
          
           
             There
             serve
             this
             Hue
             and
             Cry
             ,
             for
             there
             't
             was
             hatch'd
             ,
          
           
             (
             Except
             the
             Priests
             their
             Gods
             have
             over-match'd
             .
             )
          
           
             Methinks
             Belzebub
             ,
             if
             he
             be
             outdone
          
           
             In
             his
             Grand
             Mysteries
             ,
             and
             Rome
             needs
             none
          
           
             Of
             his
             Black
             Arts
             ,
             but
             can
             Out-Devil
             Hell
             ,
          
           
             His
             Envy
             and
             Revenge
             this
             Plot
             should
             tell
             :
          
           
             And
             by
             disclosing
             in
             his
             own
             defence
             ,
          
           
             Not
             only
             Vindicate
             his
             Innocence
             ;
          
           
             But
             hasten
             their
             destruction
             ,
             and
             prevent
          
           
             Loss
             of
             his
             Trade
             ,
             (
             the
             Jesuites
             intent
             )
          
           
             Unless
             he
             fears
             them
             ,
             as
             indeed
             he
             may
             ;
          
           
             When
             once
             in
             Hell
             ,
             none
             shall
             Command
             but
             they
             .
          
           
             But
             if
             this
             Tragedy
             be
             all
             his
             own
             ,
          
           
             And
             Roman
             Actors
             (
             taught
             by
             him
             )
             have
             shown
          
           
             How
             they
             can
             play
             all
             parts
             he
             can
             devise
             ;
          
           
             Female
             or
             Male
             ,
             with
             or
             without
             disguise
             :
          
           
           
             And
             need
             no
             Cacodoemons
             prompting
             Art
          
           
             Or
             Whisper
             ,
             but
             can
             fill
             up
             any
             part
             ;
          
           
             Fast
             ,
             Pray
             and
             Weep
             ,
             Swear
             and
             for
             swear
             ,
             decoy
             ,
          
           
             Trappan
             ,
             Kiss
             ,
             Flatter
             ,
             Smile
             ,
             and
             so
             Destroy
             ,
          
           
             Stab
             ,
             Pistoll
             ,
             Poison
             Kings
             ,
             Unking
             ,
             Dethrone
             ,
          
           
             Blow
             up
             or
             down
             ,
             Save
             ,
             Damn
             ,
             make
             all
             their
             own
             .
          
           
             Knows
             not
             he
             then
             ,
             tho'
             founder
             of
             the
             Stage
             ,
          
           
             The
             Laws
             of
             Theatres
             in
             every
             Age
             ?
          
           
             That
             th'
             Actors
             ,
             not
             the
             Author
             of
             the
             Play
             ,
          
           
             Do
             challenge
             the
             Rewards
             of
             the
             first
             day
             ?
          
           
             Make
             then
             their
             Names
             renown'd
             ,
             and
             come
             to
             hide
          
           
             Such
             Children
             of
             thy
             Revels
             and
             thy
             Pride
             ;
          
           
             Send
             to
             their
             Father
             ,
             and
             thy
             eldest
             Son
          
           
             That
             Lucifer
             of
             Rome
             ,
             what
             feats
             they
             've
             done
             :
          
           
             That
             he
             may
             make
             their
             names
             be
             understood
             ,
          
           
             Written
             in
             Kalenders
             of
             Martyrs
             Blood.
             
          
        
         
           
             But
             if
             the
             Fiends
             below
             be
             Deaf
             and
             Dumb
             ,
          
           
             And
             this
             conjuring
             cannot
             overcome
             ,
          
           
             They
             and
             their
             Imps
             be
             damn'd
             together
             :
             I
          
           
             To
             Gods
             on
             Earth
             will
             send
             my
             Hue
             and
             Cry.
          
           
             Arise
             Just
             Charles
             Three
             Kingdoms
             Soul
             and
             mine
             ,
          
           
             Great
             James
             thy
             Grandfather
             could
             wel
             divine
             ;
          
           
           
             And
             without
             spell
             the
             bloody
             Riddle
             Spell
             ,
          
           
             Writ
             by
             like
             Secretaries
             of
             Rome
             and
             Hell.
          
           
             And
             if
             Thy
             Proclamation
             cannot
             do
             ,
          
           
             We
             pray
             Gods
             Spirit
             may
             inspire
             Thee
             too
             .
          
           
             If
             thy
             Prophetick
             Usher
             did
             not
             erre
             ,
          
           
             The
             Mass
             would
             enter
             by
             a
             Massacre
             .
          
           
             The
             Wounds
             Thy
             Godfry
             found
             were
             meant
             for
             Thee
             ,
          
           
             And
             thou
             ly'st
             Murder'd
             in
             Effigie
             .
          
           
             In
             Gods
             ,
             Kings
             ,
             Kingdoms
             Cause
             this
             Knight
             was
             slain
             :
          
           
             Let
             him
             a
             Noble
             Monument
             obtain
             ,
          
           
             Erected
             in
             your
             Westminsters
             great
             Hall
             ,
          
           
             That
             Courts
             of
             Justice
             may
             lament
             his
             Fall
          
           
             And
             may
             (
             when
             any
             Papist
             cometh
             near
             )
          
           
             His
             Marble
             Statue
             yield
             a
             bloudy
             tear
             .
          
           
             Yet
             let
             him
             not
             be
             buried
             ,
             let
             him
             lie
             ,
          
           
             The
             fairest
             Image
             to
             draw
             Justice
             by
             .
          
           
             There
             needs
             no
             Balm
             or
             Spices
             to
             preserve
          
           
             The
             Corps
             from
             Stench
             ,
             his
             innocence
             will
             serve
             .
          
        
         
           
             Ye
             Lords
             and
             Commons
             joyn
             your
             speedy
             Votes
             :
          
           
             A
             Pack
             of
             Bloud-Hounds
             threaten
             all
             your
             Throats
             .
          
           
             And
             if
             their
             Treason
             be
             not
             understood
             ,
          
           
             Expect
             to
             be
             dissolv'd
             in
             your
             own
             Blood.
          
           
             O
             Vote
             that
             every
             Papist
             (
             high
             and
             low
             )
          
           
             To
             martyr'd
             Godfreys
             Corps
             in
             person
             go
             ;
          
           
           
             And
             laying
             hand
             upon
             his
             wounded
             Brest
             ,
          
           
             By
             Oath
             and
             Curse
             his
             ignorance
             protest
             .
          
           
             But
             oh
             the
             Atheism
             of
             that
             Monstrous
             Crew
             ,
          
           
             Whose
             Holy
             Father
             can
             all
             Bonds
             undo
             :
          
           
             Whose
             Breath
             can
             put
             away
             the
             heavi'st
             Oath
             ;
          
           
             Who
             fears
             no
             Heaven
             nor
             Hell
             ,
             but
             laughs
             at
             both
             .
          
           
             Therefore
             a
             safer
             Vote
             my
             Muse
             suggests
             ,
          
           
             For
             Priests
             and
             Jesuites
             can
             swallow
             Tests
          
           
             As
             
               Hocus
               Pocus
            
             doth
             his
             Rope
             or
             Knife
             ,
          
           
             And
             cheats
             the
             gaping
             Farmer
             and
             his
             Wife
             .
          
           
             Oh
             Vote
             each
             Sign-post
             shall
             a
             Gibbet
             be
             ,
          
           
             And
             hang
             a
             Traytor
             upon
             every
             Tree
             .
          
           
             Yet
             we
             'le
             find
             Wood
             enough
             for
             Bone-fire
             piles
             ,
          
           
             T'
             inlighten
             and
             inflame
             our
             Brittish
             Isles
          
           
             Upon
             th'
             approaching
             fifth
             November
             night
             ,
          
           
             And
             make
             Incendiaries
             curse
             the
             light
             .
          
           
             November
             Fires
             Septembers
             may
             reveal
             ,
          
           
             One
             Burn
             (
             we
             say
             )
             another
             Burn
             will
             heal
             .
          
           
             Lastly
             ,
             And
             surely
             ,
             let
             this
             Hue
             and
             Cry
          
           
             Reach
             Heaven
             ,
             where
             every
             Star
             looks
             like
             an
             Eye
             :
          
           
             To
             that
             High
             Court
             of
             Parliament
             above
             ,
          
           
             Whose
             Laws
             are
             mixt
             with
             Justice
             and
             with
             Love
             ;
          
           
           
             Whither
             Just
             
             Godfrey's
             Soul
             's
             already
             come
             ,
          
           
             And
             hath
             receiv'd
             the
             Crown
             of
             Martyrdome
             ;
          
           
             Where
             Murder'd
             Kings
             and
             slaughter'd
             Saints
             do
             cry
             ,
          
           
             Their
             Blood
             may
             never
             unrevenged
             lie
             ,
          
           
             Ye
             Saints
             and
             Angels
             ,
             hath
             that
             Scarlet
             Whore
             ,
          
           
             Whose
             Priests
             and
             Brats
             before
             your
             shrines
             adore
             ,
          
           
             And
             in
             their
             Massacres
             your
             Aid
             implore
             ;
          
           
             Staining
             your
             Altars
             with
             the
             precious
             Gore
             .
          
           
             Pour
             down
             your
             Vials
             on
             their
             Cursed
             heads
             ,
          
           
             And
             in
             Eternal
             flames
             prepare
             their
             Beds
             .
          
           
             And
             Thou
             Judge
             Jesus
             Hang'd
             and
             Murder'd
             too
             ,
          
           
             By
             Power
             of
             Rome
             and
             Malice
             of
             the
             Jew
             ,
          
           
             In
             
             Godfrey's
             Wounds
             Thine
             own
             do
             bleed
             anew
             .
          
           
             Oh
             Rend
             Thy
             Heavens
             !
             Come
             Lord
             and
             take
             Thy
             Throne
             ,
          
           
             Revenge
             Thy
             Martyrs
             Murder
             and
             Thine
             own
             .
          
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           ADVERTISEMENT
           .
        
         
           THere
           is
           now
           Published
           a
           Book
           ,
           Intituled
           ,
           
             The
             Plot
             in
             a
             Dream
             ,
             or
             the
             Discoverer
             in
             Masquerade
          
           ;
           fully
           and
           truly
           relating
           the
           History
           of
           the
           present
           
             Popish
             Plot
          
           ,
           from
           its
           Original
           until
           this
           time
           ;
           as
           namely
           ,
           the
           first
           Contrivement
           of
           it
           beyond
           the
           Seas
           :
           The
           Ways
           and
           Methods
           there
           resolved
           upon
           for
           the
           effecting
           of
           it
           :
           The
           manner
           of
           its
           first
           Discovery
           :
           The
           Description
           of
           the
           
             Papists
             Grand
             Consult
          
           ,
           and
           proceedings
           upon
           it
           :
           Sir
           
             Edmonbury
             Godfrey's
          
           Murther
           related
           :
           The
           several
           Trials
           and
           Executions
           of
           
             Staly
             ,
             Coleman
          
           ,
           the
           Jesuits
           that
           were
           employed
           to
           kill
           the
           King
           :
           
           Reading's
           Subornation
           and
           Punishment
           :
           The
           Story
           of
           the
           Meal-Tub-Plot
           ,
           and
           other
           Sham-Plots
           since
           :
           The
           Proceedings
           against
           the
           Lords
           in
           the
           Tower
           ,
           with
           the
           Trial
           and
           Execution
           of
           the
           
             Lord
             Stafford
          
           :
           An
           account
           of
           the
           last
           Parliament
           held
           at
           Oxford
           ,
           with
           the
           Proceedings
           against
           Fitz-Harris
           ,
           &c.
           
           Intermixt
           
           with
           Verses
           and
           variety
           of
           Fancies
           ;
           with
           several
           Cuts
           to
           illustrate
           the
           Design
           ;
           and
           the
           whole
           digested
           into
           Chapters
           ,
           with
           Contents
           for
           the
           better
           Satisfaction
           of
           the
           Reader
           .
           By
           Philopatris
           .
           Price
           bound
           1
           
             s.
             6
             d.
          
           
        
         
           The
           Life
           and
           Death
           of
           Captain
           
             William
             Bedloe
          
           ,
           one
           of
           the
           Chief
           Discoverers
           of
           the
           horrid
           Popish
           Plot
           ;
           wherein
           all
           his
           more
           Eminent
           Cheats
           ,
           and
           whatever
           is
           Remarkable
           of
           him
           ,
           both
           Good
           and
           Bad
           ,
           is
           Impartially
           discovered
           .
           8
           
           o.
           Price
           bound
           1
           s.
           
        
         
           Both
           these
           are
           sold
           by
           
             John
             Hancock
          
           ,
           and
           
             Enoch
             Prosser
          
           ,
           Booksellers
           ,
           at
           their
           Shops
           at
           the
           
             Three
             Bibles
          
           at
           the
           end
           of
           
             Popes-Head
             Alley
          
           over
           against
           the
           
             Royal
             Exchange
          
           ,
           and
           at
           the
           Rose
           and
           Crown
           in
           
             Sweetings
             Alley
          
           ,
           at
           the
           East
           end
           of
           the
           
             Royal
             Exchange
          
           in
           Cornhil
           .
           1681.
           
        
         
      
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A63832-e920
           
             Sed
             genus
             &
             provaos
             &
             quae
             non
             fecimus
             ipsi
             .
             Vix
             ea
             nostra
             voco
             .
             Ovid.
             
          
           
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ;
             Plutarchus
             lib.
             cont
             .
             Nobilitatem
             .
          
           
             Sr.
             Edm.
             Godfrey's
             Funeral
             Sermon
             ,
             Page
             14.
             
          
           
             Quis
             autem
             vir
             bonus
             &
             erectus
             ad
             honesta
             ,
             non
             est
             laboris
             appetens
             justi
             ,
             &
             ad
             officia
             cum
             periculo
             promptus
             ?
             Cui
             non
             industrioso
             otium
             poena
             est
             ?
             Senec.
             lib.
             de
             Providentia
             .
          
           
             *
             Quis
             est
             istorum
             qui
             non
             malit
             Rempub
             .
             turbari
             quam
             comam
             suam
             ,
             qui
             non
             solicitior
             sit
             de
             capitis
             sui
             decore
             quam
             de
             salute
             ,
             qui
             non
             comptior
             esse
             malit
             quam
             honestior
             ?
             Senec.
             de
             Provid
             .
             Cap.
             12.
             
          
           
             Sir
             Edm.
             Godfrey's
             Funeral
             Sermon
             .
          
           
             Howels
             Treatise
             of
             Embassadors
             .
          
           
             Mat.
             5.
             9.
             
          
           
             Funeral
             Sermon
             pag.
             12
             ,
             13.
             
          
           
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             vita
             Arhan
             .
          
           
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Plato
             in
             Lachete
             .
          
           
             Funeral
             Sermon
             pag.
             16.
             
          
           
             Flectere
             si
             uequerunt
             superos
             Acheronta
             movebunt
             .
          
           
             Vide
             Narrative
             
               of
               the
               Tryals
               of
            
             Green
             ,
             Berry
             and
             Hill.
             
          
           
             Murus
             hic
             ●heneus
             esto
             —
             Nil
             conscire
             sibi
             .
             Horat.
             
          
           
             Vide
             Mr.
             Prances
             Narrative
             ,
             pag.
             20
             ,
             21.
             
          
           
             Mr.
             Prances
             Narrat
             .
             pag.
             24.
             
          
           
             ☜
             Note
             
          
           
             Note
             the
             sincerity
             of
             Popish
             principles
             ,
             where
             such
             Equivocations
             are
             allowed
             of
             to
             justify
             the
             greatest
             Villanies
             .
          
           
             See
             Narrative
             of
             the
             Trials
             .
          
           
             Funeral
             Sermon
             ,
             p.
             28.