AN
ACCOUNT
Of
the
Pretended
Prince
of
Wales
,
&c.
THere
is
nothing
more
certain
,
then
that
the
Protestants
of
England
,
who
have
most
constantly
adher'd
to
the
Truth
of
their
Religion
and
established
Government
of
the
Realm
,
have
been
all
along
harass'd
and
oppress'd
by
the
Persecution
of
the
Papists
,
upheld
by
the
Supream
Authority
.
Numerous
were
the
Illegalities
imposed
upon
them
,
contrary
to
their
Consciences
,
and
unless
they
would
comply
with
unlawful
and
arbitrary
Commands
,
they
were
removed
from
their
Benefices
and
Employments
.
Many
that
ne're
offended
against
the
Law
,
were
unduly
prosecuted
,
and
deprived
of
their
Rihgts
and
Livelihoods
in
their
Churches
and
Colledges
,
and
sentenced
by
arbitrary
Courts
.
In
Cities
and
Towns
the
People
were
denied
the
free
Election
of
their
Magistrates
and
Officers
,
who
were
put
in
and
turn'd
out
at
pleasure
,
till
such
were
met
with
who
were
ready
to
comply
with
the
Popish
Designs
.
The
Laws
provided
for
the
Security
of
the
Protestant
Religion
and
the
Peoples
Liberties
,
were
trodden
under
foot
by
a
pretended
Dispensive
Power
,
by
which
the
Foundations
of
the
Peoples
Properties
and
Liberties
were
quite
taken
away
,
and
subjected
to
Arbitrary
Will
and
Pleasure
.
The
Militia
of
the
Kingdom
was
put
into
the
Hands
of
such
whom
the
Laws
of
the
Land
have
rendered
uncapable
,
and
all
by
Colour
of
that
Dispensing
Power
,
to
the
great
Terror
of
the
Protestants
,
finding
themselves
at
the
Mercy
of
their
declared
and
mortal
Enemies
;
which
Terrors
,
were
not
a
little
augmented
by
the
maintaining
and
quartering
up
and
down
the
Kingdom
,
a
great
Army
of
Irish
Papists
and
other
Mercenaries
,
in
a
time
of
Peace
and
general
Repose
.
All
Execution
of
Laws
made
against
Popish
Priests
and
Jesuites
,
and
to
prevent
the
Mischiefs
apprehended
from
their
Plots
and
Contrivances
,
were
actually
prohibited
,
and
what
those
Laws
adjudged
to
be
Treason
in
a
high
Degree
,
was
cancell'd
and
rendred
invalid
by
that
pretended
Dispensing
Power
;
so
that
they
who
were
Criminals
by
several
Statutes
of
the
Realm
,
walk'd
baresac'd
in
the
Streets
without
controul
.
A
stop
was
also
put
to
the
free
Course
of
Justice
,
and
the
Judges
,
of
whom
,
many
have
greatly
assisted
the
Popish
Designs
,
put
in
and
out
till
they
made
the
Law
speak
Condemnation
or
Acquittal
at
the
Pleasure
of
the
Court
.
By
all
which
it
appears
,
that
there
was
a
publick
Design
countenanced
and
upheld
by
the
King
,
to
overturn
the
whole
Frame
of
both
the
Civil
and
Ecclesiastical
Government
of
the
Kingdom
,
by
depriving
the
People
of
their
undoubted
Right
of
Freedom
to
elect
their
Deputies
in
Parliament
,
who
are
to
act
in
their
Behalf
for
the
making
and
repealing
of
Laws
.
For
in
regard
that
by
the
free
Government
of
England
,
no
Laws
can
bind
either
the
Persons
or
Properties
of
the
People
,
but
such
as
are
agreed
to
by
the
joynt
Consent
,
as
well
of
the
Subject
as
of
the
Prince
;
there
by
antient
Statutes
of
the
Realm
,
it
is
most
carefully
provided
,
that
the
Elections
of
Parliament
Men
shall
be
so
free
,
that
neither
the
King
himself
,
nor
any
other
Person
shall
presume
to
disturb
or
interrupt
their
free
Course
.
So
that
if
any
Election
should
happen
to
be
carried
,
either
by
Commands
or
Threatnings
,
by
underhand
Solicitations
,
or
promised
Bribes
of
Favours
or
Rewards
,
the
same
shall
be
utterly
void
;
and
the
Persons
electing
are
to
be
no
way
byassed
,
and
so
to
carry
themselves
at
the
Time
and
Place
of
Election
,
as
may
administer
no
occasion
of
Mistrust
.
But
in
defiance
of
these
Laws
,
the
Popish
Party
of
late
have
made
it
their
Business
by
all
ways
and
means
,
to
overturn
,
and
utterly
eradicate
all
the
Franchises
,
Charters
and
Priviledges
of
the
several
Cities
and
Boroughs
of
England
,
by
whom
the
greatest
part
of
the
Commons
are
chosen
,
on
purpose
to
subject
those
Corporations
to
the
Kings
Will
and
Pleasure
,
and
to
oblige
them
,
as
his
Dependants
,
to
serve
his
Popish
and
Arbitrary
Designs
,
while
they
that
refused
to
comply
,
were
turned
out
of
their
Places
to
make
room
for
Papasts
,
or
any
that
would
fell
themselves
to
serve
the
Popish
Interest
.
However
,
that
there
might
not
want
pretence
of
Law
for
the
overwhelming
of
the
Government
,
Writs
of
Quo
Warranto
were
issu'd
forth
against
all
the
most
considerable
Cities
and
Corporations
of
the
Realm
,
without
any
Cause
or
Ground
of
Offence
.
At
what
time
,
Instruments
were
not
wanting
at
the
same
Conjuncture
,
to
manage
the
Magistrates
with
the
Kings
Displeasure
,
if
they
appear'd
to
be
so
hardy
,
as
to
insist
upon
their
own
Defence
,
or
offered
to
go
to
Law
with
the
King
for
the
maintaining
of
their
just
Rights
and
Priviledges
;
so
that
several
were
scared
with
the
Excess
of
the
Changes
,
and
the
certainty
of
being
cast
at
length
,
and
surrendered
their
Charters
,
rather
than
oppose
the
Current
of
Compulsion
that
ran
so
violently
against
them
.
For
it
is
notorious
,
that
the
Popish
prevailing
Party
had
their
Judges
ready
fix'd
to
over-rule
whatever
Pleas
the
Towns
or
Cities
could
make
in
defence
of
their
Rights
;
of
which
,
London
it self
was
a
remarkable
President
.
And
such
Judges
as
could
not
in
Conscience
condescend
to
cancel
such
Ancient
Records
of
the
former
English
Monarchs
Immunities
and
Favours
,
were
presently
casheer'd
.
While
those
other
Judges
that
succeeded
,
being
more
easily
poyson'd
with
the
Lustre
of
Gain
and
Honour
,
made
nothing
of
illegal
Sentences
,
to
comply
with
their
Popsh
Patrons
,
to
the
Enflaming
of
their
native
Country
,
while
the
Magistrates
of
all
the
chief
Corporations
of
the
Kingdom
,
were
now
become
wholly
dependant
upon
the
Kings
Pleasure
.
But
besides
these
publick
Violences
offered
to
the
setled
Constitutions
of
Cities
and
Corporations
,
the
Vertue
and
Constancy
of
private
Persons
has
been
endeavour'd
to
be
shaken
by
the
promis'd
Favours
and
menacing
Aw
of
Majesty
it self
,
while
the
Knack
of
Closetting
was
used
to
make
Men
prostitute
their
Voices
for
Elections
,
in
compliance
with
the
Popish
Designs
,
and
none
were
thought
fit
to
hold
Offices
and
Employments
,
but
such
as
would
surrender
up
their
own
,
and
the
Freedoms
of
others
,
to
facilitate
the
Intreagues
of
Popery
.
The
Lords
Lieutenants
of
the
several
Counties
also
,
and
a
Crew
of
strange
Commissioners
,
no
less
odly
instructed
,
were
sent
into
the
several
Sheirs
,
to
corrupt
,
if
possible
they
could
,
both
the
Gentry
and
Commonalty
,
to
give
their
Voices
for
the
Electing
such
Members
,
for
a
packt
Parliament
,
as
they
knew
would
be
most
ready
to
annul
the
Penal
Laws
and
Tests
,
the
chiefest
Securities
of
our
establish'd
Religion
and
the
only
agreeable
Means
to
prevent
the
Dangers
and
Mischiefs
threatned
by
the
pernicious
Doctrines
and
Practises
of
the
Church
of
Rome
.
By
such
means
as
these
it
was
intended
that
the
Tests
and
all
Penal
Laws
made
against
the
Popish
Priests
and
Jesuits
,
and
extending
Punishments
and
Forfeitures
against
all
other
Papists
,
acting
against
the
Government
,
should
have
been
all
abolished
by
a
packt
Number
of
Men
elected
contrary
to
the
native
Rights
and
Priviledges
of
the
Nation
,
under
the
Name
of
a
Parliament
.
That
so
the
Papists
being
at
full
Liberty
,
might
usurp
what
they
pleased
,
without
fear
of
being
troubled
or
questioned
for
it
,
upon
the
Freedom
,
Properties
and
Estates
of
the
Protestants
.
For
what
would
the
Laws
of
England
signifie
,
when
the
Popes
Canons
should
be
publickly
maintain'd
to
be
above
them
.
For
Masshouses
,
Convents
of
Monks
,
and
Provincial
Bishops
,
were
not
only
tolerated
,
but
openly
upheld
in
defiance
of
the
Law
,
and
things
were
already
carried
to
that
height
,
that
there
was
no
possibility
of
ever
obtaining
a
free
Parliament
,
considering
the
present
Alterations
in
the
Cities
and
Corporations
,
the
Persons
of
the
Sheriffs
and
other
Officers
,
all
fitting
for
their
Purposes
,
or
else
in
a
readiness
to
be
turn'd
out
,
and
the
Condition
of
those
whose
Right
it
is
to
Elect
,
who
lay
under
the
unhappy
Circumstances
of
being
deprived
of
their
Freedom
in
Elections
,
and
were
threatned
with
the
Kings
Displeasure
,
and
subjected
to
several
other
Inconveniences
and
Losses
of
Offices
and
Preferments
,
if
they
refus'd
to
accept
of
such
Persons
as
had
treacherously
promised
and
undertaken
to
repeal
the
Established
Laws
of
the
Kingdom
against
the
Papists
.
Amongst
whom
,
it
is
a
Maxim
,
that
the
Protestants
are
not
capable
to
claim
any
Benefit
or
Advantage
of
any
Treaties
,
Oaths
or
Engagements
made
them
by
any
Popish
Prince
.
For
indeed
there
is
nothing
so
terrible
to
the
Popish
Party
,
as
the
frequent
Assembling
of
Free
Parliaments
in
England
.
And
therefore
it
was
that
the
King
of
France
,
who
had
entered
into
a
Design
,
at
his
first
coming
to
his
Crown
,
to
abolish
the
Protestant
Religion
,
and
root
it
out
of
the
World
,
under
the
Name
of
the
Northern
Heresie
,
was
so
very
liberal
to
the
late
King
,
to
allow
him
a
Pension
of
five
hundred
thousand
Pounds
a
year
,
to
keep
off
the
Meeting
of
Free
Parliaments
,
as
appears
by
Letters
,
acknowledged
by
the
late
King
,
to
have
been
written
by
his
own
Order
.
Nor
was
England
only
,
the
Theater
of
the
Plots
and
Contrivances
of
the
Popish
Priests
and
Jesuits
in
those
times
,
their
deep
Designs
reach'd
even
to
the
Subversion
of
the
United
Provinces
,
because
they
were
such
a
continual
Sanctuary
to
the
Protestants
.
To
which
purpose
,
as
it
is
well
known
to
all
the
World
,
by
the
continual
Workings
of
the
Popsh
Party
,
the
late
King
was
drawn
in
to
make
an
Agreement
with
the
King
of
France
,
to
have
subdued
and
shar'd
the
united
Netherlands
.
Nor
did
those
two
Confederate
Princes
stick
to
make
Proposals
even
to
his
Highness
the
Prince
of
Orange
himself
,
though
rejected
with
that
Scorn
and
Indignation
which
became
so
great
and
generous
a
Prince
:
And
as
the
Design
of
the
French
King
against
the
Protestants
was
general
,
so
was
he
no
less
Sedulous
to
scatter
his
Pensions
among
the
chief
Ministers
in
the
Courts
of
Sweden
and
Brandenburgh
,
and
of
all
other
Princes
that
stood
fast
to
the
Protestant
Religion
.
But
the
main
of
his
Pious
Liberality
,
was
in
his
Expences
upon
the
late
King
of
England
,
and
his
chief
Favourites
and
Counsellers
,
who
made
no
scruple
to
assist
in
the
secret
Contrivances
,
to
enfeeble
the
Protestant
Interest
,
and
to
advance
the
Grandeur
of
the
King
of
France
,
though
the
King
of
England
were
then
shy
of
joyning
openly
with
him
in
his
chief
Design
of
ruining
the
Protestants
,
for
fear
of
embroiling
himself
with
his
own
Subjects
at
Home
.
But
nothing
gave
a
greater
Check
to
the
French
Kings
Proceeding
at
that
time
,
then
the
Parliaments
Importunity
with
the
King
,
to
separate
himself
from
his
Joynt
Engagements
with
France
,
and
make
a
Peace
with
the
States
of
Holland
;
which
being
procured
,
broke
all
the
Measures
which
those
two
Princes
had
taken
before
;
and
compell'd
the
haughty
French
Man
to
desire
a
Truce
.
Nor
durst
he
after
that
,
adventure
to
display
himself
in
his
natural
Colours
,
till
he
saw
that
the
present
King
of
England
had
espoused
the
Popish
Interest
.
But
then
he
seton
foot
his
intended
Persecution
,
which
how
Cruel
,
Inhumane
and
Barbarous
it
was
,
the
publick
Relations
sufficiently
make
manifest
.
However
,
in
regard
the
See
of
Rome
has
always
deem'd
it
her
chiefest
Masterpiece
to
extirpate
the
Protestant
Religion
out
of
England
,
therefore
she
hath
made
it
her
chief
Study
,
and
employ'd
all
her
Craft
,
her
Politicks
and
Villanons
Inventions
,
to
bring
it
to
pass
in
this
Nation
;
to
which
end
,
she
thought
there
could
be
no
way
more
effectual
,
then
strictly
to
unite
the
two
Princes
,
now
both
of
the
same
Religion
together
that
with
united
Strength
and
Treasure
,
they
might
the
more
easily
be
enabled
to
bring
about
their
Grand
Design
.
And
indeed
the
French
President
,
was
too
exactly
followed
,
that
it
may
well
be
said
,
that
the
Methods
here
observed
,
were
the
same
with
those
which
had
been
taken
in
France
;
the
Invasion
of
the
Civil
Government
and
establish'd
Laws
,
and
the
very
Freedom
and
Essential
Being
of
Parliaments
,
successful
for
a
time
,
to
have
reduced
all
the
Officers
and
Magistrates
of
the
Kingdom
under
Subjection
to
Absolute
Will
and
Pleasure
.
And
who
could
otherwise
expect
,
but
that
the
Lives
and
Liberties
,
the
Estates
and
Properties
of
the
People
of
England
must
have
all
been
at
the
Kings
Disposal
,
when
the
Juries
were
so
corrupted
,
and
the
more
corrupt
Judges
and
Chancellor
so
entirely
at
his
Devotion
,
and
so
plung'd
in
acting
contrary
to
the
Law
,
that
they
could
be
no
where
safe
,
but
under
his
Protection
.
In
this
sad
and
desolate
Conjuncture
of
Affairs
,
wherein
the
Protestant
Religion
,
the
Ancient
Honour
and
Glory
of
the
English
Nation
,
the
Rights
,
Priviledges
,
Liberties
and
Properties
of
the
Native
Inhabitants
,
from
the
Highest
to
the
Lowest
,
were
all
going
to
rack
;
the
Peers
and
Persons
of
great
Quality
had
no
where
else
to
place
their
Hopes
and
Confidence
of
Delivery
from
Popish
Thraldom
,
but
in
her
Royal
Highness
,
as
being
Heir
Apparent
to
the
Crown
,
which
being
joyn'd
to
the
Celebrated
Vertue
,
and
Renown
which
attended
his
Highness
the
Prince
of
Orange
,
for
Military
Conduct
and
Heroick
Magnanimity
,
as
it
was
no
small
Consolation
to
the
English
Lords
,
so
did
it
no
less
tormoil
and
perplex
the
Councils
and
Deliberations
of
the
Papish
with
Terror
and
Consternation
;
which
made
them
enter
into
various
Consultations
to
ward
off
this
Threatning
Opposition
to
their
Designs
.
Some
proposed
the
obstructing
their
Highnesses
coming
to
the
Crown
by
such
fettring
Conditions
as
were
obtained
in
Parliament
in
the
Reigns
of
Queen
Mary
and
Queen
Elizabeth
,
which
the
Parliament
so
garbled
,
as
was
design'd
by
the
Kings
Power
,
would
readily
condescend
to
,
and
would
afterwards
be
strengthened
by
the
Papists
in
full
Possession
of
all
the
Strength
and
Authority
of
the
Realm
,
and
assisted
by
all
the
Forces
of
the
King
of
France
;
but
the
more
wary
Papists
not
liking
the
Aw
of
Mercenary
Force
,
and
French
Compulsion
,
to
bound
and
limit
the
Heiress
to
the
Imperial
Crown
of
England
,
proposed
that
the
King
should
make
use
of
his
Paternal
Authority
with
her
Royal
Highness
,
to
bring
her
off
to
the
Popish
Religion
,
or
else
to
perswade
her
to
have
more
moderate
Thoughts
concerning
it
,
or
else
to
grant
them
an
absolute
Toleration
.
If
this
Project
failed
yet
they
were
still
in
Hopes
that
his
Highness
the
Prince
of
Orange
might
be
wrought
upon
to
concur
with
the
Kings
Declarations
for
Liberty
of
Conscience
,
and
the
Repeal
of
the
Penal
Laws
and
Test
.
Not
believing
that
his
Highness
would
be
so
nice
as
to
make
any
strict
Inquisition
into
the
Ecclesiastical
Penal
Laws
,
enacted
so
many
hundred
years
ago
against
the
apparent
Usurpations
of
Rome
;
or
that
he
would
have
understood
that
the
Ecclesiastical
Penal
Laws
,
comprehend
the
most
evident
and
authentick
Declarations
,
if
that
they
are
to
be
produced
from
any
Records
of
the
Rights
belonging
to
the
Crown
of
England
,
of
the
ancient
Constitution
of
the
Government
,
and
of
the
Priviledges
that
appertain
,
as
well
to
the
People
;
and
that
therein
might
be
understood
the
Claims
and
Usurpations
of
the
See
of
Rome
,
which
occasioned
the
Enacting
those
Laws
to
preserve
the
Freedom
and
Priviledges
of
the
English
Nation
.
Nor
did
they
believe
that
his
Highness
would
have
discovered
the
Mischiefs
attending
the
Repeal
of
the
Ecclesiastical
Penal
Laws
;
seeing
that
the
meer
Enacting
the
Kings
Declaration
had
been
such
an
Establishment
of
Popery
,
that
the
Church
of
Rome
could
not
have
desired
a
Better
:
So
that
the
Popish
Councils
would
have
been
satified
with
his
Highnesses
Concurrence
;
of
which
they
thought
themselves
so
sure
,
that
the
Jesuits
gave
it
out
that
his
Highness
had
consented
,
and
that
the
King
and
his
Highness
understood
one
another
well
enough
.
However
,
these
Reports
were
soon
laid
asleep
,
and
talk'd
privately
about
at
Court
,
that
the
King
should
say
their
Highnesses
were
obstinate
in
their
Errors
,
and
that
he
would
put
himself
to
no
farther
trouble
about
them
,
but
that
it
should
be
the
worse
for
them
.
Nor
was
it
long
after
,
that
a
general
Rumor
was
spread
about
in
the
Town
,
that
the
Queen
was
with
Child
,
which
elevated
the
Papists
to
that
degree
,
that
they
began
to
insult
over
the
Protestants
,
and
spar'd
not
to
boast
,
that
though
it
were
a
Daughter
,
being
born
after
the
King
was
Crown'd
,
it
would
prevent
the
Succession
of
her
Royal
Highness
,
who
was
Born
when
the
King
was
only
Duke
.
But
the
Queens
being
with
Child
was
a
Story
believed
by
none
but
the
Papists
;
and
the
Protestants
were
the
more
confirmed
in
their
Mis-belief
by
the
Fable
of
the
Lady
of
Loretto
,
and
the
Dutchesses
of
Modena's
Applications
to
Heaven
in
her
Daughters
Behalf
,
and
every
Body
derided
and
lampoon'd
the
Mummery
,
which
they
look'd
upon
to
be
a
meer
Contrivance
of
the
Jesuits
.
Nevertheless
,
for
the
space
of
eight
or
nine
Months
,
the
Expectations
of
the
Queens
Delivery
were
such
,
that
the
Protestants
both
at
Home
and
Abroad
were
not
a
little
disheartned
,
apprehensive
of
the
Disappointment
of
her
Royal
Highness
;
and
the
Papists
greatly
incouraged
to
carry
on
their
Designs
with
more
Vigour
.
But
the
English
Lords
were
not
to
learn
how
well
vers'd
the
Priests
and
Jesuits
had
been
from
time
to
time
in
several
Ages
,
in
framing
such
Impostures
and
Forgeries
as
these
,
to
alter
the
Successions
of
Crowns
for
the
Service
of
their
Church
,
and
therefore
seeing
them
so
sedulously
laborious
to
rivet
a
Belief
of
the
Queens
being
with
Child
,
in
the
Minds
of
the
People
,
and
undertaking
to
give
them
prophetical
Assurrances
that
it
would
be
a
Son
;
these
double
Diligences
of
the
Priests
,
not
only
rais'd
,
but
confirm'd
the
Lords
in
their
Suspitions
,
that
there
might
be
a
Counterfeit
Son
imposed
upon
the
Kingdom
,
and
set
up
for
a
Prince
of
Wales
,
and
that
the
Priests
were
Actors
in
this
Farce
according
to
the
Parts
which
they
had
delivered
them
;
which
caused
the
Lords
to
determine
among
themselves
to
keep
Memorials
of
the
Carriage
of
the
whole
Contrivance
,
so
far
as
their
Information
would
give
them
leave
.
By
which
Observations
,
and
diligent
comparing
of
Circumstances
together
,
during
the
time
of
the
Queens
pretended
going
with
Child
,
and
Delivery
of
the
Male
Child
,
the
Lords
were
so
fully
convinced
of
the
Truth
of
what
they
suspected
,
that
they
no
longer
questioned
the
pretended
Prince
of
Wales
to
be
a
meer
Counterfeit
.
For
first
the
Fundamental
Rules
of
Equity
and
Justice
require
,
that
when
a
Child
is
to
be
born
,
which
immediately
upon
the
Birth
becomes
Heir
to
three
Kingdoms
,
and
at
the
same
time
disappoints
the
Hopes
of
an
Heiress
apparent
,
and
the
Expectances
of
several
other
Princes
of
the
Blood
,
it
is
absolutely
requisite
that
such
a
Child
be
born
of
the
Queens
Body
,
and
that
the
Birth
of
such
a
Child
be
attested
upon
their
certain
Knowledge
,
by
Witnesses
in
Number
answerable
to
the
Importance
of
the
Occasion
and
such
a
National
Concern
,
and
against
whom
there
cannot
be
the
least
Exception
made
for
their
Reputation
,
their
Vertue
,
their
Partiality
,
and
undeniable
Authority
,
sufficient
to
convince
the
whole
World
by
the
Weight
of
their
Testimony
.
For
such
is
the
Case
of
a
Male
Heir
to
the
Crown
of
England
,
that
no
sooner
is
a
Son
of
the
Queens
Body
born
of
her
Body
,
but
that
at
the
very
same
Minute
and
Instant
of
time
,
all
Pretensions
of
Right
and
Apparencies
in
any
other
Person
cease
,
how
strong
and
valid
soever
they
might
be
at
the
very
Moment
before
.
And
therefore
there
is
nothing
against
which
all
the
Laws
,
Civil
Justice
and
Government
more
charily
provide
,
then
against
the
Violation
of
Inheritances
.
And
therefore
the
Proofs
by
which
any
Person
is
disseized
of
an
Apparent
Right
,
must
be
so
certain
,
as
to
be
beyond
all
Contradiction
and
Controwl
.
Otherwise
it
is
a
positive
Breach
of
the
Law
of
God
,
and
of
all
that
is
Sacred
upon
Earth
,
a
Dissolution
of
all
Property
,
Civil
Justice
and
Government
,
to
invade
the
Apparent
and
Lawful
Right
of
any
Person
with
manifest
and
undeniable
Proof
a
Prince
or
Superior
Right
.
Here
then
was
her
Royal
Highness
Heir
Apparent
to
the
Crowns
of
England
,
Scotland
,
and
Ireland
,
in
probability
to
have
been
outed
of
her
Apparent
Right
,
by
the
pretended
Birth
of
a
Prince
of
Wales
.
It
was
therefore
mainly
requisite
,
considering
the
Suspisions
and
Jealousies
which
attended
the
Birth
of
this
Prince
of
Wales
,
that
he
should
have
been
born
in
the
Presence
of
the
Princes
of
the
Blood
,
the
Prelates
of
Highest
Ecclesiastical
Dignity
,
the
chiefest
of
the
Nobility
,
the
Officers
of
Highest
Trust
in
the
Nation
,
and
the
Embassadors
and
publick
Ministers
of
Forraign
States
and
Princes
.
So
that
the
Proofs
of
his
Birth
from
the
Body
of
the
Queen
,
might
have
been
so
undoubted
and
unquestionable
,
that
there
should
not
have
been
no
room
for
the
least
Appearance
of
Suspition
or
Contradiction
.
On
the
other
side
,
it
had
been
the
Opinion
of
the
World
for
some
time
,
that
the
Queens
Body
had
been
so
long
disabled
by
Sickness
and
Infirmities
,
that
she
was
not
in
a
Capacity
to
bring
forth
a
Son
.
According
to
the
Judgment
of
Dr.
Willis
,
who
upon
view
of
one
of
her
Children
,
declar'd
,
that
it
wanted
the
Foot
stocks
and
Ground-work
of
Life
.
Then
for
the
Generality
of
the
Nation
,
they
were
so
ill
satisfied
with
the
Queens
being
with
Child
,
notwithstanding
,
whatever
the
King
or
the
Queen
affirmed
of
themselves
,
that
hardly
one
in
two
hundred
believ'd
it
,
only
they
were
constant
in
this
,
that
they
universally
believ'd
it
to
be
a
Design
of
the
King
and
his
Popish
Councils
,
to
impose
a
Counterfeit
upon
the
Nation
.
Neither
was
it
a
thing
at
all
credited
in
the
Courts
of
Forreign
Princes
,
that
the
Queen
was
with
Child
;
but
rather
lookt
upon
as
a
treacherous
Contrivance
of
the
Priests
and
Jesuits
to
have
imposed
upon
the
Nation
,
to
fortifie
their
Party
by
the
Hopes
of
a
Popish
Succession
,
and
bring
unthinking
Protestants
into
the
same
Snare
.
All
Men
apprehended
that
the
Protestant
Religion
,
not
only
in
England
,
but
in
other
Forraign
Countries
,
would
be
much
endanger'd
,
or
else
secured
by
the
Queens
Delivery
,
or
not
Delivery
of
a
Son
;
and
that
the
Birth
of
a
Prince
of
Wales
,
would
be
a
great
Disappointment
to
the
just
Rights
and
Pretensions
of
such
Princes
and
Princesses
who
had
before
his
Birth
a
lawful
Claim
to
no
less
than
three
Imperial
Crowns
;
besides
that
,
it
menac'd
England
with
the
Calamity
of
falling
under
an
Infant
Chimera
of
a
Prince
,
or
rather
,
and
more
truly
,
under
the
Tyranny
of
Rome
it self
.
Which
being
the
Consequences
which
would
necessarily
have
follow'd
upon
the
Advancement
and
Establishment
of
this
Supposititious
Prince
of
Wales
,
never
equall'd
or
heard
of
before
in
story
upon
the
Birth
of
any
Prince
in
the
Earth
,
certainly
common
Justice
in
General
,
and
the
Customs
of
England
,
there
should
have
been
such
undoubted
Proofs
that
the
Counterfit
Prince
was
Born
of
the
Queen's
Body
,
as
should
have
admitted
no
objection
,
but
answered
every
Circumstance
,
and
suffic'd
to
have
vanquish'd
not
only
the
jealousies
and
suspicions
of
the
People
of
England
,
but
of
all
other
Forraign
Nations
.
To
which
purpose
that
the
Women
of
spotless
Integrity
should
have
given
Testimony
of
their
personal
view
of
the
self
same
individual
Child's
being
really
and
bona
fide
delivered
and
issuing
according
to
the
course
of
Nature
,
from
the
Queen's
Womb
.
And
that
the
men
should
have
been
enabl'd
to
make
their
Attestations
upon
occular
view
of
the
naked
Infant
withal
the
marks
upon
it
of
immediate
separation
from
the
Womb
,
by
the
Assistance
of
Physitians
and
Women
of
experience
;
and
in
a
word
,
that
the
testimonies
of
both
Sexes
should
have
been
answerable
in
greatness
of
Birth
and
Grandeur
of
Reputation
and
Authority
to
the
occasion
in
dispute
,
the
Persons
controverted
,
and
the
vast
extent
of
that
good
or
mischief
which
might
have
prov'd
the
consequence
of
all
:
Matrons
of
experience
,
probity
and
gravity
:
Persons
publickly
known
to
the
Kingdom
,
and
not
pitiful
obscure
Italians
and
French
that
scarce
were
ever
heard
of
either
in
this
or
any
other
Country
.
For
seeing
there
was
never
such
an
impending
necessity
to
have
clear'd
this
difficult
point
,
and
to
dispel
those
jealousies
and
mistrusts
,
which
gave
a
greater
Alarum
to
the
Nation
then
ever
was
given
since
the
first
founding
of
this
Monarchy
;
certainly
it
highly
concern'd
the
King
and
Queen
to
have
made
use
of
the
most
Noble
and
dignify'd
testimonies
that
were
in
the
Land
,
in
regard
that
the
Law
requiring
it
,
the
only
way
to
satisfie
the
Subject
;
is
to
satisfie
the
Law
.
Which
had
also
been
a
satisfaction
to
Justice
no
less
to
be
satisfy'd
,
seeing
that
the
Birth
of
a
counterfit
Prince
,
was
to
have
devested
her
by
an
Imposture
of
her
Apparent
right
of
inheritance
.
Then
again
,
it
was
not
a
little
admired
,
why
the
King
,
who
well
understood
that
the
Laws
and
Customs
of
England
requir'd
a
fit
and
competant
number
of
Witnesses
,
and
a
far
greater
number
in
this
case
,
where
the
conception
of
the
Queen
was
lookt
upon
by
the
Universality
of
the
Nation
,
as
a
Fictitious
peice
of
Mochery
,
and
were
almost
absolutely
confirm'd
that
a
counterfit
Prince
was
to
be
impos'd
upon
the
Nation
,
should
produce
so
small
a
number
▪
and
those
many
of
them
so
obscure
and
little
known
to
the
World
,
that
their
names
were
hardly
heard
of
before
,
and
therefore
since
the
maximes
and
reasons
of
the
English
Law
,
are
so
severe
in
case
of
a
Child
pretended
to
be
set
up
to
the
Exclusion
of
an
Apparent
Heir
,
and
that
there
was
such
great
cause
in
this
case
of
the
Queen
,
and
the
pretended
Prince
of
Wales
,
to
suspect
a
Forgery
and
an
Imposition
upon
the
three
Nations
,
in
regard
there
was
no
notice
given
to
the
Heir
Apparent
,
of
the
time
when
this
pretended
Heir
was
to
come
into
the
World
,
nor
to
any
other
who
had
Titles
in
Expectancy
,
it
was
an
Inference
concluded
from
the
Rules
and
Maxims
of
the
English
Law
,
which
requires
sufficient
Proof
to
put
the
matter
of
Fact
out
of
doubt
,
that
the
Witnesses
of
the
Birth
of
the
suppos'd
Prince
of
Wales
,
ought
not
to
be
beleived
,
since
they
who
were
to
make
good
the
Claim
of
the
supposed
Prince
,
had
time
sufficient
to
have
given
due
notice
to
the
Parties
concern'd
,
and
to
have
had
Witnesses
of
that
Reputation
,
as
might
have
put
the
Birth
of
the
supposed
Prince
quite
out
of
Dispute
.
And
indeed
it
would
have
been
but
ordinary
prudence
to
have
a
numerous
Train
of
Witnesses
,
and
those
of
different
Honors
,
dignities
and
Interests
;
since
it
could
never
have
been
imagin'd
that
so
considerable
a
number
of
Testimonies
of
both
Sexes
,
so
considerable
for
their
Quality
and
Integrity
and
all
various
in
their
Offices
,
and
dignities
could
ever
have
entered
into
a
Confederacy
to
cheat
the
Nation
with
a
St.
Martions
Prince
,
and
be
so
true
one
to
another
in
such
an
unjust
and
wicked
peice
of
Fraud
.
On
the
other
side
,
the
Law
admits
no
Man
or
Woman
to
be
a
witness
that
take
a
Bribe
of
Money
or
Preferment
,
or
any
other
Emolument
to
engage
themselves
in
an
Oath
.
More
especially
will
it
not
permit
any
Person
or
Persons
to
be
witnesses
concerning
the
Birth
of
this
Fictitious
Prince
of
Wales
,
who
were
in
hopes
or
Expectation
of
any
preferment
,
Offices
or
advantages
by
vertue
of
his
Grandeur
.
Nor
any
Person
or
Persons
that
have
so
much
their
dependance
upon
the
Fosterers
,
and
Setters
up
of
this
suppos'd
Prince
of
Wales
,
that
they
dare
not
displease
them
for
fear
of
loosing
their
places
.
Nor
any
Person
or
Persons
who
are
commonly
reputed
or
by
Proof
may
be
made
appear
to
have
any
enmity
,
or
prejudice
against
Her
Highness
,
with
whom
the
Counterfeit
Prince
chiefly
stands
in
Competition
,
it
being
an
unanswerable
exception
against
such
,
that
they
are
mortal
Enemies
to
Her
and
the
Protestant
Religion
,
which
she
professes
.
Neither
will
the
Laws
of
the
Land
allow
the
Testimony
,
or
Declaration
of
the
King
and
the
Queen
in
this
of
the
supposed
Prince
of
Wales
.
For
that
if
they
might
be
sufficient
Proofs
in
their
own
causes
they
might
be
as
well
sufficient
Judges
,
besides
that
if
the
Kings
Affirmation
should
be
allow'd
by
the
Law
of
the
Land
,
sufficient
to
make
a
Prince
of
Wales
without
such
a
number
of
Competent
witnesses
as
by
the
Law
are
requir'd
,
it
would
be
an
overturning
of
the
Constitutions
of
the
English
Monarchy
,
especially
in
Matters
of
Fact
by
which
an
injury
may
be
done
to
another
.
In
like
manner
neither
can
the
King
by
the
Rules
and
regulations
of
the
Law
,
at
his
will
and
pleasure
alter
the
Succession
of
the
Crown
of
England
,
or
so
order
it
that
the
Crown
shall
not
descend
to
the
next
in
Blood
.
So
that
if
the
Kings
Sole
Affirmation
of
this
Suppositious
Princes
Blood
,
what
any
farther
Proof
,
were
sufficient
to
bind
the
belief
of
the
Nation
,
his
bare
Affirmation
would
then
actually
extend
to
put
by
and
frustrate
the
succession
of
the
next
Heir
,
and
submit
it
to
the
pleasure
of
the
King
.
But
the
next
Lawful
Successour
is
Heir
to
the
Kindom
by
vertue
of
the
Law
it self
,
and
cannot
be
defeated
of
his
Right
of
succession
by
any
Act
of
the
Preceding
Prince
,
and
for
the
King
to
plead
that
these
things
came
not
into
his
mind
or
that
he
was
ignorant
of
them
,
could
be
no
satisfaction
to
the
Kingdom
in
such
a
case
as
this
,
where
the
Laws
and
Customs
of
England
,
were
positive
and
requir'd
clear
and
Demonstrable
Proofs
such
as
have
been
already
mention'd
of
the
Birth
of
the
supposed
Prince
.
But
there
were
other
personal
Circumstances
to
prove
the
Queens
not
being
with
Child
,
as
being
the
particular
Symptoms
,
that
always
accompany
pregnant
Women
.
For
it
was
discovered
upon
very
good
assurances
that
she
never
had
the
most
usual
,
the
most
natural
and
common
Symptoms
of
Conception
:
Her
Monstruum's
continu'd
their
natural
Course
and
Periods
without
any
stop
at
the
usual
times
,
and
that
all
the
while
she
pretended
to
be
with
Child
:
or
did
she
conceal
the
having
her
Terms
upon
the
Road
to
the
Bath
,
nay
that
she
had
them
still
for
some
days
after
the
King
took
his
leave
of
her
in
that
place
.
Nor
was
it
possible
for
her
afterwards
,
not
withstanding
all
the
Arts
and
Industry
she
made
use
of
,
to
prevent
them
from
appearing
in
the
Seasons
of
Nature
:
in
regard
those
Secrets
must
be
known
to
more
then
could
be
made
privy
to
the
Contrivance
.
Now
for
want
of
this
same
usual
Symptom
of
the
stopping
of
her
Monthly
Evacuations
,
the
Queen
could
have
no
fix'd
time
from
whence
to
begin
her
reckning
,
and
therefore
the
King
to
help
her
out
,
declar'd
in
Council
that
his
Wife
and
He
had
thought
it
Convenient
to
make
her
conception
Public
,
from
the
time
that
the
offering
was
made
to
the
Image
of
the
Loretto
Lady
,
when
the
King
returned
to
the
Queen
at
the
Bath
.
But
this
fell
out
afterwards
very
untowardly
,
because
it
was
impossible
to
bring
together
,
the
time
of
her
conception
and
that
of
her
pretended
being
deliver'd
,
so
well
,
as
to
compleat
the
full
and
natural
time
of
nine
Months
.
So
that
the
Women
crying
out
,
in
derision
upon
the
Kings
boasting
what
a
strong
,
lively
,
chopping
Child
he
had
got
,
that
such
a
Child
at
Eight
Months
was
as
great
a
Miracle
,
as
her
Conception
upon
her
Present
to
the
Lady
of
Loretto
,
the
Confederates
fearing
the
spreading
of
such
a
report
,
might
endanger
the
discovery
of
the
Impostor
,
perswaded
the
Queen
to
give
it
out
that
she
had
mistaken
her
reckning
,
as
it
was
a
common
thing
for
Women
to
do
.
But
they
forgot
that
the
Queen
had
stood
to
her
first
reckning
several
Weeks
after
she
pretended
to
have
been
deliver'd
;
that
it
was
well
known
that
she
had
her
Evacuation's
as
she
went
to
the
Bath
,
and
four
days
after
the
Kings
departure
,
which
was
a
certain
Sign
she
had
not
then
conceiv'd
;
or
if
she
had
then
conceiv'd
,
then
it
could
be
no
Failure
in
her
reckning
,
and
she
did
ill
to
Bath
,
for
fear
of
destroying
the
Fruit
of
her
Womb
.
Then
again
,
in
other
Women
,
after
four
Months
being
gone
,
there
will
be
seen
a
Visible
swelling
and
Increase
of
the
Breasts
,
together
with
a
fair
appearance
of
Milk
:
but
all
these
Symptoms
were
also
wanting
in
the
Queen
,
nor
did
ever
any
Lady
which
was
proper
to
be
a
witness
ever
see
a
drop
of
Milk
in
her
Breasts
,
which
were
still
the
same
to
the
Eyes
of
all
that
view'd
them
,
without
any
alteration
of
Bulk
or
Proportion
.
Neither
was
any
proper
witness
of
Quality
and
experience
ever
admitted
during
the
whole
time
of
her
pregnancy
,
to
touch
the
Queen's
Belly
,
that
they
might
be
able
to
give
a
Testimony
concerning
the
Motion
and
stirring
of
the
Child
in
the
Womb
.
Which
it
behov'd
the
Queen
to
have
shewn
,
especially
to
the
Protestant
Ladies
of
her
Bed-Chamber
,
who
were
not
a
little
doubtful
of
her
being
with
Child
,
as
well
as
the
Person
who
was
then
her
Physitian
.
Neither
was
there
any
distension
of
the
parts
of
the
Body
that
surround
and
encompass
the
Womb
,
which
always
enlarge
and
extend
themselves
more
especially
during
the
four
last
Months
,
to
make
room
for
the
Child
in
the
Womb
as
it
grows
on
to
perfection
;
several
Matrons
of
great
Experience
attended
on
purpose
to
make
an
exact
Observation
of
the
rising
of
the
Queens
Belly
,
but
none
of
them
could
perceive
the
least
appearance
of
the
growth
of
any
Child
in
her
Belly
;
which
was
all
the
time
of
her
Pregnancy
of
the
same
Proportion
,
as
at
other
times
;
only
when
she
was
dress'd
,
her
Belly
was
so
order'd
,
as
to
seem
to
rise
up
before
like
a
Woman
with
Child
:
but
they
that
view'd
her
behind
as
she
walk'd
,
could
perceive
no
sign
of
a
big-belly'd
Woman
;
which
Observation
was
also
made
but
a
little
before
her
pretended
Lying
in
.
To
which
may
be
added
that
in
all
the
four
last
Months
,
when
the
Bellys
of
big-belly'd
Women
rise
most
remarkably
,
the
Queen
was
always
observ'd
,
contrary
to
her
usual
method
,
when
she
went
to
shift
her self
,
to
retire
into
some
private
with-drawing
Room
,
where
none
were
permitted
to
come
to
her
but
her
Italians
that
were
privy
to
the
Secret
.
So
that
from
the
very
time
of
her
Fictitious
Conception
to
the
time
of
her
pretended
Delivery
,
there
was
not
any
thing
in
the
Behaviour
and
Carriage
of
the
Queen
,
which
gave
the
least
appearance
of
Reality
and
Sincerity
;
but
what
on
the
other
side
very
plainly
discover'd
Fraudulent
Contrivance
and
Design
.
While
she
was
preparing
for
her
intended
Delivery
,
there
was
no
Notice
given
by
the
Queen
,
either
to
Her
Royal
Highness
or
to
any
other
next
in
Expectancy
of
the
Succession
,
when
she
thought
her
reckning
was
out
or
expected
to
be
deliver'd
,
to
the
end
that
proper
Persons
might
have
attended
to
have
prevented
all
Suspitions
,
which
Law
Justice
and
Common
Prudence
altogether
requir'd
.
On
the
other
side
Instruments
were
made
use
of
to
Conceal
both
the
Time
and
the
Place
of
her
pretended
Delivery
;
and
such
an
Odd
time
of
her
Conception
was
given
out
,
that
it
was
impossible
for
the
Friends
of
her
Royal
Highness
to
make
any
true
judgment
when
the
Farce
was
to
be
Acted
.
As
for
the
Place
it
was
so
variously
given
out
,
sometimes
Windsor
,
then
Hampton
Court
,
and
then
again
Richmond
,
so
that
it
was
impossible
for
the
Protestant
Ladies
and
Friends
of
the
Heir
Apparent
,
to
know
where
to
be
in
a
readiness
to
attend
.
And
for
fear
the
Princess
of
Denmark
should
be
a
Vigilant
Observer
as
well
for
her
own
,
as
her
Sister's
sake
,
that
she
might
not
be
present
at
the
time
of
her
Delivery
,
the
Plot
was
so
laid
,
tho
she
stood
more
in
need
of
Astringents
at
that
time
,
that
for
the
preservation
of
her
Health
she
should
be
advis'd
to
go
to
the
Bath
for
the
benefit
of
the
Loosning
Waters
,
on
purpose
to
keep
her
at
a
sufficient
distance
till
the
Scene
was
over
.
But
when
Notice
was
given
that
the
Counterfeit
was
almost
ready
,
the
Queen
was
in
such
a
Hurry
,
above
three
weeks
before
her
time
was
expected
,
that
not
above
two
days
before
her
pretended
Delivery
she
was
in
post
hast
to
lye
in
at
St.
James's
,
where
if
things
could
not
be
got
ready
,
so
soon
as
was
requisite
,
she
declar'd
she
would
lye
upon
the
Floor
.
Which
words
being
utter'd
with
so
much
Passion
on
the
Fryday
,
that
she
would
lye
in
at
St.
James's
on
Saturday
Night
,
the
most
Vigilant
Observers
could
not
find
there
was
then
the
least
appearance
,
that
the
juggle
was
then
to
be
carry'd
on
upon
Sunday
,
or
that
then
the
pretended
Birth
of
the
long
lookt
for
Counterfeit
Prince
was
to
be
:
in
regard
there
was
not
the
least
shew
of
those
fore
running
Pains
that
usually
preceed
the
Travels
of
Child-bearing
Women
;
besides
that
she
sate
up
late
that
Saturday
Night
at
Cards
,
without
so
much
as
the
least
pain
or
trouble
;
or
any
so
much
as
thought
of
in
the
Night
,
till
about
nine
or
ten
of
the
Clock
in
the
Morning
when
all
the
Protestant
Ladies
were
at
their
Devotions
,
and
then
the
Princely
Babe
being
ready
for
a
second
Birth
,
Mrs.
Wicks
,
Mrs.
Labady
,
and
the
beloved
Mrs.
Tourain
did
the
Feat
,
and
the
Knack
was
over
before
Church
was
done
.
Now
that
the
Room
was
prepar'd
,
and
made
fit
for
the
purpose
,
was
apparent
by
the
Private
Door
in
the
space
between
the
Bed
and
the
Wall
,
through
which
it
might
be
an
easie
thing
,
to
bring
a
Child
and
conveigh
it
privately
into
the
Bed
;
and
yet
the
Parties
never
be
seen
by
any
,
that
attended
in
the
Room
tho
standing
at
the
Bedsfeet
:
and
through
that
door
it
was
easie
for
the
Midwife
,
Mrs.
Labady
,
and
Mrs.
Touraine
to
carry
in
and
out
what
they
pleas'd
themselves
.
Had
not
there
been
a
necessity
for
that
door
,
it
ought
by
Common
Reason
and
Prudence
to
have
been
either
seal'd
,
or
nayl'd
up
,
to
avoid
Suspition
of
Imposture
:
but
that
door
was
so
requisite
for
the
Management
of
the
Poppet
Play
,
that
the
whole
Contrivance
was
carry'd
on
through
that
door
;
which
was
a
thing
that
was
well
known
by
the
Lords
of
the
Council
,
that
were
call'd
in
,
not
so
much
to
see
,
as
to
be
seen
,
to
the
end
their
Names
might
afterwards
be
made
use
of
to
delude
the
people
.
And
then
again
,
so
far
was
the
Queen
,
from
dreading
,
at
all
the
bitter
Pains
,
and
hazards
of
Child-bearing
,
that
she
made
none
of
those
Provisions
usual
in
such
Cases
;
not
so
much
as
the
Midwives
Stool
or
Chair
,
which
is
usually
sent
before
for
the
ease
and
benefit
of
Persons
of
the
Queens
Quality
:
nor
any
order
given
for
the
Colledge
of
Physitians
to
attend
;
as
if
she
had
certainly
known
,
as
well
as
she
did
,
that
neither
she
nor
the
Child
should
stand
in
need
of
their
Assistance
.
Only
when
all
things
were
ready
prepar'd
in
the
inner
Chamber
,
as
the
Infant
it self
and
the
after
Birth
,
and
whatever
else
was
thought
necessary
,
to
be
shewn
after
the
Child
was
born
,
then
the
Queen
being
put
to
Bed
,
with
the
Curtains
close
drawn
round
about
her
,
pretended
to
fall
into
her
Counterfeit
Labour
,
at
what
time
the
Child
with
the
after
Birth
,
were
brought
through
the
door
between
the
Wall
and
the
Queen's
Bed
,
and
put
between
the
Sheets
by
the
Midwife
,
and
the
two
other
foremention'd
Confederates
;
who
when
they
had
play'd
the
first
Part
,
were
no
less
seemingly
Industrious
and
busie
about
the
Queen's
Person
;
which
was
the
second
Part
of
the
Act.
But
there
was
a
necessity
for
them
to
make
as
much
hast
as
they
could
,
even
beyond
a
reasonable
Imagination
,
for
fear
the
Infant
,
to
whom
they
had
given
something
to
make
it
sleep
,
should
either
wake
and
cry
out
of
season
,
or
else
be
smother'd
between
the
Sheets
by
reason
of
the
closeness
of
the
Bed
;
so
that
the
Queen
had
the
easiest
Labour
in
the
World
,
and
such
a
one
as
might
well
entitle
it
to
the
Epithite
of
Pretended
.
For
all
this
while
the
Queen
was
altogether
without
any
sign
of
those
real
afflictions
and
intermitting
Pains
of
Women
in
Labour
;
no
signs
of
the
Childs
Eruption
;
no
alteration
of
the
Queen's
Body
by
the
weakning
of
Female
Travel
.
But
all
was
done
in
a
Trice
,
and
then
the
Midwife
having
deliver'd
something
close
covered
into
Mrs.
Labady's
Hands
,
and
both
together
went
through
the
door
between
the
Wall
and
the
Bed
into
the
Chamber
adjoyning
,
and
that
in
so
much
hast
,
that
the
Midwife
her self
made
a
plain
discovery
of
the
Fraud
,
by
leaving
the
Queen
at
those
very
moments
,
when
had
the
Delivery
been
real
,
the
usual
distresses
and
dangers
of
Women
in
Labour
most
requir'd
her
Assistance
.
And
thus
was
this
Counterfeit
Prince
brought
forth
in
the
dark
from
under
the
Bed
Cloaths
,
the
Curtains
being
drawn
,
and
none
that
were
in
the
Chamber
permitted
to
see
what
was
done
about
the
Woman
that
was
pretended
to
be
brought
to
Bed
.
And
as
for
the
Lords
of
the
Council
,
the
King
kept
them
at
the
feet
of
the
Bed
which
were
close
secur'd
from
the
Observation
of
sight
,
so
that
they
could
neither
see
or
hear
any
,
thing
,
which
could
make
them
capable
of
being
Witnesses
,
of
the
Birth
of
a
Child
.
And
there
after
they
had
waited
a
long
time
,
the
King
left
them
and
went
into
the
withdrawing
Room
where
Mrs.
Labady
and
the
rest
of
the
Accomplices
were
with
the
Counterfeit
Prince
;
from
whence
he
sent
word
to
the
Lords
that
in
regard
a
Prince
was
so
happily
come
into
the
World
;
there
was
no
farther
need
of
their
Attendance
,
so
that
the
greatest
number
of
them
departed
.
Yet
after
all
this
Noise
of
a
Delivery
,
all
the
Curious
Observation
that
could
be
made
,
could
never
discover
any
signs
that
the
Queen
had
been
newly
brought
to
Bed
.
No
weaknesses
,
no
Fevers
,
the
usual
Concomitants
of
Women
bringing
forth
at
the
untimely
Season
of
eight
Months
,
as
the
Queen
acknowledg'd
her
Labour
to
be
.
And
tho
the
Queen
was
reported
to
have
great
plenty
of
Milk
before
her
pretended
Delivery
,
yet
what
became
of
it
no
body
could
tell
.
For
neither
were
her
Breasts
ever
drawn
,
nor
any
Medicaments
apply'd
to
repel
,
or
dry
up
the
Milk
,
nor
did
she
fain
to
take
care
of
her
Breasts
,
or
seem
in
the
least
to
fear
the
danger
of
such
a
pretended
Redundancy
.
Nor
was
it
ever
heard
of
,
that
she
ever
put
her self
to
the
trouble
of
those
usual
Purgations
;
which
are
the
Consequences
of
Child-bearing
.
So
that
the
best
Construction
that
can
be
made
of
this
Contrivance
is
only
this
that
the
Blind
and
Bigotted
Zeal
of
the
Papists
,
and
their
Popish
Councels
to
establish
a
Popish
Succession
in
this
Kingdom
made
them
violate
all
the
Laws
of
Honour
,
Honesty
,
Justice
and
Common
Morality
.
AN
ACCOUNT
OF
THE
MURDER
OF
THE
Earl
of
Essex
.
MUrder
was
the
first
abominable
and
crying
sin
,
which
after
the
fall
of
Man
,
and
his
Expulsion
out
of
Paradise
,
Man
committed
in
the
Infancy
of
the
World
.
And
it
would
be
needless
to
repeat
a
thing
which
is
so
universally
known
to
all
the
Earth
,
how
loudly
this
unnatural
and
hainous
Crime
cryes
for
vengeance
in
the
Ears
both
of
God
and
Men
.
No
sin
more
severely
prosecuted
by
the
Punishments
of
Heaven
,
nor
more
vigorously
restrain'd
by
the
Law
of
Nations
.
Nothing
so
much
provokes
the
wrath
of
God
as
the
Pollutions
of
Blood
:
And
nothing
calls
with
that
vehement
importunity
for
condign
Punishment
of
the
Malefactors
,
as
Perfidious
and
Inglorious
Assassination
.
The
Soveraignty
neither
of
Davi'd
nor
of
Ahab
could
protect
them
from
the
pursuit
of
Divine
Justice
.
For
it
is
the
same
thing
whether
a
Man
be
the
Actor
himself
,
or
the
Suborner
and
Rewarder
of
the
Murderers
.
And
the
Crime
is
so
much
the
more
fowl
and
detestable
in
them
,
who
commit
the
Fact
under
the
Protection
of
Authority
,
and
High
command
,
by
how
much
it
is
a
greater
duty
incumbent
upon
such
to
defend
and
preserve
the
Lives
of
those
who
are
liable
to
be
oppress'd
.
For
let
the
person
who
believes
himself
injur'd
by
another
be
never
so
highly
advanc'd
in
Grandeur
and
Dignity
,
it
is
not
for
him
to
seek
Revenge
,
without
the
Legal
Sentence
and
Determination
of
the
Law
.
Not
that
the
bare
Asseveration
,
however
of
an
Atturney
General
in
calling
the
Impeachment
and
commitment
of
the
Earl
of
Essex
,
a
Convictment
for
High
Treason
,
could
be
taken
for
a
Solemn
Sentence
:
since
the
words
of
his
Lips
could
be
no
Warrant
for
others
to
proceed
to
such
a
Bloody
Execution
.
On
the
other
side
,
though
every
Murder
be
a
crime
of
a
most
heinous
Nature
,
yet
some
Murders
may
admit
a
higher
Aggravation
then
others
,
from
the
Circumstances
that
attend
them
.
In
the
first
place
the
worth
and
dignity
of
the
Person
whose
Life
is
unjustly
taken
from
him
,
his
High
Station
in
the
Kingdom
,
and
his
Abilities
of
Wisdom
,
Power
and
Interest
to
be
more
advantageous
to
the
Nation
then
another
of
his
degree
;
by
whose
untimely
loss
the
whole
Realm
is
rob'd
of
those
benefits
,
which
it
might
have
receiv'd
from
the
Vertue
and
Endowments
of
so
great
a
person
.
Another
Aggravation
of
the
Murder
was
this
,
that
it
was
done
by
those
whom
the
Earl
had
serv'd
with
all
the
Zeal
and
Integrity
,
that
could
be
expected
upon
all
occasions
;
besides
that
he
was
a
Person
whose
Father
had
laid
down
his
Blood
and
impair'd
his
Fortunes
by
venturing
in
the
Kings
Quarrel
during
the
late
Civil
Wars
.
Another
Aggravation
was
,
that
the
Murther
was
committed
not
only
in
the
Kings
Prison
,
where
the
Law
and
the
Government
protect
the
Prisoner
till
conviction
,
but
also
in
one
of
the
Kings
Royal
Palaces
;
where
the
King
himself
might
have
been
thought
a
sufficient
Gage
for
the
safety
of
the
Person
that
lay
under
his
Roof
,
which
was
not
only
to
deprive
the
King
of
one
of
his
most
able
and
faithful
Ministers
,
but
mortally
to
wound
the
Reputation
of
the
King
himself
.
True
it
is
,
that
the
Authors
and
contrivers
of
the
Murder
made
it
their
business
,
the
better
to
conceal
and
throw
off
the
Imputation
of
the
Crime
from
themselves
,
to
impose
upon
the
World
,
and
make
the
People
believe
,
that
the
Earl
of
Essex
was
a
Felo
de
se
,
and
had
layd
violent
hands
upon
himself
;
not
considering
that
all
persons
and
those
in
great
numbers
of
rank
and
judgment
who
were
acquainted
with
his
most
truly
Vertuous
and
Religious
,
a
well
as
Noble
and
Generous
Qualities
and
Principles
,
his
Sedateness
of
temper
,
his
steady
,
strong
and
well
poysed
Reason
,
together
with
his
accomplishments
of
Grace
and
Education
,
knew
them
to
be
so
great
and
transcendently
Eminent
as
not
to
suffer
him
to
fall
under
the
stain
of
such
a
horrid
Crime
,
so
contrary
to
the
Constitution
of
his
Nature
,
and
the
Moral
habits
of
his
mind
.
As
he
was
a
True
Christian
,
his
Religion
would
not
suffer
him
to
admit
a
thought
that
might
encourage
a
Fact
so
Unchristian
like
;
and
as
he
was
a
Gentleman
so
Nobly
Accomplish'd
,
he
could
not
condescend
to
so
base
and
sordid
an
Action
to
the
Eternal
stain
of
his
Memory
.
The
same
Persons
also
to
gain
a
belief
of
the
Calumny
among
the
multitude
,
gave
it
out
,
that
his
Lordship
was
wont
in
his
common
discourse
to
justify
Self-Homicide
,
rather
then
be
a
Spectacle
of
Capital
Punishment
to
the
gazing
multitude
.
A
thing
so
improbable
,
that
nothing
can
be
thought
more
unlikely
from
a
Person
of
his
Piety
,
Wisdom
and
reserv'dness
,
and
which
all
Persons
frequent
in
converse
with
him
were
so
far
from
affirming
to
be
Truth
;
that
on
the
contrary
they
still
Solemnly
protested
his
always
speaking
in
abhorrency
of
the
Fact
,
as
of
a
most
desperate
and
Bloody
Sin
,
which
was
also
no
less
sacredly
attested
by
his
own
Lady
,
upon
application
made
to
her
to
know
the
Truth
or
Falshood
of
the
Story
.
And
then
for
his
speaking
with
respect
of
the
Duke
of
Northumberland
,
who
shot
himself
in
the
Tower
,
which
was
another
thing
laid
to
his
charge
,
to
Improve
the
Credit
of
the
Report
,
it
was
no
more
then
what
Civility
and
Education
requir'd
,
in
respect
to
his
Lady
,
Grand
Daughter
to
the
Duke
,
and
to
the
memory
of
the
Duke
himself
,
otherwise
a
Person
of
great
worth
and
Noble
Endowments
.
Nor
was
the
Earl
under
the
same
Circumstances
as
the
Duke
was
,
who
lay
Condemn'd
for
High
Treason
,
whereas
the
Earl
knew
himself
Innocent
of
the
Matter
laid
to
his
Charge
,
besides
that
there
was
but
one
witness
that
could
pretend
to
have
any
knowledge
of
him
.
More
then
all
this
,
the
very
day
before
the
Murther
,
his
Lordship
had
sent
for
his
own
Plate
to
the
Tower
for
the
dressing
and
serving
up
his
Meat
,
because
he
began
to
be
distrustful
of
the
Officers
and
Cooks
of
the
Prison
,
and
had
laid
in
a
considerable
quantity
of
Wines
for
his
own
Table
,
sufficient
to
serve
him
till
he
thought
he
might
be
brought
to
his
Tryal
:
which
clearly
argu'd
he
was
more
affraid
of
some
Violence
,
and
Illegal
Means
to
be
used
by
others
for
his
Destruction
,
then
jealous
of
any
Despair
in
himself
.
In
the
next
place
we
are
to
consider
,
to
what
ends
the
Violent
death
of
this
unfortunate
Earl
were
improved
to
,
and
what
designs
the
Judges
and
other
Ministers
of
the
Law
made
it
their
business
to
serve
by
it
;
and
then
it
will
be
found
that
after
several
contrivances
to
involve
the
Protestants
in
Sham-plots
against
the
Person
of
the
King
and
the
Establish'd
Government
,
they
had
at
last
found
out
a
pretence
of
a
Conspiracy
of
that
Nature
against
the
Earl
of
Essex
,
and
had
furnished
themselves
with
some
witness
,
who
undertook
the
swearing
of
the
best
and
greatest
Men
of
the
Kingdom
into
a
Conspiracy
for
levying
a
War
to
the
Destruction
of
the
King
.
But
understanding
well
that
their
witnesses
were
of
no
Reputation
to
make
out
the
charge
against
the
Chief
Patriots
of
our
Laws
and
Religion
,
they
resolved
to
Murder
the
Earl
of
Essex
,
then
close
committed
under
a
pretence
of
the
same
Conspiracy
,
and
to
give
it
out
that
he
had
made
away
himself
,
for
shame
and
horror
of
being
concern'd
in
so
Treasonable
a
design
.
To
this
end
did
the
Atturney
General
and
the
Lord
Chief
Justice
with
all
their
Eloquence
and
Artifice
Endeavour
to
make
their
Accusation
useful
and
subservient
.
Therefore
says
the
Atturney
General
.
The
Lord
of
Essex
being
committed
to
the
Tower
for
the
Plot
,
and
killing
himself
,
was
more
then
a
thousand
Witnesses
to
open
the
Eyes
of
the
People
,
and
confirm
the
belief
of
the
Conspiracy
.
Which
Jefferies
the
Chief
Justice
seconding
,
There
was
in
it
Digitus
Dei
,
says
he
,
and
enough
to
satisfie
all
the
World
of
the
Truth
of
the
Conspiracy
,
That
the
Earl
of
Essex
being
Conscious
of
the
great
Guilt
he
had
contracted
in
being
concerned
in
it
,
did
rather
then
abide
his
Tryal
,
and
to
avoyd
the
Methods
of
Justice
in
his
own
particular
case
,
destroy
himself
.
This
Improvement
of
the
Murder
of
this
noble
Peer
,
gives
no
small
Ground
to
suspect
who
were
the
contrivers
of
his
death
,
and
upon
design
they
did
first
assassinate
,
and
then
endeavour
to
throw
the
Infamy
and
guilt
of
it
upon
himself
.
But
then
the
Timing
of
the
Murder
was
a
farther
Demonstration
,
where
the
Guilt
of
it
ought
to
be
charged
,
and
for
the
promotion
of
what
Service
it
was
first
contrived
.
For
no
sooner
was
the
Lord
Russel
brought
upon
a
Tryal
for
his
Life
under
a
pretence
of
the
same
Conspiracy
for
which
the
Earl
stood
committed
,
but
the
Earl
was
Assassinated
in
the
Tower
,
and
then
the
news
forthwith
dispatched
away
to
the
Old-Bayley
,
that
the
Earl
had
Murdered
himself
,
on
purpose
to
amuse
and
prepossess
the
Jury
,
and
induce
them
to
convict
the
other
most
Virtuous
,
Noble
and
Innocent
Person
.
Nor
were
the
Kings
Council
wanting
to
lay
hold
on
the
Tidings
,
with
all
their
Art
and
Malice
to
harangue
and
plead
the
Lord
Russel
out
of
his
Life
.
And
therefore
to
make
the
deeper
Impression
in
the
minds
of
the
Jury
already
sufficiently
prejudiced
,
and
grossly
partial
,
the
Atturney
General
bawl'd
out
,
That
the
Lord
Russel
was
one
of
the
Council
for
carrying
on
the
Plot
with
the
Earl
of
Essex
,
who
had
that
Morning
prevented
the
hand
of
Justice
upon
himself
.
And
Jefferies
,
Chief
Justice
,
when
he
came
to
sum
up
the
Evidence
and
determine
the
Jury
to
find
it
against
the
Prisoner
,
averr'd
.
That
there
was
nothing
could
be
said
in
Favour
of
the
Lord
Russer's
Innocency
,
as
to
what
he
was
accused
of
,
but
what
might
be
more
strongly
alleadged
in
behalf
of
the
Earl
of
Essex
,
who
nevertheless
from
a
Consciousness
of
being
Guilty
of
that
desperate
Conspiracy
,
had
brought
himself
to
an
untimely
end
,
to
avoid
the
Methods
of
public
Justice
.
Nay
,
so
apparent
it
was
to
all
impartial
persons
then
present
at
the
Tryal
,
that
the
Murder
of
the
Earl
of
Essex
was
perpetrated
by
others
,
and
timed
to
that
Season
,
on
purpose
to
influence
the
Jury
,
to
Sacrifice
the
Lord
Russel
to
the
Rage
of
the
Court
,
that
a
Noble
Lord
,
who
had
been
always
in
the
Interests
of
White-Hall
,
and
then
very
Zealous
in
the
Prosecution
of
those
accus'd
for
the
Plot
,
being
then
upon
the
Bench
,
and
hearing
of
the
Earls
death
,
and
who
were
walking
in
the
Tower
when
it
fatally
happened
,
and
observing
how
the
Kings
Council
acted
their
parts
upon
the
News
of
it
,
rose
up
in
a
great
amazement
from
the
Bench
,
and
pressing
out
of
the
Court
,
with
his
Hat
pull'd
over
his
Eyes
,
could
not
forbear
saying
,
that
he
now
saw
the
Bottom
of
the
business
.
And
indeed
such
was
the
Influence
which
the
Earls
pretended
Murther
of
himself
for
being
concern'd
in
the
Conspiracy
with
the
Lord
Russel
,
that
several
of
the
Jury
acknowledg'd
,
that
the
Report
as
it
was
managed
by
the
Kings
Council
,
sway'd
more
with
them
for
his
Conviction
,
then
all
the
rest
of
the
Evidence
,
though
had
the
Earl
Entertain'd
any
preceding
thoughts
to
Murder
himself
,
and
time
it
to
that
unhappy
Juncture
,
he
would
never
have
given
orders
to
his
Steward
to
take
the
Lord
Russels
Tryal
in
short
hand
,
that
he
might
afterwards
make
use
of
it
upon
occasion
.
Besides
that
there
was
a
Freind-ship
too
entire
between
him
and
the
Lord
Russel
to
Calculate
the
Murdering
of
himself
to
such
a
Season
,
on
purpose
to
facilitate
the
destruction
of
his
friend
.
The
next
thing
to
be
laid
open
is
the
Picque
and
Motive
upon
which
this
Murder
was
committed
,
and
the
grounds
of
that
implacable
Malice
which
some
Men
bare
against
the
Earl
.
For
it
was
well
known
to
those
Adversaries
of
his
,
that
he
was
one
that
stood
up
zealously
for
the
Laws
and
Liberties
of
the
Kingdom
,
and
no
less
a
couragious
desender
of
the
Protestant
Religion
.
He
was
known
to
understand
more
of
the
Extent
and
Nature
of
the
Popish
Conipiracy
;
who
were
concern'd
in
it
,
and
to
what
degree
,
then
most
Persons
in
the
Kingdom
,
as
well
by
reason
of
his
public
station
in
Ireland
,
as
also
for
that
he
had
been
long
a
Member
of
the
Kings
Privy
Council
in
England
,
and
moreover
because
he
had
been
likewise
a
Member
of
all
those
Private
Committees
,
who
had
the
inspections
of
Papers
,
and
Examination
of
persons
concern'd
in
the
horrid
Plot
.
Therefore
because
he
scorn'd
to
Sacrifice
his
Honor
and
his
Conscience
to
a
●●●pliance
with
the
Conspirators
,
and
always
oppos'd
them
in
their
Attempts
for
the
Introduction
of
Popery
and
Arbitrary
Power
they
sought
all
ways
and
means
to
destroy
him
.
Of
which
the
Earl
was
not
insensible
,
and
would
therefore
sometimes
say
to
his
intimate
friends
,
That
as
the
generality
of
the
Papists
and
particularly
such
of
them
as
made
the
greatest
Figure
at
the
Court
,
had
a
dread
of
him
by
reason
of
the
Detections
he
was
able
to
make
of
their
horrid
Machinations
;
so
was
he
not
without
good
cause
of
fears
and
suspitions
,
that
they
would
endeavour
his
Destruction
in
order
to
prevent
it
.
Nor
is
it
the
least
Circumstance
that
proves
that
the
Earl
was
Assassinated
by
others
,
and
not
Murdered
by
himself
,
that
several
Reports
of
his
Death
,
and
the
manner
of
it
were
spread
abroad
before
the
Fact
was
commited
.
Thus
it
was
an
Evidence
to
the
Parliament
that
the
City
was
burnt
by
the
Papists
,
because
the
News
of
it
was
not
only
reported
in
several
Parts
of
the
Kingdom
,
but
sent
from
beyond
Sea
,
as
the
discourse
of
the
Jesuits
with
their
Privadoes
and
Favorites
:
And
in
like
manner
it
was
urged
as
a
proof
that
Sir
Edmund
Berry
Godfery
was
Assassinated
by
the
Papists
,
and
allow'd
at
the
Lord
Staffords
Tryal
,
because
his
Death
was
related
many
Miles
off
in
the
Country
,
before
it
was
well
known
in
London
.
Thus
a
Lady
of
Quality
relates
▪
that
being
in
company
the
day
before
the
death
of
the
Earl
of
Essex
,
upon
a
Discourse
arising
about
the
Murder
of
Sir
Edmund
Berry
Godfrey
,
a
Gentleman
took
the
freedom
to
say
.
That
there
would
appear
to
Morrow
another
Sir
Edmund
Berry
Godfrey
:
Which
though
the
Lady
could
not
comprehend
at
present
,
yet
hearing
the
next
day
the
Report
that
the
Lord
of
Essex
had
cut
his
own
Throat
,
she
easily
unriddled
the
Mystery
she
had
heard
the
Night
before
;
and
concluded
the
Earl
to
have
come
to
an
untimely
end
by
Treachery
.
And
one
Mrs.
Mewx
a
Gentlewoman
that
lives
in
London
,
was
ready
to
swear
at
Mr.
Braddons
Tryal
,
That
her
Daughter
told
her
,
as
they
were
Travelling
both
together
into
Berkshire
,
the
day
before
the
Earl
of
Essex's
Death
,
that
one
of
the
Lords
committed
for
the
late
Plot
,
had
cut
his
Throat
in
the
Tower
▪
But
because
her
Daughter
being
near
her
time
could
not
be
at
the
Tryal
,
the
Chief
Justice
would
not
suffer
the
Mother
,
though
Sworn
to
be
Examin'd
,
because
she
could
not
depose
on
her
own
knowledg
,
though
Mr.
Wallop
reply'd
,
it
was
Evidence
that
there
was
such
a
Talk
preceding
the
death
of
the
Earl
:
and
by
consequence
,
it
may
be
added
,
that
he
did
not
Murder
himself
.
Mr.
Fielder
also
of
Andover
Swore
,
that
it
was
talk●d
in
that
Town
upon
the
11th
and
12th
of
July
,
that
the
Earl
had
cut
his
Throat
in
the
Tower
,
whereas
the
Fact
was
not
done
till
the
13th
,
and
could
not
get
to
Andover
by
the
Post
till
the
14th
.
At
what
time
because
the
Confirmation
came
not
,
it
was
look'd
on
as
a
Report
,
but
being
confirm'd
the
next
by
certain
Clothiers
setting
out
of
London
the
same
day
,
presently
after
the
Murder
was
done
,
they
could
not
be
amaz'd
at
a
Report
so
current
among
them
,
so
long
before
the
Fact
was
committed
.
But
the
Chief
Justice
Jefferies
run
down
all
this
,
As
a
contrivance
to
deceive
the
Kings
Subjects
,
and
set
us
together
by
the
Ears
:
styling
it
stuff
rak'd
out
of
the
Dunghills
,
and
pick'd
up
on
purpose
to
kindle
a
Fire
,
and
set
us
all
in
a
Flame
.
One
Jeremy
Burgess
also
swears
,
that
he
heard
the
same
Report
at
Frome
Ninty
Miles
from
London
,
the
same
day
the
Earl
was
kill'd
:
and
one
Lewis
living
at
Marlborough
swore
,
that
he
was
told
upon
the
Road
,
between
Marlborough
and
Andover
,
by
a
Stranger
,
that
the
Earl
of
Essex
had
cut
his
Throat
in
the
Tower
,
which
notwithstanding
all
the
scorn
and
contempt
with
which
the
Chief
Justice
endeavour'd
to
Ridicule
what
they
depos'd
,
is
sufficient
proof
to
all
indifferent
Men
that
the
Report
was
spread
abroad
preceding
to
the
Earl's
Death
.
From
which
last
circumstance
of
the
Report
of
the
Earls
cutting
his
Throat
,
being
spread
by
so
many
Persons
in
various
Parts
of
the
Kingdom
,
so
long
before
his
Death
,
these
Inferences
arise
.
First
,
that
it
was
not
improbable
but
that
the
Contrivers
of
the
Earls
death
might
have
resolved
upon
the
Execution
of
the
Fact
sooner
,
but
that
the
reason
of
deferring
it
was
to
adjust
it
to
the
Season
of
the
Lord
Russels
Tryal
,
that
the
Murder
of
the
one
might
facilitate
the
death
of
the
other
:
So
that
they
who
were
acquainted
with
the
Resolution
first
taken
,
out
of
a
forwardness
to
oblige
their
friends
had
given
them
too
hasty
Intelligence
of
the
thing
as
already
done
,
before
it
was
committed
,
by
reason
of
the
latter
Resolution
.
The
second
Inference
is
,
that
though
the
Report
was
vented
by
several
persons
,
yet
they
all
agreed
in
the
way
and
manner
of
it
,
that
is
to
say
,
cutting
his
Throat
,
which
had
been
impossible
to
conceive
,
unless
such
an
Agreement
in
the
manner
of
his
death
,
had
originally
proceeded
from
the
Contrivers
and
Determiners
as
well
of
the
Murder
it self
,
as
of
the
way
how
it
should
be
perpetrated
.
The
last
thing
to
be
hence
observed
that
these
Reports
could
never
be
the
fictitious
Forgeries
of
Persons
Romantickly
dispos'd
;
seeing
it
was
impossible
that
so
many
People
at
such
distances
one
from
another
,
and
who
never
had
any
correspondence
together
,
could
never
so
exactly
agree
and
combine
together
to
impose
upon
the
World
,
and
abuse
the
Faith
of
Mankind
.
Nor
is
it
a
thing
rational
to
imagin
that
it
could
be
the
Interest
of
Country
Gentlewomen
and
Trades-men
to
spread
abroad
a
Story
of
the
Lord
of
Essex's
cutting
his
Throat
before
it
was
done
.
After
all
this
,
there
could
not
be
a
greater
confirmation
that
the
Earl
of
Essex
was
no
Felo
de
se
,
but
that
he
was
treacherously
Murdered
by
others
,
and
that
the
Authors
of
the
Assassination
,
were
Persons
of
great
Interest
and
Power
at
Court
,
then
the
Letters
and
Proposals
which
were
sent
to
some
great
Lords
near
the
King
,
that
if
his
Majesty
would
but
grant
a
Pardon
to
two
or
three
Men
,
that
should
be
named
when
the
Favour
was
granted
,
the
whole
Mystery
of
the
Contrivance
should
be
discover'd
,
and
the
Contrivers
and
Actors
be
particularly
detected
.
Which
Proposals
if
they
were
neglected
,
it
may
justly
be
attributed
to
this
,
that
the
Apprehensions
of
those
great
Persons
of
bringing
Ruin
upon
their
own
heads
,
frighten'd
them
from
the
delivery
of
those
Proposals
to
the
King
.
More
especially
understanding
what
the
D.
of
Y.
had
said
in
reference
to
Mr.
Braddon
,
That
he
was
ravelling
into
such
a
Business
,
but
that
he
was
resolved
to
ruin
him
if
all
the
Law
of
England
would
do
it
.
Another
Letter
was
address'd
to
the
Countess
of
E.
and
to
the
end
it
might
be
convey'd
to
her
Ladyship
,
was
directed
to
be
left
with
one
Mr.
C.
a
Bookseller
in
the
New
Exchange
;
The
Contents
of
which
were
,
That
if
her
Honor
could
prevail
with
the
King
for
a
Pardon
,
to
one
that
would
discover
how
the
Earl
came
by
his
death
;
or
obtain
a
Proclamation
of
his
Majesty
,
assuring
forgiveness
to
any
one
who
should
come
in
and
detect
by
whom
and
after
what
manner
the
Earl
was
Murdered
,
that
upon
either
of
these
Securities
,
the
way
of
the
Earl
of
Essex's
Assassination
should
be
reveal'd
and
layd
open
with
all
the
Circumstances
.
This
Letter
was
brought
to
Mr.
Cademan
by
a
Young
Woman
,
and
left
with
him
unseal'd
.
Who
after
he
had
perus'd
it
,
and
considered
of
the
Consequence
of
it
,
carried
it
to
one
Mr.
H.
a
Justice
of
the
Peace
in
Covent-Garden
,
who
is
said
by
credible
information
to
have
carry'd
it
to
one
of
the
Secretaries
of
State
.
The
Letter
was
conceiv'd
to
have
been
written
by
Bomeny
himself
,
as
being
under
some
remorse
in
reference
to
the
Earl's
death
,
in
regard
that
some
of
Bomeny's
Hand-writing
being
produc'd
to
Mr.
C.
it
appear'd
to
the
best
of
his
remembrance
and
judgment
to
be
the
same
as
he
had
formerly
seen
it
.
However
it
was
plain
that
it
was
written
by
one
who
was
desirous
to
be
known
,
in
regard
the
Letter
was
sent
open
and
by
one
who
was
able
to
have
told
from
whence
she
had
it
.
But
nothing
more
amaz'd
Rational
People
,
than
that
notwithstanding
the
several
Reports
and
universal
Suspitions
of
the
Earls
being
Murdered
in
the
Tower
,
there
was
not
the
least
Syllable
publish'd
to
encourage
an
Inquisition
after
his
Blood
,
nor
any
discovery
of
the
Contrivers
and
Perpetrators
of
the
Murder
:
whereas
there
had
been
a
Promise
of
500
l.
to
any
that
should
discover
the
Murder
of
Sr.
Edmund
Berry
Godfrey
,
a
Person
of
far
less
Merit
and
Figure
than
the
Earl
of
Essex
;
which
seemed
to
arise
from
a
fear
that
the
King
was
in
,
of
those
that
were
accessary
to
it
.
Nevertheless
the
Matter
could
not
be
so
stifled
at
that
time
,
but
that
the
load
of
the
Charge
was
privately
lay'd
upon
the
Earl
of
S.
the
Earl
of
F.
and
one
more
Person
greater
then
either
of
them
,
the
Truth
of
which
Time
and
the
Parliament
will
bring
o
Light
.
On
the
otherside
,
as
no
Encouragement
was
ever
offer'd
for
the
Detection
of
the
Murther
,
so
all
the
means
imaginable
were
used
to
deter
Men
from
enquiring
into
the
Matter
.
The
Judges
branded
the
Medling
in
it
a
Reflection
upon
the
King
,
an
Affront
to
the
Government
,
and
a
design
to
embroil
the
Nation
in
trouble
.
The
Attorney
General
stigmatiz'd
the
report
and
belief
of
the
Earl's
being
Murthered
,
as
The
throwing
that
ill
thing
upon
the
Government
,
which
he
had
committed
upon
himself
.
The
Chief
Justice
Jefferies
styl'd
it
a
Libelling
of
the
Government
,
and
to
have
been
forg'd
in
order
to
beget
heart-burnings
and
jealoustes
in
the
Kings
Subjects
against
the
Government
,
and
to
raise
Sedition
.
Though
in
the
Case
of
Sir
Thomas
Overbury
,
it
was
not
then
thought
any
dishonor
to
the
Government
,
to
have
the
Death
of
that
Gentleman
reinquir'd
into
,
and
to
have
it
prov'd
quite
contrary
to
the
Coroners
Iuquisition
,
that
instead
of
dying
a
natural
Death
,
he
was
treacherously
Murdered
in
the
Tower
;
rather
it
was
thought
a
great
Vindication
of
the
Honor
of
the
Goverment
,
to
have
several
of
the
Accomplices
executed
,
and
the
Earl
of
Somerset
and
his
Countess
convicted
and
condemn'd
as
Authors
of
the
Fact
.
Great
care
was
also
taken
to
frighten
and
menace
those
who
were
thought
any
way
conscious
of
the
manner
of
the
Earl's
Death
,
or
capable
to
discover
any
thing
that
might
give
any
Light
into
the
Matter
.
And
therefore
understanding
that
the
Soldiers
who
were
upon
Duty
that
Morning
had
not
only
taken
notice
of
several
Persons
,
but
made
observations
of
several
Circumstances
,
from
whence
the
Murder
might
be
inferred
,
and
that
some
of
them
had
spoken
too
lavishly
of
it
abroad
as
well
as
among
themselves
,
the
said
Soldiers
were
threatned
under
severe
Penalties
to
hold
their
Tongues
for
the
future
,
as
several
are
ready
to
testifie
when
occasion
serves
.
But
far
more
severe
were
the
evil
Treatments
and
Severities
used
toward
Mr.
Braddon
,
for
endeavouring
to
deliver
the
Throne
and
Kingdom
from
the
Guilt
of
Innocent
Blood
,
by
gathering
up
such
Informations
as
might
serve
for
the
Detection
of
the
Murder
.
His
being
forced
to
give
in
2000
l.
Bail
at
the
Council
Board
,
to
answer
an
Inditement
of
Subornation
,
for
bringing
a
Child
to
the
Earl
of
S.
to
testifie
what
he
saw
concerning
a
Razor
thrown
out
of
the
Earl
of
Essex's
Window
,
before
the
Noise
of
the
Murder
.
His
being
clapt
up
in
Fisherton
Goal
near
Salisbury
,
upon
Information
that
he
was
going
to
Marlborough
to
inquire
of
the
Report
that
the
Earl
had
cut
his
Throat
,
divulged
in
that
Town
upon
the
very
Day
the
Fact
was
committed
.
His
being
denied
by
the
Lord
Keeper
,
after
he
had
been
at
the
Charges
of
a
Habeas
Corpus
to
bring
him
to
Town
,
the
Benefit
of
the
Statute
,
unless
he
would
give
12000
l.
Bail
,
which
neither
his
Quality
would
enable
him
,
nor
his
Prudence
permit
him
to
give
,
considering
the
Nature
of
his
Offence
.
His
being
confined
by
Order
of
the
Lord
Chief
Justice
,
in
the
Prison
of
the
Kings
Bench
,
●fter
he
had
given
ten
thousand
pounds
for
his
true
Imprisonment
.
All
which
Hardships
and
Oppressions
of
an
honest
and
worthy
Gentleman
for
enquiring
into
the
Truth
of
certain
Reports
,
which
if
admitted
,
had
given
great
Light
to
the
Discovery
of
the
Fact
,
and
the
Authors
of
it
,
clearly
evince
that
the
Earl
of
Essex
was
murthered
by
others
,
and
not
by
himself
.
But
the
next
Scene
that
was
opened
,
was
,
after
all
these
Sufferings
,
the
bringing
him
to
a
Tryal
,
for
endeavouring
to
cast
Aspersions
upon
the
Government
,
and
defame
the
King
.
Where
by
way
of
Introduction
,
the
first
thing
remarkable
was
,
that
the
Lord
Chief
Justice
was
not
only
that
Morning
for
some
time
at
White-Hall
,
before
he
went
to
Westminster
,
but
was
also
attended
by
the
Earl
of
F.
at
the
Lighting
out
of
his
Coach
in
Westminster
,
and
discoursed
with
,
not
only
as
he
went
through
the
Hall
,
but
in
a
Corner
near
the
Court
,
before
he
ascended
to
take
his
Place
.
Which
gave
many
ground
to
suspect
,
that
the
Chief
Justice's
Business
at
White-Hall
,
was
to
take
such
Instructions
as
he
was
to
follow
,
for
the
Management
of
his
Business
,
and
that
the
Earl
of
F's
discoursing
him
,
was
to
imprint
in
him
a
fresh
Sence
of
the
Business
that
was
to
be
before
him
,
and
to
make
him
sensible
of
the
ill
Consequences
that
would
ensue
to
those
that
were
concerned
in
the
Conspiracy
,
as
the
Lord
F.
was
suspected
to
be
,
if
Mr.
Braddon
should
be
acquitted
.
Another
thing
,
was
the
Gesture
,
Countenance
,
Heat
,
Passion
and
Air
of
the
Judges
,
which
shew'd
them
to
be
rather
sworn
Parties
against
the
Prisoner
at
the
Bar
,
than
equal
Judges
between
the
King
and
the
Defendant
,
considering
the
malicious
and
slanderous
Language
vented
against
the
Prisoner
himself
,
the
interrupting
,
menacing
and
hectoring
his
Council
,
and
the
byassing
and
imposing
upon
his
Jury
.
And
yet
the
very
Indictment
it self
,
Of
maliciously
endeavouring
and
conspiring
to
defame
the
Government
;
or
as
Justice
W.
termed
it
,
Of
charging
the
King
with
taking
away
an
innocent
Man's
Blood
,
and
of
murthering
an
Innocent
Man
:
And
as
it
was
laid
in
the
Indictment
,
Of
procuring
and
suborning
false
Witnesses
,
to
prove
that
the
Earl
of
Essex
was
not
a
Felo
of
himself
,
but
was
killed
and
murthered
by
unknown
,
was
sufficient
to
have
justified
Mr.
Braddons
Innocency
from
the
Crime
of
which
he
was
accused
.
For
granting
that
what
was
sworn
concerning
the
bloody
Razor
,
and
all
that
was
deposed
concerning
the
preceding
Reports
in
the
City
and
Country
,
had
been
false
:
Yet
was
it
evident
that
Mr.
Braddon
was
not
the
Forger
of
those
things
;
so
that
in
their
nature
they
were
of
that
weight
and
importance
,
that
any
honest
and
rational
Man
might
have
a
good
ground
of
suspition
.
Answerable
to
the
Justice
of
his
Tryal
,
was
the
Severity
of
his
Fine
of
two
thousand
pounds
,
which
was
more
than
all
his
visible
Estate
,
and
consequently
contrary
to
the
Law
of
the
Land
.
But
nothing
more
encreased
the
Suspitions
of
those
that
were
jealous
enough
already
,
as
the
two
succeeding
private
Murthers
of
two
Men
,
whose
Employment
gave
them
the
Opportunity
to
observe
and
know
more
than
others
did
.
The
first
was
one
Meake
a
Common
Souldier
,
who
stood
Sentinel
all
that
Morning
near
the
House
where
the
Earl
of
Essex
was
confin'd
.
For
order
was
taken
,
that
the
Sentinels
who
were
upon
Duty
when
the
King
and
Duke
came
to
the
Tower
,
which
was
about
six
of
the
Clock
in
the
Morning
,
should
not
be
relieved
till
their
Departure
,
which
was
half
an
hour
after
nine
.
Which
was
done
to
prevent
the
Observations
of
as
few
as
might
be
.
This
Meake
had
the
Opportunity
to
observe
all
the
Persons
that
went
that
Morning
to
the
Earl's
Lodgings
.
This
poor
Fellow
having
observed
many
remarkable
particulars
,
and
abhorring
what
he
had
seen
;
had
neither
the
reservedness
to
conceal
the
knowledge
of
what
he
had
seen
▪
nor
the
Prudence
to
understand
to
whom
he
discovered
it
;
so
that
his
Tale
was
soon
carried
to
St.
Jame's
as
an
important
piece
of
Intelligence
.
Wherefore
that
he
might
tell
no
more
Stories
,
nor
rise
up
as
a
Witness
of
what
he
saw
,
he
was
privately
murthered
and
thrown
into
the
Tower-Ditch
.
The
next
was
one
Mr.
Hawley
,
a
Warder
in
the
Tower
,
and
for
Repu●ation
and
Estate
,
far
more
considerable
than
that
Hawley
,
at
whose
House
the
Earl
was
confined
,
and
by
consequence
,
one
who
had
a
better
Opportunity
to
understand
the
whole
Mystery
of
the
Conspiracy
then
the
Sentinel
had
,
as
being
a
Person
,
without
whose
Privity
,
Consent
and
Assistance
,
the
black
Deed
could
not
have
been
committed
.
And
therefore
by
how
much
he
was
the
more
capable
than
others
to
detect
the
whole
Villany
,
and
lay
it
open
in
all
the
several
parts
and
Branches
of
it
;
and
by
reason
of
his
Reputation
,
more
capable
of
gaining
Belief
in
the
World
,
by
so
much
was
he
to
be
the
more
dreaded
by
the
Conspirators
;
especially
when
they
understood
that
Hawley
had
been
talking
those
things
concerning
the
Earl
of
Essex's
Death
,
which
it
concerned
them
no
less
than
their
Lives
and
Honours
to
have
conceal'd
;
which
made
them
resolve
to
hasten
his
Destruction
,
to
prevent
his
farther
telling
of
Tales
.
And
therefore
being
informed
that
he
was
inquiring
where
he
might
lay
out
Money
upon
a
Purchase
,
they
employed
one
to
tempt
him
out
of
Town
under
pretence
of
shewing
him
a
Parcel
of
Land
that
was
to
be
sold
;
and
by
that
means
,
being
perswaded
to
take
a
Journey
into
the
Country
,
he
was
so
well
set
and
dogg'd
upon
the
Road
,
and
the
Ruffians
executed
their
Orders
with
that
Secrecy
and
Obedience
,
that
it
was
a
considerable
while
before
he
could
be
heard
of
,
or
his
Body
be
found
.
And
when
at
length
,
his
Corps
,
after
long
enquiry
,
was
discovered
,
there
were
all
the
Marks
and
Symptoms
upon
it
,
of
a
barbarous
and
bloody
Assassination
,
though
it
could
be
never
heard
of
that
he
had
ever
given
occasion
to
any
other
Persons
in
the
World
,
unless
it
were
the
Conspirators
against
the
Earl
of
Essex
,
to
deal
so
inhumanly
by
him
.
Nor
was
his
▪
Wife
unsensible
of
the
occasion
of
his
Death
,
when
she
told
some
of
her
Friends
,
that
she
dreaded
the
ill
Consequences
of
his
so
often
discoursing
of
the
Earl
of
Essex's
Murther
.
On
the
other
side
,
as
some
were
oppressed
and
persecuted
,
others
destroyed
,
from
whom
the
World
might
receive
any
Light
concerning
the
Murther
of
this
Noble
Peer
,
so
others
,
who
were
consenting
and
aiding
in
the
committing
of
the
bloody
Fact
,
were
countenanced
,
protected
and
abetted
by
the
chief
Ministers
of
State
,
and
Officers
of
Justice
.
For
it
must
be
necessarily
acknowledged
,
that
if
the
Earl
were
assassinated
by
violent
Hands
,
that
Bomeny
,
who
attended
him
in
his
Chamber
,
and
was
the
only
Servant
that
waited
on
him
in
the
Tower
,
unless
it
were
a
Foot
man
,
must
be
acquainted
with
it
,
and
an
Accessary
to
it
.
Of
which
,
the
Apprehensions
he
was
in
,
and
the
Trouble
he
expressed
to
one
of
the
Countesses
Gentlewomen
,
upon
a
Report
that
the
Earls
Body
was
to
be
taken
up
again
,
in
order
to
a
second
Examination
,
were
no
small
Arguments
.
Nor
was
the
Countess
her self
without
a
strong
Suspition
of
this
same
French
Valet's
being
guilty
of
her
Husbands
Death
,
which
was
the
reason
that
she
discharged
him
her
Service
,
and
dismissed
him
out
of
the
Family
.
After
which
,
it
least
of
all
became
the
Honour
of
the
Court
,
unless
there
were
a
farther
Mystery
in
it
than
the
World
were
aware
of
,
to
take
him
into
Protection
,
and
prefer
him
to
Employment
.
For
in
the
first
place
,
the
Lord
Chief
Justice
,
after
he
had
been
hectoring
,
interrupting
,
and
daunting
all
the
Witnesses
for
the
Defendant
,
not
only
assisted
and
rectified
Bomeny
in
his
Deposition
,
guiding
him
to
say
a
Razor
,
when
the
Fellow
had
said
a
Pen-knife
,
but
gave
him
the
Character
of
one
,
whose
Integrity
and
Fidelity
to
the
Earl
had
been
confirmed
by
six
years
Experience
,
and
that
he
was
not
an
Upstart
or
wandring
Fellow
.
And
this
Esteem
which
Bomeny
had
with
some
of
the
Grandees
at
Court
,
was
farther
confirmed
by
the
Correspondence
which
he
had
with
the
Secretary
of
State
at
that
Time
;
so
that
when
he
lay
conceal'd
from
others
,
he
was
still
ready
to
be
spoken
with
by
any
that
pretended
to
come
to
him
from
Sir
L.
J.
After
which
,
notwithstanding
the
Ignominy
and
Suspicion
he
lay
under
,
he
was
admitted
to
ride
in
one
of
the
Troops
of
the
Regiment
of
Guards
.
As
to
the
Wound
it self
,
certain
it
is
,
that
the
Coroners
Inquest
,
in
their
Inquisition
made
the
14th
.
of
July
,
1683.
gave
this
Account
upon
their
Oaths
,
That
the
Earl
of
Essex
,
being
the
13th
.
Day
of
July
alone
in
his
Chamber
,
did
with
a
Razor
,
voluntarily
and
feloniously
cut
his
Throat
,
giving
himself
one
mortal
Wound
,
from
one
Jugular
to
the
other
,
and
by
the
Aspera
Arteria
and
the
Wind-pipe
,
to
the
Vertebres
of
the
Neck
,
both
the
Jugulars
being
throughly
divided
;
of
which
said
mortal
Wound
,
the
said
Earl
of
Essex
instantly
dy'd
.
With
which
account
,
the
Informations
,
upon
Oath
of
Sherwood
and
Andrews
,
called
to
view
the
Body
,
agree
,
viz.
That
the
Throat
of
the
said
Earl
,
was
cut
from
one
Jugular
to
the
other
,
through
the
Windpipe
and
Gullet
into
the
Vertebres
of
the
Neck
,
both
Jugular
Veins
being
also
quite
divided
.
Upon
all
which
,
the
Observations
most
authentickly
made
,
are
,
first
,
That
the
Razor
sworn
by
Bomeny
before
the
Inquest
,
to
be
the
Instrument
with
which
the
Earl
gave
himself
the
Wound
,
was
a
small
French
Razor
,
about
four
Inches
and
a
half
long
at
most
,
without
any
Spit
or
Tonge
at
the
end
of
the
Blade
,
as
the
English
Razors
have
,
so
that
by
its
make
and
extent
,
it
could
not
be
used
but
by
holding
it
by
the
Blade
,
and
that
to
hold
it
with
a
steadiness
requisite
to
make
such
a
Wound
,
the
Hand
and
Fingers
could
not
grasp
or
fasten
upon
less
then
two
Inches
of
it
.
In
the
next
place
that
considering
the
Dimensions
of
the
Wound
,
which
reached
to
the
Vertebres
of
the
Neck
in
depth
,
and
in
length
from
the
Neck-bone
behind
the
Left
Jugular
,
to
the
Bone
of
the
Neck
beyond
the
Right
,
between
Eight
and
Nine
Inches
long
,
as
a
Gentleman
who
saw
the
Wound
before
the
Jury
did
,
affirms
;
It
was
a
thing
which
all
Anatomists
and
Chyrurgious
acknowleged
and
confirmed
by
substantial
Reasons
,
that
no
Man
in
the
World
could
himself
cut
his
own
Throat
in
that
manner
.
In
regard
that
after
the
cutting
the
one
Jugular
,
it
is
impossible
there
should
remain
life
and
strength
suffieient
to
carry
forward
the
Wound
to
the
dividing
the
other
;
since
upon
dividing
the
first
Jugular
,
that
all
Life
and
Motion
would
have
immediately
ceased
,
so
that
there
could
have
been
no
strength
left
to
draw
forward
the
Instrument
to
the
second
,
so
as
to
make
a
Dissection
.
Neither
was
it
possible
for
a
Wound
or
Gash
of
such
a
length
and
four
Inches
deep
to
be
made
by
no
more
than
wo
Inches
and
a
half
of
a
small
Razor
;
the
rest
being
allowed
to
be
lain
hold
on
by
the
hand
.
And
therefore
a
certain
Gunner
in
the
Tower
,
supposed
to
be
not
altogether
a
stranger
to
that
Affair
,
pitched
upon
a
more
proper
Instrument
for
the
doing
it
,
when
about
Nine
of
the
Clock
that
Morning
,
he
reported
the
Death
of
the
Earl
,
in
a
place
not
far
distant
from
thence
,
saying
that
the
Earl
had
cut
his
Throat
with
a
Case-knife
,
wherewith
he
had
been
carving
a
Pidgeon
for
his
Breakfast
.
After
these
Circumstances
followed
the
failing
of
the
Witnesses
in
the
steady
agreement
of
their
Informations
sworn
before
the
Coroner
and
his
Inquest
.
For
that
whereas
Bomeny
swore
,
That
on
the
12th
of
July
in
the
Morning
,
before
the
Earl
of
Essex
was
up
,
he
sent
the
Footman
home
with
a
Note
to
the
Steward
,
in
which
among
other
things
he
asked
for
a
Penknife
for
his
Lord
,
and
that
when
the
Footman
was
gone
,
a
little
after
Eight
of
the
Clock
,
my
Lord
sent
Russel
the
Warder
to
the
said
Bomeny
,
who
came
and
asked
him
if
the
Pen
knife
were
come
.
To
which
Bomeny
reply'd
,
No
my
Lord
,
but
I
shall
have
it
by
and
by
;
and
that
thereupon
my
Lord
bid
him
bring
him
one
of
his
Razers
,
which
he
went
and
fetched
and
gave
his
Lordship
,
who
apply'd
himself
therewith
to
pair
his
Nails
.
Russel
Swears
▪
That
upon
the
13th
of
July
about
Eight
or
Nine
of
the
Clock
in
the
Forenoon
he
was
present
when
he
heard
the
Earl
of
Essex
call
to
his
Man
Bomeny
for
a
Pen-knife
to
pair
his
Nails
;
and
then
for
a
Razor
which
Bomeny
brought
him
;
and
that
thereupon
my
Lord
went
up
and
down
the
Room
scraping
his
Nails
with
the
Razor
.
So
that
while
Bomeny
deposes
upon
Oath
,
that
the
Earl
called
for
the
Razor
,
and
had
it
delivered
him
upon
the
12th
of
July
,
being
Thursday
,
and
the
day
before
his
▪
Death
,
Russel
Swears
,
that
it
was
upon
the
13th
of
July
,
being
Friday
,
and
the
day
that
my
Lord
was
kill'd
,
that
he
ask'd
for
the
Razor
,
and
had
it
deliver'd
by
his
Man
.
Then
again
,
whereas
Bomeny
Swore
,
That
Russel
push'd
the
Closet
door
open
where
the
Earl
lay
;
which
implys
a
violence
used
to
get
in
,
Russel
Swears
,
That
being
called
by
Bomeny
,
he
went
to
the
Closet
door
and
opened
it
,
the
Key
being
on
the
outside
,
Thirdly
,
whereas
Bomeny
Swears
,
that
upon
peeping
through
the
Chink
of
the
Closetdoor
he
saw
the
Earl
of
Essex
lying
upon
the
Ground
in
the
closet
,
without
mentioning
my
Lords
Body
or
any
Part
of
it
.
Russel
Swears
,
that
Bomney
upon
peeping
through
the
Chink
of
the
Door
,
saw
the
Earl
lying
upon
the
Ground
in
the
Closet
,
without
adding
any
thing
of
his
having
seen
Blood
or
a
part
of
the
Razor
.
Then
again
,
whereas
Bomeny
and
Russel
both
Swear
,
that
the
Closet-door
where
my
Lord
fell
,
was
Locked
when
he
came
up
to
it
,
but
that
upon
opening
the
Door
,
they
found
him
lying
all
along
upon
the
Closet
floor
,
Peck
,
the
Servant
who
brought
the
Provisions
to
my
Lord
,
just
as
Bomeny
pretended
to
have
found
him
dead
,
and
who
upon
Bomeny's
meeting
him
upon
the
Stairs
,
tan
immediately
into
the
Chamber
,
affirm'd
himself
ready
to
depose
,
That
he
saw
the
Earl's
Body
lying
in
the
Closet
with
a
great
Part
of
his
Legs
without
the
Closet-door
,
and
the
print
of
a
bloody
▪
Foot
upon
one
of
his
Stockings
.
No
less
observable
were
the
Circumstances
of
removing
the
Earls
Body
out
of
the
Closet
where
it
was
found
,
and
where
it
ought
to
have
lain
according
to
the
Law
,
till
the
Coroners
Jury
had
seen
it
:
the
unclothing
,
stripping
and
washing
his
Body
,
and
the
washing
the
Closet
where
it
was
found
,
and
the
Chamber
where
he
lodg'd
adjoyning
to
it
,
and
the
conveving
away
of
the
Earl's
Cloaths
,
and
denying
the
Jury
a
sight
of
them
;
which
depriv'd
the
Jury
of
many
Circumstances
that
might
have
afforded
them
a
clearer
Light
in
the
giing
their
Verdict
.
True
it
is
that
one
of
the
Jury
having
observ'd
,
that
though
they
had
been
admitted
to
view
the
Body
,
yet
they
had
not
seen
the
Cloaths
which
the
Earl
wore
when
he
was
killed
,
but
that
they
had
been
taken
off
and
carried
away
,
did
thereupon
ask
to
see
the
said
Cloaths
.
But
the
noise
of
that
demand
coming
into
the
next
Room
where
some
Gentlemen
were
attending
,
the
Coroner
was
sent
for
,
and
severely
checkt
for
suffering
such
Questions
to
be
proposed
;
who
thereupon
rerurning
back
to
the
Jury
told
them
,
they
were
called
to
sit
upon
my
Lords
Body
and
not
upon
his
Cloaths
,
and
that
it
was
sufficient
they
had
seen
his
Body
and
received
an
Accompt
how
it
was
found
.
The
last
thing
discoursed
of
,
to
confirm
that
the
Earl
of
Essex
was
no
Felo
de
se
,
was
that
a
Bloody
Razor
was
thrown
out
of
his
Chamber-window
,
before
any
noise
of
his
death
,
or
the
least
Intimation
that
he
was
killed
.
For
that
it
was
impossible
that
after
he
had
cut
his
Throat
himself
,
he
should
himself
throw
it
out
,
and
therefore
it
must
be
thrown
out
by
another
.
Now
that
a
Bloody
Razor
was
thrown
out
of
the
Earls
Chamber
Window
the
Morning
that
he
was
kill'd
,
was
testify'd
by
a
Young
Lad
between
Thirteen
and
Fourteen
Years
of
Age
,
who
having
heard
as
he
was
going
to
School
,
that
the
K.
and
the
D.
were
in
the
Tower
,
dispens'd
with
his
School-duty
,
and
made
bold
to
go
to
the
Tower
to
see
them
,
and
rambling
there
from
one
place
to
another
all
the
Morning
return'd
home
again
about
Ten
of
the
Clock
to
his
Mother
,
and
told
her
,
that
the
Earl
of
Essex
was
kill'd
,
and
that
while
he
stood
nere
the
Earls
Lodgings
,
looking
up
toward
his
Chamber
Window
,
he
saw
a
hand
cast
out
a
Bloody
Razor
,
which
as
he
was
going
to
take
up
,
there
came
a
short
Maid
or
Woman
,
with
a
White
▪
Hood
on
her
Head
out
of
Captain
Hawley's
House
where
the
Earl
lay
,
and
took
up
the
Razor
,
which
she
immediatly
carry'd
into
the
Captains
House
,
and
ran
up
Stairs
,
and
that
soon
after
he
heard
one
cry
out
Murder
.
All
which
the
Boy
frequently
repeated
and
averr'd
to
his
Father
,
Mother
and
Sister
,
and
to
one
Mrs.
Burt
,
as
well
as
to
Mr.
Braddon
:
tho
at
last
by
the
Flatteries
of
some
and
the
Menaces
of
others
he
was
wrought
upon
to
retract
what
he
had
said
.
Nevertheless
the
soft
Behaviour
of
the
Court
toward
the
Boy
,
and
the
rough
Carryage
of
the
Judges
toward
the
rest
of
Braddons
Witnesses
strangely
possessed
the
minds
of
People
,
that
the
Lad
was
more
in
the
right
in
his
first
Affirmation
then
in
his
ensuing
Retraction
;
besides
that
the
same
thing
was
affirmed
by
others
.
For
that
one
Jane
Lodeman
a
Girl
of
about
thirteen
Years
of
Age
,
being
in
the
Tower
that
Morning
the
Earl
was
kill'd
and
standing
over
against
his
Lodgings
,
came
home
and
told
both
her
Aunt
and
others
that
it
was
reported
,
the
Earl
of
Essex
had
cut
his
Throat
,
and
that
she
had
seen
a
Hand
cast
out
a
Bloody
Razer
out
of
a
Window
where
they
said
that
my
Lord
Lodged
.
Upon
which
it
was
easily
inferr'd
that
Children
of
their
Innocent
Years
could
not
frame
or
invent
such
a
story
of
themselves
.
The
rather
because
it
was
known
that
Meake
the
Sentinel
who
was
Murdered
and
thrown
into
the
Tower-ditch
,
had
declared
to
several
Persons
the
very
day
that
my
Lord
was
said
to
have
killed
himself
,
That
just
before
the
Earls
death
was
publickly
known
,
there
was
a
Bloody
Razer
thrown
out
of
his
Chamber-Window
,
which
was
seen
by
some
of
the
Souldiers
as
well
as
by
others
,
and
that
whilst
a
little
Boy
who
had
seen
the
Razer
thrown
out
,
ran
towards
it
to
take
it
up
,
a
short
Maid
or
Woman
that
came
out
of
the
House
where
the
Earl
of
Essex
Lodg'd
,
was
too
quick
for
the
Boy
and
snatched
up
the
Razer
,
and
having
run
in
with
it
into
a
House
,
Murder
was
soon
after
cry'd
out
.
All
which
Affirmations
agreeing
in
every
particular
,
though
the
Persons
were
unknown
to
one
another
and
never
had
communication
together
,
rendered
the
matter
the
more
Suspicious
:
more
especially
seeing
all
things
carry'd
on
with
such
a
High
Hand
in
the
Court
against
Mr.
Braddon
,
for
only
endeavouring
to
discover
the
Truth
.
Some
other
Passages
also
were
observed
in
the
Tower
that
Morning
my
Lord
was
said
to
have
kill'd
himself
,
no
less
remarkable
then
the
preceding
;
but
seperated
from
the
rest
,
as
relating
rather
to
the
suspected
Contrivers
and
Actors
,
then
the
Testimonies
.
The
first
Observation
of
this
Nature
was
,
that
the
Gate
at
the
lower
end
of
those
Apartments
in
the
Tower
where
the
Earl
of
Essex
and
the
rest
of
the
Gentlemen
committed
for
the
pretended
Plot
were
Lodg'd
and
secured
,
and
which
always
used
to
stand
open
from
Morning
to
Evening
,
was
all
that
Morning
,
kept
shut
till
after
the
Earl
of
Essex
was
dead
,
only
that
it
was
once
opened
to
let
out
the
Lord
Russel
to
his
Tryal
,
but
then
immediately
after
he
was
gone
,
was
lockt
up
again
.
Which
as
it
could
not
escape
the
sight
of
the
Persons
who
were
then
confin'd
,
so
it
gave
that
surprize
to
some
of
them
,
being
a
thing
unusual
before
;
that
one
Gentleman
in
particular
called
to
his
Warder
,
to
understand
the
meaning
of
it
,
and
received
for
Answer
,
that
there
was
special
Order
given
for
it
.
The
Second
Passage
remarkable
that
Morning
was
,
that
the
King
and
the
Duke
having
been
at
the
Lievtenant's
House
,
which
is
about
the
middle
of
the
Lane
or
passage
to
the
Mount
where
the
Lord
of
Essex
,
and
the
rest
were
Imprisoned
,
and
having
stood
in
a
Balcony
with
some
few
Attending
them
,
to
see
the
Lord
Russel
pass
by
to
his
Tryal
,
the
Duke
soon
after
withdrew
with
several
waiting
upon
him
,
and
went
down
into
the
Passage
aforesaid
,
where
the
Gate
was
still
kept
shut
.
The
last
thing
which
fell
under
the
Observation
of
several
in
the
Tower
,
was
,
that
the
Duke
having
withdrawn
from
the
King
,
there
were
several
Persons
sent
away
and
dismissed
from
his
very
side
,
toward
the
Earl
of
Essex's
Lodging
,
who
never
returned
till
the
Earls
death
,
at
what
time
they
return'd
and
gave
an
Accompt
of
the
Obedience
they
had
pay'd
to
his
Highness's
Commands
,
pretending
withal
that
the
Earl
had
cut
his
own
Throat
.
And
from
all
these
Circumstances
layd
together
it
was
that
such
Violent
Suspicions
have
so
generally
taken
Root
in
the
Kingdom
,
that
the
Earl
of
Essex
was
no
Felo
de
se
,
but
assassinated
by
Others
.
FINIS
.