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A49678	The late famous tryal of Mr. Hickeringill, rector of the rectory of All-Saints in Colchester, and author of The naked truth, the second part with an information exhibited against him for barretry, in XXIV articles : to make good the charge against him at the suit of the King, as in course, but really, prosecuted by one Maltcher, and one Morris, a proctor in the spriritual courts : at the assizes in Nisi Prius held at Chelmsford, March 3, 1680 before Mr. Baron Weston : where and when he was accused, amongst other things, for writing the said book called The naked truth, the second part.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708, defendant.	1681 (1681)	Wing L547; ESTC R9853	15,421	21

strike Princes upon the Throne and the Reverend Judges upon the Bench and tho her Neck be sometimes broke yet she 's an Hydra and revives The following Verdict for Mr. Hickeringhill has broke her Neck and made an end of all those slanderous Clamours which to give colour unto the Conspirators against him have rak'd into all the Actions of his Life for fifteen years last past wherein he had any considerable dealings with any Man And as the Waters of a City clean and unclean disgorge and disembogue themselves into the great Sink and Common-Shore And as all the little Diseases nay all the Humours of the Body good and bad in time of the Plague turn to the Pestilence So all the late Actions that Mr. Hickeringill has done or Books that he has writ except Curse ye Meroz you will find here jumbled together by the malignity and pestilential Malice of his Adversaries to make up this filthy and plaguy Crime of Barretry A Crime that not one of a Thousand knows what it is but it will serve and has serv'd to make an ugly noise withal Barretry Barretry If one Man call another Whoremaster or a Woman a Whore and if he was neither Bolster nor Pillow and cannot prove it this is Barretry If a Man writes a Book or tells false News to the prejudice or hurt of any of the Kings Subjects this is Barretry and in a thousand Particulars more so that they be frequently done for twice or thrice will not do the Feat Men may be indicted for Barretry or else if his Adversaries like the Defendants Adversaries be Purse-proud and mighty and dare venture the hazard of being overthrown for it will ruine the Informer if the Defendant be acquit and the Pit that he dig'd for another he must fall into himself then an Information in the Crown-Office is the Mode like this which follows An Impartial NARRATIVE OF THE Most Remarkable Passages in the Tryal of Mr. Hickeringill for Barretry March the 3d 1680. At the Assizes of Nisi Prius held at Chelmnsford for the County of Essex before Mr. Baron Weston GReat was the Expectation great the Concurrence great the Hopes the Noise and the Confluence at this so-much-talk'd-of Tryal The Illustrious Duke of Albemarle upon the Bench by the Judg whether by accident or on set purpose is not enquirable at present Old chattering there was by all the Vermine old clapping of Wings and hooting at this merry Day a Day that promised a wonderful Conquest What said some shall this daring Man this Common Barreter ever hereafter find any more faults in Ecclesiastical-Courts in Bishops Arch-Bishops and Arch-Deacons In Proctors Sumners and Registers In Advocates Doctors and Apparitors and such harmless Men Shall we lose our Moneys for Commutations of Penance and Excommunications Sentences Decrees and Absolutions Citations Libels and Visitations Synodalls Sequestrations and Produrations And yet shall he that wicked He that has done our Business escape or imagine to escape Scot-free No no his Business shall now be done and wee 'l answer the Naked Truth with a Vengeance Listen to the Charge or Information of Barretry The Heads of the Charge against Edmond Hickeringill Clerk for Barretry exhibited by Samuel Astry Feb. 14. 1680. IMprimis For purchasing Lands and Tenements of one Westenraw in Bradfield and Wix in Essex the said Defendant Hickeringill knowing that divers Sults and Pleas were then depending for the same and Westenraw being out of Possession and for maintaining divers Suits about the said Lands 2. For purchasing divers Lands and Tenements of one Elizabeth Blois and others in Thorp Kirby or one of them in Essex the said Defendant Hickeringill knowing the said Elizabeth being then out of Possession and for managing Suits about the same 3. For purchasing divers Lands and Tenements in Thorp and Kirby and Much Clacton or one of them of Ford and his Wife and Blois and his Wife being out of possession the said Defendant then knowing that divers Suits and Pleas were then depending for the same and maintaining Suits about the same 4. For stirring up and maintaining divers Suits against one Petfield Hill Everet and Freeman all of the Town of Colchester with an intent only to extort Mony from the said Parties and to ruin them and to put them to trouble and charges and giving a Bill of Charges under his own Hand and demanding five pounds for Charges when there was not ten shillings due 5. For publishing scandalous Libels against Sir John Shaw Thomas Talcot Esq William Moore Esq Jonathan Merry Gent. and others being then Magistrates in Colchester 6. For extorting by Threats of Suits at Law without any just Cause great sums of Mony and Bonds and other Writings for payment of Mony from Tho. Shortland and others 7. For concealing the last Will and Testament of Andrews delivered to him being a Surrogate made to prove the same which occasioned divers Suits to be brought about the said Will which Suits the Defendant maintained 8. For bringing vexatious Suits without any probable Cause in his own Name against one Killingworth letting them fall only to vex and trouble the said Killingworth and to put him to Charges he himself being protected 9. For maintaining divers Suits in anothers Name against one Sadler his Servants Agents and Tenants 10. For stirring up and procuring divers Actions of Ejectment to be brought against one Wheely of Colchester on the Demise of Mary Living and solliciting the said Causes and maintaining the said Suits at his own Cost and Charges the said Defendant then knowing that the Lessor of the Plaintiff had no Title to the Premisses and that several Verdicts had passed before the Commencement of the said Actions for the Defendants Title 11. For the purchasing Lands and Tenements of one Rolph who was then out of Possession and divers Suits and Pleas were then depending for the same and maintaining divers Suits about the same 12. That the Defendant being Surrogate did grant Administration of the Goods of one Shortland to one Shortland the Defendant then knowing that the said Shortland had made a Will but before he would grant the said Administration he forced and compelled the said Shortland to give a Bond to one Sewell to the use of himself the Defendant for payment of a great sum of Mony and did promise to maintain any Suit that should be brought against the said Shortland by reason of his being Administration 13. For bringing and maintaining several Suits in the Exchequer against Luke Benny Robert Car and others for Tythes within the Parish of St. Peter in Colchester without reasonable and probable Cause with a Design to oppress the said Parties and unjustly to extort sums of Mony from them where none was due and by false Suggestions extorting sums of Mony from others John Beacon Mr. Langley and others upon pretence of Tythes due to him whereas none was and the said Persons were after compelled to give satisfaction to Mr. Thomson Vicar of the

The late Famous TRYAL OF Mr. Hickeringill Rector of the Rectory of All-Saints in Colchester and Author of The Naked-Truth The Second Part. With an INFORMATION exhibited against him for BARRETRY In XXIV Articles To make good the CHARGE against him at the Suit of the King as in course but really Prosecuted by one Maltcher and one Morris a Proctor in the Spiritual Courts At the Assizes in Nisi Prius held at Chelmsford March 3. 1680. before Mr. Baron Weston Where and when he was accused amongst other things for writing the said Book called The Naked-Truth The Second Part. Obsequium Amicos veritas odium Published impartially by an Ear-Witness to quash false Reports LONDON Printed for Fr. Smith at the Elephant and Castle in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1681. THE EPISTLE TO THE READERS MAny have been the Sham-Plots of late to conceal the True One a subtil Age no doubt we live in Plot upon Plot. Amongst other Contrivances certainly this of casting Dirt and endeavouring to blemish Mr. Hickeringil's Reputation by a grand Conspiracy against him and that by no small Fools neither to convict him for a Common-Barretor and consequently a whisking Fine ad libitum Judicium to ruine him is none of the least nor least worthy the Publishing for the benefit of every true Free-born English-Man Many have set the Fine before hand some voted to fine him one thousand pounds some two thousand some four thousand pounds nay some went further prognosticated that it would cost him all his Temporal Estate But neither would this content some of them but his Benefice must be forfeited into the Bargain so true is that in the Naked Truth The Mercies of the Wicked are cruel And truly considering the very many pretty Intrigues the crafty Quirks in Law and Jingo's hereafter discover'd in this Tryal and the methods of proceeding against him you may perhaps find as much Pleasure and Diversion as Profit in this Publication For the Defendants Adversaries were Great and Mighty the Conspiracy strong the time of his Tryal well fitted in the Interval of Parliament before a Judg Impeachd or ready for Impeachment by the last most Honourable House of Commons Mr. Baron Weston that has mightily improved and ' mended the Matter and perhaps his Market by the last Charge he gave at this Assizes to the Grand Jury of Essex in the Face of the Country a Man well known and in good time may be better known The King 's Learned Counsel Sir George Jeffreys and Sir Francis Withins with four or five more of the choice Counsel at the Bar all well-fee'd no small Temptation to an Hackney Tongue and well instructed with Breviats or rather Volumns of many Sheets of Paper Witnesses at Will fifty for a need though they were ashamed to call above a dozen of the whole Grew never so sit a Juncture said the Conspirators to shame and defeat the Author of the Naked Truth and the best if not the only way to answer his Book is to get Power and Authority on our sides all things conspire and jump to work his downfal na● Flectere si nequeunt superos Acheronta movebunt Some there were so magically zealous as to consult the Delphine Oracles I mean the Wise-men Magicians and Astrologers about the happy Event of this so much noised Tryal And one G erecting a Scheme in answer to an Horary Question to that Purpose found the Face of the Heavens to their Wish or at least he made the Fools believe so For the Question being put Whether the Rumors and Reports against the Defendant Mr. Hickeringill were true or false The Lord of the Ascendant which signifies the Querent and also the Ascendant together with the Moon and the Dispositor of the Moon were in an Angle and the Succedent House in a Fixed Sign and in good Aspect with the Fortunes Jupiter Sol and Venus which signifies that the Reports and Rumors were many and great and also very true and would prove so upon Tryal Besides The Angles of the Figure were Fixed Signs and the Moon and Mercury in Fixed Signs separating from the Infortunes Saturn and Mars and applying to good Fortunes posited in the Angels of the Figure Nay All the Planets from Top to Toe from surly Grim-Fac'd Saturn to the Fickle Moon look'd asquint upon the Defendant and his Significator Only Mercury was Retrograde which portended that the nimblest Wits would be fool'd and baffled and lose Ground and Credit in the World from that time following and like a Crab go backward ever after Besides Mercury was otherwise afflicted which put my Man of Magick into a Dumps and made him knit his Brows and scratch his Logger-head But he was almost out of his little Wits when he fatally cast his Eye again upon the Horiscope and found Jupiter there the Significator of the Defendant And Luna also was at that time unfortunate which portended that Rumours and Reports how lowd and many soever either in City or Country against the Defendant would speedily vanish and come to nothing and that his Fame like the Sun recovering from a Cloud would but thereby shine the more illustrious Nay Luna too was void of Course and in Opposition of Mercury and neither of them cast either Sextile or Trine to the Ascendent which put the Wise-Man to a notable Plunge he was in a Quandare and knew not well what to think on 't However in good earnest false Rumours Reports and slanderous Aspersions are certainly not only the most common but the most effectual Engine that the Devil or Devilish Men can make use off to batter any honest Man or Man of Honour for though such an one acquit himself never so well yet Hell has also broach'd a Proverb that shall always fix a little upon him namely There is never any Smoak but there is some Fire As if Slander could not invent a Lye a groundless Lye Slander I had almost said Almighty Slander that seems to be able to baffle almost the Principles of Divinity and Philosophy Philosophy says ex nihilo nihil fit of nothing can come nothing 'T is false Slander can produce something out of nothing as you may see in this ensuing Tryal of all the many and loud Clamours wherewith Malice and Slander charged Mr. Hickeringill there was nothing just nothing proved against him Divinity says That God alone can create something of nothing but here and often we find that Slander can create something out of nothing such a something that there were very few but gave up Mr. Hickeringhill for a gone-Man dead dead or as bad to be bury'd alive in perpetual Imprisonment O most Mighty and Potent Slander King David could not tell how to resist it It non-plust him What shall be given thee and what shall be done unto thee O thou false Tongue and the Wisdom of Solomon could not tell who was able enough to stand against Envy The King's-Guards cannot keep Slander out of the Court she dares