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death_n	day_n	dead_a	life_n	5,803	5	4.5981	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63274	A true account from Chichester, concerning the death of Habin the informer whom, contrary to all truth, two infamous and impudent lyars, have published to be barbarously murdered : one affirming it to be done by the dissenters at Chichester, the other, by the coachman of Richard Farington, Esq. : with a relation of the most malicious design to make Mr. Farington himself guilty of the said pretended murder : published for the sake of truth.		1682 (1682)	Wing T2325; ESTC R3524	9,031	18

Rogueries and would certainly have been prosecuted for the above-mention'd Perjury when a convenient time should have happen'd for it I will not undertake to be a bold and infallible Interpreter of Gods Providences they being a Deep that the short line of Humane Reason cannot sound the bottom of and fathom yet as we are reasonable Creatures falling under the Conduct and Government thereof so we are bound to observe them and keeping within the bounds of modesty endeavour to pick out the sense and meaning of them and to know what they point at And it is not unworthy of our observation That as this Hellish Miscreant and Mirrour of all impiety had perjur'd himself concerning the breaking of Captain Bickleys Glass-Windows so his real breaking of the Windows of another person that ne're injur'd or did him wrong should prove the occasion of his Death and that Death should hurry him into Eternity and to Judgment on the Lords-day which he so much prophan'd and particularly by being so much in the Ale-house when he should have been in Gods-house and disturbing those that would serve and worship God while he did so much neglect the same He was unexpectedly driven away that day by Death in his wickedness and had no time given him to repent Let Hasted his brother beware left Divine Vengeance do not speedily overtake him and Death suddenly as a grim and inexorable Serjeant arrest him and irresistibly drag his reluctating wretched guilty Soul before the Tribunal of Gods severest Justice THE Chichester ACCOUNT OR A Faithful RELATION of the DEATH of HABIN the INFORMER there c. THE unhappy Accident which lately fell out in this place and the more unhappy improvement that we perceive some virulent Minds and Pens make thereof puts us under a necessity thus to publish to the World the naked and impartial Truth of that whole matter About Nine or Ten Weeks since for the more effectual suppressing of the Conve●ticles here two persons were imployed as Informers the one called Richard Habin the other Henry Hasted These persons posted themselves every Sunday upon a publick Road which leads by the Door of one of the Conventicles and took the Names of such as they thought fit that passed upon that Road and that were either going to or coming from the place where the Conventicle was kept and afterward did carry their Lists to some Justices and make Oath That such persons were at the Conventicle and Warrants issued out by Virtue of that Conviction to the Constables to levy the distress which accordingly they have done on many But our business is not to accuse the Methods of their Proceedings tho somewhat extraordinary and what the Law it self doth not command We only wish That persons not so notoriously scandalous and such as had been less subject to exceptions had been imployed in this work But to keep to our matter This Trade they continued till Sunday the 6th of August on which day Hasted wore a Sword and drew it on some Boys as they were going on the Road struck at them and cut their Cloaths But upon the Boys taking up stones and threatning to stone him if he sheathed not his Sword again he did return his Sword into its Scabbard At which Habin was so angry that he would have had the Sword from Hasted swearing he would hew the Boys in pieces with it but Hasted would not let him have it tho he as well as Habin were both most miserably drunk with Brandy The Boys seeing this savage and barbarous fierceness of Habin threw some stones at him and with one of them hit him and break his head Upon which Habin entring in at the Gate of the City next to which Mr. Farington dwelleth upp'd with his stick and cried out Farington should pay for all and with that saying struck and brake his Parlor Window Mr. Farington and Three other Gentlemen being in the Room But Mr. Farington knowing there were many that sought occasion to ensnare him and believing this affront was done him on purpose to provoke him to repay it with some passionate Behaviour would not so much as open his Window or wag out of the Room Mr. Farington's Coach-man being unhappily abroad in the street and seeing this abuse to his Masters House went to Habin and asked what he mean'd by it who answer'd him only by holding up and shaking his Cudgel at the Coach-man Whereupon the Coachman immediately clapp'd within Habin struck up his heels took away his stick and with it hit him Four or Five blows over the Pate and so left him After which Habin rose up and went away to the Mayor's and missing the Mayor to another Justice to complain and then to the Bishop's Palace where it is said he mended his Draught and after his Head was dressed was carried by the Bishop's Servants and laid in the Stable where in two hours time he either died or was so dead drunk that he was taken for dead However he was presently laid on a Bier carried up to the High Cross and from thence to the Town-Hall where a Coroner's Inquest was immediately impannell'd and found H●bin Murdered and the Coach-man the Murtherer before ever as many do believe Habin was quite dead Nay It is the universal opinion of this City That if his Lordships Servants had not used this poor Wretch more like a Beast than a Man but had instead of lugging him into a cold Stable laid him in a warm Bed got him to be let Blood and to have had other Remedies applied proper to his Condition Habin might for any Mortal hurt he had have been alive at this day But to expose him in this manner was enough to make him die whether he would or no. And pray God all this hasty dispatch was not done with a design to do more mischief by his Death than e're they could by his Life For this is not the first Attempt that hath been made upon the Life and Fortune of Mr. Farington But to return to our Relation The Coach-man fled And whether Habin was dead or no we are sure he was buried Thus matters continued till the end of the Week and every man was so convinc'd from the multitude of Witnesses that saw the Fact That instead of Murther all men jugd'd the poor Coach-man would have Summum jus to be found guilty of Man-slaughter For for a Servant upon so high a provocation as the breaking his Masters House to run up to the doer of the Injury and in a passion to snatch away his stick and lay it Four or Five times over his Ears and it happening so that Death doth follow to find such a Servant guilty of so much as Man-slaughter inclines certainly rather towards severity than clemency But to talk of Murder is such Non-sense as you may as well call at Blasphemy as Murder for it hath no one ingredient of Murder in it For Murder must have malice sore-thought Then a lying in wait or seeking all occasions