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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63154	The tryal and comdemnation of the trustees of the land-bank at Exeter Exchange for murdering the Bank of England at Grocers-Hall. Before Sir J.H. L--d M-r, Sir S.L. R-r, at the Old-Bayly.	Neale, Thomas, d. 1699?	1696 (1696)	Wing T2155; ESTC R223763	14,012	5

that because you are a Lawyer Counsel A Lawyer so I am I have been a Barrister ever since I was Eight and Fifty but I never read that Settlement nor never will for 't is against the Prerogative and the Scriveners and therefore I and three other Conveyancers have made an Oath never to have any thing to do with it Trustees Come Gentlemen You shall not want your Evidence here is the Settlement against the Prerogative and Scriveners Counsel Let the Court do as they please but for my part if you begin to read it I 'le be gone for I know there is a Trick in it and they produce it here to draw us in to be guilty of Misprision by being privy to it being as I say against the Prerogative and I offer my Opinion as Amitia Curie that you cannot safely read it Sir H. F. Ay G s Bl d I 'le hold 3 to 2 't is against the Prerogative Sir VV. S. G s Z nd We won't hear that damn'd long Settlement I remember they brought just such long things in Parchment to Grocers-Hall to have us lend Money upon Land in Lancashire and made us all as mad as Devils Sir H. F. D mn ' em I would not read it for Five Pounds Mr. G. H I perceive here is like to be a Debate about the Contents of this settlement but with submission if we prove the settlement to be the Cause of the Death of the Bank of England it will be sufficient though we prove not the Contents of the settlement Counsel Ay ay 't is enough Come Mr. S ck do you believe in your Conscience that the Settlement of the Land-Bank at Exeter-Exchange was the Cause of the Death of The Bank of England Mr S ck Ay on my Soul and Conscience do I for we were at that time in as good Health and Credit as one would wish Money was brought in to us all day long as cheap as Neck Beef we gave nothing for it but little bits of Paper called Speeds Notes Mr. R r. In what manner do you apprehend the Land-Bank impaired your Credit Mr. S ck Why every one said that if that succeeded it would draw the Cash from us because their Bills being Mortgages on Lands would be esteemed better Security than our Cashiers Notes which were given out contrary to Law and had no real Security Mr. R r. Mr. S. ck Consider we are trying a Murder and not a Trespass The Land Bank might do you an Injury but you must prove the Mortality of the Wound Mr. S ck Why Sir you must know that at that time our Bank was as bigg as they could tumble with Expectation of being the sole Bank of England and having the Power of giving Laws to the Kingdom and the Land-Bank Settlement just then starting out our Bank took a fright miscarried of their Expectation fell into Fits of the Mother and never claw'd it off to their dying day Counsel This is full Evidence of the first Wound Pray Mr. S ck give the Court and the Jury an Account of what you know of the second Wound by the Clause brought into the House of Commons for enabling the Trustees of the Land-Bank at Exeter-Exchange to purchase the Reversions of the Annuities Mr S ck I don't know any thing of it Counsel VVell do you believe in your Conscience that this Clause was one Cause of the Death of the Bank of England Mr. S ck Ay on my Soul and Conscience do I. Sir W. C. Nay I am sure of it for I remember something about a Clause about something at Exeter-Exchange and I believe that must be it and I am sure my Stock fell 50 l. per Cent. upon it I am sure I have lost 1000 l. by their damn'd Clauses and Settlements or one thing or other Counsel Well well there 's the second stroke proved and now we 'll go on to the Act of Parliament Counsel Come Mr. S ck give the Court Mr. S ck Nay I think I can say the Words my self now I O ah S ck do believe in my Soul and Conscience that the Act of Parliament for Establishing the Land-Bank was the Cause of the Death of the Bank of England Sir W. C. Well sworn S ck Faith Counsel Sworn he swears as well as if he were serv'd with a Subpoena And for all Sir W. S. call'd me Block-head you see I understand Evidence and now I have nothing to do but to summ it up which is in short That the Land-Bank murdered the Bank of England for which I pray Judgment Trustees And we pray the Verdict may be given before Judgment Counsel The Verdict is but a Ceremony with which the Court may dispence Mr. R r. Nay Mr. G we are Counsel for the Prisoners and will do them Justice therefore I am for the Verdict before Judgment Trustees Thanks for Justice Then Mr. G. before your Verdict prove the Bank of England dead Mr. S ck I have the Evidence for that about me Here 's their last Will. Counsel This same O ah manages Evidence almost as well as I do Come read the Will Cl. of the Arr. KNow all our Creditors by these Presents That we the Governour and Company of the Bank of England being weak in Body through the Wounds received from the Land-Bank at Exeter-Exchange to whom we lay our Death but of as good sense as ever we were finding our selves impaired in our Credit and Reputation and despairing of Recovery do make this our last Will and Testament First We bequeath our Soul to the Devil in order to serve the Publick out of our Creditors Money And as to the Qualities of our Mind we dispose thereof as follows viz. All our Skill in Foreign Exchanges and our Probity and Candor in making up the Accounts of the Loss thereof we give to all and every of our Directors except four or five jointly and severally to hold to them and their Successors in Tail-Bank as Heire-Loomes and indelible Monuments of their Skill and Probity for ever All our Obstinacy and Blunders we give to our present G r. All our Oaths Impudence and Lies we give unto our present D G r and our D r Sir H. F. to hold in joynt Partnership during their Lives and the Survivor to have the whole All our shuffling Tricks we give to our D r Sir W. G. All our Cinicalness and Self-conceit we give to our D rs I. W. and G. H. equally to be divided betwixt them share and share alike as Tenants in Common All our Blindness and Fear we give unto our D r O ah S ck and we also give him five Pounds in Money to buy him a New Cloath Coat a New half Beaver Hat a second hand Periwigg and an old black Sword to solicit with in the Lobby and also to buy him a pair of Spectacles to write Letters to Lords with And as to the residue of our Temporal Estate besides the said 5 l. we dispose thereof as followeth