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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55967	The proceedings on the King's commissions of the peace, oyer and terminer, and gaol delivery of Newgate, held for the city of London and county of Middlesex, at justice-hall in the Old-Bayly, the 9th. 10th. and 11th. of December, 1685 and in the 1st. year of His Majesties reign.	England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London)	1685 (1685)	Wing P3615; ESTC P95	12,897	4

THE PROCEEDINGS ON THE King's Commissions Of the PEACE And Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery of Newgate Held for the City of London and County of Middlesex at JVSTICE-HALL in the OLD BAYLY The 9th 10th and 11th of December 1685. And in the 1st Year of His Majesties Reign THe Sessions of Peace Oyer and Terminer and Goal-delivery of Newgate held at Justice Hall in the Old-Bayly on Wednesday Thursday and Fryday being the 9th 10th and 11th days of December 1685. Before the Right Honourable Sir Robert Gefferies Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London Sir Thomas Jenner Kt. one of His Majesties Serjeants at Law and Recorder of the aforesaid City with others of His majesties Justices of the Peace for London and Middlesex The Jurors were as follow London Jury Richard Aley Esq Richard Williams John Cannum Patrick Barret John Palmer James Rayner Edward Redish George Lilburn Daniel Fouls Peter Floyer Lawrence Cole John Cooper Middlesex Jury John Meredale Benjamin Folthy John Bayly Thomas Barns Richard Bromfield Samuel Linn Edward Hempstead Robert Longland Samuel Bishop James Fern William Wheatly Thomas Phelps The Proceedings were these Charles Bateman Arraigned upon an Indictment of High Treason For Conspiring the Death of the late King c. and the Court not thinking sit to consent to any further delay put himself upon the Jury without making any Challenge and the Kings Council having opened the nature of the Indictment Mr. Keeling was Sworn who proved the Plot or Conspiracy in General how designed and by what means and methods carried on After which Mr. Tho. Lee was Sworn and gave Evidence that he had been sundry times with Mr. Bateman and that the first time he went to him by Mr. Goodenough's order and there they discoursed about carrying on the Trayterous design of which Bateman approved and promised his assistance and was contented to manage ore of the Twenty Parts into which the City was to be divided in order to an Insurrection it being agreed that 500 men should be raised in each part to seize the ●…oper City Savoy Whitehall and the Persons of the late King and his present Majesty in order to which he promised to use his Interest Further Mr. Lee deposed that he went with him to the late D. of Monmeuth's House and there having discoursed with one of the late Dukes Servants the said Bateman told him the said Lee that the late Duke was willing to ingage in the Design beforementioned and kept several Horses ●n the Country for that intent with much more to the same purpose Mr. Goodenough gave Evidence that the Prisoner did approve of the design to seize the Tower City c. and then to force ●he Guards and seize the Person of the late King c. and ●…at it was at a meeting with him to the best of his remem●rance at the Kings Head in Swithius Alley near the Royal Exchange Mr. Bateman Insisted in defence how improbable it was that he should discourse so with Lee or Goodenough unless he were a Mad Man and called several persons to testifie for his honesty and one Baker a Broken person was upon the request of the jury against the opinion of the Court heard after his Tryal was over and Lee was gone who testified against Lee that a little before the Plot was discovered he would have had him engaged to have talked of State affairs to Bateman and others and Joyn with him and he would make him a great man So that after a full and favourable hearing of all he had to offer materially in his own defence he was found Guilty of the Treason after the Jury had withdrawn for some time to consider of the same John Banwell was Tryed for Killing Daniel Walter on the 13th of October last by giving him a Mortal Wound with a Sword near the left Pap which upon Tryal appeared that the Prisoner having fallen out with his own Wife upon coming out of his House met the patty deceased and without any provocation pushed him who thereupon demanded if he had a mind to be Boxed which occasioning other words the Prisoner went into his House and fetched his Sword with which he assaulted the Deceased and after much scuffling gave him the Wound of which the next day he Dyed The Prisoners plea was that he stood upon his own Defence but the first assault being given by himself and the Deceased altogether unarmed he was found Guilty of wilfull Murther John Chapman of St. Martins in the Fields was Arraigned and put upon the Jury for Stealing two Coach Seats valued at 20 s. the Goods of the Right Honorable the Vice-Countess Chamly but no Evidence appearing against him he was Acquitted Richard Wells was Tryed for taking from one Mr. Jones a Receiver in the Excise Office Scituate in Broad-street London 62 Guineas and 46 l. 2 s. 6 d. in Silver the Evidence against him was Mr. Jones who deposed that having told out 700 l. for the Kings use he laid them upon the Compter in the Office and the Prisoner being a Coachman coming in to do a Message from a Woman he had in his Coach immediately upon his departure the Money mentioned in the Indictment being in a Bag was missing and that he conceived no other person had been there at that time but there being no positive proof and the Prisoner bringing some persons with whom he had Lived to testifie his honesty he was Acquitted Robert Jones and John Walkinton were Tryed upon the Coroners Inquisition for the Murther of John Smith upon the Tryal it appeared that on November 22 d. the Prisoners coming along Column street about 6 in the Evening jostled the Deceased and some others in his Company whereupon many unseemly words passed in heat between them which occasioned the Deceased to fetch a Stick saying He would be with them or words to that purpose and after some further dispute a Skirmish happened and many Blows were struck on either part when one Mr. Gervas coming in seized Walkinton and held him in his arms till another person took away his Sword yet Jones and the party Deceased continued to strike at each other till such time as they closed and the Prisoner being undermost found opportunity to draw his Sword and gave the Deceased the Mortal Wound on his left side of which the next Morning h●… Dyed Jones pleaded he did it in defence of his Life but it ●…ppearing the Deceased had no Weapon about him he was found Guilty of Manslaughter but by reason Walkington was secured and submitted to those that seized him and by consequence not in possibility of abetting Jones at the time when he Killed Tmith he was Acquitted John Claxton was Tryed for Killing George Parish on the 14th of October last in the Parish of St. Sepulchres it appeared on his Tryal that that day being the Kings Birth day divers Youths making Bonefires in or near Smithfield upon attempting to take away the Wood one Company had gotten for