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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54344	A Perfect narrative of the robbery and murder committed near Dame Annis so Cleer, on Friday night the second of July, 1669, upon the person of Mr. John Talbot quondam preacher to a regiment of His Majesties forces in Portugal and lately ... curate of Laindon in Essex, who ... was stripped ... stabbed into the throat by six men and a bloody woman ... together with their examinations, tryal, and confessions.		1669 (1669)	Wing P1503; ESTC R36665	16,600	39

come into the Garden and what occasioned him to be about that place so late he having before declared that they set upon him about eleven a clock on Friday night to which he gave this answer That as he was on Friday seeking for one Mr. John Pell in Holborn a Shop-keeper being a stranger to him bid him look to himself for he was dogged by many Knaves whereupon he fearing an arrest from some people of Laindon in Essex he betook himself to Grays-Inn where by some Lawyers he was civilly entertained declaring to them his condition and withal sent for some of his acquaintance to come to him but they not being at home he waited there for their coming till it was very late thinking thereby that those persons which before had followed him and had there been seen to wait for him would for that time have given over their hopes and expectations of taking him and so have drawn off from waiting any longer that night for him and therefore when he and the Gentlemen with whom he was thought it convenient for him to depart they advised him to go the privatest way he could to his Lodging which was in Bishopsgate-street which accordingly he did but withal soon perceived that he was still dogged though they made no attempt to assault or come upon him and at last as he thought he had quite lost them and had been quite escaped from them he having for some time no perceivance of them till as he was going along the High-way leading from Oldstreet to Shorditch they made fresh suit after him crying out to the bloody Woman with them Sarah Sarah a Coach a Coach which as he apprehended was to carry him away till such time as he heard her as she followed them cry out to them Kill the Dog and thereupon he run out of the High-way into the fields and from thence into the Garden thinking thereby to have got to the house therein and so have escaped their bloody design but they being so resolute and violent in the pursuit of him that they entred the Garden after him and just within the hedge of it sezied him laying him on the ground clapping some of their hands to his mouth others kneeling on his breast whilst one took him by the throat and with his own knife that they had taken out of his pocket cut away a great piece of his skin and flesh closs to the wind-pipe to the breadth of a six pence stabbing him likewise in the same place which done they stripped off his Coat Doublet and Breeches but by some strange providence as yet not certainly known to us they were so prevented that they were constrained to leave both him and most of his cloaths in the Garden save only his Knife and Doublet with the two gold rings and one pound ten pence in money as before mentioned And this he several times asserted to me and several others to be the only ground and cause of his being in such a place and at such a time of the night Now if this be true as we are charitably to judge it is it being almost the last words and writing of a dying man it may then serve to confute and reprehend the many false and various constructions and apprehensions of many persons concerning the said Mr. Talbot who so far as I can perceive have causlessly aspersed him with being conversant amongst these people the day before as if he had been naught with Sarah Swift and so by that means was surprized with her and fell into the hands of his barbarous and bloody enemies but this accusation carrieth nothing of weight or certainty with it for as much as this Sarah was so pitiful a scrubbed lowsie creature that I think it should have loathed him or any man to come near to her The second Attestation of Mr. Went a Weaver Constable living near Shoreditch-Church I Going to Newgate on the Lords day after the Robbery to learn what I could of Sarah Swift I had information from a prisoner in Newgate That one George Rhodes came to him and took him by the hand thorough the Grate and told him that Sarah Swift was had before a Justice for being suspected to be guilty of cutting the throat and robbing one in Shore-ditch and told him he was sorry for her and wisht she might get well off and withall trembled the while he had him by the hand and was so amazed he could not tell how to go down stairs Then the Prisoner bid him go fetch two or three penny-worth of That same it being an usual term with them whereupon he jumped down stairs telling him he was going to take horse to ride out of Town As we came from Newgate we call'd in at Cloth-Fair where we had directions how to find him but his Parents being both dead we heard he was an Apprentice in Long-Lane with a Broker coming thither to look for him his Master told me That he had been gone from him a Fortnight but he would come again to morrow whereupon I told him I would come to morrow to speak with him and accordingly I did but he was not then come thereupon I acquainted his Master with the reason of my coming desiring him to secure and bring him forth that he might be Examined touching the Crime that he was suspected Guilty of who the same day came along with him to my house to Shoreditch but I being not within he was by Mr. Dod our Parish-Clark accompanied to the wounded man The Attestation of John Chapman Headborough of Shoreditch followeth AS soon as he came the wounded person made signe for Pen Ink and Paper and writes thus Mr. Dod pray ask him what he made on Friday in Grays-Inn walking so long time up and down here and there I met him and he lookt grim on me I cannot attest he was one that cut my throat But I am sure he was one that dog'd me So he gave Mr. Dod the paper-paper-book and made signes for it again and writes Send for an Officer The Broker ask'd him what time of the Day he saw him in Grays-Inn and he call'd a third time for the Book and wrote The hour I cannot tell being in so much fear and trouble but I am sure he was one that dog'd me with that there was an Officer sent for which was my self I did apprehend him in in a low Room in the House accompanied with his Master and two more besides Mr. Dod the Clark I asked his Master some questions and he told me he had absented himself from him this Fortnight and that he came and bought out his time that Morning for five pound for three years to come He denied the Fact for the which he was apprehended so I carried him before Justice Pitfield After his Mittimus was made there was three persons made Affidavit that the said George Rhodes going before the Justice kickt the Dust and said He valued not his life for if he were hang'd