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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89976	An exact abridgment of all the trials (not omitting any material passage therein) which have been published since the year 1678 relating to the popish, and pretended Protestant-plots in the reigns of King Charles the 2d, and King James the 2d.	P. N.	1690 (1690)	Wing N64A; ESTC R229644	248,177	499

the quarterly Sessions several came to them to ask News and they told of Mr. Arnold's Hurt and were as sorry for it as any Persons could be and confess'd it a very ill thing That he supposed Mr. Arnold must needs be acquainted with Giles he having been head-Constable and always a Protestant Then John Jones the Cutler's Apprentice swore That his Master asking the Prisoner Mr. Giles Have you been in some Battel Have you been fighting with the Devil No said he for I never met with Arnold And that he did not hear his Wife bid him hold his Tongue Then John Howel Mr. William Richmond's Man deposed That he came to Town with Giles that Day about 12 and that he heard him call to his Master about 11 or 12 a Clock that Night Then Ann Beron being sworn she deposed That Giles was in her Company most part of that Day and that she was at Dinner with him and till 9 a Clock at Night when she left him in the Kitching and went to Bed Elizabeth Crook the Maid of the Inn she swore she made his Bed about 10 and before 11 asked him if she should take away his Candle He bid her lock the Door and he would put out his Candle but she went away and did not and left the Candle She denied that Mr. Richmond came to her or that she saw him till he refresh'd her Memory by remembring her how he courted her to make himself merry which then she acknowledged much to the credit of Mr. Richmond's Testimony and disparagement of her own Then one Edward James did swear That he drank with Giles at the King's-Arms in St. Martin's-Lane from 9 to 12 at Night and then left him in the Kitchen the same Night the Maid had sworn otherwise just before him Then Robin Gibbon John Chadwick Eliz. Peter Powel and Roger How all swore they saw him about 9 but that was not material To these Witnesses the King's Counsel thought it needless to answer they being all either frivolous or contradictory Therefore Sir George Jefferies the Recorder summ'd up the Evidence and directed the Jury who withdrew and after about half an hours debate brought the Prisoner in Guilty Which done the Court adjourn'd till the Saturday following when the Recorder passed the Sentence of the Court upon him which was To stand from 12 to one in the Pillory one day at the place where the Fact was committed another day over against Greys-Inn in Holborn and another at the May-pole in the Strand with a Paper on his Hat signifying his Offence and then to pay to the King 500 l. and be committed in Execution till paid and then to find Sureties for his Good-Behaviour during Life The Trial of Elizabeth Cellier at the Old-Baily on Saturday Sept. 11 1680. THen and there the Defendant appeared upon an Information for Writing Printing and Publishing a scandalous Libel called Malice defeated c. to which she had pleaded Not Guilty The Jury were John Ainger Richard Boys John Stephens Thomas Phelps Gilbert Vrwin Edward Allanson Richard Living John Coggs Henry Hodgsden John Barnard Edward Low and James Southern To whom the Information being read Robert Dormer Esq opened the same and then Mr. John Penny depos'd that he bought that Book the Libel being shewn him of Mrs. Cellier who own'd it for hers and said she could if there were occasion put a great deal more in Mr. William Downing deposed that he printed part of that Book by her direction to fol. 22. and then the Messenger found it and some body else printed the rest Mr. Robert Stephens depos'd that he saw the Book a printing at Mr. Downings and heard Mrs. Cellier own it for hers and say that she kept a Man in the House to write it and she dictated to him and that he saw her sell several of them Then Mr. Matthias Fowler deposed that he bought two of them Books of Mrs. Cellier for 4 s. hearing that his Name was mention'd therein tho very falsly as he had made Oath before the Lord Mayor all that he knew being only this That on the Tuesday seven-night after the Murder of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey one Corral a Coachman waiting to carry some Gentlemen that were in his House begg'd a Pipe of Tobacco of his Wife in the Bar Ay said she thou lookst like an honest Fellow and I believe thou hast no hand in the Plot a casual word that was passant at that time thereupon he began to tell her how he had escaped that danger for that four met him against St. Clemens Church-wall and swore he should stand and do as they would have him when he saw Sir Edm. Godfrey's Body in a Sedan whom he sham'd upon and told them he could not carry him for that the Axle-Tree of his Coach was broke That this he over-heard and came out which the Fellow repeated over again to him but then perceiving he had been too lavish in his Discourse he run out in haste pretending to see whether the Seats of his Coach were not stolen out whom he followed and found him driving away tho he had left his Whip behind He took the number of his Coach which the next day giving to Captain Richardson he secured the Man and he was brought with him to Wallingford-house and examin'd by the Duke of Buckingham the Earl of Shaftsbury the Marquess of Winchester two other Lords and Major Wildman where he confessed the whole matter that he said so at his House but would have sham'd it off himself that he only heard it from others and being nothing could be got out of him he was reordered to Newgate where he continued several Months but that he never was with him there as the Libel charged him Whereupon the Libel was then produced and the several Clauses recited in the Indictment were read which were to this purpose It was intituled Malice defeated or a brief Relation of the Accusation and Deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier wherein her Proceedings both before and during her Confinement are particularly related and the Mystery of the Meal-Tub fully discovered together with an Abstract of her Arraignment and Trial. Written by her self for the Satisfaction of all Lovers of undisguised Truth In the Book she gives an Account how she turn'd from Protestanism to Popery upon the occasion of King Charles I. Murther ascribing the Preservation of King Charles II. at Worcester wholly to the Papists and from her Observation of the chiefest Sticklers for the Plot being those or the Sons of those that acted the principal Parts in the last Tragedy she doubted of its Truth and therefore thought it her Duty through all sorts of hazards to relieve the poor imprisoned Catholicks which she had done some Months before ever she saw the Countess of Powis c. That on Thursday Jan. 9 1678 she being in Newgate with five Women of which three were Protestants about four in the Afternoon they all heard terrible Groans and Squeeks which came out