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A64729	Innocency and truth vindicated an account of what hath been, or is ready to be deposed to prove the most treacherous and cruel murder of the Right Honourable Arthur, late Earl of Essex : with reflections upon the evidence, and the most material objections against this murder discuss'd and answered, in a conference between three gentlement concerning the present inquiry into the death of that noble Lord and true patriot.	Braddon, Laurence, d. 1724.; V. P.	1689 (1689)	Wing V10; ESTC R25177	149,907	113

of Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey Such means as these would have been likewise in this case used if such who then misled Charles the Second and corrupted the State had not been the deepest in this black Contrivance G. This Letter I perceive mentions some other besides His Highness Pray who was else named T. In this I desire your Pardon but of the Name and Person you may hereafter hear G. Sir I desire to know nothing but what you are very free to tell T. Some things are not convenient to be spoken of till a more convenient Season G. I shall press to know nothing which may disserve this Discovery by being divulged What Religion was this Bomeny I have been informed he was a very good Protestant and one that my Lord had a great kindness for It 's much this Fellow if a Protestant could be prevailed with to connive at so Horrid a piece of Cruelty T. Bomeny's Religion was like many other Mens to be managed and changed in shew according to his Interest but cordially I do believe him still a Papist Whatsoever opinion my Lord might have of this Fellow as to his Faithfulness I am very well satisfied this Villain was engaged before my Lord was brought from his Country-house in this treacherous Murder for as my Lord was in the Custody of the Guard and bringing through Watford when all my Lord 's other Servants and even the whole Town were in Tears for his Lordship's Trouble this Judas rid smiling and talking of French with some of the Guards L. In hopes that within some short time he should receive more for his Perfidiousness than his Service might expect in many years But these Gains were his greatest Loss for what more ready way could he have taken to Destruction here I don't say against that he was secure enough but hereafter and what would it profit this Varlet to gain the World and lose his own Soul T. As for his Religion you may conclude it belonged to that Church whose Garments are dipped in the Blood of the Saints and that this Fellows Religion was really such tho in appearance he seemed otherwise may reasonably be concluded from this Story of which I have been credibly Informed The Protestant Minister where Bomeny lived in France after my Lord's Death prest Bomeny very earnestly to deal ingeniously in this Case for the Minister declared he was very well satisfied my Lord of Essex was Murdered and he was well assured that Bomeny must know it therefore the Minister protested he was not free that Bomeny should come to Church much less be admitted to the Blessed Sacrament till in this matter he had discharged himself Bomeny finding himself thus pressed by his Minister thought it best openly to profess what he was and the very next day declared himself a Papist L. That Priest to whom he should confess this Murder would be so far from enjoyning him a Penance that he would commend this action as Meritorious T. It was indeed for the Advancement of that Church so often drunk with the Blood of the Martyrs and the Stones of which Church are Cemented with the Blood of the Saints G. Then this traiterous Varlet who betrayed the best of Masters was only in shew a Protestant that thereby he might have the better opportunity of serving a Church which did ever by bloody means advance its Interest L. It 's very probable this vile perfidious Fellow was a constant Spy upon my Lord but when that Service was to have an end by the Destruction of his Person then was this barbarous Villain to finish his treachery in being Privy to the most astonishing Piece of complicated Cruelty and after that to Crown and Conceal this cursed Butchery Perjury was to be added so that this Murder might be laid to my Lord 's own Charge as well to destroy this Honourable Lord's Reputation as to protect those cruel Miscreants who had before perfidiously Murdered his Person G. Sir I am very glad you have thus given Mr. Bomeny's Character for I am very well satisfied that an Eminent Doctor for whom I am sure you have a very great Reverence believes quite otherwise of this Fellow for I have heard the Doctor give this Bomeny a very good Character which I do suppose he had only by Information and by what Relation this fellow did give the Doctor he was strongly perswaded that my Lord did it himself tho I am sure no Man would be more readily convinced upon good Ground than this Doctor would neither would any living be more zealous in a just Prosecution if once he had good Grounds to proceed upon which I can now soon furnish him with and Answer those very Objections which so much influenced the Doctor to a disbelief of my Lord 's being treacherously Murdered and one of his Reasons for the Self-murder was this Soon after my Lord's Death Mr. Bomeny that treacherous Villain of whom I cannot think with Patience gives the Doctor this Account That his Lord did use to be taken with sudden frenzical Passions and in particular with one that Morning just before his Death For said this vile Judas As soon as my Lord saw my Lord Russel go to his Tryal he struck his Breast and said himself was the cause of my Lord Russel 's Misery seeing he had vouched for that Gentleman whose Treachery would prove my Lord Russel 's Ruin c. and hereupon fell almost Distracted But I perceive this Story is intirely forg'd For the Jury here swear that this very Fellow to them the next day after my Lord's Death upon Oath declared My Lord was as chearful and the Night before eat an hearty a Supper as he did ever see him in his Life And gives them no Account of this treacherous Forgery nor any thing like it but all in Contradiction to it This appears by his first Oath T. It 's very probable at Mr. Braddon's Tryal he would have forgot this part of his Lesson had not the Attorney General whether out of any ill Design or according to Mr. Burton's false Instruction I know not put him in mind of this particular for when Mr. Attorney said Did you observe your Lord Melancholly Mr. Bomeny L. Without doubt Mr. Bomeny understood what Answer he was to give to this Question T. Yes And followed not the truth but in part tho very imperfectly his Instructions ●…don's ●… p. For Bomeny said Yes he was Melancholly but we took no notice of it for he did use to be so and we had no reason to suspect any thing more than ordinary L. Observe now how different or rather contradictory this Answer is to that Relation this perjured Villain gave this Doctor and both destroyed by that Account he upon Oath the vey next day after my Lord's Death gave the Jury for he then swore his Lord was very chearful had the Relation given the Doctor been true how ready would Bomeny to this Question have given it in answer and what an

do believe that the same Power and Interest that hired those perfidious Villains to permit what was so barbarously executed had likewise given them Instructions what to Swear to give colour to the pretended Self-murder and therefore His Highness might be the best prepared to answer all Objections against these mens Depositions But I long to hear how His Highness endeavoured to reconcile them T. His Highness could not then turn Reconciler and therefore said nothing to this matter but delivered them to his then Majesty who said as little whereupon the then Lord Keeper North took those Informations and endeavoured to reconcile what was indeed irreconcileable Whereupon Mr. Braddon objected against his Lordship's Reconciliation and urged the former Objections further upon which his Lordship seemed though not much by his words yet by his very pale changed Countenance highly displeased with Mr. Braddon for making those Reflections L. What were these Depositions Printed for but to be observed did his Lordship think that every man would swallow such gross Contradictions as his Lordship's Corruption against his Judgment would have reconciled T. After a long Examination too tedious here to repeat Mr. Braddon was ordered to withdraw and then the Young William Edwards was called in the Child being then not Thirteen years of Age was very much afraid having as before been foolishly frighted by his Eldest Sister as though the King would Hang him and cry'd whereupon as the Sister hath reported the Child was stroaked upon the Head and bid not to cry and then asked Whether he had not invented that Lye to excuse his Truenting that day L. A proper Question by way of Instruction for such a Child to answer I suppose the Boy then answered as by this question he was in effect bid T. You are in the right for the Child to this question answered Yes The Sister was examined and she gave the same account you have before at large heard as to what the Boy had declared and how Mr. Braddon had discoursed them and then Mr. Braddon was the second time called in and by the Lord Keeper North told that he had instructed this Boy in a Lye and would have suborned the Child to Swear it To which Mr. Braddon answered It was impossible he could instruct him to say what the Boy had declared several days before he had ever seen the Boy or any of his Relations as appeared by what his Sister and the Boy himself must own L. Had not his Lordship's Honour and Interest suborned his Conscience in this matter he would have dealt more fairly Mr. Bradden then told his Lordship That being well satisfied in his Innocence and Integrity he seared not any Prosecution but would readily give whatsoever Bail his Lordship should require and accordingly that Afternoon gave Bonds with two Friends in 2000 l. a piece for his Appearance and hereupon continued the Prosecution with all Vigor imaginable for he was now obliged in Self-Justice to endeavor in what he could to corroborate the Boy 's Evidence which my Lord Keeper North corruptly called a Lye and to which his Lordship without any ground pretended that Mr. Braddon would have suborned the Boy to Swear for at the same time it appeared to his Lordship as far as Negative could appear that Mr. Braddon had not given offered or promised to the Boy or any for him or to any of his Relations one Farthing or Farthings-worth but did as you have before at large heard use such Arguments as might most naturally Influence the Boy to truth After Mr. Braddon had been about a month hurried up and down in both Town and Country upon several Inquiries and all People except one Gentleman who was ever ready to go with Mr. Braddon upon all occasions very unwilling in the least to concern themselves Crag L. It is very natural for men to be deter'd from engaging in that which was so roughly managed by the Council-Board and threatned the Ruine of him who first appeared for few men are for living a State-Confessor caged up within Iron Grates or dying their Countries Martyr but think themselves obliged to mind only their private Affairs leaving all Affairs of State to those that have the Command and Steerage of this great Vessel the Government lest by their Intermeddling in those ticklish matters themselves should have followed the unjust misfortune of those brave men who couragiously though to their Ruine opposed themselves to the usurpt Prerogative and Tyranny of the Times T. Had all men been like those men of Prudence as they falsly term their Cowardices what would long since have become of this Vessel wherein all with all we have are imbarqued The Commander in Chief with most of the Chief Officers had by a corrupt perjured Agreement amongst themselves resolved upon the Sale of both Men and Cargo to that Corrupt and Arbitrary Will which in a short time if not providentially prevented would have claimed all we are and have as though we had held neither Property Liberty or Life but as those Corrupt Judges did their places Durante bene placito Regis But to return About the 16th of August 1683. Mr. Braddon rid down into Wiltshire to Marlborough to enquire after a Report before my Lord's Death of my Lord 's cutting his Throat From Marlborough he was riding to Froom in Somersetshire and at Bradford about six Miles short of Froom he was stopt there being then strict Watching and Warding throughout that Country by a Vile Persecuting Fellow one Captain Beach an Attorney who was ever Zealous for the Ruine and Destruction of those that stood firm to the True English Interest and yet now pretends to be Zealous for his present Majesty and Government though he declared when His Majesty first Landed he did hope to see most of those Hanged that went in to him being here Examined and having given the Justice Satisfaction a Gentleman then there knowing Mr. Braddon and assuring the Justice he knew him to be the same man he declared he was the Justice was taken aside by Beach and as others declared who had heard this Beach told that he did not so strictly as he ought examine this Gentleman for the Gentleman was certainly Disaffected to the Government as might be seen by his wearing a Band and Cuffs L. A very strong Argument upon my word T. Hereupon the Justice came to Mr. Braddon and told him he must search him upon which Mr. Braddon before ever the Justice saw his Papers ingeniously declared the cause of his being then in the Country where he was going and upon what occasion upon which the Justice Commits Mr. Braddon to Wiltshire Goal by such an illegal Warrant in its conclusion as you never saw The Warrant ran as followeth viz. Wilts ss TO the Keeper of His Majesties Goal of Fisherton-Anger in this County or his Sufficient Deputy These I send you herewithall the Body of Lawrence Braddon apprehended in the Town of Bradford in the County

a surprize amongst his Relations this great surprize would be as pleasing to the Person that withdrew as it would be astonishing to his Friends and therefore it was pretended to be believed by some that Mr. Hawley had privately withdrawn under this Consideration but six Weeks discovered his Person and time may likewise detect those Bloody and Barbarous Men that murthered him They were so very cruel in this Murther that his Face was so changed through violence that it could not be known to be his and there was nothing that did more if any thing did besides discover the Body to be his than his having three Stockings upon one Leg and two Stockings and a Seer-cloath upon the other as for his Cloathes they were stript off and nothing but Stockins and Shooes remaining on when the Body was found L. Certainly that God who requires Blood for Blood and who by this ordered the Discoveries of the Person will in his great Wisdom and Justice by some means or other of which His Wisdom is never to seek in the choice or His Power in the use discover these Instruments of Cruelty that in this Life they may receive their just Reward which is for the most part though sometimes after many years duly paid towards such vile Offenders T. Besides this addition of Blood other violent Methods were used to prevent a discovery by punishing such Soldiers as seemed to disbelieve upon very good grounds my Lord's Self-murther this appears by this Information following viz. Richard Jorden declareth That sometime that Summer the Earl of Essex dyed and not long after the said Earl's Death he saw a Soldier ty'd to the Wooden Horse in the Tower by order of Lieutenant-Collonel Nichols and whipt after a very cruel manner And this Deponent heard the said Lieutenant-Collonel tell the Soldier he ought to be hanged This Deponent further declareth That he was just after informed by the Marshal that whipt the said Soldier That by order of Lieutenant-Collonel Nichols he gave the said Soldier 53 Stripes tho' the usual number was but 12 and that the said Soldier had lain a fortnight before in close custody and been fed only with Bread and Wather and all only for the Offence following viz. Some short time after the Death of the late Earl of Essex a Divine * Dr. H. of Norfolk Prebend of Norwich coming into the Tower the said Soldier was sent with him to shew him the Tower and as the Doctor was almost over against Major Hawley's the Doctor asked the said Soldier which was the Chamber wherein the late Earl of Essex did cut his Throat whereupon the said Soldier pointing to the Chamber in which the Earl had been Prisoner declared That is the Chamber in which it 's said the Earl of Essex cut his Throat The Doctor then asked the Soldier what he did believe to which the Soldier answered That he did believe in God but being prest by the said Doctor to tell him whether he did believe my Lord cut his Throat the said Solder then replied He would not say he did believe it for which only saying the Punishment aforesaid was inflicted L. Such Extravagant Punishments upon so slight Grounds was enough to deter all other Solders from discovering what they knew for if this Soldier for only declaring he would not say he did believe my Lord did cut his Throat was thus barbarously whipt what must such Soldiers expect as should have asserted my Lord was by others murthered and gave their Reasons for such belief by telling what they saw and heard with relation to this Perfidious and Cruel Murther most certain this would have met with if possible worse whipping than Doctor Oates ever suffered or been punished by some private Stab or other destruction to avoid the Matter 's being brought upon the publick Stage G. I do remember Meake is said to have declared the day after my Lord's Murther that many Soldiers were enjoined to secrecy It were well if these would according to their duty appear and declare what they know and by whom they were thus basely commanded to be secret for this Officer could not but believe That whoever gave him Orders to lay that Injunction was privy to the Murther and therefore this Officer was grosly Criminal in being this Instrument to stifle the detection and most certainly are those Soldiers Criminal which shall not now appear and judicially declare what they know to be true so that Justice may have its due course against those most barbarous and vile Offenders For if the time of this bare-faced Cruelty against such Soldiers that knew any thing of this matter and revealed it was a time of silence most certain now the Government joins in the Prosecution is the time to speak and whosoever refuses now to speak becomes not a little Criminal in such his silence L. I have been informed the Father of William Edwards was turned out of his Place for what his Son had said T. That the Father was turned out about nine days after Mr. Braddon's Tryal is very true and this done by special Order under King Charles the Second's own Hand without any cause shown or any reason to be guessed at any other than his Son's Offence L. I do remember at Mr. Braddon's Tryal Mr. Wallop whose Courage and Zeal for the Liberty of the Subject hath been Notorious in the most dangerous times did suggest that the Father thought himself in danger of losing his place from what his Son had declared Whereupon my Lord Chief Justice Jefferies very sharply reproved Mr. Wallop for reflecting in this upon the Government as though the Father should be punished for the Son 's speaking what he knew If the suggesting the danger of the Place was a Reflection upon the Government most certainly the Government did strongly reflect upon its self in turning Old Edwards out and giving no reason for such Dismission which made him conclude and all the World believe that the Father was turned out only for his Son's Relation T. The old Jewish unjust Proverb was here inverted for The Son had eaten sower Grapes and the Father's Teeth were set on edge so that this Transgression in its punishment did directly ascend and the Father answered for the Son's Iniquity or rather for what the then Government falsly called so L. I think every Man 's own Transgression is enough for him to bear T. I shall conclude all with what after my Lord's Death passed as to Webster and Holmes which seems to confirm the Truth of their Guilt in this Matter I shall begin with Webster The very day of my Lord's Death Webster brought home to his House my Lord's Pocket-handkerchief all Bloody and shaked It seeming extreamly overjoyed saying There was the Blood of a Traytor and the very next day pulls out of his Pocket a Purse of Guineas and in great Joy shaked it one of his Neighbours told the Gold and found there was 49 Guineas and a French Pistole