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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31060	A Bill and answer, betwixt Jack Catch plaintiff, and Slingsby Bethel, & al. defendants, of the year, 1681 published for the satisfaction of all true lovers of conscience and equity.	Bethel, Slingsby, 1617-1697.	1686 (1686)	Wing B93; ESTC R38676	6,492	20

A BILL AND ANSWER BETWIXT JACK CATCH Plaintiff AND SLINGSBY BETHEL al. Defendents Of the Year 1681. Published for the Satisfaction of All True Lovers of Conscience and Equity This may be Printed Rich. Pocock March 8. 168● 6. LONDON Printed by J. B. for Joseph Hindmarsh at the Golden-Ball over against the Royall-Exchange in Cornhill 1686. A BILL and ANSWER Betwixt Jack Catch Plaintiff and Slingsby Bethel al. Defendents Catch agt Bethel Bill in Equity HUmbly Complaining and with reason good As will appear when he is understood Your Orator John Ketch St. Giles Esquire Comes with all due submission to desire That he of this High Court may Justly have Justice against an Old True Prot'stant Knave To wit ' gainst Bethelesky who was late Controuler of that strong and famous Gate That holds the Thieves and Rebells of the Town When caught 'till Sov'reign Justice cuts them down And being as aforesaid in that place Preferr'd by Knaves and Fools He tells his Case In manner following Worthy Friend and Brother Says he and so we still did call each other 'T is not unknown I am sure dear Jack to you What my New Office does oblige me to 'T is true my old acquaintance Friend and Brother That I can Hang and Head well as another But having other business to dispatch And then he hugg'd me close my Dearest Catch I must if we agree leave that affair To your wise management your Art and Care I know y' are Active Resolute and Stout And able as my self I 'me old to do 't And abler for in truth fince 48. My loving friend I never did the feat To speak on tho' a friend to the profession And would again upon the same occasion Faithfully serve the People of the Nation But to my great Content dear Jack I see While you survive there'l be no need of me Thou art the Top of our Fraternity Thus he cajol'd your humble Orator Who having Brandy ta'ne too much and Beer Was soon prevail'd upon with these fair words To take the management of th'Ax and Cords Which he perform'd for the Defendents Year As to this Court he hopes to make appear And That he did it at so Cheap a rate Had he been paid 't would scarce have found him meat Not then suspecting what would be the End on 't Nor could believe this Canting damn'd Defendent Had a design to Cheat at least to differ With one of his Profession and in Nature Not much unlike to him but for all that Your Orator can't get a single Groat Altho' he hath performed every part Of his Agreement yet to his grief of heart The just Reward of all his Care and pains Still in this Bethelesky's hands remains And there for ever since deny'd it must Unless the Court shall force him to be Just The Bargain being made only between Our selves and some good friends of his and mine Who since that time are either Hang'd or gone So that in truth your Orator has none To prove the Truth of the aforesaid matter Or if he had what would he be the better Were they unhang'd and here what signifies In this affair a thousand Witnesses For he may 't please ye 's Hand and Glove with one That Juries make for Country and for Town By Nature bow'd that he may ne're look up For in his leaden face Gibbet and Rope In every meager line do's plain appear His restless Eyes speak Jealousy and fear A gate so out of mode and meen so odd He sins that dares believe him made by G. The Nauseous Spawn of a seditious breed A Sinner in his Fathers reins and seed He first spoke Treason in his Mothers Arms Adapted to all villanies and harms Considering which your Orator as well May expect Justice from a Court of Hell Where Pluto and the damned perjur'd Furys Are Righteous to this wretched Rascals Juries And you may please to know both these Defendents Are Presbyters and have been Independents And any one of that profession may Plot and speak Treason Take and never pay Abuse the State At Church and Church-men raile Protected by an Ignoramus Flayle ' Gainst which in Middlesex there 's no defence There 's nothing like a Juries Impudence Prove all you can ' gainst Whigg what then comes on 't The Jury they return a Protestant And the Debt's paid just so 't is like to be With your poor helpless Orator if he In this high Court can have no Remedy As in this Case an 't please ye is plainly seen After your Orator had often been As he well hop'd and was advis'd he might With the old Hamburgher to ask his Right We put him off still with one Trick or Fetch But after all see how this wicked Wretch This lewd Defendent serv'd him Sans remorse Avaunt he cry'd go hang and take your Course Sometimes pretending with Contempt and Scorn He had a hangman been e'er I was born And hop'd he should be so when I was dead And therefore of me had no use or need When he well knoweth how we did agree As I before have said for Sallery But these Reproaches made your Orator ' Tho' poor enough his angry heart to stir And boldly said he hoped that he might Find out a way to get his honest Right Then Splay-foot spoke I meant ' other Defendent And with a hanging look Cry'd make an end on 't For my old Friend Jack Ketch I here assure ye If you an Action bring I 'le bring a Jury That Cut my very heart 't was then I knew I could have no Relief except from you Your Orator then told them his sad State That if He were not paid he could not eat All 's one the Rogues cry'd out Sirrah avaunt 'T was you that hang'd our Friend the Protestant You might have staid at home and not have gone To hang the honest Joyner at Oxon. Threatning sometimes how if I staid they 'd serve me That is lock me up in Prison and then starve me As they had serv'd good men the year before I' th Compter it was then I slipt the door For I well knew their malice to the poor Possest with such a fear I never since Durst 'till before this Court make my pretence Knowing in truth no reasonable Cause To expect help in Middlesex by Laws For these Defendents are those Wights so famous For Murthering Justice with an Ignoramus ' Gainst Fact prov'd ne're so positive and well On mighty Charles's side and will they deal Better with me tho' I believe it 's true They love me much the better of the two We 're told yet that an Action must be laid If it be brought where we the bargain made Now forasmuch as these Defendents may By Answer since there is no other way Set forth the truth if possible of all The things before alledg'd both great and small First whether Old Hamburgh did not agree To pay your Orator a Sallary And he to have the Antient Fee