Innocency and Truth Vindicated. 
 An Account of Whet Hath Bsen, or 
 is Ready to be Deposed, to Prove 
 the Most 'Treacherous and Cruel 
 Murder of the Right Honourable 
 Arthur, Late Earl of Essex. 
 
 STAUI\ AWIMCA
 
 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 AT LOS ANGELES
 
 Innocency and Truth Vindicated, 
 
 A C C O U N T 
 
 Of what hath been., or is ready to 
 be depofed., to prove the 
 
 flpoft 1Creacl)erottS ano Cruel 0uttset 
 
 Of the Right Honourable 
 
 ARTHUR, late Earl of Ess EX. 
 
 With Reflections upon the Evidence, and the 
 moft material Obje&ions againft this Murder, 
 difcufs'd and anfwered. 
 
 In a Conference Between three Gentlemen concerning 
 the prefent Inquiry into the Death of that 
 
 Noble Lord and true Patriot. 
 
 Wbofo fieddeth Man's Blood, by Man {hatt h'x Wood bffjed^G&L. 9. 6. 
 i For Blood it defileth the Land, and the Land cannot be clean fed 
 
 of the Blood that is jhed therein, but by the Blood of him that 
 
 fiedit. Numb. 35.33. 
 
 Magna eft Veritas & prevalebit. 
 
 Printed in the Year MDC LXXXIX.
 
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 To t' e Right Honourable the L o R D s of the ( late) 
 COMMITTEE, appointed to examine into the Death 
 of that Noble LORD and True PATRIOT, 
 late EARL of ESSEX. 
 
 My L O R D S, 
 
 COuld I have manag"d the Evidence in 
 Proof, of the Murder of this Honourable 
 Lord, with that ftrength and tfficicy 
 they are capable of, nothing would more plainly 
 have appeared to the impartial Reader, than thif 
 (_?o me ) great Truth, ( viz. ) That the Right 
 Honourable Arthur,/<ztt Earl of Effex,was moft 
 Treacheroufly and Barbaroufljt Murdered. Bt 
 fuch as it is, I do, with all Humility, caft it at 
 your Lordjhips Feet, to wlwfe great Judgments I 
 {ball, with intire resignation, fubmit. 
 
 My Lords, Having long fytown, and been late- 
 iy much converfant with Mr. Braddon, / have 
 had often Opportunities of difcourjing almoft every 
 Witnefs in this Cafe examined ; and fuch as I my 
 felf have not fpo^t with, 1 have from him been in- 
 formed what fuch have declared : And though the 
 Account I have here given of what thefe have re- 
 lated, whichhave been examined before your Lord- 
 jhips, be more large and particular than their Dt- 
 pojttions, becaufe I have had repeated Opportu- 
 nities oj hearing thdr Relations^ yet, if them- 
 l felves fay true, nothing in thefe Papers is contra- 
 [ diftory to or incovfifttnt with what they havt dt- 
 f pofed before your Lordjhips. 
 
 J My Lords, In the Account at large I have frjt 
 * flated, the Cafe, as to the pretended Self-Mur- 
 der, as it was and is endeavoured to be proved 
 by thofe immediately attending on my Lord j and 
 then I have divided the Proofs for this Murdir 
 into three General Heads, as they have relation to 
 Time; Whether, 
 
 Firft, Before the Day of my Lord's Death. 
 Secondly, The Day of his Death. 
 Thirdly, Subfequent to tht Day of bis Death. 
 
 And after every Proof, I bdve raifed all fuch 
 Objections I could in Converfation ever meet with, 
 or my felf could objeft, which carried the leaft 
 colour of Argument againft fuch Evidence ; and 
 the Solutions, with all humility, are fubmitted to 
 ywtr Lordflitys Cenfures. 
 
 ' In the Abftraft) I have obfirved this Order . 
 Firft, 1 have flated the Cafe, as reprefented and 
 fworn by thofe that would prove the Self-Murder j 
 and then detected the Faljity of every Part of 
 thofe Relations. After which I have briefly con- 
 fidered the other Proojs in the fame Order of Tim 
 as the Difcourfe at large. 
 
 My Lords, Several things here mentioned have 
 not as yet been befors your Lordftips, fome of 
 thefe Relations having not been fyown to Mr. 
 Braddon before your Lordfbips Committee woe 
 difftlved : But theft after-Teftimonies, and fome 
 other things not here ta^en notice of, will be 
 brought before your Lordjhips, as foon as your 
 Lordships fhall thinly ft to move that thofe Dt- 
 pofitions and Examinations now fealed up, may 
 be tafyn oat of the Houfe by your Lord(hips, and 
 to thofe added fuch other Teftimonies as have been 
 ta(en before fever al Juftices, (fince the Report 
 made) or are ready to bt tafyn -, and then, that,- 
 *t well fuch as are now fealed up, as thofe 
 ethers which havt been, or (hall be depofed, may 
 be reported by your Lwdfhips, in fuch Method, 
 A 2 <u
 
 at to your Lor'djJjlps great Wtfdom lhall feem 
 moftmeet. After which I doubt not but all your 
 Lordfhips, and the whole World, will be convin- 
 ced of that Truth which the Intereft of fo many 
 have induftrioufly endeavoured to flifi : But 
 there is no Power of Earth, and Hell, when 
 conjoined, can make that Thing never to 
 have been, which was. And therefore if my 
 Lord was treacheroufly and barbaroujly murdered, 
 no laterejl or Strength what-ever can maf^e him a 
 Self-murderer. Truth may be deftroyed in its 
 Credit, but never in its Being ; and the Meafures 
 that have been taken to discredit the Proof of this 
 Murder, have been Efficiently detected as falfe, 
 which hath not a little increafed the Credibility of 
 that which thofe Counter-Evidences would have 
 rendered incredible and falfe. 
 
 My Lords, No two Truths in Nature -are in- 
 'confiftent ; for then a Thing would be, and not be, 
 af thf fame time: whnefore when Men would 
 fuhvert the belief of a Truth, they do raife fomi 
 Falfoood which flandsin oppo/ition to fuch Truth $ 
 but if once this Fatjhood appears in its true Colour^ 
 then doth it give ftronger credit to that Tiuthy 
 which before it was dejigned to prejudice. 
 
 My Lords, every Man's Defence virtually con- 
 tludes. If my Defence be falfe, my Charge is 
 true. This Conclusion the Law ma^es in all 
 Civil Aftions, and it's according to the Rea- 
 fon of the Thing: For all Men prefume that 
 every Man accufed, will ma^e ufe oj the heft 
 Arguments (_efpecially in Matters of Faff} he 
 can for his Defence -, and if thofe appear falfe, 
 he falls under a Self-Condemnation. My Lords, 
 fho this Diffturfe is printed, it"s not published, 
 
 nor above 200 printed, as it ready to be proved , 
 neither will one of thefe be communicated to 
 any, if your Lordjhips (hall fo order if, far alt 
 are fypt till Mr. Braddon receives your Lord- 
 {hips Commands as to their difpofal. My Lords, 
 I could wifh I had not been fo large in this 
 Difcourfe, feeing your Lordfoips whole time is fo 
 ingrafted by the Public^, that I fear the State 
 can fcarce allow your Lordfhips any hours of 
 pemfal. My Lords, tho I carft hut humbly 
 befeeeh your Lordjbips Pardon for this Prefump- 
 tion, yet 1 could not, without being guilty of 
 the greatest Injuftice, any otherwife dedicate thx 
 Difcourfe, feeing what hath been already difco- 
 vered, is chiefly owing to your Lordships un- 
 wearied Diligence in thofe many Committees, in 
 which your Lwdfyips have fo often fat in fe arch 
 oj a Truth, which the Impenitency of fome, and 
 the induftrious Intereft of others have ftrongly 
 oppofed. But maugre all Oponents, the matter 
 is (as I do humbly conceive^) fo far detected, 
 as Circumftantial Evidence is ( almofl ~) capa- 
 ble of; and thofe that will not be convinced of 
 the Truth of a Murder, unlefs po/itive ly attested, 
 demand fuch Proof jor their Conviction as no 
 Law requires. Now that the God of Wifdom, 
 Righteoufnefs and Truth, may dire ft and profper 
 your Lordjhips in this, and all other Vr' 
 kings, is the Humble Prayer of, 
 
 My Lords, 
 
 T:)ur Lordfhips moft Humbit 
 and Obedient Servant, 
 
 P. V.
 
 The CONTENTS. 
 
 p. for Page, c. for Colttme. 
 
 THE Introduction, Pag. I. CoL i. 
 
 Falfe Reports to prejudice the Difcovery, p.a. 
 
 Two Orders of the Lords, p. 3. c. i . 
 
 HOTV this Cafe fir ft came before the Lords, p. 3.0.2. 
 
 My Lord o/Eflex's Commitment to the Tower, 
 
 p. 4. c. 2. 
 
 BomenyV Information f before the Coroner J 
 printed, p. $. c. 2. 
 
 Ruifel and the two Chim'geons Informations be- 
 fore the Coroner, p. 6. c. i, 2. 
 
 Tlie Sub fiance of what -was fworn before the Co- 
 roner, to prove the Self-murder, p. 6. c. 2. 
 
 What Monday declareth, p. 6. c. 2. 
 
 What Major Hawley declaretb, p, 7. c. i. 
 
 Bonieny, Monday, Ruflel, and Lloyd, denied 
 the letting in any Mm to my Lord, that morn- 
 ing my Lord died, p. 7. c. i. 
 
 The Order into which the Evidence is divided, 
 
 p. 7. C. 2.- 
 
 Do. Smith'* Evidence to prove the Papifts Re- 
 folution, nine days before my Lord's Death, to 
 cut my Lord's Throat, -p. 8, p. 
 
 An Objection, againft this Evidence, p. p. c. 2. 
 
 An Anftver to this Objection, p. 9. c. 2. 
 
 D. Smith'* Evidence no new made Story, but 
 long fince revealed, p. 10, 1 1, 12. 
 
 Farther Objections againft D. Smith'* Evidence, 
 and theft Objections anfwered, p. 12. c. 2. 
 
 p. 13, tO 22. 
 
 Many Reports in fiveral Parts of England before 
 my Lord^s Death, that the Earl oj Eflex had 
 cut his T\)roat in the Tower, p. 2 2 , 2 3 . 
 
 All Reports agree in the Manner how, and Place 
 where, p- 25. c. 2. 
 
 An Objeftien againft the Reports, p. 24. c. i, 2; 
 
 An Anfvper thirtunto, p. 24. c. i, 2. 
 
 F Evidence proves, that the Report be- 
 fore my Lord's Death, fits forth not only tht 
 Manner how, and the Place where, my Lord 
 died, but Ul^ewift the pretended Reafon where- 
 fore my Lord cut his Tnroat, p. 2 2, 24. 
 
 An ObjecJioa againft F Evidence, p.24^ 
 
 C. 2. p. 25.C. Ir 
 
 An Anfwer to this Objection, p. 25. c. i, 2. 
 
 How the Earrs Death became fo generally repor- 
 ted in fo many Places ; and particularly as 
 to Manrur, Place, and pretendtd Reafon, be- 
 fore he waf dead, p. 25. c. i, 2. 
 
 A {hort Inference fromthefe Reports, pt 27. c. i* 
 
 What paffed the day my Lord died, p. 27. c. r. 
 
 Jhe letting in the Ruffians to my Lord juft before 
 his Death, P27. c. 2. p. 28,- 29. 
 
 An Objection againft this Evidence, p. 30. c. r. 
 
 A'i Anfoerto this Objection, p. 30. c. 2. 
 
 M. B. proves a great bujtling between three or 
 four Men in my Lord's Room, juft before my 
 Lord's Death', and one in this buftle crying 
 out, very loud, and very dolefully, Murder^ 
 Murder, Murder, p. 31. c. i. 
 
 This Evidence of B. not now made, but revealed, 
 by B. juft after my Lord's Death, p. 3 r. 
 
 C. I, 2. 
 
 The Reafon thatM. B. refufed to depofe what (hi 
 
 ^new in this Cafe, p. 31, c. 2. p. 32. 
 
 B'* Teftimony confirms Loyd'* Conjejfion, p. 3, 
 
 c. i a 
 
 An Objection againft BV videnc <?, p. 3 3 . c. i . 
 
 M Anfwff tbirettnta* ' Eodem. 
 
 a. Tot.
 
 The Contents. 
 
 Confederate, ( p. 33. c. i, 2. 
 nf Y. fei;ds the Riiffiws to murder my 
 Lnrit, p 33. c. 2. p. 34. c. I. 
 
 An Cljitfion again ft t '*is, P-33- c 2 - 
 
 ^4 Anfatrto this Objection, p. 33. c. i, 2. 
 Further Evidence of the Du^fs finding the Men 
 to n.y Lara's Chamber to murder my Lord, 
 p. 35. c. i. 
 
 An Objection again ft fuch Evidence, p. 35. c. i. 
 
 An Arfwer to this Objection, p. 3 5 c. i . 
 
 Further Evidence of tbefe Ruffians being fent by 
 
 tin Duty to the Earths Lodgings, p. 3 5. c. 2. 
 
 A further Anfiver to an Objection ugainft 
 
 what R. and M. declared the day my Lord, 
 
 died, P-$6- c. i. 
 
 Major Hawley fyftefttd to let in the Ruffians 
 
 into my Lord's Lodgings, p. 35. c. 2. 
 
 An Objection againft this, p. 36. c. 2. 
 
 AnAnfwer to this Objection, p. $6. c. 2. p. 37. 
 
 C.I. 
 
 Sir C.-jut to the Old-Bail v, to give notice ef 
 my lord's Death, but jorgets who brought' 
 Orders from his then Majefty for his go- 
 & p.37.c.2. p.38.c.i,2. 
 
 Bomeny and Ruffe) fitffired to hear each others 
 Examination before the Coroner, p. 38. c. 2. 
 
 Bomeny'5 frfl Information ta^en by the Coro- 
 ner, p.38.c.2. p.3p.c.i. 
 
 Bomeny fuffered to -go from the Jury into thg 
 next Room, and thereto rente \m fecond In- 
 formation, p. 3p. c . j. 
 
 BomenyV Information which he fo wrote, p. 39. 
 c. 2. p. 40. c. i. 
 
 Bomeny'i Information, which was printed by 
 Authority, u different from that which he 
 fivore to, p. 40. c. i. 
 
 The Reafon EomenyV Information was prin- 
 ted, contradictory to what he had depofed 
 before the Coroner, p. 40. c. 2. 
 
 Monday declared, the day before my Lord died, 
 and confirmed it afterwards, that he faw 
 my Lord of Eflex, with the Rayr in his 
 Hand, as foon as the Gentleman-Gealir had 
 epened my Lord's Chamber-Daor, and this 
 above two hours before my Lord's Death, 
 and long bejore Ruffel flood Warder at my 
 Lord's Chamber Door, p. 41. c. 1,2. 
 
 Ke Ra.7fr delivtrtd to my Lord, appears by 
 
 the Cottradittms between Bomeny, Mon- 
 day, and Ruffe!, p. 42, 43. c. i. 
 
 A-i Aufv/crto t hofe Contradictions, p. 43. c. i. 
 
 This Anfwer inefficient, Eodeni. 
 
 Bomeny, Monday, a::d Ruflel Jwore, or decla- 
 red, that my Lord pired his Nails with the 
 Ra\or, that morning my Lord died, p. 4 3.0. 2. 
 
 Tuis appears falfe, p. 43. c. 2. 
 
 The Clofet-Door not locl^d upon my Lord, as 
 Bomeny, Monday, and Ruflel, have jworn 
 or declared, p. 43. c. 2. p. 44. c. i. 
 
 For what Reafon Bomeny, Monday, and 
 Ruffe), have fworn, and declared, that my 
 Lord's Clofet Door was .locked upon the 
 Body, P-44- c - 2. p. 45. c. i. 
 
 Further Evidence againjt the Clofet Door being 
 locked, p. 45. c. i. 
 
 No Ra?or lying by my Lorddn the Cloftt, when 
 my Lord was fir ft difcovired, p. 4^. c.i,2. ' 
 
 W E proves a. bloody Rayr 
 
 thrown out of my Lord's Chamber-Window, 
 b-.jnre my Lord's Death was l^nown, p.45.c.2. 
 
 An Objection againfl W E Tefti-- 
 
 many, ' P-4$- c - 2. 
 
 An Anfwer to this Objection, p. 45, 47. 
 
 J. L. proves this bloody Ra^ar being thrown out 
 as before, p. 48. c. i. 
 
 An Objection againft J. Vs Evidence, p.$8. c.2. 
 
 An Anfwer to this Objection, Eodem. 
 
 Further Evidence of the bloody Ra\ofs being, as 
 before, thrown out of my Lord's Chamber- 
 Window, p. 49, 50, 5 1. 
 
 What might occajion the throwing out of the Ra- 
 \or y bejore my Lord's Death was fyown, 
 
 p. 5 1. c.i. 
 
 Alice Carter fcpfofid to tafy up this Ra^or, 
 and firft to discover my Lord's Death : Her 
 Defence falfe in every part, p. 51. c.2. 
 
 p. 52. C. 1,2. 
 
 The Razor brofy at the top, and fever d Notches 
 in the Rayr, argue its fall fame diftance, ' 
 
 p. 52. C. 2. 
 
 Farther Arguments againft my Lord's cutting 
 
 his Throat in theClofet, p. 52. c. 2. 
 
 p. 53. c. i. 
 
 The bloody Room and Clofet wafad before the Jury 
 faw the Body, p. 53. c. 2. 
 
 Tat
 
 The Contents. 
 
 TSte unfair Managrmnt of the Coroner's Jury, 
 
 p. 54. c. i. 
 
 Wliy the Body was forty fd, and the Clothes car- 
 ried away and dewed to the fury, p. 54. 
 
 C. 2. p. 55. C. I. 
 
 A large Knife, the fuppofed Iiftru;r,int of my 
 Lord's Death ', and Holland fufpefied as con- 
 cerned thireiu, p, 55, 56. 
 
 At Atifwer to Holland'* Letter to the Esrl of 
 Fcverfham, p. 57, 58. c. i. 
 
 JWty'w Haw ley fuggefted to the Corsner's Jury, 
 that Self-murder was my Lord's Princi- 
 ple, p. 58. C. 2. p. 59. C.I. 
 
 Jtfsjor Hawley , denies his being with the Jury 
 
 ' where thty fat, or that he did ever fuggeft 
 
 this, or ever heard it faid to be my Lord's 
 
 Piiictyli, p. 59. c. i. 
 
 Tl)t Reafen of Major HawleyV now denial, 
 
 p. $9. C. 2. 
 
 Ssme fiort Inferences from fucb denial, p. 59. 
 
 C. 2. 
 
 Major Hawley prevented the Coroner's Jury 
 from adjourning their Inqtd/ition, by fugge- 
 fting that his then Majesty bad fent for the 
 fane, p. 60. c. i . 
 
 Major Hawley ever difa/ecJed to the prefent ln- 
 tmft, p.<5o. c. 2, 
 
 The Coroner's Jury went not according, to Evi- 
 dence, p.<5r. c. 2. p. <$2.c. i. 
 
 Some of the Jury unwilling to difcover what they 
 
 kytTV, p. 52. C. 2. 
 
 The Averfnefs of the then Government from any In- 
 quiry into this Murder, p. 64. 
 
 The Reafon of fucb Averfnefs, p. 64. c. i. 
 
 The late crowned Mads endeavoured to fubvert 
 the Crown, p. 6$. c. i, 2. 
 
 Very unreafonable Bail demanded of Mr. Brad- 
 don, p. ^s. c. 2. p. 6$. c. i. 
 
 The Habeas-Corpus Aft defective, p.7o.c.i,2. 
 
 Mr. Braddon informed, fa. little after be had 
 fir(i moved hmin) that his Highnefs had 
 thretned his Ruin, p. 7 1 . c. 2. 
 
 An Inference from that, p. 7 1. c. 2. 
 
 -MhEraddon a file Confyirator, p. 72. c. i. 
 
 Mr. Braddon threatned by Sir R. S. jujt before 
 be was tredj p. 72. c. i. 
 
 Innocence a faffort under Trouble, p. 72. c. 2. 
 
 p. 73. c. i. 
 
 Mr. BraddonV Jury will paid, p. 7?. c. 2> 
 Sir Hugh Middleton, Foreman of Mr. Brai- 
 
 dorfs Jury, finct tuned Papift, p. 74. c. i, 
 Hts late, Majefty crcffcd only Mr. Braddor.V 
 
 Naffie in that Lift of hit King's-Bench Pri- 
 
 fows, which was delivered bin, p. 74. e. i. 
 An Inference from his late Mujiftfs Ineioncilt- 
 
 able Hatred of Mr. Braddoa, p. 74. c. 2.! 
 Tl)e Comer's Inqiieft ufed as a. Mms to pre 
 
 vent the Difcovery of my Lord's Murder, 
 
 p. 7 5- C -1V 
 The detecting Sir Thomas Overbury'* Murder, 
 
 the farm Offence Mr. Braddon was guilty- of, 
 
 but met not with fuch Difcourtgemert, p. 75. 
 
 C. 2^' 
 
 King James the Firft his Speech, upon iloe dif- 
 covery of Sir Thomas OverburyV Mur- 
 der, p. 7 5. c.2, 
 
 A Comparison between the Murder of the ft/i 
 Earl of Eflex, and that of Sir Thqljtps 
 Overbury, p75- c.2. p. j6. c. i?2. 
 
 The Lord-Keeper North infinuates to Mr. Brad- 
 don the Danger of this Profecutiun, p. 76.0. 2. 
 
 The Reafons that moved Mr. Braddon to ingtgt 
 in this Profecutm, $-76- 0.2,1x77.0.1. 
 
 Bomeny fffrwtly after my Lord's veath") is 
 
 fuppofed to have writ a. Letter, wherein he de~ 
 
 . dared he would fully difcover this Murder upon 
 
 a Pardon, p. 77. c. 2. 
 
 At Objection againft this, p. 77. c. 2. 
 
 An Anfwer to this Objection, .^p. 78. c. 2. 
 
 Bomeny fuppofed to be a difguij?d.apift, 
 
 p.7y. c. i. 
 
 A certain Divine's Argument for the Self-Mur- 
 der, P-79- c -2* 
 
 An Anfwer thereunto, p. 80. c. i, 2. 
 
 The Contradictions between Bomeny, Monday, 
 and RufTel, as to the C^'^ndedJ Self- 
 Murder, oj themfelves are Sufficient to clear 
 my Lord of this infamow Imputation, p. 8 r. 
 
 C. 1,2. 
 
 Mr. BillingfleyV Objection againft this Murder, 
 deferves no Credit, p.82.c.i,2. p.S^. c.i. 
 
 The Earl of Eflex feared neither Danger, nor 
 Death, but wa* ready chearfutty to lay down 
 bis Life for his Country, p. 85. c.2. 
 
 Themoft popular Objection^ agatift this Murder, 
 anfwered, p. 84, to 90. 
 
 Injunciisns
 
 The Contents. 
 
 frjunfthns of Semcy laid upon the Souldiers, 
 ' thtnext day after the Earl's Death, p. 90. c.2. 
 
 M. prefumed to be murdered, to prevent his te- 
 ftifying what he tym tts to my Lord's Mur- 
 der, p. 9 1. 
 
 R. fiat to the Indies, and there /hot to Death, 
 
 p. 91. c.i. 
 
 A third Souldier feafd he (hould be murdered 
 for what he had difcovered, tvith relation to 
 my Lord's Murder t Eodem. 
 
 Hawky the Warder fuppofed to be murdered, to 
 binder tbt Difcovery ojwbat he tye-m, p. 9 1 . 
 
 C.2. p. 92. 
 
 A Souldier barbaroufly tvhipfd, only for faying, 
 Hi would not fay he did believe the Earl of 
 Eifex cut his own Throat, p. 92. c. 2. 
 p. 93. c.i. 
 
 Old Edwards turned out of his Place in the 
 dtftom-ffoitfe, only fas frefmedj for his 
 Sin's Rlatifm> p. 93. c. 2. 
 
 Major Webfter brings how toy Lord's biosdi 
 Handkerchief, and forty nine G rimes, and a 
 Pifiol, &c. p. p4. 
 
 His Wife tells bint, (he could hang him, and one in 
 the Tower, . p. 94. c. 2. 
 
 Webfter then in no danger oj a Prafecution, or 
 Punishment, from what hit Wife could dif- 
 coner, p. 94. c. 2. 
 
 The Relation of a Wife -mil not excufe hsr con- 
 cealing a. Murder committed by her Husband, 
 
 p. 9 5, 95. 
 
 Majar Webfter, before the Lords, difawtfd hit 
 having produced, a Pxrfe of Gold to O. but 
 /ince p-etended he had tvon the Many at 
 Gaming, p. 95. c. 2. 
 
 Holms'5 Wife tetts her Husband, he was a Mur- 
 derer, and [he could hang him^ &c. p-97- c.i. 
 
 Murderers falling out. Murder Is deteftsd, 
 
 p. 97' c. i. 
 
 An Abftraft of the Whole, p. 97. c. 2. to 104. 
 
 THE
 
 CO 
 
 S 
 
 A Lincolnt- f**\ I R > I rejoyce I hav 
 
 Inn Gent. |L thus fortunately met 
 you here j for ever 
 fince I came to Town, 
 I have longed to fee 
 you, becaufe I have 
 been defined by many of our Country- 
 men to give them what Information I 
 can , how the Cafe of the late Earl of 
 Eflex now (lands ; whether there have 
 been any Informations, or Examinations 
 herein, taken before the Honourable Houfe 
 of Lords for we have heard their Lord- 
 (hips , upon their fir ft fitting , took the 
 matter into Examination ) and what you 
 have heard to be the SubfUnce of thofe 
 Depofitions and Examinations, whether 
 fufficient to prove that unfortunate Lord 
 treacherously murdered, as he was general- 
 ly believed to be. 
 
 A Tempter. Sir, you could never have met 
 me more opportunely for your Satisfaction 
 in this, feeing I have now about me the Sub- 
 ftance of all thofe Depofidons and Exami- 
 nations that have been taken before the Se- 
 cret Committee of Lords appointed by the 
 Houfe for this purpofe, and fome time 
 finre reported to the Houfe ; and like- 
 wife Copies of many Informations herein 
 taken before fome juftices of the Peace ; 
 befides all which, I have Copies of fuch 
 Depofitions as have been fworn to deftroy 
 the Credit of what hath been materially 
 denofed to prove that unfortunate Lord 
 vilSanouffy murdered , and further, I have 
 fcveral Informations taken to Strengthen 
 my Lord's Evidence, in Anfwer ro thofe 
 pepofuions, on the behalf of the Prifoner. 
 Of all which I have had an Opportunity 
 to rake Copies, by being daily converfant 
 v/uh that Gentleman, whofe Misfortunes 
 
 have made him of all Men the beft ac- 
 quainted with this Cafe. Sir, there is 
 hardly aVVitnefs herein fworn but what I 
 have difcourfed ; neither do I believe there 
 is any Objection can be raifed againft the 
 Proof of my Lord's being murdered, but 
 what I can fufficiently Anfwer. All which 
 your Authority (hall command from me, 
 who rejoyce in this Occafion of ferving 
 you- But I queftion whether it may not 
 be thought a divulging of what a Secret 
 Committee hath had under Examination, 
 and ought (till to be kept private. 
 
 L. You can't buc knew that this Se- 
 cret Committee is diffolved, by the Reports 
 being made to the Houfe, where the De- 
 pofitions having been read, it can no lon- 
 ger be thought a Secret : And it beirg 
 for the Intereft of the Kingdom it fhould 
 be publifhed (_ if there be any Evidence to 
 prove this Murder ) I can't imagine how 
 your communicating this matter can in 
 the lead prejudice this Caufe , the juft 
 Succefs whereof no Man living can defire 
 with greater impatience than my felf, who 
 (hall (" its probable ) by your now-Affi- 
 ftance, be able to (top the Mouths of thofe 
 Gainfayers, which not fo much out of Ma- 
 lice, as Mifinformation , ftem totally to 
 disbelieve this matter ; of which number 
 Mr. 0. of Grays-Inn ([bur Friend, and old 
 Acquaintance ) is one , he did appoint to 
 be here precifejy at this time. He is now 
 come. 
 
 A Grays-In Gent. Gentlemen, your mod 
 humble Servant. 
 
 7". Sir, We are both cordially iycurs, 
 and rejojce you are thus opportunely 
 come. 
 
 G. I hope my Company doth not hin- 
 der private Bufincfs j if fo, I will leave 
 B ycu
 
 you till fuch your Difcourfe is ended, and 
 then fhail efleem my felf happy in the Jn- 
 joyment of both y our good Companies. 
 
 T. Sir, the Buiinefs we are upon you 
 are free to hear, and I do very much 
 rejoyce in this Opportunity of making you 
 a Convert. 
 
 G. In what ( pray Sir ? ) for if I am 
 in any Error, I hope I am ROC thereto 
 fo wedded, but upon good Caufe fhewn,fhall 
 readily fue a Divorce, and thank you hearti- 
 ly for my Convidion. 
 
 JL. This Gentleman is about giving 
 fuch Reafons as will convince f*not me, for 
 I do already believe it, but ) you, That 
 the late Earl of Effex was treacheroufly 
 and villanoufly murdered. 
 
 G. Pirn ! there is not the leaft ground 
 for fuch a Bdief, neither hath there been 
 any colour of Evidence for it produced to 
 the Lords. Moreover, all my Lord's Re- 
 lations are fo firmly poflefled with the Be- 
 lief, that the late Earl of Effex did in- 
 deed cut his own Throat, that neither 
 of them hath thought fit in the leaft to 
 move in this matter, but all of them wifh 
 that this Caufe had never been revived , 
 becaufe it renews the Remembrance cf 
 that fad and deplorable Accident which 
 hath been fo great a. Misfortune to that 
 Honourable Family. 
 
 7*. Sir v I perceive you have been a- 
 bufed in every part of your Information, 
 for your Author fcarce told you one 
 Word of Truth. As for the Families not 
 appearing in ( but being very averfe to ~) 
 this Profecution , I do aflure ycu ( Sir ) 
 this is far from being true j for no Gentle- 
 man could fhew more Honour, and greater 
 leal in a Gaufe, than the Right Honourable 
 Sir Henry copel (J the late Earl's only Bro- 
 ther ) hath done in this, and caufed fome 
 to be taken up for endeavouring to abufe 
 the World with the Belief, that he had 
 ot engaged in this matter. The now 
 Earl of Effex was not returned from his 
 Trawls when this Profecution was re- 
 newed i but as foon as he came, his Lord- 
 ftip approved of what was done, and 
 
 ) 
 
 hath been at the Charge of this Profe- 
 cution, in which you may believe there 
 hath been no fmall Expence , there ha- 
 ving been in this Caufe fuch a number of 
 Witneffes examined, and fo many feveral 
 Committees. And whereas you fay there 
 was not the leaft Colour of Evidence pro- 
 duced to the Lords : Did you ever hear 
 what Perfons were fvvorn before their 
 Lordfhips, and after examined by this Ho- 
 nourable Committee. 
 
 G. Not in every particular, but in part 
 I have, and in general have been inform- 
 ed, That the Witneflts produced by that 
 Gentleman, who pretended to prove it, 
 were looked upon as altogether infuffi- 
 cient for that end ; and therefore the Houfe 
 of Lords, upon reading the Informations in 
 this Cafe taken by the Committee, imme- 
 diately rejected them as frivolous, there- 
 upon ordering, that all fuch as had been 
 taken up, as fufpefted concerned in this 
 pretended Murder, fhould be difcharg- 
 ed. 
 
 T. I perceive in this alfo you have 
 been mifinformed , as to both particulars -, 
 for the Houfe of Lords upon reading what 
 was taken by the Honourable Lords of this 
 Committee, neither rejected the Evidence 
 as infufficient, nor ordered the difcharge 
 of fuch as in this cafe-were taken up, but 
 the Depofitions being read before the Houfe, 
 when three of the four Honourable Lords 
 of this Committee were out of Town 
 ( itf^. ) the Earl of Devon , the Earl of 
 Monmtutby and Lord Delamere ( the Earl 
 of Bedford being the firft in this Com- 
 mittee) the Houfe ordered all thofe De- 
 pofitions and Examinations to be fealed 
 up, and kept by the Clerk of the Parlia- 
 ment , till thefe three Lords returned , 
 and in the mean time the farther Debate 
 hereupon to be fufpended : To prove all 
 which , pray Sir, read this Order made 
 Die. Jo-vis 23. Mali, 168$, 
 
 Die
 
 Die Jovii ijo. Mali. 1689. 
 
 After reading feveral Papers and 
 "Depofiticns relating to the death of 
 the late Earl of Eflex, It is Orde- 
 red by the Lords Spiritual and Tem- 
 poral in Parliamenf AJJ'embled^ that 
 the Confideratt'-~n of this biifmefs jkall 
 be fufpended until the return of the 
 Lord Steward, the Earl of Mon- 
 mouth, and the Lord Delarnere, 
 who were of the Committee, before 
 whom they were made, and who are 
 now in the Country in His Majefties 
 Service. And its further Ordered, 
 that the laid Depofitions and Papers 
 jhatt be Sealed up, and kept by the 
 Clerk of the Parliament in the mean 
 time. 
 
 G. Then I find my Information in this 
 Particular falfe. 
 
 T. As to the Second, That the Lords 
 have not ordered the discharge of fuch as 
 were in this Cafe apprehended, tut con- 
 trarywife. that all thefe fhould be bound 
 over by the Court of Kings Bench, to ap- 
 pear the firft day of the next Term, ap- 
 pears by an Order of the Houfe of Lords, 
 made the 15. Jme 1689. which you may 
 .read if you pleafe. 
 
 DiaSabati 15. Junii 1689. 
 
 Ordered by the Lords Spiritual and 
 Temporal, in Parliament Affembkd, 
 that fttch Pcrfons as are noiu under 
 Bsiyl by Recognisance, concerning the 
 death of the late Earl of Eflex, foall 
 be by the Court of Kings Bench bound 
 over to appear the firft day of Alicha- 
 
 I * v J J J 
 
 clmas TtTTtf next. 
 
 G. I thank you, Sir, for your Informa- 
 tion herein, and its very probable thole 
 who gave me fuch falfe Information as to 
 the Lords Proceedings in this Matter, may 
 have likewife forged what Arguments they 
 thought might fway with me to believe my 
 Lords felf Murder ; what thofe are I fhall 
 give you an Account. But I firft defire 
 to hear what Evidence in particular hath 
 been produced to prove my Lords being 
 murdered by others. 
 
 T. Before I give you an Account of the 
 Informations that have been in this Cafe 
 taken, I think it proper firft to inform 
 you how the Cafe came before their Lord- 
 fhips, and what by them therein hath been 
 done, and how the Cafe now ftands be- 
 fore the Houfe. 
 
 (?. Pray, Sir, ufe your own method. 
 
 T. The 2ift of January laft, feeing the 
 day before the Convention fat} feveral Per- 
 fons were taken up, as fufpefted to be 
 privy to my Lords Murder ; amongft whom 
 was Major Hawley, (Major of the Totvc r) 
 in whofe Houfe my Lord was murdered, 
 and Thomat Ruffell, one of the two War- 
 ders that flood upon my Lord at the 
 time of his death : thefe two belonging to 
 the Tower, and confequently under the 
 Command of the Right Honourable the Lord 
 Lucas Governour of the Tower, were not 
 taken up by any Conftable ; but his Lord- 
 fhip having fecn the Warrant out againfl 
 them, ordered both to be fecured. The 
 next day, being the 22^, feveral Infor- 
 mations were taken before Jebn Robins 
 Efquire, one of the Middlesex Juftices, 
 *who carried Coppies of thefe Informati- 
 ons to my Lord Lucat. His Lordfhip the 
 24/7; moved the Houfe of Lords for their 
 Lordfhips Order, as to the keeping., 
 difcharging, or removing Hawley and 
 Ruffell, as before fecured by his Lord-- 
 (hips Command ; and then produced to 
 the Houfe thofe Informations brougiit his 
 Lordfhip, as before by Mr. Robins ; upon 
 reading which , after fome Debate, the 
 Houfe of Lords ordered Mr. ftr'addon to be 
 called in before their Lord (hips, and after 
 -B 2 his
 
 (4) 
 
 his Examination, their Lordfhips confli- 
 tuted a Committee of Lords, of which 
 the Right Honourable the Earl of Deven- 
 fare now Lord Steward of His Maje- 
 fties Houfhold) was Chairman. After 
 -his Committee had feveral times met, 
 there was a fecret Committee ordered.to 
 examine into the Matter , which Com- 
 mittee confifted of thefe Four Honoura- 
 ble Lords, (itf^O c ^ e Eaf l f Bedf' r <t* ^ c 
 Earl of Devon, the Earl of Monmouth, 
 (then Lord Mirdant') and the Lord Dela- 
 msre ', after this Committee had many 
 times fat, and taken about Fourcy Depo- 
 fitions and Examinations, the Earl of 
 Mmmmth , and the Lord Dclamere were 
 fcnt by His Majefty into the Country, as 
 two of the Lords Commiflioners to regu- 
 late the Army. After thefe two Lords 
 were thus out of Town, the Earl of De* 
 von (being Chairman of the Committee} 
 brought thefe Depofitions and Examinati- 
 ons into the Houfe , but it being then 
 late in the day, none were read, but an 
 Order made that they fhouid be read the 
 next Morning , but His Majefties Affairs 
 Commanded likewife the Earl of Devon 
 the next Morning to go into the Country ; 
 fo that when thefe Informations were 
 read in the Houfe, not one of the four 
 Lords of this Committee were there be- 
 fides the Earl of Bedford : Wherefore the 
 Houfe Ordered the Debate of the matter 
 to be fufpended, as you have before heard. 
 And thus the Cafe came at firft: before 
 their Lordfhips, and foit nowftands. 
 
 G. Sir I thank you for undeceiving me, 
 and defire you to proceed in fuch a Me- 
 thod, as you think may give us the moft 
 Regular Notion of the Matter. 
 
 T. Before I give you any Information 
 to prove my Lord by others barbaroufly 
 Murdered, I think it proper to ftate the 
 Cafe as it was reprefented by thofe who 
 would have the World believe my Lord 
 a Self Murderer, j for without this you 
 cannot underftand what ufe can be made 
 of many Informations that have been in this 
 Cafe taken, becaufe you will not be able 
 
 to fee wherein they contradid what was 
 fvvorn before the Coroner, to prove my 
 Lords felf-deftrucHon , and whatfocver 
 proves their reprefentation of the matter 
 to the Coroner falfe by a very natural 
 Confequence, proves my Lords being mur- 
 dred by others. 
 
 L. Without doubt, for what end (I 
 pray) fhouid any fwear to a Lye but to 
 conceal a Truth, there k being no other 
 reafon to be given for irr-' 
 
 T. I (hall begin wich my Lords Commit- 
 ment to the Tower. The Right Honou- 
 rable Arthur, late Earl of Effex, was com- 
 mitted to the Tower the Tenth of Jttfy 
 1685. and the firft night lay at Captain 
 Cheese t, the then Lieutenant of the Tower, 
 but the next day was removed to Major 
 Htiwlejs, (chen Gentleman Porter of the 
 Tower) and the two Warders placed up- 
 on his Lordfhip were Nathaniel Mmday and 
 Thomctf Ruffel , one to (land at my Lords 
 Chamber- door , or in his Chamber, and 
 the other at the Srairs-foot, and thus by 
 turns. Paul Bomeny, my Lords Servant, was 
 permitted to be with his Lordfhip. Ac 
 Mr. Hawleys my Lord lay Wednefday night 
 and Thurfday night, but Friday Morning a- 
 bout Nine of the Clock his Lordfhip was 
 found wich his Throat cut through both 
 Jugulars and Arteries, even to the Neck- 
 bone on both fides the Neck.The next day 
 L. Sir, Pardon this Interruption, I find 
 that my Lord firft lay at Captain Cheeks one 
 night, and then was removed to Hawleyf, 
 where after two nights his Lord/hip was 
 found dead j how came it to pafs that my 
 Lord had not continued to lye at Captain 
 Cheeks, it being very ufual for Prifoners 
 of his Lordfhips Quality to lye at the 
 Leiutenants Houfe, as now my Lord Salit- 
 bury doth at the Lord Lucases. 
 
 T. The true Caufeof this Removal I 
 cannot give you, but the Colour I can ; 
 It is pretended that Captain Cheek, would 
 not be troubled with any Prifoners in his 
 own Houfe j for which reafon (as pretend- 
 ed) his Lordfhip was removed 5 but this I 
 believe not to be the Caufe, but (aslfaid) 
 
 the
 
 05) 
 
 the Colour only j as for the true rcafcn 
 hereof, I refer you to the Men of Se- 
 crecy in this Cafe. But to proceed, The 
 next day being Saturday, the Jury fate, and 
 before them were fworn the aforefaid 
 Paul Bomeny, Thomas Ruffe I , and the two 
 Chyrurgeons. 
 
 Which Informations are as followed! 
 according to the Print , but that fas I (hall 
 obferve in its own proper place } varies 
 from the Original in Bvmen/s Informa- 
 tion, 
 
 The Information of Paul Bomeny 
 Servant to the late Earl of Eflex 
 for about Three or Four Tears now 
 la ft paft taken upon Oath the 1 4th 
 day of July, Anno Regni Caroli 
 Second! Dai gratia Anglic, Sco- 
 tia, Franciae, & Hibernian Regis, 
 Fidei Defenlbr, &c. Tricefimo 
 Quinto, Annoque Domini 168 5. 
 
 SAith, that when my Lord came 
 tain Havole)\ which was the nth in- 
 fhnt, my Lord of Effex asked him for a 
 Penknife to pare his Nails, as he was wont 
 to do, to which this Informant anfwered, 
 being come in hafte, he had not brought ic, 
 but he would fend for one, and accordingly 
 fent the Footman with a Note for feveral 
 things for my Lord, amongft which the 
 Penknife was inferted j and the Footman 
 went and gave the Bill to my Lords Steward, 
 who fent the Provisions, but not the Pen- 
 knife, and he told the Foorman he would 
 get one the next day : When the Footman 
 was come, my Lord asked if the Penknife 
 was come, this Informant anfwered No, but 
 he fhould have it the next day , and ac- 
 cordingly he on the 1 2th inftant in the 
 morning before my Lord of Effex was up, 
 this Informant fent the Footman home with 
 a Note to the Steward, in which amongft 
 other things, he asked for a Penknife for 
 my Lord j and when the Footman was gone 
 about or a little after eight of the Clock,. 
 
 my Lord fent cne Mr, Ruffe I his Warder to 
 this Informant, who came, and then he 
 asked him if the Penknife was come, this 
 Informant faid, No my Lord, but I (hall 
 have it by and by, to which my Lord faid 
 that he fhould bring him one of his Rafors, 
 ic would do as well ; and then this Infor- 
 mant went and fetched one, and gave ic 
 my Lord, who then went to pare his Nails ; 
 and then the Informant went out of the 
 Room into the paflage by the Doer, Oil f 
 jfrPUap tf)e i$th infant, and began to 
 talk with the Warder ; and a little while 
 after he went down Stairs. And foon after 
 came the Footman with the Provifions, and 
 brought alfo a Penknife, which this Infor- 
 mant put upon his Bed, and thought my 
 Lord had no more need of it , becaufe he 
 thought he had pared his Nails. And then 
 this Informant came up to my Lords Cham- 
 ber about Eight or Nine in the Forenoon 
 
 onjfrpDaptlie i?th. inffant with a little 
 
 Note from the Steward ; but not finding 
 his Lord in the Chamber, went to the 
 Clofe ftool Clofet Door, and found it fhur, 
 and thinking his Lord was bufie there, 
 went down and (laid a little, and came up 
 again, thinking his Lord had been come out 
 of the Clofet, and finding him not in the 
 Chamber, he knocked at the Door with his 
 Finger thrice, and faid, My Lord ? But no 
 body anfwering, he took up the Hanging, 
 and looking through the Chink , he faw 
 Blood and parts of the Rafor > whereupoa 
 he called the Warder R'jfil, and went down- 
 to call for help, and the faid Ruffel pufhed 
 the Door open , and there they faw my 
 Lord of Ejfex all along the Floor without a 
 Perriwig, and all full of Blood and the Ra- 
 for by him. And this Deponent further de- 
 pofeth, that the Rafor now (hewed to him 
 at the time of his Examination is the 
 fame Rafor which he did bring to my Lord, 
 and which did lye on the Ground in.. the, 
 " Clofletby my Lord.: 

 
 1'ke Information of Thomas Ruffel 
 one of the T- farmers of the Tower, 
 who had the Cuftody of the Earl of 
 Effex, taken the Fourteenth day of 
 July , Anno Regni Caroli Se- 
 cundi Dei gratia Anglix, Scotix, 
 rancix ScHibernia: Regis, Fidsi 
 Defenforis, &c. Tricefimo quin- 
 to. Annoque Domini, 168;, 
 
 SAith, That on Fry day the iyh inftant, 
 about Eight or Nine of the Clock in 
 the Forenoon, he was prefent when he did 
 hear the Lord of Effex call to his Man 
 Mr. Bomeny for a Penknife to pare his 
 Nails, and then for a Razor, which Mr. B> 
 tnenf brought him ; and then my Lord 
 walked up and down the Room fcraping 
 his Nails wich the Razor, and fhut theouc- 
 Ward door i Mr. Bomeny half a quarter of 
 = an hour afterwards not finding my Lord in 
 his Bed chamber, went down Scairs again, 
 believing that my Lord was then private 
 in his Clofet, Bowery came up about a quar- 
 Note ter of an hour afterwards and knocked at 
 the Door, then called My Lord, My Lord, 
 but he not anfwering , peeped through a 
 Chink of the Door, and did fee the Earl of 
 Effex lying on the Ground in the Cloflet ; 
 whereupon he did cry out, that my Lord 
 was fallen down Tick, and then the Infor- 
 mant went to the Clofet Door, and opened 
 it, the Key being on the out-fide, and then 
 did fee my Lord lye on the Ground in his 
 Blood, and his Throat cut. 
 
 7he Information of Robert Sherwood 
 of Fanchurch-ftreet , Chymrgeon, 
 taken the i4th day of July, Anno 
 Regni Caroli Secundi Dei gra- 
 tia Anglic, Scotia?, -Francis & 
 HibernicC Regis, Fidei Defen- 
 Ibr, & c . Tricefimo quinto, An- 
 noque Domini 1685". 
 
 SAith that he hath viewed the Throat 
 of the Earl of Effex, and does find that 
 
 there is a large Wound, and that the Af- 
 pera Arteria or Wind-pipe, and the Gullec 
 with the Jugular Arteries are all divided, 
 of which wound he certainly dyed. 
 
 T'be Information of Robert Andrews 
 cf Crutchet-Fryars Chyrurgwn, 
 takgn upon Oath the I4th day of 
 July, Anno Regni Caroli Secundi 
 nunc Regis Anglise,^. Tricefimo 
 Quinto, Anncque Domini 1683. 
 
 SAith, That he hath viewed the Throat of 
 the Lord of Effex, and does find that 
 it was cue from the one Jugular to the other, 
 and through the Wind pipe and Gullet in- 
 to the Vertebres of the Neck, both Jugular 
 Veins being alfo quite divided. 
 
 Upon thefe Informations the Coroners 
 Jury found my Lord Felo de fe. 
 
 The fubftance of thefe Informations in 
 fhort is. That my Lord of Effex called for 
 a Penknife to pare his Nails, but the Pen- 
 knife not being ready, hisLordfhip required 
 a Razor , which was delivered him , with 
 which Razor his Lordfhip retired into his 
 Clofet and Lock'd Jiimfelf in ; but foon af- 
 ter the Clofet door being opened, my Lord 
 was found with his Throat cut through both 
 Jugulars and Arteries to the Neck-bone, 
 and the Razor (as before delivered) lying 
 by him. 
 
 Nathaniel Monday ('the other Warder -on 
 my Lord at the time of his Death; now 
 declares, that aflbon as my Lord of Ejjex's 
 Chamber Door was opened by the Gentle- 
 man Jaylor about Seven of the Clock , 
 ("that morning my Lord died,") he flood 
 Warder upon my Lord till about a quarter 
 of an hour before my Lord was found 
 dead, and then he called up Ruffd and left 
 him at tbe -Door, and then went down 
 Stairs, where he had not been a quarter of 
 an hour before Bomeny crycd cut,My Lord is 
 fallen down fick ; whereupon he' ran up 
 Scairs, and found Bomeny and Ruffel endea- 
 vouring to open the Clofet Door, but nei- 
 ther could ftir it, becaufe my Lords body 
 
 lay
 
 (7) 
 
 lay fo very clofc and ftrong againfl the 
 Door; wherefore he hting (Ironger than 
 either Bomeny or Rujjel , puc his Shoulder 
 againft the Door, and thrufting with all his 
 might broke it open. 
 
 Major Hawley (at whofe houfe ray Lord 
 was Murdered,) faich. That about Five of 
 the Clock that Morning mv Lord died, 
 he went out to open the Tower Gates (ac- 
 cording to the duty of his placej and 
 came not home nor nigh his own houfe till 
 Note about Mm of the Clock, when Monday the 
 Warder came to him and told him my 
 Lord of Ejjex had cut his Throat ; where- 
 upon Havcley going home found it true, and 
 immediately thereupon went to his Ma- 
 jefly Charles the Second ( then in the 
 Tower) and did inform his Majefty of the 
 fame. 
 
 Bomeny, Rujjel and lUanday^ ('and likewife 
 Lloyd the Sentinel at my Lords Lodgings that 
 Ko:e Morning my Lord dyed , ) did ever deny 
 ("till January laft_) that any men were let 
 into my Lords Lodgings before his Death 
 any time that Morning my Lord dyed. 
 The two firft upon their Oaths denied it 
 before the Coroner and Bemeny. Rujftl and 
 Lloyd did at Mr. Bradon's Tryal pag. 5 5, 56, 
 $7, upon their Oaths declare, that no men 
 were let into my Lords Lodgings r ( that 
 Morning my Lord dyed_) before my Lords 
 Death was known. Monday and Ruffel flill 
 perfift in their denial of any mens being 
 let into my Lord before his Death that 
 Morning my Lord dyed. 
 
 This is the flate of the Cafe, as it was 
 reprefented by thofe that were immediate- 
 ly attending upon my Lord at the time of 
 his death. I fhall not in this place make 
 any Observations upon the fcveral Contra- 
 dictions and Incoherences of thefe Rela- 
 tions, nor yet fay what is prov'd to falfify 
 all that hath ( as before } by thefe been 
 declared and fworn, but fhall leave this to 
 a more proper place,and (hall in my method 
 begin with fuch things as were firft in or- 
 der of time. 
 
 The Informations and Examinations in 
 this Cafe taken are nigh Sixty, I fhall range 
 them in thhorder I fhatt place thofe. 
 
 Firfl, That have relation to what pafltrd 
 before the day of the death of the lace 
 Bail of Ejjex. Secondly , AJQfgtthat relate 
 to what p.-. fled the day of his death. And 
 in the third and laft place, fuch as have 
 relation to what was fubfequent to the day 
 of his death ; upon hearing all which , I 
 doubt not but fully to convince every un- 
 prejudiced perfon. 
 
 L. Such I am I do a flu re you , for its 
 neither my intereft nor dcfire that this 
 Murder (if fuch indeed it were ) fhould 
 not be detected ; but I do heartily wifh all 
 fuch of whatfoever quality fex or condi- 
 tion as ftcod concerned in contriving, pri- 
 vy to, or acling in this Murder, may be 
 brought to condign punifhment. 
 
 G. If this be provtd to be a Murder, I 
 fhall always think it the mofl villanous that 
 was ever afted on our Srage 5 and as feon 
 as I fhall be throughly convinced hereot, 
 fhall as heartily defire ("with you) that all 
 Adors and Abetrers herein, may receive 
 according to their demerit. And indeed I 
 fl:all hardly thinly any fanifliment tyojevere for 
 fr,ch an Act) or any thing too ill to be thought of 
 any whs were in the leafl concerned in this 
 treacherous comf Heated Murder (in Per fan and-' 
 Reputation) if it be frwed to be any. Due 
 pardon me if I think it not true, but in- 
 vented by heretofore Difloyal and Difaffectc J 
 Men, to raife an averfion againft the mofl 
 Unfortunate among Princes, who was trea- 
 cheroufly, (\ had almoft faid Treafonably^ 
 xleferted by his Souldiers as well as others 
 in the midft of the greatefit dangers. We 
 have had much noife of this ("pretended _> 
 Murder, and fas fomc falfjy callit) of the - 
 Murder, of Charles the Second of the fup- 
 pofititioufnefs of the Birth cf the Prince of 
 W>ttef,ar,d of the Private French League j but 
 all this hitherto hath been but tall^ and I 
 now think fas I ever did) there is not any 
 good grounds for the belief of either, for 
 if there had, we fhould long fince (Tor the 
 Vindication of what is paft, which I fha'f 
 
 forbear
 
 (3) 
 
 orbear to call by its proper Name ) have 
 ,,ad ic made mere publick. 
 
 T. Bona verba , qutfo , noc this -great 
 hear. 
 
 G. But PafTion is 'very natural to every 
 honed Ma^'cRa* had any fparks of true 
 'Loyalty upon fuch Reflections as thefe. 
 
 t. Paftion ferves not , but prejudices 
 an Argument, and generally fpeaking where 
 there is the moft Paflfion there is leaft Rea- 
 fon. 
 
 G. I will endeavour for the future to be 
 more calm. 
 
 /,. I (hall tell you at our next meeting 
 what I have heard concerning the Dea'h 
 of Charles the Second, and the Birth of 
 the pretended Prince of Wales , and its 
 probable may inform you in both of what 
 you may have never heard , nor as yet 
 made publick by any ; but I defire not any 
 longer to detain this Gentleman from pro- 
 ceeding in his intended Method. 
 
 G. I beg both your Pardons for this 
 Heat and Interruption, and I do impatiently 
 wait to hear what can be faid. 
 
 7*. I fhall proceed j and , 
 
 Firft, as for fuch Informations as have 
 relation to what pafied before my Lord's 
 Death , thefe are of two forts j the firft 
 proves a Resolution (" by Papifis ) feveral 
 Days before my Lord's Death , to cut my 
 Lord's Throat. The 
 
 Second, Many Reports in feveral parts 
 of England ( before my Lord's Death _) 
 that the Earl of Effex had cut his Throat 
 in the Tower. For proof of their previ- 
 ous Refolution to cut my Lord's Throat ; 
 pray read this Paper which I have taken 
 for my own fatisfaftion, and the Informa- 
 tion of feme Friends , from the Perfon's 
 own Mouth. 
 
 G. D. 5. faith , * That a little before 
 
 * the Death of the late Earl of Ejjex, as 
 
 * fhe was Servant in the Houfe of one Mr. 
 '7/o/wef, a Papift, then living in Baldwins 
 
 * Gardens about Nine Days before my 
 
 * Lord's Death, fome Fapifts among which 
 <one Mr. Lsvit t whom this Informant 
 
 ' knew ) met in her faid Matters Houfe, 
 4 fhe being then in the Kitchin with one 
 ' W- A~ then Apprentice with the faid Mr. 
 'Holmes-) the faid W. A went a little up 
 
 * flairs, and flopping, beckoned to this In- 
 
 * fcrmant to come to him, which this In- 
 'formant accordingly did-, but the faid W. 
 ' A. fcon went up ftah s into the Garret 
 '(as this Informant fuppofes) to work, 
 c and left this Informant on the Stairs ; 
 
 * and this Informant heard the aforefaid 
 
 * Papifls clifcourilng in the Room juft over 
 c the Kitchin, concerning the faid Earl of 
 
 * Effex ) and the fubftance of what fhe then 
 ' heard, was to the Effeft following (vizj) 
 ' one of them curfing the faid Earl , cal- 
 4 led him Villain and Dog (_ or fuch, with 
 1 feveral fuch approbrious Terms ) faying, 
 
 He }<new fo much of their Defignf, and M OCC 
 ' was fo very aver ft t<j their Inter eft, that 
 
 * unltfs he was fallen off, they Qmld never 
 1 carry them on. Upon which "it was then 
 
 * anfwered by another , That they had 
 been with his ipigljnffc, and his l|iglj* 
 
 * fir f# was for Pcyfaiin& the faid "Earl-, 
 
 * but his IpJigljm f0 was told, that manner 
 
 * of Death would not look well to the 
 'World; it was then alfo declared, that 
 ' one had propofed to his i^iglmff^ , 
 c Stabbing the Earl , but that was likwife 
 not agreed on i at length 1)10 Highnefs 
 
 'conduoe&i ant; o^mnlnjffsn^oatto 
 'or cut; ano l)i# Highnefs ijaa j^omi* 
 'feD to be there toljcn it toa.0 Done; 
 '(but this Informant remembers not any 
 ' Place mentioned where the Earl's Throat 
 ' was to be cut.) This was the Subflance 
 'of what this Informant heard the firir. 
 ' meeting : Eut about three Days after 
 ' fome of the aforefaid Pcrfcns met again 
 'at the faid Mr. Holmes'"*, Houfe, and this 
 ' Informant liftned as before ) to their 
 'Difcourfe, and heard one of them fay, 
 ' That the cutting the EarTs Throat was a- 
 ' greed on , but they would give it out, That 
 ' he had done it bimfelf -, and if any flmld 
 ' deny it, they would ta^e them up, and pu- 
 ' nifl) them for it. This Informant further 
 ' faith, That being much troubled in mind 
 
 'for
 
 (9) 
 
 'for what fhe had heard, as above re- 
 1 lated , fhe was willing to have difco- 
 e vered to fome Juftice of Peace what 
 'fhe kenew, as aforefaid , being willing 
 ' the Mifchief , as above- defigned, might 
 
 * be prevented. Whereupon fhe went to 
 ' a Friend of hers to advife with f w"^. ) 
 ' one Mr. B. fince dead ( who bfore that 
 
 * time had been her Mafter ) who lived 
 
 * not far from Mr. Holmes**, Houfe, and 
 
 * informed him as before fet forth. 
 ' Whereupon the faid Mr. B. did adiife 
 ' her to be ftlent j for the Papiftt carrying 
 'all before them t (he was ruined, if /he 
 'fpoty of it. Upon which fhe did not to 
 
 * her remembrance then reveal it to any 
 
 * other. This Informant further faith , 
 
 * That the very day of my Lord's death 
 ' fhe was ( not long before Dinner) at 
 ' a Chandlers ( not far from the faid 
 
 * Holme's Houfej i>i%. one Mrs. Hinton\ in 
 
 * Leather- lave, where there then came fome 
 ' who declared, That the Earl of Ejjex 
 *had cut his Throat in the Tower: 
 ' upon which fhe went home to Mr. 
 ( Holmes\ and was extreamly troubled, 
 'and immediately taken with Fits, ha- 
 ' ving, as before, heard their Refolution 
 'to cut the Earl's Throat. This Infor- 
 ' mant further declareth, That about two 
 ' or three of the Clock the fame day the 
 ' Earl died, fome of the aforefaid Con- 
 'fult met again at her Mafler Holmes** 
 ' Houfe , and fhe heard them leap about 
 ' the Room ; and one of them ftruck him 
 
 * upon the Back, and cry'd , The Feat 
 ' was done ( or roe have done the Feat.J 
 ' Whereupon the faid Mr. Holmes re- 
 ' plied, Is the Earl's Throat cut ? To which 
 ' the other anfwered, Yes * ant) fUlfijer 
 TaiD, he coulD not but laugt) to 
 'think Ijoto like a jfool tije (Part of 
 'Effex Ipobet) tohen tl)ep came to cut 
 
 'i)i SCl^oat? The faid Mr. Holmes 
 'did then fay, 'Was his Highnefs there? 
 ' To which the other Papift replied, Yes. 
 'This Informant further faith, That fhe 
 
 * did, about four Years fince, difcover to 
 'one Mr, R. ( with whom fhe then lived 
 
 ' as a Servant ) his Wife and Daughter., 
 That fhe had heard at Mr. Holmes's 
 ' Houfe aforefaid, fome Papifts ( feveral 
 4 days before my Lord's Death ) declare, 
 ' That the Earl's Throat was to be 
 ' cut : but her faid Mafter R. command- 
 ' ed her to hold her peace, and not to 
 ' tell him fuch dangerous things , left , as 
 ' he faid, being over-heard , fhe fhould 
 ' ruine him, and all his Family, or Words 
 ' to that effeft. 
 
 G. It's improbable that any fhould dif- 
 courfe a matter of this Confequence and 
 Secrecy, thus to be over-heard by the Ser- 
 vant. 
 
 T. I do hardly know any Houfe more 
 convenient for a fecret Meeting, provided 
 all the Family be true to the Defign ; and, 
 it's probable , thefe Men did not know 
 that this Maid was a Proteftant, or that 
 upon the Stairs in the Kitchin their 
 Difcourfe could be over-heard j but in- 
 deed it could be there heard almoA as 
 plain as in the very Room it felf, unlefs 
 you whifper. 
 
 L. Befides, confider the Circumftan- 
 ces of Time when this Confult was held. 
 This was when our Government in its 
 Corruption was grown to fuch a pitch, 
 that fome People were Loyally mad , and 
 through blind prejudiced Obedience , I 
 hope, more than Malice ) were offering 
 up as Sacrifices to the Court Popifh and 
 Arbitrary Intercft the Blood of thofe 
 brave Men, who did zealoufly oppofe thofe 
 curfed Defigns, the Popifh and Arbitrary 
 end whereof we then faw through a 
 Glafs, but fince ( to our Coft ) face to 
 face. Should therefore this poor Maid 
 have revealed what fhe heard , it's ten 
 thoufand to one but this Truth would 
 have met with fuch a Disbelief in fome, 
 and fuch Hatred in others, that through 
 both, it would have been feverely punifh- 
 ed ; for be fure thefe bloody Men would 
 have dcpofed , and, in probability, by 
 others of their Party, proved, that they 
 at that time were fomewhere elfe; and 
 C with-
 
 CM) 
 
 i 
 
 without all doubt our then Juries would 
 looner have credited the many oaths 
 which would, though falfely, have con- 
 tradided her Teftimony , than her own 
 (ingle Evidence: And therefore I think 
 Mr. B//7/n^r's Caution ("as before) given 
 this Maid, was grounded upon great Rea- 
 fon, and what would have proved too 
 true fhould ic have been put to the Try- 
 al. 
 
 G. Hath this Woman been fworn ? 
 
 7*. Yes ; and as I have been told , 
 depofed the fame in Subflance before 
 the Lbrds.^ 
 
 G. She here fpeaks of feveral that 
 fhe long fince informed of this matter , 
 is there any that have, or will depofe 
 the fame ? for otherwife I (hall look up- 
 on it as a new contrived Story malici- 
 oufly to traduce the moft unhippy crown- 
 ed Head in Chriftendom C King James 
 the Second I mean } and therein to ferve 
 a prefent Intereft. 
 
 I fhould agre.e with you in the 
 fame Opinion, if ic were not, nor could 
 be proved by thofe to whom fhe reveal- 
 ed it; but to fatisfie you that it both 
 can, and hath been proved long fince to 
 be difcovered by this D. S. pray read 
 what Mr. R. his Wife and Daughter 
 C before-mentioned in Smith's Informa- 
 mation J do declare, and are teady to 
 depofe. 
 
 G. 4 Mr. R. his Wife and Daughter do 
 declare, and are ready to depofe, That 
 t about four years fince the afbrefaid D. 
 t S. did declare, that fhe had heard a 
 t Confult by Papifts feveral days before 
 t the Earl of Effex's Death, wherein ic 
 t was declared the Earl's Throat was to be 
 t cut. And the faid Mr. R. further faith, 
 that he did check the faid D. 5. for 
 
 * fpeaking of it, and would not hear her 
 
 * freely declare whac fhe would have faid 
 t in that matter, becaufe it would have 
 
 * been of dangerous Confequence to him- 
 'felf and Family , fhould fuch her Dif- 
 'courfe be over-heard, as it eafily might 
 
 ' by any that might have liflned at the 
 'Window. And the faid Mrs R. further 
 'faith, That the faid D. 5. about four 
 c Years fince did declare, That fhe could 
 
 * fay much more than (he had to them 
 ' revealed, and that fhe did hope fhe fhould 
 
 * live to fee that day wherein flic might 
 ' with fafety fpeak the Truth in this mat- 
 c ter. 
 
 L. Have either of thofe there been fworn 
 before the Lords ? 
 
 T. Yes, Mr. R and his Daughter, and 
 they have declared to me they have de- 
 pofed the fame in fubftance before the 
 Lords. 
 
 L. How long hath Mr. Braddon known 
 of this Evidence ? 
 
 T. No longer than about February 
 lad. 
 
 G. How doth that appear ? 
 
 T. By thofe two Informations follow- 
 ing y by the firft of which you will per- 
 ceive, that what this D. 5. knew in this 
 matter, fhe was much afraid to reveal to 
 every one. 
 
 L. She had great reafon fo to be ; for 
 had it been long fince known to fome 
 that fhe knew fo much, in all probabi- 
 lity fhe would not now have been in the 
 Land of the Living to have given this In- 
 formation. 
 
 7. The Information you may read. 
 
 G. A. M. of London, Goldfmith, de- 
 pofeth, Thac fome time after the Death 
 of the late Earl of Ejfix, obferving D. S. 
 to be very melancholy, aud much con- 
 cerned and troubled in mind , the faid 
 R. M. defired the faid D. S. to tell the 
 reafon of fuch her Dejedion; but the 
 faid D. 5". at firft was very unwilling, fay- 
 ing, She was afraid to reveal her mind 
 te any. Whereupon the faid R. M. ad- 
 vifed her to difcover it to fome particular 
 Friend whom fhe could fafely confide in: 
 Upon which the faid D. replied, Thatfowe- 
 what which fl)e knew, with relation to the 
 Death of the late Earl of Eflex, wot the 
 
 caufe
 
 caufe of her trouble, and it was not fafe for 
 her to reveal it (or words to that effeftj) 
 whereupon the faid R. M. advifed her 
 not to reveal it to any one, till fhe might 
 with fafety. The faid R. M. farther faith, 
 that about February laft , the faid R. M. 
 finding it fafe to ask, and no danger to 
 the faid D. 5. to reveal what fhe knew 
 with relation to the faid Earls Death, he 
 then defired her to inform him what 
 fhe knew with relation thereunto. 
 Whereupon the faid D. 5. told him fhe 
 had heard a Confulc before my Lords 
 Death to cut his Throat, and that fome, 
 great Perfon was named at that meeting 
 as concerned in contriving the faid Earls 
 death, (or words to that efteft}) upon 
 which this Deponent (^without being very 
 inquifuive into particulars,} fpoke to one 
 Mr.r. to acquaint Mr. Braddon, whom the 
 faid R, M. knew not, nor to his know- 
 ledge ever faw , and fometime after the 
 faid Mr. T. told the faid R. M. that he had 
 fpoken to the faid Mr. Braddon about it, 
 and that the faid Mr. Braddon did defire 
 him fhe faid R. M. to bring the faid D. 5. 
 to the Croff-Keys in Watling-ftreet , where 
 this Deponent and the faid D. S. with 
 one Friend of hers more , met the faid 
 Mr. BY addon and Mr. T. and then the faid 
 D. S. gave the faid Mr. Braddon a parti- 
 cular account of what fhe knew with re- 
 lation to the Earls death. And this De- 
 ponent doth verily believe, that before 
 that time the faid D. S. never faw the 
 faid Mr. Braddon or Mr. T. 
 
 W. T. Gent, depofeth, that about Ja- 
 nuary laft , difcourfing with one R. M. 
 concerning the death of the late Earl of 
 Ejjex, the faid R. M. told this Deponent, 
 that he knew one D. 5. which could fay 
 what was material, with relation to the 
 death of the late Earl of Effex ; where- 
 upon this Deponent declared, that he 
 would inform Mr. Braddon of the fame, 
 of which the faid R M. feemcd very 
 willing and defirous : This Deponent did 
 f accordingly, but the faid Mr. Braddon 
 fpoke to this effeft, ( viz. } That bs did 
 
 believe the Papifts did endeavour toputfiam- 
 Evidence upon him, which they being able to 
 detefl, would from thence argue againft the 
 truth of all that fiouldbe faid. And therefore 
 the faid Mr. Bra-ddon declared, that unleft 
 the faid D. appeared to be of good reputation, 
 and that fie had fome years fmce dtfcovered 
 what fhe knew in this Cafe to fome Friends ; 
 fo that it did appear, that it was not a. new 
 contrived Story, either toferve the prsfent In- 
 tereft, or to baffle what clfe fiould be fwatn , 
 he would not believe whatfoeter fiefiwldfay, 
 neither would he have her Sworn, whatfoever 
 fie declared, unlefs it appeared as above, 
 confirmed by thofe to whom fie revealed it. 
 This Deponent told the faid Mr. Brad- 
 don , that he knew not the faid D. S. 
 neither (to his remembrance^ had ever 
 feen her j But if the faid Mr. Braddon 
 would appoint feme time and place, he 
 might difcourfe the faid D. 5 1 . and hear 
 what fhe could fay ; which the faid Mr. 
 Braddon declared he would do, if he 
 knew where to fpeak with her ; upon 
 which , this Deponent went to the faid 
 R. M. and defired the faid R. M-' to bring 
 the faid D. S. to the Crofs Keys in Wat- 
 ling Street fuch a day a0d hour, for there 
 the faid Mr. Braddon and this Deponenc 
 fhould then be. This Deponent further 
 depofeth, that the faid R. M. D- S. and 
 another, met this Deponent, and the faid 
 Mr. Braddon accordingly j and this Depo- 
 nent faith, that he this Deponent, the 
 faid R. M. and another Perfon, were pre- 
 fent when the faid Mr. Braddon difcour- 
 fed the faid D. 5. who then gave -the 
 faid Mr. Braddon a particular account of 
 two meetings of Papifts feveral days be- 
 fore the Earl of Effex"s Death, wherein 
 it was declared hew the Earl of j^.t's 
 Throat was to be cut, and by whom or- 
 dered, and likewife of what paffed the 
 day the Earl dyed , at the fame home 
 where they met before his Death- This 
 Deponent further depofeth , that the faid 
 Mr. B>- addon then fpoke to. the find D. .9. 
 to tins effect, That unlefs fhe could pro- 
 duce Pcrfons of very good Reputation, to 
 C 2 whom
 
 whom fhe had fome years before revealed fiances, as before depofed by Mr. M. and" 
 
 it, he would look upon it as a new con- T. he never did. 
 
 Q. Mr.3/. depofcth, that about February, 
 he did inform Mr. T. and Mr. T, depofeth 
 ic was about January : here feems fome 
 
 trived Scory, eicher to ferve the intereft 
 of the Government, or invented to baffle 
 what elfe fhould be fworn ; for though 
 it was ot very dangerous confequence to 
 reveal it , yet he could not believe fhe 
 had been fo fecret in it as not to reveal it 
 to any j and thereupon this Deponent 
 heard the faidD.S. declare fhe had re- whereof he did not fet down, he may 
 vealed it to feveral which fhe named, be well uncertain as to a weefc or 
 
 Now 
 
 variation. 
 
 T. None I think ; for when a man is to 
 be examined to a Faft about fix Months af- 
 ter the Faft done, the certain time 
 
 but (he was by all cautioned to Secrefy, 
 as fhe valued her fafety. The faid D. 5. 
 did then further declare to the effeft fol- 
 lowing, vi^. That for fome time after my 
 Lord's Death it did extreamly trouble her, 
 and fhe went to a Divine for his Advice 
 rn the matter, for fhe was extreamly con- 
 cern'd to think that the Papifls fhould lay 
 the Earls death to his own charge, when 
 fhe had ( as before ) heard how they 
 themfelves had refolved to cut his Throat ; 
 but the faid Divine told her, (as fhe then 
 
 much more. Now neither of thefe In- 
 formants being pofitive as to the time, 
 but Mr. T. being more inclin'd to believe 
 it to be in January , and Mr. M. thinking 
 it was the beginning of February, each be- 
 ing to Swear as himfelf belkveth (as to the 
 timej thus came the feeming difference. 
 Befides, when a man fpeaks of an aftion 
 to be done about fuch a Year, Month, or 
 Week , certainly ( in common accepta- 
 tion J about a Year , includes either the 
 very Year , or the Year before or after 5 
 
 faid) (he mufl be quiet and filent in the and about fuch a Month , either the ve- 
 ry Month, or the Month before or af- 
 ter, <fyc. 
 
 G. I am herein fatisfied , now this In- 
 
 (to his beft remembrance) never faw the formation of D. S. thus ftrengchehed , 
 faid D. S. before this Meeting. And this would alone convince me of the truth of 
 
 my Lords being Murdered, were it not 
 that I had heard fome Informations read 
 in the Court of King's Bench ( upon a 
 Motion made for the Bailing of Mr. 
 Holmes, } which with me , and indeed 
 with all men, mufl totally deftroy the 
 Credit of this pretended Confult. 
 
 If I miflake not , thofe Informations 
 proved this D. S. for fufpition of Theft 
 T. I have often heard Mr. Braddm 
 declare, that he never heard of the faid 
 D. S. before Mr. T. fas beforej Inform- 
 ed him of her, and this he would Depofe 
 if thereto called. 
 L. I think that matter is as plainly 
 
 matter, till fuch times fhould come, 
 wherein fhe might with fafety reveal it. 
 This Deponent farther depofeth, that he 
 
 Deponent doth verily believe, that the 
 faid Mr. Br addon never faw the faid D. 5. 
 till fas before) at the Crofs-Kcys in Wat- 
 ling Street. And this Deponent farther 
 believeth, that the faid Mr. Braddon ne- 
 ver did hear of the faid D. S. or R. M. 
 before this Deponent had fas above de- 
 pofedj given him Information of them. 
 
 proved as the thing is capable of; for no 
 man can Swear poiTitively (befidesMr. 
 Braddon} that Mr. Braddon never heard 
 
 to have been turned out of Mr. Helmes^ 
 Service in April before my Lords Death ; 
 whereas fhe Swears her felf a Servant 
 with Holmes at the time of my Lords 
 Death, which was July the 13^. I re- 
 member not the Names of thefe Depo- 
 nents, but I am almoft poffitive this was 
 what was fworn ; and if I miflake not, 
 there was fomewhat elfe depofed by a 
 
 of, or faw the faid D. but through the Countrey Parfon , which in fome other 
 Information of Mr.T. but by all circum- particulars contradifted D.S"s Information. 
 
 T. I
 
 (13) 
 
 T. I will herein arm you againft my 
 felf , and produce you Copies of chefe 
 Informations you fpeak of. 
 
 The firft is of one Dorothy Heveit^ Sifter 
 in Law to Mn. Holmes^ a very violent Pa- 
 pift, and ocherwife not of the beft Re- 
 putation. The fecond is of one Eli^a- 
 beth Chriftopher, once reputed of 4 -very 
 loofe Character. And the third pf Na- 
 thaniel SOVM, Clerk , to vvhofe Character 
 I (hall fpeak in a more proper time and 
 place. 
 
 Thefe are the names of the Infor- 
 mants, and here are the Informations, 
 which you may read if you pleafe. 
 
 G. ' Dorothy Hewit of Hatton-Gardcn, 
 ' in the County of Middlefex^ Widdow, 
 
 * maketh Oath, That one Dsrothy ("now 
 ' called by the name of Dorothy Smith,) 
 
 * was Servant to William Holmes of 
 
 * Baldwins Gardens , in the County of 
 1 Middlesex , Varnifher, and Erother-in- 
 1 Law to this Deponent, and lived with 
 1 the faid William Holmes as his Maid Ser- 
 
 * vant about the fpace of a Month, and 
 
 * went away from the faid Service in the 
 c Month of April , in the Year of our 
 *Lord 1683, anc ^ was curn 'd away upon 
 ' fufpition of Stealing a Silver Spoon, for 
 
 * which the faid William Holmes';, Wife 
 
 * refufed to pay her any Wages, and af- 
 ' ter a long difpute , the faid Mr. Holmes 
 
 * did detain 4 s. and 6 d. or 5 s. for fatis- 
 
 * faftion of the faid Spoon j upon which 
 
 * the faid D. in the prefence and hearing 
 
 * of this Deponent, did give the faid Mrs. 
 ' Holmes very opprobrious Language, and 
 
 * declared that fhe would be reveng'd of 
 
 * her, or words to that effeft. And abour 
 ' Two or Three days after the faid Do- 
 ' rothy was turned away as aforefaid, one 
 ' Elizabeth Caiman came into her place, 
 ' and lived with the faid William Holmes 
 
 * for the fpace of Nine Months and up- 
 
 * wards. And this Deponant further ma- 
 
 * keth Oath, that the 6th day of July, in 
 ' the faid Year of our Lord, 1689, this 
 
 * Deponent went with the {aid William 
 
 ' Holmes from the faid William 
 
 * Houfe into the Country, and went thac 
 
 * day to Wickam> in the County of &*{/, 
 'and the next day went to the City of 
 < Oxford , where this Deponent and the 
 
 * faid William Holmes continued till "the 
 ' $th day of the faid July -, and the faid 
 
 * $th day , this Deponent and the faid 
 
 * William Holmes went from thence to Al- 
 
 * derminfltr in the County of Worcefter, 
 ' to the honfe of one Mr. Nathaniel 
 ' Swan, Minifter of the faid Town, and 
 .' continued there till the 23^ day of the 
 
 * faid Month of July, and then returned 
 4 towards London) and came to London the 
 
 * Six or Seven and Twentieth of the faid 
 Month of July 
 
 ' Elizabeth Chriftopher , late Elizabeth 
 
 * Cadman , now Wife of John Chriftopher 
 f of Winford Street near Wbite-Cbappel } 
 ' Cloth worker, maketh Oath, That fhe this 
 
 * Deponent was Ser^mt to, and lived with 
 'William Holmes ^ Varnifher , from the 
 c Month of April , tn the Tear of our Lord 
 *' f<$8, which faid Mr. Holmes then lived 
 c in Baldwins Gardens , in the County of 
 ' MiddlefeX) and is now a Prifoner in tha 
 
 * Gaol of Newgate^ and that this Depo- 
 
 * nent continued his Servant as aforefaid, 
 ' and lived in his Houfe front the faid 
 ' Month of April for the fpace of Nine 
 
 * Months and upwards then next follow- 
 ' ingj and that there was not in that time 
 
 * any other Female Servant living with the 
 { faid Mr. Holmes. And this Deponent 
 
 * farther maketh Oath, That the faid Mr. 
 ' Holm's in or about the beginning of 
 4 the Month of July then next following, 
 ' did go into the Country with Mrs. Do- 
 
 * rothy Hetvit, Widdow, his Wives Siftes, 
 ' and continued abfent for about Three 
 Weeks v and fhe this Deponent hath 
 
 * heard the faid Mr. Holmes his Wife and 
 
 * Sifter declare , that they went into 
 e Worcefterfrire, and in their abfence, this 
 
 * Deponent did hear of the Death of the 
 Mate Earl of Effex in the Tower of 
 ' London* 
 
 Nathaniel
 
 ( 14) 
 
 * Nathaniel Swan of Alder minjler in the 
 
 4 County of Worcefter , Clerk , maketh 
 
 Y$= 'Oath, That about the $th day of /#/;, 
 
 < in the Year of our Lord 1683, William 
 
 Holmes of Baldwin'* Gardens , in the 
 
 * County of Middlefex, Varnifher , now a 
 
 * Prifoner in Newgate , London , with and 
 in the Company of Dorothy Hewit of 
 
 * Hattsn Garden, in the faid County of 
 4 Middlesex , Widdow, Sifter-in-La*r to 
 *the faid William Holmes , and Grand- 
 4 daughter to this Deponent, came to this 
 
 * Deponents Houfe in the faid Town of 
 4 Alderminjler, and continued there with 
 
 * this Deponent till about the Three and 
 4 Twentieth day of the faid Month of 
 1 July* 1 68?, and then departed thence 
 
 * towards London. 
 
 G. What can you fay in Contradiction 
 to thefe Depofirions, either of which 
 being true, your pretended Confult falls 
 down to the ground f and your firft E- 
 vidence proved falfe j Of the fame na- 
 ture are (I believe) all the reft, though 
 they may not be fo happily detected, as 
 this Smiths Evidence is by chefe Depofi- 
 tions. 
 
 . I believe thefe Depofitions will be 
 Of but little fervice to you, becaufe your 
 Adverfary did fo readily fnrnifh you 
 with them j I am therefore apt to think 
 he may be able to deftroy the credit 
 of thefe, as thefe feem to do the credit 
 of Smiths. And if it (hall appear, that 
 thefe Informations are falfe, fuch a de- 
 tection will add great force to the credi- 
 bility of Dorothy Smiths Depofition j for 
 whofoever flies to Lyes for a Defence, 
 hath nothing of truth and innocence for 
 protection. 
 
 G. I muft confefs there cannot be a 
 greater Argument of Guilt, than a talfe 
 defence* feeing every man in his defence 
 doth virtually ronclude, // my Defence be 
 falfe, my Charge is true. 
 
 L. The Law concludes the fame in all 
 Civil Actions 3 for inftance , he that is 
 (ued upon a Boad , and Pleads non eft 
 
 faflum, or fohlt ad diem, or a Releafe, or 
 a former Recovery, <rc. Whatfoever fuch 
 general Itfuable Plea is pleaded , and the 
 Plaintiff" denies this Plea to be true, and 
 thereupon the truth hereof being tryed, 
 if what is pleaded appears falfe, the Law 
 immediately gives Judgment againft the 
 Defendant j for its to be fuppofed , that 
 every man will firft plead the beft, (and 
 confequently the trueft ) Plea he can in 
 bar of the Action 3 and if his firft Plea 
 proves falfe, its prefumed he can give no 
 true and juft Caufe to exclude the Plain- 
 tiff his Action ; for if he could, he would 
 firft have pleaded it. 
 
 T. The fame holds good upon Criminal 
 Profccutions, for if a man (hall be accu- 
 fed (though but upon fufpicion) of having 
 committed a Robbery within two miles 
 of Salisbury, fuch a day, upon fuch a Co- 
 loured Gelding , and to avoid this 
 Charge, the Prifoner pretends he was 
 never within Thirty miles of Salisbury in 
 his life ; and he likewife produces fome, 
 not of the beft Reputation } who de- 
 clare , that for Ten days before that 
 Robbery, and as long after, the Prifoner 
 being very fick, kept his Chamber, 
 and ftirred not out of it ; if in Con- 
 tradiftipn to this , it be pofitively fworn 
 by Perfons of undoubted Credit, who 
 well knew the Prifoner , that the very 
 day of the Robbery committed , within a 
 very (hort time before the Robbery ap- 
 pears to have been committed, they met 
 the Prifoner nigh the place where, fee. 
 the Piifoners Gelding, and all other cir- 
 cumftances , in his Cloaths, Arc. agreeing 
 with the defcription the Profecutor gave, 
 I fay , if this be credibly proved in con- 
 tradiction to the Prifoners Defence, it 
 cannot but fatisfy any Judge and Jury, 
 that the Prifoner is really Guilty ; neither 
 are they to anfwer at the laft day for his 
 Blood, fhould he prove innocent, but his 
 Blood fhall be required at his own 
 hands , feeing by his falfe Defence he 
 became a Selfdeftroyer , according to 
 the common Judgement of all Mankind. 
 
 The
 
 (15) 
 
 The like may be faid in a thoufaad other 
 Cafes, 
 
 L. Innocence is naturally fufpefted as 
 Guilt, when the falfity of its Defence is 
 detected ; for if a Perfon of a very ill Re- 
 putation charged a Man with a Crime, 
 if I knew the Difreputation of the Accufer, 
 the bare denyal of the Accufed might 
 more influence my Belief, than the Oath 
 of the Profecutors j but if once I found the 
 Prifoner falfe in hk Defence , that Charge 
 which before I disbelieved as falfe, I (hould 
 then immediately as firmly credit for 
 Truth j but I defire to know what can be 
 faid in anfwer to thele Counter-evidences. 
 
 T. Dorothy Hervits Depofition declares, 
 That D. S. was turned away in April 
 before my Lord's Death , upon fufpicion 
 of ftealing a Silver Spoon; and upon 
 her being fo turned away, (he threatned 
 Mr. Holmes with Revenge. This Depo- 
 nent further depofeth, That fhe vvenjc 
 with Mr. Holmes into the Country the 
 6th. of July, and tarried with him till 
 about the 27^6. fo that Mr. Holmes was 
 not at home the i$th. of July, as Smith 
 depofeth. 
 
 Elizabeth Chriftopber depofeth , That 
 fhe came to Mr. Holmes^ Service in A- 
 
 Pray read thefe Depositions; 
 
 G. 'S. D. of Little Brit tain, London, 
 'Widow, depofeth, That in June and 
 *y/y, 1683. P 16 lodged next Door to 
 ' Mr. Holmes^ in Leopards Allev in Bald- 
 win's Gardens, and in June or July, 1683. 
 'fhe knew D. 5. to be then a Servant 
 ' to the faid Mr. Holmes, and whilft the 
 
 * faid D. was there a Servant, (he did fe- 
 'veral times borrow a Bible of thisDe- 
 
 ' ponent, and eat green Peafe with this Note 
 ' Deponent , Peafs being then three pence 
 ' or a Gnat a Pecl^ This Deponent fur- 
 ' ther depofeth , That the faid D. S. 
 'whilft (he was a Servant, as aforefaid, 
 ' to the faid Mr. Holmes, came crying to 
 'this Deponent, and told this Deponent, 
 
 * chat whilft (he was out of her Mailers. 
 ' Houfe there was a Silver Spoon loft, and 
 'her Miftrefs told her (he (hould pay 
 ' for it, which the faid D. S. crying, 
 ' did much complain of. This Deponent 
 'further faith, That (he faw the faid D. 
 
 * feveral times afcer this Spoon was faid 
 ' to be loft , and whilft the faid D. was 
 'Servant to the faid Mr. Holmes: Buc 
 ' how long the faid D. S. tarried Servant 
 
 pril 1683. and tarried there for Nine 'with the -fa id Mr. Hilmes after the Spoon 
 
 Months, and no other Maid Servant was 
 with Mr. Holmes all that time. 
 
 Mr. Swan depofeth, That Mr. Holmes 
 was with him from about the $th. of 
 July 1683. till about the 23^- or 2$th. of 
 the fa me Month. 
 
 jfiwit and Cbrijlepber have fworn fur- 
 ther back from my Lord's Dearh than 
 the Cafe required j for if they had de- 
 pofed, that D. 5. went away the firft or 
 fecond of July 1683- it had been more 
 difficult to have difproved them ; but 
 having allowed almoft three Months to 
 prove them forfworn, it hath been done 
 with the greater eafe -, whereas theie two 
 fwear, That D. S. went away in April 
 before my Lord's Deach , by thefe two 
 Depofitions following it appears that fhe 
 came not a Servant to Mr. Holmes till after 
 
 was loft, or when (he left the faid Mr. 
 ' Holmes^ Service, this Deponent know- 
 ' eth not. But this Deponent faith, That 
 ' the faid D. S. came not to the Service 
 ' of the faid Mr. Holmes till fome time 
 ' after the 27 th. of May in the Year afore- 
 ' faid; 
 
 The Information of R. B. 
 
 ( R. B. of Oldftreet, Elackfrakh, depc- 
 ' feth , That he knew D. 5 1 . in Mty or 
 ' June, 1683. ac ^ about Twelve Weeks 
 ' next before, to be Servant to one Miftrefs 
 ' Ward in Gldflreet, where this Deponent 
 'then lodged j and the faid D. did not 
 'go from the faid Miftrefs Waxd^ Ser- 
 * vice to be Servant to Mr. Hilmes in More 
 
 Baldwins
 
 * Baldwins-Gardens, till after Green Beans 
 l were fit to eat. This Deponent further 
 4 depofeth, That about the end of June, 
 
 * or beginning of July in the year afore- 
 
 * faid, this Deponent went into Baldwins 
 
 * Gar dens and Tent to the faid Miftrefs 
 
 * Holms** to fpeak with the faid D. S. 
 4 who did thereupon come and fpeak 
 *with this Deponent at one Mr. Bittin- 
 4 gers (with whom the faid D. had been 
 
 * before a Servant ; but when the faid D. 
 * left the faid Miftrefs Holme fs Service, 
 
 * this Deponent knoweth not. 
 
 L. I perceive Hewit and Chriflopher 
 have fworn D. S. to have gone away 
 from Holmes'* above a Month before fhe 
 came there to Service ; but what farther 
 Evidence have you of this matter ? 
 
 T. I defire thefe Depositions may likj- 
 <wife be read. 
 
 The Information of A.D. 
 
 A. D. of Oldflreet, Spinfter, depofeth, 
 ' That fome time after Midfummer in the 
 'year 1683. either the end of June, or 
 4 beginning of July of the fame year, this 
 
 * Deponent faw D. S. thep a Servant in 
 4 the Houfe of Mr. Holmes in Leopards 
 
 * Alley in Baldwins Gardens * but when the 
 
 * faid D. went from the faid Mr. Holmes'* 
 
 * Service, this Deponent knoweth not. 
 
 Ibe Information of K. C. 
 
 ' K. C. of Baldwinds Gardens ' maketh 
 
 * Oath, That in, or about the Month of 
 
 * July, 1683. ft e met D - s ' b y Leopards 
 
 * Alley in Balwins Gardens with Green 
 
 * Peafe, and the faid D. S. crying, this 
 
 * Deponent asked the reafonj to which 
 
 * the faid D. anfvvered, that her Miftrefs 
 
 * ( Mrs. Holmes of Leopards Alley in Bald- 
 'veins Gar dent, with whom fhe faid fhe 
 
 * then lived ") whilft fhe was at Market, 
 
 * that Morning had loft a Silver Spoon, 
 
 * and told her fhe fhould pay for it, or 
 
 * Words to that effecl:. This DeponeBC 
 ' further maketh Oath, That feveral Days 
 
 * after this fhe faw the faid D. in Bald- 
 4 wins Gardens, whilft the faid D. was C as 
 4 fhe then declared } a Servant to the faid 
 4 Mrs. Holmes. 
 
 The Information of E. M. 
 \ 
 
 * E. M. Wife of R. M. of Vine-flreet in 
 
 * Hatton Garden , Pavier, depofeth, That 
 *in July 1(58?. fhe lived next Door to 
 4 Mr. Holmes'* in Leopards Alley in Bald- 
 
 * wins Gardens, and fhe knew D. S. to be 
 4 a Servant in the Houfe of the faid Mr. 
 
 ' Holmes in the fame Month of July, 1683. Note 
 
 * after the Death of the late Earl of /- 
 'fex't but this Deponent knoweth not 
 *how long the faid D. S. tarried with 
 *the faid Mr, Holmes a Servant. This 
 
 * Deponent further depofeth, That the 
 
 * faid D. S 1 . in the fame Month of July 
 ' 1683. told this Deponent, that herMi- 
 *ftrefs had loft a Silver Spooa, and told 
 4 her fhe fhould pay for it : Whereupon 
 4 this Deponent laid, it was well if the 
 4 right Owner had not miflaid it to make 
 1 her pay for it , or Words to that effecl. 
 4 This Deponent farther depofeth, That 
 4 the faid D- S. remained a Servant with 
 4 the faid Mr. Holmet feveral days after 
 4 the faid Spooa was loft. 
 
 . Here are five Depofitions againft 
 your two, and unlefs thefe five appear 
 to be of very infamous Characters, Mrs. 
 Hewit and Chriflopher deferve a Pillory 
 for fwearing falfely in Protection of Mur- 
 der. What is fworn by thefe five feems very 
 natural, becaufe molt agree in this. That 
 D, S. was a Servant with Holmes in that 
 time of. the year when Green Peafe were 
 very plenty, and cheap :'Now this is a natu- 
 ral Evidence , that it was long after A- 
 pril; for all men know Peafe are not 
 then a Groat a Peck, nor indeed to be 
 had for any Price. 
 
 G. Thefe Depofuions contradict Hewn 
 and Chriflopher as to that pare which 
 
 proves
 
 (17). 
 
 proves D. 5. to go from Mr. Holmes in 
 April) but how do you prove Mr. Holmes 
 was in Town the i$b of July, 1683, fee ' 
 ing Mr. Swan as well as Hewit prove him 
 in the Countrey. 
 
 T. As for Mrs. Hewit s Depofition in 
 that point, it is of no credit at all, for 
 if it be once difproved in any parti- 
 cular, ("as I think it fufficiently is,j the 
 cre.dk of the whole is deftroyed ; for per- 
 jured r forefworn in one thing , believed in 
 nothing. But feeing Mr. Swan ("which by 
 the way is fallen into ill Company in this 
 his Evidence) depofeth, That Holmes 
 came to his Houfe about the $th of July, 
 1683, and tarried till the 23^. Mr. Swan 
 hath fworn very indefinitely, as to the 
 firft part, for what allowance he will 
 have made for about , I can't imagine, if 
 he thinks reafonable that about (hall in- 
 clude the 1 6,th, (feeing the time is fo 
 long part, to which he fwears , this ob- 
 jection falls of it felf 5 but if the Parfon 
 will be more certain, and depofe, that 
 Mr. Holmes was at his Houfe before the 
 i$thot July 1683, and tarried there till 
 the 23</, then will his Oath be fome Ob- 
 jection, which otherwife is none. Ne- 
 verthelefs it appears by the Informations 
 following, that Mr. Holmes did not go in- 
 to the Countrey with Mrs. Hewit , till 
 D. 5. left Holmes^ Service, and it is 
 Sworn by E. M, that D. S. did not leave 
 Mr. Holmes^ Service till after my Lord's 
 Death , therefore according to thefe In- 
 formations , Holmes did not go into the 
 Countrey till after the Death of the late 
 Earl of Ejjex : Pray read this Informa- 
 tion. 
 
 G. W. A. Declareth, and is ready to 
 4 Depofe, that whilft D. 5. was Servant 
 ' to Mr. Holmes, in the Year of our Lord 
 ' 1683, this Informant being then Ap- 
 
 * prentice to the faid Mr. Holmes, remem- 
 ' bers that Mrs. Holmes pretended (he loft 
 
 * a Silver Spoon , but this Informant faith, 
 'that the faid D. S. was not imme- 
 diately hereupon turned away, forfhe 
 
 * tarried fometime after, to the befl of 
 
 * this Informants remembrance about a 
 
 * Fortnight. This Informant further faith, 
 
 * That Mr. Holmes did not go his Journey 
 f into the Countrey with Mrs. Dorothy 
 f Henit, until after the faid D. S. left his 
 ' Service. But this Informant at prefent 
 
 * can't be poffitive what Month the faid 
 
 * D. S. went from Mr. Holmes** Service. 
 
 T. This Information doth further prove w.A.rJ| 
 that the faid D. did remain a Servant with d ? ta ^M 
 Holmes fome time after this Spoon was y^f D^'/jf 
 loft, and was not immediately turned a- HoimeVj'srf-' 
 way , as was pretended by Hewit. -vice, fhe wl! 
 But a ftronger Evidence to prove **& >'' I 
 Hewit in Town , whilft. (he (wears fhe f '" and "" 
 was with Mr. Holmes in the Countrey, <52| 
 then any you yet heard , is a Taylors Papifts are | 
 Book ready to be produced, by which it Bloody PCO-| 
 appears , that Mrs. lie wit had a Dud- P^, The Pa-;- 
 Gown , ( a peculiar Riding upper Gar- SKdJSj 
 ment,)made for her the Week next after P i e> faa-am 
 fhe fwore (he went out of Town , (this times mr v 
 Gown was made the Week my Lord p*"'g > W 
 Died,} the Gown appears to be made ^ 
 about the Wednefday , which was the nr6 w 
 of July, the fecond day next before my fhe frfl 
 Lord's Death j but the Taylor can't be f y L 
 pbflfitive what day of this Week he did >Mrt w 
 deliver this Gown to Mrs. Hewit. The g h 
 Taylor's Information is as followeth. 
 
 ' J. W. of St. Dunftans declareth and Is 
 
 * ready to depofe, that in //>, 1683, he 
 
 * lived in Poppins Alley, nigh Fleet ftreet, 
 
 * very near Mrs. Dorothy Hewit, and often 
 
 * wrought for the faid Mrs. Hewit, and 
 
 * between Mmday the prft of July 1^83, 
 
 * and Monday the \6thot the fame Month 
 
 * and Year, this Informant made or cau- 
 4 fed to be made , a Dud-Gown for the 
 
 * faid Mrs. Hewit, as appears by this In- 
 
 c fortjQanrSjR nnk ., ready to be produced; f^\ 
 
 * andmev^ry fame V/eek , fvi^-J be- 
 
 * tween Monday the pf/; of July 1683, and 
 Monday the 1 6th of the fame Month and 
 
 * Year (but in the very Day, this Infor- 
 
 * maat is not certain j } this Informant 
 4 carried the faid Dufl-Gown to the 
 
 D ' faid
 
 ( 
 
 * faid Mrs. Hemt, who did then pretend 
 
 * fhe was about going into the Countrey, 
 
 * but how long after the Duft-Gown fo the 
 'delivered, the faid' Mrs. .Hemt did go 
 
 * into the Countrey, this Informant know- 
 
 * erh not. 
 
 T. This entry before my Lord's Death 
 
 next Leaf to this torn out and loft. 
 L. Upon the (mailed matters things of 
 2 greateft moment many times do 
 depend > who could have thought this 
 entry fo preferved , would have been 
 ferviceable info weighty and juft a caafe. 
 T. No one Providence is independent 
 
 is fo clear an Argumenc of the falcity of but the mod confiderable occurrences 
 
 Holmes^ Defence- . are often brought about by things of the 
 
 L. And confequently of the truth of leaft confederation. Jofepti's Dream pre- 
 
 his charge. 
 
 T. That there can'c be a more fatis- 
 faftory Evidence in this part produced. 
 
 G. How came this entry to be found 
 out. 
 
 T. When Mr. Br addon found- that Holmes 
 endeavoured to prove fas before fworn 
 by Hemt} himfelf out of Town from the 
 
 ferved his Aged Father , and all his Ere* 
 thren, and in them all that fprang from 
 them, from that pale Famine that other- 
 wife might have devoured not thefe on- 
 ly, but Egypt it felf. And Ahafuerut not 
 being able either to Dream or Sleep, noc 
 only faves the Jews from their Enemies, 
 but deftroys their very Enemies them- 
 
 6th of July 1685, to the z6th or 27*6 of felves. 
 
 the fame Month Mr. B. did endeavour to L, What can Hdmes and Hemt fay in 
 
 enquire out all fuch as either Mr. Holmes Vindication of this notorious falfe, De- 
 
 or Mrs. Hemt were well known to or fence. 
 
 traded with , and therefore he made in- T. As foon as Mrs. Hemt underftood 
 
 quiry after all thofe with whom (in that fuch a Taylors entry was againft her Oath, 
 
 Month and Year) they bought of or fold to fhe with Holme?* Wife went to this Tay- 
 
 all Shopkeepers, Taylors, Butchers, Fifli- ' 
 
 mongers, Shoemakers , Hatters , &c. and 
 
 fuch as upon inquiry he received fuch 
 
 Characters of, as he might expeft fair 
 fatisfaftion from , he did defire to fee 
 their Books in that Month of July, to fee 
 whether any Goods were bought in Town 
 
 lor, and defired to fee his Book, which 
 being (hewed, Hemt ficft pretended that 
 this Entry was^brged and new ; but when 
 Mr. W. declared he could fafely, and 
 would depofe that the Entry was real, it 
 was then pretended that the Gown was 
 fent into the Country after Mrs. Hemt ; 
 
 by the faid Mr. Mimes or Mrs. Heveit , but when in anfwer to that, Mr. W, de- 
 
 ( for proving Hemt in Town , proves 
 ffelmes likewife in Town, becaufe its 
 fworn and can be prov'd, they both went 
 out of Town together,) or any Money 
 
 clared he could depofe, that Mrs. Hemt 
 was in Town when that Duft-Gown was 
 made and delivered, and that ftie then 
 pretended fhe was about going into the 
 
 paid between the 6th and 26th ot July, by Countrey, ("but how many days after (he 
 
 either of thefe. After a very long and 
 tedious Inquiry, (all thofe Tradesmen 
 
 did go, he could not tell.} Mrs. Hemt told 
 him if he did Swear that, he would take 
 
 being altogether Strangers to Mr. Braddon) off her Brothers life, and Holmes^ Blood 
 he providentially met with this Mr. W. would be upon his head 
 readily fhewed his 
 
 who very readily fhewed hisBook , 
 wherein isentred as before^^BBf This 
 Book hath not been of any ufe. to Mr. W. 
 for almoft five Years, and it was a very 
 great Providence this had not been torn 
 out, feeing the Book for fome Years had 
 
 been ufcd as wafte Paper, and the very Perjury on his Head. 
 
 L. This is a Villanous and Falfe Sug- 
 geftion,to prevent the detection of Blood 1 , 
 and evade the punifhment for the vileft 
 Murder. I am fure of this , if Mr. W* 
 fhould upon Oath deny what he can with 
 fafety affert, he would, draw the guilt of 
 
 And not only fo, 
 bur,
 
 but this Perjury being in protection of a 
 Murder, to that Perjury, he would add the 
 guilt of my Lord's Blood, feeing by that 
 Perjury he doth endeavour to ftifle the 
 Difcovery, and prevent the Profecution 
 of the mod Treacherous, Barbarous and 
 Cruel Murder ( in all circumftances con- 
 fider'd ) our Nation ever knew. If he 
 that protects a Murderer (being well 
 allured that he is fuch) in his Houfe, to 
 avoid the common methods of Juftice, 
 deferves in our Law to anfwer this Eva- 
 lion, (which makes him acceflary after 
 the faftj with nothing lefs than his Life. 
 How much more criminal (before God) 
 is he that by Perjury endeavours to fru- 
 ftrate the Execution of Juftice upon the 
 the like offender 5 the firft doth an aftion 
 in it felf abftra&ed from the end hofpi- 
 table, nay , it may be charitable, and his 
 intentions ('which argues his after aflent 
 to the Murder,} renders him a Criminal. 
 But the fecond commits one of the greateft 
 Tranfgreflions (which in it felf deferves 
 almoft Death,) with die fame ill defign 
 as the fkft j wherefore moft certainly he 
 is the greateft Criminal of the two, 
 by that addition of Perjury to the fame 
 offence. And though our Law in this 
 cafe punifh not the fecond Offender with 
 Death, yet I am fure (and I think all men 
 will own ; that the fecond moft deferves 
 it. 
 
 ' That D. S. was a Servant at Holmes^ 
 ' the day of my Lord Rwjjefs Tryal, and 
 'my Lord of Effex'z Death, and that Mr. 
 
 * Htlmes and Mrs. Dorothy Hevcit were then. 
 
 * in Town, farther appears from the words 
 ' of a Dying man , who upon his Death- 
 e bed did feveral times declare he knew 
 
 * D. S. then there a Servant, and Holmes 
 and fievfit then in Town, and both 
 ' Holmes and Hevejt that merning , pre- 
 ' tended they would go to my Lord 
 ' Ruffefe Tryal : This Perfon did often for 
 'feveral days before his Death, declare 
 4 this, as what he could anfwer as a great 
 
 * truth before that God, before whom he 
 'was Ihortly to appear, and all this he 
 
 ' did confirm with almoft his very laft 
 
 * breath. This Perfon did farther declare, 
 ' that when D.S. was a Servant to the faid 
 ' Mr. Holmes, and a little before fhe left 
 ' Holmes'* Service, fhe told this Informant 
 ' fhe was much troubled with fomewhat 
 
 * which lay upon her mind ; upon which 
 ' this Informant was defirous to know what 
 ' it was, but the faid D. would not tell, 
 ' being unwilling and afraid ; upon which 
 'this Informant advifedher to go to fome 
 ' Divine and difclofe it. 
 
 L. If the pofitive Depofitions of the 
 Living , and the laft Breath of a Dying 
 man then dropping into Eternity, where 
 this Relation ( had it been falfe, ) would 
 0tt eternally torment4 him ) may be 
 credited, Hevrit and Chriftopber are moft 
 notoriously perjured , ( and the Parfon 
 himfelf about being forfworn, for about 
 hath fav'd him from a flat Perjury,) and 
 confequently Mr. Holtnes's Defence thus 
 Sworn to, is falfe throughout. 
 
 T. Who then can otherwife conclude, 
 bat that his charge is true. 
 
 L. It's very probable, that fome or o- 
 ther that knew Mr. Holmes or Mrs. Hewit, 
 might fee one or both of them at my 
 Lord RuffeFs Tryal, (if they were there J 
 or might that night hear them confefs 
 their having been there j for this was a 
 very notorious thing, and a fight which 
 People of their Religion and Characters 
 would rejoyee to fee and delight much 
 in the Repitition of. 
 
 Q. It's not unlikely but that others may 
 remember they faw them that day, and 
 heard them give an account of both my 
 Lord Ruffd\ Tryal, and the Earls Death ; 
 for both thefe things are fo remarkable, 
 as may fix the remembrance of Holmes*?, 
 and Hevnts being in Town in fome of 
 their acquaintance. 
 
 T. I think the Taylors Book before 
 obferved, and the words of a Dying-man 
 will be fufficient to convince all mankind. 
 NeTer'chelefs I can't but fay this, that it's 
 the duty of every Perfon that can be pofi- 
 tive in Hewits or Holmes^ being in Town 
 D 2 rhac
 
 (10) 
 
 thit dcy the Earl of Effex was murdered, 
 which was the fame day my Lord Ruffel 
 was try"d,or their being in Town the day 
 juft before or next after, (for that Week 
 proves Hevoit Perjured , who Swears flie 
 and Holmes went out of Town the Week 
 next before , and returned not till the 
 z6th of the fame month I fay whofo- 
 ever can be pofitive in this, and reveals 
 it no^ confents to the Death of my Lord ; 
 and though Humane Law reach him not, 
 the Divine Law-giver will one day lay ic 
 to his charge, as confenting to this Blood. 
 
 G. This Doftrine I do not well under- 
 ftand. 
 
 L. The Doftrine (I think; is both true 
 and plain, and {will give you an inftoiK 
 fomevvhat like This. A Gendman fucn 
 a day very early in the morning was found 
 Murdered between London and Highgate , 
 with one Glove lying by the Body, and 
 not any Perfonat thefirftby his Relations 
 particularly fufpe&ed for the Murderer 5 
 at length upon diligent Inquiry , it was 
 found out (about Two Months after the 
 Death, ) that a certain Gentleman had 
 fvvorn he would Murder the Deceafed, if 
 he could ever meet with an opportunity. 
 Upon this fufpition he was taken up, the 
 Prifoner denies the fa<a, and in particular 
 faith, that he-could make it appear by two 
 (then prefept) how that two days before 
 this Murder he went to Salisbury , and 
 tarried there till Ten days after, and 
 fuch a day, he with his Two Friends re- 
 turn'd to London , (which Two Friends 
 being then there, declared they were rea- 
 dy to Depofe the fame. A Gentleman 
 juft then coming in r who knew and was 
 very well acquainted with the Prifoner, 
 having been informed of his Defence, in> 
 mediately reflefted upon this Defence , 
 and knew it to be falfe , for this Gentle- 
 man with three others, (all knowing the 
 Prifoner) very betimes the very morning 
 the Murder was committed, (which was 
 of a remarkable day ) were walking out 
 in Lambs-Co-ndttit Fields , there and then 
 met the Prifoner, (with another Perfou a 
 
 Stranger to them; to whom they fpoke, 
 and he to them -, and a little after the 
 Prifoner, was his Spaniel running with a 
 Fringe Glo*e in his Mouth -, this Gentle- 
 man being well known to the Dog, calls 
 the Dog, and takes from him the Glove, 
 puts it in his Pocket, and carries it home^ 
 This Gentleman therefore knowing this 
 Defence to be falfe , concluded ( as he 
 naturally might) that the charge was true, 
 and hereupon (chough with fome re- 
 Iu5tancy, becaufe the Prifoner was his ac- 
 quaintance, but not dearer to him then 
 his love to Juftice, ; declares what you 
 have before heard, and fetches the Glove 
 and his two Friends , and all depofe fin 
 contradiction to the Prifoner s Defence 
 what you have before heard related, and 
 the Glove appeared to be the Glove of 
 the Perfon Murdered, and Fellow to that 
 found by the Body. ) And now I defire 
 to know of you what you think of this 
 Gentleman ( who thus falfjfied the De- 
 fence,) did he do the duty of an honefi 
 man. 
 
 G. Truly I believe he did, and was to 
 be commended for fo doing, though the 
 Prifoner was his Acquaintance, for Juftice 
 obliged him to it, and *=fjufftce fcnoto.6 
 neither Acquaintance, fetation 
 jfrienfl. 
 
 T. Bat do you not think that this 
 Gentleman (in foro ConfcientitJ had been 
 confenting to this Murder, had he fufter- 
 ed the Prifoner 'by fuch a forged Defence 
 (which he well knew to be falfe) to baffle 
 the Profecution, 
 
 G. By his filence he would have con- 
 fented to the Murder, and (negatively at 
 leaft) protected the Prifoner from that 
 jufl Puniftiment which both the Law of 
 God and Man juftly inflids for fuch an 
 offence. 
 
 T. Upon the whole matter, I think yon 
 have rather loft then got any ground by 
 thofe Dcpofhions upon which you forauch 
 rely'd , to falfify D. S. Testimony j and 
 that which you have brought to deftroy, 
 hath ftrengthcned her Evidence, andcon- 
 
 fequently 

 
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 fequently gives credit to the truth of that 
 moft Barbarous Murder. 
 
 L. For my own pare I am very well 
 fatisfied, that D. S. hath depofed the 
 truth j for how can it be thought that fhe 
 fhould declare Co long fince that fhe knew 
 of this Confult , if fhe had not indeed 
 heard it y her very faying it, would have 
 gone nigh (J as it would then have been 
 managed per fat ant nefat, to have coft her 
 life j and to believe that fhe would ha- 
 zard her life to a Lye , can't enter into 
 my thoughts. And therefore I am verily 
 perfwaded that nothing but the power of 
 truth made her fpeak in this matter. 
 
 G. It appears fworn by Hewit^ that 
 D. S. threacned Mrs. Holmes wich Revenge 
 when fhe was turned away. 
 
 L. For this you have the Oath of one 
 who is diffidently detected of a falfity in 
 two other particulars , and therefore not 
 in this or any thing elle to be credited. 
 
 T. Had fhe defigned any Revenge, fhe 
 would have fworn more home upon Mr. 
 Holmes^ for when fhe was asked whether 
 fhe did remember that Mr. Holmes was in 
 the Room either of the Two Meetings be- 
 fpre my Lord's Death , fhe declared fhe 
 would not fwear it, bccaufe fhe remem- 
 bred not that fhe had heard him there j 
 tour all that (he could poficively fwear a- 
 gainft him , was what palled after my 
 Lord's Des:h , (vt%.j) When Mr. Holmes 
 came into the Room about Three of the ClocJ^ 
 that day my Lord dyed^ one ftrikes htm upon 
 the Bac^ and crys we have done the feat ; 
 upon which Mr. Holmes faid. What it the 
 Earls Throat car, to which the other replied 
 yet, and further fitid) he could not but laugh 
 ta thinly how likf a Fool the Earl looked when 
 they came to cut his Throat j upon Holmes'* 
 Queftion, it was plain he well underftood 
 the meaning of that exprefllon , the Feat 
 was done^ or otherwise he could not fo 
 readily have hit the thing. 
 
 G. Can it be fuppofed Me. Holmes would 
 
 Clock that day in every mans mouth ', and 
 confequently Holmes could not but believe' 
 without any further inquiry at that time 
 of the day. 
 
 L. What Holmes here fpoke by way of 
 Interrogation , might be intended as a 
 ftrong affirmation of what feemed to be 
 asked, and this you can't wonder at -, Have 
 you forgot that common Figure ? Qgnrit 
 Erotefis, &c. Is not this the Carpenters Son ? 
 Is not thif he (fpeaking of St. Paul) that 
 deftroyed them which called on hu Name at 
 Jerufalem, i&y. in both thefe, the thing is 
 moft ftrongly affirmed. A Thoufand fuch 
 inftances might be given. Or it's poffible 
 that D. s. might miflake ; for whereas 
 fhe faith , that Holmes faid, What is the 
 Earls Throat cut ? which makes it an 
 Interrogation , the Exprefllon might be, 
 What the Earls Throat is cut , and this 
 makes it a pofitive Affirmation. Here the 
 words are the very fame, only in the firft, 
 the Copula is placed before the Subjeft, 
 and in the laft juft before the Predicate. 
 
 G. I naufl confefs if either of thefe have 
 fworn true, or the dying man fpoke truth, 
 this truth is a very ftrong confirmation of 
 her Teftimony, and I cannot well disbe- 
 lieve thefe Five, feeing they do all fo well 
 agree in their Evidence } for Five fwear 
 Smith was there about Peas time , which 
 mufl be after April. I fhall detain you no 
 longer upon this particular* bui tlefire yoa 
 to proceed. 
 
 T. Secondly, the many reports in feve- 
 ral parts of England (before the Earls 
 DeatbJ tnat the Earl of Effe-x had cut his 
 Throat in the Tower. This is proved by- 
 Eight Witneflts. 
 
 L. Enough fure to one point. 
 G. If their credit be good, none ought 
 to doubt what is attefted by fo many. 
 
 Z.. The Scripture faith, that in the 
 mouth of Two Witneffes a thing fiiall be 
 confirmed i he that will doubt the truth 
 of a Faft attefled by Eight credible Per- 
 
 at Three of the Clock that day my Lord -fens is not to be argued with. 
 
 Dy'd, ask whether my Lord's Throat was I". Pray read thefe Eight Informations. 
 
 cue,, when it had been from Eleven of the . 
 
 G. <
 
 C 34-0 
 
 G. W. T. declareth, and is ready to 
 4 depofe, that Wednesday being the nth 
 ' of July 1683, the fecond day before the 
 ' Death of the late Earl of Effex, one Mr.tf. 
 'of Froom'mSomerfetfiire, told this Infor* 
 ' mam, -that the Earl of Ejjex had cut his 
 c Throat in the Tower. This Informant far- 
 ' ther faith, that about the \2th of the 
 ' fame -Month of July, in the Year afore- 
 ' faid, meeting fome Clothiers then newly 
 ' come from Lindon , the Clothiers de- 
 
 * clared to this Informant , that the Earl 
 'of Ejjex had cut his Throat in the 
 'Tower, Fryday before, abcutNine of the 
 ' Clock in the morning -, upon which this 
 4 Informant declared, he had heard it from 
 'Mr. H. the Wedne/day before my Lords 
 ' Death. This Informant farther faith , 
 
 * that meeting the faid Mr. #.{bon after, 
 ' this Informant asked the faid Mr. H. 
 
 * how he could inform this Informant the 
 
 * Wednesday before my Lord of Effex's 
 'Death, that my Lord had cut his Throat 
 ' in the Tower, when it appeared that my 
 
 * Lord of Effex did not dye till Eryday 
 ' morning after, about Nine of the Clock. 
 ' Upon which tbe faid H. anfwered , that 
 
 * all concluded my Lord of Effex would 
 ' either cut his Throat, or be an Evidence 
 ' againft his Friend my Lord Ruffe I, and 
 c moft believed my Lord would rather cut 
 
 * his Throat, then turn Evidence againft 
 -* his Friend. 
 
 ' /. B.of Marlborough in the County of 
 c Wilts, Pinmaker, declareth, and is ready 
 
 * to depofe, -that he this Informant was at 
 
 * Froom about 8 in the morning,about too 
 'Miles from London,Fryday the i-$thotjuly, 
 
 * in the Year of our Lord, 1683, and this 
 
 * Informant then heard at the Dolphin a- 
 ' forefaid, that the Earl of Effex had cut 
 ' his Throat in the Tower 5 and the Perfon 
 ' that informed this Informant then far- 
 'ther declared, that he much feared it 
 
 * might go the worfe with my Lord Ruffel 
 
 * which that day was to be try'd. 
 
 ' Mrs. M. declareth, and is ready to de- 
 *pofe, that Thurfday the \2th of July, 
 
 * 1683 , going with her Daughter into 
 
 ' Bark/tire, her Daughter informed this 
 ' Informant , that the night before being 
 'Wednesday night a Gentleman declared 
 ' it was reported one of the Lords in the 
 4 Tower had cut his Throat. 
 
 ' Mr. P. H. Merchant and his Wife 
 ' both declare, and are ready to depofe, 
 ' that thefe Informants were at Tunbridge- 
 ' Wells about Thirty Five Miles frcm 
 e London, the day of the Death of the late 
 ' Earl of Effex , and about Ten of the My Lord n>.u 
 ' Clock that very morning , it was vvhif- *# known to 
 4 pered nigh the Wells, that the Earl of b ' dead ltil 
 Effex had cut his Throat in the Tower, after *""' 
 ' but the fame was foon contradicted and 
 ' hufhed up till Chappel was ended, which 
 ' was about or a litcle before Twelve of the 
 ' Clock, and then the fame report was re- 
 ' vived,and fo continued without any con- 
 
 * tradicYion. 
 
 ' T. F. of Andover about 60 Miles from 
 1 Lwdon declareth, and is ready to depofe, 
 'that the iof/j of July i68g, being the 
 ' Wednefday next before the Death of the 
 ' late Earl of Effex, this Informant heard 
 ' it reported at Andwer aforefaid , that 
 
 * the Earl of Effex had cut his Throat in 
 ' the Tower, and it was that fame Wednef- 
 q day likewife declared, that the Earl cut 
 ' his Throat for this reafon , vi%. ) the 
 ' King and Duke coming into the Tower 
 
 * where the Earl of Effex was a Prifoner 
 ' for High Treafon , the Earl was afraid 
 ' the King would have came up into his 
 ' Chamber and have feen him , but his 
 ' Guilt and Shame was fuch, that he could 
 ' not bear the thoughts of it, having been 
 ' fo ungrateful an Offender againrt fo good 
 *a Mafterj therefore his Lordfhip cut his 
 'Throat to avoid it. This Informant 
 ' farther faith , that the fame Wednefday 
 
 * night inquiring at the Coflfee-houfe, whe- 
 ' ther the Lgndon Letters made any men- 
 *tion of this, he could hear of none 
 
 * that writ of it ; upon which this 
 ' Informant concluded it was falfe , 
 ' though the fame report continued 
 *at Andover. This Informant further 
 
 * faith, that by Friday Port he did expeft a 
 
 'Con-
 
 Confirmation of the fame, but could not 
 '(upon inquiry) hear of any LondonLtt- 
 'ters that fpoke of ic ; upon which this 
 
 * Informant concluded all was falfe. But 
 'Saturday being the i^th of Jut}., the ve- 
 
 * ry next day after the Earl's death, this 
 
 * Informant was told that the Earl of Effex 
 ' had cut his Throat in the Tower ; upon 
 which this Informant declared he had 
 
 * heard the fame (repeating what he had 
 
 * as before heard) the Wednefday before ; 
 
 * upon which this Informant was told that 
 
 * it was very flrange, feeing the Earl did 
 
 * not cut his Throat till the Friday after, 
 
 * at or a lictle after Nine of the Clock in the 
 
 * Morning. 
 
 ' J. B. Declareth, and is ready to De- 
 ' pofe, That he, this Informant, lay ac 
 
 * Andover (about Sixty Miles from London) 
 'Thurfday night the nth of July 1685,, 
 ' the very next day before the death of 
 
 * the late Earl of Effex ; aad as this Infor- 
 
 * mant Fryday Morning about Four of 
 
 * the Clock, was going out with the Oftler 
 
 * to catch his Horfe, the Oftler feveral 
 
 * times over-told this Informant, that the 
 
 * night before it was reported at his Ma- 
 
 * fters Houfe, that the Earl of Effex had 
 
 * cut his Throat in the Tower. This In- 
 
 * formant further faith, That the very 
 
 * fame day in the Afternoon he came to 
 
 * his own Houfe in Southward in the 
 ' County of Surry, and was then Inform* 
 
 * ed, that the Earl of Effex that very 
 'Morning, between Nine and Ten of the 
 'Clock, had cut his Throat in the Tower; 
 ' upon -which this Informant was much 
 ' furprized, having, as before, heard the 
 ' fame at Andover, nigh Sixty Miles from 
 ''London, above Four hours' before the 
 ' Earl's death. 
 
 '7- S. of Bo/f and fvin Court is 
 e feady to Depofe, That at or before Six 
 ' of the Clock, that very Morning the late 
 ' Earl of Effex dy'd in the Tower, (w<. 
 July the i $tb 1683.^ there came 
 'into this Informants Houfe, a Gentle- 
 'tnan, who, with much concern, told 
 
 * thh Informant he had juft before heard 
 
 ' the Earl of Effex had cut his Throat in 
 ' the Tower ; but this Informant about a 
 ' Eleven of the Clock the fame day being 
 ' informed that the Earl was not dead till 
 ' about Nine of the Clock. This Infer- 
 ' formant was much furprized at the Re- 
 'port of my Lord's having cut his Throat 
 ' fo many Hours before the Earl's death. 
 G. Have any ofthefe eight been fvvorn 
 before the Lords / 
 
 T. I have been informed by all thofe 
 Eight -Witnefles, that they hive Depo- 
 fed fin Subftance) as you have before ^ 
 
 Report can b* 
 
 L. I think no Man can well doubt theyW^W 
 Truth of this Report before my Lord's "J more > hltt 
 death, thus Depofed by fo many Wit- tft ^ e e: * !:t 
 neffes vnllntt f atis -' 
 
 U\.IJ^.Ot ft . , f, 
 
 T. Thofe Men vyink hard, ("that they wknft'c^.' 
 may not be convinced) who will nocw- 
 reasonably conclude from thofe veiy Re- 
 ports only, were there no other fort of 
 Evidence, that this Brave and Honourable, 
 but unfortunate Earl was indeed barbarouf- 
 ly Murdered ; for you may obferve all thofe 
 Reports in many Places of England, Agree in 
 the Manner how, and the Place where ; for 
 all faid that the Earl had cut his Throac 
 in the Tower : One Report doth not fay the 
 Earl had destroyed himfelf, which might 
 have comprehended any manner of death, 
 neither do any of thofe Reports fay, 
 That my Lord had Poifoned, Stab'd, 
 Hanged or Piftolled hmafelf ; C al1 which 
 are common ways of Self- deftruft ion, 
 and either might have been practiced by 
 any Gentleman under Confinement) nei- 
 ther do either of thofe Reports differ in. 
 the Place where, ("though all thofe Pla- M 
 ces where the Report was before my c 
 Lord's death, that my Lord had cut his 
 Throat in the Tower, could 'not at the 
 time of this Report be prefumed to have 
 been informed of my Lord's being in the 
 Tower) I fay all thefe Reports jump in 
 one and the fame manner of Self mur- 
 der, and all agree in the Place where, 
 (w^O the Tower. This clearly proves, 
 that fome days before my Lord's very 
 
 OommicV
 
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 Commitment to the Tower, it was con- 
 cluded, not only that my Lord fhouldbe 
 murdered in the General, but Jikewife the 
 Particular manner how, and the Place 
 where refolved upon. For htnv could Froatne 
 ("being a Hundred Miles from Lyndon) hear 
 Wednefdcty Morning the nth cf July, of 
 my Lords being Prifoner in the Tower , 
 when hisLorfhip was not fent to the Tower 
 till the day before(being the loth in the Af- 
 ternoon: Or how could this Commitment 
 be well heard of at Andrver ("about Six- 
 ty Miles from London) on Wedmfday Morn- 
 ing, (Tuefdays Port not being there till Wed- 
 nefdayin the Afternoon) when the Com- 
 mitment was not till the Tuefday in the Af- 
 ternoon j and yet at both thefe Places, this 
 very Wednefday Morning, was it reported 
 that the Earl had cut his Throat in the 
 Tower. 
 
 L. To me 'tis beyond all doubt from 
 what before appears, that the Tower muft 
 be fixed upon as the place , where this 
 perfidious Cruelty was to be afted, before 
 my Lord was Prifoner in the Tower, and 
 the particular manner concluded in, or o- 
 therwife the Reports as to the manner how, 
 and place where, would have differed. 
 
 G. But how could it be fuppofed to 
 be fent from hence the Saturday before 
 my Lord's death , that my Lord of Effex 
 had cut his Throat in the Tower , when 
 it was well known throughout this Town, 
 that my Lord was not then in the Tower, 
 nor committed till the Tttefday follow- 
 ing ? 
 
 T. Upon the beft Inquiry I could 
 make, and the moil probable reafon I can 
 give (Tiow this came fo reported in the 
 Country, before it was indeed done) is 
 this : It was refolved upon, as D. S. depo- 
 feth, Nine days before my Lord's death , 
 that my Lord's Throat mould be cut. 
 Now thofe that were privy to the whole 
 Secret , and were willing to oblige their 
 Country Correfpondents and Friends with 
 this (_to that bloody Party) grateful refo- 
 lution , That the Earl's Throat was to be 
 cut in tjje Tower , and, laid to his own 
 
 Charge , and this to be done either foon 
 after his firfl Commitment, or upon my 
 Lord Ruffe //'s Tryal ( which was put off 
 fome fhorc time) fuch as had received fo 
 weighty Intelligence were likewife willing 
 and ready, partly out of a defire to oblige 
 their Friends in the Country, ("to whom 
 this Defign might be as acceptable ) and 
 partly out of an Itch of telling News, and 
 of being the firfl in the Country that gave 
 Information of this to them glad-tidings) 
 not doubting but my Lord's Throat was 
 indeed cut, when it was firft refolved up- 
 on to be cut, (vi%.~) either upon his firft 
 Commitment ( which they might fuppofe 
 would have been before it was, all things 
 being fo refolv'd upon ) or upon my 
 Lord RuJJetTs Tryal ("which was to have 
 been before it was, but put off, of which 
 thefe Country - Intelligencers might not 
 hear. ) Thefe (I fay) being informed that 
 the matter was thus laid, concluded the 
 thing was done as it was fo defigned to 
 be done , and fo reported the thing as 
 done before it was indeed done. 
 
 G. I took more particular notice of 
 F's Information, than of either of the 
 Eight. If I miftake not , F, fwears that 
 the Wednefdcty before my Lord's Death, it 
 was reported at Andwer, That the King 
 and Duke being in the Tower, the Earl 
 was afraid the King would have come up 
 into his Chamber, and have feen him, but 
 his guilt and fhame was fuch ( in confide- 
 ration of his great ingratitude to the beft 
 of Mafters) that he cut his Throat to a- 
 void it j I defirc to fee this Information 
 again. 
 
 T. You are as to the Subftance in the 
 right. 
 
 G. This looks as though the Story 
 were made after my Lord's Death , for 
 the King and Dnke went not to the Tower 
 till Friday Morning , and their then going 
 was altogether a turprize to the whole 
 Town : And after the Earl's Death their 
 being then there occasioned very grofs re- 
 flections, feeing they had not been fjas I 
 have been credibly informed) above twice 
 
 toge- 
 
 Note.
 
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 together in the Tower fince the Reftora- 
 tion.Now that this unfortunate Aftion ("the 
 Earl's Death } fhould be cloathed in die 
 very fame circumftancesB as afterwards 
 pretended to be done, not only as to the 
 Manner how , the Place where , but like- 
 wife the Reafon wherefore -, which Rea- 
 Ibn fets forch the King and Duke's being 
 in the Tower when the Earl did it, and 
 done to avoid feeing his Majefty ; for the 
 Earl (aswasfaid} was afraid the King 
 would have come up into his Chamber 
 and feen him , but the King and Duke's 
 being in the Tower could neither be fore- 
 feen nor expected j this, I fay, makes F's 
 Evidence fcarce credible. 
 
 T. Neither the Cutting the Earl's 
 Throat, or the place where it was to be 
 done, or who was to be there, Cvi%. the 
 King and Duke} when it was to be done, 
 could be either forefeen or expefted by 
 any but thofe who either laid this bloody 
 Scene, or were privy by Information to 
 its contrivance , and fuch as well knew , 
 or had been informed how this matter 
 was refolved upon, may well be fuppofed 
 capable of giving a particular Information 
 of this/tcruel Tragedy. 
 
 L. I do well remember that the ve- 
 ry Morning my Lord dy'd there was a 
 fmall Paper cry'd about of the Earl's 
 Death, wherein it was fo reprefented, 
 and the common report of the Town then 
 was, That the Earl cut his Throat, for the 
 fame reafon fo long before afligned by 
 the report at Andover. I muft confefs 
 this is very aftpnifliing, and whofoever 
 believes F's Evidence only, muft from 
 fuch a belief be fully allured , not only 
 that the Earl's Throat was defigned to be 
 cut j but likewife that it was contrived to 
 be done in the fame circumftances it was 
 afterwards acled under , for elfe it could 
 not poflibly be fo circumstantially report- 
 ed before my Lord s Death j not only as to 
 the ffow and the Where , but likewife the 
 Wherefore given out before it was done. 
 
 T. Gentlemen, I perceive you are 
 both extremely furprized with this par- 
 ticular Evidence of F. as what looks like 
 
 an after made Story, feeing the Earl's 
 Death was here fo long before reported , 
 as afterwards it was pretended to be acled, 
 both as to the Circumflances of the King 
 and Duke's being in the Tower, and the 
 Confideration that (was pretended) then 
 moved the Earl hereunto (ii^.) fear of 
 the King's coming into his Chamber, and 
 feeing him, which his guilt and fhame (as 
 was pretended ) would not bear the 
 thoughts of: But to confirm this Dcpofi- 
 tion, you will ^hereafter hear others de- 
 pofe the fame j in the mean time I defire 
 you would compare this with that part 
 of D. S. Evidence, which declares, That 
 Nine days before the Earl's Death it was 
 declared, that the Duke had concluded and 
 ordered his Throat to be cut ; And 
 Higknefs bad promifed to be There when ic 
 was done. Now it would have looked 
 more diredly upon his Higknefs^ fhould 
 he alone have gone into the Tower that 
 Morning j and therefore as a colour to 
 that pretended reafon for the felf-mur- 
 ther, and a Skreen to his Highnefs, his 
 Majefty muft be perfwaded to go down 
 likewife ; fo that if any ftould fay the 
 Earl was Murthered, it fhould be efteemed 
 a Refleftion upon his Majefty, who was 
 then in the Tower, as though his Ma- 
 jefty had gone co the Tower that Morn- 
 ing to Murther the Earl. Thus we find 
 the matter managed by the I*>rd Chief Ju- 
 ftice and Attorney-General at Mr. Brad- 
 dor^ Tryal, almoft throughout the Tryal 
 
 L. I perceive then that you do not 
 think Charles the Second had any Hand in 
 contriving this Murther. 
 
 T. 1 do not, I aflure you 5 but rather 
 the contrary, upon very good reafcns j 
 which you will hereafter be fatisfied in, 
 for I (hall mention them in their proper 
 place. But I do verily believe, that fome 
 ftiort time before the King's Death, his 
 Majefty was perfwaded the Earl was Mur- 
 thered ; and had his Majefty lived fix 
 Months longer, it's very probable you 
 might long tince have feen thie detecti- 
 on. 
 
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 L. I have fome rcafon for the fame 
 belief : For I do well remember about fix 
 Months after the late King's Death , I was 
 credibly told this Story , my Lord Chief 
 Juftice fefferyes not long after that King's 
 Death was ac fome pub-lick place, where 
 lie took an occafjon to fpeak very large- 
 ly in praife of his Majefty, then lately de- 
 ceafed } and after he had made a very 
 long harangue in his praife, his Lordfhip 
 turned about and whifpercd a Gentleman 
 in the Ear (whom he thought his Confi- 
 dent 3 faying, If the King bad lived fix 
 Mmths longer, we hadbeen all Hanged, not- 
 mthft. tiding what I have faid. 
 
 T, The meafure of his Lordfhip's Ini- 
 quity was not then full- 
 
 L, It feems not ; but every Man muft 
 believe his Lordfhip's meafure was very 
 large, or otherwife the great quantity of 
 innocent blood therein powered by his 
 vile Injuftice, had long before his Death 
 made it run over. 
 
 0. I do very much wonder (admit- 
 ting the Earl was Murthered, which I am 
 now al.moft brought to the belief of) how 
 it fhculd thus become generally reported 
 in fo many places before his Death. 
 
 L. This altnoft will fhortly be an alto- 
 gether, and y-cu will in this be throughly 
 perfwaded of the truth of this barbarous 
 Murther ; for I have reafon to think, much 
 more will be faid to prove it, becaufe 
 there are fo many Witnetfes of which we 
 have as yet had no account. 
 
 T. The reafon of its being fo gene- 
 rally reported before it was done , you 
 will not fo much admire ar, if you confi- 
 der all the Circumftanoes of this Action. 
 This Murther was not afted out of any 
 private Motive, to fome private End ; it 
 was not done for the fatisfaclion of Per- 
 fonal revenge : No, this was a branch of 
 that Curfed, Arbitrary, and Popifli Defign 
 againft our Civil and Religious Rights at 
 that time carried on with all the fury ima- 
 ginable under colour of fupporting the 
 Englifh Monarchy and Church of England, 
 both which were then falfly faid to be 
 threatned with Ruin by that Party, of 
 
 which that truly Noble, but unfortunate 
 Lord, was marked (out) as ore of the 
 Chief: I fay this was done to remove a 
 Chief Gbftacl&o that Popifli and Arbitrary 
 end, the true Enemies of both Church 
 and Stare were then carrying on , for you 
 find it Sworn by D. S that fcveral days 
 before the Earls Death, the Papifts curs'd 
 him as one who knew much of their De- 
 figns, (which he could not be ignorant of 
 obfervingjfthough with hatred) from thofe 
 high Ports he had been imployed in) and 
 was fo very averfe to their Intereft, that 
 unlefs he was taken off, t hey flmld never 
 carry them on. The carrying on their Po- 
 pifh, Arbitrary, and Devilifh Defign you 
 fee was by themfelves affigned as the rea- 
 fon of this mod perfidious and barbarous 
 Cruelty ; fo that this Murther was a branch 
 of their Plot, and confequently might be 
 fuppofed to be known to many j All which 
 have not been Men of the greateft fecrecy, 
 witnefs their Reports of the Fire of Lon- 
 don fo long before it came to pafs ; and 
 their giving an Account of Sir Edmondbury 
 Godfrey's Death in the Country, be fore we 
 could be allured of the fame in Town, the 
 Body not being then found. Several the 
 like Inftances might be given. 
 L. For my own parr, I can vvafh my 
 hands from the blood of any of thofe un- 
 fortunate Gentlemen which fuffered for en- 
 deavouring to oppofe thofe Arbitrary de- 
 figns, which the Charitable opinion mo/l 
 men had in the then Court could not at 
 that time beliere to be true , but to our 
 great Danger and Coft we have fince feen 
 them appear more bare-faced; and thole 
 very men who efleemed it Damnable to 
 draw the Sword in defence of our Reli- 
 gious and Civil Rights, though never fo 
 grofly Invaded, have fince altered both 
 their Opinion and Practice, and could 
 now weep over the Duft of thofe whofe 
 Perfons they efteemed not deferring of 
 life. Bur, bleifed be God , our Common 
 Danger taught us to unite againft the Com- 
 mon Enemy of all true Religion and Liber- 
 ty, and to joyn as one Man with that 
 Hand from Heaven (our prefent Sove- 
 
 raign )
 
 raign) fenc torefcueus from what threat- 
 ned the deflruction of whatfoever was 
 dear to any of us, May God in mercy 
 preferve us from thefe heats and animofi- 
 ties which being (by our common Enemy) 
 once throughly enkindled, may go nigh to 
 end in the utter deftruction of all that which 
 of late hath been miraculoufly fnatch'd out 
 of the fire , inftrumentally by that hand 
 which fome of us (ungrateful as we are^) 
 by our actions feem , neither to thank as 
 our Benefactor , nor acknowledge as our 
 Sovereign , though he feems to have a 
 double Title to the Crown , Jure Divino, 
 (]by that Miraculous fuccefs God was plea- 
 fed to Crown him with,) and Jure Huma- 
 no by that Election (in common Grati- 
 tude ) made by the States of the King- 
 dom. 
 
 L. From all thefe reports, we may well 
 conclude the Earl's Death was refolved up- 
 on by that Bloody Party which Murdered 
 him both in Perfon and Reputation , and 
 the manner how, the place where, and the 
 (forged ) Reafon wherefore agreed in. 
 Thefe Bloody minded men would ("without 
 doubt) from the fame motiveSyand to car- 
 ry on the fame end, deftroy as many more, 
 were it once again as much within their- 
 power as it then was , only they would do 
 it with this difference, that whereas there- 
 in they did aft clandeftanly, wemuft ex- 
 peel: that hereafter they would do it in the 
 fare of the Sun, and juftify it. But from 
 their Cruel Power and Bloody Malice , Cosd 
 Lord deliver m. 
 
 G. I defire not to detein you any longer 
 en this particular, for I am herein well fa- 
 tiificd, and therefore pray proceed. 
 
 T. I am now come to the fecond gene- 
 ral head, Cvi^. ) wn *t paired the day my 
 Lord Died , you may obfcrve it was de- 
 nied by Bsmeny, Monday and Ruffe I, the three 
 that attended on my Lord at the time of 
 his Death, the firft as his Servant, and the 
 two others as his Warders, that there was 
 any man let into my Lord's Lodgings be- 
 fore my Lord's Death that Morning my Lord 
 Died i the like did John Llojd (the. Senti- 
 nel that Morning my Lord .-Died , at the 
 
 door of Major Hajple/s Houfe, wherein 
 my Lord lodged.) I fhall now prove that 
 there were fome Ruffians let into my Lords 
 Lodgings a little before his Death to Mur- 
 der my Lord. 
 
 Pray read this Information. 
 
 G.'S.S. Linnen-Draper declareth, and i* 
 'ready to depofe, that the 21 th of J&- 
 'nuary laft, this Informant was at the Goat 
 ' Alehoufe in the Mlnories , where John 
 ' Lloyd Sentinel upon the late Earl of .Effex 
 
 * at the time of his Death, as this Informant 
 ' then was informed, was that day brought 
 ' Prifoner, being taken up as fufpefted pri- 
 ' vy to the Death of the late Earl of Eff'x. 
 
 * This Informant further faith, thar he this 
 ' Informant difcourfed the faid Lloyd ccn- 
 ' cerning the faid Earl's [Death, and the 
 ' faid Lloyd did for fome fhort time often 
 ' deny that he had let in any men into the 
 ' Earl of j(Jt-x's Lodgings that Morning the 
 ' Earl dyed, This Informant perfwaded 
 ' the faid Lloyd to difchargq his Confidence 
 ' to God and Man, and tell what he knew 
 ' with relation thereunto, left by his denial 
 ' or filence, he fhould draw the guilt df that 
 'Innocent Blood upon himfelf ; buc the 
 ' faid Lloyd for fometime per fitted in his 
 'denial, and whilft the faid Lloyd was de- 
 ' nying his letting in amy men into my 
 ' Lord that Morning my Lord Died, before 
 
 ' his Death , there was brought into the 
 * Room o.ne Major \tfebfter (as this Infor- 
 ' mant afterwards underftood him to bej 
 ' then Prifoner for the fame matter. This 
 1 Informant did thereupon ask the faid 
 ' Lloyd whether he knew the (aid Webjler, 
 'which the laid Llnyd denied, and faid, he 
 ' never faw him before in his life j upon 
 ' which, this Informant faid, ic was very 
 ' much that the faid Llo)d fhould net knew 
 ' or remembtr to have fcen the faki Wf9ft?r 
 '-who was his Neighbour, and very noco- 
 ' rious in the place where he.- lived. But 
 4 the faid Lh;d perfified for lome. fhort 
 'time in his denial of any knowledge cf 
 ' the faid Webjler*, but focn after, the feiti 
 c Llo)d took fhis Informant by the hand, 
 ' 2 an<*
 
 C 28) 
 
 ' and wringing this Informant's Hand, with 
 ' Tears in his Eyes , fpoke to this effect. 
 = ' Mafter I give you a Thoufand thanks for 
 ' your good Advice, and I do now remem- 
 ' ber by fpecial order of Major Hawky I 
 
 * did let in two or three men (but to the 
 
 * beft of my remembrance three) into my 
 ' Lord's Lodgings that morning my Lord dy- 
 
 * ed, and a very fhort time before his death ; 
 
 * and that man (pointing to Webfter') was 
 ' one of the tliree Men I did fo let in j upon 
 
 * which this Informant told the faid Lloyd, it 
 
 * was very flrange he (hould pretend that 
 
 * Webfter was one of three Men he had let 
 ' into my Lords Lodgings juft before his 
 
 death, when the faid Lloyd had a little be- 
 
 * fore pretended that he never favv the faid 
 
 * Webfter before that time. This Informant 
 
 * further fpoke to the faid Lloyd to this 
 ' effect, That as the faid Lloyd was eonfent- 
 ' ing to my Lords Death , in cafe he did 
 
 * endeavour to ftifle any truth which might 
 
 * tend to the Difcovery of my Lords Mur- 
 c der, fo would the faid Lloyd be guilty of 
 c Webber's Blood , if he fhould charge him 
 ' in this particular with a Lye , for what 
 
 * Jury foever fhould believe that Webfter 
 ' was one of thofe let- into my Lord juft 
 
 * beffre his Death ( it having been by all 
 
 * deny'd that any were fo let in*) would 
 c like wife believe that Webfter was one of 
 
 * the Ruffians that Murdered his Lordfhip ; 
 
 * and therefore this Informant advifed the 
 
 * faid 'Lloyd to be very careful in the mat- 
 
 * ter: Whereupon Ltsyd replied , that he 
 
 * could be very pofitive in the Man, and 
 
 * if he were evet* then to dye , he could 
 
 * fafely and truly charge him upon his 
 
 * Oath with it. This Informant further 
 
 * faith, that Lfyd did then further declare, 
 
 * that as foon as he had let in thofe men 
 
 * into my Lords Lodgings, he did hear fe- 
 4 veral ( and he did fuppofe them to be 
 
 * th%i^he fo let in J go up- Stairs into my 
 
 * Lord's Chamber, where there immediate- 
 ' ly enfued a very great noife and tramp- 
 
 * ling , and thereupon fomewhat thrown 
 down like the fall of a Man ; not long after 
 
 * which, it was cried out that the Earl of 
 
 * Effex had cue his Throat. Lloyd did fur- 
 
 ' ther declare, that he did not remember 
 
 * that lie favv thofe men go out of Major 
 
 * Hawkf* Houfe, but he did believe they- 
 
 * might tirry fome time in the Houfe, till 
 4 the Croud came in upon the Difcovery of 
 ' my Lord's Death, and then went out with 
 ' the Croud. 
 
 L. Did k any others befides Mr. S. hear 
 this Lloyd thus confefs the letting in thefo 
 men. 
 
 T. Yes. Befides Lloyd before the Juftice 
 confefled the letting in Two men into my 
 Lords Lodgings a little before his Death ; 
 as appears by the Coppy hereof. 
 
 The Examination of John Lloyd of Good- 
 mans-yard, ix Aldgate Parity without, in- 
 London , ClothtvorJ^er , ta^en before John 
 Robins /# one of the Juftices of Peace. 
 for the Count)/ of Middlefex, the 22th day 
 of January, Anno Domini 1689. 
 
 THis Examrnant faith, on the day where- 
 on the Right Honourable the late Earl 
 
 of Effex was found dead, upon the fufpi- 
 tion of having been Murdered in his Lodg- 
 ings in the Tower of London, he then being 
 a Soldier, was (landing Sentinel at the Door 
 of the faid Earl's Lodgings, and had order 
 to let no body go up Stairs to the faid 
 Lodgings without leave from Major Havrley 
 or the Warder then in waiting on the faid 
 Earl y and that about half an hour after 
 Eight of the Clock in the Morning of the 
 faid Day, two Men (to this Examinant un- 
 known, ) knocked at the Hatch-door be- 
 longing to the faid Lodgings, and by per- 
 mkfion of the faid Warder, entred the faid 
 Lodgings, but when they came out, he can 
 give no account ; and that about Nine a 
 Clock he heard a ftruggling on the faid 
 Morning, and a little time after , heard a 
 Crying, my Lord is dead. 
 
 T. Read this likewife. 
 
 * <? C. f. of the Minories, Butcher, de- 
 
 * clareth, and is ready to depofe, That af- 
 ' ter Lloyd had lain about a Month in New* 
 
 * gate, he did defire thii Informant (as he 
 ' was informed, J to fee him, who by per- 
 ' miifion of the Honourable Lords of this. 
 
 Conv
 
 C'9) 
 
 * Committee went accordingly ; when this 
 
 * Informant came to Lloyd , the faid Lloyd 
 
 * fpoke to this etfeft, C^kO Mailer, as you 
 4 are my Neighbour, fo I hope you will 
 
 * be my Friend and True to me, to which 
 4 this Informant declared he would be a 
 ' Friend to the faid Lloyd as far as he could j 
 'whereupon the faid Lloyd declared, that 
 *all the time he had been in Newgate, 
 4 fomewhat lay upon his Confcience , and 
 ' troubled him night and day, upon which 
 ' this Informant asked the faid Lloyd what 
 ' that was that was fo troublefome to him, 
 c whereupon the faid Lloyd after often pref- 
 ' fmg this Informant to bs True to him, told 
 4 this Informant , that when he the faid 
 ' Lloyd was firftPrifoner at the <7<wNAlehoufe 
 
 * in the Minories, \ip did confefs fomewhac 
 ' to a Gentleman , who was altogether a 
 4 Stranger to him, which confeflion troubled 
 
 * him. This Informant then defired to 
 ' know what that confeflion was which had 
 ' been fo troublefome to his mind j Lloyd 
 4 hereupon renewing his requeft, that this 
 ' Informant would be true to him, faid he 
 
 * was troubled in Confcience night and 
 ' day , becaufe he had confefled to that 
 4 ftrange Gentleman the letting in thofe 
 ' Men into my Lord's Lodgings juft before 
 
 * his Death. This Informant then told the 
 *faid Lhyd, the like he had confeffed to 
 
 * this Informant and feveral others j and 
 
 * even before the Juftice of Peace had 
 
 * owned it under his Hand ; but if ic 
 
 * were falfe , he ought to retraft it , 
 4 and be forry for having faid it j Vpon 
 
 * which the faid Lloyd declared it was 
 
 * indeed wry true that be did let in tkofe Men, 
 'but it was what heflmld not have faid* 
 
 L.'You fay that the Sentinel pretends he re- 
 
 * members not when thefe Ruffians came out 
 
 * of the houfejbut I have been informed that 
 
 * a Servant Maid ( who then lived in the 
 4 Tower _) came that morning, into Leadgn- 
 * 7w/AMarket,and wrung her hids,and cryed 
 
 * out, The Earl of Eflex was Murdered, The 
 'Earl of Eflex wot Murdered} upon which 
 the People gathering about her, advifed 
 
 * her to filence, telling her fhe would bring 
 l het felf into trouble by fuch Expreflioos. 
 
 * The Maid thereupon declared flic was 
 
 * fure it was true , for fhe faw the men 
 4 that murdered him juft as they came down 
 
 * out of his Chamber, and one of them al- 
 4 mod pufhed her all along. 
 
 G. Do you know who this Maid is. 
 
 . No but I fpoke with feveral that faw 
 her the fame Morning in the Market, and 
 heard lier declare as above related. 
 
 T. There hath been great diligence ufed 
 to find out this Maid, but neither of thofe 
 who heard her, knew her name. 
 
 L. I am fure it's the duty of thofe wha 
 knew her, ("or of any other that could te- 
 Itify any thing material in this matter} to 
 give Information to die Gentlemen by this 
 Honourable Family engaged in this Profe- 
 cution. 
 
 T. Mr. Braddon a little after my Lord'fe 
 Murder , was informed of a Perfon ("if I 
 miftake not , he was faid to be a Water- 
 man) who likewife faw thofe Ruffians as 
 they came out of thehoufe, juft before my 
 Lord's death was known, and obferved 
 fome Blood upon one of their Cloaths, but 
 having been often feareh'd in the King's 
 Bench Prifon, and in a hurry forced to 
 convey away his Papers, he loft the name 
 and place of abode of this man. 
 
 L. That's a great misfortune; butif this 
 difcourfe comes to the hand of that Perfon r 
 or any that have heard him declare what 
 is above related, or any thing elfe material 
 in this matter, they are dtfired to fend no- 
 tice to Mr. Braddon , from whom a letter 
 being left at Richard's Coffee-houfe nigh 
 Temple- Bar, it will come fafely andfpeedi. 
 Jy to his hands. 
 
 T. Ic would be no little aiUftance to a 
 farther difcovery of this matter, ("though! 
 am fure every man that believes what is 
 here related , as proved or ready to be at- 
 tefted, muft be well fatisfied in this Mur- 
 der,) if every man that is not in the lead 
 acceflary to this Murder,would but be fo in- 
 genious and free as to fend Mr-Braddm and 
 give him an Account hereof. It's not de- 
 iired that any fhould declare more than 
 what is true, and what he would anfwer at 
 the dreadful day of Judgment j.-for \vliofo. 
 
 ever
 
 ( 30) 
 
 .ever doth in this cafe atteft a Lye *, or what 
 to him is fuch, endeavours to commit by 
 fuch his Perjury, the wor't fort of Murder. 
 L.Did either of the Warders or my Lords 
 Servant publickly confefs the letting in 
 thofe. 
 
 T. No, nor this Soldier before he was 
 fcized the 2itb cf January laft. 
 
 L. Seeing then they did all deny that 
 any Men were let into my Lord that morn- 
 ing, I can'e but fuppofe thefe Men fo let in, 
 were let in to Murder my Lord , for had 
 any Perfons been innocently let in, ic might 
 have been innocently confefled and owned, 
 but being admitted into the Houfe with 
 rtiis Villanous and Bloody defign, thofe 
 waiting on my Lord , though^ it neither 
 convenient nor fafe to confefs the letting 
 in of any, j . 
 
 Q. This Llfid exprefled himfelf very 
 odly to T. whom having often defired and 
 enjoyr.ed to Secrefy, to him pretend- 
 t he was much troubled in confcience for 
 what he had confefled, but neverthelefs 
 declared fuch his confeffion to be true, but 
 ic was what he fhould not have owned. 
 This looks as though there were feme cur- 
 fed Confederacy entred into for the fup- 
 preffion of truth. 
 
 L. I thought you would be brought o- 
 ver. 
 
 G. I were never fo wedded to tl.e be- 
 lief of a Fa ft through prejudice or mifin- 
 formation, but upon a full and clear dif- 
 coveryof mymiftake, did readily renounce 
 my firft belief, and cleave to the beft In- 
 formation , cr at leaft that which to me 
 feemed the trucft ; and to deal plainly with 
 you, I did not think fo much could be faid 
 to prove what many Induftrioufly endea- 
 vour to perfwade me was falfc. But there 
 comes even now ipto my mind, an o!> 
 jeftion agaififl this Lloyds confeffion, which 
 will I think deftroy it's credit with all Men. 
 If T miftakc not, you told me this Lloyd a; 
 MY. Braddons Tryal upon Oath denyed the 
 letting in any Men before my Lords death. 
 T. Tis very true. 
 
 <?. How then can any man give credit to 
 this confeffion, which is a point blank con- 
 
 tradiftion to his former Oath. Nay if 
 Lloyd upon Oath afierted what before he 
 had forlworn, I could not barely upon the 
 credit of his Oath believe it. 
 
 T, Barely upon the credit of Lkyd, I 
 fhould hardly believe any thing j only con- 
 fider that the Confeflion of every man 
 though ten times perjured , is to be ad- 
 mitted againft him ft 1!:. But farther, pray 
 refleft on the Circumftances of Lloyd's firft 
 Oath, and you will find in teveral refpefts 
 he flood prejudiced, fo that his firft Oath 
 could not be of equal credit IB* his now 
 Confeffion. For admitting my Lord was 
 Murdered by thofe men fo let in , either 
 Lloyd was privy to the Murder, or he was 
 not-j if he wf privy , then he fwore to 
 fave himfelf ; if he w0t not privy to the 
 defigned Murder, cr knew any ti.ing of it, 
 till after the fafl was done, then could he 
 not but expeft , that the fame principles 
 backed with the fame power which Mur- 
 dered my Lord, would have like wife de- 
 ftroyed him, fhould he have declared 
 what he knew in the matter -, therefore 
 the fear of being hanged in the one cafe, 
 and the danger of a ftab or the like in the 
 other, were powerful Arguments with this 
 Sentinel. I do grant no man f upon any 
 confideration whatfoever,) ought to he in- 
 fluenced to Perjury, but yet I defire never 
 to fall under fo ftrong temptations. You 
 can't therefore but confefs this Sentinel at 
 the time of Mr. Braddons Trial was under 
 a ftrong prejudice to deny what he might 
 in this cafe know , and that for the rea- 
 fons before alledged '> wherefore compare 
 the circumftances of his Confeflion v.ich 
 what heafeerwards declared, under a great 
 Injunflion of Secrefy j (w'O That he was 
 troubled night and day , he had confejjed the 
 letting jn thefe men, for though it was indeed 
 frc-, he fliwld not have confejpd. Confide r 
 tn'rh becomes not a Lye by being deny'd, 
 (though upon Oath,) nor a Lye a Truth 
 hy being fworn. Wherefore all circumftan- 
 ccs confidered , you have much ftronger 
 reafoMS to believe Lloyd's now Confeflloi?, 
 than his former Oath. But that there were 
 fome Men lee into my Lord , and were 
 
 buftling
 
 burtling with his Lordfhip juft before his 
 Death, appears more clearly from this In- 
 formation following, which I defire you to 
 Ilead. 
 
 G. c M. B. Declareth, that a little before 
 
 * the Death of the late Earl of Effex was 
 *-difcovered , this Informant was walking 
 
 * up before the Earls Chamber Window, 
 
 * and hearing a very great trampling and 
 4 buftle in my Lords Chamber, this Infor- 
 
 * mant flood ft ill, and looking to the Win- 
 
 * dbw of the faid Chamber , faw Three or 
 ' Four Heads move clofe together , and 
 
 * heard one in the Chamber, which feemed 
 
 * to be one in this bufUe,cry out very loud 
 4 and very dolefully, SltrDer, Sphlttifr,. 
 
 * Sl^ltrOer > This Informant not then 
 4 knowing it to be my Lord's Lodging, nor 
 
 * thinking any other of this Cry , than 
 
 * what might be occafioned by fome acci- 
 
 * dental quarrel , walked up towards the 
 4 Chappel , but not out of fight of the 
 ' Lodgings 5 and about a quarter of an hour 
 
 * after (or lefs,) it was firft cry'd out in 
 
 * the houfe, that the Earl of Effex had cut 
 4 his Throat , upon which this Informant 
 4 went down to the Houfe , and being 
 ' (hewed the Chamber where the Earl lay, 
 4 (he found that was the Chamber where 
 4 fhe faw the Men, and heard the buftle, 
 4 and Murder thrice cfy"'d out as before 
 4 related. This Informant further faith , 
 that fome few days after this,telling Mr. P. 
 'and his Wife, (whom (he then kept in 
 'her lying in) of what (he had feen and 
 ' heard as before declared ; the faid Mr. P. 
 4 advifed her not to fpeak of it , for her 
 4 divulging it , in all probability, would 
 4 prove her ruine. 
 
 L. Is this Woman Sworn. 
 
 T. Yes, and as fhe hath Informed me, de-- 
 pofed the fame. 
 
 G. Bur what is become of this Mr. P, 
 
 T. His Information is ready, which you 
 may read. 
 
 G. ' A. P. declares, that within a Week 
 'after the Death of the late" Earl of 
 
 * Effex , M. B. did give t his Informant 
 *and his Wife the fane Account as above 
 ' related by the faid M B. and this Infor- 
 c mant did then caution and advife the faid 
 
 * M. B. not to reveal it, left it fhould prove 
 'her ruine. 
 
 L. Is this Mr. P. fworn ? 
 
 71 Yes, as he hath informed me, and 
 depofed the fame. 
 
 T. This Mrs. B. was very unwilling at 
 firft to declare in this matter what (he knew 
 to be true. 
 
 L. Why there was no danger in the dif- 
 covery, upon this Revolution. 
 
 T. It's true j and it was not danger, but 
 (what fhe thought her} interefl that would 
 have deterred her. 
 
 L. InrcreflJlsfhe aPapift? 
 
 7". No, neverrhelefs (he thought it not 
 for her Profit this Murder fhould bedifco- 
 vered. 
 
 L. Certainly it's both the duty and in- 
 tereft of all true ProtefUnts, that this Mur- 
 der fhould be fully deteded 5 and I can'c 
 well forefee wherein it could be incon- 
 fjftant with this Womans Interefl (if fhe 
 were indeed a Protcftanr, } that this Bar- 
 barous cruelty fhould be laid open. 
 
 G. It may be fhe was afraid fome Friend 
 or Relation might be concerned. 
 
 71 That's very true, it was to fave a Re- 
 lation, but not of Blood or Affinity, but a 
 Civil Parent, the cruel Father of us all, the 
 late K. I mean. For the cafe flood thus -, 
 this Mrs. B. had been Nurfe to fome Pa- 
 pifls of Quality , and others where that 
 Infamous Madam Midnight , Madam Wilks 
 had been Midwife , and this Mrs. Willy had 
 pretended a great kindnefs to this Nurfe, 
 and had aflured her (he would get her in- 
 to the Court to be Nurfe to fevcral Per- 
 fons of Eminent Quality, which this Wo* 
 man thought might be much for her ad- 
 vantage ', and therefore when Mr. Braddon 
 firft fpoke to her, and aiked her wheil>er 
 (be was in the Tower that Morning the 
 Jate Earl of Effex died, fhe anfwered (feem- 
 ing under fome furprife and diforder, ) 
 Yes, Mr. Braddon then dt fired to know- 
 
 whac
 
 what fhe either heard or faw with relation 
 to that unfortunate Lords death j fhe very 
 fhortly replied Nothing i whereupon Mr. 
 Braddon ( who before had difcourfed Mr. 
 P.~) told her either fhe was a Liar or Urt- 
 juft , a Liar if fhe did not fee and hear 
 that which was material with Relation 
 to my Lords Death , feeing fhe decla- 
 red the contrary juft after my Lords 
 Death to Mr. P. and his Wife , or very 
 unjuft, if what fhe had formerly declared 
 were true, and would not now reveal it , fhe 
 faid fhe would have nothing to do with-it, 
 and fo flings up Stairs. But Mr.Braddon being 
 fhortly after informed that this Woman 
 had declared it was againft her Intereft 
 this Murder fhould be difcovered and pro- 
 fecuted, becaufe it would be fixed upon King 
 James , whofe return and fettlement fhe 
 defired , for Madam Willy had promifed 
 her as before declared ; and therefore fee- 
 ing Mrs. Willy would have no intereft in 
 cafe this Murder were difcovered, and fo 
 (he fhould loofe a very great Friend. She 
 was refolved not to tell what fhe knew, nor 
 would have any thing to do in the matter. 
 Mr. Braddon being thus informed, defired 
 once more to fee this Nurfe j when he faw 
 .her, he told her he did underftand that 
 there was fomewhat which flood as a pre- 
 judice againft her revealing what fhe knew, 
 but he declared that he would move the 
 Honourable Committee of Lords, that fhe 
 might be brought to the Bar of the Houfe 
 of Lords and Sworn , where fhe fhould 
 either perjure her felf in the concealing 
 of what fhe knew, in doing whereof, fhe 
 .would not only be guilty of Perjury (when 
 .fworn to difcover the truth, } but to that 
 Perjury would add Blood , (for which at 
 the laft day fhe muft expecl: to anfwer 
 for could (he reveal any thing with rela- 
 tion to this Murder, and itifled it , fhe by 
 fuch her filence confented to the Blood of 
 my Lord* and how clear foever fhe might 
 efcape the punifhment of our Law, fhe 
 could not but expeft fhe muft anfwer it 
 before him who pofitively requires Blood 
 for Blood , and that all Governments 
 fhould make diligent Inquifition for the 
 
 Blood of the flain, or otherwise he would 
 require that Blood f thus buried through 
 neglecV at the hands of fuch Majeftraces 
 as were diffident in their Inquiry , and 
 more ftridly would he one day reckon 
 with thofe that could deteft the Murder, 
 but refufcd to reveal it i for upon fuch 
 more efpecially would the guilt lye, be- 
 caufe the Majeftrate can make no difcovery 
 but by Information i and therefore thofe 
 that refufed or negk&ed to give their 
 Information, would moft certainly one 
 day feverely anfwer for fuch their fi- 
 lence. Such Difcourfe as this Mr. Brad- 
 don had with this Woman before feverai 
 others 5 after which Mr. Braddon defired 
 to know whether [he would go volun- 
 tarily or upon motion, be brought to 
 the Houfe, for he was refolved fhe fhould 
 be Sworn. Hereupon fhe declared , fee- 
 ing fhe mufl be fworn, fhe would rather 
 go willingly than through fuch compul- 
 fion ; and then went accordingly , after 
 which fhe declared what you have before 
 heard, whereas before fhe was fworn fhe 
 would reveal nothing. 
 
 L. This is a great Argument both of 
 the truth of her Evidence, and the In- 
 tegrity of the Woman , who rather than 
 facrifice her Confcience by Perjury, would 
 facrifice (what fhe really believed to bej 
 her Intereft. 
 
 T. Would no Perfon in this Cafe be 
 guided by Intereft or ArTeftion , but 
 all ingenioafly reveal what they know , 
 you would fpon find that difcovered 
 which now lies buried in filence, but 
 may fooner be detefted than fome ima- 
 gine. 
 
 L. If it fhall hereafter appear , that 
 any Perfon knows any thing material 
 of this Villany , and hath not revealed 
 it, he may be mofl juftly efteemed con- 
 fencing to this Murder j and how far 
 our Law may extend in its punifhmenc, 
 there may be an occafion hereafter to 
 try. 
 
 G. This
 
 O. This Evidence of M. B. doth very 
 much agree with Lloyd's Confeffion, for 
 Lloyd declared, That upon the three Mens 
 going into my Lord's Room, there was im- 
 mediately a very great Noife, and this 'M. B. 
 heard ; But Lloyd declares nothing of Mur- 
 der cry d out, wliich M, B. declared fhe 
 heard. It's ftrange Lhyi fhould not 
 hear it as well as the Trampling, if indeed 
 there was any Murder cry'd out. 
 
 L. It is very probable tiiat Lloyd, did hear 
 Murder cry'd outjfur :t's hardly poflible to be 
 otherwife,becaufe it feems Murder was cry'd 
 out thrice very loud, and very dolefully j 
 but fhould Lloyi have confefled that he let in 
 thefe three Men, and that upon their going 
 into my Lord's Room, he heard a very great 
 trampling andbuftle, and my Lotd cry out 
 ([ Murder feveral times ~) as before depos'd ; 
 by this he fhould have accufed himfclf as 
 privy to the Murder ; for feeing Lloyd did noc 
 immediately cry out to the next Guard, fo 
 that thefe Ruffians might be fecured, and if 
 pofTible the Murder prevented, or at leaft 
 thefe Cut-throats taken, one of which he 
 might eafily have done. Nay, in all proba- 
 bility thefe Men would have foon defifted, 
 had they heard the Sentinel cry out. But 
 Lloyd lets them go, and inftead of a Difco- 
 very, by Perjury endeavours to conceal it ; 
 and therefore may well be fuppofed prepa- 
 red to permit this execrable Tragedy. 
 
 G. Permit! What could a Sentinel do, 
 who is placed at his Stand, but could not 
 leave his Port? 
 
 L. Two things are required of fuch Sen- 
 tinels i firft,to fee the Prifoner be kept clofe, 
 without any Communication by Word or 
 Papers thrown into his Window j andfe- 
 condly, to preferve him from Violence. 
 
 0. 'Tisvery poflible that this poor Senti- 
 nel might know nothing of the Matter till 
 after the Pcrfons were let in, and then he 
 perceiv'd, by their buttling with my Lord, 
 and his Lordfhip's crying out Murder, that 
 they came with an intent to murder my 
 Lord i yet the Power 2nd Authority that 
 fent thefe two Men, might tie both the 
 Tongue and the Hands of this Sentinel, from 
 
 endeavouring either to prevent the Action, or 
 fecure the Aors ; that he thought it might 
 coft his Life to oppofe with either. So that 
 this poor ignorant Souldier, ie as much to 
 be pitied as blamed. 
 
 T. Had he made a full and ingenuous Con- 
 feffion upon his being now feized, and gi- 
 ven this Reafon for 'his Silence, he had de- 
 fer ved great pity for falling under fo great a 
 Temptation as the fear of Death. But when 
 inftead of this Ingenuity, which might be 
 naturally expeded from fuch Innocence as 
 you here reprefent this Souldier under, you 
 find the contrary 5 and inflead of being fo 
 free as to tell the whole Truth, he feemed, 
 much troubled that he had reve.aled any part, 
 as appeared by that Expreflion to T. when he 
 declared, ' That tho' it was indeed true what 
 
 * he had confefled, he fhould not have con- 
 ' fefled it j this, I fay, is fo far from arguing 
 this Souldier that Man you would now feem 
 to reprefent him, as it rather concludes him 
 a Confederate in the Faft. 
 
 O. ' I muft confefs,his retracting what he 
 
 * had owned to be true, and declaring he was 
 ' very forry he had confefled it, tho' it was 
 ' indeed true, feems to argue him not fuch a 
 
 * Stranger to the Faft as I could wifh he 
 
 * were. 
 
 L. Have you any thing more as to this 
 Point, for I perceive we are very tedious to' 
 you? 
 
 T. NotintheleafV, But T rejoice in this 
 Occafion, of giving you Satisfaction in this 
 Matter. Here are fome other Informations, 
 with relation to this Point, which I defire 
 you to read. 
 
 G. E. G. and S. Id. declare, c That die 
 e day of the Death of the late Earl of Effex % 
 C (V) The i3*&of 7*/y 1683, about ele- 
 i ven of the Clock the fame day, one R. in 
 e the hearing of thefe Informants, did declare, 
 
 * that he was in the Jower that Mornir;)?, where 
 
 * it was reported, That the Earl of E$v had 
 
 * cut his Tisroat j but he vcas fun he was mur- 
 ' dewd> ~nd that by the Order of his Royal High- 
 
 * nfi ; for the faid R. then declared, that he 
 
 * did obferve his Majefly and Royal Highnefs 
 
 * part a licile from thefe that attended them, 
 
 F and 

 
 ( 34) 
 
 and difcourfed (to the be/I of thefe Infor- 
 
 * mants remembrance, the faid R. declared ic 
 was) "in French, concerning the Prifoners 
 ' then in the Tower) and his ff^hmfs declared, 
 
 * That of all the Prifoners then there, the 
 
 * Earl of Effix ought to betaken off: bur his 
 4 Majefly (aid he was refplved to fpare him 
 ' for what his Father had fuffer'd-, upon which 
 ' his Higlinefs feemed very angry, and a little 
 ' before the Death of the faid Earl, his 
 
 * Highnefs parted a little way from his Ma- 
 
 * jefty,and then two Men were fent into the 
 
 * Earls Lodgings to murder him,which having 
 
 * done,the fame two Men did again return to 
 
 * his Highnefs. This the faid R. declared with 
 ( grwt Eaneftnifs and Pzffion, and protifted he 
 
 * thought no MM was ftfe which was againft the 
 ' Popifh Interefl, if once they began thus bare- 
 ' faced to cut Throats. 
 
 T. R. proceeded farther, which you fhall 
 hear in its proper place. 
 
 (/.How very improbable is it, that the 
 King and Duke fhould talk fo loud concer- 
 ning the Earl of Eflex, as that a Souldier 
 fhould hear them ? This feems to carry its 
 own Confutation. 
 
 T. If you confider it I think there is very 
 little if any^probability in this Evidence ; for 
 you may obferve that R. declared the King 
 and Duke flood a little way off from thofe 
 who attended them, and they difcourfed in 
 French. Now there is not one common 
 Englifh Souldier of a thoufand who doth 
 underftand French, the Odds was then fo 
 great that this Souldier knew not what 
 they faid j therefore it's not fo improbable 
 as at firft you may think it. 
 
 G. Can it be thought that the Duke (ad- 
 mit he was To wicked as to be concerned 
 in fuch a Faft) would be fo very foolifh as 
 to fend the Ruffians fo that any People 
 might fee their Miflion and their Return. 
 
 T. Pray confider this Murder in all its 
 Circumflances, and then tell me whether 
 thofe bloody Varlets had not all fteafon in 
 the World to have all the Security could 
 be expefted or defir'd; you well know 
 that my Lord of Ejflx was defervedly very 
 popular, and therefore a Parliament that 
 
 fhould have had the leaf! Information of 
 this treacherous and bloody Murder, would 
 have profecuted the Matter with all the 
 Diligence and Vigor, that fuch a piece of 
 Barbarity deferved. Now fhould they in 
 fuch their Inquifltion have detected thofe 
 treacherous Villanes, thefe bloody Men mufl 
 have ex peeled no Mercy. And fhould the 
 Duke have imployed them in his Clofet cmlv 
 and they could not by any Circum fiance have 
 given Satisfaction that they were his hired 
 Journey-Men, in this piece of great Service, 
 their Evidence againft him had not been 
 the tenth parr fo credible as it would have 
 been, could they have proved that they 
 were fent by his Highnefs towards the Earl's 
 Lodgings juft before his Death, and foon 
 after returned to his Highnefs, before others 
 knew that this cruel Tragedy was finifhed. 
 This Circumflance, I fay, would have fd 
 corroborated their Evidence againft their 
 Mafter, that none could in the leaft have 
 doubted of the truth of their being fo im- 
 ployed, that were once fatisfied they were 
 as before fent by, and returned to his High- 
 nefs. This then obliged his Highnefs under 
 no lefs Obligation than Self-Prefervation to 
 skreen thofe his faithful and ready Servants 
 from any Profecution, well knowing that his 
 own Intereft ( and indeed Life) vvas wrapt 
 up in theirs. 
 
 Wherefore I think this matter was very 
 cunningly managed (as to the Security of 
 thefe Cut-throats from the Hands of JufHce, 
 either in their Punifhment or Profecution } 
 and it could not poffibly have been done 
 with greater Safety to the Perfons of thofe 
 that did it. 
 
 L. What is become of this honefl brave 
 Englifh Souldier? 
 
 T. We have reafon to believe he was 
 taken off by way of Prevention, as you 
 will hear in its proper place. 
 
 L. I have heard of others that have 
 fallen Sacrifices to the damned Secrecy of 
 this Villanous Murder. 
 
 T. I fhall immediately inform you bf one : 
 here is the Information of two, much of the 
 fame with the former.
 
 ( 3 
 
 <r. J.B. and his Wife both declare-, ' That 
 * about one of the Clock the very day the 
 
 * late Earl of E/jex died in the Tower, one 
 *.R.Mthat Morning (a Souldier in the Tower) 
 f came to thefe Informants Houfe, and thefe 
 
 * Informants defired the faid M. to give them 
 
 * the beft Account he could how the Earl of 
 
 * Effex cut his own Throat ? to which the faid 
 c M. ( with fome Earneftnefs and Paffion ) 
 ' anfwered, that the faid Earl did not cut his 
 
 * own Throat, but was barbaroufly murdered 
 'by two Menfentfor that purpofe by his 
 ' Royal Highnefs to the Earl's Lodgings juft 
 
 * before his Death. 
 
 t. What M. did further declare, and 
 what was fince his Fate, you wilt hear in its 
 proper order. 
 
 G, Thefe four are but hear-fay Witneffes. 
 
 T. It is very true; but feeing we have 
 great reafon to believe that the addition of 
 more Blood was the occafion of the Remo- 
 val of thefe two, efpecially the latter ( as 
 you will hereafter find) I think fuch In- 
 formations ought not to be flighted, for 
 after that rate it's but taking off fuch as 
 knew any thing with relation to a Murder, 
 and yon are very fecure from any Difcovery, 
 tho never fo many upon Oath give an Ac- 
 count of what thofe Men- (whofe Mouths 
 have been by bloody Men ftopt from giving 
 their own Relation") have declared in the 
 Matter, thefe two Souldiers related the fame 
 as to the fending, the Men into my Lord's 
 Lodgings in two Houfes as far diftanr as 
 Dtd^es-phice and Baldwin's Gardens, and I am 
 verily perfwaded that neither H. nor G. 
 ever fpoke to B. a/id his Wife in their Lives ; 
 for neither two remember to have feen or 
 heard of the other Informants. 
 
 L. Who could imagine that two Souldiers 
 fhculd declare with fuch Concern and Ear- 
 neftnefs, that which was fo very dangerous 
 to be fpoken, if their love to Truth, and 
 their hatred of fuchaTreacherous and Bloody 
 Murder, had not even forced it from them, 
 to the hazard of almoft their lives by fuch 
 their Relation. 
 
 G. No Man in-particular ought to fuffer 
 upon, hear-fay Evidence. 
 
 T. Tis true, no Man onghr to fuffer barely 
 upon a" hear-fay Evidence; but fuch Tefti- 
 mony hath been ufed to corroborate what 
 elfe may be fvvorn, and of it felf may (in 
 fome Cafes ) be enough to give Satisfaction 
 in the general of the Truth of a matter, and 
 no further is it here ufed . But the next 
 Account of thefe two Mens being fent, as 
 before, by his Highnefs, flail be from the 
 firft hand Read this. 
 
 G. Mr . P.E. declareth, That he, this In- 
 ' formant, was in the Tower that Morning the 
 
 * late Earl of Effex died, and about a quarter 
 
 * of an hour before the faid Earl's Death was 
 ' difcovered, this Informant obferved his 
 
 * Highnefs to part a little way from his Ma- 
 4 jefty, and then beckned to two Gentlemen 
 ' to come to him, who came accordingly ; 
 and this Informant did obferve IMS Highnefs 
 ' to fend them towards the Earl's Lodgings, 
 ' and lefs than a quarter of art hour after 
 
 * thh Informant did obferve thefe very two 
 ' Men to return to his Highnefs, and as they 
 ' came they fmiled, and (to the beft of this 
 ' Informant's hearing and remembrance) fa id, 
 
 * The bafinefs is done : upon which his High- 
 'nefsfeemed very well pleafed, and imme- 
 diately thereupon his Highnefs went to his 
 ^Majeft^ foon after whkkfeje'ws was brought 
 "to rhe King that the Ettrfo Effex had cut 
 'his Throat. 
 
 L. This is no hear-fay Evidence, and, 
 cdmpared with what the two poor un- 
 fortunate Souldiers, the day of my Lord's 
 Death (as before) related, I think is very 
 material, and' ad Homintm. 
 
 G. I muft confefs that Exprefllon, wV. 
 Tbe bti/ineft is dons. looks with an ill face, 
 efpecially confidering the Glee with which 
 it was fpoken. Vile Imps of Hell that fliall 
 rejoyce in having done the mbft Treache- 
 rous Murder this Age or Nation ever heard 
 of! 
 
 T. You find by D. 5"s Evidence, That 
 ' after they had cut my Lord's Threat, they 
 ' were extreamly over- joy ed,and one of them 
 'ftrikirg the Matter oftheHoufc upon the 
 
 * Back with great Joy, cried, The Feat was 
 
 * done ; aud he could not but laiigh to think 
 
 F 2 'how
 
 ( 3 
 
 how like a Fool the Earl of Efftx looked 
 ' when they came to cut his Throat. 
 
 L. Thefe bloody Villains are the greateft 
 Fools C morally fpeaking ) for fuch horrid 
 barbarous Cruelties, is the higheft degree of 
 moral Folly j and how like Fools and 
 Rogues will fuch Blood-fuckers look, when 
 they come to receive the Reward due to 
 fuch Barbarity ? 
 
 G. God's Judgments commonly overtake 
 (even in this Life 3 that heinous and 
 crying Sin of Murder, for which the Pe- 
 nalty of Blood was by him exprefly requi- 
 red, in that Ancient Statute, wherein it was 
 positively enacted, that, Vbffofvtr fhtds Man's 
 Blood, by Man fall hit Btoed be {hed. I believe 
 the Law in this Cafe will be fully executed 
 upon all concerned, or fome eminent Judg- 
 ments inflicted almoft, if not altogether as 
 bad as the*Penalty. 
 
 T. May no Character whatfoever be ex- 
 cufed from fome remarkable Punifhment or 
 other? 
 L. Amen. 
 
 T. You did object againft what was fworn 
 to be faid by M. and R. becaafe they, fjw^.) 
 B. and his Wife,and H and G. were but hear- 
 fay Evidence 5 but I defire you to reflect upon 
 the many fuchTeftimonies produced to 
 prove the highJlB** Plot in 1683. Na Y> 
 read but the Evidence of Mr. BlaithwMt, 
 ( Clerk of the Council, in 1683.3 ' m Mr 
 Braddon's Trial, pag.zz. you will there find 
 Mr. Blattbrpait being fworn on the behalf of 
 the King, againft Mr. Braddov, gives an Ac- 
 count to the Court what the young Edward's 
 Sifter declared to the Council- Board, (vk.~) 
 That Erzddon compelled the Boy to (tgnit, (the 
 Paper the young EdTvard^Cigned^ this you 
 fiud to be only hear-fay Evidence, and the 
 Author ( the Sifter 3 then in Court, but te- 
 ftified no fuch thing ; therefore this hear- 
 fay Evidence ought (. if any ought") to have 
 been rejected ; and yet this hear-fay Evi- 
 dence tho' not confirmed by the Author 
 then upon Oath 3 was not only admitted, but 
 ordered to be printed in the Trial in large 
 Capital Letters j how much fooner ought 
 the Evidence of B. and his Wife f 
 
 what M. declared} and of H. and<7. as to 
 A's Account, be particularly remarked, fee- 
 ing M. and R, we cannot now produce in 
 Court C as that Author was, but efpecially 
 the firft ) being prefumed to be murdered, 
 by way of prevention, by that bloody Party 
 that murdered my Lord. 
 
 L. We have a Maxim in our Law, That 
 no Man (hall tafy an Advantage ofhts own 
 Wrong; but thePapifts will totally deftroy 
 this Maxim, for by the Murdering of thofe 
 who know their Offences, they totally fup- 
 prefs and deftroy their Evidences, and then 
 will not admit of an Account, tho' upon 
 Oath, of what thefe Men fo murdered (_ by 
 way of prevention ) declared, bccaufe it's 
 but an hear-fay Evidence ; certainly if there 
 be any Wrong, Murder is fuch, anPof all 
 Advantages by that Wrong) the laving 
 one's Life is the greateft. 
 
 T, Lloyd upon his firft Confefflon could 
 not b? pofitive whether Major Hswley> or. 
 Monday* opened the Houfe Door to the Ruf- 
 fians. 
 
 G. It could not be Major Howley, for you 
 faid he declared, That he went out of his 
 own Houfe at five in die Morning, and re- 
 turned not till after my Lord's Death ; fo 
 that between Five and part Nine till after 
 my Lord's Death ) Major ffatvley was not 
 in his Houfe, and therefore could not open, 
 the Door to thofe that went in a little before 
 Nine. 
 
 L. If Major Jfawley did indeed "let in 
 thofe Raffians, I fuppofe you don*t think 
 he'l own it. And therefore Howley may de- 
 ny his being at Home after Five, till my Lord 
 was dead, to avoid being Tufpeded to be 
 the Man that let them in. 
 
 T. Major tiomlefs denial in this Cafe, is 
 as true as his other Denials, of which you 
 will hereafter hear, to prove this denial 
 falfe. It is pofitively fworn by N. 'That 
 ' he faw the faid Major Haveley go into his 
 ' Hcufe, as my Lord Ruffil was carrying to the 
 
 * Old-Baily. Now this was not above half an 
 1 hour before the Murder committedjand then 
 
 * whereas Hutvley pretends he did not go nigh 
 
 * hh own Houfe after five of the Clock in the 
 
 Morning^
 
 C?7) 
 
 Morning, till after my Lord's Death. It's 
 
 * comradi&ed by the pofitive Oath of one, 
 
 * who fwears, That he faw Major Hdtvley fe- 
 
 * veral timcs,a little before my Lord's Death, 
 
 * run up thro' that Gate which is nigh, and 
 
 * leads to his Houfe j and he would immedi- 
 
 * atly come in hafte down to the Gate, and 
 
 * peep on both fides,as tho' he would fee the 
 
 * way clear ; and becaufe the Warder let in 
 
 * but one Mgn to the fower,fjjwle)i came run- 
 
 * ning to him in great fury, chiding him for 
 
 * admitting that one. 
 
 L. Major Hayt>ley\ denial of what is fo 
 fwora, looks as tho' he had not been thus 
 careful in keeping all clear, but for fome 
 Defign which was to be done, with as great 
 fecrecy as the Time and Place would ad- 
 mi t^fc 
 
 T. You may remember, that Bo. Mo. and 
 
 pofirion forged by what Monday declared 
 the day my Lord died. 
 
 L. As foon as my Lord was found dead, 
 Earning Monday, and Ritjfrl, ought to have 
 been fecured. 
 
 T. It was fo order 'd by liis Majefty : for as 
 ' foon as New* of my Lord's Death was 
 ' brought to King Charles the Second, then in 
 ' the Tower, his Majefty fcnt my Lord Ming- 
 'ton, Sir C - - -- . and Thorn**. 
 
 to my Lord's Lodgings, with 
 
 * Orders, That all who were attending upon 
 c my Lord at the time of his Death,fhould be 
 ' fecured and examined, with relation there- 
 *unto. His Majefty did further order, That 
 ' all things fhould remain as to the Body) 
 
 * in the fame Circumftances it was firft found,. 
 
 * till the Coroner's Inqueft had feen the Bo- 
 l dy..~ Before Sir C --- hadpro- 
 
 Ru. declar'd,That there was a Razor deliver- * ceeded far hi the Examination of any abouc 
 ed to my Lord wherewith to pair his Nails ; * my Lord's Death, a Gentleman came ( as 
 which his Lordfhip having done, he retired * from his Majefty ) with Orders, That Sir 
 
 into his Ciofu, and there cuts his Throat ; * C immediately fhould go to the Old- 
 
 the Cloftt Door being afterwards opened, all ' Baily, (_ where the Right Honourable the 
 thefe three ("as they depofe and declare ) ' Lord Ruffd was then upon his Trial) and 
 faw the Body there lie in its Blood, and the *"'" * *- rz M r ^..:~~ r 
 Razor, as before, delivered to my Lord to 
 pair his Nails, lying by him. 
 
 <7. This is in ftiort their Relation ; and 
 how can you poffibly difprove it, feeing 
 there was none with my Lord but thefe 
 three ? and therefore how can k be con- 
 tradicted by any ? 
 
 T. I will difprove this Relation in every 
 parr. 
 
 Firft, I will convince you, that there was 
 
 no Razor delivered to my Lord to pair his 
 Nails. 
 
 Secondly, That my Lord did not lock 
 himfelf into his Clofct, nor was there firft 
 found lock'd io, as is fworn by thefe Men. 
 And, 
 
 Thirdly, That the Razor was not lying 
 by the Body, when thefe three firft faw die 
 Body dead. 
 
 G. I can't imagine how ( in thefe Parti- 
 culars) you canfalfify their Relations. 
 
 T. I fliall prove Bomeny^ Relation to be 
 falfe by what R$l fwears, and Rujifi Dc- 
 
 [ give the Attorny General notice of my 
 
 ( Lord's Death : But Sir C 
 
 4 ( by the fame Gentleman) defired his Ma- 
 
 * jefty to permit him to fmifh the Exa- 
 c minations (^he was then upon ) before he 
 
 * went; but the fame Gentleman came the fe- 
 *cond time, and declared, his Ma jefty had 
 *exprefly ordered Sir C to go forth- 
 with, and leave the Examinations to fuch 
 'others as were there, (which Sir C 
 
 * accordingly did ). Sir C further 
 
 faith,That he remembers not who this Gen- 
 
 * tleman was, which thus twice came with 
 
 * Orders from his Ma jefty. 
 
 L. Forgot who this Gentleman was 1 this 
 feems fomewhat ftrange, for within a Week 
 after my Lord's Death, Mr. Bf addon appeared 
 publick in the fearch after it ; and the very 
 next Week after my Lord's Death, he was 
 before the Council-Board, and this caufed 
 the Matter to be publickly difcourfed ; all 
 the Circumftances attending the Action, 
 were ufed as Arguments of this Murder ? 
 not theieift whereof wss the malicious aed 
 
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 extravagant Application which die Court 
 at the Old-Bally made againrt that Honoura- 
 ble Prifoner the Lord Ruff: I then upon his 
 
 Trial. Now Sir C ' . having 
 
 been that Meflenger that was fent with the 
 News of my Lord's Death, immediately faw, 
 and could not but well obferve, with what 
 induftrious Malice and Injuflice Sir George 
 Jeffries, and the then Attorny, applyed that 
 fad Accident to the taking off that brave, buc 
 unfortunate Perfon, whom they were then, 
 by their drained Conftrudions and Mi&p- 
 plications, villanoufly haranguing out of his 
 
 Life. For this Reafon Sir C 
 
 muft immediately refle upon his be- 
 ing the Meifenger of fuch fad Tidings, and 
 therein upon the Perfoa that brought the 
 Orders as from his Majefty, for his fuddain 
 going to the Old-Baily, which Reflexion 
 would have fo imprinted this Perfon in his 
 
 Memory, that Sir C wJ 
 
 he not well known, would be thought to have 
 had that happy Faculty of retaining, or for- 
 getting, at pleafure. 
 
 T. I thought no Man could have forgot 
 what he would } and that the more a Man 
 did endeavour to forget, the more fixed 
 would the thing to be forgotten,have remain- 
 ed in his Mind. But I now find my mif- 
 take, and I will likevvife learn this Art of 
 Forgetfulnefs, which in fome Cafes may be 
 of ufe. 
 
 G. Gentlemen, I know this Gentleman of 
 \vhora you fpeak, and am very forry for his 
 Forgetfulnefs, which [ am very well fatif- 
 fied is real, for I do think him a Man of Ho-. 
 nour, and confequently one that would not 
 lie, much lefs upon Oath .declare his forget- 
 fulnefs of what he rememhred. It's very 
 poflfible Sir C. upon reflection may call to 
 mind that Gentleman who. brought thofe 
 Orders, and then, I dare fay, he will, if af- 
 ter that called upon, freely difcover him, 
 feeing by his filence, he would likevvife by 
 Perjury, conceal what might be of no fmall 
 ufe in this Detection. 
 
 L. By this Meflenger we fhould foon know 
 whether his Majefiy's Name was not ufed 
 without his Authority, for which there is no 
 imal) reafon. 
 
 T. For my part I am weH fatisfied ohc 
 Hand of treacherous Joab was in this Mef- 
 fage, and that the King's Name in this, as in 
 other Things, was ufed by him, who not long 
 after is thought to have removed both Name 
 and Thing from him that then pofleffed 
 them. But Bomeny, Monday, and Ruffsl, fhould 
 have been immediatly feparated upon the 
 firfl Difcovery ; and they fhould have been- 
 kept apart till the Jury fat , and the Jury 
 ought to have examined thefe Men apart, 
 and neither to have known what other had 
 faid, feeing it was very natural to fuppofe, 
 if my Lord fell by treacherous and violent 
 Hands, thefe Men could not be ftrangers to 
 it i and therefore by their crofs Examinati- 
 ons apart, they might the more eafily be 
 detected of Falfity ; for feeing thefe&Men- 
 were to give a fajfe Relation of the Matter, 
 (, to hinder the difcovery of the Truth _) 
 their feparate Examinations might the more 
 eafily have dete&ed the Story, it being ve- 
 ry difficult for three Men ( upon feparate 
 and crofs Examinations) fo to agree, as to 
 Time, Place, Perfon, Manner, &e. of an 
 Aftion as not to be detected ; Truth is ftill 
 the fame, but Lies are almofl infinite. Did 
 not the Jury obferve this method ? 
 
 T. No 5 thefe Men were fuffered to come 
 together that morning they were examinedj 
 and for ought I can hear, each heard what* 
 other faid: Nay, which is more, after Bo- 
 meny had been upon Oath examined by the 
 Coroner, and given this Information fol- 
 lowing, taken in the Coroner's own Hand. 
 
 The Jnforwttiw of Paul Bameay, &< 
 
 Saith, "That the Earl of Efox, on the 
 "nth Inftanc, did fpeak to this Infor- 
 " mant to bring him a Penknife *o pair his 
 
 * Nails, but this Informant could not then- 
 ' get one ; the Earl of Effix called to him 
 
 ' again on Friday the i $th Inftant, about 
 
 * eight of the Clock in the Forenoon, did 
 ' again fpegk.to this Informant to bring him 
 'a Penknife to pair his Nails ; but this De- 
 c pooenti- celling him that he had not one, 
 " his Lord cojnmanded him to bring him a 
 
 " Razor,
 
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 " Razor, which he accordingly did, and then 
 " his Lordfhip walked up and down the 
 " Room fcraping his Nails with it, and this 
 ** Informant then left him, and coming a- 
 " bout half an hour afterwards up into the 
 " Bed-Chamber, found his Clofet-Door faft, 
 " whereupon this Informant knocked at 
 ** the Door, and called, My Lord, my Lord, 
 " but he not anfwering, pushed the Door a. 
 " little open, where le did fie bis Lord lying ^ 
 *' at length on the Ground in bis Blood, with 
 " the Riyr near Mm on the Ortund. And further 
 " depofeth, That he hath not any Papers 
 " of his Lord's, nor doth know where any 
 K of his Papers or Writings are , and alfo, 
 " tlut on Jlwfdzy Night I aft was very merry it 
 " Suffir, and did Hot fern to be diftonttnttd 
 " t-)i next Morning. 
 
 This Information is Verbatim as the Co- 
 roner took it from Bomtnfs own Mouth. 
 
 The Coroner proceeding to ask further 
 Queftions, Bominy began to hefitate ex- 
 treamly. 
 
 L. Truth to all Queftions had been ready 
 at hand -, but Lies were firft to be forged 
 before they could be given in Anfwer. 
 
 T. You are in the right : But to proceed. 
 Upon this Hefitation,B0/wy defired he might 
 write his own Information. 
 
 Of. I fuppofe the Coroner and Jury were 
 not fo indifcreet as to fuffer this. 
 
 7*. Indeed they did, and I am very cha- 
 ritably inclined to believe favourably of both 
 Coroner and Jury, as to their Hpnefty, tho 
 they themfelves can't juftify their Indifcre- 
 tion when they gave Bommy this Libert}', 
 there being not a convenient place for to 
 write his Information where the Jury were 
 fitting he retired into another Room. 
 
 L. To his Inftrudors (_ I fuppofe ) that 
 were to be aflifting to him in contriving, 
 or rather remembring him of that Story 
 which they thought might moft eafily de- 
 ceive : Grois Folly of both Coroner and Jury ! 
 
 T. Their Folly in this, themfelves con- 
 demn, but an) ill defign in either I believe 
 not. When he had been about an hour wan- 
 ting, he brings into the Coroner and Jury 
 this following Information, vi\. 
 
 TM Information of Paul Bomeny, 
 
 Saith, " That when my Igord came to Cap- 
 " tain .Hanvleh that was the 1 iti of July 
 " 1685, my Lord of Eflex asked him for a 
 " Pen-knife to pair his Nails with, as he was 
 " wont to do ? to which this Informant an- 
 " fwered, being come in halte, he had ncc 
 " brought it, but he would fend for one, 
 " and accordingly fent the Footman with a 
 " Note for feveral things for my Lord, a- 
 " mong which the Pen-knife was inferred, 
 " and the Footman went and gave the 
 " Bill to my Lord's Steward, who fent him 
 " the Provfion, but not the Pen-knife, and 
 " he told the Footman he would get one 
 " the next day ; when the Footman was- 
 " come, my Lord asked if the Pen-knife was 
 " come ? this Informant anfwered, No, but 
 " he fliould have it die next day, and ac- 
 ' cordingly he on the iztb Inftant in the 
 " Morning, before my Lord of Efjex was up, 
 " this Informant fent the Footman home 
 " with a Note to the Steward, in which, 
 " among other things, he asked for a Pen- 
 " knife for my Lord, and when the Foot- 
 " man was gone, about, or a little after 
 " Eight a Clock my Lord fent one Mr. Ruffel 
 " his Warder to this Informant, who came, 
 " and then lie asked him if the Pen-knife 
 " was come ? this Informant faid, No, my 
 " Lord, but I (hall have it by and by j to 
 " which my Lord faid he fhould bring him 
 " one of his Razors, it would do as well 5 
 " and then this Informant went and fetched 
 " one and gave it my Lord, who then went 
 " to pair his Nails , and then this Infor- 
 " mant went out of the Room in the Paflage 
 " by the Door, and began to talk with the 
 " Warder, and a little while after he wenc 
 " down Stairs, and foon. after came the 
 " Footman with the Pen-knife, which this 
 " Informant put upon his Bed, and thought 
 " my Lord had no more need of it, becaufe 
 " he thought he had paired his Nails j and 
 "then this Informant came to my Lord's 
 " Chamber {_ about Eight or Nine in the 
 " Forenoon on Friday the i jth Infant ~] with
 
 A Utt It Kate pom 
 cbtre wire three Lines writ j but not find- 
 ing his Lord in the Chamber, went to the 
 Clofe-ftool Clofet-door, and found it fhut, 
 and he thinking his Lord was bufy there, 
 * went down and ftaid a little, and came up 
 again, thinking his Lord had been come 
 out of the Clofet, and finding him not in 
 the Chamber, he knocked at the Door 
 with his Finger thrice, and faid, My Lord, 
 -* but no body anfwering he took up the 
 " Hanging and looked tlirough the Chinck, 
 " and faw Blood, and part of the Razor, 
 " whereupon he called the Warder -Ruffel, 
 " and went down to call for help j and the 
 " faid Ruffei pufhed the Door open,there they 
 faw my Lord of Eflex all along the Floor 
 "without a Perriwig, and all full of Blood 
 ".and the Razor by him. And this Depo- 
 ' nent further depofeth, That the Razor 
 ** now fhewed unto him at the time of his 
 ** Examination, is the fame Razor which he 
 ** did bring unto my Lord, and did lie 
 " on the ground in the Clofet by my 
 .' Lord. 
 
 You find fome of Botneny's printed Infor- 
 mations writ in large Capital Letters, and 
 likewife fome of this fo writ. 
 
 L, I perceive it. 
 
 T. The firft was infcrted by my Lord 
 SMdirland's Order, the then Secretary of 
 State, or fome under him. And the third 
 omitted, for it was in the Original, which 
 you have juft now read ; and the fecond was 
 interlined by the Coroner after Bwneny had, 
 as before, brought this Information to him : 
 what the Coroner interlined was, as himfelf 
 faith, with Bomerfs Confent, and truly I 
 think very favourably of him. 
 
 <7. I perceive that by comparing the Re- 
 lation printed by Authority, that next Mon- 
 day after my Lord's Death, with what you 
 here declare to be the Original, it materi- 
 ally differs, for they added to it, and took 
 from it as they pleafcd j fo that this is ( in 
 ftridnefs fptaking) a forged Information 
 that was printed. 
 
 /- At in a Deed or Bond, the adding to 3 
 
 (40) 
 
 the Steward, when or taking from either, in Conftru&ion of 
 Law, is forging the whole : So in an Infor- 
 
 mation, once figned and fworn to, nothing 
 can be added to it, cr diminifhed from it, 
 without being in Law a Forger of the whole. 
 0. What reafon had the Secretary of 
 State to print Bomenfs Information diffe- 
 rent from the Original. 
 
 T. My Lord Sunderlmd, or fome under 
 Confident, perceiving Bommy had fworn 
 the Delivery of the Razor, and what there- 
 upon happened to be of the Thurfday, 
 the day before my Lord's Death, which 
 was not only contrary to his Inflrufti- 
 ons, but a point-blank Contradiction to his 
 Confederate Ruffel', it was thought con- 
 venient, either by my Lord Sunderland, or 
 fuch Confident under him, that thefe two 
 Informations fhould be reconciled in the 
 Print, how contradictory foever they were 
 in the Original which could not be feen 
 and compared with the Print by any but the 
 Coroner, in whofe Cuftody they were) 
 and therefore on Friday the i %th Inftant was 
 to be (_ by way of Forgery ) added to Bo- 
 wfliy's Informations, but this done (as hath 
 been obferved by an ingenuous Author on 
 this occafion) without the leafl Congruity 
 either to Senfe or Grammar , for nothing 
 can be more apparent than that the fore- 
 going part of the Information relates wholly 
 to Thurfday j but at laft, without any regard 
 to what Bomeny had before fworn, on Friday 
 the \ yh Inftant is foifted in, contrary to all 
 Rules of Grammar, and common Meafures of 
 Senfe as well as Juftice, which juftly efteems 
 this printed Inform.' tion forged. This for- 
 ged Reconciliation is done with the greateft 
 Incongruity and Abfurdnefs as well as Falfe- 
 nefs imaginable j and I know not whether 
 the Folly of the Suborner ( for without 
 doubt the Suborner and Reconciler in this 
 cafe are the fame, or of the fame ftamjj) 
 or the 'Penury of the fuborned in .this' In- 
 formation be moft confpicuous. 
 
 G, Sir, I now perceive what was the 
 reafon of this Alteration or rather For- 
 gery) in this Information j but as you have 
 ofcejn obfervedj God Almighty allots to the 
 
 Knave
 
 (4' 
 
 Knave fuch an Allay of the Fool, that the 
 fool hangs the Knave up halfway ; and in 
 this that Obfervation is fo Notorious, that I 
 never favv more of the Fool in the Knave in 
 my Life. Certainly this Gentleman that 
 villanoufly (Jin protection of the Murder) 
 thus turned Reconciler, either did not un- 
 derfland Senfe himfelf, or elfe did believe 
 none would read this Information that did, 
 
 71 Pray read thefe two Papers. 
 
 G. J. W. Painter faith, That the very 
 
 day the Earl of Effex died, he went with 
 
 one ( George Jonts fince dead 3 to the Tower, 
 
 todifcourfe Nathavid .Monday concerning the 
 
 ..Death of the faid Earl : and when they came 
 to the Tovttr, meeting with the faid Monday, 
 
 he gave them this Account ; That as foonas 
 the Gentleman Jaylor had opened my Lord's 
 Chamber Door '> that very morning, he the 
 faid Monday by Order) went in to my 
 Lord's Chamber, and tarried there, becaufe 
 their Orders were, that one of the Warders 
 fhould be in his Lprdftiip's Chamber, and the 
 
 -other at the Stair's Foot. And that they 
 had this farther Order, not to fuffer his 
 Lordfhip to have a Knife, or any thing like 
 it, but whilfl he ufed it in cutting his Meat ; 
 and that being done, all Knives, and fuch- 
 like, were to be taken from him : To which 
 his Lordfhip anfwered, He fhould take.no- 
 thing ill in them in obferving their Orders. 
 This Informant further faith, That the faid 
 
 .Monday did then declare, that he tarried 
 with ray Lord in his Chamber two hours, or 
 
 . better, that very morning ; and that whilfl 
 he was with -my Lord in his Chamber, he 
 did obferve his Lordfliip paired his Nails 
 with the Heel of a Razor. This Informant 
 
 ; further faith, that the faid Monday did further 
 
 declare, Before he left his Lordfhip, and 
 went down Stairs to ftand below, he called 
 up Rujjel his fellow-Warder, to fland in the 
 Chamber j and as he went down Stairs, he 
 lighted his Pipe and fat 'at the Stairs foot ; 
 but before he had half fmoaked his Pipe, he 
 heard it cried above Stairs, that my Lord 
 had cut his Throat. Hereupon he, the faid 
 y, 'ran up Stairs, and pufhed the Clofec 
 
 Door open, and there found my lord dead. 
 This Informant further faith, that the faid 
 Monday did further declare, That when lie 
 came up' Stairs, he asked Mr. Btmeny and 
 Rujjel, where they were whilfl my Lord was 
 intheClofet? The faid Bomeny anfwered, he 
 was fitting upon the Bed in my Lord's Cham- 
 ber i and the faid Ruffel declared, he flood 
 at, my Lord's Chamber Door, jufl without 
 the Door : whereupon he, the faid Monday 
 (as the faid Monday declared) check'd the 
 faid Ruffei for not keeping in the Chamber, 
 according to Order. .Richard Jordan decla- 
 reth, That on the day Mr. Bra.dd.on was tried, 
 C upon the account of the late Earl of Effix") 
 this Informant heard Kaih. Monday declare, 
 That the very morning the late Earl of Effe v 
 died,asfoon as the GentlemJffljMPopen' > d 
 the Chamber Door, which was about feven 
 of the Clock, the faid Monday firfl flood as 
 Warder above Stairs upon the faid Earl j and 
 at the firfl opening the Door, did obferve 
 the faid Earl have a Razor in his Hand, pair- 
 ing or fcraping his Nails with it j and this 
 the faid Monday declared he faw a long time 
 before Ruffil flood Warder above Stairs upon 
 the faid Earl. 
 
 T. By thefe two Informations you may 
 perceive what Monday declared, My Lord 
 had this Razor in his Hand about feven a 
 Clock in the Morning, long before Ruffd 
 came up Stairs to fland Warder upon my 
 Lord; and that my Lord pared his Nails 
 with the Heel of the Razor. 
 
 G. I find it as you fay. 
 
 L. Monday I perceive tells W. the very 
 day my Lord died, that the very fame morn- 
 ing, about feven of the Clock, Monday told 
 my Lord that they ( his Warders} had Orders 
 not to fuffer his Lordfhip to have a Knife, or 
 any thing like it, whilfl he was cutting his 
 Meat j and that being done, the Knife was to 
 be taken from his Lordfhip. This looks as tho 
 there were fome Jealoufies that my Lord 
 would cut his Throat, for other wife why 
 Would they not fuffer him to have a Knife ? 
 
 T. It looks mof e like, either a Suggeflion 
 
 of Monday's own Invention, or a Leflbn 
 
 taught him to make others believe that 
 
 G there
 
 there was fuch a Sufpition : for Monday now 
 denies it. 
 
 I defire now to compare thefe three 
 Mens Relations, as to the Time of delivery 
 of the Razor ; by doing which,you will have 
 reafon to believe no Razor ac all was deli- 
 vered to his Lordfhip. For the clearer un- 
 derflanding hereof, I fuppofe Bominy under 
 Examination with the Jury, and anfwering 
 according to what he hath fworn. 
 c3" Jury. Did you deliver this Razor to my 
 Lord? 
 
 Brnneny. Yes. 
 
 Jury. When did you deliver this Razor to 
 my Lord ? 
 
 Bomeny. About eight of the Clock that 
 merning my Lord died. 
 
 This jegording to what he firfl fwore : but 
 he then withdraws to write his own Informa- 
 tion, which point-blank contradi&s this his 
 C ath in that particular, for he is then exa- 
 mined, and anfwereth as followeth. 
 
 Jury. Do you remember the very Time 
 that you delivered this Razor to my Lord ? 
 
 Bomeny. Yes. 
 
 Jury. When did you deliver this Razor to 
 my Lord? 
 
 0*-. Bomeny. About eight of the Clock on fhurf- 
 day morning, being the day before my Lord's 
 death. 
 
 This, as you obferye, he fwears in the In- 
 formation hlmfelf writ, and brought to the 
 Coroner. 
 
 T. Bomeny then to withdraw, and let Ruffel 
 anfwcr to this particular. 
 
 Jury. Mr. Ruffel, do you know when this 
 Razor was delivered to my Lord ? 
 
 Rjtjjsl. Very well, for I faw it delivered to 
 my Lord by Bomeny. 
 
 Jury. When did you fee this Razor deli- 
 vered ? 
 
 Ruffel. Lefs then a qnarter of an hour be- 
 fore wefound my Lord dead. I flood Warder 
 at my Lord's Door } and I heard his Lordfhip 
 ask for his Penknife to pair his Nails ; and 
 Bomtny faid, it was not brought : upon which 
 my Lord required a Razor, faying, it would 
 (p do as well j and I faw Baneny give my Lord 
 the Razor, it being then about nine a Clock. 
 
 Jtay. Who firfl flood as Warder at my 
 Lord's Chamber Dopr,or in my Lord's Cham- 
 ber,) efterday morning, before my Lorddy'd, 
 was it you or Monday ? 
 
 Ruffel. Monday, upon my Lord's Chamber 
 Door being opened, firfl flood at the Door ; 
 and after he had been there as long as we ufe 
 to fland, he called me up,and then went down 
 and flood at the Stairs-foot, at the Houfe 
 Door, where I did before fland. 
 
 Jury. Then this Razor you faw delivered 
 to my Lord, after Monday went down Stairs, 
 and whilfl you flood as Warder at my Lord's 
 Door ? 
 
 Ruffel. It's very true, for I am fure I flood 
 by Bomeny when he delivered the Razor, and 
 faw it delivered to my Lord. 
 
 Jury. What diflance of Time do you fay 
 there might be, from the time this Razor was 
 delivered, to the time of my Lord's death ? 
 
 Rxflel. I am fure it could not be half ad 
 hour from the time of the delivery of the Ra- 
 zor, to the time we found my Lord dead in 
 the Clofet. 
 
 T. Ruffel withdraws, and Mtnday is ex- 
 amined. 
 
 Jury. Mr. Monday, did you fee my Lord 
 have any Ror in his Hand yeflerday mor- 
 ning before his death ? 
 Monday. Yes, I did. 
 
 Jury. What time was it when you faw my 
 Lord have the Razor in his Hand ? 
 
 Monday. About feven of the Clock, as 
 foon as the Gentleman Jaylor opened my 
 Lord's Chamber Doori for I nrfl flood 
 Warder above Stairs, and as foon as the 
 Door was opened, I faw my Lord have the 
 Razor in his Hand, and obferved him to pair 
 his Nails with it. 
 
 Jury. Was this before Ruffel came up to 
 my Lord's Chamber door to ftaad Warder 
 'there ? 
 
 Monday. Yes, almofl two hours. 
 T. This is according to their own Infor- 
 mations and Relations. Now can you believe 
 that this Razor was delivered by Bomtny at 
 eight of the Clock Friday morning,according 
 to his firfl Oath, and yet not delivered till 
 of the Clock 2%r^rf/^Morning, ac- 
 cording
 
 4? 
 
 cording to Bswnf* fecond Oath ? And can 
 youalfo believe that the Razor was not de- 
 livered till about nine of the Clock Friday 
 Morning, according to Ruffil's Information ? 
 and at the fame time give Credit to Monday, 
 who declared, my Lord had the Razor by 
 feven of the Clock, two hours before Rujfel 
 came up to (land Warder at my Lord's 
 Chamber Door. 
 
 L. Thefe Three are of equal Credit, and 
 confequently you have as much reafon to be- 
 lieve Botneny, as Ruffil , and Monday deferves 
 equal Credit with either of the Former : 
 But all can't be credited, neither can Bominy's 
 Contradictions be reconciled, or can one of 
 thefe be thought true, without giving the 
 Lie to the other two , therefore upon the 
 whole Matter, you can't reafonably believe 
 there was any Razor at all delivered. 
 
 G. I find all three in the main agree, that 
 my Lord had a Razor delivered him to pair 
 his Nails, and their Contradiction is only 
 in point of Time. 
 
 T. 'Tistrue, it's a Circumftantial Contra- 
 diction in point of Time, and the Contra- 
 diction of the two Elders in the Hiftory of 
 Sufanna, was a Circumftantial contradiction 
 in point of Place j for the firft fwore they 
 took Sufama in Adultery under a Maftick 
 Tree, and the fecond under an Holm Tree : 
 Both thefe agreed in the main (as you call 
 it) Vi^. that they found her in Adultery j 
 But by this contradiction as to the Place, 
 where, Daniel convinced all then prefent, 
 that thefe two Elders were perjur'd in their 
 Evidence (_ and confequently Sufanni Inno- 
 cent of her Charge} and thereupon thefe 
 Two Accufers juftly fuffered, what by Per- 
 jury they would have unjuftly caufed to be 
 infli&ed upon the Innocent. Did you ever 
 hear any deny Danitr$ Wifdom in this De- 
 teftion j or arraign his Juftice in the punifh- 
 ment thofe two falfc Accufers thereupon 
 fuftered ? 
 
 G. I mud confefs, thefe Contradictions 
 look as tho neither was true j for Truth 
 would have been the fame to all. 
 
 T. Befides, you find all three agree in this, 
 That my Lord pared his Nails with the 
 
 Razor, which appears to be falfe by this In- 
 formation, which I defire you to read. 
 
 G. John KttUbtottr,Q$e of the Jury upon 
 the late Earl of Efjtx, fweare th, That the 
 Nails on the Fingers and Feet of the faid 
 Earl were very long, and not fcraped or 
 pared as he could difcern. 
 
 L. Being proved perjur'd in one Part, be- 
 lieved in Nothing. 
 
 T. Whereas it was fworn and declared by 
 all, that my Lord's Body was locked into the 
 Clofet j I will now fuppofe that Bomeny, Ruffel, 
 and Monday, were to anfwer as to the opening 
 this Door, according to their former Informa- 
 tions, and you will find their Contradictions, 
 as to this, as grofs as the former. 
 
 Bomeny firft appears. 
 
 Jury. Mr. Bomeny, Was my Lord's Body 
 locked into the Clofet when he was firft 
 found dead ? 
 
 Bomnj. Yes. 
 
 Jw-y. Who opened the Door ? 
 
 Bowtny. When I had knocked at the Clofet 
 Door, my Lord not anfwering, I did open the 
 Door, and there faw my Lord lying along in 
 his Blood, and the Razor by him, and I then 
 call'd the Warders. 
 
 This according to his firft Information, ta- 
 ken (as before} by the Coroner. 
 
 About an hour after this, the Jury do again 
 examine him as to this Point, and he anfwer- 
 ing according to the Information, which as 
 before) he writ in the Room next the Jury, 
 and then you will find it as followeth. 
 
 Jury. Mr. Bomeny, Did you firft open the 
 Clofet Door upon my Lord's Body ? 
 
 Bomeny. No, I did not, but Raflel did, for 
 after I had knocked at the Door thrice, cal- 
 ling my Lord ; my Lord not anfwering,! took 
 up the Hangings, and peeping thro' a Chink, 
 I law Blood,and part of the Razor j whereup- 
 on I called the Warder Ruffel and the faid 
 Ruffd pufhed the Door open. 
 
 T. AtMr.Brajeiori's Triz\,Bor/itny being ask'd 
 Who, did firft open the Door ? upon Oath an- 
 fwered, He knew not who opened the Door. 
 
 L. Here Bomeny is twice againft himfelf:nrft 
 
 he fwears that he himfelf opened this Door 
 
 before he called either of the Warders. 
 
 G 2 Secondly,
 
 (44) 
 
 Secondly, fwears that he did not fir ft o- 
 pen the Door, but Raft I pufhcd it open-, 
 and thirdly ,depofeth, that he knew not who 
 opened the Door. 
 
 T. 1 defire the other two, w\. Ruffe I and 
 Monday, may in this particular anfvver, and 
 then compare them altogether. 
 
 Jury. Mr. Rujfel, Did you find the Cfofet- 
 Door locked upon my Lord's Body ? 
 
 R$l. Yes. 
 
 7/07. Who firft opened this Clbfet- 
 Door? 
 
 Ruffel'. When Bominy faw my Lord's Body 
 through the Chink, he cried out, My Lord 
 was fallen down Tick, whereupon I went to 
 the Clofet-Door and opened it, the Key be- 
 ing on the outfide. 
 
 T. Here Rufftl makes no difficulty in open- 
 ing the Door : But obferve Monday^ Anfwer. 
 Rufftl withdraws and MonAiy is called. 
 
 Jury. Mr. Monday where were you when 
 my Lord was firft found dead ? 
 
 Mbnday. I was {landing at the foottjf my 
 Lord's Stairs, and hearing a great Noife of 
 my Lord's Death, I ran up Stairs and found 
 Bvmeny and Rufftl endeavouring to open the 
 Door, but the Body being fo clofeand ftrong 
 againft the Door neither could. 
 
 Jury. Who then opened the Door ? 
 
 Monday-. I being much ftronger than ei- 
 ther of thefe two, put my Shoulders againft 
 the Door, and pufning with all my Might, 
 1 broke ic open. 
 
 L. Upon the whole matter, I find firft 
 Emmy opened the Door before he called 
 either of the Warders, according to Bomtvy's 
 firft Information taken fas before^ by the 
 Coroner -, and fccondly, that he did not open 
 the Door, for Rufftl opened it, according to 
 Eomny\ ftcond Information ( which himfelf 
 writ 3 and Ruffe?* Depofition : And third- 
 ly, that neither Bomtny nor Rufftl could open 
 the Door, becaufe the Body lay fo clofc 
 againft h, and fo Monday broke it open: 
 This according to Mwdtf* account of the 
 Matter. 
 
 L.-T. Which of thefe three do you be-' 
 >fieve? 
 
 (f. Their ContradiakKis being fuch, lean 
 
 believe neither, but conclude this is a corr- 
 trived Story throughout, and yet fo ill laid 
 together, as I never faw a worfe -made Story 
 in all my Life. 
 
 L. So grofs .Contradidions in fo fhort a 
 Relaticn I never yet met with. 
 
 G. Tis very much they fliould fo thwart 
 each other had they agreed upon a Story ; 
 and yet it's more improbable they fhould 
 fo differ, had they defigned to reveal the 
 Truth , for the true Relation of a Fad is 
 ftill the fame, whereas falfe Relations are al- 
 moft infinite > but thefe three are the greateft 
 Fools I ever heard of, in not laying their 
 Story better together. 
 
 T. I have often heard a very ingenuous 
 Gentleman fay, that God in Mercy to Man- 
 kind allotted fuch an Allay of the Fool to 
 every Knave, that the Fool hangs the Knave 
 up half way. 
 
 . It's indeed a Mercy that the Knave 
 and the Fool go together > for were it nor 
 for the latter, the former would do much 
 more Mifchief. 
 
 Gi It was a common faying of Sir H. B. 
 That no Man was known to be a Knave, but 
 he that was a Fool. 
 
 T. If you don't believe the Clofet-door 
 was locked upon my Lord, you can't be- 
 lieve this was fvvorn for any other end but 
 to fiifle the Truth, and consequently to hin- 
 der the true Difcovery of the manner of my 
 Lord's Death. 
 
 G. As [ can't believe their Relations true, 
 fo neither can I comprehend to what end 
 they fhould invent this Story of the Clofet's 
 Door being lock'd upon my Lord, feeing 
 my Lord might as well have been faid to 
 have cut his Throat without locking the 
 Clofet : What Service could they propofe 
 by this part of their Story of the Clofet- 
 door's being locked upon the Body. 
 
 T. The ufe they afterwards made of this, 
 was the end they propofed by this their In* 
 vention j they wongly argued to the Truth 
 of my Lord's felf-Murder from this very 
 Circumftancej for they fay, Can it be 
 thought pofTible that my Lord fhould be 
 murdered by others, when it was impoffible 
 
 thit
 
 (.45 ) 
 
 that any fhould do it in the Ciofet and come 
 ' out of it, leaving the Body fo clofe againft 
 the Door, which opened inward, and there 
 ' was no other way but the Door out of 
 
 which they could come ? Had this Relation 
 therefore been true, it would have been as 
 ftrong an Argument of my Lord's being a 
 Self-Murderer, as the contrary appearing 
 by the many and grofs Contradictions be- 
 fore obferved) is of his being treacheroufly 
 murdered by others. But as a further Argu- 
 ment of the Clofet-door's not being locked, 
 I defire you to obferve die Ciofet, and how 
 the Body was firft feen by fuch as were 
 * Before fome of the * firft that went up into my 
 any that Lord's Chamber after my Lord's Death was 
 c tmt from known. At the beginning of this Book is 
 the King the Room and Ciofet drawn, and how the 
 faw the Body was firft found : By this you may 
 Btdy. perceive how my Lord's Legs were lying 
 on the Threfhold of the Clofet-door, and 
 you find the Clofet-door could not (_ whilft 
 the Body lay thus, and it was not then 
 pretended 4o* be moved) be locked ; this 
 appears by vrhafJViUiw Tumtr and Summl 
 ~ Pec^ declare^ tpiiMf have depofed before 
 O the Lords. 
 
 William Ttmtr and Samel Pic^ declare 
 that thefe two Informants were Servants to 
 the late Earl of Eflex at the time of his 
 Death, and bringing in fome Provifions into 
 the Tvwer juft upon the firft Difcovery of 
 my Lord's Death, of which as foon as they 
 heard, thefe Informants ran up ftairs and 
 found my Lord's Legs lying upon the Thre- 
 fhold of the Clofet-door. 
 
 G. I am now fatisfied how they propofed 
 to argue from it on their own fide ; but 
 the Edg of the Argument ( through their 
 BHagreement and Contradictions in their 
 Evidence ) hath been turned againft them, 
 and wounded them to the quick. 
 
 T. In the third and laft place, I fhall 
 difprove that part of thefe three M'ens 
 Relations, which faith, that the Razor was 
 locked into my Lord's Ciofet when he was 
 firft found dead : Thofe three have all depo- 
 fed, or often declared, That the Razor was 
 found by my Lord's Body locked into she 
 
 Ciofet, and all three denied that there was 
 any bloody Razor thrown out of my Lord's 
 Clumber-Window juft before my Lord's 
 Death was firft difcovered to thofe out of 
 the Houfe. 
 
 L. If the bloody Razor was thrown out 
 of the Window before jy lord's Deach 
 was difcovered, then, it's moft certain ic 
 could not be found lo'ck'd in (with the Bo- 
 dy ) in the Ciofet upon the firft Difcovery, as 
 by thefe Treacherous Varlets is depofed. 
 
 Pray read thefe Papers. 
 
 G. William Edwards, aged about Eigh- 
 teen Years, declareth, " That being in the 
 "Tower that Morning the late Earl of 
 Efftx died, and juft before the Difcovery 
 " of his Death, vi^. about Nine of the 
 " Ctock the fame Morning, as this Infor- 
 " mant was ftanding almoft over againft 
 " the Earl of Effex his Chamber-Window, 
 " he faw a bloody Razor thrown out of 
 " the (aid Earl's Chamber-Window, and 
 fell juft without the Pales that ftood 
 " before the Door,, which this Informant 
 " was going to take up ; but juft as this 
 " Informant came to take up the Razor 
 " ( which this Informant found very bloo- 
 " dy ) there came a Maid out of Major 
 " Hawley*s Houfe and took up the Razor, 
 " and then ran in with it into Major 
 Hxwltf* Houfe immediately after difco- 
 " vering my Lord's Death. 
 
 Thomas Edwards, Father to the faid William 
 Edwards, Sarah Edwards, and Ann Edward*, 
 and Elizabeth Edwards, all declare, and are 
 ready to depofe, That the faid William Ed- 
 wards the very Morning of my Lord's Death, 
 wJien he came home, did give tlie fame 
 Account in fubftance to thefe Informants. 
 
 G. Was. not this William Edw&ds fworn 
 at Mr. Bt addon's Trial? 
 
 T. Yes, 
 
 G. If I miftake not* he did there upon 
 Oath deny it. x 
 
 71 Tis very true. 
 
 G. How then can there be any Credit 
 given to what one fwears in ContradicTt- 
 on to what he hath before depofed? 
 When upon Qathr he declared^ h few BO 
 
 fuch
 
 fuch Razor, but it was a Story that he 
 invented to excufe his Truanting.- 
 
 T. I defirt that you will confider when this 
 Story was firfttold by the Boy (T>\.) about 
 ten of the Clock that morning my Lord died. 
 Now it was not then known.it would be 
 fworn, that this Razor lay by my Lord's Bo- 
 dy, locked into the Clofet when the Body 
 was firft found, as did appear the Monday af- 
 ter, when the Coroner's Inquifuion, andBa- 
 miny\ Deposition were printed ; and therefore 
 there could not be any ufe made of this Sto- 
 ry, when firft told, againft the Truth of my 
 Lord's (pretended) Self-murder, for that was 
 pofllble to be true, what was fuggefted in 
 anfwer to this by a certain Gentleman, who 
 as foon as he faw what Edwards declared, 
 asked, What ufe could be made of it, and 
 how this did appear to argue that my Lord 
 was murdered ? for he further faid, That it 
 might be when Bomeny came and found that 
 Razor, which he had before delivered to my 
 Lord, proved the Inftrument of his Death, 
 he took it up, and with great indignation 
 threw the Razor out of the Window, as we 
 many times throw away what we have 
 hurt our felves with. To this it was anfvver- 
 ed, It appeared fworn before the Coroner, 
 That as foon as Bominy faw my Lord,and part 
 of the Razor, thro' a Chink of the Clofet- 
 Door, he called out to Ruffe L, that my Lord 
 was fallen down Sick -, fo that there was a 
 Noife of this in the Room before ever the Clo- 
 fet Door was opened, and confequemly be- 
 fore Bomeny could have any opportunity to 
 take up the Razor : Whereas it here appear- 
 cd, by vthzt Edwards faid,that all things were 
 very quiet in the Houfe till the Maid had ta- 
 ken up the Razor, and the Maid firft difco- 
 vered my Lord's Death ; Upon this the Gen- 
 tleman urged this no further, but what he 
 herein declared was fo ready at hand, as tho' 
 he had before heard of trie Razor's being 
 thrown out, and thought this the beft Salve 
 for it. As for the pretence, that this Lie was 
 invented to excufe his truanting, this is very 
 ridiculous j this Boy, in very great earneft- 
 nefs, as foon as he returned from the Tower, 
 told his Mother and Sifters, that the Earl 
 
 of Effix had cut his Throat, and thrown the 
 Razor out of the Window j this argued his 
 fimplicity. 
 
 Now the material part of the Story was 
 then ( generally believed to be) true, (w\.} 
 That the Earl had cut his Throat, and that 
 he fhoulal add the throwing out of the Ra- 
 zor, when (as before obferved) there could 
 be no wfe thereof made towards the proof of 
 my Lord's Murder, is fuch a Suggeftion as 
 can't be fuppofed. 
 
 But as a clearer Anfwer to this, I will now 
 tell you how the Boy came firft to deny that 
 he faw the Razor thrown out ; and, fecond- 
 ly, what made him forfwear it. 
 
 As for the firft ; What occafioned the 
 Boy's firft denial. When Mr. Br addon went 
 firft to Mr. Edward's Houfe, which was 
 Tuefday morning next after the Earl's 
 Death }^ he asked Mr. Edwards, Whether 
 his Son^had feen a Bloody Razor thrown 
 out of my Lord's Chamber- Window, juft 
 before the difcovery of my Lord's Death ? 
 Mr. Edwards at firft was furprKed with the 
 Queftion, and wept, faying, He was undone 
 if he fhould be turned out of his Place in 
 the Cuftom-Houfe j but being prefled to 
 fpeak according to the Truth, he did de- 
 clare what you hare before heard ; the like 
 did the Mother, and two of the Sifters : 
 Upon this Mr. Braddon defired to fee the 
 Boy, for before this Mr. Br addon never 
 faw Mr. Edwards, or his Son, or any of his 
 Family to his knowledg ) ; the Father an- 
 fwered, He was gone to School ; but if Mr. 
 Br addon would come in the Afternoon, the 
 Boy fhould be kept at Home, and he might 
 then difcourfe him, which Mr.Braddon pro- 
 mi fed to do. 
 
 And accordingly about two of die Clock 
 in the Afternoon went. When he came to 
 Mr. Edwards, he was told by the Mother 
 and Sifters, that the Boy had denied he ever 
 faw any Razor thrown out. Upon whiqh 
 Mr. Br addon inquired, Whether the Boy had 
 ever deny'd it before he (_ the faid Mr. Brad- 
 don ) had been there that morning ? To 
 which it was anfwered, He had not. Where- 
 upon, Mr. Braddon did further enquire, Whe- 
 ther
 
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 ther the Boy voluntarily deni'd ic, or what 
 made him do it? Upon which the Mother 
 delared, That his Elded Sifter ( being a- 
 fraid of the Confequence of this Story ) as 
 ibon as the Boy that day came from the 
 School, ran to him in great fury, and in a 
 threatning manner told him, That feveral 
 People would be hanged for what he had 
 laid, and that he himfelf might be hang'd 
 likewife. Upon which the Child came run- 
 ning to her, and cried out, The King would 
 hang him 5 and immediately thereupon de- 
 nied what he had before declared, and fo 
 often repeated,, without any the leaft Con- 
 tradidion. 
 
 Hereupon Mr. Braddon defired the Boy 
 might come into the Parlour, where, before 
 his Relations, and others prefent, he might 
 difcourfe the Boy. At firft the Child could 
 rot be perfwaded, being afraid ; but at laft 
 came into the Room, where Mr. Braddon, 
 before fix or feven then prefent ("none of 
 which before that day he had, to his know- 
 ledgever feenj before ever he did ask the 
 Doy, whether what he had as before decla- 
 red, were true or falfe, fpoke to the Child 
 to this Effed, C V *O Mr - Braddort j Can 
 you read ? WlBiayt Edwards j Yes. Mr. 
 Br addon; Did you ever read the yh Chap- 
 ter of the Atfs of the Af oft Its > William Ed- 
 fvafdsj Yes,. Don't you there find that 
 there were two (truck dead upon the Place 
 for telling a Lie. W. Edwards j Yes. Mr. 
 Braddtit ', God is ftiil the fame God of Truth, 
 and a God of the fame Power likewife ; and 
 he knowing all things, knows better than 
 you your felf, whether what you declared 
 were True or Falfe. Wherefore if it be in- 
 deed a Lie, notwithftanding you have fo 
 often declared it to be true ; now deny it, 
 and never more own it, left for your faying 
 that which is falfe, Gcd execute the fame 
 Judgment upon you, and immediately ftrike 
 you dead : But if it be true, be neither a- 
 fraid or afhamed to own it. Immediately 
 hereupon the Boy ccnfefled it was true i 
 and then declared as before related. Being 
 asked, what made him deny it ? he anfwered, 
 His fcldeft SUkr cnraeoed him, and ft id, 
 
 the King would hang him j which the Sifter 
 then likewife confeUed. 
 
 You have here a large Account how this 
 Boy came firft to deny it j and what was 
 the Reafon thereof 3 and likewife upon what 
 Arguments he retraced liis Denial, and ftood 
 to his firft Confeflion ; all which will be fully 
 proved by many Witneffes, when the Matter 
 comes under a Judicial Determination. 
 
 G. I am herein fatisfied. But how came 
 it to pafs that the Boy forfwore it at Mr. 
 Braddorfs Trial ? 
 
 7. That is the fecond tiling to lie anfwer- 
 ed. This Boy was fubpoena'd on the behalf 
 of the King, as well as by Mr. Brtddoit. 
 And as William Edwards was going into Weft- 
 minflir-Hally that morning Mr. Braddon was 
 tried, and before he was fvvorn, Major Httf- 
 Ity ( at whofe Houfe my Lord died ) meets 
 him, and in a threatnicg manner told him, 
 ' That if he had the management of him, he 
 ' would have him whip'd once a Fortnight 
 e on Monday morning, for feven Years to- 
 ' gether for what he had faid. This Child 
 not being then -above 1 5 Years of Age, was 
 extreamly frighted with this Threat j and 
 being fo very young, was more fenfible of 
 the Pain of fuch a Punifliment, than of the 
 Sacred Obligation of an Oath j and deni'd 
 what was true, to avoid what he feared he 
 might otherwife have fuffered. " 
 
 L. It's very natural to fuppofe a Child of 
 his Age might be frighted into a falfe Oath, 
 being of fuch Years, as he can't well be 
 fuppofed to have that Notion of an Oath, 
 which People of riper Years may and oughc 
 to have. But this argues Major Hinvlty to 
 be a very ill Man, thus to threaten the Boy 
 out of his Evidence. 
 
 G. I have heard that this Major Hxwlty is 
 a very honeft Man j fure he was ever hereto- 
 fore efteemed very Loyal. 
 
 ?. I have reafon to believe that his old 
 Loyalty, and fomrwhat tlft, hath run him into 
 fuch Service, as argues him not of that 
 Character fome would have him thought 3 
 and of my Opinion you will be, when you 
 have heard what .is faid againft him in 
 this Cife, 
 
 Bus
 
 But as a farther Argument of this Razor's 
 being thrown out of my Lord's Chamber 
 Window, Pray read this Information. 
 
 G. J. L. .aged about 1 8 Years deciareth, 
 " That as fhe was landing upon the high 
 " Ground almcfl over againft the Earl of 
 "#br's Lodgings that Morning the Earl 
 " died, and a little before the Difcovery of 
 " his Death, fhe faw a bloody Razor thrown 
 " cut of my Lord's Chamber Window, and 
 " juft before the Razor was thrown out (he 
 " heard two Shreeks. 
 
 T. That this Girl difcovered this to her 
 Aunt the verytvlorning my Lorddied,proved 
 by Mrs. G. and others are ready to atteft the 
 fame. At Mr. Braddon's Trial the Girl's Aunt, 
 and one Mr. (/.then a Lodger in her Aunt's 
 Houfe, depofed the fame. 
 
 L: You have here three Witnefles fworn, 
 that this Child related this Story to her 
 Aunt as foon as fhe came from the Tmver. 
 Do you doubt the Truth of what thefe three 
 Perfons have fworn ? 
 
 G. I am very well fatisfied thefe three 
 depofe the Truth ; but it may be this Boy 
 .might tell the Girl what he faw, and fo it 
 is but one Evidence. 
 
 T. It will be proved as far as a Negative 
 caH be proved, That this Boy and Girl 
 never fpoke to each other till fome time 
 after the Earl's Death, and the Relations 
 of the Boy and Girl were altogether ftran- 
 gcrs to each other, having never (_ to their 
 Remembrance ) heard or feen one another, 
 *hich might be well fappbfed, for their 
 Habitation was fome diftance from each 
 other : Mr. Edwards and his Son and Fami- 
 ly Hving in Mod^LoM, the Girl and her 
 Relations at St. Katberints; befides, you may 
 obferve the Girl flood upon the high Ground 
 over againfl the Earl's Chamber Window, 
 and the Boy in the lower Ground , where 
 the Girl flood fhe ( being but fhort ) could 
 hardly fee the Ground where the Razor fell, 
 but (he declared fhe faw the Maid in the 
 white Hood come thereupon out of Major 
 Hxrvlrfs Houfe : which Defcription agreed 
 exactly with that Defcription the Boy gave 
 of the Maid. 
 
 8) 
 
 L. Their Evidence thus agreeing, canV 
 well be doubted. 
 
 G. I have been informed this Maid is 
 now reputed of a loofe Character. 
 
 T. Admit it true, fhe could not be fo 
 thought when fhe was but juft paft twelve 
 Years of Age, and it was then fhe firft de- 
 clared it, and fix Years fince and more 
 fvvore it : Therefore her now Character 
 can'c in common Reafon prejudice her then 
 Teftimony given in her innocent Chilhood, 
 and her now Teftimony is but a Repetition 
 of her former Oath. Befides, had this Fact 
 been told by Perfons of never fo great 
 Infamy (that did appear to be alto- 
 gether ftrangers to each other ) their A- 
 greement in their Relations had given Cre- 
 dit to their' Teftimony, being firft repor- 
 ted when (as is before obferved) there 
 could be no end propofed by tefling this 
 Lie, feeing when it was firft declared, it 
 appeared not in the leaft inconfiftent with 
 the (pretended} Truth of my Lord's Self- 
 Murder, becaufe this Razor after the Dif- 
 covery, out of Indignation, might have 
 been thrown out of the Window by fome 
 attending on my Lord. Now had this been 
 fworn the next day after my Lord's Death, 
 which at the time it was firft told by this 
 Boy and Girl, could not appear otherwife, 
 then this Story of the Razor's being thrown 
 out of my Lord's Chamber Window had 
 fallen to the Ground, and no way ufeful 
 to prove the Murder. But this I have al- 
 ready more at large infifted upon. 
 
 L. It's an old and true Proverb, Chil- 
 dren and Fools tell Truth ; the Reafon of 
 this faying is, becaufe Children and Fools 
 not being capable of that Invention, which 
 fach as are of Years and Underftanding 
 may be fuppofed to have, fpeak with- 
 out defign the naked Truth of the Fact. 
 
 T. A farther Argument of the Truth 
 of this is the Relation of R. and M. (the 
 two Souldiers before mentioned ) bofh 
 which the very day of my Lord's Death 
 declared in this particular the fame with 
 the Boy and Girl, as appears by thefe 
 InformatioBS following. Pray read them. 
 
 (7.
 
 ( 49 
 
 G. E. G. and 5. //.. further declare, 
 < That about 1 1 of the Clock, the very day 
 ' my Lord dy'd, the aforefaid R. did further 
 ' fay, That my Lord was murdered ; but be- 
 ' fore his Death was difcovered to any out 
 c of the Houfe, there was a bloody Razor 
 
 * thrown out of my Lord's Chamber- Win- 
 ' dow ; and that a Maid took it up, and car- 
 
 * ry'd it into my Lord's Lodgings. 
 
 J. B. and his Wife do both further declare, 
 
 * That the aforefaid R. M. the very day of 
 ' my Lord's Death, did further fay, That 
 
 * after my Lord's Murder, and before his 
 
 * Death was known, there was a bloody Ra- 
 'zor thrown out of my Lord's Chamber- 
 
 * Window, which a little Boy endeavoured 
 'to take up ; but there came a Maid out of 
 
 * Capt. Howie?* Houfe, and took it up, and 
 
 * run with it into Capt. Hawltfs Houfe, and 
 
 * then the Maid was the firft that difcovered 
 ' my Lord's Death. 
 
 L. Thefetwo Witnefles agree with the 
 Boy, not only in the Main (as you call it) 
 but in feveral Circumftances of the Story, 
 with the Boy's Relation : Firft, in the Main, 
 that there was a bloody Razor thrown out 
 of my Lord's Chamber-Window before his 
 Death was known. Secondly, Meafy agrees 
 with the Boy, that the Boy did endeavour 
 to take up this Razor, but was prevented by 
 the Maid, who forthwith carried it into 
 Major Hawlefs Houfe. And, Thirdly, that 
 this Maid was the firft difcovered my Lord's 
 Death. 
 
 O. \ muft confeis, their Agreement in 
 their Relations gives great Credit to the 
 Truth of their Teftimony. 
 
 /.. Was it ever yet known, that four Per- 
 fans, fome very Young, and others of Riper 
 Years, and all Strangers to one another ,fhould 
 give the fame Account of a Faft, in all its 
 Circumftances, and the Faft not True ? 
 
 T. For the farther Confirmation of this 
 Truth, I fliall prove (by tliree Witnefles 
 more} it was a general Report in the Tomer 
 that morning my Lord died, That the Razor 
 was (as before related} thrown out of my 
 Lord's Chamber- Window. Pray read thefe 
 three Papers. 
 
 ) 
 
 G. I. S. declaretli, e That this Informant 
 ' was a Souldier in the Tower that very mor- 
 <ning the late Earl of Effex dred in the 
 'Towir; and about eight of the Clock in 
 'the fame morning, this Informant was 
 ' fent as one of the Guards upon the Honora- 
 ble Lord Ruffe I to the Old Bally ; and as 
 ' this Informant was returning to the Tower 
 '(with feveral of this Guard) one in great 
 ' hafte from the Tower met them, and faid, 
 ' the Earl of Effex had cut his Throat, and 
 'thrown the Razor out of the Window. 
 ' Upon which it was AnfWered, the Earl of 
 * Effex had great Courage, firft to Cut his 
 ' Throat, and then to throw the Razor out 
 ' of the Window. 
 
 This Informant further faith, ' That after 
 ' he came into the Tower, that very morning 
 'he heard it declared by feveral, that there 
 ' was a bloody Razor thrown out of my 
 ' Lord's Chamber-Window before my Lord's 
 ' Death was known. 
 
 R. G. Declareth, ' That he was a Souldier 
 ' in the Tower that very morning the late Earl 
 'of Effex dy'd, and after the Earl's Death, 
 'this Informant heard it difcourfed (that 
 'very morning) in the Tower, that there 
 'was a bloody Razor thrown out of my 
 ' Lord's Chamber- Window before my Lord's 
 'Death was known: and it was further 
 'faid, That the Razor was much broken and 
 'notched, which forne then attributed to 
 'the fall out of the Window, but others 
 ' faid it might be againft the Neckbone. 
 
 L. Againft the Neck-bone! That's a 
 pretty Bufinefs indeed, that my Lord fhould 
 fo hack the Neck- bone, as to break the 
 Razor, according to the defcription you have 
 before given us of the Razor. 
 
 T. So Ridiculous as you make this, it 
 was the very fame that the Surgeon the 
 next day faid to the Jury, as you will anon 
 find. 
 
 L. A Surgeon, either Knave or Fool ; a 
 Knave if he told them what he did not him- 
 felf believe, and neverthelefs endeavoured 
 when upon his Oath to fpeak the Truth) 
 to impofe upon the Juryi and a Fool if 
 H he
 
 ( 50) 
 
 But pray read the Third 'Maid took ic, and "ran in with it into Major 
 * Mawley's Houfe, foon after crying out, My 
 
 he did believe it 
 Information. 
 
 G. R.B. declared), ' That he, this Infpr- 
 ' mant, was in the Tower that very morning 
 
 * the late Earl of Effex died 5 and immedi- 
 
 * ately, upon the firft difcovery of my Lord's 
 
 * Death, this Informant went to Major Ham- 
 ' /i/s, (where my Lord then lay") and by the 
 ' Door of the faid Major Hnvliy's Houfe, this 
 
 * Informant heard feveral then and there de- 
 
 * clare,That there was a bloody Razor thrown 
 
 * out of my Lord's Chamber- Window, before 
 
 * my Lord's Death was kno\vn,fome then and 
 
 * there averting, that they faw the Razor fo 
 ' thrown out. 
 
 L. Who now can doubt this Truth thus 
 attefted and confirmed ? 
 
 T. But to put the Matter beyond all co- 
 Jour of contradiction or doubt, read the far- 
 ther Teftimony of Mr. S. S. 
 
 G. S. S. farther faith, 'That the very 
 day Major Webfter and Lloyd were taken up, 
 \(vKf) the 21 ft of Jannaiylafo, asfufpefted 
 concerned in the Death of the late Earl of 
 
 * Effex, this Informant was in the Goat-Ale- 
 ' houfe in the Miwies, where the faid Web- 
 fter and Lloyd were then in the Conftable's 
 
 * Cuftody, and this Informant did then and 
 ' there hear the faid Webfter declare, That 
 
 * he did nothing ([with relation to my Lord) 
 
 * but pull off his Cravat, and took the Razor 
 ' up from the Floor, and threw it out of the 
 ' Window ; Upon which this Informant asked 
 ' the faid Webfler, What hurt the Razor had 
 
 * done him, that he fhould throw it out of the 
 ' Window ? To which the faid Wtbfttr re- 
 c plied, That when he did it, he was under 
 ' fuch a conftemation as he knew not what he 
 ' did. This Informant farther faith, That up- 
 
 * on this Confeffion of the laid Major (Rtyinr, 
 4 Lloyd the Sentinel then fitting by this Infor- 
 'mant, did declare, That itwasindeedtrue, 
 
 * that the Razor was thrown out, for it was 
 'thrown out of my lord's Chamber- Win- 
 'dow, juft over the faid Lloyd's Head, and 
 
 * the Razor fell juft without the Pales. The 
 'faid Lloyd did further fay, That he did ob- 
 
 * ferve a little Boy, and the Maid of the 
 
 * Houfe, to ftruggle for the Razor j but the 
 
 Lord of Eflix hath cut hh Throat : and the 
 faid Lloyd declared, the faid Maid was the 
 firft difcovered to him my Lord's Death. 
 
 7. As a confirmation of this,(w^.)that this 
 Maid was the firft that difcovered to the Sen- 
 tinel my Lord's Death, read this Informa- 
 tion. 
 
 G. J. AT. dtclareth, * That he, this Infor- 
 4 mant, went into the Tower that very morning 
 ' the late Earl of Effix died ; aud juft before 
 'the knowledgof my Lord's Death, this In- 
 
 * formant went to the Sentinel that then flood 
 
 * at my Lord's Lodgings, and asked the faid 
 ' Sentinel,how the Earl ofEjfix did ? to which 
 
 * the faid Sentinel anfwered, Very well 
 
 T. Obferve, the Sentinel at this time pre- 
 tended, my Lord was very well, and confefTed 
 not any knowledg of his Death. But pro- 
 ceed, 
 
 G. e Juft as this Informant had asked 
 ' this C^ueftion, and been thus anfwered, he 
 
 * did obferve a Maid run in great hafte into 
 
 * Major ffawley's Houfe j and as the Maid was 
 4 come to the Stair-foot, and going up Stairs,. 
 
 * he did obferve a tall black Man, a Warder, 
 
 * and another Gentleman, come down Stairs 
 
 * from my Lord's Chamber- Wards, and nei- 
 
 * ther of thefe two fpoke one word of my 
 ' Lord's Death, as this Informant heard, who 
 
 * ftood about fix foot from the Door > but 
 ' the Maid ran up in great hafte, and imme- 
 c diately, in as great, came running down 
 ' Stairs, wringing her Hands, and crying out, 
 
 * My Lord of Ejjex had cut his Throat, which 
 
 * Difcovery was the firft this Informant heard 
 ' of my Lord's Death, wlio ftood ("as before) 
 
 * very nigh Major /torAy'gBoule. And this 
 
 * Informant did obferve the faid Maid to have 
 
 * a Razor in her Hand, either as (he ran up 
 
 * Stairs, or as fhe came running down as afore- 
 
 * faid. 
 
 L. I wifli we could but know who this 
 Warder and another Gentleman was, that 
 came down Stairs as the Maid ran up,for they 
 could not be ignorant of what was done. 
 
 7*. By defcription it muft be Monday, for 
 there was but two Warders in theHoufeat 
 
 that
 
 that rime-, and this defcription agrees not 
 with the other ; as for the other Gentleman 
 a fhort time may difcover him. 
 
 G. This Confeffion of Lloyd, as to the 
 Boy's endeavouring to take up the Razor, 
 but the Maid's taking it up, and carrying it 
 into the Houfe, immediately upon which my 
 Lord's Death was difcovered, I find agrees 
 with the Boy's Relation, and with what M. 
 and R, declared the very day my Lord died. 
 
 I If you will not be convinced of the 
 Truth of a Fad, attetted by fuch pofitive 
 and circumttantial Relations, ( agreeing in 
 their feveral Accounts, as to the material Cir- 
 cumttances of the Faft, as was before obfer- 
 ved ) and confirmed by two of the Perfons 
 accufed} the laft whereof, in his Relation, 
 gave the fame reprefentation of the Fad, as 
 was before related by fo many } I fay, if fuch 
 Evidence as this will not convince you in 
 in this Particular, it argues you are under an 
 invincible prejudice, which moral Teftirno- 
 nies will not remove. 
 
 G. I can't but acknowledg my felf in this 
 Particular fatisfied, as to the truth of tins Ra- 
 zor being fo thrown out, as before depofed j 
 but I am altogether to feek of the Reafon of 
 this A&ion, what fliould make thefe Ruffians 
 to throw it out. 
 
 L. You have the Reafon, Webfter himfelf 
 affigned for doing it ; for he was asked, 
 What made him throw it out ? he anfwered, 
 He was under fuch a confternation, that he 
 knew not what he did. 
 
 T. You did before obferve the fcituation 
 of the Room and Clofet, and how the Cham- 
 ber-Window (out of which the Razor was 
 thrown) was about 17 foot diftant from 
 the Clofet where the Body lay ; therefore 
 it's very probable, after this bloody Ruffian 
 had murdered my Lord, and blooded the Ra- 
 zor, as the pretended Inttrument of his 
 Death, they having not finifhed the whole 
 Scene,and laid the Razor by the Body,as was 
 intended ; but this Webfter, who threw it out, 
 ttanding not far from the Chamber-Window, 
 with the bloody Razor in his Hand, was fur- 
 prifed when a Perfon came up Stairs ("of 
 whofe coming he was not aware) j and un- 
 
 der this confternation (as is natural to a fur- 
 prife in fuch horrid Villanies) threw the Ra- 
 zor out of the Window, but difcovered no- 
 thing of my Lord's Death ; and then the 
 Maid (who it's poflible was the occafion of 
 this furprife) went out and took it up 5 and 
 as foon as (he returned into the Houfe, dif- 
 covered my Lord's Death, as you have before 
 at large heard related. 
 
 G. This feems to be probable enough. 
 .It may fhortly prove more than probable. 
 
 G. What is become of this Maid that car- 
 ried up the Razor ? 
 
 T. She is under Bail. 
 
 G. Doth fhe deny it ? 
 
 T. Yes, and faith, (he went out of her Ma- 
 tter's Houfe almoft half an hour before my 
 Lord's Death was known, and returned not 
 until my Lord's Death was publick, and fe- 
 veral People in the Houfe to fee my Lord : 
 For fhe tells this Story, * That about half an 
 ' hour before my Lord's Death was known, 
 
 * my Lord's Footman came to her, and told 
 
 * her, the Warder would not open the Wicket 
 
 * to let in my Lord's Provifions that were 
 
 * brought j and therefore begged her to go 
 ' to her Matter, (Mr. Fftnvley, the Gentleman- 
 ' Porter) to defire him to go to the Warder 
 
 * that kept the Gate, and order him to let in 
 
 * the Provifions. 
 
 L. It's much the Footman himfelf could 
 not go to Major Htnvley, for certainly the Ma- 
 jor (well-knowing whofe Footman he was} 
 would foon go and give Orders to let in the 
 Provifions upon the Footman's requeft as his 
 Maids, unlefs the Maid had fome collateral 
 confideration ( befides that of a Servant ) 
 which might influence her Matter. 
 
 7". There was no need of cithers going, as 
 you will immediately hear. Upon this fhe de- 
 clares, c She did accordingly go to her Ma- 
 
 * tter,who thereupon ordered the Warder to 
 4 let in my Lord's Provifions , and as they, 
 
 * C^kO m y Lord's Footman, Will. Inner, and 
 
 * one Sam. Peci^, and a Porter, were bringing 
 4 the Provifions, a Sentinel told them, They 
 
 * were come too late 5 upon which this Maid 
 
 * declares fhe was furprifed, and asked Will. 
 
 * Turmr what fliould be the meaning of that 
 
 H 2 Ex-
 
 ( 5 
 
 ' Expreflion, You are come too late ; for fhe 
 4 did not underfland it : Whereto Turner an- 
 
 * fwered, that he did fuppofe the Sentinel 
 
 * believed thofe Provifions to be my Lord 
 
 * Ruffefe, who being gone to his Trial, this 
 
 * Souldier might think he would never re- 
 ' turn again to the Tower, and fo the Provi- 
 
 * (ions were brought too late: This (fhe 
 ' declare*) fhe then believed ; but as foon as 
 ' they came in fight of her Mafler's Houfe, 
 
 * they admired to fee fo great a Croud a- 
 ' bout the Door, but were foon too well 
 ' fatisfied in the occafion, for it was jufl 
 
 * before difcovered that my Lord of Ejjex 
 ' had cut his Throat. 
 
 G. This looks as a made Story : for, can 
 it be thought that the Warder would not let 
 in my Lord's Provifions ? 
 
 T. It is indeed a forged Lye throughout ; 
 for William Turner, Samuel Pecl^, and the Por- 
 ter do all three declare, that the Maid was 
 not with them whilfl they were bringing in 
 the Provifions, neither did the Warder that 
 kept the Gate in the kafl fcruple the let- 
 ting in my Lord's Provifions; this they 
 all fay they are ready to depofe. 
 
 G. Then this Maid is a Confederate ; for 
 otherwife fhe would fpeak the Truth. 
 
 T. Surely fhe that endeavours by fuch a 
 falfe villanous Invention to evade the Truth, 
 becomes confenting to my Lord's Mturder, 
 and at the laft day fhall anfwer it. 
 
 L. Nay, fhe may anfwer it before, if it 
 be once plainly made appear that fhe did 
 carry up the Razor, and was the firfl that 
 difcovered my Lord's Death j for by what 
 fhe then faw, and hath fince heard fworn 
 by thofe who attended on my Lord, fhe 
 could not but be well fatisfied my Lord was 
 murdered, and endeavouring thus to flifle 
 -*it b~y her falfe Evafions 
 
 7*. To which, fhe. faith, fhedidfwear be- 
 fore the Secretary of State. 
 
 L. That adds Perjury to the firfl Guilt. 
 Without doubt her endeavouring by Per- 
 jury to conceal and ftifle the mofl perfidi- 
 ous and barbarous Murder our Nation ever 
 knew, fhall render her culpable in no fmall 
 degree. 
 
 T. Jufl as the Maid cried out, My Lord 
 had cut his Throat, one Mr. B. ( then an 
 Enfign ) ran into the Houfe, and was the 
 firfl Man in my Lord's Chamber, after my 
 Lord's Death was known, the Blood then 
 feeming almoft reeking hot; this Mr. B. 
 declared, that as he ran in he did obferve 
 (this Maid whofe Name he knew to be 
 Alice ) flanding at her Mafler's Door wring- 
 ing her Hands and crying ; and N. who 
 faw the Maid run into her Mafler's Houfe 
 and up Stairs, and then heard her cry out, 
 Murder, and likewife in her hand the Ra- 
 zor ) declares, that was the very Maid 
 which flood at the Door when Mr. B. went 
 into die Houfe. 
 
 L. By all Circumflances this mufi be 
 the Maid; for had not this Wench been 
 fome way concerned, fhe would never have 
 invented this Lie ; for Innocence flies not, nor 
 needs a Lie for its Defence, but is always 
 fupported by Truth ; and Innocence it felf 
 becomes juflly fufpeded for Guilt when it 
 makes ufe of a falfe Defence; the Law, 
 and the natural Reafon of the thing prefu- 
 ming that every one will ufe the befl, and 
 consequently the truefl Defence in Pro- 
 tection of his Innocence. Pray proceed. 
 
 T. The Circumflances of the Razor in 
 the top's being fo broken, and the many o- 
 ther Notches, as before appears by the Ra- 
 zor, are natural felf-Evidence of the Truth 
 of the Razor's being thrown out of the 
 Window ; for my Lord in cutting his Throat 
 could not fo do it, notwithstanding an old 
 Chirurgion to the Jury declared otherwife; 
 for the Jury asking him, Whether my Lord 
 in cutting his own Throat could fo break 
 and notch the Razor ? The Chirurgion an- 
 fwered, that it was poffible for my Lord to 
 do it againfl his Neck-bone, occafioned by 
 the Tremefaftion of my Lord's Hand when 
 the Razor came to the Neck-bone. 
 
 L. Certainly there was a Tremefaftion in 
 the Chirurgion's Under/landing or Honefty, 
 when upon Oath he gave this Anfwer, for 
 I do fuppofe he was fworn. 
 
 T. He was fo. As a further. Ar- 
 gument againfl my Lord's cutting his Throat 
 
 in
 
 ( 55 ) 
 
 in the Clofet, the Circumflances of the 
 Clofet (_ as found when ray Lord was firft 
 found dead} appear in Evidence. You 
 may obferve the Clofet is but three Foot 
 and one Inch wide, and feven Foot long in 
 one fide, and about five Foot long in the 
 other j now it's declared by thofe attend- 
 ing on my Lord, that there was no Blood 
 againft the Wall a foot higher than the 
 Floor, nor any upon the Cloofe-ftool, or 
 any of the Shelves of the Clofet ; where- 
 as had my Lord cut his Throat ftanding 
 on the Clofet, the Blood would have im- 
 mediately gufhed out of fo large an Orifice 
 five Foot at leaft, wherefore that part of 
 the Wall over againft his Throat murVhavc 
 been very bloody ; but in this cafe "fliere 
 was none at all, and therefore it could not 
 be done ftanding : neither did his LofWhip 
 do it kneeling; for there was no Blood 
 as high as his Throat, as in that Pofture 
 would have then been : and that his Lord- 
 fhip did it not lying along, appears from 
 the Pofition of the Razor ; for the Wound 
 beginning on the left fide, and ending on 
 the right, the Razor muft have been on 
 the right fide of the Body, whereas it 
 lay about fourteen Inches or more from 
 the left. 
 
 G. All thefe felf-Evidences might have 
 appeared to the Jury upon their view* 
 and it's very much they did not obferve 
 them. 
 
 T. What the Jury did, and how they 
 were managed, you fhall foon hear. But I 
 fhall, 
 
 Firft, take notice of the many Irregu- 
 larities, with refped to the Management of 
 my Lord's Body, the Chamber and Clofet 
 after my Lord's Death. 
 
 Secondly, The falfe and malicious Sug- 
 geftions by Major Huwley to the Jury, to 
 hinder the Difcovery of the Truth, and to 
 influence them to the belief of my.- Lord's 
 felf-Murder: And, 
 
 Thirdly, The Oppreflions, Threats and Se- 
 verities fince ufed to avoid a Detection of 
 this unparalled bloody Treachery. 
 
 Firft, The Irregularities with relation to 
 the Body, Room and Clofet after my Lord's 
 Death, thefe were fuch as prevented the 
 Jury from making thofe Observations you 
 fay were natural for them to obferve ; for 
 the Body was ftripp'd and warned, and 
 the Clothes carried away, and likewife the 
 Chamber and the Clofet warned, before ever 
 the Jury law the Body ; and when the Ju- 
 ry the next day faw the Body, my Lord lay 
 ftripp'd and warned in the Chamber, and 
 covered with a Sheet. 
 
 L. This was very irregular, and contra- 
 ry to all Practices, when a Body is found 
 dead, efpecially under the fufpicion of feff- 
 Murder, I fay, under a bare fufpicion , for 
 feeing none could be examin'd ^>the mat- 
 ter to give any Account how my Lord be- 
 came dead, but thofe immediately atten- 
 ding on my Lord, and fuch being flrongly 
 to be fufpeded as privy to the Murder 
 if my Lord were by others treacheroufly 
 taken off} the Body, and all things with 
 relation to it, Ihould have remained under 
 the Circumftances firft found in, and the 
 Perfons thus attending on my Lord fecured 
 apart, in order to their Examination; fo 
 that they might not inftrud each other, 
 and agree in a feigned Story to avoid 
 the Difcovery of their moft perfidious 
 Villany. 
 
 T. This had been indeed natural, and 
 according to King Charles the Second's 
 exprefs Order , but contrary to both, the 
 matter was managed, according as you have 
 heard declared. " 
 
 The next day after my Lord's Death 
 the Jury met, and viewed the Body ac 
 Major Hawlrfs Houfe, under the Circum- 
 ftances before related; and then the Jury 
 were adjourned to a Victualling Houfe in 
 the Tower to confider of their Inquifition. 
 When the Jury had the Matter thus under 
 Examination, Mr. Fijber ( one of the JuryJ 
 demanded a fight of the Cloathes : upon 
 which the Coroner was called into the 
 next Room, and returning in fome heat 
 faid, It was the Body, and not the Cloaths 
 
 they
 
 ( 54) 
 
 they were to fit upon , the Body was 
 there, and that was fufficient. 
 
 L, Who was it that called the Coroner 
 into the next Room ? and to whom did he 
 there go ? for it's probable this was what 
 thefe Gentlemen (_who ever they were) then 
 in the next Room, would not have in- 
 quired into Co ftri&ly i I defire to know their 
 Names. 
 
 T. The Coroner protefts he hath for- 
 got who called him, or to whom he there 
 went. 
 
 L. Forgot ! I muft confefs I have heard of 
 the Art of Memory, but never of the Art of 
 Forgetfulnefs : as none are fo deaf as thofe 
 that will not hear, fo none fo forgetful as 
 thofe that will not remember. 
 
 T. Ydd are very fharp upon the Coro- 
 ner, of whom I have a more charitable opi- 
 nion. 
 
 L. Your Charity ought not to blind your 
 Judgment ; Can you believe this Gentleman 
 forgets, what he hath had all the reafon i- 
 maginable to remember? for feeing my Lord's 
 Death was fo foon after his Death queftioned, 
 this muft naturally put the Coroner upon 
 reflecting on what pafled, which might argue 
 either for or againft the Murder. I am fure 
 thefe Reflections would have naturally 
 brought to, and imprinted in his Mind this 
 particular Paflage : but, peradventure,(hould 
 the Coroner true Anfwer make to this Point, 
 and confefs that fuch Gentlemen in the next 
 Room advifed him to check the Jury for 
 their too great Inquifitives, this would have 
 look'd like making himfelf an Acceflbry 
 (_ in Fore C,onfcienti<e at leaft ) after the Fad j 
 and therefore felf^prefervation makes him 
 forget what otherwife he might well re- 
 member. 
 
 T. I. muft confefs you have fome Reafon 
 on your fide * but feeing the Coroner is 
 fair in his Anfwers to other Queftions, 
 and hath, (_ by his ingenuity in difcovering 
 what we could not have otherwife known} 
 been aflifting to a Detection } I do from 
 fuch his fairnefs and readinefs argue for his 
 Innocence. 
 
 U. He is fair, I find, in his Anfwers to 
 fucli Queftions as touch not himfelf, but 
 when Self lies at ftake , he prevari- 
 cates. 
 
 G. It's very probable he may at pre- 
 fent forget what hereafter may come in- 
 to his Mind; and I dare fay he will be 
 ingenuous in what he knows when his Memo- 
 ry ferves, for I have heard a very fair Cha- 
 racter of the Gentleman. 
 
 L. When his Memory doth ferve as 
 you call it ^ I fhall believe his Forgetful- 
 nefs to be real, but till then pardon me if I 
 think otherwife. 
 
 G. In the mean time forbear your Cen- 
 fures. 
 
 From what Circumftances of the 
 Cloaths could the Jury have had any fight 
 intcnhe Matter ? 
 
 T. Had the Body lain in its firft po- 
 fture, the Jury would have feen the print 
 of a bloody Foot on my Lord's Stocking, 
 coming out of the Clofet, which would have 
 argued, that fome had before been with 
 the Body in the Clofet, though the con- 
 trary was then pretended by thofe three at- 
 tending on my Lord. 
 
 Secondly, They would have found my 
 Lord's Cravat cut in three pieces, as the 
 two Women that ftrip'd my Lord have 
 often declared, proved, as followeth, (yi\.) 
 
 Philip Jobnfon^ and Miriam Tovy , have 
 both depofed, That Mrry Johnfon ( Wife of 
 the faid Philip Johnfon ~) hath often declared, 
 That fhe help'd ftrip the Body of the late 
 Earl of Effex, by the command of Major 
 Kxwlty, at whofe Houfe my Lord died ; and 
 that the Neck of my Lord's Cravat was cut 
 in three pieces. 
 
 T. W. Gentleman, faith, ' That Alice Car- 
 f ter, the very Night fhe was firft feized, 
 ' (_ as fufpefted privy to the Murder of the 
 
 * lace Earl of Effex ~) did declare, That ftie 
 ' help'd ftrip the Body of my Lord of Ef- 
 l fex t by the command of her Mafter, Ma- 
 
 * jor Hawley^ and that my Lord's Cravat 
 
 * was cut in three pieces. 
 
 G. It's
 
 G. It's very much my Lord had not put 
 off the Cravat, or cut above it, had he done 
 it himfelf. 
 
 T. Thofe that attended on my Lot d, fay, 
 my Lord had put oft his Periwig, and laid 
 it upon the Shelf of the Clofet, that the 
 Hairs of the Periwig might not hinder the 
 Aftion. 
 
 L. Sure the Neck of the Cravat was a 
 far greater Impediment, and fuch as would 
 have effedually hindred my Lord from do- 
 ing it with a Razor, the pretended Inftru- 
 ment of his Death. This alone is a ftrong 
 Argument that my Lord did not cut his own 
 Throat, as isfvvorn by thofe Treacherous 
 Villains that attended on my Lord ; neither 
 do I believe it was done at all by any Ra- 
 zor, but with a more convenient Inftrument 
 for that purpofe. 
 
 &. Did you ever hear with what Inftru- 
 ment it was done ? 
 
 T. Yes, and who (befides any before na- 
 med} is faid to be one of the Aftors in 
 this curfed Tragedy ; pray read this Infor- 
 mation. 
 
 G. The Information of R. D. of the Parijk oj 
 St. Mary-Somerfet, London, Scbootoafter, 
 ta^en before me James Cardraw Efq; Juflice 
 of the Peace for the County of Middlefex. 
 
 ' "IT His Informant faith, That a little af- 
 , ' J. ter the late Duke o>Monmouth was 
 ' routed in the Weft, one Mr. /. E. (to the 
 ' beft of this Informants remembrance} told 
 ' this Informant, that it was almoft Univer- 
 'fally whifpered amongft the acquaintance 
 'of Mr. John Holland, (formerly Servant to 
 ' the Earl of Sunderland) that the faid Mr. 
 
 * Holland had confefled to one Mr. D. of his 
 'intimate acquaintance, and afterward 
 concerned with Holland in the Robbery of 
 ' Mr. Gat ford, for which both were condem- 
 ' ned, and the faid D. executed, but Holland 
 
 * pardoned} that the faid Holland was con- 
 'cerned in the murder of Arthur late Earl of 
 'Effex, in which he was employed by the 
 'Earl of Sunder land, upon this occafion, 
 
 ' (yi\.~) The faid Mr. Holland one day 'waiting 
 ' on my Lord Sitnderland, his Lordfhip feem- 
 ' cd much difturbed with Paffion : upon 
 < which the faid Holland told his Lordfliip, 
 ' that if his then coming to his Lordfhip had 
 ' fo difcompofed him,he would withdraw and 
 ' wait on his Lordfhip fome more conveni- 
 ' ent time ; whereupon my Lord faid, that 
 ' he fhould tarry, for it was not with him 
 '(the faid Holland,') that he was angry, but 
 ' with others ; and that he was concerned 
 'to think, that of fo many Servants his 
 'Lordfhip had made, and been fo very kind 
 ' to, he had not one he could truft, or would 
 ' ferve him (or words to that effeft} : Upon 
 ' which the faid Holland replied, He was 
 ' then ready faithfully and punctually to ob- 
 ' ferve his Lordfhip's Commands, in any 
 ' thing. My Lord then difcovered to the faid 
 ' Holland the defigned Murder of the faid 
 'Earl of Effex, and would have the faid 
 ' Holland therein to be engaged ; to which 
 'the faid Holland readily contented; and 
 that the faid Earl's Throat was cut with a 
 ' large Knife,and not with a Razor. And this 
 'Informant was then further informed, That 
 'the faid Holland had further declared to 
 4 the faid D. that fome People were after- 
 ' wards made away for blabbing what they 
 ' knew concerning the faid Earl's Death, and 
 ' that the faid D. had charged the faid Mr. 
 'Holland, before feveral of their Acquain- 
 'tance, one day drinking together, with 
 ' what the faid Holland had confefTed to him 
 * the faid D. as aforefaidj and that he the 
 ' faid Holland, upon his being fo charged, 
 ' feemed much dejected, but could not deny 
 c it. This Informant further maketh Oath, 
 ' That one D. P. about three Years fince, did 
 ' give this Informant almoft the fame Ac- 
 ' count, with relation to Halland and D. And 
 ' the faid D. P. did further tell this Infor- 
 *mant, that when the faid Holland and D. 
 ' were committed to Newgate for Robbing 
 'Mr. Gatford, the faid D. P. went to fee 
 ' the faid Holland in Newgate, to condole his 
 'Condition: But the faid Holland ms very 
 cheerfuljand told him, the faid D, P. he was, 
 
 fecure
 
 ( ' 
 
 c fccureof his Life, and likewife not to want 
 ' Mony as long as the Earl of Sunderland was 
 '"living. The faid D. P. did likewife then 
 
 * further tell this Informant, That the faid 
 
 * Holland (as foon as he was committed to 
 ' Newgate tor the aforefaid Robbery) fent to 
 
 * my Lord Sunderland for fome Mony, and 
 
 * that his Lordfhip fent him the faid Holland, 
 ' 1 6 Guineas. And this Informant hath been 
 ' told by feveral, that the faid Lord Sunder- 
 
 * land hath many times fupplied the faid 
 ' Holland with Mony. 
 
 L. I doubt not but Holland was well re- 
 warded for this eminent Service, and my 
 Lord Sunderland obliged to ftand his Friend 
 under all Exigencies. 
 
 T. Sometime after my Lord's Death, Hol- 
 land .drew in this Mr.D. (a very ingenuous 
 young Gentleman, but infortunate in fuch his 
 Company) to be concerned in the Robbery 
 of one Mr. Gatford, for which both were con- 
 demned ; Holland of the two feemed far the 
 greateft Criminal, and therefore, according 
 to the reafon of the thing, had leaft hopes of 
 Life , but contrariwife, he was very chear- 
 ful, and my Lord Sunderland extreamly kind 
 to him, beyond a common Degree of Fa- 
 vour , .infomuch as Major Richard fan taking 
 particular notice of his extraordinary Kind- 
 nefs to this profligate Fellow, told one of my 
 Lord's Gentlemen, ' That it was not for his 
 
 * Lprdfhips Honour to appear fo much for one 
 
 * of the moft villanous Character imaginable. 
 To which it was Anfwered, that his Lordfhip 
 had a great kindnefs for Holland, upon the 
 Account of my Lord Spencer, to whom this 
 Holland had formerly been a Servant.. 
 
 L, There was certainly fome further Rea- 
 fon. 
 
 T. His Lordfhip's Favour ftilf continued to 
 this Holland, who afterwards being in Prifon, 
 often writ to my Lord for Mony, which was 
 accordingly fent, and fometimes would pro- 
 cure the liberty to go to my Lord Sunderland, 
 and fome others, for Mony, of which the 
 Perfon, (w\.) one /. W. that went with him, 
 taking particular notice, asked the bid Hoi- 
 
 land, How it came to pa fs that he could go 
 with that freedom and alfurance to my Lord 
 Sunderland and thofe others, and be fo gene- 
 roufly fupplied with Mony at all times ? To 
 which Mr. Holland made Anfwer, Damn him, 
 he had done that Service for them that they 
 durft not do other wife. 
 
 L. Durft not do other wife ! a very becoming 
 Phrafe for a Man of his Character to ufe 
 with relation 4:0 a Perfon of my Lord's Qua- 
 lity. This argues either fome extraordi- 
 nary fecret Service done for his Lordfhip,the 
 Difcovery whereof would tend highly to his 
 Prejudice, or elfe this Holland, is a very im- 
 pudent Lier; but the firft feemsmoft pro- 
 bable, confidering my Lord's extraordinary 
 kindnefs to Holland, in Newgate (as was be- 
 fore obferved) and his conftant fupplies upon 
 all application. 
 
 T. I have been credibly informed, by a 
 Gentleman that was once a fellow- Prifoner 
 in the King's-Bench with Holland, that Hol- 
 land did ufe to bring Letters he writ to my 
 Lord Sunder land, and defired this Gentleman 
 to direct them in French, pretending, that 
 if my Lord faw his hand, he would not open 
 the Letter. 
 
 L. I rather believe the Direction was to 
 cheat my Lord's Servant (who carried the 
 Letter from the Meffenger, or Penny-port 
 Man) than to influence my Lord to read it. 
 
 T. This looks moft likely, I muft con- 
 fefs, this W. Ml (once about three Years 
 fince) faying to Holland, it was much whif- 
 pered, that my Lord of Effex did not cut 
 his own Throat, but was by others taken off; 
 Holland faid, Damn him, it was not a Farthing 
 matter if twenty fuch were taken off. 
 
 L. A very fine Fellow for fuch Service ; 
 he who declares, It if not a Farthing Matter if 
 twenty fuch were ta^en off, (by which he meant 
 Murdered, for 'twas in Anfwer to the fame 
 hefpokeit) would not boggle mnch at rhe. 
 doing that villanous Murder, efpecially con- 
 fidered that hereby he fecured himfelf from 
 punifhment in his after- Villanies. 
 
 T. 1 remember very well, a Gentleman 
 told me that it was fome Years fince difcour- 
 
 fed
 
 ( 57) 
 
 fed in Walts (of which Country Holland, is), 
 That Holland being asked how he efcaped 
 Punifhraent for Mr. Gatford's "Robbery, (be- 
 fore taken notice of) he Anfwered, with his 
 ufual Phrafe, Damn him, they durft not take 
 him off.for at the place of Execution he would 
 have difcovered how my Lord of j^*came 
 by his Death : but the Gentleman either 
 ^eally hath, or pretends to have forgot who 
 told him of it. 
 
 L. I find many Mens Memory in this Cafe, 
 ad flac'itum, to remember or forget as they 
 chink fit. 
 
 G. I have heard of a Letter writ by Hol- 
 land to the Earl of Fiytrfka*, (if I mif- 
 take not ~) ; which Letter was read in the 
 Houfeof Lords, and therein it was faid, that 
 Mr. Br addon would have fuborned Holland to 
 fwear in this Cafe ; and as I have heard, 
 Mr. Er addon offered a cor.fiderable Reward 
 to Mrs. Holland, and a Friend of Holland's, 
 to prevail with Holland to come in, and take 
 upon him this villanous Crime. This, if 
 true, was 4 very foul practice. 
 
 7". Yea, if true, it had been villanous, 
 and had deferved (before God) as great 
 Punifhment as the Murderers themfelves : 
 For as in the Old Law, ( Dent. 19. 1 6, &c/) 
 
 * If any falfe Witnefs rife up againft his 
 
 * Neighbour, the Perfon fcrfworn ( when 
 
 * detected to be fo) vvus to receive the fame 
 'Punifhment the Man accufed fhould have 
 'undergone, in cafe the Charge had been 
 
 * true ; whether Tocth for Tooth, or Life 
 
 * for Life, &c. This Law hath an innate uni- 
 verfal Reafon ; and it were not amifs if the 
 fame were with us enaded. Now as the 
 Witnefs himfelf doth deferve this Punifh- 
 ment, the like ( in Faro Confcienti* ~) doth 
 the Suborner : For if in our Law, he 
 that hireth another to poifon, ftab, or any 
 other ways to murder a Man, is juftlye- 
 fteemed Acceflbry before the Fad, and 
 fhall undergo the fame Capital Punithment, 
 the Principal fhall fuffer : So do I think 
 it reafoiuble that whofoever fuborns a 
 Perfon, to take away the Life of any, is 
 ( before God ") guilty of the Murder of 
 the Perfon accufed, equally with him that 
 
 commits the Perjury; and botli are in- 
 deed, according to the univerfal Reafon of 
 the Thing, guilty of a more heinous Mur- 
 der, than he that cuts another's Throat v 
 feeing in this he corrupts Juftice, and by 
 Perjury makes Juftice ( which by God is 
 defigned, and by Man ufed as a protedi- 
 on to the Innocent ) a Means to deftroy, 
 whom in its own Nature it Ihould acquit 
 and proted. If that Phyfician, who to 
 deftroy his Patient, malicioufly poifons 
 his Phyfick, ( defigned by Nature for the 
 prefervation of the natural Man ") deferves 
 the word fort of Death, becaufe he be- 
 comes fo vilely treacherous; how much 
 more heinoufly criminal is he, who by 
 Subornation or Perjury , corrupts Ju- 
 ftice, which Heaven enaded, and Man- 
 kind flies to for a Security to the Moral 
 Man. Wherefore with you I fhould con- 
 cur in this Particular, that Mr. Braddo* 
 deferves the worfl Death could be con- 
 trived, were he guilty of this indeed 
 Falfe and Malicious ) Charge. But the 
 truth of the Cafe, I can in great part at- 
 teft, which is this, wV) 
 
 Mr.Braddon having fome reafon to believe 
 Holland one of the Ruffians, he did ufe all 
 means poffible for his Apprehenfion ; but 
 he found that Holland lay very private \ 
 and, as he had reafon to believe, defign- 
 ed to fly beyond-Seas, (as his own Let- 
 ter before-mentioned declared "); hereup- 
 on Mr. Braddon applied himfelf to fome of 
 Holland's Acquaintance, and by. them be- 
 ing brought to Mrs. Holland^ Mr. Br addon 
 told her, That he had reafon to believe 
 her Husband was concerned in this vil- 
 lanous Murder ; and herein he was con- 
 firmed by Mr. Holland's abfconding j for 
 Innocence defires a Trial, but Guilt ftill 
 flies from Juftice. Mr. Braddon then told 
 her, That if her Husband were really 
 guilcy of this Fad, and would immedi- 
 ately furrender himfelf, ingenuoufly de- 
 claring how, by whom, and with whom, 
 and for whaj hired to do this barbarous Mur- 
 der, her Husband would have a general 
 Pardon, and boch hi.n and her provided 
 I for.
 
 ( 5 8 
 
 for. Bur if 'her Husband was innocent,' 
 ( nothwithftanding whatfoever was faid to 
 the contrary ") and fliould take upon him 
 a Crime ("for any advantage whatfoever) 
 of which he was not guilty, he did dc- 
 ferve to be hanged here, and damned 
 hereafter, feeing by his Perjury he would 
 make JufHce an Inftrument of executing 
 
 the word of Murders. But if he 
 
 were indeed the Man, and fhould furren- 
 der himfelf, and difcover the whole matter, 
 he muft be fure to keep within the limits 
 of Truth ; for fhould he be detected in the 
 leaf! Perjury, no Man was more vigoroufly 
 profecuted, nor any more feverely punifh- 
 ed than he (Tor fuch his Perjury) muft, ex- 
 peft to fuffer. 
 
 Thefe were the Arguments with which 
 Mr. Braddon would have fuborned (as that 
 Letter calls it) Holland, to a full Difcovery: 
 and I do appeal to all the World, whe- 
 ther, admitting this to be true ( as it will 
 be proved when occafion fefves ) Mr. Brad- 
 den deferves this Villanous Charge j for 
 the Truth of this I do (on Mr. Braddorfs 
 behalf) appeal to the Confciences of Mrs. H. 
 Mr. F. and Mr, S. with whom Mr. Braddon 
 feveral times treated in this Aftair. 
 
 G. If the Cafe were as you have repre- 
 fented it, Mr. Braddon did nothing herein 
 but what was confident with a good Con- 
 Icience, and for which he defcrves not 
 the leaft Cenfure. If I miftake not, you 
 faid Holland did alfo go to others for a 
 Supply, as Well as my Lord Sundirland j 
 Pray whonvere thefe? 
 
 T. Pardon me (Sir) if I name them not, 
 you will hear of them in convenient time. 
 
 G. Sir, pardon the Queftion, if the An- 
 fwer be a fecret. 
 
 T. It is enough that I give you Satis- 
 faction in the General, and I defire not to 
 be prefs'd to anfvver all Particulars, for it 
 may not be proper. 
 
 G. I defire to know nothing which may 
 either prejudice you. to reveal, or the 
 thing it felf by being revealed, but efteem 
 it as a great Favour you have been alrea- 
 dy fo large and particular in the Difcourfe, 
 
 which hath given me great Satisfaction, and 
 will convince fuch as fhall hear it from me. 
 Z. A Convert! 
 
 G. Sir, a Convert to Truth I rcjoyce in 
 being ; tho at the fame time it's not only 
 mine, but every good Man's Duty to grieve 
 for thefe ill Men, who are any ways con- 
 cerned in this Villany, efpecially confi- 
 dering to whom this looks related. 
 
 L. We fee how it looks related ad Ho- 
 mlnem y and ad Rem y and we are very glad 
 this Author hath Abdicated, and his De- 
 fign is fruftrated. His Highnefs hereby thought 
 to have made one great ftep towards the 
 Accomplifhment of what Heaven in Mercy 
 hath delivered us from ; I think we can 
 never for this be grateful enough, either 
 to God the chief Author, or to our So- 
 veraign, his Inftrument, and thofe Right 
 Noble and truly worthy Lords and Gentle- 
 men,' that to the hazard of Perfons and 
 Eftates, embarqued on this Glorious De- 
 fign, which Heaven, to a Miracle, blefled 
 with fuch afudden (and as to fhe manner, 
 without Blood ) unexpected Succefs. 
 
 T. But to return to the Jury from 
 whence we digrefled in purfuit of MoUand, 
 and the Inftrument of Death. 
 
 And to the fecond Particular, TJV^. ffxw- 
 ley's unfair Practice, with relation to the 
 Jury, to corrupt them into a belief of the 
 (pretended) felf-Murder. 
 
 Mr. Fijher did then further declare, that 
 he had been informed my Lord of Ejjex 
 was a very pious good Gentleman : to which 
 Bomeny anfwered, My Lord was indeed a 
 very pious good Man ; upon which Fifhcr 
 reply'd, h was then very improbable 
 he fhould be guilty of this the worft of 
 Actions. 
 
 Major Hwley perceiving that the Jury 
 were like to be influenced with my Lord's 
 true Character (for fuch indeed his Lordfhip 
 was, as he was to Fi[htr reprefented) and 
 thereby made -believe that myJLord did 
 not cut his one Throat ; (tfMUQfto wfaat 
 Ma joy Hinvley may be reasonably prefumed 
 to defire they fhould find) therefore to re- 
 move this, and corrupt them into a be- 
 lief
 
 lief of a Lie, v'v(. The pretended felf-Mur- 
 der-, Hnvley tells Fifyer that it was his 
 Miftake in my Lord, that made him be- 
 lieve his Lordfhip fuch a Man 5 for all 
 thofe that knew his Lordfhip well, knew 
 this of him, That it was a fix'd Prin- 
 ciple in my Lord, that any Man mighc 
 cut his own Throat, or othervvife difpofe 
 of his Ljfe, to avoid a difhonourable and 
 infamous Death : fo" that this A&jon was 
 not unlike his Lordfhip, but according to 
 his avow'd and fix'd Principles. This falfe 
 and malicious Suggeftion of Major ffiwley 
 ([which the Jury then did fuppofe to be 
 true") did very eafily incline them to 
 believe that my Lord had (_ purfuant to 
 this Principle } cut his own Throat, to 
 avoid that Difhonourable and Infamous 
 Death, which his Circumflances feem'd to 
 threaten. 
 
 L. What is this Hawlty ? Could his Con- 
 dition pretend to any Intimacy with his 
 Lprdfhip, that he feemed fo well to know 
 my Lord's Principles in this matter ? 
 
 T. Htwhy now denies all, and protefts 
 to their Lordfhips of this Committee^ that 
 he was not nigh the Jury in the Viclualling- 
 Houfe all, the time of their Inquifition, 
 nor ever heard it faid to be my Lord's 
 Principle, That any Man might cut his 
 Throat to avoid an Infamous Death, till 
 their Lorfhips in this Committee told him fo. 
 
 L. Sure the Major's Memory muft be very 
 fhprt, for there is hardly any Man of conver- 
 fation in Town, but muft have often heard it 
 fo faid, it being a general difcourfe, imme- 
 diately upon my Lord's Death, that fuch was 
 his Lordfhip's Principle. 
 
 0. This I have been very often credibly 
 informed, and have heard it reported in all 
 Coftee-houfes, and ufed as one, and not the 
 leaft Argument of my Lord's having indeed 
 cut his own Throat. I do -much wonder the 
 Major fhould pretend that he never heard of 
 it, efpecially when he himfelf did fugged the 
 faiifl to the Jury, and prtfs'd it as an Argu- 
 ment of my Lord's Self-Murder $ I do not 
 well understand this. 
 
 T. Gentlemen, to me the rcafon of this is 
 
 plain ; For when Major Hxwlrj found that 
 fuch a Suggeftion was ufed as an Argument 
 of his Guilt, to avoid this Charge, he doth 
 not only deny his fuggefting it, but, as a 
 good Reafon (had it been true) that he could 
 not, declared, he never heard it by any faid 
 (before their Lordfhips charged him with it) 
 that fuch was my Lord's Principle. 
 
 L. Major /foWf/s denying that he did 
 fuggefl this to the Jury, or ever heard i: 
 faid to be my Lord's Principle, when the 
 Matter is pofitively fworn againft him, natu- 
 rally argues that this was z falfe, forged, and 
 malitioufly- in vented Story, by that bloody 
 ^jrty j and Hawliy the Man by them pitched 
 upon, as the mofl proper Perfon to corrupt 
 the Jury, (_the then proper legal Judges of 
 the Manner of my Lord's Death]) with this 
 treacherous and villanous contrived Suggefti- 
 on ; fo that the Jury might be more eafily 
 inclined to believe my Lord's Self-Murder 
 upon evidence as inconfiflent as falfe. 
 
 G. I do much admire Major Hawky fhould 
 deny he was with the Jury at the Vi&ual'ing- 
 houfe, if he were indeed there ; feeing his 
 being with them there was no Crime, and 
 therefore needed no denial. 
 
 T. His bare being there, needed neither 
 denial or excufe ; but to avoid the Charge of 
 what he falfely and treacheroufly did vvhilft 
 he was there (which he could never ex- 
 cufe]) he thought beft, in general, to deny 
 that he was with the Jury at all in the Yiftu- 
 alling-hcufe. 
 
 G. But this was very Foolifh, bcaufe the 
 Major being fo well known, (and it may be 
 to all the Jury") his being there could noc 
 but be remerabred by many of them. 
 
 T. Almoft all the Jury do remember him 
 there, and likewife the Coroner, and Surge- 
 ons can't but know he was there. 
 
 G. The Major's denial therefore looks ill : 
 for if he had been there, upon any lawful or 
 indifferent Account, he might have lawfully 
 and innocently juftified the fame ,. but his de- 
 nial \vhen proved fo very falfe) looks as 
 though his Charge were too true. 
 
 T. The Jury had another Reafon to re-. 
 
 member the Maj6r's being there with them 
 
 1 2 'at
 
 (do) 
 
 the Viftualling-houfe j for when fome of 
 the Jury moved for the Adjournment of 
 their Inqufition till fome further time, and 
 in the Mean while notice to be given to my 
 Lord's Honourable Relations, that they might 
 bring what Evidence they thought good. 
 
 L. This had been proper, and it's very 
 cuftomary ; for f ometimes the Jury do not 
 bring in their Inquificion in many days. 
 
 T. It had been both proper and pra&ifed 
 in this Cafe, had not Major Hatvley preven- 
 ted it. 
 
 G. How could the Major hinder it ? 
 
 T. Ha,vpl(y enters a Caveat by another vil- 
 lanous and falfe Suggeftion: for upon thi* 
 Motion of the Jury, Hxwley, with great 
 earneftnefs, allures the Jury, they could not 
 adjourn their Inquiry, but muft immediately 
 difpatch i becaufe his Majefty (Charles the 
 Second } had fent an Exprefs for their Inqui- 
 fition, and would not rife from Council 
 (where he was then fitting} till their In- 
 quiry was brought hinv, wherefore they 
 muft make all hafte poflible. This the Jury 
 believing, they made more hafte than good 
 fpeed, and fo, fooner than otherwife they 
 would, finiflfd their Inquifition. 
 
 G. Doth Major fiatvlcy remember this, 
 Meflenger fent by his Majefty ? 
 
 T. JfawUy totally x denies this likewife, 
 and in anfwer,faith, (as before} that he was 
 net nigh the Jury at the Viftualling-houfe, 
 and fo could not thus haften them. 
 
 L. Denies it ! is it not fworn ? 
 
 T. Iris.* 
 
 L. Certainly the denial of a Criminal, fhall 
 not ballance the Teftimony of the Accufer. 
 
 T. Efpecially when the Perfon accufing 
 is of a much cleerer and better Reputation 
 (in all things confidered} than ever the 
 Perfon Accufed can juftly precend to. 
 
 G. 'lamforry for the Major, whom I did 
 ever think very Loyal. 
 
 _ L. His Old Court- Loyalty [Obedience 
 without refervc] qualified him as a fit In- 
 ftrument in this perfidious and villanous, 
 though then Court-Loyal Service. I re- 
 roiember that a Popifh Captain, about two 
 Years fince, declared, 'He looked upon 
 
 * himfelf, bound to obey ("without referve} .,_ 
 
 * his King in all Commands j and fwore, his 
 
 * Loyalty was fuch, that he wculd cut his 
 
 * ConfeUor's Throat, when under confeflion, 
 ' if his Prince fliould fo command him. 
 
 T. A thro'-paced Loyalift upon my word. 
 
 G. A Loyalift ! a Loyalift for the Devil. 
 
 L. Even fuch Loyalty thofe Men had, 
 which were imployed in my Lord of Efftx 
 his laft Service. 
 
 G. I have been informed, that Major 
 Hnvley hath declared, 'He would go forty 
 *and forty Miles bare-foot to difcover this 
 ( Murder, if my Lord were indeed raur- 
 
 * dered by others. 
 
 L, Verba. Credam cum jaffA Videam ; Shew 
 me thy Faith by thy Works. 
 
 T. That this Htnvlty was aManwhoftil! 
 thirfted for the blood of thofe brave true 
 Englifh Champions that oppofed the late 
 Court-Arbitrary-Defigns, and could afford 
 thofe honourable Lords, and truly worthy 
 Knights and Gentlemen, no better Titles 
 than Rogues, appears by what he declared 
 the very day, that a great Number of Ho- 
 norable Lords (amongft which this unfortu- 
 nate Lord I hear was one} and worthy 
 Knights, Gentlemen and Citizens dined to- 
 gether at Mli-end-Gmn -, for, fometime that 
 Afternoon, Hawley told Mr. Bnnch> then a 
 Warder, that above 200 Rogues that very 
 day dined together at MUe-tM-Grttn, but he gn 
 did wifh that he had forty of the biggeft of 
 them there in the Town, that they might 
 be made the fhorter by the Head, for till 
 then the Land would never be at quiet. 
 
 L. What is become of this Major //awley .-> 
 
 G. He is Major of the Town, and like- 
 wife is (as I thiflk) Gentleman-Porter, his 
 Place worth fome hundreds a Year. 
 
 L. What,is he now intruded in the Joroer ? 
 
 G. Yes with almoft (if not altogether} 
 the greateft Truft (next under the Honora- 
 ble Governour) that is now in the Iantfr,and 
 he is even my Lord Lucas's Right-hand in the 
 management of the iWft-Affairs, 
 
 L. Is this which is here faid to be fworn 
 againft Jianrley, known to the Lord Lvcas ? 
 
 T. I believe not. 
 
 I. It
 
 (61 
 
 L. It were well his Lordfhip were ac- 
 quainted with it , for moft certain (if what 
 be fworn againft him be true, which it's 
 reafonable to believe} ffxrvley is very deep 
 in this Matter ; and then we well know for 
 whatintereft he muft cordially ad, tho' in 
 appearance hefeemotherwife. 
 
 7*. The 2i/2 of January laft, when his 
 Wife (or fome Gentlewoman in his Houfe 
 when he was taken) heard of the Major's be- 
 ing feized upon as fufpe&ed concerned in, 
 cr privy to this Faft, fhe cry'd out, ' God 
 
 * fend us our good King again, for he will 
 
 * foon put an end to this Matter. 
 
 L. And without doubc an End to thole 
 that inquired into it. > 
 
 G. I muft confefs, thefe falfe Sugge- 
 ftions (for I can't believe them other- 
 wife, feeing Major Hawky denies his be- 
 ing with the Jury} reflect upon the Ma- 
 jor as too officious in this Matter; and I 
 fear this great officioufnefs of the Major, 
 was in order to a very ill End ; I can 
 think no otherwife, and am heartily for- 
 ry for him, becaufe I have heard many 
 Loyal Men fpeak very well of him, and 
 to mehe hath appeared no otherwife. 
 
 ^0ttBBt Men of our late Loyalty will 
 fpeak the better of him upon this very 
 account, and that which would make him 
 odious in the fight of honeft Men, in the 
 efteem of thefe renders him the more ac- 
 ceptable , but as for thefe worthy Gen- 
 tlemen who have had good Thoughts of 
 this Man, as foon as they find thefe things, 
 (and fomewhat elfe") fworn againft him, 
 they muft either believe him not Inno- 
 cent in this, or difcredit the Evidence ; to 
 do which, Would argue Prejudice, when 
 the Accufer is of a clearer Reputation 
 than ever this Gentleman can pretend coj 
 and befides, in this Hands Reftus in Cmn, 
 neither his Perfon or Eftace depending 
 cpon the Iflue of this Caufe 5 nay, if he 
 ftand under any Ptejudice, it is, that my 
 Lord fhould ftill appear a Self-murderer, 
 becaufe, fhould it prove otherwife, the Co- 
 roner's Ir.queft (of which this Gentleman 
 is one.} mult expeft the Mi of fome 
 
 Mens Tongues', though I do think them 
 to blame in nothing hue fome indifcre- 
 tion -, for I am verily perf.vaded, that thefe 
 Gentlemen ( for the moft part, at leaft ) 
 did not rejoice in that unfortunate Acci- 
 dent, but did heartily wifh they had re- 
 ceived any Information to find it other- 
 wife than their Evidence moved them to ; 
 but nothing of that appearing from any 
 Perfons who came in to depofe on my 
 Lord's behalf, and thefe Gentlemen being 
 obliged to go according to Evidence, they 
 are no: fo much to be blamed, as pitied, 
 for being fo hurried into their Inqueft. 
 
 L. I find you are an Advocate both for 
 the Coroner and his Jury : Think you they 
 ought to be juftifted in all Particulars.? 
 
 T. It's one thing to juftify, and another 
 to micigate ; As I do not think them al- 
 together excufable, fo neither do I believe 
 them fo Criminal as fome would repre- 
 fent them ; and as far as in Juftice I may, 
 I think it my Duty to clear them, and 
 all Men, from any Afperfion. 
 
 L. You fay the Jury ought to hare 
 proceeded according to Evidence: Ought 
 they not under that Notion to have com- 
 prehended the feveral Irregularites in the 
 total Change of the Circumffonces of the 
 Body, Room, and Clofet, from the State 
 in which they were when the Body was 
 firft found ? Ought they not to have con- 
 fidered, as Evidence, the palpable and grofs 
 Contradictions, (before at large obferved,} 
 between thofe attending on my Lord, 
 which argued the Falficy erf the Evidence, 
 and that, the truth of my Lord's being 
 murdered? And ought they not to have 
 confidered, as Evidence, the feveral Cuts 
 before obferved to be in my Lord's Right- 
 hand, which argued his Refiftance to put 
 off the Inftrument of Death ? Ought they 
 not to have confidered as, Evidence, the 
 Gentlemens tampering with the Coroner 
 in the next Room (for I caa believe 
 thefe Gentlemen there for no other pur- 
 ppfe } and 'till the Coroner's Memory ferves 
 him to name thefe Men, and their Bufineft 
 with him, I fhall not think the beft of 
 
 him, ;
 
 (62 ) 
 
 him: Befides all which, they ought, to have 
 confidered, as gvi&mce, the Circumflances 
 cf the Razor, the (pretended} Inftrument 
 of Death, and compared the length of the 
 Razor with the depth of the Wound, and 
 they would not have found an Inch diffe- 
 rence. Now the Razor, as appears by your 
 defcription, being a French Razor, and not 
 having any Tongue or Spill, this Razor, in 
 the ufe by my Lord, could be held by 
 nothing but the very Blade, and not lefs 
 than two Inches of that muft be held in 
 my Lord's Hand, to cut with that fteadi- 
 refs and ftrcngth the making this large 
 and deep- Wound required 5 fo that the 
 Jury would then have found not above 
 two Inches without the Hand to make a 
 .Wound above three Inches deep : this mufl 
 have appeared fuch a Mathematical Im- 
 pcflibility, as would have been compre- 
 hended by all, and of it fclf had been 
 fufficient to have proved the. ( pretended) 
 'I'elf-Murder a Forgery. To all which, to 
 clear the Jury from all Blame, let us add 
 their not examining thofe three attend- 
 ing on my Lord apart, but fuffering them 
 to know one anothers Examinations, fo 
 that they might agree in their Story, and 
 the better to hejp them herein, to permit 
 my lord's Servant when he began to 
 fairer in his Relation (which alone gave 
 fulpicion enough, that he was telling a 
 l.ic, for Trutli would have readily occurr'd) 
 to go into the next Room (to his Tu- 
 tors without doubt) "and write his own 
 Information 5 and yet after all, their Re- 
 lations were incoherent and contradictory. 
 Thefe your honeft Jury-Men have in all 
 this gone according to Evidence, have they 
 not? Do they deny that they obferved 
 thcfe things? if they did ret, it argues 
 either their great Simplitity, or fomewhat 
 much Worfe. 
 
 T. Some of thefe they do confefs to have 
 obferved, but others, they difown to have 
 taken any notice of j in particular (they fay} 
 they remember not to have obferved any 
 Cuts in my Lord's Right-hand. 
 
 L. They fay they remember not ! Thefe 
 
 Gentlemen, I perceive, have likewife Jesurn'd 
 the Art of Forgetfulnefs, fo that they will 
 remember nothing which may feem to 
 reflect upon their Difcretion or Integrity : 
 I would have fome of thefe you have before 
 mentioned fet up a School to teach this Art 
 never before found out by any. 
 
 T. I have heard 'of one of thefe Jury- 
 Men, who being asked, what Cuts he did 
 obfcrve in my Lord's Right-hand? an- 
 fwered, Should he confefs any, it would 
 reflect upon them. 
 
 L. And therefore this Gentleman was 
 refolved to forget, to reflect upon them! 
 I perceive this Gentleman doth not con- 
 ffder how his ftifling ( in not owning 
 what he can't but remember) the Truth 
 makes him, in Foro Confdintlx, accefTory 
 after the Fact, to my Lord's Murder; 
 For whofoever there is that knows any 
 thing, which he believes in its Difcovery 
 might tend to the Detection of this moffc 
 perfidious Murder, and by his Silence endea-' 
 vours to ftifle it, therein (before God) 
 becomes confenting to that Fact, as ac- 
 ceffory to which at the lafl day he fhall 
 anfwer. Our Law makes him acceflbry 
 after the Fact, that endeavours ffctfflp?ai 
 and convey any from Juflice, wnom'fte" 
 knows guilty of fuch a Villany; and for 
 fuch his Crime he fhall anfwer with the 
 Forfeiture of his Life. Now the reafon 
 of this Law I take to be this j becaufe 
 fuch an Offender (endeavouring to defraud 
 JufUce of its due, by pjrotectjng his Life, 
 which by his Tranfgreflion became forfei- 
 ted to the Law) becomes confenting to 
 the Fact, and fhall in his own Life be- 
 come fubjected to that Punifhment, the Per- 
 fon by him fo conveyed away would have 
 fuffered, when taken 5 nay, the Crime be- 
 comes not excufed by the Perfon's being 
 apprehended,after he is fo concealed or con- 
 veyed away, but the Perfon guilty hereof 
 fhall fuffer the fame Capital Punifhinenc 
 that is inflicted upon the Principal. 
 
 T. 1 wifli all Men were fuch Cafuifts,as to, 
 underfland this ; and fo good Men, as to pur 
 it in Practice : for you would then foon hear 
 
 of
 
 of Jiew Evidence in this Cafe. 
 
 L. A Man needs not much Cafuiftkal 
 Learning to know fo plain a Cafe. 
 
 T. In all your -Hear, you do not confi- 
 der thofe Circumftances that might influ- 
 ence the Jury, and deter them from do- 
 ing what they ought in this Cafe. 
 
 . What can plead their Excufe? 
 
 T. The great danger they had been un- 
 der in finding my Lord murdered by others, 
 pleads for your and all Mens charitable Pity 
 towards Men under fuch a Temptation. 
 
 . Nothing ought to deter Men from an 
 inviolable Obfervation of that Maxim before 
 mentioned, Fiat Juftitia, & ruat Ccelum. 
 
 T. The Obfervation of this, is, I muft 
 confefs, every Man's Duty; but we find 
 the fear of Death hath prevailed with the 
 beft of Men to fwerve from their Duty, 
 to the higheft degree. He of the Difci- 
 ples who in all appearance had the beft 
 
 natural Courage, for he only wore the 
 
 J obn l8 ' Sword, and* ufed it in the greateft Dan- 
 
 , * * gers } had the f higheft degree of Faidi ; 
 
 fMat. 14. was t i ie j|jfr^ t h at explicitly owned our 
 
 .. 2 9' Saviour, and declared when fore-warn'd 
 
 jj Mat. 1 5. of his Denial )xthat tbo all Men deafd our 
 
 l ^' Saviour, he would Hot; nay, tbo he tvire to 
 
 Mat A ^ l> ^ veou ^ ft' K k. lf e to hi* Faith , this 
 ' very Man once under all thefe Advantages, 
 in the midft of his Preemption, was at 
 laft heftor'd out of his Faith by a poor 
 filly Kitchin-Maid, thrice denying the Lord 
 of Life, tho' even then, before his Face, 
 and after his Reflexion upon his Fault, 
 and his weeping bitterly, he had not Cou- 
 rage enough to appear, own, and fuffer 
 with his Matter, as before he declared 
 he would do, rather than deny him. Such 
 Inftances as thefe fhould teach us all Pity 
 towards thofe that fail in their Duty under 
 the like Temptations; and likcwife thofe 
 that ftand, fhould take care left they fall. 
 
 G. I have been often told by a Mer- 
 chant, who many Years lived in Genoa, 
 'That when fome young Noblemen up- 
 
 * on a fmall provocation _) in the midft 
 'of the Street, have murdered others, 
 
 * they have upon the Spot immediately aloud 
 
 '.declared, Th.it- wofavir fowlst fy t % dii 
 ' it, fbould not long remain thiir Debtor. By 
 ' which tiie ftanders-by were given to un- 
 ' derftand, that whofoever fhould difcover 
 c them to be the Men, muft expeft to fall 
 ' Sacrifices to their Revenge, or the Re- 
 ' venge of their Party ; and the,y fail'd not 
 ' to perform what was fo threatned. 
 
 r. Little lefs in this Cafe was done, as 
 fome have felt by woful Experience, who 
 by their Expreffions in deteftation of this 
 Murder, had expofed themfelves to the 
 malicious fury of thofe Man, who never 
 ftuck to add Blood to Blood, to prevent a 
 difcovery of the firft, and carry on their 
 devilifh fntereft. 
 
 And this brings me to the laft genera! 
 Confideration, ( vl-\. ) The Eackwardnefs 
 of the then Government, and the many 
 Threats, great Oppreflion, and barbarous 
 Cruelty that hath been ufed to prevent a 
 Difcovery of thofe barbarous and bloody- 
 minded Men, with Other Particulars, which 
 feem to argue my Lord's being villanoufly 
 murdered. 
 
 I (hall firft, fpeak to the Backwardnefs 
 and Oppreflion of the Government in this 
 Cafe. And, 
 
 Secondly, To fuch other Particulars as 
 may be ufed as Arguments of this trea- 
 cherous Cruelty. 
 
 - For the firft, (^. ) The Backwardnefs 
 of the then Government, and the many 
 Threats, great Oppreflion, and barbarous 
 Cruelty that hath been ufed to prevent a, 
 Difcovery of thefe barbarous and bloody- 
 minded Men. When Mr. Braddon went to 
 the Earl of Sunderland, then Secretary of. 
 State, the very next Tmtrfday after the 
 Death of the late Earl of Effix, and car- 
 ried with him the Information of William 
 Edwards and his Mother, ( ready writ, buc 
 not fworn ) my Lord Sander land feemed 
 much furprifed upon reading of them, 
 ( and indeed he had reafon to be fur- 
 prifed, if he ftands fo related to the Mat- 
 ter as he is now fufpefted to be} ; and 
 then, in fome heat, asked Mr. Braddon, 
 Who bad him bring thofe Things to him?. 
 
 To
 
 To which it was anfttered, That Sir Henry 
 Cupel had defired it. Upon which my Lord 
 ordered Mr. Braddon to come the next 
 morning, and bring the Parties concerned, 
 faying, Ij it were proper, be would tafy them. 
 
 L. I can't but here obferve, that Anger 
 and Heat you fay my Lord Sunderland was 
 in, when thefe Informations were as a- 
 bove) delivered, as though it had been a 
 Matter which did not properly belong to 
 him, and therefore unlefs it were proptr, 
 he would not take them : The Secretary is 
 angry that he%as troubled with the Eufi- 
 nefsi and yet the Court of King's-Bench, 
 at Mr. Br addon's Trial, faid, * That Mr. Brad- 
 ' don had done well, if he had firft gone to 
 'the Secretary of State. 
 
 G. But Mr. Braddon rlrft tried feveral Ju- 
 ftices of the Peace. 
 
 T. That did not then appear to the Secre- 
 tary of State i wherefore the Secretary 
 thought that an Impertinency in Mr. Brad- 
 don, which the Court of Kings-Bench called 
 his Duty. 
 
 L. If it were propir, my Lord Sunder land 
 would take them ! Certainly the Inquiry 
 after a Murder is proper for the Magi- 
 ftracy ; and the Murder of a Perfon of 
 fo great Quality , a State-Prifiner in the 
 State-Prison, by virtue of a Secretary of 
 Stutf s Warrant, is proper for a Secretary 
 of State to inquire into, efpecially confi- 
 dering the Relation that this Murder might 
 be fuppofed to bear towards Perfons not of 
 the lean Quality, nor Matters of the meaneft 
 Confideracion. 
 
 T, This holds good in the General j but 
 there is never a General Rule, but hath an 
 Exception ; and this fell as an Exception 
 under the General Rule for tlie Quality 
 of the Guilty m.:de this Exception, when 
 otherwife there had been none -, and there- 
 fore that Reafon which you gave for the 
 Secretary's Inquiry, vi\. ) the relation of 
 this Murder to, Quality and Matter of 
 Confcquence, was the only Argument that 
 balked the Inquiry. 
 
 L. Arguments! curs'd be fuch Argu- 
 ments as are thus grounded upon no- 
 
 thing but Devilifh Policy, and are altoge- 
 ther inconfiftent with, and repugnant to 
 that Moral and Common Juftice which 
 ought to rule over all Quality, and ail 
 Matters whatfoever. Recommend me to that 
 Minifter of State which ever rejects fuch 
 Arguments j and with Courage and Inte- 
 grity inviolably obferves that brave Mo- 
 ral Maxim, Fiat yujlitia, & mat Ccelun. 
 
 71 May we be ever blefled with- fuch a 
 Soveraign, and fuch Minifters of State, and 
 Judges under him. 
 
 L. Did my Lord Sunderland think it pro- 
 per to take thofe Depofitiom next morn- 
 ing? 
 
 T. You will foon hear how they were 
 taken ; The next morning Mr. Braddon car- 
 ri'd the young Edwards and his Sifter (who- 
 could teftify the fame with the Mother, then 
 fick in Bed ) to my Lord Sunderland's Office. 
 His Lordfhip being then in Council, Mr. 
 Mountftepbeus gave his Lordfhip notice of Mr. 
 Br addon's coming ; immediately upon which, 
 Mr. Atterbury, the Meflenger, was fent to take 
 Mr. Braddon into Cuftody. 
 
 L. This I fuppofe was after the Boy and 
 his Sifter had been examined. 
 
 7! No, before either of thefe had been 
 feen by my Lord, or examined by any. 
 
 G. What colour of Commitment was 
 there, when nothing had been fvvorn, or 
 fo much as declared, againft this Gentle- 
 man? 
 
 L, He was Committed, becaufe the mat- 
 ter, all Circumftances considered, declared, 
 (almoft (x Rii Natura") againft one who (in 
 this refpecY) was troubled with a Nolo me 
 tangere, which this Gentleman would have 
 had fearched and lanc'd, a thing by no means 
 tobeindured. Pray Proceed. 
 
 7. Mr. Braddon was called in before the 
 Council, ("before either the Boy or his 
 Sifter} and in fome heat, asked, What made 
 Jrira ftir in that Buficefs ? 
 
 L. I never before thought the Difcovery 
 of a Murder, had been the Difmtereft of 
 the Crown, in whofe behalf all Criminals 
 are profecuted, 
 
 T. As
 
 T. As there hath been heretofore a great 
 Difference between the Church of Rome 
 and the Court of Rome, fo have we lately 
 feen the day when the Crown and the 
 Crowned Head have been Diametrically 
 oppofite. The Crown [the legal Preroga- 
 tive I mean] could do no Vrong, but the 
 Head that wore it hath done a World of 
 mifchief. The Judges did not obey the 
 Crown [the Rightful Sovereignty] when 
 they illegally deftroyed Charters ; nor 
 were thofe vile Varlets that fuborned Wit- 
 nefles, truly Loyal ; or thofe Mercenary 
 Judges, Council and Jury, who (in con- 
 tradiction to their own Confciences) feem- 
 ed to believe thofe Srate-hired-Hackney- 
 thorough-paced-perjured-Caitifs, who judi- 
 cially murdered Men : 'Twas not the 
 Crown, but he who poflefled it, that di 
 penced with all Law by an unjuft ufurp'd 
 Prerogative, the Peoples Rights being ra- 
 vifked from them, and fold to James the 
 Second by the Corruption of that Bench, 
 who ( as an Honourable Brave Englifh- 
 Liberty-Property-Martyr truly faid) had 
 before been Scandals to the Bar. It was 
 not the Crown, but the Crowned Head, 
 that by an Illegal Arbitrary Power (and 
 not Authority) fent thofe worthy brave 
 true Englifh Spirits, the moft Reverend his 
 Grace, and the Right Reverend the other 
 Six Biihops, to the Tower , for humbly 
 offering their Reafbns for their Non-com- 
 pliance with what in Confequence would 
 have levelled all Fences to Property , Liberty 
 and Life, neither of which (had that power 
 in its largeft Extent been cempli'd with) 
 could we have poflefled but by fuch a pre- 
 carious Right as a Royal Arbitrary Iffe 
 Dixit at all times would have bar'd ; and 
 had not the Crown [the uncorrupt Regal 
 Authority] as truly ftated by thofe Learned 
 Councils in this Eminent Tryal, acquitted 
 thefe ever-to-be remembered Pillars from 
 A pi any Violation /( ^ Reflection upon its Juft 
 Rights, rhe Head that wore it would foon 
 Gradaiim have rob'd thofe Noble Coura- 
 gious Church and State Confeflbrs of their 
 high Characters, Liberties, Priviledges and 
 
 Immunities, whether Ecclefiaftical or Civi 
 (for I believe an Imprifoned Eifliop undei 
 Conviction and Judgment, and no Bifliop, 
 is no farther difhnt than a King's Prifon 
 and Grave) and therein ingratefully ruined 
 the Chief of that Church, -which (through 
 their too great Charity for his Perfon) had 
 notpnly fecured the Crown to him in Suc- 
 ceffion, (when others whofe Charity blinded 
 not their Judgments, would have prudently 
 foreclofed his Title) but likewife in i68j. 
 fixed and fettled it, when fhreatned with 
 that ffornf which none but fuch (thus un- 
 gratefully requited) could have diverted. 
 In this the common Proverb was verified, 
 Per iet quod fades Ingrato : Or, Save a, &c. 
 
 L. What other Reafon did Mr. Br addon 
 give for his {Hiring, than his being imployed 
 by the Family ? 
 
 T. That was one reafon that he proceeded , 
 but it was not the reafon which firfr engaged 
 him ; and therefore in anfwer to this , 
 Mi.~BradJon told that Honourable Board, 
 That he was altogether unrelated to, and 
 unobliged by that Honourable Family, fo 
 that there lay no more perfonal engage- 
 ment in him firft to move, than upon any 
 Man whatfoever, (who might meet with 
 the fame Information.) He declared it was 
 his love to Truth and Juftice, that therein 
 firft moved him ; and as he was a Chriftian, 
 he thought himfelf bound in duty to do 
 what he had done, and (through the Grace 
 of God) his Duty therein, he would do, 
 though Death ftared him in the Face every 
 flep he made. 
 
 L. May the like Principle ftill continue 
 in him. 
 
 T. Mr. Br addon then pulled out of his 
 Pocket the Coroner's Inqueft, and the Infor- 
 mation of Paul Borneny and Ruffel (which 
 you have before heard) and told that Ho- 
 nourable Boa rd,That there were fuchlncot- 
 herencies, and indeed Contradictions Sworn 
 before- the Coroner by thefe two, which 
 endeavoured to prove the Self-murder (they 
 being attending on my Lord at his Death) 
 that they feemed in fuch their Contradicti- 
 ons to confirm what the Boys Relation 
 K argued
 
 C 661 
 
 argued for, and thereupon made his Obfer- 
 vations upon fome of thofe Incoherencies 
 you have before at large heard related. 
 
 G. What was faid in anfwer to this ? 
 
 T. As foon as Mr. Braddon had made 
 thefe Obfervations , His Royal Highnefs 
 called for the Informations, which were 
 accordingly delivered him, and Mr.Braddon 
 expefted His Highnefs would have faid 
 fomewhat in anfwer to what was fo ob- 
 ferved. 
 
 L. Truly I thiuk His Highnefs might be 
 the leaft Stranger to what thefe fnenfhad 
 Sworn ; for from what I have heard, I do 
 believe that the . fame Power and Intereft 
 that hired thofe perfidious Villains to per- 
 mit what was fo barbaroufly executed, had 
 likewife given them Inftructions what to 
 Swear, to give colour to the pretended 
 Self-murder, and therefore His Highnefs 
 might be the beft prepared to anfwer all 
 Obje&ions sgainft thefe mens Depositions. 
 But I Jong to hear how His Highnefs en- 
 deavoured to reconcile them. 
 
 T. His Highnefs could not then turn 
 Reconciler, and therefore laid nothing to 
 this matter, but delivered them to his then 
 Majefty, who faid as little; whereupon the 
 then Lord Keeper North took thofe Infor- 
 mations , and endeavoured to reconcile 
 w.hat was indeed irreconcileable : Where- 
 upon Mr. Br addon objected againft his Lord- 
 flip's Reconciliation, and urged the former 
 Objections further ; upon which his Lord- 
 fhip feemed (though not much by his words, 
 yet by his very pale changed Countenance) 
 highly- difpleafed with Mr. Br addon for 
 making thofe Reflections. 
 
 L. What were thefe Depofitions Printed 
 for, but to be obferved ? did his Lordlhip 
 think that every man wouldTwallow fuch 
 grofs Contradictions as his LordQiip's Cor- 
 ruption (againft his Judgment) would have 
 xeconciled ? 
 
 T. After a long Examination, too tedious 
 here to repeat, Mr. Br addon was ordered to 
 withdraw ; and then the Young William 
 Edwards was called iri, the Child (being 
 then not Thirteen years of Age) was very 
 
 much afraid (having, as before, been foolifli- 
 ly frighted by his Eldeft Sifter, as though 
 the King would Hang him ) and cry'd ; 
 whereupon (as the Sifter hath reported) 
 the Child was ftroaked upon the Head, and 
 bid not to cry, and then asked, Whether he 
 had not invented" that Lye, to excufe his 
 Truenting that day ? 
 
 L. A proper Queftion by way of In- 
 ftruftion, for fuch a Child to anfwer. I 
 fuppofe the Boy then anfwered, as by this 
 queftion he was in effeft bid. 
 
 T. You are in the right, for the Child to 
 this queftion anfwered, Yes : The Sifter was 
 examined, and fhe gave the fame account 
 you have before at large heard, as to what 
 the Boy had declared, and how Mr. Braddon 
 had difcourfed them ; and then Mr. Braddon 
 was the fecond time called in, and by the 
 Lord Keeper North told , that he had 
 inftrufted this Boy in a Lye, and would 
 have fuborned the Child to Swear it. 
 To which Mr. Braddon anfwered, It was 
 impofllble he could inftruft him to fay 
 what the Boy had declared feveral days 
 before he had ever feen the Boy or any of 
 his Relations, as appeared by what his 
 Sifter and the Boy himfelf muft own. 
 
 L. Had not his Lordflup's Honour and 
 Iirereft fuborned his Confcience in this 
 matter, he would have dealt more fairly. 
 
 Mr. Bra-dden then told his Lordlhip, That 
 being well fatisfied in his Innocence and 
 Integrity, he feared not any Profecution, 
 but would readily give whatfoever Bail 
 his Lordfliip Ihould require ; and according- 
 ly that Afternoon gave Bonds witk two 
 Friends in 2000 /. a piece for his Appear- 
 ance ; and hereupon continued the Profe- 
 cution with all Vigor imaginable, for he 
 was now obliged in Self-Juftice to endeavor 
 in what he could, to corroborate the Boy's 
 Evidence, which my Lord Keeper North 
 corruptly called a Lye, and to which his 
 Lordlhip (without any gr^J^l) pretended 
 that Mr. Braddon would have fuborned the 
 Boy to Swear ; for at the fame tim it ap- 
 peared to his Lordlhip, as far as Negative 
 could appear , that Mr. Bntdden had not 
 
 given,
 
 given, offered or promifed to the Boy, or 
 any for- him, or to any of his Relations, 
 one Farthing or Farthings-worth, but did 
 as you have before at large heard, ufe fuch 
 Arguments as might moft naturally Influ- 
 ence the Boy to truth : After Mr. Br > addon 
 had been about a month hurried up and 
 down in both Town and Country upon 
 feveral Inquiries, and all People (except 
 Mr Cra?. one Gentleman who was ever ready to go 
 ' with Mr. Braddon upon all occafions) very 
 unwilling in the leaft to concern them- 
 felves. 
 
 L. It is very natural for men to be 
 deter'd from engaging in that which was 
 fo roughly managed by the Council-Board, 
 and threatned the Ruine of him who firft 
 appeared ; for few men are for living a 
 State-Confeilbr caged up within Iron Grates, 
 or dying their Countries Martyr, but think 
 themfelves obliged to mind only their pri- 
 vate Affairs, leaving all Affairs of State to 
 thofe that have the Command and Steerage 
 of this great VefTel [the Government] left 
 by their Intermeddling in thofe ticklifh 
 matters, themfelves fhould have followed 
 the unjuft misfortune of thofe brave men , 
 who couragioufly, though to their Ruine, 
 oppofed themfelves to the ufurpt Prero- 
 gative and Tyranny of the Times. 
 
 T. Had all men been like thofe men of 
 Prudence (as they falfly term their Cowar- 
 dices) what would long fince have become 
 of this Veflel, wherein all (with all we 
 have) are imbarqued ? The Commander in 
 Chief, with moft of the Chief Officers, had 
 by a corrupt. perjured Agreement amongft 
 themfelves, refolved upon the Sale of both 
 Men and Cargo to that Corrupt and Arbi- 
 trary Will, which in a fhort time (if not 
 providentially prevented) would have 
 claimed all v)e are and have, as though we 
 had held neither Property , Liberty or 
 Life, but as thofe Corrupt Judges did their 
 places , Durante beneflacito Regis, Bat to 
 return. 
 
 yxrat the ititb of^ugaft l6B}.Mr.Brad- 
 
 down into Witt/hire to 
 to enquire after a Report before 
 
 Death, of my Lord's cutting his Throat: 
 From Marlborough he was riding to Froom 
 in Somerfetjlire, and at Bradford (about fix 
 Miles fhort of Froom) he was ftopt, (there 
 being then ftrift Watching and Warding, 
 throughout that Country) by a Vile Perfe- 
 cuting Fellow, one Captain Beach an At- 
 torney , who was ever Zealous for the 
 Ruine and Deftruftion of thofe that flood 
 firm to the True Englifh Intereft, and yet 
 now pretends to be Zealous for his prefent 
 Majefty and Government , though he de- 
 clared when His Majefty firft Landed, he- 
 did hope to fee moft of thofe Hanged that 
 went in to him) being here Examined, and 
 having given the Juftice Satisfaction (a Gen- 
 tleman then there, knowing Mr. Braddon^ 
 and alluring the Juftice he knew him to 
 be the fame man he declared he was) the 
 Juftice was taken afide by Beach, and (as 
 others declared who had heard this Beach) 
 told, that he did notfo ftriftly as heoughc 
 examine this Gentleman, for the Gentle- 
 man was certainly Difaffefted to the Go- 
 vernment, as might be feen by his wearing 
 a Band and Cuffs. 
 
 L. A very ftrong Argument upon my 
 word. 
 
 T.Hereupon the Juftice came to Mr.Brad- 
 don, and told him he muft fearch him, upon 
 which Mr. Braddon (before ever the Juftice 
 faw his Papers) ingenioufly declared the 
 caufe of his being then in the Country , 
 where he was going, and upon what occa- 
 fion ; upon which the Juftice Commits 
 Mr. Braddon to Wiltshire Goal, by fuch an 
 illegal Warrant (in its conclufion) as you 
 never faw. 
 
 The Warrant ran as fbllo weth, viz. 
 
 Wilts fT. *T"0 the Keeper of Hx Ma- 
 1 jefttes Goal of Fiftierton- 
 Anger in this County^ or bis Sufficient 
 Deputy, Tbefe. I find ym herewithall the 
 Body of Lawrence Braddon , appre- 
 hended in the town of Bradford in the 
 County aforefaid, this prefent T^veo and, 
 K 2 twentieth
 
 C 6 
 
 tweitiftb day of Auguft , f%; upon 
 Sttfpicion of being a dangerous and ill 
 affdied Pcrfon to the Government, and 
 for refitfitig t'> gh'e an account of bis bufi- 
 ncfs in thcfe Parts , and for having 
 Letters of dangerous Confiqu.'nce ab >ut 
 him. 1h<fe are therefore in the Kings 
 Majcjties Name to will and require you, 
 that upon fight hereof, yon receive him the 
 faid Lawrence Bradoon into your GOJ!^ 
 and him there fafely kgept (not permitting 
 him to have Pen, j/;^ or Paper, or Per fin 
 to converge or fpeal^ with htm) until ym 
 ft; all receive further Orders frjm H > 
 Majefty and Privy Council : Hereof you 
 are not to fail at your peril. Given under 
 my Hand and Seal at Bradford this 
 22th day of Auguft aforefaid) Anno 
 Regni Carol! Secundi Angl. &c. 3 r. 
 AnnoDom. 1683. 
 
 J^[r.Braddon told the Juftice, the Warrant 
 was illegal ; for fhould the Coaler never 
 hear from the King and Council, he muft 
 be kept a perpetual Prifoner : Warrants of 
 Committment ought to conclude, Till be 
 be discharged by due Cotirfe of Lam. But 
 thejuftice having Mr. Beach and fome 
 Attorneys of his own Judgment, declared 
 he would juftifie the Warrant ; and under 
 this Warrant Mr. Eraddon lay in Wtltjhire 
 Goal about a Fortnight, and was then rer 
 moved by Habeas CorpM upon the Statute to 
 be bailed. All the Judges being out of 
 Town, he was (according to the Statute) 
 carried before my Lord Keeper North then 
 in Council; when Mr. Eraddon was firft 
 brought before his Lordfhip , my Lord 
 Keeper fmil'd, (thinking he had got fuch 
 a hank upon Mr. Braddon and his Friends, 
 as would ruine both) and told Mr. Br addon, 
 notwithftanding Self-refpeft might weigh 
 but little, he thought that he would have 
 fcad fuch juft regard to his Bail, as not to 
 
 have ruin'd them by thofe things then to 
 be kid to his Charge. To which Mr.Braddon 
 anfwered, That the only thing required of 
 his Bail, was his Appearance the next Term, 
 which he mould (God willing) do, and 
 thereby Indemnifie his Bail. No, replied 
 my Lord Keeper (fmiling) the Good Beha- 
 viour in the mean time was likewife re- 
 quired, and that hath been notorioufly 
 broken by this new Offence. To which 
 it was anfwered, That there was no Good 
 Behaviour at all required; and for the Truth 
 thereof, Mr. Eraddon appealed to the Bonds 
 themfelves, taken (as you have heard) be- 
 fore the Secretary of State ; upon fearch it 
 appeared his Lordfhip was in the wrong, 
 upon which my Lord Keeper North feemed 
 very Angry with Secretary Jenkins, that the 
 Good Behaviour was here omitted ; but the 
 Secretary faid it was the Omiffion of his 
 Clerk,and it was, I believe, the only Omifli- 
 on of that nature that had happened in thofe 
 times ; for the Bonds then taken by the 
 Secretary of State, in their Condition con- 
 cluded, And in ths mean while to be of the 
 Good Behaviour ; but in Mr. Braddons Bond 
 this Claufe was intirely left out. 
 
 L. Why could they make that a breach 
 of the Good Behaviour, which a man 
 was naturally bound to do for his de- 
 fence ? 
 
 T. Without doubt the then times would 
 have made Mr. Braddon's going into the 
 Country, &c. to be a Breach of this Claufe, 
 becaufe they did at his Tryal charge him 
 with it as a Crime, and therefore moft cer- 
 tainly would have adjudged it Contra bonos 
 mores , and fb a Forfeiture of the Bonds. 
 Mr. Eraddon defired my Lord Keeper, that 
 fuch Perfons might be fent for out of the 
 Country, as had heard the report of my 
 Lord of Ejfex having cut his Throat, be- 
 fore his Throat was indeed cut. Upon 
 which an * Eminent Lord then faid, This * Many, vf 
 is juft as it was in the Cafe of SiiH-xtothe 
 Edmond-Biery Godfry. My Lord Keeper de- befl of Mr. 
 manded of Mr. Eraddon Bonds WlBraddonV 
 MHOS) in 12000 /. himfdf, and his Bail remem- 
 
 for In met.
 
 (69 
 
 for liis Appearance, and other Bonds (him- 
 f elf and Sureties) in the like Sum for his 
 Gcod Behaviour ; faying, He would have 
 as good men Bound, as though he were to 
 lend the Money out of his Pocket. Thefe 
 Demands being fb very unreafonable, Mr. 
 Er.iddon defired his Lordihip, that his Lord- 
 fhip would be pleafed to confider the Sta- 
 tute upon which he came to be Bailed, and 
 that his Lordihip would (according to the 
 Statute) take fuch Bail as the Quality of 
 the Perfon and Nature of the Offence re- 
 quired. Mr. Er addon did farther declare, 
 That he was a Younger Brother, his Fa- 
 ther living, and his Relations and Friends 
 almoft two hundred Miles from London. 
 To which my Lord Keeper anfwered, 
 That as the Statute required, fo he did con- 
 fider his Quality ; for his Crime was fuch, 
 that had he been an Alderman of Lo?iaon, 
 for every 6000 /. he would have demanded 
 20000 /. fo that his Lordfhip would then 
 have had 80000 /. Bonds in Bail and Surety- 
 fhip, twice as much as ever was given for 
 any Noble-man in England, for any Offence 
 whatfoever. 
 
 L. What was this Heinous Offence ? Is 
 the bringing Murderers to Juitice, a Reflefti- 
 on on the Government ? Certainly the Go- 
 .vernment's becoming a Skreen to fuch per- 
 fidious Villanies, and thus profecuting and 
 punifhing him that would have detected 
 them, is a Cafe without Prefident, and fo 
 Notorious a Breach of the Rules of all Com- 
 mon Juftice , that I knew not a more 
 Impudent, Bare-fac'd, and Villainous In- 
 ftance. 
 
 T. Mr. Braddon not being able to comply 
 with thefe high Terms, was remanded by 
 my Lord Keeper to Wiltshire Goal ; but be- 
 fore the next Morning, advifing with fome 
 Lawyers, he was told the Good .Behaviour 
 could not be required, and that Bail to 
 anfwer the Caufe of the themCommitment 
 was all that could be demmdtd : Upon 
 which the next Morning Mr. Eraddon de- 
 jfired his Keeper to carry him to my Lord 
 Keeper's Houfe in Great gueen-Jtreet, for he 
 did hope his Lordfhip would not continue 
 
 to infill Upon the Good Behaviour, which 
 the Statute required not. Mr. Eraddon was 
 accordingly carried, but the Goaler went 
 firft to his Lordfhip , and informed my 
 Lord Keeper upon what account he had 
 brought Mr. Eraddon once more before his '- 
 Lordihip ; my Lord then faid , he neither 
 had or could demand the Good Behaviour 
 and then fent for Mr. Br addon , and de- 
 clared as before : Whereupon Mr. Braddan 
 (perceiving his Lordihip in a better Humour 
 than the Night before) defired his Lordfhip 
 to accept of fuch Bail as he could give; 
 which, with what he was before under, (by 
 Bonds before the Secretary of State, for 
 the fame Offence in Effeft) would amount 
 to joooo/. my Lord Keeper declared, he 
 could not at his Houfe alter what was 
 agreed upon at the Council ; but the Goaler 
 fhould bring him down to the Council that 
 Afternoon , and if it could be done , he 
 fhould be then Bailed. About Eight of the 
 Clock that night, Mr. Eraddon did accor- 
 dingly go before the Council, where his 
 Lordfhip was fo far from Bailing him upon ' 
 the Terms by him offered, That his Lordfhip 
 renewed Ins Demand of his farmer Bonds in 
 12000 1. for the Appearance, and 12000 1. 
 more for the Good Behaviaiir, notwithjlanding 
 that very Horning he had exprefly declared,That 
 he neither had or could demand Sureties for his 
 Good Behaijiour. 
 
 L. My Lord's memory was very fhort, 
 his Judgment foon changed, or his Con- 
 fcience very Corrupt, to demand (againft 
 his own opinion which he declared that 
 morning) what by Law could not be re- 
 quired. 
 
 T. My Lord Keeper told Mr. Braddon, he 
 had a mind to be made Infamoufly Famous, 
 and thereupon Sarcaftically repeated out of 
 Juve nal: 
 
 dude aliq 
 Si vis ejfe 
 
 carceredignum^ 
 
 L. I do very well remember his Lordfhip 
 was madgQa Lord, about that time King 
 Charles tnebecond uTuedout a Proclamation 
 
 againft
 
 (70) 
 
 againft Petitioning, to which it was then 
 faid, my Lord Keeper Xorth advifed, and 
 for that and other fuch good Services to 
 the Publick, he was made a Lord : Where- 
 upon that Saying of Juvenal, Carr in his 
 Currant apply'd to his Lordlhip, and in his 
 Tranflation render'd it thus ; 
 
 Dare once but be a Rogue vfsn Record, 
 And you may quickly hepe to be a Lord. 
 
 Probatum eft. 
 
 But Blefled be God for this happy Change, 
 which will (I hope) beftow nothing but 
 grinning Honour on fuch vile perjured 
 Services (in afting contrary to their Oaths) 
 tsJefer&s'XlA North were advanced by. 
 
 T. Mr. Br addon having thus fiiffered in 
 the defeft of this Aft, I cannot but here 
 take notice of one great Omiffion in this 
 Statute. This Aft inflifts a Penalty of 
 loo /. upon the Coaler that denies the 
 Prifoner, or any on his behajf, a Copy of 
 his Warrant, and 500 /. Penalty on every 
 Judge that refufes to grant an Habeas Corpus 
 upon the Statute, for the removal of fuch 
 Prifoner; but inflifts no certain Penalty 
 upon the refufal to Bail the Prifoner, as 
 lhall upon this Aft be brought before them, 
 fb that if the Judge either demand Ten 
 times more than the Quality of the Pri- 
 fbner , or the Nature of the Offence re- 
 quires, or refufeth to take any Bail what- 
 foever, there can no Aftion of 500 /. for 
 this refufal be brought, for no Penalty jn 
 this Cafe is Enafted. It's veryfrrange that 
 the Statute ihould lay fo great Penalties 
 upon the denial of the Means of Bail , 
 (viz.) the Copy of the Warrant and Habeas 
 Corfu) and yet notEnaft an exprefs Penalty 
 for refufal of the End, (viz.) Bailing the 
 Prifoner ; for what fignifies either a Copy 
 of the Commitment, or an Habeas Corpus 
 thereupon, if Bail be not procured ? This is 
 putting the Prifoner to a very Fruitlefs 
 Expence. 
 
 L. Seeing the Statute requires the Judge 
 fliall Bail the Prifoner, taking fe Recog- 
 nizance with one or moreSureties ; according 
 
 to the' Quality of the Perfon , and Na- 
 ture of the Offence, a fpecial Aftion 
 of the Cafe lyes againft fuch Judge up- 
 on his refufal, wherein it is to be fup- 
 pofed, not lefs than 5 oo /. Damages will be 
 given. * 
 
 T. Upon refufaljif there be little Damages 
 fuftained (as it may happen, for though one 
 Judge refufe, another may grant the Pri- 
 foner his Liberty upon Bail) and confe- 
 quently fo proved, the Jury (being Sworn 
 to go according to Evidence, as well iii 
 the Damages , as in the matter direftly 
 in Idue ; ) muft go according to Proof, 
 unlefs they think the Extravagant Verdifts 
 of the late Times (which found looThou- 
 fand Pounds where not one Farthing was 
 proved) will excufe them, in giving Fifty 
 times more than was Sworn to be fuftained. 
 Few words more in the Statute, would, I 
 humbly conceive , have fufficiently pro- 
 vided in this cafe ; for in the Statute, where 
 it is faid, That if the Judges fliall deny any 
 Writ of Habeas Corfuf , by this Aft re- 
 quired to be granted, being moved for as 
 aforefaid ( it had been added ; (O Jhaff 
 refufe fuch Bail as the Duality of the Pri- 
 Jonsr , and Nature of the Offence required) 
 they Jha/l feveralfy Forfeit to the Prifoner 
 cr Party grieved', the Sntn of joo 1. to be 
 recovered in manner afortfaid. Thefe few 
 words would have given the 500 /. for 
 refufal of Bail, as well as denying the Habeas 
 Corpus ; whereas without the like Claufe, 
 the Statute may (inEffeft) be dayly evaded. 
 But to return, Mr. Braddon was hereupon 
 turned over .to Jtterbury the Meflenger, 
 where, for about five Weeks, he lay at no 
 lefs Charge than Four Pounds and odd 
 Money per Week direftly, befides other 
 collateral Expences; this being too great 
 for his Fortune to comply with, he (after 
 feme oppofition) removed himfelf to the 
 Kings-Bench f having before by a Friend 
 agreed with Marfhal Clever upon 2000 /. 
 Security, and $ s. 3 d. per Week Chamber- 
 ftent, to have the Liberty of the Rules ; but 
 when he came over, the Marfhal inkfted 
 upon two men in 10000 /. a piece, and 
 
 10 f.
 
 (71 ) 
 
 i o f. 5 "d. per Week Cffamber-fenrfand then that His then Majefty ordered his Difcharge 
 
 Mr. Bradikn was to have Liberty of the 
 Rules; but when Mr. Braddon had com- 
 plied with thefe high Terms (fo much a- 
 bove the firft Agreement) the Marfhal or- 
 dered him to be kept a clofe Prifbner under 
 this Security at no lefs than 2 /. 5- s. 3 d. per 
 Week Charge , and refufed (whilft Mr. 
 Br addon was thus clofe Imprifoned ) to de- 
 liver up the Security-Bonds for this clofe 
 Confinement ; the Marfhal pretended the 
 Order of the then Lord Chief Juftice Jef- 
 feries. 
 
 L. From the Crown of the Head, to the 
 Sole of the Foot , our Government hath 
 been corrupted. 
 
 T. After Mr. Br 'addon had lain fome time 
 under thefe hard Terms, he was Bail'd out 
 by the Kings Bench , and then renewed his 
 Profecution with all poflible Induftry and 
 Diligence; but about the i2th of Novem- 
 ber, 1683. he was taken up in London, by a 
 very ftrange Warrant granted againft him, 
 by the then Court of Aldermen, or Sir Hen- 
 ry Tulje , the then Lord Mayor ; the War- ' 
 rant was againft Mr. Braddon , as a Per- 
 , fonfujpefted to be difaff'efted to the Govern- 
 ment. 
 
 L. Sujpefledto be difaffefted! Sure thofe 
 who granted the Warrant, were very difaffe- 
 fted to the Laws , or otherwife they would 
 never have iflued out fo ftrange and illegal a 
 Warrant. 
 
 T. Upon this Warrant Mr. Braddon was 
 carried before Sir James Edwards , and 
 after that, the then Lord Major, and laft of 
 all , before the King and Council , where 
 he was falfely and malicioufly charged with 
 being the Author of the Protejiant Flail; 
 many hundreds whereof (it was then fug- 
 gefted) he had befpoke about the time of 
 Colkdgis (pretended) Plot, as a fit Inftru- 
 ment to Maflacre the King's Friends ; King 
 Charles then fhaking one in. his hand, decla- 
 red it was a much more dangerous Wea- 
 pon than the Popifh Dagger; but after 
 Mv. Braddon had anfwered to every part of 
 his Charge, there appeared fo much Ma- 
 lice, Folly, and Falfhood in the Accufation, 
 
 without Bail. 
 
 L. This was a very malicious Profecuti- 
 on in hopes to Ruin him ; not fo much for 
 this, as for what he had done in the Cafe he- 
 was before ingaged in. 
 
 T. I believe you are in the right. About 
 this time Mr. Braddon was informed , that 
 his Royal Highnefs (difcourfing at a Hunt- 
 ing, concerning the late Earl of Effex) 
 had declared he would ruin him, if all the 
 Law or Intereft in England would Ruin 
 him, for rifling into the Bufinefs (or- 
 words to that effect ) ; and thereupon 
 Mr. Braddon was pcrfwaded to defift ; but 
 it was anfwered , That the Ruin he did 
 expect , he did not fear , neither would 
 by thofe Threats be deter'dfrom the Profe- 
 cution. 
 
 L. Had his Royal Highnefs been indeed 
 Innocent of this Murder, there had been 
 few things more ferviceable to His Highnefs 
 than a full and clear difcovery of the Truth 
 in this matter ; for had the Earl been a 
 Self-murderer by a thorough Examination,, 
 and ftrict Scrutiny,, the Truth would have 
 plainly appeared, and all Objections would 
 have been anfwered and vanifhed , fo that 
 there would not have remain'd the leaft 
 Colour for a Reflexion on His Highnefs ; 
 or had the Earl of Effex been Murdered by 
 fuch as did it without His Highnefs Con- 
 fent or Privity , upon a diligent and judi- 
 cious Examination and Profecution, thefe 
 vile Varlets that perpetrated this hellifh 
 Fact, being detected and punifhed accord- 
 ing to their Demerit ( as it had been both 
 His Majefty's and Royal Highnefs's Inter- 
 eft , as well as Duty they fhould ) His 
 Highnefs , and all that were Innocoent 
 would hereby have been effectually vindica- 
 ted from all Colour of Guilt ; for the Con- 
 viction and Punifhment of the Guilty, are 
 Vindications of the Innocent. Whereas 
 the Caufe was fo managed , as gave all the 
 World juft reafon to fufpect the very truth 
 of the Matter was of fo deep a Dye, that it 
 could not endure the Touch-ftone of a 
 ftrict and diligent Inquifaion, left it fhould 
 
 then
 
 (7* ) 
 
 then appear (as without doubt it v.-ould) 
 in its true Sanguine Colours ; wJ refore 
 this Caufe ftill fhun'd the Light, becaufe 
 its Deeds were Evil. Scd verita* vcn quarit 
 ^ngilos : Truth feeks no Corners. 
 
 T. To be ihort, For it would be very te- 
 dious to tell all this Gentleman hath done 
 and fufrered upon this Account. In Hillary 
 Term, Mr. Br widen and Hugh Speake , E% 
 were try'd upon an Information exhibited 
 againft them by the then Attorney General; 
 The chief thing laid to thefe Gentlemens 
 Charge, was a Confpiracy to procure falfe 
 Witnefles to prove the late Earl of Efflx 
 Murdered by Perfons unknown, contrary to 
 the Coroners Inqueft, <&c. Mr. Speake was 
 ^= Acquitted of the Confpiracy, andMr.B>W- 
 don only found Guilty. 
 
 L. Who can Cmjfire alone ? A fble 
 Confpirator is a Contradiction. 
 
 T. Such a Contradiction the Jury made, 
 and my Lord Chief Juftice Jefferies approved 
 of the fame. When Mr. Braddon appeared 
 5. in Court to be Tried , he that was not the 
 leaft concern' d in the Profecntion , told 
 him before the Information was read, That 
 he would do his Bufmefs for him : Upon 
 whicli, Mr. Braddon defired this Gentleman 
 to have Patience to tarry till the Jury had 
 done it to his hands;to which it was replied, 
 I do not doubt that. The Oppreflion of the 
 then times, was ftill fure ef both Judg and 
 Jury. This Tryal was carried on with all 
 the Fury and Malice imaginable , and this 
 pretended Crime made worfe than a com- 
 mon Theft or Robbery, for that tended to a 
 private Mifchief, but this to a general Con- 
 fiifion, &c. 
 
 When my Lord Chief Juftice Jefferies at 
 this Tryal, was thus reprefenting Mr. Br ad- 
 don's Crime , as one of the higheft that 
 could be committed , expofing it as much 
 worfe than Burglary, Robbery, or the like, 
 in the midft of his Lordfhip's Railing , 
 Mr. Braddtn fmil'd ; and it was (as I after 
 heard him often declare) upon this Story 
 coming into his mind : A Neighbour of his 
 an illiterate plain Country-Farmer, had a 
 Wife of as violent a Spirit as liv'd, and one 
 
 day She cUmef into the Room where her 
 Husband was (with feveral Neighbours); 
 as fbon as She came , tho there was not, or 
 it feems had been the leaft Colour for a 
 Provocation , for he ftill carried himfelf 
 well towards her ; Ihe flies into the greateft 
 Rage imaginable, calling him all the Names 
 that Malice could invent, or Rage could ut- 
 ter ; and had Ihe not been prevented, might 
 have done him fome mifchief.The Husband 
 in the midft of this great Storm,well knowing 
 all to be falfe , which the Fury of his Wife 
 charged him with, flood as a Man altoge- 
 ther unconcern'd under this Provocation, 
 but rather appeared very pleafant. One of 
 his Friends asks him , how it was poflible 
 for him with that Temper , to receive the 
 fcurrilous and unjuft Railing of that furi- 
 ous Woman? to which the Husband fini- 
 ling, calmly replied, That his Wife talked 
 of a Man he did not know, for he was al- 
 together unrelated to, and unacquainted 
 with that Perfon fhe fo railed againft, and 
 therefore what reafon had he to be con- 
 cern'd when he was -not the Perfon fhe 
 fpoke of? Mr. Braddon asked his own Con- 
 fcience (an infallible Evidence according 
 to truth, to condemn or acquit) whether 
 he was this villanous Criminal his-Lordfhip 
 was fo furioufly Railing againft ; and he 
 found that Judg (by which at the laft day 
 he fhall be tryed) did acquit him from that 
 Crime which his Lordfhip's Corruption 
 (againft his belief) unjuftly charged him 
 with; and therefore he ftood very much 
 unconcern'd at all that his Lordfhip's cor- 
 rupt Violence, falfely and mal'icioufly , 
 without the leaft appearance of a Crime, 
 applied to him ; who tho the Perfon highly 
 accufed, was altogether Innocent either of 
 the Offence, or thofe far-fetched, ftrained, 
 and groundlefs Aggravations. 
 
 L. If Mr. Braddon was well fatisfied in his 
 Innocence , he had good reafon not to be 
 difcouraged : For, tho the wicked flee when *o 
 man purfues, yet the righteous are as hold as * 
 Lyon. 
 
 G. No Terrors ought to affright or dif- 
 cournge the Innocent. 
 
 Integer
 
 Integer vita fceleriffjite parus. 
 
 Non sget, &t. Hor. Od. 22. Lib. I. 
 
 C73 
 
 L. We have a much better Author, who 
 {peaks much to the fame effeft, and aflures 
 us, That to the opprefled, God is a, refuge 
 and ftrength : a very prefent help in trouble. 
 Therefore need they not fear , tko the eatth 
 be moved, and the mountains be carried into 
 the midft of the fea. Tho the waters thereof 
 roar, and be troubled , tho the mountains 
 with the falling thereof, 3cc. Pfalm 46. 
 
 2, &C. 
 
 G. Nothing gives a man that Satisfaction 
 of mind under an unjuft Accufation, as his 
 Innocence ; and I am verily perf waded 
 that an innocent Man hath greater quiet, 
 even under an unjuft Condemnation, than 
 the Guilty can have , tho here acquitted ; 
 for tho the Corruption of a Judge or Jury 
 may protect the greateft Criminal from that 
 legal, humane Punifhment, which the Law 
 would inflict ; yet the Guilt of his own 
 Confciene ftill haunts him like (or rather 
 much worfe than) aGhoft: and therefore is 
 he like the troubled Sea, when it cannot reft, 
 whofe waters caft up wire and dirt', for there 
 is no peace to the wicked, faith my God, Ifa. 5 7. 
 
 20, 21. 
 
 7! No Man ought to Condemn or Ac- 
 quit himfelf by the Opinion of others; for. 
 Men may be led by Mifinformation or 
 Prejudice ; but his own Confcience, when 
 faithfully obferved, will do him the greateft 
 Juftice; and when he ftands acquitted in 
 his own mind , he ought not much to va- 
 lue the Vogue of the People. For accord- 
 ding to the Poer.,Confc!a mens rettifamx men- 
 dacia ridet. 
 
 G. What this Author faith in the next 
 Verfe, may be too truly applied to this 
 corrupt Age, who are fo very apt upon the 
 fleighteft ( and fometimes without any ) 
 Grounds, to take up a reproach againfl their 
 Neighbour. 
 
 Sed nos in vitium credult turba.fumus, 
 But to proceed , 
 
 T. The Lord Chief Juftice, and th; 
 Kings Council , often in effeft declared (if 
 my Lord was Murdered by others) the King 
 and Duke had an hand in it. Some of thefe 
 Gentlemen muft fhortly deny their own 
 Conclufions from the fame Premifles , or 
 elfe maintain (from the Earl's being proved 
 Murdered ) that the Duke had a hand in it. 
 The Jury in this Cafe were twice well trea- 
 ted with a plentiful Entertainment ; and 
 that which to fome of them was much 
 more grateful, (viz.) three Guineas a Man, 
 fb that Guilty came to a better Market, than 
 Not Guilty would have done by two Guineas 
 a Man. 
 
 L Did the King always pay the Jury, 
 when they found for him ? 
 
 T. No ; but upon fuch Services they did 
 not go unrewarded. 
 
 L. Some of thefe Mercenary Men, 
 which were corrupted to go contrary to 
 Evidence, will certainly meet with a reward 
 hereafter, which will teach them by woful 
 Experience, what it was thus to put to Sale 
 firft their own Confciences; and then ii 
 the Corruption of that, to fell the Proper- 
 ty, Liberty , and Life of their Fellow S'ub- 
 jefts ; chiefly to gratify that Blood-thirfty- 
 party, which fo eagerly purfued the De- 
 finition of all that ftood in their way to 
 thofe vile Defigns then carrying on ,* for 
 the Ruin of both Church and State. I am 
 apt to believe fo Charitably of fbme of 
 thefe Jury-men,(tho too Active in fuch Ser- 
 vices ) that they did not forefee the Ten- 
 dency of thefe things , but were blindly 
 and not malicioufly hurried on (the Knaves 
 leading the Fools ; to thofe things which 
 fome have long flnce repented. But pray, 
 what was this Jury ? 
 
 T, As for the Foreman, Sir Hugh Middle- 
 ton, Baronet, (as I have been credibly in- 
 formed) he declared himfelf a Papift fbon 
 after King James came to the Crown, and 
 then faid he had been a Raman Catholick in 
 his heart for many years. 
 
 L. Mr. Er addon had like to have Juftice 
 
 done him by fuch vile Hypocrites , who 
 
 continue (in appearance) of a Church, that 
 
 L they
 
 they may have the better opportunity to 
 ferve their Party. Were any other of the 
 Jury of the fame Charaftei ? . 
 
 T. I do not hear that any befides this 
 Gentleman turned Papift ; and I do hope 
 fome of thefe have feen their Error in this 
 unjuft Verdict, found without the leaft Co- 
 lour of Evidence ; for all the Witneffes did 
 acquit Mr. Braddon from giving , offering, 
 or promifing one Farthing to them, to give 
 their Teftimony in the Cafe. Upon this un- 
 juft Conviftion , Mr. Braddon was fin'd 
 2ooo/. and Mr. Spcctke icoo /. and the good 
 Behaviour required during Life. Under 
 this corrupt Oppreffive Judgment , Mr. 
 Braddon lay till the Prince's coming, who 
 remov'dfuch Oppreffions, and as the late 
 Alotto hath it, Veniendo rcftitnit rem. For 
 as the Government was reftored by his hap- 
 py Arrival , and as fudden as juft Succefs ; 
 fo was this Gentleman's Liberty procured, 
 who had no hopes of being ever forgiven ; 
 for I have heard him fay , That about Au- 
 guft 87. Graham and Burton came over to 
 the Kings Bench, in order to the Difcharge 
 of feveral of the Kings Prifoners. A Lift 
 whereof, with the Caufes of their Impri- 
 fonment was produced to Mr. Braddon, who 
 finding only his own Name crofs'd, and 
 that^twice crofs'd; he did ask Mr. Burton 
 how his Name became the only Name fb 
 mark'd. To which it was anfwered, That 
 r* His Majefty had ordered a Lift of his Pri- 
 foners ( in the Kings Bench under Fines ) to 
 be brought him, and that very Lift was ac- 
 cordingly taken and carried to His Majefty 
 then in the Camp ; but his Majefty imme- 
 diately upon fight of his Name, called for a 
 Pen and Ink , and with his own Hand fb 
 eroded it. 
 
 L. By this it was plain , this Gentle- 
 man was the moft obnoxious to His Ma- 
 jefty, and had no Reafon to expect any Fa- 
 vour. 
 
 G. It had been for the King's Intereft to 
 have pardoned all His Prifoners, and not 
 ruined fo many in burying them alive , 
 which caufed no fmall Reflection on His 
 Clemency. 
 
 L. The Kings profecuting (with an irre- 
 concilable Hatred) this Gentleman, made 
 the World juftly conclude, that this Gentle- 
 man fuffered his Jmprifonment not for his 
 own Guilt , but for the Guilt of others , 
 who would therefore never be reconciled ; 
 for had not others been Guilty of this 
 Blood, Mr. B. would never have been thus 
 injuriouily dealt with , nor his Offence (if 
 it may be fo called) kept in fuch an hateful 
 Remembrance. 
 
 T. A Gentleman of good Intereft in the 
 late times, told Mr. Braddon, he muft never 
 expect, to be forgiven, becaufe he had caft 
 Blood in the King's Face, which none elfe 
 had done. 
 
 L. His Late Majefties thus marking this 
 Gentleman out, as an irreconcilable Object 
 of his Dipleafure, was more ufed as an Ar- 
 gument of His Majefties Guilt in that mat- 
 ter , than any thing I could ever find in 
 Mr. Braddon's Tryal ; for tho what is there 
 proved, fatisfiedme, my Lord was Murder- 
 ed ; yet nothing Sworn, appeared directly 
 againft His Highnefs. But the Government 
 becoming (as it were) Parties to this Charge, 
 by their appearing in fuch an extravagant 
 Method of (pretended) Juftice againft the 
 Profecutor of this Murder, as tho my Lord 
 could not be Murdered , but the Govern- 
 ment muft have an hand in it : This made 
 Men of Confederation conclude, that had 
 not Perfons of the greateft Character been 
 chief in this execrable Contrivance, the Go- 
 vernment had never thus extravagantly 
 been hook'd in as Partings Griminit, (in cafe 
 my Lord were by others Murdered) to pu- 
 nifh him who would have legally Indited 
 fuch as the Government ought with an In- 
 dignation (due to the moft barbarous com- 
 plicated Murder) to have profecuted even 
 unto Death. 
 
 T. If a Government (hall anfwer for the 
 Blood of the Party Slain, when no Inqui- 
 fition is made by the proper Magiftrates in 
 order to a Deteftion : How much more 
 fhall that Government appear Criminal , 
 that inftead of making Inquifition for Blood, 
 became Advocates and Defenders of the 
 
 Blood-
 
 Blood-Guilty, and in a violent unprefident- 
 ed Method of (falfy call'd ) Juftice, ruin 
 him, who did humbly offer the Matter to a 
 judicial Consideration ? 
 
 G. The Government had made Inquiry 
 by the Coroners Inqueft ; and therefore , 
 how could the Government be blamed for 
 any neglect ? 
 
 T. Thofe concerned in this barbarous 
 Fact, intended to ufe (and indeed did) the 
 Coroner's Inqueft (which the Law defigned 
 as the means of difcovery of a violent 
 Death) as the means ro prevent the Detecti- 
 on of this Villany ; for having prepared a 
 couple of Treacherous and Perjured Varlets 
 (Bomeny and Ruffe I I mean) to mifinform 
 the Jury, as to the (pretended) manner of 
 Death, inftead of difcovering the Truth, 
 (which would have render'd themfelves 
 obnoxious to Punifhment) they villainoufly 
 contrived a Story, or rather repeated their 
 Inftructions , (for without doubt the Infor- 
 mation to be given the Jury, was likewife 
 agreed upon before my Lord's Death ; fo 
 that thefe Forfworn Caitifs might not be 
 to feek in their Information when they 
 came to Swear, which would have foon 
 difcovered this bloody Treachery) I fay, 
 repeated their Leflbn, and with this For- 
 gery mifled the Jury, who were too eafily 
 impos'dupon. Now, thouflk the Govern- 
 ment is not fo much to be blamed in this 
 Coroner's Inqueft, ( which Inqueft by the 
 way, in all refpects can never be juftified) 
 yet as to the Governments Handing by this 
 Inquifition, as what was to remain (like 
 the Laws of the Medes and Perjlans) without 
 alteration : This is what all the World 
 juftly condemns it for. You can't but be fo 
 much a Lawyer and Hiftorian, as to know 
 that the Coroner's Inqueft is not conclufive 
 and final, but may be contradicted, andal- 
 moft dayly is ; fometimes the Coroner's In- 
 queft finds Men to have died of a natural 
 Diftemper, which after' appear to have been 
 barbarouily Murdered. To give you one 
 Inftance for many , Sir Thomas O-verbury 
 (whofe Cafe, in fame refpects, runs pa- 
 rallel with this) was by the Coroner found 
 
 y ) 
 
 to have died a natural Death ; bur as fbon 
 as that Faction, which had treacheroully 
 Murdered him, declined in their Intereft, 
 it appeared this unfortunate Gentleman was 
 treacheroufly Murdered by others. When 
 this Murder of Sir Thomas Overbery was firft, 
 detected, King James the Firft was far from 
 thinking the Profecution of that Murder 
 a Reflection on the Government, though 
 there was the fame reafon in Law for that, 
 as this, feeing in that the Gentleman died 
 in the Cuftody of the Law, and the Coroner 
 found the Perfon to have died of a natural 
 Death, and in this a Felo defe. Now feeing 
 the Contradiction of the Coroner's Inqueft, 
 was the Foundation of Mr. Braddons Infor- 
 mation, there was the very fame ground 
 for the like Profecution of thofe that did 
 detect Sir Thomas Overburfs Murder ; but 
 inftead of profecuting the Profecutor, King 
 James the Firft, at Royflon laid the higheft 
 Injunction imaginable on all the Judge?, 
 diligently and impartially to profecute this 
 Murder; for in the midft of his Judges 
 (his Lords and Gentlemen then likewife 
 furrounding him) he ufed thefe words, 
 My Lords the Judges, It's lately come to my 
 hearing, that you have now in Examination A 
 bujinefi of Poyfoning. Lord \ in what a mojl 
 miserable condition JlaS this Kingdom be (the 
 only Famtfff Nation for Ho'pitality in the 
 World) if our Tables jhould become a Snare, as 
 none could eat without danger of Life, and 
 that Italian Cuftom jbould be introduced, 
 amongjl iu\ Therefore, my Lords, I charge you, 
 as you will anfrver it at that great and dread- 
 ful day of Judgment , that you examine it 
 jlrittly, without Favour, Affection or Partia- 
 lity ; and if you JbaS ff>are any Guilty of this 
 Crime, God's Curfe light on you and your Pojle- 
 rity ; and if IJpare any that are found Guilty, 
 God's Curje light tn me and my Pofterity for 
 ever. Such was His then Majefties great 
 Zeal for the Detection and Punifliment, 
 and his juft Abhorrence of this treacherous 
 Murder , which he then expreHed upon the 
 firft difcovery of that barbarous perfidiouf- 
 nefs. But this Cafe is under much higher 
 Aggravations; for 
 
 L 2 That
 
 ( 7< 
 
 T h;\t Gentleman was only charged (and 
 that in truth) with a refufal of the King's 
 Command, in not going on that Honoura- 
 ble Embafly, which would have been both 
 for his Honour'and Safety ; fo that his was 
 a Sin only of Omiffion. But this Noble 
 Lord wasmalicioufly and falfly accufed of 
 the Blackeft Treafon, viz. Con(piri?ig the 
 Death of the King, &c. 
 
 That Gentleman's Reputation was not 
 murdered with an Imputation of Self-mur- 
 der: But 
 
 This Honourable Peer was murdered 
 both in Perfon and Reputation, and by the 
 Perjury of the moft perfidious Varlets, cor- 
 rupting the Law, they villainoufly trans- 
 ferred the Guilt from thofe really Criminal, 
 and placed it on him whom they had be- 
 fore (by their privity and confent) trea- 
 cheroufly and barbaroufly Murdered. 
 
 That Gentleman's Murder center'd in 
 himfelf. But the Murder of this Honoura- 
 ble Perfon was immediately appli'd to the 
 Murdering of another Honourable Lord, 
 whom they were then (by their Inftruments 
 not fo much corrupted with Malice as blind 
 Obedience) villainoufly haranguing out of 
 his Life, under form of Law and colour 
 of Juftice ; and many more fince murder- 
 ed to avoid a Detection of this their firft 
 inoft cruel and barbarous Treachery. Juftice 
 zealoufly efpoufed the Profecution of that 
 worthy Gentleman's Murder ; but Juftice 
 here became Corrupted and Retrograde ; for 
 inftead of encouraging, and Prolecuting the 
 Murderers, it difcouraged, profecuted and 
 ruined the Profecutor. That Food which 
 flxmld have fuftained the Natural Man, was 
 tainted with a natural, poyfonous Compo- 
 fition, and became (or at leaft was there 
 defigned, for he was ftifled between the 
 Pillows, and died not of the Poifpn) the 
 means of that worthy Knight's Deftruftion: 
 But Juftice (which fupports the Mora4 Man) 
 was here twice vitiated ; firft by Perjury 
 and Treachery in thofe vile perfidious 
 Caitifs before the Coroner ; and the fecond 
 time by Perjury (in the -fame cruel Mif- 
 creants in the Kings-Bench Court) at Mr. 
 
 Br addons Tryal ; and the then bare-faced 
 Wrefting of Juftice thorough the irrecon- 
 cileable Malice of the Chief Author of this 
 Murder, and the groundlefs and illegal Pro- 
 fecution , Conviction and Punifhment of 
 him, who did endeavour by proper legal 
 Methods, to detetl: this hellifh complicated 
 Villany. I fhall follow this Comparifon 
 no farther, but appeal to all the World , 
 whether the latter of thefe two Murders, is 
 not aggravated with far higher Circutn- 
 ftances than the former. And as Juftice, after 
 fome time, overtook thofe that perpetrated 
 that treacherous Cruelty, fo I doubt not but 
 God in Juftice will fhortly bring to con- 
 dign Puniftiment, fome, though not all of 
 thofe concerned in this not to be parallel'd 
 piece of barbarous Cruelty. 
 
 L. The hard meafure Mr. Braddon 
 met with , was more to deterr him and 
 others from this Profecution, than to pu- 
 nifh him for what he had done. 
 
 T. That I believe ; and my Lord Keeper 
 North', who wanted not Words and plaufi- 
 ble Infinuations, upon all occafions, repre- 
 fented to Mr. Braddon, the great Danger 
 fuch Praftices would bring upon him : To 
 which it was anfwered by that Gentleman, 
 That he hoped he had done nothing therein, hut 
 what he could anfaer to God and his own Con- 
 fcience; and fr the Danger, he did not fear, 
 for he did hofe that neither Danger nor Death 
 jhould deter him in the way of his Duty, in 
 which he ceuld as chearfully depart this Life 
 at Tyburn in a Halter, M in his Bed of a 
 Fever. 
 
 L. I believe Mr. Br addon did not expeft 
 to be very kindly received by the then 
 Court. 
 
 T. He had no reafon to believe he fliould 
 by them be made very welcome, and he 
 was fo told by many of his Friends, which 
 therefore diiTwaded him from proceeding. 
 But to fuch he did generally give fuch an- 
 fwers, viz,. That he could ?it but expeff what 
 they did feem to fear would befall him, never- 
 thelefs it jbould not deter him ; for Jhsuldnom 
 in this cafe move, the fame Bloody Principles 
 that took off' that unfortunate Lord, might 
 
 Poifon
 
 (77) 
 
 Poifon afecond, Stab a third, and Strangle a 
 fourth, &C. of theft they then had or jbould 
 take into Ctiflody, pretending (as they fal/Jy did 
 in this Cafe] that thefe unfortunate Gentlemen 
 thus barbarou/ly Murdered, had done it to pre- 
 vent the common Methods of Jufiice , which 
 their Guilt threatned them with ; fo that HO 
 Man could.tell in how many Mens Dtftruffitn 
 fuch their treacheroiu and bloody Practices 
 would determine; but if once they found that 
 thefe their dark Defigns were fiifpecfed, and fame 
 of them like to be detected, they might then 
 conclude thife clandeftine, perfidiow, complica- 
 ted Murders (in Perfon and Reputation) would 
 do them great prejudice (by raijtng up in all 
 Mankind ageneral Averfion again/I thofe blood- 
 thirfty Men) and therefore they might defifl 
 from fuch barbarow unheard of Meafures. And 
 feeing by fuch Service as this, the Publick 
 would receive far greater Advantage than 
 could be expected by this Gentleman's Li- 
 berty; he was refolved to Sacrifice that, 
 or whatever elfe he had, for the good of his 
 Generation, to whofe Intereft he thought 
 any Individual was obliged to offer up his 
 private Advantage or Safety. Neither did 
 he believe this to be any other than what 
 he was taught implichely,by that Do&rine 
 which obliged him to love an individual 
 Neighbour as himfelf; and therein taught, 
 that much more than Self-love ought that 
 Love to be, which he did owe to fb many 
 Millions of fuch Individuals. I have often 
 heard this Gentleman (when he flrft en- 
 gaged) fay, That he looked upon the 
 World as an Army, where the bad were 
 ftill endeavouring the Deftru&ion of their 
 contrary. Now if a General of an Army 
 command a Party of Men to a Poft, by 
 the maintaining whereof a certain time , 
 this Party perceive they fhall (in all Hu- 
 mane Probability) give Succefs to their 
 Army ; but after their . thus maintaining 
 their Poft, they fhall (in as great probabi- 
 lity) .fall Sacrifices to the Fury of their 
 Enemies, neither of this Party (though thus 
 afliired they fhall every Man fill) ought 
 to defert his Poft, becaufe every Individual 
 Soldier, or any particular Party, is obliged 
 
 to prefer and defire the Succefs of their 
 whole Army, before their private Prefir- 
 vation and Safety. If therefore that Provi- 
 dence, which is -the General of all Mankind, 
 fhould call a Perfon to that Service wherein 
 he might prove extreamly ufeful to his Ge- 
 ncration,fuch Service he ought not to defert, 
 though thereby (through the opprefHon of 
 theTimes)he was morally allured he fhould, 
 in his private Intereft and Safety, fall a 
 Sacrifice to the Oppreflbr; becaufe Self- 
 intereft is not to be preferred before the 
 Good of fb many Thousands. 
 
 L May all Their Majefties Soldi. TS be 
 ever influenced by fuch Confiderations, and 
 their Enemies poilefled with, and practice 
 the quire contrary Principles. 
 
 T. Another Argument of the backward- 
 nsfs (in this cafe) of the then Government, 
 (and of Bomeny's Guilt in this Murder) is 
 an account which follows, viz. About 
 fix Weeks after my Lord's Death, there 
 was a Letter (unfealed) left with one Mr. 
 Cadman, then living in Durham-Exchange ; 
 the Letter was directed to the Right Ho- 
 nourable the Countefs Dowager of ^#;the 
 Subftance of this Letter was, That if her 
 Honour could prevail with the King for the 
 Authors Pardon, he would ingeniously make a 
 full Difcovery, how, by whom, and whofe order 
 my Lord was Murdered ; and this Letter did 
 affure her Honour , that the Duke of York 
 
 and ' were authorizing this Murder. 
 
 This Letter fubfcribed P. S. 
 
 L. Who do you believe to be the Author 
 of this Letter ? 
 
 T. By the Hand that writ it, and the 
 Letters fubfcribed, it was Paul Bomeny be- 
 fore mentioned (who did once Blafphe- 
 moufly fay, That he could as well tell horn 
 my Lord came by his Death, as God Almighty 
 himfelf) for the Letter was very fairly writ, 
 in a Hand between a Romijn and an Italian, 
 and fuch an Hand Bomeny, when lie would 
 write fair, did write ; befldes, the Letters 
 fubfcribed, are the Letters of his Name. 
 
 G.- Can it be fuppofed,that Bomeny would 
 write either in his own Hand, or fubfcribe 
 his own Name, when, the Letter, had ic 
 
 been.
 
 been brought in Accufation againft him, 
 would have cofthim his Life, feeing herein 
 he confeiTed himfelf Guilty of the Faft. 
 
 T. .1 think Eomeny by this Letter, could it 
 have been proved to be his own Writing, 
 v. r as in no danger at all of being punifhed ; 
 for had they hereupon feized Bomcnj, they 
 would have catched a Tartar ; fhould they 
 have proceeded againfr him for this Mur- 
 der, upon this Confefu*on,the World would 
 have believed the whole Contents of this 
 Letter to be true, and confequently that 
 
 the Duke of Terk arid authorized (or 
 
 rather) commanded this molt treacherous 
 Murder. And then pray confider what 
 that Government would have got by fuch 
 a Profecution , Conviction and Punifh- 
 ment ? 
 
 G. What was done with this Letter ? 
 
 T. This Letter was left with Cetdman 
 when he was at his Shop within-fide of the 
 Counter , and very fleepy ; and when he 
 waked, finding this Letter unfealed, he 
 opened it, and perceiving the Contents to 
 ~be of that Confequence, he carried the 
 Letter to a JufHce of Peace, who did pro- 
 mi fe to carry this Letter to the Secretary 
 of State ; but this Bookfeller was never fent 
 for, and examined whom he did fuppofe 
 to be the Author of this Letter. 
 
 L. By the backwardnefs of the then Go- 
 vernment, in not examining into this Mat- 
 ter, it's plain they were too well fatisfied 
 in the truth of the Contents, which was of 
 fuch a Nature, as it cotild not bear an In- 
 quifition, which would have centered in his 
 Ruine,who was then by Blood and Cruelty, 
 and other illegal Methods, endeavouring 
 the Subverfion of our Laws, Liberties and 
 Religion : And this by the removal cf fome 
 of the Chief of thofe Noble Lords and Gen- 
 tlemen, who had ever oppofed their Arbi- 
 trary and Popifh Defigns ; amongft which 
 this Noble Lord, and my Lord RuJ/'el, they 
 did erteem two 'of the Chief. 
 
 T. Had they been willing this Murder 
 fhould have been detected and punifhed , 
 with what Diligence would they have 
 fearched out the Author, who defired no 
 
 other reward, than the Security of his Life; 
 and in order to his Indemnity (if they 
 could not have otherwife found him out) a 
 Pardon would immediately by Proclama- 
 tion have been iflued forth, by which the Au- 
 thor would have been aflured of his Life ; 
 and then, without doubt, according to his 
 promife, would have laid open this bloody 
 Deed of Darknefs. Hath this Age ever 
 known, or feen Recorded, any Murder 
 (admit this one) committed within this 
 Kingdom, that hath been (in all Circum- 
 ftances confidered) of greater Confequence 
 than this ? We have feen a re ward of zoo /. 
 (as well as a Pardon) by Proclamation 
 offered for the Difcovery of thofe bloody 
 Ruffians, who barbaroufly Wounded, but 
 defigned to have Murdered, that Worthy 
 Gentleman Mr. Arnold; and was there not 
 5" oo /. and a Pardon, by Proclamation, 
 promifed to him or them that fhould deteft 
 the Murder of Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey ? Such 
 means as thefe would have been likewife 
 in this cafe ufed, if fuch who then mifled 
 Charles the Second, and corrupted the State, 
 had not been the deepeft in this black Con- 
 trivance. 
 
 G. This Letter, I perceive, mentions fome 
 other befides His Highnefs ; Pray, who was 
 elfe named? 
 
 T. In this I deflre your Pardon ; but of 
 the Name and Perfon you may hereafter 
 hear. 
 
 G. Sir, I deflre to know nothing but 
 what you are very free to tell. 
 
 T. Some things are not convenient to be 
 fpoken of, till a more convenient Seafon. 
 
 G. I fhall prefs to know nothing which 
 may diflerve this Difcovery by being di- 
 vulged. What Religion was this Bomeny ? 
 I have been informed he was a very good 
 Proteftant, and one that my Lord had a 
 great kindnefs for. It's much this Fellow 
 ( if a Proteftant ) could be prevailed with 
 to connive at fo Horrid a piece of Cru- 
 elty. 
 
 T. Bomenfs Religion was (like many 
 other Mens) to be managed and changed 
 in (hew, according to his Intereft, but 
 
 cordially
 
 C79) 
 
 cordially I do believe him ftill a Papift. 
 Whatfoever opinion my Lord might have 
 of this Fellow, as to his Faithfulnefs, I am 
 very well fatisfied this Villain was engaged 
 (before my Lord was brought from his 
 Country-houfe) in this treacherous Murder ; 
 for as my Lord was in the Cuftody of the 
 Guard , and bringing through Watford, when 
 all my Lord's other Servants, and even the 
 whole Town were in Tears for his Lord- 
 fhip's Trouble, this Judas rid fmiling, and 
 talking of French with fome of the Guards. 
 
 L. In hopes, that within fome ihort time 
 he fhould receive more for his Perfidiouf- 
 nefs, than his Service might expect in many 
 years : But thefe Gains were his greateft 
 Lofs ; for what more ready way (could he 
 have taken) to Deftruction (here I don't fay, 
 againft that he was fecure enough, but) 
 hereafter? and what would it profit this Var- 
 let, to gain the World, and lofe his own 
 Soul? 
 
 T. As for his Religion, you may conclude 
 it belonged to that Church , whofe Gar- 
 ments are dipped in the Blood of the Saints ; 
 and that this Fellows Religion was really 
 fuch (tho in appearance he feemed other- 
 wife) ; may reafonably be concluded from 
 this Story , of which I have been credibly 
 Informed. The Proteftant Minifter where 
 Bomeny lived in France , after my Lord's 
 Death , preft Bomeny very earneftly to deal 
 ingenioufly in this Cafe ; for the Minifter 
 declared, he was very well fatisfied my Lord 
 of Effex was Murdered, and he was well a 
 fured that Bomeny muft know it ; therefore 
 the Minifter protefted he was not free that 
 Bomeny fhould come to Church, much lefs, 
 be admitted to the Blefled Sacrament , till 
 in this matter he had difcharged himfelf. 
 Bomeny finding himfelf thus prefled by his 
 Minifter , thought it beft openly to profefs 
 what he was , and^|very next day decla- 
 red himfelf a PapuT. 
 
 L. That Prieft to whom he fhould con- 
 fefs this Murder, would be fo far from en- 
 joyning him a Penance, that he would com- 
 mend this action, as Meritorious. 
 
 T. It was indeed for the Advancement of 
 that Church , (fo often drunk with the 
 Blood of the Martyrs , and ) the Stones of 
 which Church are Cemented with the Blood 
 of the Saints. 
 
 G. Then this traiterous Varlet , who be- 
 trayed the beft of Mafters , was only in 
 fhew a Pioteftant , that thereby he might 
 have the better opportunity of ferving a 
 Church, which did ever by bloody means 
 advance its Intereft. 
 
 L. It's very probable, this vile perfidious 
 Fellow was a conftant Spy upon my Lord ; 
 but when that Service was to have an end 
 by the Def traction of his Perfon, then was 
 this barbarous Villain to finifh his treachery 
 in being Privy to the moft aftonifhin'g 
 Piece of^ complicated Cruelty; and after 
 that, to Crown and Conceal this curfed 
 Butchery, Perjury was to be added, fo that 
 this Murder might be laid to my Lord's own 
 Charge, as well to deftroy this Honourable 
 Lord's Reputation, as to proteft thofe cruel 
 Mifcreants , who had before perfidiouily 
 Murdered his Perfon. 
 
 G. Sir, I am very glad you have thus gi- 
 ven Mr. Bomeny's Character ; for I am very 
 well fatisfied that an Eminent Doctor (for 
 whom I am fiire you have a very great Re- 
 verence ) believes quite otherwise of this 
 Fellow; for I have heard the Doctor give 
 this Bemeny a very good Character, (which 
 I do fuppofe he had only by Information) ; 
 and by what Relation this fellow did give 
 the Doctor, he was ftrongly perfwaded that 
 my Lord did it himfelf; tho I am fure no- 
 Man would be more readily convinced up- 
 on good Ground, than this Doftor would ; . 
 neither would any living be more zealous 
 in a juft Profecution, if once he had good 
 Grounds to proceed upon , which I can 
 now foon furnifh him with , and Anfwer 
 thofe very Objections which fo much in- 
 fluenced the Doctor to a disbelief of my 
 Lord's being treacheroufly Murdered ; and 
 one of his Reafons for the Self-murder^ was . 
 this, f 
 
 Sboa
 
 (8o) 
 
 Soon after my Lord's Death, Mr. Bomeny 
 (that treacherous Villain, of whom I cannot 
 think with Patience ) gives the Doftorthis 
 Account, That his Lord did ufa to be taken with 
 I'tidden frenzied Papons , and in particular , 
 with one that Morning jujl before his Death : 
 For faid this vile Judas , As foon as my Lord 
 (aw my Lord Ruflel go to his Tryal', he ftruck 
 his Breaft, and faid ,himfelf was the caufe of my 
 Lord RuflelV Mif&ry, feeing he had 'vouched for 
 that Gentleman , whoje Treachery would prove my 
 Lord RuflelV Ruin, &c. and hereupon fell al- 
 tnoft Diftratfed. But I perceive this Story is 
 intirely forg'd. For the Jury here fwear, 
 that this very Fellow to them, the next day 
 after my Lord's Death, upon Oath declared, 
 My Lord teas as chearful, (and the Night before, 
 eat an hearty a Supper) at. he did ever fee him 
 in hii Life. And gives them no Account of 
 this treacherous Forgery, nor any thing like 
 it ; but all in Contradiction to it. This ap- 
 pears by his firft Oath. 
 
 T. It's very probable at Mr. Braddorfs 
 Tryal, he would have forgot this part of 
 hisLeflbn, had not the Attorney General 
 (whether out of any ill Defign , or accord- 
 ing to Mr. Burtons falfe Inftruftion, I know 
 not) put him in mind of this particular ; 
 for when Mr. Attorney faid, Did you obferve 
 your Lord MelanchoUy, Mr. Bomeny ? 
 
 L. Without doubt Mr. Bomeny under- 
 ftood what Anfwer he was to give to this 
 Queftion. 
 
 T. Yes : And followed not the truth, but 
 (in part, tho very imperfeftly ) his Inftru- 
 ftions-. For Bomeny faid, Tes, he was Mtlan- 
 cholly ; but we took no notice of it, for he 
 did ufe to be fo, and we had no reafon to 
 fufpeft any thing more than ordinary. 
 
 L. Obferve now how different, or rather 
 contradi&ory this Anfwer is to that Rela- 
 tion this perjured Villain gave this Doftor; 
 and both destroyed by that Account, he 
 upon Oath (the vey next day after my 
 Lord's Death ) gave the Jury ; for he then 
 fwore his Lord was very chearful ; had the 
 Relation given the Doctor been true , how 
 readj| would Eommy to this Queftion have 
 given it in anfwer ; and wliat an Harangue 
 
 thereupon would my Lord Chief Juflice at 
 this Tryal have made ? 
 
 G. I am very well fatisrled the Doftor 
 will foon be convinced of the falfefhood of 
 that Relation, which Bomeny (as before) 
 gave him , when he doth once find that it 
 ftands in Oppofition to what he hath twice 
 depofed. 
 
 L. Whofoever this Doftor be, of whom 
 you give fo good a Character, if he fliall 
 pretend to believe the Account Bomeny gave 
 him, when it thus ftands in Contradiction 
 to thofe Relations Bomeny hath twice given 
 upon Oath ; he is not deferving of that fair 
 Character, but may jufty be fufpected as one 
 prejudiced in this Matter againft the truth , 
 which maugre all Opponents, will one day 
 (and that fpeedily) fnme through all Clouds 
 of Oppofition, which the Malice and Op- 
 preflion of fome, and Impudence of others, 
 have raifed againft. But blefled be God, as 
 'tis the Duty, fo it hath been the Praftice of 
 this Government to incourage this Profe- 
 cution. 
 
 T. Let the Defter but reconcile the fe- 
 veral Contradictions of Bomeny's Informa- 
 tions given the Coroners Jury, and at Mr. 
 Braddon's Tryal before at large obferved, 
 and I will ( then rejeft all other Evidence, 
 and ) believe with the Doftor , That my 
 Lord did indeed cut his own Throat ; but 
 till then, I muft beg this Doftor's Pardon, 
 if in this matter I will not admit of his be- 
 lief, as a Rule for mine. 
 
 L. I do very much wonder that this Re- 
 verend Doftor fhould in the leaft be influ- 
 enced by what this Bloody Rafcal told 
 him ; for that's allowing a Villains being 
 Evidence in his own Cafe , which no Law 
 will admit in Oppofition to what is Sworn. 
 Now, feeing this falfe Fellow was to lay the 
 Murder at my Lord's Door, or take it up- 
 on himfelf, either as Privy to it, or AHng 
 in it : I think his JttMOt ought fcarce to 
 be received De bene effe, as the Lawyers 
 term it, that is, to be believed, or disbelie- 
 ved, as upon farther Inquiry it fLall feern to 
 deferve Credit. 
 
 & If
 
 (8 
 
 S. If all thefe Contradictions, before ob- 
 ferv'd, between Bomeny, Munday and Ruffel, 
 had appeared to the Coroners Inquefl, they 
 ought upon thefe only to have quitted my 
 Lord from that perfiduous imputation of 
 Self-murther, and laid it at the door of thofe 
 Treacherous and Cruel Men, who, by their 
 Perjury (which fo plainly appeared in thefe 
 grofs Contradictions) villanoufly and falily 
 charged his Lordfliip with it. 
 
 T. In the Hiftory of Sufanna it's related, 
 That Daniel fianding in the widfl of the People, 
 fai4, Are ye fuch fools, ye fans of Ifrael, that 
 without examination or knowledge of the truth, 
 ye have condemned, a Daughter of Ifrael ? verfe 
 the 4f%th. The People had received the Ac- 
 cufation of the Elders, whofe Qualifications 
 gave no fmall credit to their Evidence ; for 
 it's faid (verfe the 417?) The AffkmUy believed 
 them as thofe that were the Elders and Judges of 
 the Land. Neverthelefs , Daniel juftly con- 
 demned the Aflembly, for pronouncing rafh 
 Judgment without examination, or know- 
 ledge of the Truth. In this Cafe an Accu- 
 fation was not to be admitted for truth with- 
 out ftriCt examination of the matter ; and 
 fuch Scrutiny was proper, as was a-part, fo 
 that one might not hear the relation of the 
 other, and thereby be enabled to agree in 
 their Evidence, which, without doubt, they 
 would , had they been examined together. 
 If the Teftimony of thefe two Elders were 
 to be throughly fifted by a frriCt, judicious 
 and feparate Examination, how much rather 
 the Relation ofBonxnj and Ruffel in this Cafe? 
 for in that it did not appear (any other ways 
 than by the defence of the Acculedjthat there 
 was the lead malice in the Accufers, or that 
 their Interefi, much lefs their JLives (before 
 the Charge ) depended- on the truth of the 
 FaCt, {Ifor thefe Elders had fuffered nothing 
 by Sujamtt's Innocence ) provided they had 
 not falfly and malicioufly terrified againft 
 her. But here it was pluin to every man's 
 underitamling, that theie two Mens (Botne- 
 j's and l-~.-i(ji tf's) very Lives lay at flake ; for 
 moil certain it is, That fuch as were in the 
 Chamber, and kept the Chamber-door, (the 
 Chumbtr not being uboye 14 foot f<juare ; 
 
 and no other way in or out) mufr. be either 
 aCting in, or privy to this Barbarity, if fuch 
 it were ; for this very reafon this Coroner 
 and Jury fhould have been very 'inquifitive 
 and fcrutinous in their Interrogations, and 
 taken all care poffible , that the one fhould 
 not have heard , or been informed of the 
 Examination of the other ; by which they 
 would have found thefe two in greater in- 
 coherences and contradictions, (if poffible) 
 than they are now guilty of. 
 
 G. Indeed , it's a great wonder they did 
 not agree in every particular , confidering 
 how fair , or rather favourable, the Coro- 
 ner and Jury were to them. 
 
 T, In the Hiftory of Snfanna , you find 
 in the Charge,not the lealt incoherence, be- 
 fides one Contradiction, and that only as to 
 the place where : but, 
 
 In this Cafe , how many, and how no- 
 torious Inchoherences and Contradictions 
 have been obferved in feveral refpeCls ? 
 and therefore how much more rational is 
 it to conclude, as the Ailembly did in that 
 Cafe (verfe the 6ift ) Taat thefe Witness 
 are conwSed out of their own moulhs, by thofe 
 many, and thofe fo very notorious oppo- 
 fitions in their Teftimonies ? 
 
 G. In the Contradictions of thefe Sinners 
 there is a clear difcovery of their Sin , and 
 may they receive the juft fruits of this their 
 Treachery, which fo plainly appears by the 
 many oppositions in their Relations. 
 
 L. I muft confefs, I never faw fo fhort 
 an Account thus cramm'd with Contradi- 
 ctions. I do find the common Obfervation 
 is herein verified , (viz.) The contradiction 
 of Sinners is tty difcovery of Sin : and , I 
 think , no impartial man , who fhall hear 
 thefe Contradictions , but mud be fatisfied 
 neither of thefe fpoke true ; and he that, 
 through the excefs of his Charity, (for thefe 
 three Villains, or their Matter ) or his Fol- 
 ly, or rather fbmewhat of a worfe and diffe- 
 rent nature from either , fhall in CofFee- 
 { knifes, and other publick Places, make "it 
 his bufmefs to weed out thefe Contradicti- 
 ons, to reconcile thefe three Mens Relations 
 in the main , fo that my Lord may ftill be 
 M thought
 
 C 8O 
 
 thonght a Self-murderer", and yet at the 
 fame time objeft againft my Lord's being 
 Murdered from every Colour of incoherence 
 (in cafe any had happen'd, which I believe 
 there hath not, tho about Sixty in this Cafe 
 have been Sworn) in the Evidence to prove 
 my Lord's Murder. I fay, whofoever ap- 
 pears thus Partial , gives great Caufe to be 
 thought and cenfured as very Corrupt, and 
 one whofe Zeal is greater for the chief Au- 
 thor of this Murder , and his bloody Party, 
 than for either Truth or Juftice. But to re- 
 turn to this Reverend Doftor , of whom 
 you were fpeaking. 
 
 Can the Doftor think that this Fel- 
 low , who was immediately attending up- 
 on my Lord at the time of his Death , 
 and hath (as before plainly appears by their 
 Contradictions) with two others , forged a 
 Story to transfer their own , and others 
 Guilt upon his Head , whofe Throat they 
 barbaroufly Cut , or permitted to be Cut ; 
 I fay, How can this Reverend Doftor now 
 give the leaft dram of Credit to this perfi- 
 dious Fellow ? 
 
 G. Sir, I do aflure you , I fliall (as in Ju- 
 ftice bound ) do ! the Memory of this Ho- 
 nourable, but unfortunate Lord, what Ju- 
 ftice lies within my Power ; and in particu- 
 lar, fliall endeavour rightly to inform this 
 Learned Doftor with the whole State of the 
 Cafe ; and if once he be convinced , as he 
 can't but be , if he believe what is herein 
 Sworn, and fo ftrongly confirm'd ; his be- 
 lief will foon draw" many Profelytes. But 
 I do admire Mr. Billingfly , this unfortu- 
 nate Lord's Steward, fhould feem to disbe- 
 lieve it. ( 
 , T. This Gentleman of whom you now 
 fpeak , hath great" reafon from what him- 
 felf knows , to believe my Lord was Mur- 
 dered. 
 
 G. What Reafon in particular, I pray , 
 Sir ? 
 
 T. From what Eomeny told this Gentle- 
 man , he might fafely draw that Conclufi- 
 on ; for Mr. B. the Sunday , or Monday 
 after my Lords Death , asking Eomeny how 
 long my Lord lay Dead , before he was 
 
 known to be Dead ; he declared, above two 
 hours ; upon which Mr. KtUingfly ( as he 
 juftly might) was very angry with Eomeny 
 for leaving my Lord fb long alone. Now, 
 by comparing this Relation to what was 
 Sworn, he muft have found it a point-blank 
 Contradiction ; for Rn/ell depofed, it was 
 not half an hour from the time of the Ra- 
 zor's being delivered by Bomeny, to the time 
 of their finding my Lord Dead in his Clo- 
 fet ; fo the one Swore it was not half an 
 hour ; and the other faid, that it was above 
 two hours (and this declared within two 
 days after the Faft, and fo may be fuppofed 
 to be frefh in his Memory) ; it's plain, that 
 one of thefe two was falte in his Infor- 
 mation ; and feeing thefe Mens Ralations 
 were to acquit themfelves, as well as charge 
 my Lord ; it might be reasonably concluded 
 that both were falfe, and all forged , as it 
 now plainly appears by comparing th^e 
 Mens Relations ( fo full of Contradictions) 
 together. 
 
 G. I have Reafon to believe,That the Right 
 Honourable the Countefs Dowager of Effex 
 hath been extreamly deceived by what this 
 Mr. Billing/ly informed her Honour ; for I 
 have been told , that this Gentleman pre- 
 tended to the Countefs, that the very Night 
 before my Lord's Death , he being with 
 his Lord , his Lordfhip feemed extreamly 
 difordered in his Mind; and he took the 
 more notice of it, by his commanding him 
 to fit down and drink a Glafs of Wine with 
 him, which made BiOingfly believe his Lord- 
 fhip was fomewhat crazed ; and therefore 
 he was inclined to think what he was forry 
 to fay , (viz..) That my Lord committed that 
 Violence on himfelf. If this report be falfe, 
 Mr. B. ought to vindicate himfdf , and 
 therein clear his L,prd from this Sufpicion of 
 being delirious. t 
 
 T. Sir, I have little reafon to give Credit 
 to what this Steward faith , feeing ( as I 
 was informed by one of the Family ) he 
 made Oath before my Lord Sitnderlattfl , 
 That he did believe my Lord diddejlroy himfelf ; 
 whether this be true, I know not; but of 
 this I am very well affured , That this Mr. 
 
 Billingflj
 
 ( tho he hath got fo many thou- 
 fands by this Family) would not in the leaft 
 engage with Mr. Braddon in this Profecution ; 
 nay, at kft, was fo far from it, that he did 
 refufe to fee Mr. Br addon, pretending that he 
 did believe Mr. Br addon was a Court-Engin , 
 ufed by the Court , for the further Ruin of 
 that Honourable Family (whofe Misfortunes 
 were before greater than could well be born) 
 fo that the Court might have a farther op- 
 portunity to Profecute and Ruin the Survi- 
 vors of his Unfortunate Lord. This was the 
 Subftance of this Gentleman's Suggeftion. 
 
 L. For this Suggeftion, Mr. Billmgfy had 
 not the leaft Colour ; and I do believe this he 
 declared only to avoid being thought back- 
 ward in that Profecution , which the higheft 
 degree of both Juftice and Gratitude obliged 
 him to engage in. Tho this Mr. Billing/ly, by 
 this Honourable Family had well feathered 
 his Neft, his Gratitude was not fuch , 'as in 
 Service to (the Memory of his Murdered 
 Lord , and his Honourable Relations then 
 furviving) to hazard any part of the Eftate 
 he had got under them ; and that he might 
 not be thought ingrateful, he buried his In- 
 gratitude in the Blood of his Lord, byfalfe, 
 difingenuous, and bafe Infirruations. 
 
 T. If Mr. Braddon was the late Courts 
 Inftrument , I am fare he was very ingrate- 
 fiilly ferved, to be fo violently Profecuted, 
 unjuftly Convifted , and Se%fcnced to his 
 perpetual Imprifonment ; for fach would 
 it have been to him, had it not been for this 
 providential Deliverance. 
 
 L. There are a fort of People ( ingrate- 
 ful as they are !) that will Sacrifice the Ho- 
 nour of their greateft Benefaftors , rather 
 than themfelves fhould be thought ingrate- 
 ful. And of this fort are many , that have 
 been preferred by this Great, but Unfortu- 
 nate Lord ; for I have heard of few that 
 were imployed under him , that would 
 heretofore in the leaft feem to countenance 
 this Profecution : But I think my felf bound 
 (in Juftice) to vindicate one (in particular) 
 from being thought ingraterul to the Me- 
 mory of his Murdered Lord. The Gentle- 
 man I now fpeak of, is one Mr. . who in 
 
 the worft of times hath gratefully endea- 
 voured to refcue the Honour of his Lord 
 from falling under this falfe Imputation of 
 Self-murder ; and as I have heard Mr. Brad- 
 don often declare , was very ready to affift 
 him in any thing, when this Murder was 
 firft Profecuted. 
 
 T. Your naming this Honeft Gentleman, 
 puts me in mind of one particular , which 
 I have heard him often aver , the Truth 
 whereof I do not doubt , and this Truth 
 feems to deftroy that great Objection, That 
 my Lord was afraid he fhould according, to 
 his (pretended) Guilt be brought to Con- 
 dign Puniftiment , for the avoiding whereof 
 he laid violent Hands on himfelf ; this was 
 (as before obferved) often (in effeft) faid at 
 my Lord Ruffl-lfs Tryal , and likewife at fe- 
 veral other times. The Story is this, When 
 my Lord Shaftsbury , my Lord Howard, &c. 
 were laft Committed, this Gentleman, one 
 of General Converfation (having heard the 
 Court defigned likewife to Commit my 
 Lord of Effex and to take off many in 
 form of Law or rather that which they 
 falfely called fo) ; went tohisLordfhip, and 
 informed him of what he had been told, 
 and humbly fubmitted it to his Lordfhip's 
 Judgment, whether it were not proper for 
 fome time to withdraw, till the Fury of the 
 Court by time was a little appeafed ; this 
 Gentleman told his Lordfhip, He found by the 
 Papifts,that they did defign to deftroy fe<veral,and 
 hit Lordjbip being to their Arbitary and Popifh 
 Depgns, as great and prof eft an Enemy, as any, 
 he did fear his Lordjktp might not be fafe from 
 their pretended Juftice, when within their Power. 
 My Lord hereupon fmiled, and faid very fe- 
 dately , and yet very refolutely , That he 
 tpofi/d nt ftir, tho he' did expeft the Court would, 
 proceed -very far, not only to the Imprisoning, but 
 againft the Lives of many ; and if God in his 
 Providence foould think ft to juftr him to fall 
 a Sacrifice to the Rage and Malice of the Court, 
 he did hope , and did not doubt , but the World 
 jlou'd jee that he could dye with of great Re- 
 falntion as ever his Father did ; far he was reedy 
 at all times, and upon aU occajions, to lay down 
 his Life for his Country. 
 
 M i L. This
 
 (84) 
 
 L. This was his Lordfhips true Chara- 
 fter, and this the Popilh faftion was well 
 farisfied in , therefore they dar'd not bring 
 him to his Tryal ; for fhould they either by 
 falfe Witnefles have proved tliat which re- 
 ally was Treafbn againft him, or by wreft- 
 ing the Law in Bench, Council and Jury, 
 (which were then more led by the Dictates 
 of White-Hall, than the Judgment of Wejt- 
 minfter-Hall, in the Cafe of Treafon ) have 
 adjudged thatTreafon,which the Law never 
 made or defigned to make fo , as they did 
 in the Cafe of the Honourable Lord Ruffel, 
 and fome others ; I fay , ihould they have 
 thus proceeded , his Lordfliip's Courage in 
 all probability, would have been fuch in a 
 bold Defence, that his Enemies would have 
 rather loft, than gained by his Death ; be- 
 fides, had my Lord been really Guilty of 
 Treafon, his Lordfliip had reafon to pre- 
 fume upon the King's Mercy, feeing his 
 Father facrificed his Life in that King's 
 Service; wherefore his then Majefly (as is 
 iaid) declared , He vnondred the Earl jhould 
 ileftroy himfelf, feeing he owed him a Life. 
 
 T. In any particular (convenient to be 
 told) I will give you what Information I 
 can. 
 
 G. The Story is this: About five Months 
 fmce, I was very pofitively told, that the 
 Right Honourable the Countefs Dowager 
 of Effex, defired feveral Honourable Lords 
 (fome of which were of this Committee) 
 and one worthy Gentleman, to meet at her 
 Houfe, where fhe fpoke to them to this 
 Effect : My Lords, I have defer ed this Favour 
 vf your Lordjhips, in order to -my own Vindi- 
 cation, which in Self-juftice I think my felf 
 bound to do, though I am very forry for the 
 occafion. My Lords, I do underftand I am 
 traduced (out of Malice in fome, and Indiscretion 
 in others) as a Woman that hath fold the 
 Blood of an Hwband ; and by it Non-profecutim 
 tacitly consent to his Death. My Lords, It's 
 TIO pleafure, but a great Grief to me, to fay 
 any thing which may feem in the leaft to re- 
 ftecl upon the Memory of my Lord ; and I conld 
 heartily wijh there were not this juft occafion 
 offered ; Juft I fay, with rejpetf to my felf, and 
 to my Honour, mucJ: dearer than my Life for 
 
 T. If that King was (as my Lord Chief fiould I fuff'er my felf to lye under this uvjitft 
 
 Juftice Scroggs told Mr. Coleman) Merciful, 
 even unto a Fault, fure he would have ex- 
 tended Mercy to him, whom in ingratitude 
 he was bound to fpare; for his Juftice in 
 this cafe would have render'd him as in- 
 
 Scandal, Without a jujl Self-vindication, by 
 fuch my ftlence , I fhould make this dishonourable 
 Calumny become currant and credible. My 
 Lords , My Non-profecucton tf my Htaband''s 
 Death it my Charge ; to which I have this to 
 
 grateful as his Mercy (too often Ihewedto fay, That w^JTweS fatisfied my Lord's Blood 
 
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 the greateft Criminals) render'd him n 
 fome meafure culpable, feeing by his 
 fparing fo many, who had more than once 
 Forfeited their Lives to Juftice, he gave 
 .(or at leaft fome, by their repeated Pre- 
 fumptions, did fo conftrue it) a fort of Im- 
 punity and Encouragement to Vice ; for as 
 Solomon obferves, Becanfe Juftice againft an 
 evil work is not executed jpeedily , therefore 
 the heart of the fans of men is fully fet in them 
 to do evil, Eccl. 8. II. 
 
 G. There is one Objection which I de- 
 figned to have mentioned before, but for- 
 got ; it's probable you can give me truer 
 Information in this particular, than I have 
 met with, for I perceive I have been very 
 much mifinformed. 
 
 was treacheroufly jpilt, I did dejerve this Cen- 
 fure, and there is none could think fo bad of 
 me at I fl>ould then of my felf , for my long 
 Jilence. (My Lords) The Reafons which makes 
 me disbelieve my Lords being (by others) Mur- 
 dered, are fuch as I could never hear anftvered, 
 though I am fure I jhould readily be convinced, 
 and re Joyce in my Conviction ; but till then I 
 fbotild think my felf little lefs-than a Murderer, 
 to profecute any for the jhedding of that Blood, 
 from the Guilt whereof (I am forry) I muft, 
 in my opinion , acquit all Men living. My 
 Lords, The Reafons which have thuf influenced 
 my Belief, and tied my Hands, I have at large 
 .oommanicatfd to my Lord Bijlwp of S. whom 1 
 .have defired to make than known to your Lord- 
 flaps., and your Lordjbifs (being Jatitfad in my 
 
 Innocence)
 
 Innocence) win, I atn fare, foon refcue me from 
 the 11 He Slanders ofthofe Tongues, under the lajh 
 whereof I have Jo undefervedly fuffered. My 
 Lords, I /hall only add this, That if once thefe 
 Objections are removed, and I become fully fatit- 
 fed my Lord was perfidioufly Murdered , none 
 living upon the face of the Earth, Jhall more 
 zealou/ly profecutethe Blood of a murdered Hus- 
 band than I will this, as in Duty and Honour 
 Ijball then ftcid obliged. 
 
 L. And I doubt not but her Honour 
 will zealoufly Profecute, as foon as fhe 
 finds what is here depofed, to prove her 
 Lord treacheroufly Butchered : Such Evi- 
 dence there is, that nothing can ballance, 
 but the occular Evidence of the Self-murder, 
 and if there be any fuch, it's ftrange we 
 ihould not long fince have heard of the 
 Perfon : But pray proceed. 
 
 G. Upon this, that Learned Bifliop, as I 
 have been told, gave a large account, what 
 were the feveral Inducements that moved 
 the Countefs to this Belief; but I could 
 never hear what thefe Reafbns were, but 
 without doubt they were fuch as had fome 
 weight with them, or otherwife they would 
 never have fatisfied, not only that Reverend 
 Bifhop, but moft then prefent, in the belief 
 of the Self-murder ; and fo throughly con- 
 vinced Mr. H. who (as I have been told) 
 did fecond the Bifliop, and gave fome other 
 Arguments for the fame purpofe , and 
 feemed concerned , that fome of thofe 
 Honourable Lords appeared to disbelieve 
 rhe Self-murder. 
 
 T. I could never yet hear, but a very 
 imperfect Account, of what my Lord Bifliop 
 faid ; for the chief reafon, as I have been 
 told, his Lordfhip then gave, was what my 
 Lord of Efpx declared juft before his Com- 
 mitment, when his Lordfhip (appearing 
 under fome difbrder and trouble of mind) 
 faid, that it was not any perfonal concern 
 that made him thus troubled , but it was 
 the thoughts of his Family ; for he was 
 much troubled to think what would be- 
 come of them after his death ; as for him- 
 felf, it was the leaft of his care, For therein 
 he was refolved what to do ; feveral times 
 
 over repeating (in a feeming despondency) 
 that expreffion, As for my felf I am refolded 
 what to do Now admitting this to be true, 
 that the Earl feveral times repeated that 
 expreflion, As for my felf , I am refolved wha* 
 to do, is there no other Refolutions but 
 Self-murder to be fuppofed. 
 
 G. Being fpoken with fuch Defpondsncy, 
 it argues the Refolution was defperate. 
 
 T. It's very natural for love to fear the 
 worfr, and to apply fuch Fears according- 
 ly, now her Honour being ftartled with 
 thefe often Repetitions , upon hearing of 
 her Lord's death, might fuppofe that fuch 
 had been her Lord's Refolutions, which 
 gave Birth to thofeyfcpeated Expreflions : 
 But whereas it's faidj my Lord fpoke it in 
 a fort^f Defpondency , irt probable that 
 her F%nour might miitake his Lordihip's 
 undaunted Courage (which with a higher 
 affiftance, kept him above the fear of what 
 the-Power artd Malice of his greateft Ene- 
 mies could inflift) for Defparation. This, 
 to me, feems the moft likely, confidering 
 what his Lordfhip had before declared, viz. 
 That he did expett the Court would not only 
 Imprifon, but take of feveral ; and if it fhould 
 be bis misfortune to fall a Sacrifice for his 
 Country, t the Court Malice and Rage, ths 
 World Ihould fee he ceuld dye with as great 
 Refolution as ever his Father did, for he was 
 ready at all times, and upon all occafions, to 
 lay down his Life for his Country. This Ho- 
 nourable Lord was not ignorant of the 
 Popifh and Arbitrary D^figns of the Court, 
 and that there were fmall hopes of any Re- 
 drefs by Parliaments , for fuch were not 
 fuffered to fit when they began to reform 
 our Grievances; and as for the then Judges, 
 they were purely Inftruments and Ecchoes 
 to the Corruption of the Court ; fo that 
 whatfoever Whitehall had refolved upon, 
 .as fit to be declared Treafon in Wcjhninfter- 
 hall, was declared (not properly adjudged) 
 accordingly ; not adjudged, I fay, for we 
 found many of them more Knave than Fool, 
 and their Intereft corrupted their Con- 
 fciences, and thefe their Tongues, to pro- 
 nounce what their Judgments in the Law 
 
 couhi
 
 C 86 
 
 could not but be fatisfied was falfe , and 
 theinfelveswell knew to be corrupt; where- 
 fore only the lail remedy remained, in cafe 
 the Court proceeded, as there was all reafon 
 to believe they would, by fuch Vile, Ille- 
 gal, Arbitrary, Popifh and Oppreflive Me- 
 thods, to deflroy what to every brave true 
 Englifh Spirit is much more valuable than 
 Life (Religion, Liberty and Property I 
 mean.) Aly Lord of Eflex had long flood 
 in a true light, wherein he could plainly 
 fee the mofl fecret and ultimate end of the 
 :Jourt; and this made him the more re- 
 folved to joyn with others, fuch Patriots 
 as himfelf, in oppofition to thofe Hellifh 
 Plots of St. James's |fbr there indeed lived 
 the tnie Plotters , ^hich were indu- 
 flrioufly plotting the total Deftruftion 
 of our Religion and Liberties, wherM fuch 
 lue Lovers of their Country, as himfelf, 
 were defigning nothing more than the Pre- 
 fervation of our Laws, which the Cor- 
 ruption of the Bench had in Perjury fold 
 ro the Oppreffion of the Court. But this 
 Bargain was never fo plainly proclaimed, 
 as in that Never-too-fevereiy-to-be-punifh- 
 ed Judgment, which gave (as far as was 
 within the Power of that perjured Bench) 
 fuch a Difpencing Power to the Crown, 
 under a neceffity (of which neceffity the 
 Crown was the fole Judge) as by a natural 
 Confluence diflblved all Law , when a 
 Royal Arbitrary fyfe Dixit fhould fb pro- 
 nounce it : Wherefore (as before obferved) 
 we held our Laws, and therein our Reli- 
 gion , Lives and Liberties , as thefe For- 
 fworn, Mercenary Judges did their Places, 
 durante kcm flacito Regis. Had we in this 
 Lord's days known thofe Popifh and Arbi- 
 trary Court-Secrets ( which he plainly faw 
 defigned our ruine , but no confiderarion 
 could ever corrupt this Honourable Lord 
 to ing-age in thofe Curfed Cabals) moft cer- 
 tainly we fhould have refcued the Lives of 
 
 brave Patriots, our Church and State Con- 
 feflbrs, the moft Reverend his Grace , and 
 the Reverend fix Bifhops, met with an Un- 
 corrupt Jury, which were guided by Con- 
 fcience, (not impofed upon by the Court,but 
 enlightned with the true State of the Cafe, as 
 moft judicioufly, and truly Stated by thofe 
 their (Learned Council in the Law) ; Thefe 
 Seven Champions for our Laws (and there- 
 in for all by them we poflefs) would moft 
 certainly have been offered up by the Bench 
 as Viftims of Expiation for that Guilt , 
 which would (in a Court Senfe) have robb'd 
 the Crown of its richeft Jewel; yea , that 
 Court Philofopher-Stone, (the Difpencing 
 Power) which atpleafure might have turn- 
 ed our Properties, Liberties, yea, Lives, in- 
 to pure Gold ; for the Eftates we poflefs, 
 the Liberty we enjoy, and the Lives we 
 live , we have guarded only ( next under 
 God) by our Laws, which this Leviathan at 
 once would have fwallowed and totally de- 
 ftroyed. 
 
 L. When I confider my Lord's declared 
 Refolution of his not ftirring, tho then under 
 the like Danger , as in this Cafe apprehen- 
 ded, and with what Readinefs, Courage and 
 Chearfulnefs, he could lay down his Life 
 for his Country ; and likewife, the Know- 
 ledg that he may be fuppofed to have of 
 their Defigns (which thefe Villains, nine 
 days before his Death declared ; for it's 
 Sworn they then faid , The Earl knew fo 
 much of their Defigns, and was fo very 
 Averfe to their Intereft, that they could ne- 
 ver carry them on, unlefs his Lordfhip was 
 taken off, and his Lordfhip was therefore 
 to be Murdered). I fay, when I confider 
 thefe things , and that the more this Ho- 
 nourable Lord knew of the black Intrigues 
 of the Court , the more fo good a Man, 
 and fb true a Patriot muft be fuppofed to 
 hate them ; I can't but imagine that this 
 brave State-Champion , when he had been 
 
 thofe our beft Friends, and not by a corrupt' once fatisfied, that the Court under Colour 
 
 Conftrudive Treafon, have Sacrificed thofe 
 true Lowers of our Country , for doing 
 of that which we all ought as one Man 
 to have- ccadiully joined in. Had not thofe 
 
 of Law would have taken him off, had re- 
 folded as to himfelf, to lay open thofe Popifh 
 Arbitrary-Court Contrivances , and juftfied 
 that juft Defiga of {landing upon their 
 
 Guard :
 
 Guard; there was no other Way (under 
 God) to defend what was fo grofly invaded. 
 Now, tho his Lordfhip might fuppofe by 
 dealing thus plainly, he fhould the more 
 exafperate the Court , fo that their Malice 
 would be more inveterately bent in his De- 
 ftruction ; yet, that he declared , he feared 
 not , but was ready , chearfully , to lay 
 down his life in fo juft a Caufe; and 
 fhould this daring true lover of his Country 
 have thus expired, by his State-Martyr- 
 dom, he would have given fuch fatisfaction 
 in the truth of what he thus couragioufly, 
 with his laft breath, fhould have affirmed, 
 as would have raifed a general hatred 
 agayift thofe Arbitrary and Popifh-Court- 
 Refolutions; and this might fo fuddenly 
 have given another fo general a Refur- 
 rectionto that juft Caufe, as would have 
 totally routed thofe our true and only Ene- 
 mies of both Church and State. Our then 
 Enemies , under colour of Law , were in- 
 duftrioufly endeavouring the total Subver- 
 fion of our Laws, and whilft in fhew they 
 feemed to maintain the Proteftant Church, 
 they were fecretly contriving its total De- 
 ftruction , by wrefting thofe very Laws 
 which were chiefly defigned as Deftructive 
 to Popery, and making them productive 
 of what they were enafted to deftroy ; for 
 by a malicious and furious Profecution of all 
 Proteftant DifTenters, they did hope to raife 
 fo general Animofities between the Con- 
 , forming and Non-conforming Proteftants, 
 
 that they might, through fuch Division, 
 have an opportunity to fullfil that no- 
 torious Jefuitical Maxim, Divide & Im- 
 pera. 
 
 T. God was pleafed not to deliver us, 
 till he had made fome fenfible of the Dan- 
 ger of that which at a diftance they did 
 not fo plainly perceive to be hurtful ; but 
 Affliction foon made them wife, and con- 
 vinc'd them of their miftake, and then fome 
 of them might truly have faid of Our Law, 
 what the Pj'almift did of the Divine, Before 
 Pfal. 119. f vas afflicted I went a fir ay, but note have I 
 6 7- kept thy word. The general Danger that 
 
 threatned all , taught us all , it was our 
 
 Intereft, as well as Duty, to joyn with tha f \ 
 (falfly called * unnatural Invasion) which in I 
 tender companion, was undertaken by our 3 
 prefent Sovereign, to refcue us from our P 
 true Invaders. 
 
 L. Can any imagine, that my Lord's de- 
 claring, As for himfelf, he voa! refolved what c< | 
 to do, could give rife to thofe many reports ^ 
 in fuch feveral and far diftant places of the l \ 
 Kingdom ? of 
 
 G. But, which is more plain, I have been 
 informed, his Lordfhip fhould, in fome 
 cafes, juftifie Self-murder, and particularly 
 that Action of the Earl of Northumberland, 
 who Piftol'd himfelf in the Tower. 
 
 T. As for thofe Judicious Divines which 
 have been reported to be the men to whom 
 the Earl fhould juftify Self-murther ( fn 
 fome Cafes ) fome of thefe have declared, 
 That they never heard any man more ftrenuoufly 
 argue againft it, (as what was unjuftifiable un- 
 der any confederation) than my Lord hath done. 
 Nay farther, I have been credibly told, Tl.-ai 
 when my Lord was Lord Lieut aunt e/Ireland, 
 Eminent Citizen of Dublin cut his own Throat ; 
 and his Excellency jhen declaared, that Citizen 
 ought to be found Non-Compos mentis; for it 
 was his Opinion, That no man in his fenfis did 
 ever cut hit own Throat : But a ftronger Argu- 
 ment to me is , what is before at large ob- 
 ferved of Major Hawk-is fuggefting Self- *fl 
 murther (for the avoiding a difhonourable 
 and infamous Death) to be my Lord's fixed 
 Principle ; and yet this Gsntleman now de- 
 nies not only this fuggeftion, but likewise 
 declared, Tfiat he never heard it faid to be my 
 Lord's 'Principle , till their Lordjhips in this 
 Committee charged him with it. Hartley's Sug- 
 geftion to the Jury, I do not doubt, for it's 
 positively fworn .againft him ; but.the ful- 
 fity of the thing fkggefted is plain from 
 Rawkfs now denying it: and that this Sto- 
 ry had its rife from the fama Malice that 
 contrived his Lordihip's Destruction. For 
 had this Principle been true, How readily 
 would Hawl-y have juftifisd it, as of what 
 he had been credibly informed ? and how 
 ferviceable might he have thought it to 
 prove the Self-murther ? But this Gentleman
 
 (88) 
 
 being confcious where this pretended Prin- 
 ciple was hatched, and what villanous ufe 
 he himfelf ( according to Inftruftion and 
 Order ) made of it to the Jury ; thought it 
 not fafe to juftify either his Suggeftion , or 
 his having fo much as heard it, before my 
 Lord's death, to be his Lordfhip's Prin- 
 ciple : for fhould he have been forc'd to 
 produce (to him) the Authors of this (pre- 
 tended ) Principle , it would too plainly 
 have appeared, that thefe his Authors were 
 the Forgers of the Story. But I will for the 
 prefent admit, what I am well ailured you 
 can't credibly prove, That before my Lord's 
 death, his Lordfhip had declared, that Self- 
 murther (in fame Cafes} was lawful ; it doth not 
 from thence inevitably follow ,that his Lord- 
 fhip therefore muft cut his own Throat; for 
 feme have juftified the Principle, that never 
 thought fit to put it in praftice. I will, 
 for Argument fake, admit yet farther, That 
 HawUy\ fuggefted Principle w;as true (viz.) 
 That the Earl of Effex declared he would 
 deftroy himfelf, rather than be brought to 
 a difhonourable and infamous Death ; can it 
 be thought , that from this general Refolu- 
 tion (wherein no particular manner of death 
 is declared ) all thofe feveral previous Re- 
 ports, before obferved, fliould rife ? for (to 
 borrow almofr. the very words of an Inge- 
 nious Author upon this Occafion ; Though 
 they were vented bj jeveralperfons, yet they not 
 only agreed in the matter of the Earl of EflexV 
 Death ; but they accorded aljo in the way, and 
 manner of it, and place where, namely, that he 
 cut his Tin-eat in the Tower : which plainly 
 fliews, that it was not vulgar Tattle, vented 
 at random, but had its foundation in a pre- 
 vious and fixed Refolution , that he fhould 
 undergo that unhappy Fate, both as to man- 
 ner and place ; nothing but a determinate 
 Caufe can produce a freddy and determinate 
 ErTeft : Mad the Report taken its rife in the 
 JealouMes of his Friends, or owed its breath 
 to the fearful Apprehenfions of the Com- 
 monPeople, they would have rather dream- 
 ed ot hi.-, being poiibned, as being more fafe 
 for the Aftors to perpetrate, and requiring 
 the acceffion of fewer hands, than have ever 
 
 imagined that his Throat fliould be cut. It's 
 imporfible to conceive , that the Reports of 
 fo many feveral Perfons Ihould not only 
 sgr.e in the matter of his Death, but all 
 harmonize and center in the very Circum- 
 ftances and manner of it, and Place where, 
 unlefs it had originally proceeded from fuch 
 as had contrived and determined both the 
 Murther it felf , and the way wherein it 
 fliould be committed, and the Place where 
 it fliould be done. For when Reports have 
 their foundation only inMens Fancies, they 
 will always vary according to the different 
 Tempers , Pafllons , and Complexions of 
 the Reporters ; how could fo many Perfons, 
 and at fuch distances from one another, and 
 betwixt whom there was never any corre- 
 fpondence , agree and combine together to 
 impofe upon the World , and to abufe die 
 Faith of Mankind ? and as they all feem to 
 be Perfons who abhor Tricks , and who 
 would not be guilty of fpreading, much lefs 
 of raifing a falfe Report ; fb it is beyond the 
 Wit of Man , to declare , how it fhould 
 come to the Intereft of Gentlewomen, Ci- 
 tizens, and Countrey Tradefmen, to be the 
 Authors of fuch a Story, that my Lord of 
 Effex had cut his Throat in the Tower before 
 it was done, or before knowledge of his Irh- 
 prifonment in the Tower could arrive at fbme 
 of thefe Places, where it was fo reported. 
 But that not only the how, and where, as to 
 my Lord's Death, fliould be the fame-in all 
 thofe Reporters ; but the very wherefore, two 
 days before his Death, be given, for the ha- 
 ving cut his Throat ; and the very fame 
 wherefore thai the Papifts publickly gave out, 
 and induftrioufly fpread juft after my Lord's 
 Death : this proves, beyond all doubt, that 
 the Matter was fo particularly agreed upon 
 by the Papifts, and this Reafon by them re- 
 fblved to be given out juft after my Lord's 
 Death ; it's plain to all, but thofe that wink 
 hard, that this pretended Reafon muft be 
 hammered out of the Popilh Forge. For 
 this Reafon carried in it what none but the 
 moft fecret in this Hellifh Contrivance 
 could before my Lord's Death give out ; 
 fcr obfcrve, the Reafon declares , That the . 
 
 Earl
 
 Earl o^Effex being Prifoner in the Tower, the 
 King and Duke came into the Tower to fee 
 the Tower, of which the Earl having notice, 
 he was immediately afraid the King would 
 have come up into his Chamber, and feen 
 him, &c. Now I would willingly know 
 who,befides the moft intimately knowing in 
 this matter, could give information two 
 days ( viz. ) the Wednesday Morning at An- 
 dover ) before my Lord's death , that the 
 Earl ofEjfex would cut his Throat in the 
 Tower when the King and Duke were there, 
 becaufe the King mould not fee him ; the 
 King and Duke's being there was unexpe- 
 fted, and a furprize to all, but to the Men 
 of Secrecy in this Murther, becaufe their 
 being there together was fo very rare, that 
 it happened but once in twenty five years. 
 But of this I have already fpoken ; and alfb 
 how this fo particular a Report, as to the 
 Manner , Place , and Reafon , became thus 
 reported in the Codntrey fo long before my 
 Lord's Death. 
 
 L. Was you ever credibly told that his 
 Lordfhip faid he was refolved to defrroy 
 himfelf? 
 
 1. No, I never heard that credibly re- 
 ported. 
 
 L. Or, which is more plain and particu- 
 lar, Did his Lordfhip (before his Imprifon- 
 ment) fay, that he was refolved to cut his 
 Throat in the Tower , when the King and 
 Duke fhould come into the lower to fee him, 
 which his guilt and fhame could not bear 
 the thoughts of ? 
 
 G. Certainly my Lord could neither fore- 
 lee , nor expeft that the King and Duke 
 fliould come into the Tower, whilft he was 
 Prifoner there. 
 
 L. But you find it depos'd, That before 
 my Lord's Death, ( viz. ) the Wednesday at 
 Andwtr: As to his Death, The manner how, 
 i be place where , and the reafon wherefore, art 
 ajjigned : Now had my Lord fo particularly 
 declared hisRefolution(in which,by the way, 
 as to the King and Duke's being in the Tower, 
 he muft have prophefied what could not be 
 expefted) then it had been polfcble, that this, 
 and thofe feveral Reports proved by eight 
 
 Witneifes more (far difant from, and a'- 
 together flrangers to each other all center- 
 ing in the lame manner how, and the place 
 where) might have arifen from this Refo- 
 lurion of his Lordfhip fo particularly de- 
 clared. 
 
 T. It may be, my Lord having heard th^ 
 Papifts had refolded to cut his Throat, 
 was afraid they would (the more to tor- 
 ment him) not do it like themfelves, but 
 botchingly (as they cut Mr. Arnold's) and 
 therefore that it might be done at a jerk, 
 and all perfectly finifh'd at a ftroak, he was 
 refolved to do it himfelf, and did it effe- 
 ctually; for though the Blade of ths Razor 
 without the Hand, was not two Inches and 
 a half,he made a Wound about three Inches 
 and half deep ( and therein did what by o- 
 thers was Mathematically impoffible to be 
 done) and whereas, before that Accident, it 
 was the Opinion of Doctors and Chyrurge- 
 ons, that none could cut through both Ju- 
 gular Arteries to the Neck-bone on both fides 
 the Neck, his Lordfhip was refblved to give 
 the World demonstration of their mifrake ; 
 and after all, his Lordfhip ftopt the Orifice 
 from giving illue to fuch a quantity of 
 Blood and Spirits, as would naturally have 
 infrantly killed him ; and out of malice to 
 the living, that others might be charged 
 with his Death, threw the Razor out of the 
 Window, and then fent the Maid down for 
 it ; which having received from her, he re- 
 tired ^to his Clofet, lockt himfelf in, and 
 tjuietly laid himfelf down, and the Razor 
 by him , and then gave free paflage to that 
 Blood, and thofe Spirits, which he thus 
 miraculoufly kept fo long in. 
 
 G. But to be feiious, for this is a Cafe of 
 grave, yea, very doleful Confederation; did 
 you ever hear all thofe Reafoas the Bifhop 
 then gave ? 
 
 T. No, but I could wifh I had ; only this 
 further Reafon I think" was given, (viz.) 
 what the Steward faid concerning my 
 Lord's defiring him to fit down, and drink 
 a glafs of Wine with him the Night before 
 his Death. 
 
 N 
 
 L. That
 
 C 9 
 
 L. That I do totally disbelieve for the 
 Reafons before mention'd. 
 
 T. But whereas you fay Mr. H. did fecond 
 my Lord Bifhop , I do aflure you I did 
 he;.r that Ingenious Gentleman declare the 
 contrary ; and ( as a Gentleman told me ) 
 defired one to vindicate him from that Re- 
 port, which he did totally deny. 
 
 G. What was then faid by the Lords of 
 the Committe after my Lord [Bifhop had 
 given the Countefs's Reafons of her Si- 
 lence r 
 
 T. I have been told (how true it is, I can- 
 not fay) that the Right Honourable the Earl 
 of JD. fpake to the Countefs to this effeft ; 
 Madam, The belief, or disbelief of afatt, nei- 
 ther deftroys the Exigence, nor alters the Nature 
 ef the Faff; and we who are to proceed, not accord- 
 ing to private Opinion, but legal Evidence, 
 have taken the Depositions of many Witneffes in 
 this Cafe ; and unlcjs many of thefe be villanou/ly 
 perjur'd, (which as yet we have -no reason to 
 believe} my Lord muft have been mojl barbe- 
 roufly murthered. 
 
 G. Had the Countefs, or trie Bifhop, be- 
 fore this, feen what was fworn ? 
 
 T. I fuppofe neither of thefe had either 
 ieen , or been informed what was depos'd 
 to prove this Murther ; neither could they 
 then have heard what hath in this Cafe been 
 depos'd, becaufe many Depofitions have 
 been fmce taken before the Lords, and, fince 
 their Lord/hips Committee was diflblved, 
 before feveral Juftices of the Peace. 
 
 G. I cannot but believe , that if the 
 Countefs once knew what you have now at 
 large related , her Opinion would foon be 
 changed, and her Zeal in this profecution 
 would be as great as could be expected from 
 a Lady of her Honour and Quality : and 
 as for my Lord Bifliop, I am fure none 
 would be more eafily convinced upon fuch 
 grounds as thefe, neither would any more 
 7*aloufly ingage in this Profecution. 
 
 T. Of this I doubt not ; for no Man can 
 have a greater veneration for this Reverend 
 Father in God , than my felf ; and I think 
 this happy Revolution is"(underGod,nnd His 
 Majefty ) not a little indebted to the Inge- 
 
 5 
 
 nuous and Indefatigable Pen of this Judici- 
 ous and Learned Bifhop. 
 
 The next Difcouragement I fhall men- 
 tion, was the ftrifc Injunction, with Threats, 
 laid upon many of the Soldiers to be fecret 
 in this matter. 
 
 J. B. and his Wife, further declare, That 
 the very next day after my Lord o/"Ei!exV 
 Death, the aforefaid R. M. told thefe Infor- 
 mants, how that very morning their Officer cal- 
 ledfeveralSoldiers together, and under veryfevere 
 penalties enjoined them not to fpeak one word of 
 what they had either fecn or -heard with relation 
 to the Death of the EtrlofEflex, and therefor t 
 the f aid M. dejtred thefe Informants not to] peak 
 one word of what he had informed them ( with 
 relation thereunto ) the day before, left it being 
 difctvered , he Jbould be fever ely punijbed for 
 Jpeaking any thing of this matter. 
 
 L. With what a degree of Impudence 
 was this treacherous Cruelty ftifled ! 
 
 T. R. the Soldier before-mentioned, that 
 very day my Lord was murthered, decla- 
 with very great earneftnefs, That the Duke of 
 York hadfo barefaced ordered the matter, that 
 he did believe no man was fafe that was not 
 for their Interefl , fo foon as they began thus 
 ( in effeft ) openly to order cutting of lirroats. 
 This .. did further proteft , That his Blood 
 did fo boil with indignation again/I this mo ft 
 Vittanous and Barbarous Mart her, that could he 
 have got thofe that would have flood by him, 
 he would have fl)0t the chief Author dead upon 
 the Jpot. 
 
 L. Altho' this Author did efcape the 
 juft Indignation of this brave Soldier, yet 
 that Omnipotent Arm (which feldom fails 
 of punifhing Blood, even in this World , 
 thus treacheroufly fpilt) in vengeance hath 
 purfu'd him, and (without doubt) the Hell 
 within is ten times worfe than the trouble 
 without him ; for tho'the Spirit of a man may 
 bear his Infirmities , a wonnded Spirit none can 
 bear : and certainly a Confcience of flint 
 muft be deeply wounded with thofe felf- 
 refleftions which fo great Guilt muft natu- 
 rally4>eget. 
 
 L. But what is become of thefe two ho- 
 neft Soldiers.
 
 t 91 
 
 r As For A/, not long after the Earl's 
 Death , he told B. and his Wife, and one 
 D. That fa had fallen out with one of the War- 
 ders about the faid Earl's Death, and the War- 
 da- had not courage to fght him ; but he did 
 -verily believe, and much fear , that he fhould 
 le bajcly murthered for what be had Jpoke con- 
 cerning the f. (id EarFs Murther , and t hat very 
 day he did much dread he jhould be defray* d : 
 wherefore he did defire B. or D. to keep 
 him company that day ; but they fearing 
 themfelves might be in danger by being in 
 his company, and having work to do, which 
 they were obliged to finilh, they both refu- 
 fed it, and the next morning they heard the 
 faid M. was found dead in the Tower-Ditch 
 juft over againft Major Webfier's Houfe. 
 
 L. Surely Blood upon Blood muft force 
 down Vengeance from Heaven ; but what 
 became of R ? 
 
 T. All the account can be had of him, is 
 this, That not long after the Earl's Death, he 
 was drawn out of the Tower, and fent beyond 
 Seas to the Erf-Indies, and there, at fome fort, 
 ftiot to death, but upon what account we can- 
 not learn. I fear feveral other Soldiers have 
 been murthered, to prevent the difcovery of 
 this unheard of piece of Villany; for,as I was 
 not long flnce difcourfing in a Coffee-Houfe, 
 concerning this A/s being murthered ; A 
 Gentleman told me, That by his Neigh- 
 bour's Shop-door there ftopt three Soldiers 
 a little after ftfs death; and one looking 
 very melancholly, faid, He did fear he jhould 
 be murthered ( as poor M. teas ) for Jpeaking 
 fomewhat which he knew about the Earfs Death; 
 for he did obferve himfelf dogd federal days by 
 two men (which hedidfuppofe were Iriih-men;) 
 and this Soldier did then defire thofe his 
 two Fellow-foldiers to take notice of what 
 he had told them ; and if he were miffing , 
 and could not be found , they fbould conclude 
 that he was murthered for this very reafon. 
 
 L. Did this Shop-keeper know either of 
 thofe Soldiers. 
 
 T. No ; nor did he think it fafe to make 
 any inquiry into the matter, left he fhould 
 fall under fuch misfortune as had befallen 
 others for medling herein ; you can't but 
 
 find mod men are for cbferving that Maxim 
 Faltx quern faciant, &t. Happy is he whom. 
 other mens harms do make to beware. 
 
 L. Certainly thefe things muft Inftcn. : 
 Vengeance. If that Soldier, who was in this 
 danger , be now living, ha rmy with fafc- . 
 ty (and I am fure it's his duty) appear, and : 
 difcover what he knows ; or (if with o- 
 thers ) he be fraacheroufly murthered , it 
 were well thofe his two Fellow-foldiars ; 
 would teftify what that poor Soldier had j 
 informed them ; this in Juftice they are 1 
 bound to do, and there is no danger in do- 
 ing it ; fuch as now do refufe to teftify their 
 knowledge in the Matter , confent to the 
 Blood of the Slain, and one day muft expect 
 to anfwer it. 
 
 T. Hawky the Warder intimately ac- 
 quainted with Major Hartley, (at whofe Houfe 
 my Lord was murthered) was found dead 
 in the Medways, about April next after my 
 Lords death, ( having been murthered in a 
 moft barbarous manner). This Hawliy was 
 fuppofed to be taken off to prevent the dif- 
 covery of what he knew in this matter ; for 
 a little after Mr.Hawlejr was miffing, (viz.) 
 about a month before he was found dead, a 
 Warder then in the Tower (fuppofed to be a 
 Papift) told Mr. A. 5. (who had long lain 
 under the preilure of the then mifgovernment 
 and then there a Prifoner, without any Evi- 
 dence to juftify the Commitment) That 
 Hawleyw/w run away for prating fomewhat a- 
 bout the Earl of Eflex ; but how he ran away, 
 a Ihort time difcovered. 
 
 This Hawley was in Weftminfter-haU when 
 Mr. Bradden was upon his Tryal ; and ; 
 faid , He much wondered upon what Mr. 
 Bxaddon jhould ftir in this thing, when, to his r 
 Knowledg , Mr. Braddon knew nothing. A 
 Gentleman, then prefent , who knew Mr. 
 Hawley looked on this Exprefllon, as what 
 argued Mr. Havhy not a ftranger to the 
 matter; wherefore this Gentleman imme- 
 diately faid , Mr. Hawley , if you know 
 Mr. Braddon knows nothing of this mutter, 
 what mnfl you then know 1 upon which 
 Mr. Hawley feemed furprized (having too 
 far exprefled himfelf) and made no Reply. 
 N 2 5. I
 
 (90 
 
 S. I have been informed by a Warder in 
 the Tom r, that this Mr. HawUy, the Warder, 
 as foon as he heard the News of the Earl's 
 Death, immediately declared it was a damrfd 
 fiece cf Roguery throughout. 
 
 T. This Mr. Hawkjr was very rich, and a 
 Warder only to exempt him from Parifh 
 Services ; but hs, never waited , unlefs it 
 were on very folemn Occasions ; and that 
 very day my Lord dy'd , he was waiting, 
 and (as declared by feveral) was one of the 
 Warders that attended on the Perlbn of the 
 Duke of Tork, whilft he was in the Tomer, 
 that morning the Earl dy'd. 
 
 'L. If fo, he might well obferve the Duke's 
 fending the two men to the Earl's Lodg- 
 ings juft before his Death ; and their return 
 to his Highnefs, as Mr. E. depofeth ; and 
 M. and R. declared, with feveral other Paf- 
 iages, which might to him difcover that 
 barbarous Murther ; and then he had caufe 
 enough to fay , it was a damrid piece of 
 Roguery all over. 
 
 G. Good God , deliver us from fuch 
 bloody-minded men ! 
 \ T. Several Reports were as induftrioufly 
 
 Mr. lltnvlcy had privately withdrawn under 
 thisConfideration ; but fix Weeks difcover- 
 ed his Perfon, and time may likewife deteft 
 thofe Bloody and Barbarous Men that mur- 
 thered him. They were fo very cruel in 
 this Murther, that his Face was fo changed 
 through violence, that it could not be known 
 to be his ; and there was nothing that did 
 more (if any thing did befides) difcover the 
 Body to be his, than his having three Stock- 
 ings upon one Leg, and two Stockings and a 
 Seer-cloath upon the other : as for his 
 Cloathes, they were ftript off, and nothing 
 but Stockins and Shooes remaining on when 
 the Body was found. 
 
 L. Certainly that God who requires Blood 
 for Blood (and who by this ordered theDif- 
 coveries of the Perfon) will in his great Wif- 
 dom and Juftice, by fome means or other, 
 (of which His Wifdom is never to feek in 
 the choice, or His Power in the ufe) difco- 
 ver thefe Inftruments of Cruelty , that in 
 this Life they may receive their juft Reward, 
 which is for the moft part (though fome- 
 times after many years ) duly paid towards 
 fuch vile Offenders. 
 
 as malicioufly fpread about Town when "f Befides this addition of Blood, other vio- 
 
 Mr. Hay/ley was firft mifs'd ; fome to in- 
 fluence people to believe, that this Mr.Haw- 
 /.;y, through difcor.teit with his Wife, was 
 v.'ry melancholly, and had declared, 'twas 
 better to make away withhimfelf, than live 
 iuch a vexatious life with fo turbulent a fpi- 
 ritcd a Woman ; but in this they moft grot 
 ly abufed them both ; for no Woman could 
 fhew greater refpeftto a Husband, nor any 
 Husband be more kind to a Wife, Another 
 Report was, That Mr. H/wp/y had often de- 
 clared, He did really believe, if a man with- 
 drew from his Relations , and Friends, for 
 h-alf a year ( ?nd fuffered none who knew 
 him to know where he was; but to poflefs 
 all men by fuch his conce akd abfence that 
 he was indeed dead ) and then to appear in a 
 furprize amon<;ft his Relations, 'this great 
 furprize would be as pkafing to the Per- 
 fon that withdrew, as it would be aftonifh- 
 ing to his Friends ; and therefore it was 
 (jiucndtd to be) believed by feme, that 
 
 lent Methods were ufed to prevent a difco- 
 very, by punifhing fuch Soldiers as feemed 
 to disbelieve (upon very good grounds) my 
 Lord's Self-murther ; this appears by this 
 Information following : viz. 
 
 Richard Jsrdcn declared! , That (fometime 
 that Summer the Earl of Eflex dye d , and not 
 long after the faid Earl^s Death ) he faw a Sol- 
 flier tfd to the Wooden Horfe in the Tower (ly 
 order of Lttutenant-CollonelNichols) and vchipt 
 /tftcr n very cruel manner. And this Depo- 
 nent heard the faid Lieutenant-Collonel tell 
 the Soldier he ought to be hanged. This De- 
 ponent further declareth, That he was juft af- 
 ter informed by the Marfhal, that whift the faid 
 Soldier, That by order of Lieutenant-Collonel Ni- 
 chols , he game the faid Soldier 5 3 Strifes (tho 1 
 the ufual number teas but 12;) and that the 
 faid Soldier had lain a fortnight before in clofg 
 cujlddy, and been jed only with Bread and Wa- 
 thtr ; and all only for t he Offince following (viz.) 
 
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 ( 93 
 
 Some fl-ort time after the Death of tke late Earl 
 * Dr. H. of f Eflex, a Divine * coming into the Tower, the 
 Norfolk , faid Soldier was ftnt with him to jlew him the 
 Prebend Tower ; and as the DoBor TV/IS almoft over et- 
 of Nor- S a!n fl Major Hawley's , the Doctor asked the 
 wich f a 'd Soldier, which TV as the Chamber wherein the 
 
 late Earl of&flKtdidcut hit Throat? whereupon 
 the faid Soldier ( fainting to the Chamber in 
 which the Em / bad been Prifoner ) declared ; 
 That is the Chamber in which it's faid the 
 Earl of Effex cut his Throat ; The Doctor 
 then asked the Soldier, what he did believe? to 
 which the Soldier anfwsredjThzt he did believe 
 in God ; but being preft by the Jaid Doctor to tell 
 him , whether he did believe ray Lord cut his 
 Throat ; the faid Solder then replied, He would 
 not fay he did believe it ; for which only fay- 
 ing, the Punishment aforefaid was inflicted. 
 
 L. Such Extravagant Punilhments upon 
 fo flight Grounds,was enough to deter all o- 
 ther Solders from difcovering what they 
 knew ; for if this Soldier, for only declaring 
 he would not fay he did believe my Lord did cut 
 hit Throat, was thus barbaroufly whipt, what 
 muft fuch'Soldiers expeft, as ihould have 
 after ted, my Lord was by others murthered ; 
 and gave their Reafons for iiich belief, by 
 telling what they faw, and heard, with rela- 
 tion to this Perfidious and Cruel Murther ; 
 moft certain, this would have met with (if 
 poffible) worfe whipping than Doftor Gates 
 ever fuffered, or been punUhed by feme pri- 
 vate Stab, or other deftruftion, to avoid the 
 Matter's being brought -upon the publick 
 Stage. 
 
 G. I do remember Meahe is faid to have 
 declared, the day after my Lord's Murther, 
 | that many Soldiers were enjoined to furecy. It 
 were well if thefe would, according to their 
 duty, appear, and declare what they know, 
 and by whom they were thus baiely com- 
 manded" to be fecret ; for this Officer 
 could not but believe , That whoever gave 
 him Orders to lay that In junction, was pri- 
 vy to the Murther, and therefore this Offi- 
 cer was grofly Criminal in being thislnftru- 
 ment to ftifle the detection ; and moft cer- 
 tainty are thofe Soldiers Criminal, which 
 
 fliaU not now appear, and judicially declare I 
 what they know to be true, fo that Juftice I 
 may have its due courle againfr thole moft I 
 barbarous and vile Offenders. For if the time 1 
 of this bare-faced Cruelty againft fuch Sol- I 
 diers that knew any thing of this matter, and !| 
 revealed it, was time of (Hence ; moft cer- I 
 tain, now the Government joins in the Pro- "I 
 fecution, is the time to fpeak ; and whofb- ll 
 ever refufes now to fpeak , becomes not a 
 little Criminal in fuch his filence. 
 
 L. I have been informed, the Father of 
 William Edwards was turned out of his Place 
 for what his Son had faid. 
 
 T. That the Father was turned out about 
 nine days after Mr. Br addons Tryal, is very 
 true, and this done by fpecial Order, under 
 King Charles the Second's own Hand, with- 
 out any caufe fhown , or any reafon to ba 
 guefled at, any other than his Sou's Of- 
 .fence. 
 
 L. I do remember at Mr. Br addons Tryal, 
 Mf. Wallop (whofe Courage and Zeal for 
 the Liberty of the Subjeft, hath been Noto- 
 rious in the moft dangerous times ) did 
 fuggeft, that the Father thought himfelf in 
 danger of lofing his place, from what his 
 Son had declared. Whereupon my Lord 
 Chief Juftice Jeffiriefjrerf fliarply reproved 
 Mr. Wallop, for reflecting (in thh) upon the 
 Government, as though the Father fhould 
 -be punifhed for the Son's fpeaking what i 
 knew. If the fuggefdng the danger of the 
 Place was a Reflection upon the Go/c;n- 
 ment, moft certainly the Government did 
 ftrongly reflect upon its felf, in turning 
 Okl Edwards out , and giving no reafon 
 for luch DiimiHion ; which made him con- 
 clude, and all the World believe, that th- 
 Father was turned out only for his Son's 
 Relation. 
 
 T. The old Jewifti unjuft Proverb w-as 
 here inverted, for The Son had eaten fdynr 
 Grafes, and the Father's Tteth were \et en 
 edge ; fb that this Tranfgreiljon (in its pn- 
 nifhment) did direftly aicend, and the Fa- 
 ther anfwered for the Son's Iniquity or 
 rather for what the then Government falfty 
 called fo. 
 
 L. I
 
 (94) 
 
 L. \ think every Man s own Tranf- 
 c;ve 'linn is enough for him to bear. 
 
 1'. I fhaH conclude all , with what after 
 ; Lord's Death palled, as to Wtbftervevl. 
 Ko.nifr, which feems to confirm the Truth 
 of their Guilt in this Matter. I Hull begin 
 with Wtbfier. 
 
 The very day of my Lord's Death, Webfter 
 brought liome to his Houfe my Lord's 
 Pocket-handkerchief all Bloody, andfhaked 
 Ir, feeming extreamly overjoyed, faying, 
 
 re was the Blood of a Tr after ; and the very 
 r\t day,_pulls out of his Pocket a Purle 
 of Guineas, and in great Joy fkaked it; 
 one of his Neighbours told the Gold, and 
 found there was 49 Guineas, and a French 
 Piftole. 
 
 L. I doubr not but he had a much greater 
 reward for fo remarkable Service. 
 
 T. That without doubt ; for this Fellow 
 (which was tJnder-Baily of the Tower- 
 Liberty) immediately puts himfelf into a 
 Garb much above his Quality , with his 
 Fringe Gloves, either all Gold, or part 
 Gold and part Silk, and all other things an- 
 1 werable thereunto ; and being thus flulh 
 with both Gold and Silver, he frequents 
 the Gaming Ordinaries; but his Cloaths, 
 and the quantity of Gold and Silver he then 
 brought, furprized the Company which 
 knew him, and all admired at the fudden 
 Change ; for he who before ufed to play 
 hardly for i o s. at a Sitting, would now 
 throw at ten times fo much at a Main ; 
 but his Fortune was fo very bad, that it's 
 generally believed he loft at Gaming above 
 400 /. in fix Months time next after my 
 Lord's Death : All that knew this Fellow, 
 admired how he came thus fupplied with 
 Money, moft believed he had ufed the Pad, 
 for all that were acquainted with him, were 
 fatisfied his Principles would aft in any 
 thing for his Intereft. 
 
 L. By what this Fellow gamed away, 
 it's plain the firft fifty Guineas was but a 
 fmall part of his Hire in this Treacherous 
 and Bloody Tragedy ; but it ieerns his Ex- 
 travagancy loft what his Villany got by this 
 unheard of piece of Cruelty: So that the 
 
 old Proverb was herein verified, /// got ill 
 $crt. 
 
 T. This Fellow, by fuch his Extrava- 
 gancy in fine Cloaths, keeping his Gelding, 
 Gaming, Whoring, and almoft all that is 
 ill, reduced himfelf in lefs than a Twelve- 
 month, to his former Poverty ; fo that one 
 of his Wives Relations was upbraiding her 
 with her Husband's neceflity : The Wife 
 replied, Her Husband not long before was not 
 fo poor, for he had joo Guinea s: At which 
 the Relation being furprized, told her, It 
 seas impojjible for him to have fuch a Sum by 
 koneft means, for his dle-houfe , and being 
 nndor-Baily, could hardly get him Bread. But 
 his Wife pretended his Trade got it. 
 
 G. What Trade, Gaming ? 
 
 T. No, fhe mentioned nothing of Gaming, 
 but his Ale-houfe-keeping. But that ap- 
 pears to be falfe, for before my Lord's 
 Death, he could not, out of his Trade, pay 
 his Brewer, but owed him a very confi- 
 derable Sum, 30 Guinea's whereof he paid 
 juft after my Lord's Death ; and the Brewer 
 admired how he came to pay him all in 
 Gold ; but fince he hath heard how it's 
 fufpeiled this Money was procured. It 
 feems what Money the Wife received for 
 Beer, this Fellow (without having any re- 
 gard to the Payment of his Brewer) would 
 take from her, and fpend in ill Courles ; 
 and if his Wife refufed to give him what 
 fhe had, he would abufe her, not in words 
 only , but Blows , which made his Wife 
 one time tell him, That he was a Fool, as 
 well as ft Rogue, to ufe herfo ill, when he knew 
 it was within her power to hang him, and one 
 in the Timer ; once naming (as I have been 
 informed) Major Hawley for the Man in 
 the Tower. 
 
 L. This Woman was miftaken, for it 
 was not within her Power to touch the 
 Hair of this Fellows Head by her difcovery 
 of this Matter, as long as this Villain ftood 
 guarded with fo great a Protection, as both 
 the Intereft and Life of the Chief Contri- 
 vers, whofe Power then was fuch, that 
 had this Woman charged her Husband 
 or Hawley. with being concerned herein , 
 
 b'er.
 
 C 95 ) 
 
 her Accufation would without doubt re- tl 'e man's Patience 
 
 dound to her Ruine, and fhe would have 
 
 been mofl barbarouily ufed for declaring 
 
 this high and dangerous Truth : And of 
 
 this Safe-guard this Bloody Villain being 
 
 well afliired, he feared not what his Wife 
 
 or any elfe could charge him with. 
 
 L. If this Woman had a true fenfe of 
 things, fhe could not but know it's her duty 
 to difcover this Matter, in the Concal- 
 ment whereof, the Duty to her Husband 
 can never excufe her. 
 
 T. But this loofe Fellow long fince turned 
 away that Wife, pretending fhe was never 
 
 w&erefifre he TOM 
 
 to Murder the Hwband (that he might Marry 
 the Wife ) yet this kept Jo very private from ths 
 knowledge of the Wife, that nothing was far- 
 ther from her thoughts , than fuch Treachery 
 (for this Gentleman, and her Husband, in 
 /hew, were intimate Friends.) Thi* Bloody Man, 
 one day walking with the Hatband, nigh 
 very large deep Pond, endeavoured to throw 
 him in ; and as he tans about it, the Hub/met 
 told him, That fame of thoje very Ducks thin 
 in the Pond, jbould detect that perfidious Mar- 
 der he was about to commit : To which the 
 other replied, He would venture that, and fo- 
 
 d w ay ill A i v JAV- ^ pr*vw***.*A v* M.J iiv T vx. vv iJti r zvu tt-*-* ut u vita* Wff*m t * rjt** * */* w / v 
 
 married to him, but that fhe got another threw him in, where he was drowned; but 
 
 Whore to drefs her felf up in Man's Appa- 
 rel, and go to Dukes-place, there perfonating 
 him, and fo in appearance married. 
 
 L. If fuch a thing was , then this was 
 by <eon*fivance between this Whore and 
 Rogue, fo that they might live in fhew 
 Man and Wife, which if any fhould deny, 
 there was a Certificate ready to be pro- 
 duced. -But I am inclined to think they 
 were really Married, for it's improbable 
 this Trick fhould Cheat the Parfon. 
 
 T. Your faying that the Relation of a 
 Wife, will not juftifie the Concealment of a 
 Murder by rhe Husband, puts me in mind 
 of a very remarkable Story of that kind, 
 and the Relation is this ; A certain Gentle- 
 man being MelanchoQy, Peivijh and ill-naturd, 
 carried himself very ill-humour 1 d towards his 
 Wife, (a very fine virtuous Lady) many times 
 
 being well known to be extreamly Melancholly, 
 it was generally believed, that in fame Mdan- 
 cholly DiftratJion (to which he had btenjubjeci) 
 he threw himfelf into the Ptnd, and there 
 drowned himfelf. This was generally believed, 
 and none feemed in the leaji to doubt the truth 
 of it. Some time after the Husband's Death, 
 this Murderer Courts the Widow, and Marries 
 her, after which they lived very happy toge- 
 ther for fome conjiderable time ; at length, one 
 night as fame Ducks were roafling at the Fire, 
 the Husband, looking on the Ducks, burji out 
 into a great Laughter ; the Wife defired to 
 know at what he Imghed; to which he an- 
 fwered, At fomewhat-of which the fight of the 
 Ducks put him in mind; the Wife defired him 
 to tell what that was ; but he prafd her to 
 cxcufe him, for he would not till. The more 
 averfe he was to reveal it, the more dejirous 
 
 beating her, though foe behaved her felf, in all fie feemed cf knowing, but the Husband would 
 r effects, as a Woman of very great Virtue and not then discover it to her : That night as they 
 
 were together in Bed, the Wife did again 
 
 Observance towards her Httfband, and endea- 
 voured what /be could to cenceal her Husband's 
 Cruelty towards her ; but the Matter was fo 
 Notorious, that her ill ufage couid not be kept 
 fo fecret, but that many of her Neighbours knew 
 it to be too true ; amongft the reft, a certain 
 Gentleman extreamly fitted this unfortunate 
 Lady, for whom (though he kept it unknown 
 from the Lady) this Gentleman had a- very 
 great kindnejs, and hoped he might Marry her 
 when her Husband died, of which there had 
 been a long expectancy, the Husband being very 
 Consumptive : But his Difiafe out-lived this Gen- 
 
 her former requeft, in which being very impor- 
 tunate, the Husband (after he had foUwnly 
 enjoyned her to Secrecy ) gave her a partic- 
 account of the Murder of her Hwband, which 
 in fubftctnce you have before heard. The Wfg 
 was hereupon extreamly concerned, though in 
 words feemed then not much to rcfcnt it, but 
 the next Morning jhe repaired to fame judicinw 
 Friend ( and notwithjlanding her prorni.fi of 
 Secrecy, jhe could not be quiet in her mind till 
 Jbe had revealed it) and defired advice there- 
 upon ; to which Jlte was anfmmi, That if fie
 
 (9O 
 
 ':;, fie thereby counted to it ; 
 
 htr fir ft Husband was very cruel, 
 
 . : . -, the frft Husband's Blood, 
 
 , cry d j or Vengeance, in 
 
 LI no ft certainly partake, if fie 
 
 : drover !.\>r Httf band's Canfejfity , 
 
 rein there fcemed to be a very remarkable 
 
 Providence, The Wife obje&ea the nearnefs of 
 
 the Relation, and the protaije of Secrecy, hut 
 
 to bath thijs fie TV as aJtfvered, That there if 720 
 
 RcLiittrti jo dear .is [fnftice, and no Pronnfe, 
 
 contrary to the Rules thereof, ought to be made, 
 
 ..'.v Left if tr/ide, for thai: is net jo properly 
 
 i i.nthfiil, as being a Confederate; for 
 
 !::cj:, being confidered of a Virtue ^ it's 
 
 co'if.c/'tently to be exerufed only in things Jujl 
 
 ar.a ticr.cft ; fcr m other Matters it is not pro- 
 
 fer-j- (v.tjraliy Jpeaking) calLd Fidelity, but a 
 
 '. Concealment. The Wife being thus 
 
 ptrfspaded) repairs to the blagiftrate, who forth- _ 
 
 *>;.-;; orders the KM band to be Jdzed, who as 
 
 foon as apprehended, conftffed the whole Matter, 
 
 and waf deservedly executed. 
 
 G. I think the Wife, in this cafe, muft 
 be in a very great ftrait, for the Tempta- 
 tion to Secrecy could not but be very ftrong; 
 but I find in the Old Law, That if the 
 Wife, or the neareft Relation in Blood, or 
 a Friend which was as his own Soul, did 
 but fo much as fecretly intice to Idolatry, 
 the Relation or Friendfhip in this cafe, was 
 to be no Impediment to the Difcovery,Pro^ 
 fecution and Punifliment ; for the Peribn 
 tfius indeed, was not to pity, fpare or 
 conceal his Relation or Friend, but was 
 pofitively commanded to Kill him ; his 
 Hand was fair to be upon him, and then 
 the Hand of all the People. Now moil: 
 :rtainlyfuch a Villainous and Treacherous 
 lurder, attended with fuch Aggravations, 
 mft be moil Odious in the fight of God, 
 r hofe firir expreiJ> Law did pofitively Enait, 
 "hat wkofo fieddeth mans blood, by man fiail 
 'ris blood be fied; the reafon whereof follows, 
 For in the linage cf Goal made he man. 
 
 Husband (efpecially when the befr, in Suc- 
 cefiion to the worftjand her duty to Juftice ; 
 yet it's moft certain the latter ought to 
 have the afcendant ; for whofoever loves 
 Husband or Wife, Father or Mother, Bro- 
 ther or Sifter , more than what is Juft, 
 Righteous and Good (for that is the tneaaing 
 of, more than me) at the laft day moft 
 afliiredly ihall be rejected by him who hath 
 pofitively enjoyned us to hate all thofe Rela- 
 tions for his Jake and the Gojpels, or (which 
 is the fame ) for our Duties-fake, confi- 
 dered as Chriftians. But how much higher 
 Aggravations do attend the unparallel'd 
 Murder of this Honourable, though unfor- 
 tunate Peer? 
 
 T. I ihall now fay but one thing more, 
 with relation to Webfter, and that is this 
 When Webfter was before the Honourable 
 Committee, Mr. Braddon defired HnM^' 
 their Lordfliips leave to ask Webfter one 
 queiHon ; which being granted, Mr .Braddon 
 demanded of Webfter, Whether the next day 
 after my Lord's Death, he did not produce to 
 Juch a man a Purfe of Gold, about 49 Guinea's, 
 and a Piftole. Webfter denied it ; Mr. Brad- 
 don defired him to recollect himfelf, and 
 bepofitive; Webfter declared, He was positive 
 h* did not, nor to his , remembrance in his Life 
 ever fiewed that man any Gold, much lefs fo 
 great a Sum. Mr. Braddon perceiving fome 
 of their Lordihips feemed angry, the que- 
 ftion was put" fo plain, after Webfter had 
 withdrawn, Mr. Braddon informed their 
 Lordihips, That Webfter -(** he had been 
 told) -was a fort of a hanger on at Gaming- 
 houjes (where he could play but for little, being 
 'very poor) and fiould this fellow underftand it 
 was pojitively fit>orn againft him, that he did 
 produce juch Gold, in all probability he would 
 Jorge fomewhat in avjwer to it and it was not 
 unlikely, but he might pretend that thofe Guineas 
 he had won at Gaming, and was overjoy d at 
 being jo rich : with this his Invention (upon 
 deliberation) might furnifi him, in which his 
 
 L. In my opinion this Wife did what pr<. fence of mind -under Guilt, could not be fo 
 e oxight to have done ; for though it may ready; but if hereafter he fiould fo pretend, 
 
 it would plainly, appear to be'falfe, having Jo 
 pofitively dtmed, it to their Lordfiifs; when, 
 
 had 
 
 /ell be fuppofed, that there was a 
 bet'vvcen her Affsclion towi
 
 C97 ) 
 
 "had it been true, it would have immediately oc- 
 cur fd to his wind, and as readily he would given 
 it in atjfwcr. 
 
 L. Doth not Wcbfitr ftill deny the produ- 
 cing any Gold ? 
 
 T. No; but pretends the Gold he fhew- 
 ed Osborm , was what he had won at Ga- 
 ming. 
 
 G. That Sham can't now take, againft 
 his pofitive denial before their Lordfhips. 
 
 T. I fhall laftly fpeak of Hlme<, and then 
 conclude. It ieems Holmes and his Wife <?5- 
 ten quarrelled, and fometimes Holmes would 
 beat her. One day, as he was Abufing her, 
 Ihe was heard to fay , He was a Murderous 
 Rogue ; and fhe told him , That he could not 
 but remember that jhe could hang him when Jhe 
 f leafed : To which Holmes anfwered, That he 
 little thought Jhe would have fpoken of it, who 
 of all the World had the leafl reafon. For faid 
 this fciirrilous Follow, Ton Bitch, you Whore, 
 dont you remember , that I bought you a good 
 Sattin Gown and Petticoat , and therefore you 
 above all the World ought not to prate : To 
 which Ihe replied, He was a Murderous Rogue 
 for all that. 
 
 L. By the falling out of Murderers, Mur- 
 der is many times detefted ; a very notori- 
 ous Inihnce of which, I have often heard 
 related, which was as folio weth : A Water- 
 man and his Servant in the Night , carrying a 
 Gentleman down the River , whom they fercei- 
 <ued tfhave a great Charge about him , thcfe 
 perfidious Villains by Sign.' , concluded to throw 
 this Gentleman Over-board, which they did ac- 
 cordingly, andfo drowned kim, and then fiared 
 the Spoil ; foon after which , they both lived 
 much bey and their former Gircumjlances, at which 
 all that knew them , admired ; but none but 
 themf elves knew the reafon, till many years after, 
 when thffe two being Drunk, and at Play, fell out 
 about their Game, and they were then over-heard 
 to acci'fe one the other, in this matter, the Mafter 
 the Man, and the Man the Mafter , as the raojl 
 Criminal. Upon which they were both Seized , 
 and they thin Confined the whole Matter , each 
 endeavouring to aggravate the Guilt of the other, 
 iv Mitigation of his own. But ihey were 
 both thought deferving of Dsath for their 
 
 cruel Treachery, and were Executed accor- 
 dingly. 
 
 G. Had we not already been too troublo- 
 fome to you in this particular and fatisfa- 
 ftory Relation, I fliould beg one favour 
 further. 
 
 T. Your further Satisfaction in this Mat- 
 ter may command from me whatfoever is 
 convenient to be told, and beyond that, I 
 defire you not to move me. 
 
 G. More than you have already decla- 
 red , I don't now defire to know; but I 
 perceive there have been very many Per- 
 fbns in this Cafe , Sworn to many Particu- 
 lars, fo that the Relation of the whole Mat- 
 ter hath been long, but to me not tedious, 
 becaufe I have received full Satisfaction in 
 that,wherein before I was extreamly Abufed 
 by Misinformation. Sir , If it may not be 
 too tirefome to you, I would defire ycu 
 to Abftraft the moft material Proofs before 
 mentioned, and give us, asfhort as you well 
 can , the fubffance of what is before de- 
 pofed. 
 
 T. In this I fhall readily ferve you~ but I 
 fhall not obferve the very fame Method as 
 before , but fhall begin with the Difproof 
 of my Lord's Self-murder , by defhroying 
 thofe forged Informations which would 
 prove him fo ; and Secondly , fhall prove 
 him barbaroully Murdered. 
 
 Fir ft, For the diiproof of the Self-mur- 
 der. 
 
 The Right Honourable Arthur late Earl 
 ofEffex, was Committed to the Tower, Tmf- 
 day the r oth of July, 1683. and there were 
 placed over his Lordfhip two Warders , 
 (viz.) Monday and Ruflel, and one Servant, 
 (viz.) Paul Btmeny , permitted to be attend- 
 ing on my Lord ; the very" next Friday 
 morning , about Nine of the Clock , his 
 Lordfhip was found Dead in his Clofet, 
 with his Throat cut through both Jugular 
 Arteries, to the Neck-bone. 
 
 Now , feeing our Law preflimes every 
 Man deftroyed by violent Hands, is Mur- 
 dered by others, unlefs fuch Evidence ap- 
 peurs as gives SatUfucUon in the contrary, 
 O and
 
 Cps 
 
 and proves him a Self-murderer. This Lord 
 had been found barbaroufly Murdered, had 
 not Baraeny, Monday, and Ruffel, appeared to 
 prove otherwife ; and they endeavour to 
 prove it (fhortly) thus. 
 
 My Lord of Effix (they fay) called for a 
 Pen-knife to pare his Nails, which Pen-knife 
 not being ready , he required a Razor , 
 which was accordingly delivered him , 
 with which his Lordihip having pared his 
 Nails, he retired info his Clofet , and locks 
 himfelf in , 'and there cut his Throat ; the 
 Razor (before delivered to pare his Nails) 
 lying by the Body. 
 
 But that this Relation is forged, and that 
 there was, Firft, no Razor delivered to my 
 Lord to pare his Nails , nor had his Lord- 
 fliip pared his Nails with any. 
 
 Secondly, Neither the Body locked into the 
 Clofet: Nor, 
 
 Thirdly, The Razor lying locked inby the 
 Body, when my Lord was firft know to be 
 Dead, is evident from what follows,, which 
 clearly detects this Forgery. For the firft of 
 thefe, that there was no Razor delivered to 
 my Lord. 
 
 This appears by the Contradictions of 
 Bomeny, Ruffe I and Monday, as to the time of 
 the delivery of this Razor; for Bomeny firft 
 Swears, he delivered this Razor to my Lord 
 to pare his Nails on Friday morning at eight 
 of the Clock; and within two hours, pofi- 
 tively fwears in theDepofition himfelf writ, 
 that he delivered it on Taurfday morning, at 
 Eight of the Clock (being the day before 
 his Death) ; and this as to the Thursday , 
 he fwears Pofitively and Circumftantially ; 
 Politively , for he doth exprefsly name 
 Thursday, as. the day on which the Razor was 
 delivered ; and Circumftantially , for he 
 doth fwear the Razor was delivered the ve- 
 ry next Morning after my Lord came to 
 Captain Hjtrvlcfs ; and his Lordfhip went 
 to Hmoky , on Wtdnefday the nth of July. 
 / But 
 
 Rufl Sweats a Point-blank Contradi- 
 Uon to Bomenfs Oath j for Rvjfil depofeth, 
 
 and now declares, That on Friday Morning, 
 in lefs than half an hour before they found 
 my Lord Dead in his Clofet , he flood as 
 Warder at my Lord's Chamber-door, (Mon- 
 day, that Morning having firft flood as War- 
 der on my Lord , and was then gone down 
 to ftand below Stairs ) and heard my Lord 
 ask Bomeny for a Pen-knife to pare his Nails ; 
 which being not ready , his Lordfhip requi- 
 red a Razor, which he did immediately fee 
 Bomeny deliver his Lordfhip. But 
 
 Monday doth as directly give the lye to 
 R//c7, as Rtf/fc/did to Bomeny; for Monday 
 the day may Lord dy'd, declared, hefaw my 
 Lord have a Razor in his Hand, paring his 
 Nails with it , at Seven a Clock that Morn- 
 ing my Lord died, and this about two hours 
 before Ruffel came up, to ftand as Warder 
 at my Lord's Chamber-door.' 
 
 Wherefore, unlefs it can be reconciled 
 how this Razor fliould be delivered Thursday 
 Morning at Eight of the Clock, according 
 to Bomeny's Oath ; and yet not delivered till 
 Friday Morning Nine of the Clock, within 
 half an hour of the time his Lordfhip was 
 found Dead , and delivered whilft Ruffel 
 ftood Warder at the Chamber-door, as Rttffel 
 depofeth; and notwithftanding this, my Lord 
 to have had the Razor, and pared his Nails 
 with it , two hours before Ruffel came up 
 Stairs to ftand Warder at my Lord's Cham- 
 ber , as Monday declared , the very day my 
 Lord died. I fay, Unlefs thefe Contradicti- 
 ons can be reconciled , it can't be thought 
 that any Razor at all was delivered : And 
 then , whereas all declared my Lord pared 
 his Nails with the Razor ; by ftrict Obfer- 
 vation, it appeared his Lordfhip's Nails were 
 not newly, before his Death , either pared 
 or fcraped. 
 
 Secondly , That the Clofet-door was not 
 locked upon my Lord's Body, appears by 
 the Cqntra dictions of thefe three , as to the 
 opening the Clofet-door. 
 
 Bomeny firft fwore , He did open the 
 Door, ( when my Lord would not anfwer 
 upon his knocking at the Door ) and there 
 faw my Lord lying Dead in his Blood, and 
 the Razor by him , and he then called the 
 
 Warders j
 
 C99) 
 
 Warders ; but immediately fwears in Con- 
 tradiclion to his firft Oath , that he peeped 
 through a Chink of rhe Door, and faw Blood 
 and part of the Razor, and then without 
 opening the Door, ran and called Rtf'l, who 
 thereupon firft opened the Door: And at 
 Mr. Braddnns Tryal , Swears he knew not 
 who opened the Door. 
 
 Ruflel depofeth he did firft open the Door, 
 and makes no difficulty in it; then comes 
 Monday, and gives the lye to both : For 
 
 Monday ( the very day my Lord died ) 
 declared(what he hath fince often confirm'd) 
 That neither Bomeny or Ruffil could ftir the 
 Door, my Lord's Body lay fo clofe and hard 
 againft the Door; and he being ftronger 
 than either , put his Shoulders againft the 
 Door, and p'refllng with all his might, broke 
 it open. 
 
 Whofoever there is, that can reconcile 
 thefe Contradictions (in thefe three Mens 
 Relations) and make all appear credible, 
 
 Erit mi hi Magnus A 'folio. 
 
 A further Argument , That the Clofet- 
 door was not locked upon the Body, appears 
 by my Lord's Legs lying upon theThrelhold 
 of the Clofet-door, when the Body was pre- 
 tended not to have been {tired from its firft 
 Pofture. 
 
 Thirdly , That there was no Razor lying 
 locked in with the Body , when the Body 
 \vas firft found,appears by the bloody Razor's 
 being thrown out of my Lord's Chamber- 
 Window, (which is about feventeen Foot di- 
 ftant from the Clofet-door, where the Body 
 lay) and no noife of my Lord's Death, till 
 after the Maid carried up the Razor, which 
 Maid thereupon firft discovered my Lord's 
 Death. 
 
 And, as yet other Arguments t>f the Per- 
 jury of thefe perfidious Villains , add the 
 Mathematical Impossibility of the Wound, 
 feeing not above two Inches of the Razor 
 muft be without my Lord's Hand, ( had he 
 done it Jtimfelf ) and yet the Wound above 
 three Inches deep. Moreover, by many 
 Eminent Doclors and Chyrurgions, the 
 
 Wound is thought to be naturally ImpoTT- 
 ble to have been done by my Lord himfeJf, 
 becaufe upon cutting the firft Jugular Artery, 
 fuch an Efrufion of Blood and Spirit would 
 have immediately thereupon followed, that 
 Nature would not have bxn. ftrong enough 
 for to cut through the other Jugular Arte- 
 ry, to the Neck-bone on the other fide; 
 much lefs , to make fo many, and fo large 
 Notches in the Razor againft the Neck-bone , 
 as an old Foolifh or K - Chyrurgion fug- 
 gefted to the Coroners Jury. 
 
 Wherefore by what is before obferved, 
 as to the many Contradictions, it plainly 
 appears, that thefe three (as it is faid in the 
 Hiftory of Sufanna, Pafi 61.) are convifted 
 of falfe Relations by their own Mouths; 
 and thofe other Arguments before obferved, 
 are further Deteftions^f thefe three Men's 
 Perjuries. It then remains as at firft, (viz.) 
 That here is a Body found Dead by violent 
 Hands, and the manner of the Death not ( 
 difcovered,(for it can't be,according to thefe 
 three Mens Relations, for the Reafons be- 
 fore obferved). The Conclufion that the 
 Law makes in fuch Cafes, in this therefore 
 holds good , (viz.) That this Honourable 
 Lord was Murdered by the violent and cruel 
 Hands of barbarous and bloody minded 
 Men. 
 
 Secondly, For the Proof of the Murder. In 
 this I fhall firft conlider what is moll mate- 
 rial, which pafled before my Lord's Death. 
 Secondly, The day of his Death. And then 
 Tlnrdly and Laftty , After the day of his 
 Death!* The 
 
 ffrft, Before my Lord's Death. I fhall 
 confider, 
 
 Firft, The previous Refblutions by Pa- 
 pifts to cut my Lord's Throat. And then, 
 
 Secindiy, The many previous Reports be- 
 fore my Lord's Death , that his Lordfhip 
 had cut his Throat in the Tower. 
 
 For the firft of thefe, D. S. declares, That 
 about nine Days before the Death of the late 
 Earl of Efiex , foe heard fiveral Papi/ts awful- 
 ting together , comsrning the faid Earl : And 
 O a '
 
 ioo 
 
 tr .f Informant leard them fay , the Earl of 
 Eflex wjs to be taken off , and that they had 
 been with His Highnefs , and His Highnefs was 
 fir ft for Poyfoning the Earl; but that manner of 
 Death being objected again ft ; it was then ffid, 
 one did fropofe to His Highnefs , Stabbing the 
 Earl; but this way His Highnefs did not like : 
 at length His Highnefs concluded , and ordered 
 his Throat to be cut , and His Highnefs had pro- 
 mi fed to be there when it was done. Some few 
 days after , fome of the aforefaid Perfons 
 declared , It was refolded the Earl's Throat 
 fkould be cut, but they would give it out , that I. e 
 had done it himfelf; and if any (bould deny 
 it , they would take them } and punifh them 
 for it. 
 
 Secondly, For the previous Reports before 
 my Lord's Death. 
 
 It's proved by eight feveral Witnefles, 
 That before the Earl's Death, (or before it 
 could be known ) it was Reported , That 
 the Eail of Efflx had cut his Throat in the 
 
 i Tower ; amongft the reft , it was at froome, 
 which is about an hundred Miles from 
 Lo.'.don, the Wtdnefday Morning ; and at the 
 
 , fame time , at slndover, about Sixty Miles 
 from London, tho at neither of thefe Places, 
 especially the former , could it then be 
 known , that the Earl was a Prifoner in 
 the Tower, his Lordfhip being not committed 
 to the Tower, till the Tucfday in the After- 
 noon. All thefe Reports agreed in the man- 
 ner Hew , (viz.) cutting his Throat , and 
 the place Where , ( viz. ) the Tower ;^ and 
 (which is further) at ^jjdover, the Wednesday 
 Morning before my Lord's Death , it was 
 reported , not only in the maniisj- How , 
 and place Where, but likewife the pretend- 
 ded Reafon Wherefore , was given; for it 
 was then, and there faid, That the Earl of 
 EJpx being a Prifoner in the Tnver, and un- 
 der.ftanding,that the K. and Duke were come 
 into the Tvwcr , his Lordfliip was afraid the 
 
 ' .K. would have come up into his Chamber,aild 
 
 ; fcen him ; of which his Lordfhip's Guilt and 
 ime would not bear the thoughts, and 
 
 I therefore he did cut his Throat to avoid it. 
 This being declared two days before my 
 
 Lord's Death, when it could not have been 
 in the leaft fore-thought , that the King 
 and Duke would have come together into 
 the Tower , where they had not been above 
 twice together fince the Reftoration. I fay, 
 This previous Report, which fo particular- 
 ly cloathed this Action with the how, where, 
 and wherefore , clearly proves , That all 
 things were fo refolved upon to be done, or 
 otherwife it is impoflible it fhould have 
 been reported under thefe three Eflential 
 Qualifications, as to Marnier, Place, and Rea- 
 fon , before it was indeed done , efpecially 
 at Xndo<ver, where it could not then be fup- 
 pofed to be known that my Lord was fo 
 much as a Prifoner in the Tower ; this Rea- 
 fon the Papifts themfelves gave out juft after 
 my Lord's Death. 
 
 Secondly , What palled the day my Lord 
 died. 
 
 Thefe then attending on my Lord, (viz.) 
 R ffd and Monday, the Warders ; Bomeny the 
 Servant, and Lloyd the Centinel at the 
 Door, did all deny that day my Lord died, 
 that there were dMkany Men let into my 
 Lord's Lodgings that Morning, before my 
 Lord's Death. But it now appears, That 
 there were fome Ruffians, a little before 
 my Lords Death , fent into his Lodgings 
 to Murder him, which they did accord- 
 ingly. 
 
 ^R. M. a Soldier in the Tower, that Morn- 
 ing my Lord of Effcx was Murdered ; about 
 one of the Clock, that very day,nigh sildgate, 
 told B. and kis Wife, That the Earl of Eflex 
 did not cut his own Throat, but was barlaroufly 
 Murdered by his Royal Highncjis Order : For 
 the faid Me tike declared , That juft before the 
 Earl 's Murder, His Highnefs fent two Men to the 
 Earfs Lodgings to Murder him, which after they 
 had done, they threw the Razor out of the Win- 
 dow^ Likewife, a Soldier that Morning in 
 the Tower, about Eleven of the Clock , that 
 very Morning my Lord died , in Baldwins 
 Garden?, informed G. and //. That the Earl of 
 Eflex did not cut his own Throat , but was 
 barbaronfly Murdered by hi* Royal Kighr.cfs's own 
 Qrdtr. For the Cud L then declared, That <* 
 
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 C 101 ) 
 
 little before the Earls Murder, his Royal High- 
 nefs farted a little way from His Majefty ,and then 
 two Men were jjent into the Earls Lodgings , to 
 Murder my Lord; which when they had done, 
 they did again return to his Highnefs. 
 
 Mr. '. declares , That he faw his Royal 
 Highnefs, juft before the EarPs Death, fart u 
 little from his Majefty, and then beckoned to two 
 Gentlemen to come to him, who came according- 
 ly His Highnefs thereupon fent them towards the 
 Earl of EflexV Lodgings, and about a quarter of 
 an hour after, this Informant faw thefe very two 
 Men return to His Highnefi , and as they came, 
 they failed ; and to the beft of this Informant's 
 hearing, and remembrance , faid, Tlie Bujtnejs 
 wjs done ; tip on which His Highnefs feemed 'very 
 well p leafed , and then went to His Majefty, -to 
 whom the news was immediately brought, That 
 the Ear.l o/Eflex had cut his Throat. 
 
 Lloyd, the Centinel at my Lord's Door the 
 day my Lord dyed (till the 2 ijt of January 
 laft) did deny the letting in of any men, 
 (and Ruffe I and Monday ff ill deny it) but now 
 'Lloyd doth confefs , That juft before my 
 Lord's Death, two or three Men, by Major 
 Rowley's fpecial Order, were let in, and im- 
 medi^ely he heard them (as he did fuppofe 
 they wer?) go up flairs into my Lord's 
 Room, where there was a very great buftle 
 and flir , fo great, that this Centinel decla- 
 red, he would have forced after them, had 
 not the n"rfr Door been made faft ; upon the 
 bu{Me,he heard fbmewhat thrown down like 
 the fall of a Man , which he did fuppofe 
 was my Lord's Body ; foon after which, it 
 was cryed put, My L<W0/Eflex hath cut his 
 T'.--oat. Here is not only thefe rhens going 
 in, but a great buftle confeiFed immediately 
 thereupon to enfue in my Lord's Room, and 
 the Body of a Man in this buftle to be 
 thrown down ; this is in a Clofe Prifbner's 
 Room, where no one is admitted, but his 
 Servant ; -and thofe that kept the Door de- 
 ny'd upon Oath that any were in my Lord's 
 Chamber that Mornfng my Lord died, be- 
 fore his death. But thefe Warders being 
 fuppofed privy to the Faft, would not own 
 the admitting of thofe Men, which them- 
 felves let in with fuch a murtherous Defign j 
 
 
 and it is to be prefumed, that this Centinet 
 was not a ftranger to the matter, but en- 
 joined to fecrecy ; for otherwife he wouJd 
 never have declared to a Friend , under a 
 repeated requeft of fecrecy , that this Con- 
 feliion (as before) laid upon his Confcience, 
 and troubled him night and day ; for tho' 
 it was indeed very true , that he did let in ' 
 thefe Men, it was what he fhould not have 
 confefTed. This Confirmation to his Ac- 
 quaintance ( under a great and repeated in- 
 junftion of fecrecy ) argues, fir ft, That this 
 Confeffion was indeed true. And 
 
 Secondly , That there is {bme curfed 
 Confederacy (it's probable by Oath) entred 
 into to {rifle this Murther ; for what other 
 probable Reafon can be affigned for "that 
 trouble of Confcience in this Confeffion, . 
 feeing himfelf at the fame declared it was ] - 
 true, tho' he fhould not have laid it ? There i 
 are fome other Arguments that this Senti- 
 nel was particeps Crimines in the Privity ; 
 firll, his Retraftion in part of what he did 
 confefs : for , upon his being firft appre- 
 hended, he owned the throwing out of the 
 Razor before my Lord's death was known ; 
 but he now retrafts, and difbvvns it. Ano- 
 ther Inftance of his Privity is his now pre- 
 varicating, in his now pretending that thefe 
 men were let in an hour, or more, before 
 my Lord's death ; whereas, at rait , he de- 
 clared*they were let in immediately bsfor-j 
 my Lord's death $ for, as foon as let in, he ( 
 heard feveral go up fhirs into my Lord's 
 Room, and heard the buftle, &c. as before. 
 A third Argument of this Cenrinel's Privity, 
 is his not declaring the whole Truth, which 
 he mufl know ; for one at a greater difhnce, 
 -that faw thefe Ruffians as they were buftling 
 with my Lord , and heard the buttle, did 
 likewife hear one of thefe in the buftle (as 
 it feemed to be) and therefore prefumed to 
 be my Loid,cry out very Ioud,and'very dole- 
 ; fully, Murther, murtber, mart her. The Cen- 
 tinel who could hear the trampling, or in- 
 deed the very walking in my Lord's Cham- 
 ber, could not but hear this Murther , fcr 
 loud and .often repeated. It appears by five 
 
 " Guts
 
 ( 102. ) 
 
 Cufs in my Lord's Right Hand (viz.) two 
 Tipon his Fore-linger, one upon upon the 
 Fourth Finger, another on the Little Fin- 
 ge, and the fifth about two Inches long in 
 the Palm, of his Right Hand ; that his Lord- 
 Ihip in this buftle made great refiftance, for 
 thefe Cuts can be fuppoied to be done no 
 otherwife, than by endeavouring to put off 
 the Cruel Inftmment of his Death. 
 
 The next thing that I fhould obferve, 
 which happened the day my Lord dy'd,and 
 gives us reafon to belive theMurther, is the 
 Irregularities committed upon the Body , 
 before the Jury faw the Body ; the Body was 
 fl-ript and wafhed, and the Room and Clo- 
 fet wafhed, and my Lord's Cloathes car- 
 ried away (tho' all men know the Body 
 fhould have remained in its foft pofture till 
 die Coroner's Jury had feen the Body.) Sir 
 T. R. (as himfelf faith) declared to the Lords, 
 That the Body was not flirred from its firft po- 
 ftitre till the next morning ahout Ten of the 
 Clock ; to this Sir Thomas hath not fworn 
 ( for he was not fwom before the Lords ) 
 and its well he hath not, for herein he is fo 
 much mifraken, that the contrary can be 
 proved by almoft twenty Witneffes. Had 
 the Body remained in its firft pofture, by 
 my Lord's Cravat's being cut in three parts, 
 the Jury would have plainly feen, that his 
 Lordlhip could not fo do it with the Razor ; 
 and then fecondly , they would have per- 
 ceived the print of a bloody Foot upon my 
 Lord, as he lay in the Clofet , by which it 
 appeared fome one had been with the Body 
 in the Clofet ; and feveral other Material 
 Circumftances might have been difcovered, 
 which by the total ( illegal ) alteration of 
 the Circumftances of the Body, &c. were 
 delrroyed. 
 
 About Three of the Clock in the After- 
 noon, that day my Lord died, fome of thofe 
 "bloody Men (who had been at the Confult) 
 met at Hornet's Hqufe, and one of them 
 1 ..-aped about rhe Room, as overjoyed; and 
 as the Mafter of the Houfe came into rhe 
 Room , he ftrikes him upon rhe Back, and 
 Cry'd, the Feat was done, cr, tec lave done the 
 upon which the Mafhr faid ,. is the 
 
 Earh Throat cut ? to which the other replied, 
 Yes ; and farther faid, he could not but laugh to 
 think how like a Fool the Earl of Eflex looked 
 when they came to cut his Throat. 
 
 To deftroy the TefKmony of this D. S. 
 Homes hath produced Two Witnefles, who 
 (by many Witnefles) appear to be fbrfworn 
 in every part of their Depofitions. His De- 
 fence being falfe, his Charge therefore may 
 be concluded true. 
 
 Thirdly, and L.iftly, What pair, after the 
 day of my Lord's Death. 
 
 That very Morning feveral Soldiers 
 (which were prefumed able to difcover wht 
 was material , with relation to my Lord's 
 Death ) were called together ( as M. then 
 faid ) and enjoined to lecrecy under very 
 fevere Penalties. 
 
 About Ten of the Clock in the Morning, 
 the next day after my Lord's Death, the 
 Jury met, and were furprized to fee all the 
 Circumftances of my Lord's Body changed 
 from what was firft difcovered. 
 
 After the Jury had feen the Naked Body 
 at Hawleys, the Coroner adjourned them to 
 a Viftualling-Houfe in the Tower^ fl&ft one 
 of the Jury demanded a fight of the 
 Cloathes ; but the Coroner was immediate- 
 ly called into the next Room, from which 
 returning to the Jury in fome heat, he told 
 them, It was the Body , and not the Cloathes, 
 they were to fit upon j the Body was there , and 
 that was fttjpcient. 
 
 One of the Jury then faid , My Lord of 
 Ellex was efieemed A very Sober, Sedate and 
 Good Man (which Bomeny then confirmed, 
 faying, His Lord teas a very Pious Man) and 
 therefore it -teas improbable fo Good a Man 
 fhould be Guilty of the worft of A '& ions. Upon 
 which M. Hawley told the Jury, They were 
 mifinformed in my Lord's Char after, for every 
 Man that teas well acquainted with my Lord, 
 well knew, that it had ever been a, fixed Prin- 
 ciple in my Lord, that any Man might cut his 
 Tlrroat, or any other-wife difycfe of his Life, 
 to avoid a dijbonourable and infamous Death ; 
 wherefore this slction which they thought un- 
 like hit Lordfiip, was according to my Lord's 
 
 avowed
 
 Avstced And fixed Principles. This 
 
 the Jury the more eafie believe, that my 
 
 Lord had indeed done it. 
 
 Some of the Jury were for Adjourning 
 their Inquifition to fome further day, and 
 in the mean time to fend notice to the Earl's 
 Relations , fo that if any thing appeared 
 on my Lord's behalf, it might be pro- 
 duced. Ha-seley, hereupon, adored the Jury, 
 That they could not adjourn their Inquiry, far 
 His Majefly had fent one for their Inquifition, 
 and would not rife from Council till it was 
 brought him. This the Jury believing , 
 immediately made all hafte poffible, where- 
 as otherwife they might have been more 
 ftrift and particular in their Examinations. 
 , Harohy, in anfwer to this, totally denies 
 
 C 103 ) 
 
 made is juftly fufpefted to have been committed] 
 
 in the slfter-mttrther of feveral (viz. ofl 
 Meake and Hawley, &c.) to prevent a De-J 
 teftion of diis. 
 
 Though the Government heretofore had I 
 received private Intimations, and in Print j 
 publick Applications for a Pardon, and ] 
 thereupon a Promife of a full Difcovery ; I 
 and in both thefe the Duke of Tork parti- \ 
 cularly charged , as the chief Contriver of \ 
 this Horrid Cruelty, yet the then Govern- 
 ment would never permit fuch an Inquifi- 
 tion to be made, but puniflied thofe that 
 difperfed thofe publick Challenges. Had 
 His Highnefs been really Innocent, none 
 would have been more Zealous for fuch a 
 Proclamation of Pardon, For Innocence de- 
 
 all, and protefts that he was not nigh the fires a Tryal, and it's only Guilt t fiat flies from 
 
 Jury in the Viftualling-houfe all the time 
 rhejury fate, though moft of the Jury can 
 
 "Juflice. Another Argument of this Murder, 
 and likewife of Major Webjlers Guilt there- 
 
 fay the contrary ; and as for the fuggefting in, is Webfters producing my Lord's Pocket- 
 Self-murder to be my Lord's Principle, he handkerchief all Bloody to fome of his 
 didproteft he did never hear it faid to be Neighbours, rejoycing at the Blood of a 
 
 my Lord's Principle, till their Lordlhips 
 in this Committee told him it had been fo 
 declared. This clearly proves, that the 
 pretended Principle of Self-murder, was a 
 
 Traytor; and the very next day, to fome 
 of the fame Perfons, he produced part of 
 the Price of Blood, viz. a Purfe of Gold, 
 wherein there was 49 Guinea's and.aPiftole, 
 
 Forgery of that Bloody Party which mur- which he fhewed in great Oftentation ; but 
 
 dered my Lord, and Ha-ssly pitched upon 
 as the moft proper Perfon to corrupt the 
 Jury with the belief of it. 
 
 The backwardnefs of the then Government 
 from examining into this Matter, and their 
 unjuft Proceedings againft the Profecution, 
 (for they Difcouraged, Profecuted, and Ru- 
 ined him who did humbly offer the Matter 
 to a Judicial Confideration,though no Crime 
 or Colour of Offence was proved againft him) 
 is farther Evidence of this Murther. 
 
 The Government turned the Old Edwards 
 out of his place, for what his Son faid in 
 this Matter , and hereby inverted the old 
 Proverb , For here the Sons eating Sower 
 Grapes, h#d fct the Father's Teeth on edge. 
 
 A poor Soldier was barbaroufly Whipt 
 (after he had been cruelly managed in 
 Prifon) for only faying, That he would not 
 fay, he did believe the Earl of Eflex eut his 
 nrren Throat : But a more barbarous Cruelty 
 
 all this was but a Imall part of that Vil- 
 lainous Reward ; for fome time after my 
 Lord's Death,when his Wife was upbraided 
 with her Husband's Poverty, fhe replied, 
 Her Husband longjince teas not fo fcor, for he 
 had 5 oo Guinea s ; at which the other being 
 ftartled, anfwered, moji certainly he could not 
 come by them Houeftly : To which it was 
 faid, That he got them by his Trade: But to 
 that it was replied, That his Trade could 
 hardly get Bread : Therefore there muft be 
 fome other way. 
 
 L. The Wife might fpeak truth, for his 
 Trade, viz. Murther, in which it is fup- 
 pofed he hath been more than once con- 
 cerned, might get it, which Trade the 
 Wife might mean, though the other mif- 
 underftood her. 
 
 T. That his Wife was not a Stranger to 
 his Guilt, appears by her often telling him 
 (upon her hard ufage ) That he was a Fool
 
 -.-cilas a Rogue, to ufe her fe very ///, reith- 
 
 mwhofe fewer ke veil Inew it Teas, to Hang 
 
 ^-toth him and another in the Tower. Another 
 
 ance of this kind there happened, when 
 
 es and his Wife (fome time after my 
 
 Lord's Death) quarrelled ; Homes abufing 
 
 hfber, fhe told him, He was a murderous Rogue, 
 
 \i\and he muft well know that foe could at any 
 
 * bang him for it. To which Homes an- 
 
 .red [with his ufiial Scurrilous Lan- 
 
 u guage) You Bitch, ,'m Wkort, you of aU the 
 
 Worid have vo rcajw to fycak, }or do not you 
 
 \ remember I lough yo-i^ a ^aod Sattin Gown and 
 
 >icoat : Whereupon the Wife replied, 
 
 i To'u are a munk-- )<g kcgue'far all that. 
 
 G. When Thieves fall o\it, Honeft Men 
 know what is become of their Goods. 
 
 L. W^W not this Woman of a loofe 
 Charakr ; and bigotted to that Bloody Re- 
 >>n, which in iuch Cafes efteem Murder 
 Mcr'iorious; thii Gown would have been 
 a cciiilant Mtrfanto of that Blood, for the 
 Concealment whereof, this Garment (in 
 
 fart) was given. 
 
 ( T. Sir, I have, as briefly as I well could, 
 ( complied with your requeft,and I hope you 
 ? .ire now convinced of your former Miftake. 
 n G. I do allure you I am, and I give you 
 P many thanks for this great Satisfaction, and 
 J fliall endeavour, what in me lies, to refcue 
 
 the Memory of this Right Honourable Lord, 
 from that difhonourable, undeferved Im- 
 putation of Self-murder, by laying the Guile 
 at that door which feems mod deferring ; 
 and though herein I may dilpleafe Ibme of 
 my moft intimate Acquaintance, yet I 
 think in JufKce I ftand bound to unde- 
 ceive many of their miftake in this Self-mur- 
 der : Efpecially when thefe, through what 
 I have declared, have been deceived in this 
 Matter; and whatfoever my former opi- 
 nion may have been, through Mifinfor- 
 mation, it is now fuch, that none living 
 fhall more cordially Pray , That the God of 
 jujlice, who hath fo many timti remarkably 
 appeared in the DeteBion and Pumjhment of 
 Blood, may eminently manifcfl himfelf in the 
 full Difcovery and jufl Punijbment <jf all Con- 
 trivers, ^cforfj sliders and Abettors herein ; 
 and hkewife that all Concealers of what they 
 know in this matter, and all fuch as endeavour 
 to ftifle or frufirctte this Juft Profecutun, may 
 be made exemplary in this World ; in order to 
 which, may that only jitft and Wife God (whofe 
 are every good and perfect Gift) four down 
 r.pon our Senators, fuch a Spirit of IVifdom, as 
 may confyicuoufy deteft every Arcana ef this 
 Blood-thirfly and moft barbarous Murder, vitt 
 all its vile and ajionifowg Dependences. 
 L. Amen.
 
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