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A63252	The Triumph of truth in an exact and impartial relation of the life and conversation of Col. Iames Turner, which he imparted to an intimate friend a little before his execution : to which is added his deportment and discourses in prison, the manner of his execution and burial : with other occurrences never yet made publique, and now published as a seasonable warning for others to avoid such strange miscarriages.		1663 (1663)	Wing T2293; ESTC R26328	19,398	34

enjoyment of his own Wife whom he kept three or four dayes but afterwards as being contrary to the Rules of War he was called to an accompt for it when to justifie himself he sent for the Constables Wife whom he belike had so pleased that she cleared him of any incivility to her before the Council of War Thus Women if they list can hide mens crime And none shall er'e be hang'd before their time But one exploit he used much to boast of which we will relate leaving the Reader to believe as he pleases namely That he being with Paarty of men gathering of Contribution neer to Newberry he was set upon by a party of the enemies Horse of far greater number then they were but according to his order making fast their Bags to the Bowes of their Saddles which proved a defence to their Belly and Groyns he gave them a desperate Charge and very manfully hacked their way out quite thorough the Enemy both men and money coming safely off to Wallingford-Castle Thus some can boast although they make a Lye on 't For evermore the Knight must beat the Gyant It is likewise reported that in a Skirmish betwixt some small Parties neer Stevenage in Bedfordshire he was beaten and taken Prisoner when for his Ransome he gave a ring with a Stone in it which he said was worth 100 l. but the Victor afterwards found it worth no more then 5 s. But this Rhodomontade humour was not so much to be blamed in him it being for his liberty During this War he had plundered and laid up much money for his future occasions whereas the other Royalists in stead of getting lost almost all they had here we may commend his providence though we must condemn his Conscience in plundering for his private gain his own Countrey people The War now being expired he with several other Gentlemen for some facts they had committed were kept Prisoners at York their crimes were some Misdemeanors during the War all the Gentlemen saving only Turner pleaded Not guily but he whose Indictments were said to be no lesse then 65. he himself telling the Judge That if he staid one hour longer there would be no less then 99. pleaded Guilty and the day of his Tryal had as many dishes of meat as there were Indictments against him all carried up in sight of the Court and at withal laid a wager of five pounds he should be hanged that Assizes Being demanded his Reason therefore he said If he lived he did not value the five pound and if he dyed it would serve to buy Gloves and Ribbons for his friends which frolick together with his Plea to the Jury viz Whether they would not have done the same if they had been under the like command brought him off clear without the least Fine or Damage Whereas the other Gentlemen who pleaded Not Guilty and stood to the defence of their Cause by Disproof of Witnesses c. Were by the Jury found guilty and lost their lives CHAP. III. Turner's returning to London his wayes to enrich himself and of the great port he lived in SOon after this he returned again to London and knowing it in vain to strive against the stream he resolved for his profit to have a seeming Complyance with the adverse party sitting amongst the Committees of Goldsmiths and Haberdashers-Hall upon Compositions for Delinquents Estates but those Foxes were too cunning to be deceived and the place of such great profit as it was coveted after by some of their own Gang and he being known to have been one of the other side he was forced to abandon that employment quite Thus did he run divisions like a dog in a halter for his active spirit would never be at rest well knowing that Idlenesse is the Mother of Poverty and having gotten some small store of money formerly in the Army he spared for no cost either of Clothes or otherwise to bear a port equal to the best and having thereby screwed himself into the Acquaintance of some men of good account he pretended to a great perfection of Skill in all Affairs And first he began to mannage poor mens Causes whose charges he disbursed out of his own pocket which won him very high Commendations and was very acceptable to injured people who very much applauded him for it This brought him into more employment amongst the great ones so that what hetwixt Broaking and Solliciting he grew very famous and withal got store of money for the condition of some people is so given to contention that they will do no right nor suffer any wrong and where such Seeds of Division are sown there the Lawyers reap golden Harvests So that now he flaunts it with the bravest Taverns and Ordinaries are daily frequented rich and costly garments provided high prized Jewels daily worn not a dinner could be made under seven or eight several dishes of meat nor the least journey gone without a Coach Yea nothing wanted which might conduce to an outward happinesse And that he might be the more taken notice of he kept a high prized Gelding with which he ambled up and down the City and was so bold that upon the Kings most happy Restauration when the Lords and Gentry went to meet him he thrust himself into the company of the Barons riding most sumptuously in his Foot Cloth attended by his Foot-boy but being known by the Marshal that it was only the Asse that marched in the Lyons Skin he was by him sufficiently Cane'd for his audacious boldnesse Yet notwithstanding this Check he always afterwards kept up a stately port so that none was more notice taken of then he for had he come by in his Coach as he often did in the night upon Col. Turners name the very Watchmen would tremble whom yet he would often reward with money but his terrible Oaths being so habitu 〈…〉 Swearing would make a good Christian quake to hear him But though his Vices were very great yet had he many things in him worthy of commendation being very charitable to poor distressed Cavaliers whom he would entertain at his own Table and if it were his Chance to be in their Company with him at Taverns he would pay their share out of his own pocket and lend them money besides High active spirits commonly excell Either in doing ill or doing well Hitherto no great blemishes were lay'd on his practice which now began to be very great being acquainted with most of the monyed men in London His frequent dealings were in the sales of Lands decreed in Chancery and the recovery of Right and Title to Lands unjustly holden from the true heirs In which he had such a multitude of businesse that he kept two Clerks constantly a writing or running about his businesse He also dealt very much in Jewels by the sale and bartering of which to persons of quality he gained exceedingly so that his incomes were valued at seven or eight hundred pound a year yet

of them put a Cloth into his mouth and bound his hands and feet whilest Turner at the Beds feet took the Keys of his Ware-house and Counting-house out of his pocket and whilest they were busy in gaging him he in the mean time searches the Closet where he finds the Jewels and pockets them privately not acquainting his Companions therewith But there was store of Money beside with which they severally loaded themselves to the value of 1023 l. This was done all in the space of an hours time which money they carried to one Higginson's house at Lowsie-lane in Dukes Place which they hired some dayes before pretending it for the use of a Master of a Ship his Mate Purser and Boat-Swain The next morning Turner fetcht away the money to his own house giving to White and his Friend onely Twenty pound a peice for their pains and promised William Turner a hundred pound Soon after they were gone Mr. Tryon got the gag out of his mouth and though bound tumbled out of his Bed in doing which he sell upon an earthen Chamber-pot and hurt himself sorely but recovering his legs and getting to the Window called out Murder and Theives which being next the Street his Neighbours heard him and with a Crow of Iron broke open the dore for Turner had locked it after him and unbound him then did they see how he was robbed but the Man and Maid being missing caused some suspition of them who presently after came pretending they had been at Supper at Col. Turner's which was not so whereupon a Constable went to examine the businesse who found Col. Turner and his Family in bed who likewise upon the request of the Constable went along with him to Mr. Tryon's where he kept such a bustle about the businesse that his too overmuch diligence gave him cause to be suspected which suspition was afterwards aggravated by his listning to hear when others were examined the Man and Maid being at that time throughly sifted by Sir Thomas Aleyn who took a great deal of pains in the businesse however Turner was let go that night and in the morning betimes removed the money from his own house to the house of one Mrs. Fry a Sempstresse at the lower end of the Minories pretending it to be the money of a Merchant newly broke who having a Wife and seven or eight Children desired to have it secured This businesse Mrs. Fry reveals to a Kinswoman of hers in the house who having been formerly a Servant to Alderman Love and hearing of Mr. Tryon's Robbery suspected the money was not well gotten and thereupon acquainted her Master Alderman Love of it who as speedily informed Sir Thomas Aleyn thereof Sir Thomas therefore taking a Foot-boy with him speedeth down and in the way meeting with Major Tasker desired his Company to go along with him which he accordingly did and entering the house of Mrs. Fry found Col. Turner with his hands in a Chest wherein was two Wallets of money one of a 100 l. the other 200 l. Sir Thomas took the Keys from him and going into another Room found two Wallets of money more Then was a Constable called for and Turner being examined whose money it was he said he had received it of a Goldsmith but could not tell his name being further asked why he should remove his own money he answered he onely did it for two or three dayes till this Foolery was over Whilest thus they were arguing the matter Iohn Turner the Son who had helped to bring the money thither hearing how the businesse went got out by a back dore and leaping over a pale behind the house made an escape but the Collonel though he pretended he were in persuit of the Theives and therefore desired freedome to goe about it yer would not Sir Thomas grant it but calling for a Coach in company with Major Tasker and the Constable brought him to Mr. Tryon's house telling him he had brought him 500 l. of his money and did not doubt but also a person that could help him with the rest he had lost but Turner having spoken with Mr. Tryon in private upon promise of helping him to all the next day about four or five a clock in the afternoon he was permitted to go at Liberty The next day he went to the Exchange as he formerly used to do where about two a Clock he was arrested in the Streets by the two Coles at the suit of four Officers of the Poultrey Compter who had bailed him to a Writ of one Mr. Van de Burgh a Dutch Merchant who carried him to the Hoop Tavern where they stay'd him in the mean time his Wife brought the Jewels to Mr. Tryon's so that he had all his again But the matter was so apparent against Mr. Turner that Sir Thomas Aleyn by Warrant committed him to Newgate whether he was carried about one or two a Clock the same night and Ianuary the 15. and 16. he was Arraigned for the same at Iustice Hall in the Old Bailey where he was by the Jury found Guilty and on the 19 day of the same moneth had Sentence of death pronounced upon him Thus though that Felons to escape may hope At last they are rewarded with a Rope The same day Col. and William Turner were by Sir Thomas Aleyn examined apart who finding their Designe fully discovered declared the manner of it as we have mentioned it unto you CHAP. VI. The Passages betwixt Col. Turner and Mr. Ordinary of Newgate with the manner of his Going to Execution SOon after his Condemnation Mr. Welden the Ordinary of Newgate went unto him telling him he was a Dying man being dead in Law and very earnestly pressed foure things unto him First That as he was an open Sinner so that he would make open Confession of his sins urging to that purpose the saying of the Wise-man in his Book of Proverbs He that hideth his sins shall not prosper but he that confesseth and forsaketh them shall find mercy Secondly A hearty Contrition for his enormous Offences which had brought that just judgement of God upon him Thirdly A Restitution for words without deeds was but a feigned and hypocritical Repentance And Fourthly Charity to forgive others as he would that God for Christ's sake should forgive him He pressed much to him the Message which the Prophet Is●●●● brought to Hezekiah viz. Set thy house in order for thou shalt die and not live He told him that by house was meant not onely his temporal but his spiritual body that the Body in respect of the Soul was but as the shell to the kernel or as the Jewel to the Case which enclosed it what a small minute of time he had left him betwixt that the infinite space of Eternity therefore what great need he had to make the best improvement of that short time with many other such like speeches which wrought very much upon him declaring by many outward signs a reall sorrow for his