An Account of the tryal and conviction of Sir John Friend for high-treason in conspiring the death of His Most Sacred Majesty, King William, and the subvertion of the government, &c. : at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily on Monday the 23d of this instant March, 1696, before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Holt, the Lord Chief Justice Treby, &c. 1696 Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2006-06 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A26127 Wing A412 ESTC R8193 12710662 ocm 12710662 66091 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . 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Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. 2006-01 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-01 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-02 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2006-02 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-04 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion AN ACCOUNT OF THE Tryal and Conviction OF Sir John Friend , FOR HIGH-TREASON In Conspiring the DEATH of His Most Sacred Majesty , King WILLIAM , and the Subvertion of the Government . &c. At the Sessions-House , in the Old-Baily : On Monday , the 23d . of this Instant March , 1696. Before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Holt , the Lord Chief Justice Treby , &c. NEver was Conspiracy , more happily , and more fully discovered than the late horrid Design for the barbarous Assassination of His Majesties Person , the Invasion of the Kingdom , and Subversion of the Government , and consequently the Protestant Religion ; when beside the Number , and withal the Credit of the Witnesses , we have the publick Confession of the Dying Criminals themselves , ex ore suo , making their own voluntary self Condemnation ; and ever justifying both their Accusers , and their own Execution ; as their own Papers , delivered to the Hands of the Sheriff ; and since Publish'd by Authority suffitiently testifie . But to Ballance the Case between the three Unfortunate Romish Zealots , viz. Charnock , King , and Keys , , that have already received Justice , and the present Criminal Sir John Friend , now brought to the Bar of Justice , in order to receiveing it , we have this unhappy Difference between them ; That , of the Two , this unfortunate Gentleman lies under ( if possible ) the much more hainous , and less pittied Circumstances ; For though there can be no Apology for Guilt so Barbarous on either side , yet certainly it must be an infinite Aggravation of the Crime in Sir John Friend , professing himself a Member of the Protestant Religion ; whereas the other Three Convicts were all Papists , and consequently were mislead by some Impulse of Blind Zeal , a Bigotted Superstition that might animate this Conspiracy , in favour both of their own Altars , and their darling Champion of them the late K. J — 's : But Sir John Friend , under his contrary Capacity , when Embark'd in the same Black Cause , besides the Blot in their Scutcheon has this additional Stain in his , viz. Not only of such perfidious ●●d shameful Treason against his King and Country , but even against himself ; for no Protestant can list under such a Bloody Banner , but in realiiy must be an Actor in his own , as well as his Countries Ruin : And certainly it must be no common Infatuation that could misguide and ensnare a Man into so horrid and likewise so stupid a Confederacy , where the Phrenzy of Rebellion edges and arms the drawn Sword even against our own Throats . And if there can be Degrees of the most Capital Sins , it lies a a little more heavy upon this unfortunate Offendor , who with that Mass of Wealth , and those Smiles of Fortune , should nevertheless debase himself to the engaging in so wicked a Cause , when Profligate Lives and Desperate Fortunes ( one would think ) should only be tempted to Fish in Troubled Waters . It has been Remarkt , that never were more Generous , and those Repeated , Tenders of Mercy offered , than to Sir John Friend , from the King 's own Mouth , upon his Examination before the Councel ; but his Obstinacy , and hardened Denial of his Offence , and some other ill Ascendants over made him , reject the Royal Clemency , till too late to be recalled , which has brought him to this deplorabel Scene . Being brought upon his Tryal , on Monday the 23d . of this Instant March , after Ten in the Morning , which continued till Two in the Afternoon . The greatest Stress of the Testimony against him , besides his General Assistance in the Conspiracy , was his Acceptance of a Collonels Commission for Raising a Regiment of Horse ; it being proved by Capt. Porter and Mr. Blair , that he had chosen all his Captains , ( who were all mentioned ) and had met them at several Taverns and elsewhere in this City , and had Paid several Sums of Mony for carrying on the cause : The Evidence was Full and Plain against him ; besides one of hi● own Letters was produced to confirm their Testimoy : He endeavoured to invalidate the credit of the Witnesses , as being Papists , but that was Over-ruled . In short after a long Tryal and Full Hearing the Jury went out , and soon Returning , brought him in Guilty . The Court then Rising , and Adjourning till to Morrow , at which time we expect to hear Sentence Pronounced . London , Printed for Edward Steel , in the Strand , 1696