An Account of the proceedings against Francis Charleton, Esq., at the Kings-Bench-Bar, Westminster, on Tuesday the 7th of May, 1689, upon an information of high-treason, of which he was acquitted, &c. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A25640 of text R340 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing A347). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A25640 Wing A347 ESTC R340 11776571 ocm 11776571 48948 2248525001

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A25640) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 48948) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 3:2) An Account of the proceedings against Francis Charleton, Esq., at the Kings-Bench-Bar, Westminster, on Tuesday the 7th of May, 1689, upon an information of high-treason, of which he was acquitted, &c. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by D.M. ..., London : 1689. eng Charlton, Francis -- Trials, litigation, etc. Trials (Treason) -- England -- London. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo An account of the proceedings against Francis Charleton Esq; at the Kings-Bench-Bar, Westminster, on Tuesday the 7th of May, 1689. Upon an information Charlton, Francis 1689 1 517 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-11 Sampled and proofread 2008-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
An ACCOUNT of the PROCEEDINGS AGAINST Francis Charleton Esq At the Kings-Bench-Bar , WESTMINSTER , On Tuesday the 7th of May , 1689. Upon an Information of HIGH-TREASON , Of which He was Acquitted , &c.

FRancis Charleton Esq having Reversed an Outlawry of High-Treason sued out against him in the Reign of the Late King , and prayed , That he might have a Legal Tryal at the King's-Bench-Bar ; And , upon his Arraignment , pleading Not Guilty to the Information : The Tryal commenced on the 7th Instant , when , about Ten in the Morning , the Court being sat , the Cryer made Proclamation for Mr. Francis Charleton to render himself , who accordingly appeared , and then Proclamation for any that would come and give Evidence . Whereupon the Clerk of the Crown proceeded to swear the Jury , being all substantial Gentlemen of the County of Middlesex , who were sworn without any Challenge or Exception . Then being directed to take Notice of the Prisoner , and hearken to his Cause , the Information was read , charging him the said Francis Charleton , together with Sir Thomas Armstrong , and divers others , with conspiring to compass the Death of King Charles II. levying War , and subverting the Government , &c. in the Parish of St. Giles's in the Fields in the County of Middlesex , on the 30th of May , in the 35th Year of the Reign of the said King.

This Information read in Form and Manner , but in Particulars as aforesaid , the Court ordered the Cryer to call the Witnesses , and accordingly the Lord Grey of Wark , and Richard Goodenough were called ; but , after some stay , they not appearing , or answering , the Court proceeded to give the Charge to this purpose : That whereas Francis Charleton , the Prisoner at the Bar , stood charged of High-Treason by Overt-Act , &c. and having put himself upon his Tryal , no Witness appearing against him , they must acquit him , unless they had any thing of their own knowledge to charge him with , &c.

Then the Clerk of the Crown asking the Jury , after they had , had a short Conference at the Bar , Whether they were agreed in their Verdict ? And they answering in the Affirmative , requiring the Foreman might speak for them , he further proceeded , and demanded , Whether Francis Charleton Esq the Prisoner at the Bar , was Guilty of the High-Treason whereof he stood charged in the Information , or that he fled for the same ? To which the Foreman , in the Name of the rest , replied , That he was not Guilty , nor that he did flie for it . Whereupon Mr. Charleton , having paid his Respect in making Obeisance , departed the Court.

Licens'd , May 7th : 1689.

London , Printed by D. M. near Fleet-bridge . 1689.