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A63154 The tryal and comdemnation of the trustees of the land-bank at Exeter Exchange for murdering the Bank of England at Grocers-Hall. Before Sir J.H. L--d M-r, Sir S.L. R-r, at the Old-Bayly. Neale, Thomas, d. 1699? 1696 (1696) Wing T2155; ESTC R223763 14,012 5

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Imprimis We devise to our own Members when they shall have paid in their whole 100 l. per Cent. our Fund of 100000 l. per Ann. charged and chargeable nevertheless with the summ of 1200000 l. for which it stands Mortgaged by Bank Bills in full satisfaction of all their great Expectations from the Probity and Skill of our Directors advising them to accept a Redemption thereof by Parliament whenever they can have it Item All our ready Moneys before any of our Debts paid we give to our Executors herein after named upon trust that they shall from time to time until the first day of August 1696. lend the same into the E r upon Condition to defeat the Establishment of the Land Bank And from and after the said first day of August then to lend out the same into the said E r upon security of Promises to Establish our Executors the next Sessions instead of the Land-Bank and for such other Premiums as our said Executors can get to themselves for doing thereof And we do direct our said Executors to continue the Stock and Pensions already allowed to our fast Friends they know where And after all our ready Moneys so disposed we leave the residue of our Effects for payment of our Bills and Notes at such days and hours and in such manner and proportion and with such preferences as our said Executors shall think fit And we do hereby Constitute our Directors Executors of this our Will giving unto each of them Power out of our Cash to discount their own Talleys Bills and Notes at Par and the Bills and Notes of other our Creditors at the highest Discount they can get for the same And our Body we commit to be buried with all privacy lest our Creditors arrest our Corps In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our Common Seal the 4 th day of May 1696. Trustees Where was your Bank buried M. S ck Why Fools Don't you hear 't was a private Funeral to conceal the Body But here 's a Copy of their Epitaph Sir W. C. Old S ck blows 'em Faith He swears the better for being heated a little The Epitaph Cl. of the Arr. HEre lyes the Body of the Bank of England who was born in the Year 1694. and dyed the 5th day of May 1696. in the third Year of their Age. They had Issue Legitimate by their Common Seal 1200000 l. called Bank Bills and by their Cashier two Millions of Sons of Whores called Speeds Notes Trustees Well we are satisfied the Bank of England is dead but must 〈◊〉 your witness to keep his Stool for one heat more while we cross-examine him to prove the Bank of England Felo de se. Mr. S ck I don't know what that is Trustees Why that your Bank murdered themselves and if so their Effects are forfeited and you as Executors cannot have them Mr. R r Mr. G. What do you say to the Law in that point Counsel 'T is Crown Law but it may be so for ought I know and therefore I cannot advise the Executors to give any Evidence Mr. R r Look you Gentlemen at the Bar have you any other Evidence here for we cannot force Men to swear against themselves that is to make them all Felons de se. Trustees Yes here is the Inquisition post mortem taken before the Justices of the Peace because the Body could not be found for the Coroner to take an Inquisition upon view of it and we pray it may be read The Inquisition Cl. of the Arr. London ss AN Inquisition intended taken at Grocers-Hall the 5 th day of May 1696. before A B C D c. Justices by E F G H c. Jurors return'd sworn and impannell'd to enquire into the Cause of the Death of the Bank of England who upon their Oaths do say That on the last day of the Session of Parliament in which the said Bank was established the said Bank then being in Health the Directors of the Bank aforesaid the fear of the Laws of the Kingdom before their Eyes not having but moved and seduced by the instigation of Covetousness and Folly at Grocers-Hall aforesaid the day and year aforesaid intending to evade the said Act of Parliament did devise and frame several unlawful Engines called Cashiers Notes and with the Engines aforesaid did draw in several great summs of Clipt Moneys and certain peices of Wood called Talleys whereby they came indebted above the summ of 1200000 l in contempt of the said Act of Parliament And the Jurors aforesaid do say that in the Session of Parliament then next following the Directors of the Bank aforesaid the Love of Truth in their Hearts not having but moved by the Fear of Punishment with intent to impose upon the subjects of this Kingdom at Grocers-Hall aforesaid a certain false Libel called an Advertisement did devise and frame in these words following or to the like effect viz. The Directors of the Bank of England do hereby give Notice that they will lend Money on all real securities at Interest of 5 l. per Cent. and the same false Libel into the Gazette did put And the Jurors afore said do say that the Directors of the Bank aforesaid their Promise not regarding the Moneys aforesaid did not lend nor have hitherto lent in decepit of the subjects of this Kingdom And the Jurors aforesaid do say that the Directors of the Bank aforesaid in further prosecution of their Covetousness and Folly being ignorant and unskilful in Forreign Exchanges and having no Goods or Effects in Forreign parts did undertake and contract for the remitting of great Summs of Money beyond the Seas And the Jurors aforesaid do find that the Bank aforesaid having by their Cashiers Notes and remitting of Moneys as aforesaid contracted great Debts at home and abroad out of their further Covetousness and Folly did deliver a Memorial for procureing an Act for recoining the silver Moneys of this Kingdom and reducing the price of Guinea's in hopes thereby to recover their losses by their remittances aforesaid and also fondly fancying that their said unlawful Engines would have drawn in unto them the Moneys recoined and the Guinea's reduced in the same manner as they did the clipt Moneys And the Jurors aforesaid do say That the recoining the said silver Moneys did occasion the greatest part of the Moneys then in the subjects hands to be drawn from them in order to be recoined which contrary to the fond Conceit of the Directors aforesaid after the said 4 th day of May 1696. did occasion great Demands to be made upon them at home and from abroad for payment of the Bills and Notes in currant Moneys And the Jurors aforesaid do say That the Bank of England aforesaid their form●r Trespasses and Debts calling to mind and despairing of the Payment and Forgiveness thereof on the 5 th day of May 1696 between she hours of 12 and 1 of the same day at Grocers-Hall aforesaid a certain desperate speech by
The TRYAL and Condemnation of the Trustees of the Land-Bank at Exeter Exchange for Murdering the Bank of England at Grocers-Hall Before Sir I. H. L d M r Sir S. L. R r at the Old-Bayly Jurors and Witnesses Sir W. C. Sir W. S. Sir VV. G. Sir H. F. Sir I. E. Sir A. T. O ah S ck G H I. C. L. P. R. L. T. I. Counsel against the Murderers K G. Clerk of the Arraigns Cryer VV. A d. Mr. B coe attending to hear the Trial. Ant. G ot coming in accidentally R. VV. a Volunteer Witness The Indictment THe Jurors upon their Oaths do say That the Trustees of the Land-Bank at Exeter-Exchange not having the Fear of the Mighty THE before their Eyes but moved and seduced by the instigation of Sense and Reason the Bank of England at Grocers-Hall in the Ward of Cheap London intending to kill and murder on the 10 th day of August 1695. upon the Bank of England aforesaid in Peace from all their Creditors then being at Grocers-Hall aforesaid did make an Assault and with a certain formidable Weapon called The Settlement of the Land-Bank inrolled in Chancery An. Dom. 1695. containing Ten Skins of Vellum in length 24 Inches and in breadth 22 Inches in both their hands then having then and there unto the Bank of E●gland aforesaid on that part of their Head where their Brains should lie with both their Hands aforesaid one Mortal VVound in length three Inches and in depth two Inches did give of which said wound the Bank of England aforesaid at Grocers-Hall aforesaid did languish until the then next Session of Parliament And the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oaths do say That afterwards to wit in the said then next Session of Parliament the Trustees aforesaid the sooner to kill and murder the the said Bank of England upon the same Bank of England then languishing at Grocers-Hall aforesaid did make a further Assault and a certain poisoned Arrow made of Copperas Galls and Raggs called A drawn Clause for enabling the Trustees of the Land-Bank to purchase the Reversions of the Annuities in their right hand then having out of their right hand aforesaid into the H se of C ns then sitting did shoot from whence the same Arrow so shot did rebound upon Grocers-Hall aforesaid and the Bank of England aforesaid then and there languishing upon the same part of the Head did smite And so the Jurors aforesaid do say That the Trustees aforesaid the last Session of Parliament aforesaid to the Bank of England aforesaid at Grocers-Hall aforesaid one other mortal wound did give of which the said Bank then languished until the end of the said Session of Parliament And the Jurors aforesaid do say that before the end of the said Session of Parliament the Trustees aforesaid the sooner to kill and murder the said Bank of England in and upon the same Bank of England at Grocers-Hall aforesaid did make a further Assault and another poisoned Arrow made of Copperas Galls and Raggs called A Bill for Establishing a Land-Bank in both their hands then having into the same H se of C ns then sitting out of both their hands aforesaid did shoot which said Bill did then and there grow into a certain formidable Engine called An Act of Parliament And the Jurors aforesaid do say That the Trustees aforesaid the last Session of Parliament aforesaid at Grocers-Hall aforesaid with the Act of Parliament aforesaid in both their hands then having the Bank of England aforesaid at Grocers-Hall aforesaid then and there languishing upon the same part of the Head one other mortal wound did give of which the Bank of England aforesaid at Grocers-Hall aforesaid until the fifth day of May 1696. did languish and then and there languishing died And so the Jurors aforesaid do say That the Trustees of the Land-Bank at Exeter-Exchange aforesaid the Bank of England at Grocers-Hall aforesaid did Kill and Murder against the Peace c. Cryer Sir VV. C. To the Book Trustees VVe Challenge him Sir VV. C. Bear Witness I go in dread of my Life Counsel I bar Challenges for there are so many Quirks in the Law about them that if they are admitted I 'll quit the Court Mr. R r Gentlemen Murderers Pray be not so rough in your Behaviour for you 'll fright the Jury and Counsel out of Court VVhatever your Resentments are let your words be soft Learn Meekness and Malice the true Accomplishments of a Courtier Trustees VVell Mr Cryer Execute your Office Cryer Gentlemen of the Jury lay all your Hands on the Book together All hands on You shall all Swear your selves VVitnesses and Jury-men in this Cause All kiss the book Cl. of Arr. Gentlemen of the Jury You are to try this Issue against the Murderers at the Bar. If you find them Guilty or that they fled from it Enquire what Guineas or Mill'd Money they have If neither Guilty nor Fled say so and no more and hear your selves give Evidence Cl. of the Arr. You Murderers at the Bar hearken what I shall say to you You stand here Indicted by the Name of Trustees of the Land-Bank at Exeter-Exchange For that you c. How say you are you Guilty or not Trustees Not Guilty And we desire our Plea may be Recorded Cl. of the Arr. 'T is Recorded Trustees Now Mr G pray take Notice that you have Indicted us by the Name of Trustees of the Land-Bank at Exeter Exchange and by that Name we have pleaded and this Plea is Recorded and now we are a Corporation upon Record to sue and be sued by our common Name Sir VV. S. G ds Bl d Mr G what Blunders do you make this was their first stratagem in the House of Commons to make themselves a Corporation by being called by Parliament Trustees of the Land-Bank in the Clause they offered for purchasing the Reversions of the Annuities but we found it out and so the Clause was withdrawn and now you have made a fine mornings work of it and be damn'd to you for an Old Blockheard Counsel This is the first time I have been called Blockhead in Court since I been a Common-Pleas Attorney but if they have any Exceptions to the Indictment let them take advantage of it after the Trial I 'le go on to the Evidence and I believe Mr S ck will go through the whole Cause Mr. R r If Mr S ck can go through the whole Evidence you had best set him a join'd stool and let him stand up in the middle Cryer Mr S ck please to mount the stool Vp O ah Sir VV. C. And I 'le stand on the other side of these Gentlemen Murderers for I don 't like their Challenges Counsel VVe will begin with the Settlement Mr S ck pray give the Court an Account what you know of The Settlement of the Land-Bank at Exeter-Exchange Mr S ck Account I can give no account what it is I thought you could give the best Account of