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A63966	A new martyrology, or, The bloody assizes now exactly methodizing in one volume comprehending a compleat history of the lives, actions, trials, sufferings, dying speeches, letters, and prayers of all those eminent Protestants who fell in the west of England and elsewhere from the year 1678 ... : with an alphabetical table ... / written by Thomas Pitts.	Tutchin, John, 1661?-1707.	1693 (1693)	Wing T3380; ESTC R23782	258,533	487

the Trial of the Murderers witnesses that he had a Discourse with Sir Edmond a little while before his Death about the Plot then newly talkt on Says Robinson I wish the depth of the Matter be found out Sir E. answers I 'm afraid it is not Vpon any Conscience I believe I shall be the first Martyr He acknowledged he had taken several Examinations about it but thought he shou'd have little Thanks for his pains The Esquire askt him Are you afraid No said he I do not fear 'em if they come fairly and I shan't part with my Life tamely Well Sir Roger Is all this the Parliament Was he afraid the Parliament wou'd send a Party to dog him and set upon him and that he did not fear the Parliament but if they came fairly would not part with his Life tamely No any Man that has but half an eye unless that too blinded with Prejudice may see the meaning on 't and that he apprehended danger onely from the Papists against whom he had taken several Examinations The next is of John Wilson the Sadler who Swears Sir Edmond talking with one Mr. Harris then told this Informant That he was in danger for what he acted for the Discovering of the late Plot against his Majesty See how ingeniously this is answer'd His apprehension was from the Parliament not the Papists and for Concealing not Discovering the Plot. These very words Sir Roger has in his Book pag. 281. Now whether this is not a direct Statuimus i. e. Abrogamus What Sir Edmond calls Discovering for Sir R. who knows his Mind better now he 's dead than he himself did while alive to tell us he means Concealing which is quite contrary and how fair a way of answer 't is let any of his best Friends be Judges Twou'd be tedious to bring any more when this does effectually as to his own Judgment Only 't is remarkable that these very things are Sworn upon the Trial by Mr. Oates that Sir E. B. G. had told him He had received Affronts from great Persons for being so zealous in the Business That he had been threatned That he went in fear of his Life from the Popish Party and that he had been dog'd several days but fear'd 'em not if they came fairly to work For other Evidences of his Murther by the Papists that which indeed made the greatest noise was his Death being heard of so far off and in so many different places before 't was known in London This Sir Roger tells us was on purpose spread by the Brothers to throw it on the Papists But here 's this in opposition Dugdale against whom he makes no objection but allows his Evidence makes Oath in my Lord Stafford's Trial and other places That this News was brought to one Ewers a Priest in a Letter which he shew'd him dated the very night 't was done which had these words in 't This very night Sir E. B. G. is dispatch'd Now I 'd fain ask Had these Brothers Correspondence with the Priest wou'd they use such a word as that Dispatch'd Did they write to Ewers too and bid him tell Dugdale That this Sir E B.G. was a busie Man and fit to be taken out of the way as Dugdale swears he did Cou'd Dugdale conspire with Oates so long before they knew one another and while he was himself a Prisoner in Staffordshire and were all those perjur'd who witness that Mr. Dugdale did report this before it cou'd be known by any but the very Conspirators That 't was done in that very place at Somerset-House Providence has left strange Confirmation The first is Bury the Porter's refusing to admit any persons into the Gates about that time the 12 th 13 th 14 th of October Nay that he had deny'd the Prince himself admittance Prince Rupert I suppose it must be and pretended Orders for so doing But these Orders he never produc'd And more like a true Papist deny'd matter of Fact when charg'd with it and tho' he had acknowledg'd to the Council he had never such Orders before when Sir Thomas Stringer came to witness it positively deny'd it Two more ve●y remarkable Affidavits there are which give mighty strength to all the former One of Spence Captain Spence he 's call'd in some Copies and the other of John Okeley Spence was a tall black Man much like Sir E. B. G. as was witnessed by those who knew him to all which Sir R. only answers He has been told otherwise This Spence passing by the same Water-gate at Somerset-House about Seven at night two days before Sir Edmond's Murther was drag'd in thither being seiz'd by five or six Men but one of 'em when they had him in cry'd out This is not he on which they immediately let him go Here 's a plain Evidence of their Intentions and a Confirmation of what Bedlow Oates and Prance sware of Sir E's being dog'd so long before All that 's answer'd to 't is That there was a Suit of Law depending between this Spence and Mrs. Broadstreet and therefore forsooth he must forswear himself and wilfully damn his Soul only for a Circumstantial Evidence and Reflection on Hill himself three or four years after he was hang'd and so on his Master Dr. Godden and thence again on Mrs. Broadstreet and all this when it had no influence at all on the Suit of Law or them who su'd him But enough of this Let 's now take notice of the next 'T is one John Okeley who that very night Octob. 12. going by Somerset-House at the Water-gate about Nine a Clock saw there Sir E. B. G. whom he knew very well living in the same Lane with him he past close by him pull'd off his Hat to him as Sir E.B.G. did to him again when past him he turn'd about and look'd on him And this he told to several persons which witness the same To this the main of what Sir R. objects is 'T was dark and how shou'd he know him Certainly any one that knows London can't be ignorant that we have Lights in the Streets at Nine at night and 't was morally impossible that one who knew him so well who look'd upon him who put off his Hat to him as he to him again and who after all this look'd back upon him that such a one shou'd be mistaken in the Person The last thing to be prov'd is That Sir E.B.G. did not and cou'd not murder himself in that place as is pretended by his Enemies He was first missing on Saturday and therefore according to their account his Body must have been in the place where 't was found till that thur●Thur●day night But had it been there on Tuesday or Wednesday the Pack of Hounds which hunted there both of those days must have found him Sir Roger tells us They might have been on t'other side of the Ditch or beat the place carelesly without finding it But Mr. Faucet's Deposition is That he beat that very

another place yet was not the indefatigable Zeal of that Party discouraged but Mr. Farewell a person intrusted in managing the Estates and Lands of the Jesuits and Pain Brother to the famous Pain who wrote St. Coleman's Elegy set a new Project on foot to the same purpose in some Letters sent to Prance and printed by N. Thomson which indeed if we look close into 'em will appear to be Sir Roger in little there being the self same Expressions in one as the t'other and his Mystery seeming to be hardly more than their Letters spread a little thinner The Blood gubling out of the Wound Bedlow and Prances East and West Contradictions The Wax dropt on his Clothes after he was found and several other things the self same in both of ' em And I remember at that very time 't was shrewdly suspected and rumour'd about Town that the same person lay behind the Curtain and thrust their Cats-feet into the Fire who has since appear'd publickly in prosecution of the same Cause Before their Trial they reckon'd their Witnesses by the hundred pretending to make his Self-murther as clear as the Sun When they came to it and had all the fair Play imaginable Pain 's heart fail'd him and he pleaded Guilty Farewell made so poor a Defence and the Matter was so clearly prov'd against 'em that Farewell and Thomson were both fined by the Court and sentenced to stand in the Pillory with this Inscription over them For Libelling the Justice of the Nation by makin● the World believe that Sir E.B.G. murther'd himself Where how abundantly they were honour'd by the Spectators all who know any thing of the Story can't but remember Thus it lay for some time and no person was so hardy to make any farther Attempts that way while there was any possibility of having Justice against 'em But when the Sheriffs Juries nay King and all were chang'd when that past which poor Oates and all the World have cause to remember when if Prance wou'd not unconfess he knew he must tread the same dolorous way that Oates had gone before him and had now done all that cou'd be desired Then Sir Roger took up the Cudgels and publish'd his Book call'd The Mystery of Sir E. B.G 's Death unfolded Or which wou'd have been a fitter Title The second Edition with Additions of Farewell and Pain 's Letters The main of what he advances there will be answer'd in clearing as was propos'd the Objections against the Evidence relating to that matter If the ill Character of the persons who gave it be urg'd to invalidate their Testimony as this does not reach all of 'em so it has been often answer'd Who but such were fit for such Villanies If their seeming Disagreement in some part of their evidence what greater Argument that 't was no Combination If Prance retracted we are told by Sir Roger himself That he was a white-liver'd Man and so might be frighted out of truth as well as into it And indeed on that very reason 't was long before suspected that if he shou'd ever be bore hard upon he wou'd not be able to stand it But the Papists wou'd never kill him because he had obliged'em As if Gratitude were a Popish Vertue or Charity any more than Faith were to be kept with Hereticks Those that think so let 'em look back and see if the last Reign be enough to convince ' em It may be urg'd on Here are several Testimonies in the Trial of the Murtherers and since that invalidate the Evidence there given Warner and his Wife and Maid about Green That he was at home all that Evening when he was accused for committing it ' Twou'd be enough to oppose to this their Confession to Captain Richardson That they cou'd do him no good But besides this Mr. Justice Dolbin's Observation on the Trial clears it effectually They swore to the Saturday fortnight after Michaelmas day which was says the Justice the 19 th of Octob. not the 12 th on which the Murther was committed If Broadstreet and others testifie they were in the Room where the Body was laid and Hills Wife so rubs up her Memory that after so many years she remembers what she cou'd not upon his Trial That she and he and their Child lay in the Room all that very time when the Body was said to be there ' Twou'd not be a shift but an Answer That they were Papists that swore it who can swear any thing But besides Broadstreet acknowledged before the Duke of Monmouth That Hill was gone from his Lodgings before this time as was prov'd on the Trial. Mrs. Tilden says There was but one Key to their Door Mrs. Broadstreet at the same time with what she own'd about Hill That there were six or seven Contradictions in others we see as well as the King's Evidence and these being much homer and more irreconcileable than theirs must of necessity destroy the belief of what else they testifie But the home thrust is The Centinels saw no Sedan carried out This the printed Trial easily sets right The Centinels were Trollop and Wright Trollop staid till Ten and saw a Sedan go in but none out again Wright till One but saw none go out It must be in Trollops time being as Prance says about Twelve The Centinels being then at Bury's Lodge smoking and drinking Trollop says on the Trial he was never at the Lodge but so does not Wright as any one may see by consulting it he being never ask'd the Question 'T will give a great Light into this Deed of Darkness in the next place to consider several Circumstantial Evidences which wou'd of themselves go very far to prove that Sir E. B. G. was murther'd by the Papists and that in the very place and manner which has been already described The first of these from Sir Edmond's own mouth which has been already hinted but shall here be farther clear'd 'T was indeed so notorious that Sir E. G.B had boding thoughts and a sort of a Prophetical Intimation of his Death and that by the Papists and discours'd of so publickly and generally that Sir Roger cou'd not deny all the Matter of Fact but endeavours to avoid the force on 't when he says as is witnessed by several On my Conscience I shall be the first Martyr This he interprets I doubt I shan't live long Sure though he says in one place The Man was no Fool yet he must be supposed to be no better any more than all the Readers if neither he nor they made any difference between being hang'd and martyr'd But the very reason of this ●nterpretation was for what Sir R. dearly loved that he might have opportunity for a Reflection on the Parliament He fear'd says he that the Parliament wou'd call him to account and that nothing wou'd satisfie 'em but his Life for not discovering it sooner In opposition to this any impartial man need but consider what follows Esquire Robinson on