Slingsby Bethell, Esq., his enquiry after William Baly the only witness against him upon the tryal of the riot, at Guild-Hall, on the 8th of May, 1683. Bethel, Slingsby, 1617-1697. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A27536 of text R24851 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing B2063). 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 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A27536 Wing B2063 ESTC R24851 08622246 ocm 08622246 41475 2264207420

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A27536) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 41475) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1246:19) Slingsby Bethell, Esq., his enquiry after William Baly the only witness against him upon the tryal of the riot, at Guild-Hall, on the 8th of May, 1683. Bethel, Slingsby, 1617-1697. 1 sheet. Printed by J. Grantham, London : 1683. Caption title. Signed: Slingsby Bethell. Imprint from colophon. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng Baly, William. Witnesses -- Great Britain. False testimony -- Great Britain. eebo Slingisby Bethell, Esq; his enquiry after William Baly, the only witness against him, upon the tryal of the riot, at Guild-Hall, on the 8th of May, 16 Bethel, Slingsby, 1683 2 538 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. 2006-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2006-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-02 Sampled and proofread 2006-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Slingisby Bethell , Esq HIS ENQUIRY AFTER WILLIAM BALY , The only WITNESS against him , upon the TRYAL of the RIOT , at GVILD-HALL , on the 8th of May , 1683.

WHereas on Tuesday the 8th of May , 1683. At a Tryal held at Guild-Hall London , Several persons were by a Jury found Guilty of a Riot , committed on the 24th of June , 1682. In not departing from the said Hall , upon the Lord Mayor his adjourning there by Proclaimation , the Pole , which was then on Foot , for the choise of Sheriffs for London and Middlesex for the year ensuing .

And Whereas Slingisby Bethell of London , Esq is named in the Information as guilty of the said Riot , in not departing from Guild-Hall , after the Lord Mayor his said adjournment by Proclaimation ; And whereas upon the Oath of one , by the name of William Baly , that the said Bethell did not depart according to the Proclaimation , but stayed there after the same , he was found guilty by the said Jury . Now the said Bethell , not only knowing himself not guilty , but being also able to prove the same , and by several credible Witnesses , that he was at the time of the Adjornement in another place , and from thence went home , without ever coming at Guild-Hall or the Yard that Evening , hath endeavoured by all manner of ways to find out the said William Baly who swore against him , but cannot learn from whence he came , nor whither he is gone ; he the said Bethell , doth therefore hereby Challenge the said William Baly to appear , and either to make good his Oath against him in the Face of the World , or confess his mistake , and clear him thereof ; and in order thereunto , to leave word where he is to be found , either at the House called Garraways Coffee-House in the Exchange-Ally , or at Kid's Coffee-House , both near the Royal-Exchange ; otherwise the said Bethell will hope to be reckoned guiltless , and the said William Baly to have rashly sworn that which he was mistaken in , and cannot Justifie .

And now upon the whole , it may be observed , that there being at the aforesaid Adjournment ( as is thought ) at least One thousand persons in the Hall , whereof several Hundreds of them , may well be supposed to know the person of the said Bethell , especially the Lord Mayors Officers , and Servants , by his having been lately Sheriff of London and Middlesex : If he the said Bethell had been really in the Hall or Yard , at , or after the said adjournment , there could not have wanted a Croud of Witnesses to prove the same , instead of having the Proof thereof , to depend upon the Testimony of a Single person , that is not to be found .

SLINGISBY BETHELL .

LONDON : Printed , by J. Grantham , Anno. Dom. 1683.