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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52646	A narrative of the proceedings at the sessions-house in the Old-Bailey, April 21, 1680. The number of persons condemned for high-treason and other crimes.	England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London)	1680 (1680)	Wing N213; ESTC R214295	3,770	4

A NARRATIVE Of the Proceedings AT THE Sessions-house In the Old-Bailey April 21 1680. The Number of persons Condemned for High-Treason and other Crimes IT would be both too tedious and to little purpose to publish every particular Tryal and the Circumstances of all ill Acts which were here examined and the Actors thereof brought to Justice we shall onely speak of the most considerable amongst which we must account The business of Mr. Harrison Indicted for the Murder of one Mr. Jacob they lived at Westminster and were both Sword-men the party killed having a suspition of his Wise had several times had quarrels with him about it and fore-warned him from keeping her company but notwithstanding understood one day that they were together and was so enraged that the Prisoner thought fit to make his escape as fast as he could backwards to avoid his fury who came upon him with his Sword and made several passes at him so that the Prisoner was obliged to draw his own Sword which he used so unhappily that Mr. Jacob was kill'd Upon a long discussion of the whole Circumstances Mrs. Jacob being an Evidence against him he was found guilty of Minslaughter A bruitish fellow said to belong to Bridewell was found guilty by the Jury for Middlesex for a barbarous Rape committed on a Child not above seven years old and very small of growth for that age he inticed her into the House where he and his Mother dwelt by giving her an Apple and there began to practise his filthiness which he pursued so far that the Child some few days after complaining to its Mother who when she came to search sound her most lamentably abused several Women and two Chyrurgeons gave Evidence against him making out the Crime as far as the Law requires and the Child from the very first and ever constantly charged him with it and that no body else had medled with her T was proved that he had a Gonorrhea of the soul disease when he did this villany and thereby endangered the Childs life as well with that Contagion as by the violence so that he was justly found guilty Another was prosecuted for a Rape by a woman of about four or five and twenty years of age but it was done as she said two years ago and though she had seen the man several times yet she never complained till now so that it was supposed that because he did not come at her again or to get a little Money was the chief cause and end of the prosecution There were a great number of Clippers and Coyners Arraigned at this Sessions whereof several were Convicted others Acquitted of the former sort were Mrs Richardson and her Son a brisk bold young fellow and pretending himself a Dancing-master another woman was Indicted with them but Acquitted Mrs. Richardson had brought a Trunk lockt to this other womans house and set it obscurely under the Cellar-stairs in this Trunk there were found the Tools for Clipping likewise at home when she was taken there were some Clippings discovered and she cryed out of a window and said she was undone and the Son endeavoured to fly for it so that they were found guilty One Vnderwood and a Wench he kept company with a very courteous Lady for at the Bar she boasted she never had been unkind to any man in her life were likewise Convicted of High-Treason for the like offence much clipt Money and Clippings and the necessary Implements being found upon them Both these and two former lived near Pickadilly and 't is supposed were all of a gang or had conversation together they were first discovered by means of a Card-match Girl to whom this Vnderwoods Mistress boasted that she could get a Guinney a day by this Mystery and told her something of the way and who held a Correspondence with them but this Girl is since dead on a sudden not without suspition of Poyson to prevent her Testimony however there was enough without her to do their business being both found guilty Another person who drove the same Trade alone by himself was also found guilty the matter was proved so plainly on him that there could be no doubt or difficulty made of it A person living in or near Grubstreet and his Wife were likewise charged with the same Offence The Evidence for the King made out several presumptions against them but there was a multitude of their Neighbours and others that came in to testifie as to their Credit c. And the Prisoners alledged the prosecution was upon an old grudge and endeavoured to recriminate upon one of the chief Evidence it did appear that four years ago their House had been searched on suspition of this Crime of Clipping and then nothing found that could rendes them obnoxious to the Law so that after a full and fair Tryal they were acquitted Several persons as is usual every Sessions were Convicted for stealing of silver Tankards and divers for Shop-listing the particulars too redious to relate One Daniel Mackarty an Irish-man was Tryed and Convicted of Treason as being a Popish Priest the manner of his Apprehension was thus A woman in Charles-street being very sick this Father officiated with her said Mass and Administred the Sacrament to her of which the Nurse gave notice to some honest Neighbours who took out a Warrant and seized him in the said sick womans Chamber who much interceded and begged that they would not take him away for if they did she should be in danger of losing her Soul but they advised her to send for a Protestant Divine and take instructions from him and not to trust such blind Popish guides with their Idolatrous Masses and foolish Ceremonies of Extream Unction and groundless Absolutions where there is neither true Faith or Repentance The Nurse testified that she had heard the Prisoner say Mass and exercise other parts of the Priestly Function Dr. Oates likewise was a Witness against him that he confessed to him that he was a Priest when he was brought to his Chamber In his Pocket when he was taken there was found a Petition to the Venetian Ambassador expressed by the name of Daniel Mackarty Priest setting forth his being in want and desiring relief as likewise a Letter in French directed to him and signifying likewise that he was a Priest which Papers were read in Court He had little to say for himself but behaved himself impudently calling the Witnesses scurrilous names c. Nothing could be made more plain than his Priesthood which in truth he scarce denyed and so was found guilty which he seemed not at all to regard being a person as most of them are of a wonderful confidence The Petition before-mentioned was in French and therein it was specified what Order he was of likewise there was another Paper in the same Language purporting to be directions how if he were taken he should behave himself what excuses and pretences he should make what he should say if confronted