delivered it on Thursday morning at eight of the Clock being the day before his death and this as to the Thursday he swears positively and circumstantially positively for he doth expresly name Thursday as the day on which the Razour was delivered and circumstantially for he doth swear the Razour was delivered the very next morning after my Lord came to Captain Hawley's and his Lordship went to Hawley's on Wednesday the 11th of July But Russell swears a point blank contradiction to Bomeney's Oath for Russell deposeth and now declares that on Friday morning in less then half an hour before they found my Lord dead in his Closet he stood as Warder at my Lord's Chamber-Door Monday that morning having first stood as Warder on my Lord and was then gone down to stand below Stairs and heard my Lord ask Bomeney for a Pen-Knife to pare his Nails which being not ready his Lordship required a Razour which he did immediately see Bomeney deliver his Lordship But Monday doth as directly give the Lye to Russell as Russell did to Bomeney for Monday the day my Lord died declared he saw my Lord have a Razour in his Hand paring his Nails with it at seven a Clock that morning my Lord died and this about two hours before Russell came up to stand as Warder at my Lord's Chamber-door Wherefore unless it can be reconciled how this Razour should be delivered a Thursday Morning at eight of the Clock according to Bomeneys Oath and yet not delivered till Friday Morning at nine of the Clock within half an hour of the time his Lordship was found dead and delivered whilst Russell stood Warder at the Chamber-door as Russell deposeth And notwithstanding this my Lord to have had the Razour and pared his Nails with it two hours before Russell came up Stairs to stand Warder at my Lord's Chamber as Monday declared the very day my Lord died I say unless these Contradictions can be reconciled it can't be thought that any Razour at all was delivered And then whereas all declared my Lord pared his Nails with the Razour by strict observation it appeared my Lord's Nails were not newly before his Death either pared or scraped 2dly That the Closet-door was not locked upon my Lord's body appears by the contradictions of these three as to the opening the Close-door Bomeney first swore he did open the Door when my Lord would not answer upon his knocking at the Door and there saw my Lord lying dead in his Blood and the Razour by him and he then called the Warders but immediately swears in contradiction to his first Oath that he peeped through a chink of the Door and saw Blood and part of the Razour and then without opening the Door ran and called Russell who thereupon first opened the Door and at Mr Braddon's Tryal swears he knew not who opened the Door Russell deposeth he did first open the Door and makes no difficulty in it Then comes Monday and gives the Lye to both For Monday the very day my Lord died declared what he hath since often confirmed that neither Bomeney nor Russell could stir the Door my Lord's Body lay so close and hard against it and he being stronger then either put his Shoulders against the Door and pressing with all his might broke it open Whosoever there is that can reconcile these Contradictions in these three mens Relations and make all appear credible Erit mihi magnus Appollo A further Argument that the Closet-Door was not locked upon the Body appears by my Lord's Legs lying upon the Threeshold of the Closet-door when the Body was pretended not to have been stirred from its first posture 3dly That there was no Razour lying locked in with the Body when the Body was first found appears by the bloody Razour's being thrown out of my Lord's Chamber-Window which is about seventeen Foot distant from the Closet-Door where the Body lay and no noise of my Lords death till after the Maid carried up the Razour which Maid thereupon first discovered my Lord's death And as yet other Argument of the Perjury of these perfidious Villains add the Mathematical impossibility of the Wound seeing not above two Inches of the Razour must be without my Lord's hand had he done it himself and yet the Wound above three Inches deep Moreover by many eminent Doctors and Chyrurgions the Wound is thought to be naturally impossible to have been done by my Lord himself because upon cutting the first Jugular Artery such an effusion of Blood and Spirit would have immediately thereupon followed that Nature would not have been strong enough for to cut through the other Jugular Artery to the Neck-Bone on the other side muchless to make so many and so large Notches in the Razour against the Neck-Bone as an old foolish or K Chyrurgion suggested to the Coroner's Jury VVherefore by what is before observed as to the many Contradictions it plainly appears that these three as it is said in the History of Susanna vers 6. are convicted of false Relations by their own mouths and those other Arguments before observed are further Detections of these three mens Perjuries It then remains as at first viz. That here is a Body found dead by violent Hands and the manner of the Death not discovered for it can't be according to these three mens Relations for the Reasons before observed The conclusion that the Law makes in such cases in this therefore holds good viz. that this honourable Lord was Murthered by the violent and cruel Hands of barbarous and bloody minded men Secondly For the proof of the Murder in this I shall first consider what is most material which passed before my Lords death Secondly The Day of his Death And then Thirdly and Lastly after the Day of his Death In the First Before my Lords death I shall consider 1st The previous Resolutions by Papists to cut my Lords Throat And then 2dly The many previous Reports before my Lords death That his Lordship had cut his own Throat in the Tower For the first of these D. S. declares that about nine days before the Death of the late Earl of Essex she heard several Papists consulting together concerning the said Earl And this Informant heard them say the Earl of Essex was to be taken off and that they had been with his Highness and his Highness was first for poysoning the Earl but that manner of Death being objected against it was then said one did propose to his Highness Stabbing the Earl but this way his Highness did not like at length his Highness concluded and ordered his Throat to be cut and his Highness had promised to be there when it was done Some few days after some of the aforesaid Persons declared it was resolved the Earl's Throat should be cut but they would give it out that he had done it himself and if any should deny it they would take them and punish them for it Secondly For the previous Reports before my Lords
death It s proved by eight several Witnesses that before my Lords death or before it could be known it was reported that the Earl of Essex had cut his Throat in the Tower amongst the rest it was at Frome which is about one Hundred Miles from London the Wednesday Morning and at the same time at Andover about sixty Miles from London though at neither of these places especially the former could it then be known the Earl was a Prisoner in the Tower his Lordship being not committed to the Tower till the Tuesday in the Afternoon All these Reports agreed in the manner how viz. cutting his Throat and the place where viz. the Tower and which is further at Andover the Wednesday Morning before my Lords death it was reported not only in the manner how and place where but likewise the pretended Reason wherefore was given for it was then and there said that the Earl of Essex being a Prisoner in the Tower and understanding that the King and Duke were come into the Tower his Lordship was afraid the King would have come up into his Chamber and seen him of which his Lordships guilt and shame would not bear the Thought and therefore he did cut his Throat to avoid it This being declared two days before my Lords death when it could not have been in the least fore-thought that the King and Duke would have come together into the Tower where they had not been above twice together since the Restoration I say this previous Report which so particularly cloathed this action with the how where and wherefore clearly proves That all things were so resolved upon to be done or otherwise it is impossible it should have been reported under these three essential Qualifications as to manner place and reason before it was indeed done especially at Andover where it could not then be supposed to be known that my Lord was so much as a Prisoner in the Tower this Reason the Papists themselves gave out just after my Lords Death Secondly What passed the day my Lord Dyed These then attending on my Lord viz. Russell and Monday the Warders Bomeney the Servant and Lloyd the Centinel at the door did all deny that day my Lord died that there were any Men let into my Lords Lodgings that morning before my Lords Death But now it appears that there were some Ruffians a little before my Lords death sent into his Lodgings to Murder him which they did accordingly R. Meake A Soldier in the Tower that morning my Lord of Essex was Murdered about one of the Clock that very day near Algate told B and his Wife That the Earl of Essex did not cut his own Throat but was barbarously Murdered by his Royal Highnesses Order For the said Meake declared That just before the Earl of Essex's Murder his Highness sent two Men to the Earls Lodgings to Murder him which after they had done they threw the Razour out of the Window Likewise a Soldier that morning in the Tower about a eleven a Clock that morning my Lord dyed in Baldwines-Gardens informed G. and H. that the Earl of Essex did not cut his own Throat but was barbarously Murdered by his Royal Highnesses town Order For the Soldier then declared that a little before the Earl's Murder his Royal Highness parted a little way from his Majesty and then two Men were sent into the Earl's Lodgings to Murder my Lord which when they had done they did again return to his Highness Mr E declares That he saw his Royal Highness just before the Earl's Death part a little from his Majesty and then beckned to two Gentlemen to come to him who came accordingly his Highness thereupon sent them towards the Earl of Essex's Lodgings and about a quarter of an hour after this Informant saw these very two Men return to his Highness and as they came they smiled and to the best of this Informants hearing and remembrance said the Business was done upon which his Highness seemed very well pleased and then went to his Majesty to whom the News was immediately brought that the Earl of Essex had cut his Throat Lloyd the Centinel at my Lords door the day my Lord died till the twenty first of January last did deny the letting in of any men and Russell and Monday still deny it but now Lloyd doth confess that just before my Lords Death two or three men by Major Hawley's special Order were let in and immediately he heard them as he did suppose they were go up Stairs into my Lord's Room where there was a very great bustle and stir so great that the Centinel declared he would have forced after them had not the first door been made fast upon the bussle he heard some-what thrown down like the fall of a man which he did suppose was my Lords Body soon after which it was cryed out my Lord of Essex hath cut his own Throat Here is not only these mens going in but a great bustle confessed immediately thereupon to ensue in my Lords Room and the Body of a man in this bustle to be thrown down this is in a close Prisoners Room where no one is admitted but his Servant and those that kept the door denyed upon Oath that any were in my Lords Chamber that morning my Lord dyed before his Death But these Warders being supposed privy to the Fact would not own the admitting of those men which themselves let in with such a Murtherous design and it is to be presumed that this Centinel was not a stranger to the matter but enjoyned to secrecy for otherwise he would never have declared to a Friend under a repeated request of secrecy that this Confession as before laid upon his Conscience and troubled him night and day for tho' it was indeed very true that he did let in these men it was what he should not have confessed This Consirmation to his acquaintance under a great and repeated injunction of secrecy argues first that this Confession was indeed true Secondly That there is some cursed Confederacy its probable by Oath entred into to stifle this Murther for what other probable reason can be assigned for that trouble of Conscience in this Confession seeing himself at the same time declared it was true tho' he should not have said it There are some other arguments that this Centinel was particeps Criminis in the Privity first his retraction in part of what he did confess for upon his being first apprehended he owned the throwing out of the Razour before my Lords Death was known but now he retracts and disowns it Another instance of his privity is his now prevaricating in his now pretending that these men were let in an hour or more before my Lords Death whereas at first he declared they were let in before my Lords Death for as soon as let in he heard several go up Stairs into my Lords Room and heard the bussle c. as before A third argument of this Centinels
privity is his not declaring the whole truth which he must know for one at a greater distance that saw these Ruffians as they were bustling with the my Lord and heard the bustle did likewise hear one of these in the bustle as it seemed to be and therefore presumed to be my Lord cry out very loud and very dolefully Murther Murther Murther The Centinel who could hear the trampling or indeed the very walking in my Lords Chamber could not but hear this Murther so loud and often repeated It appears by five Cuts in my Lords right hand viz. two upon his fore-finger one upon the fourth-finger another on the little-finger and the fifth about two Inches long in the palm of his right hand that his Lordship in this bustle made great resistance for these Cuts can be supposed to be done no otherwise then by endeavouring to put off the cruel Instrument of his Death The next thing that I should observe which happened the day my Lord dyed and gives us reason to believe the Murther is the Irregularity committed upon the Body before the Jury saw it the Body was strip'd and washed and the Room and Closet washed and my Lords Cloathes carried away tho' all Men know the Body should have remained in its first posture till the Coroners Jury had seen it Sr T. R. as himself saith declared to the Lords that the Body was not stirred from its first posture till the next morning about ten of the Clock To this Sr. Tho. has not sworn for he was not sworn before the Lords and 't is well he has not for herein he is so much mistaken that the contrary can be proved by almost twenty Witnesses had the Body remained in its first posture by my Lords Cravat being cut in three parts the Jury would have plainly seen that his Lordship could not so do it with a Razour And then Secondly they would have perceived the print of a bloody Foot upon my Lord as he lay in the Closet by which it appeared some one had been with the Body in the Closet and several other material circumstances might have been discovered which by the total illegal alteration of the Circumstances of the Body c. were destroyed About three of the Clock in the afternoon that day my Lord dyed some of those bloody men who had been at the Consult met at Holme's House and one of them leapt about the Room as overjoyed and as the Master of the House came into the Room he strikes him upon the back and cryed The Feate was done or We have done the Feate upon which the Master said Is the Earls Throat cut To which the other replyed Yes And further said He could not but Laugh to think how like a Fool the Earl of Essex looked when they came to cut his Throat To destroy the Testimony of this Dorothy Smyth Holms hath produced two Witnesses who by many Witnesses appear to be for-sworn in every part of their Depositions His defence being false his Charge therefore may be concluded true Thirdly and lastly What passed after the day of my Lords Death That very morning several Soldiers which were presumed able to discover what was material with relation to his Death were called together As Meakes then said and enjoyned to secrecy under very severe Penalties About ten of the Clock in the morning the next day the Jury met and were surprized to see all the Ciroumstances of my Lords body changed from what was first discovered After the Jury had seen the naked Body at Hawley's the Coroner adjourned them to a Victualling House in the Tower one of the Jury demanded a sight of the Cloaths but the Coroner was immediately called into the next Room from which returning to the Jury in some Heat he told them It was the Body and not the Cloathes they were to sit upon the Body was there and that was sufficient One of the Jury then said My Lord of Essex was esteemed a very sober sedate and good Man which Bomeney then confirmed saying His Lord was a very pious Man and therefore it was improbable so good a man should be guilty of the worst of Actions Vpon which Hawley told the Jury They were mis-informed in my Lords Character for every man that was well acquainted with my Lord well knew that it had ever been a fixed Principle in him that any man might cut his Throat or any otherwise dispose of his Life to avoid a disho nourable and infamous Death wherefore this Action which they thought unlike him was according to his avowed and fixed Principles This made the Jury the more easily believe that my Lord had indeed done it Some of the Jury were for adjourning their Inquisition to some further day and in the mean time to fend notice to the Earls Relations so that if any thing appeared on my Lords behalf it might be produced Hawley hereupon assured the Jury that they could not adjourn their enquiry for his Majesty had sent one for their Inquisition and would not rise from the Coun. till it was brought him This the Jury believing immediately made all haste possible whereas otherwise they might have been more strict and particular in their Examinations Hawley in answer to this totally denyes all and protests that he was not nigh the Jury in the Victualing-House all the time the Jury sat tho' most of the Jury can say the contrary And as for the suggesting Self-Murder to be my Lords Principle he did protest he did never hear it said till their Lordships in this Committee told him it had been so declared This clearly proves that the pretended Principle of Self-Murder was a forgery of that bloody Party which Murthered my Lord And Hawley pitched upon as the most proper person to corrupt the Jury with the belief of it The backwardness of the then Government to examine this matter and their unjust proceedings against the Prosecution for they discouraged and ruined him who did humbly offer the matter to a judicial consideration tho' no crime or colour of offence was proved against him is further evidence of this Murther The Government turned old Edward's out of his Place for what his Son said in this matter and hereby inverted the old Proverb For here the Sons eating sour Grapes had set the Fathers teeth an edge A poor Soldier was barbarously Whipt after he had been cruelly managed in Prison for only saying That he would not say that he believed the Earl of Essex cut his own Throat But a more barbarous Cruelty is justly suspected to have been committed in the after Murther of several viz. of Meake and Hawley c. to prevent a defection of this Murther Tho' the Government heretofore had received private Intimations and in Print publick Applications for a Pardon and thereupon a promise of a full Discovery and in both these the Duke of York particularly charged as the chief Contriver of this horrid Cruclty yet the then Government would never
the same entertainment which King Charles the second ever gave to the Councils offered to him in favour of the Protestant Religion and of the true English Government however the honest zeal and undaunted Courage of these Noble Lords made deep impressions upon the Breasts of all true Lovers of the Laws and Liberty of their Country And the Citizens of London in Common-Hall assembled upon the 4th of February 1680. spoke their Approbation of their Loraship's Noble Enterprize in what follows which was agreed upon with a general and loud Acclamation of thousands of Citizens To the Worshipful Slingesby Bethel and Henry Cornish Esquires Sheriffs of London and Middlesex WE the Citizens of the said City in Common-Hall assembled having diligently perused the late Petition and Advice of several Noble Peers of this Realm to his Majesty whose Counsels We humbly conceive are in this unhappy juncture highly seasonable and greatly tending to the safety of these Kingdoms We do therefore make it our most hearty request that you in the Name of this Common-Hall will return to the Right Honourable the Earl of Essex and by him to the rest of the Noble Peers the grateful Acknowledgment of this Assembly By these means and indeed by the whole Course of this Noble Lord's Life which was a steady Course of Exemplary unshaken Vertue and shew'd an unalterable affection to the true Religion and detestation of Tyranny He became insupportable to those whose Study was Mischief and to whom no Person was acceptable but such as they found disposed to betray the Protestant Religion and the Rights of England to their Popish and Despotick Designs and therefore from this time they grew more assiduous to contrive his Destruction The Conspirators well knew that this Great Man had most deservedly acquired a mighty share in the hearts of the People And that as he knew very much of their Designs so that he was not by any arts or allurements to be Cozen'd or tempted to a Complyance therewith therefore as They told the brave Colonel Sidney he must dye that their Plot might live and to avoid the Reproach of bringing the Son to the Block by that very Prince for whom the Father had lost his Head and which is also very probable to prevent his discovery of what he could tell and others knew not They condemn him without a Tryal and in a most barbarous manner Murder him in the Tower But Heaven intending to bring this accursed Assassination of the brave Earl of Essex to light a report of very suspitious Circumstances in relation to that matter was instantly spread and reached the Ears of Mr Braddon a Gentleman of great Integrity and of no less Courage whose honest Zeal prompted him to look into that hellish Intrigue and to endeavour a full discovery of that horrid Villany but that Season not allowing it he and Mr Speke were run upon and with great fury prosecuted in the manner following They were brought to Tryal upon an Information charging them with Subornation and endeavouring to raise a belief that the Earl of Ess did not murder himself The Judges then in Court were The Lord Chief Justice Jeffryes Judge Withens and Judge Holloway The Jury Sr Hugh Middleton a Papist Thomas Harriot Thomas Earsby Joshua Galliard Richard Shoreditch Charles Good Samuel Rouse Hugh Squire Nehem. Arnold John Byfeild William Waite James Supple The King's Council were Attorney General Sawyer Solicitor General Finch Jenner Recorder of London Mr Dolben Mr North Mr Jones Council for the Defendants were Mr Wallop Mr Williams Mr Thompson Mr Freke Mr Dolben opened the Information to this effect That whereas the Earl of Essex upon the 10th of July last was committed to the Tower for Treason and did there Murder himself as was found by the Coroner's Inquisition yet the Defendants designing to bring the Government to hatred the 15th of August conspired to perswade the King's Subjects that the said Earl was Muedered by certain Persons unknown and to procure false Witnesses to prove that he was not felo de se but was Murdereds and that they did malitiously declare in writing that Mr Braddon was the Person that did prosecute the said Murder to the scandal of the Government c. Then the Attorney General brought in Evidence Sr Leoline Jenkins his Warrant for the Commitment of the Earl to the Tower and the Inquisition of Mr Farnham the Coroner taken by this Jury July 14th 1683. viz. Samuel Colwel William Fisher Thomas Godsell Thomas Hunt Natha Mountney Thomas Potter William How Robert Burgoyne Eleazar Wickens Thomas Hogsflesh Henry Cripps Richard Rudder William Knipes John Hudson John Kettlebeater Lancelot Coleson Morgan Cowarne Thomas Bryan William Thackston Richard Cliffe Zebediah Prichard William Baford and Theophilus Carter Which Jury had found that the Earl of Essex was Felo de se Then the Witnesses for the King being called Mr Evans was sworn and the Attorney General suggested that he and old Mr Edwards would prove that Mr Braddon went about and declared that the Earl of Essex was Murdered and that he was the Prosecutor of the Murder but neither of them answered expectation in that matter Mr Evans testified that Mr Edwards told it to him and others for News at the Custom-House that fore-noon of the day of the Earl of Essex his death that his Son said that he saw a Razour thrown out of the Earl's Window That upon the Munday after which was July the 16th Mr Braddon came with Mr Hatsel to his House where Mr Hatsel shewed him the Coroner's Inquisition in Print which having read Mr Evans told Mr Hatsel what he had heard from Mr Edwards at the Custom-House And he said that Mr B. did not concern himself or say any thing though he might hear Mr Evans his discourse with Mr Hatsel he being walking about the Room Mr Evans added that upon the 17th of July Mr Edwards and Mr Braddon found him in a Coffee-House and Mr Edwards then told him that Mr Braddon had been with him examining his Son about a Razour that was thrown out of the Earl of Essex his Window Mr Edwards testified that about ten of the Clock the day of the Earl's death he was informed by his Family and by his Son that same day at noon that his Son came from the Tower about ten of the Clock and said that he had seen the King and Duke and that the Earl of Essex had cut his own Throat and that the Boy saw an hand throw a Razour out of the Window and a Maid in a white Hood came out of the House and took it up and then go in again and that he heard a noise as of Murder cryed out Mr Edwards acknowledged that he told several at the Custom-House the same day what the Lad had declared and that Mr Bradden came not to make enquiry about it till Tuesday the 17th of July before which time he never knew Mr Braddon that he then told him what report the
towards them because they laboured under many Difficulties as the Tide then ran He therefore desired Sr Robert to call Mr B. by the Name of Johnson That they did hope to bring the Earl's Murder upon the Stage before they could any of those in the Tower to a Tryal That Sr H. Capel had told Mr B. that it was a thing too great for him That Mr B. had been at great trouble and charge about it and that as times went he knew few would have undertaken it besides himself Mr Lewis of Marlborough being called by Mr Braddon witnessed That upon the day of the Earl's Death riding within three or four Miles of Andover fifty two Miles from London between three and five in the Afternoon a man told him for news that he heard the Earl of Essex had cut his Throat and that at his going home to Marlborough the next day he told his Neighbours what he had heard the day before and that they thereupon said It was done but yesterday how could you hear it so soon Mr Feilder of Andover witnessed That upon the Wednesday and Thursday of the Week in which the Earl of Essex dyed it was the common talk of the Town of Andover †Note in like manner it was proved in the Tayal of the Lord Stafford that it was reported at a great distance that Sr Edmundbury Godfrey had murdered himself before it was known at London what was become of him that he had cut his Throat that the Women talked of it as they came in out of the Town and that on the Saturday night in that Week the certain news of it came Mrs Edwards the Boys Mother testified that the Boy came from the Tower and told her that he had seen the King c. and that the Earl of Essex had cut his Throat and then wept and further said That he saw a Razour thrown out at the Window and was going to take it up but a short fat Woman came and took it and went in again that he told her all this weeping and crying and never denyed it till after Mr Braddon had been there and then denyed it upon this occasion when Mr B. came his enquiry put them all into a great damp and after he was gone the Boy being then at School her Husband said to her Daughter Sarah Don't you say any thing to your Brother and when he comes in we will talk to him that her Daughter was grievously affrighted thereat and so amazed that so soon as the Boy came in She told him that there had been a Gentleman to enquire about what he had said and that he thereupon said to her Why Sister will any thing of harm come and upon her answering him That She did not know but it might be her Father and the Family might be ruined he then denyed what he had said but at the same time he came to his Mother and cryed he should be hanged this was also acknowledged by the Daughter Sarah Edwards the Boy 's Sister testified what the Boy had declared of seeing the Razour c. And that She told him upon Tuesday the 17th of July that a Gentleman had been there to enquire about it and that the Boy did thereupon ask her whether any harm would come of it and that upon her answering him that She could not tell he did deny what he had declared That Mr B. came again soon after upon the same day and found them all daunted upon their hearing the Boy deny it and Mr Brad. ask'd him about it bad him speak the Truth telling him * Indeed Jovian Hicks many others of our passively Obedient and Non-Resisting Gentlemen of the Cassock have handled many Texts of Scripture at a very unwarrantable rate to decoy Mankind to the foolish Exchange of their glorious title to Freedom for that of Slavery But we have here the first instance of a Man's preaching up the lawfulness of Perjury from the dreadful Judgment of Heaven upon Ananias Sapphira It was a dreadful thing to be a Lyar and bad him read the 5th of the Acts where he would find that two were struck dead for telling a Lye She further testified that Mr Braddon came the next day the Wednesday about noon and that then her Brother probably having read the 5th of Acts did again own that what he had declared ahout the Razour c. was true that Mr Braddon wrote down what he acknowledged and she further confessed that she told the Boy that his Father would be in danger of loseing his Place The matter pinching at this time the Chief Justice to perplex the Cause and divert from the Evidence fell to hectoring Mr Wallop Counsel for the Defendants a Person of great Integrity and Master of more Law than all the Judges then upon the Bench telling him in a most scurrilous manner that he was zealous for Faction and Sedition as every Man was deemed to be at that Conuncture who was so hardy as to stand up in any honest Cause in that Court and impetuous in the worst of Causes and that his Lordship could see nothing in all this Cause but villany and baseness which in truth to an high degree was most evident in the carriage of the Court and Prosecutors of this Cause and that Mr Wallop should not have liberty to broach his Seditious Tenets there Such the asserting the native Rights of English-men were in that day esteemed by the Bene placito Judges of that Court Mrs Burt then produced by Mr Braddon testified That She was present when Mr Braddon came to speak with the Boy and that he said to him if it be true that you have spoken own it for 't is a dreadful thing to be found in a Lye and that Mr Braddon advised him to read the 5th of Acts and that the Boy then said Sir it is true and what I said I will speak before any Justice of Peace in the World and he then told Mr Braddon the whole Story Jane Lodeman a Girl 13. years old called by Mr Braddon declared that she did not know young Edwards and testified that she saw an hand throw a bloody Razour out of the Earl of Essex's Window and presently after heard two Shriekes or two Groans and saw a Woman come out in a White-Hood but did not see her take up the Razour and she added that she presently told all this to her Aunt Here Mr Solicitor was pleased to sport himself with the Girl by way of Dialogue thus Solicitor Was the Razour bloody Girl Yes Solicitor Very bloody Girl Yes Solicitor Are you sure 't was a Razour or a Knife Girl I am sure 't was a Razour Solicitor Was it open or shut Girl It was open Solicitor What colour was the handle Girl Sir I cannot tell I see it but as it flew out Solitior Was it all over bloody Girl No. Solicitor All but a little speck Girl It was very bloody Then Jeffryes finding the
Girl to be more than a Match for her first Assailant falls in to his aid and first bellows out a terrifying Exclamation Blessed God! What an Age do We live in That the King 's Learned Council with all their Cunning cannot confound these innocent honest Infant Witnesses and then taking up the same Dialoguing Cudgel falls roundly upon the Girl thus Chief Justice Girl you say you did not know that 't was the Earl of Essex's Window Girl No but as they told me Chief Justice Nor you did not see any body take up the Razour Girl No. Chief Justice But are you sure you did not Girl I am sure I did not Chief Justice But Child recollect thy self sure thou didst see some body take it up Girl No I did not The Goliah thus miscarrying Mr Braddon proceeded in his Evidence and called the Girl 's Aunt Mrs Smyth who witnessed that the Girl coming from the Tower upon the 13th of July told her that she saw a Razour thrown out of a Window and that Mr Braddon hearing of it came as a Stranger to enquire about it and ever encouraged the Girl to speak the truth and bad her speak nothing but what was truth and that he never offered her or the Girl any thing Mr William Glasbrooke testified That upon the 13th of July he heard the Girl very loud with her Aunt saying the Earl of Essex has cut his Throat in the Tower and that her Aunt chiding her she said she was sure it was true for she saw a bloody Razour thrown out of the Window and that he the said Witness was present when Mr Braddon first discoursed the Girl having never seen him before and he heard her tell Mr Braddon that the Earl of Essex cut his Throat and that she saw a bloody Razour thrown out of the Window and that she heard two Groans or two Shriekes Then Mr Smyth being called by Mr Braddon testified that he went with Mr Braddon to the Girl and heard her tell him that she saw an hand toss a Razour out at the Earl of Essex's Lodgings and that she heard two Shriekes and saw a Woman come out with White head-Cloathes but did not see any one take up the Razour Mrs Meux was then produced by Mr Braddon to testifie that she went from London to Berk-shire the day before the Lord Russell's Tryal and that a Gentlewoman in the Coach with her then told her that one of the Lords in the Tower had cut his Throat At this the quondam City Mouth storm'd and huff'd at his wonted rate refusing to hear the Evidence and demanding why they brought not the Woman which told this to Mrs Meux and was answered that she was so big with Child that she could not come Mr Burgesse of Marlborough then testified that he being at Froome in Dorset-shire upon the day of the Earl of Essex's death he heard there a Report that his Lordship had murdered himself Then the King's Council produced the Coroner's well instructed Witnesses to prove that this Noble Peer was Felo de se who were Bomency his Lordship's Servant now in France and a professed Papist Hawley and Russell the Warder and Lloyd the Centinel Now because the Depositions of these Fellows will appear in their most true and best light in the Abstract of some of the proofs made about this most barbarous Assassination which with the leave of the candid and ingennons Abstracter thereof I purpose to subjoyn I shall not here enlarge upon them The Evidence on both sides being given in the last place comes Jeffryes to descant and remark upon it which he did in an harangue which makes six leafs in Folio half as many as the Acts of all the Parliaments in the Reign of Charles the Martyr do fill in our Statute Book He tells the Jury That there is scarce in nature a greater crime than this before them It carries all the Venome and Baseness the greatest Inveteracy against the Government that ever any Case did That the Earl of Essex rather than he would abide his Tryal he being conscious the great Guilt he had contracted made him destroy himself immediately after my Lord Russell one of the Conspirators was carried to Tryal and it cannot be thought but it was to prevent the methods of Justice in his own Case there was digitus dei in it and 't is enough to sati fie all the World of the Conspiracy 'T is beyond all peradventure true that my Lord of Essex did minder himself Then the Jury by their Verdict brought in Mr Braddon Guilty of the whole matter charged upon him in the Information and Mr Speke Guilty of all but conspiring to procure false Witnesses The Court adjudged Mr Braddon to pay 2000 l. Fine to find Sureties for good behaviour for Life and to be committed till performed Mr Speke to pay 1000 l. Fine to find Sureties for good behaviour for Life and to be committed till performed An Abstract of some material Proofs which have been made in Relation to the Death of the Earl of Essex First for disproof of the Earl's Self-Murder THE Right Honourable Arthur late Earl of Essex was Committed to the Tower upon Tuesday the 10th of July 1683 and there were two Warders placed over him viz Monday and Russell and one Servant viz. Paul Bomeney was permitted to attend upon him The very next Friday Morning about nine of the Clock his Lordship was found dead in his Closet with his Throat cut through both Jugular Arteries to the Neck-bone Now seeing our Law presumes every Man destroyed by violent Hands is murdered by others unless such Evidence appears as gives satisfaction in the contrary and proves him a Self-Murder This Lord had been found to be barbarously murdered had not Bomeney Monday and Russell appeared to prove the contrary and they endeavoured to prove it thus My Lord of Essex they say called for a Pen-Knife to pare his Nails which Pen-knife not being ready he required a Razour which was accordingly delivered him with which his Lordship having pared his Nails he retired into his Closet and looks himself in and there he cut his Throat and the Razour before delivered to pare his Nails lying by the Body But that this Relation is forged and that there was First No Razour delivered to my Lord to pare his Nails nor had his Lordship pared his Nails with any Secondly Neither the Body locked into the Closet Nor Thirdly The Razour lying locked in by the Body when my Lord was first known to be dead is evident from what follows which clearly detects this Forgery For the first of these that there was no Razour delivered to my Lord. This appears by the Contradictions of Bomeney Russel and Monday as to the time of the delivering this Razour for Bomeney first swears he delivered this Razour to my Lord to pare his Nails on Friday Morning at eight of the Clock within two hours positively swears in the deposition himself writ that he
that the Act passing to disable Roman Catholicks he and others of them were forced to quit their Commands that the common opinion amongst them was for the setling the Roman Catholick Religion in Engd. but that the measures being broken by means of the Peace with Holland and the Duke of York's and other Catholick Officers quitting all Commands and the King failing in his expectations from them the Roman Catholicks came to a Resolutitn to Destroy the King as Father Parry Confessor to the Portuguieze Ambassodor told the Examinant in 1673 who put this Confidence in him being his Confessor and that the same Father repeated the same discourse to him with more assurance in 1678. adding then that the Business then was now near and he should soon see it done That about April 1679. the Duke of Modena's Envoy having sworn him to Secrecy told him That if he would undertake the Killing the King he should have 10000 l. which he refusing the Envoy said The Dutchess of Mazarine understands Poysoning as well as her Sister and a little Viol when the King comes there will do it and that upon the King's Death the Army in Flanders and Parts adjacent to France was to come into England to destroy the Protestant Party and that after that there should be no Parliaments and that the Duke of York was privy to all these designs That about April 1680. Kelly the Priest whom he had known above 12. Years and had some times Confessed him owned to him at Calis that he was concerned in the Murder of Sr Edmund-Bury Godfrey and that the same was done as Prance had related it That the Examinant had been six or seven Years acquainted Monsieur de Puy Servant to the Duke of York and that he told him soon after the Murder of Sr Edmund-Bury Godfrey That that Murder was consulted at Windsor and about that time said that the Duke was very desirous to come to the Crown the King being incertain and not keeping touch with them and that De Puy said there was a necessity of taking off the King and that it would be soon done That the Duke of York possessing part of the Examinant's Fathers Estate in Ireland the Examinant being acquainted with Father Bedingfeild asked him how he could give Absolution to the Duke till he had made Restitution to which the Father said that every Penitent was supposed to know his own Sins and to declare them to his Confessor to which the Examinant replying with warmth But since you know it you ought to take notice thereof the Father answered be not angry for e're it be long you may be in a better condition That in March 1680. he met Father Patrick at Paris and talking of a Rupture that might be between England and France the Father said that the French intended in such Case to send Marshall Bellfonds into Ireland with 10000 Foot and 2000 Horse and Arms and Ammunition for 30000 Men to be raised there and the Father promised the Examinant a Regiment of the Men to be so Raised and the design was to restore that Kingdom to its former Owners in Subjection to France That Father Patrick desired him to send him all the Libels that came out in London and said that Libelling the King was a thing necessary in order to distaste and make him jealous of his People that the Examinant knew Mr Everard at Paris in 1665 and hath since encreased his acquaintance with him and that the Opinion of Father Patrick about Libelling the King incouraged the Examinant to concur with Everard as to the Libel lately Written by Everard It was most evident from the demeanour of Fitz-Harris from the first to the last after his apprehension that he was ready to say deny affirm or do any thing to save his Life Mrs Fitz-Harris his Widow upon the 15th of August 1681. deposed that her Husband a little before his Execution told her what great offers were made him at first to have charged the Libel upon the Earl of Shaftesbury and my Lord Howard and that he advised her to do it as the only means to save his Life tho' he protested at the same time they were wholly innocent and that she was assured that she should have what Money she pleased if she would accuse those Lords of the Libel Nay Fitz-H himself the very Night before his Execution wrote a Paper which he ordered to be delivered to his Wife in order to prevent the spilling innocent Blood informing her by whom he was advised to accuse those Lords and others of the Libels and of having put him upon the discovery of the Popish Plot and that he had the promise of a Pardon to prevail upon him to do it but finding that he was deluded he declared as before God that they were innocent and that what he had deposed against the Papists was true and that he had been only too sparing in accusing great People among them It is observable that for about fourteen dayes between the time of the Condemnation and Execution of Fitz-Harris the poor wretch was wholly under the management of Dr Hawkins of the Tower in which time the Doctor having held several Consults with some at Windsor there was modelled a Paper stuff'd with abominable Malice and Falshood to serve the wicked Designs of that day which the Doctor after his Death emitted to the World under the Title of the Confession of Fitz-Harris and therein he is made to declare abundance of extravagant Falshoods in particular That the Treason of the Libel came from the Lord Howard But his Conscience could not but witness that he had at several times complained to Sheriff Bethel and Sheriff Cornish that he had been pressed to accuse the Lord Howard and also the Earl of Shaftesbury of the Libel Then the Sham Confession proceeds to a Protestant Plot viz. that the Lord Howard told him of a design to seize upon the King to carry him into the City and there detain him till he had yielded to their desires and that himself and Haynes were privy to the design and had several Meetings with the Lord Howard A strange Tale of a Protestant Plot between two Irish Papists and a Protestant English Lord. In the next place this Mock-Confession is to perswade the World that the Protestant Magistrates of London did endeavour to suborn him to make a Confession that might confirm a Popish Plot. It declares That in Newgate the Sheriffs Bethel and Connish came to him with a Token from the Lord Howard and told him nothing would save his Life but discovering the Popish Plot and greatly encouraged him to declare that he believed so much of the Plot as amounted to the introducing the Roman Catholicks or to criminate the Queen his Royal Highness or to make so much as a plansible Story to confirm the Plot. Besides That as it hath been heretofore observed and is most undoubtedly true that Neither of the Sheriffs ever spake privately with Fitz-H until
he had been thrice examined by the Secretaries of State and sworn to the substance of his Examination taken by Sr Robert Clayton and Sr George Treby So this idle Tale in it self could never deserve the least credit in that it made the Sheriffs so foolish and vain as to think a Declaration from such a Wretch as Fitz-H of his belief of the Popish Plot to have been of great value and that it was worth a high Reward for him to have invented a plausible story to confirm the Plot after the belief thereof had been confirmed by many Proclamations by the Votes of four Parliaments and the Condemnation and Execution of several of the Plotters Further Dr Hawkins his Paper brings in Fitz-H charging it upon the Sheriffs that they extorted from him false Confessions about the Popish Plot and it makes him to speak thus I finding my self in Newgate fettered Monyless and Friendless and I could see no other refuge for my Life but complying with them the Sheriffs so to save my Life I did comply But as soon as the Doctor had published this Sham the falshood thereof was detected and the World rightly informed in the matter that Fitz-H was never fettered or put in Irons but was treated with all imaginable civility for which he thanked the Sheriffs even with his dying Breath The Doctor 's impudent Libel then fell upon Sr Robert Clayton and Sr George Treby and insinuates that they would have induced Fitz-Harris to say more than was true and says that what he deposed before them about Father Patrick was forced out of him and was not true F. H. himself well knew that Sr Robert Clayton and Sr George Treby came to take his Confession upon his earnest importunity and that after he had been thrice examined by the Secretaries and Attorney General and he had sworn before them all the matters in substance contained in the Examination by Sr R. C. and Sr G. T. except that one passage about de Puy and when that Examination was read to the House of Commons at Oxford Secretary Jenkins acknowledged that he had confessed the same to the Lord Conway the Attorney General and himself except that about de Puy yet the Contriver of the Sham Retractation took no care to retract or excuse his Swearing the same matters before the Secretaries and Mr Attorney because Reason of State did at that day require that not They but the City Magistrates must be exposed Then the impudence of Hell is assumed to bring in Sr George Treby inviting Fitz-H to accuse the Earl of Danby and the Popish Lords in the Tower by speaking thus do but you say it We have have those that will swear it Had they been provided with false Witnesses and had they had such an accursed design There was no need of Fitz-H his saying any thing Neither the false Suggestions nor the Perjuries could have gained any weight or credit from the Authority of Fitz-H by his saying what they were to Swear To conclude there are Persons who can unriddle this whole Mystery pull off the Disguises and Vizors wherewith this affair is even to this day obscured and therefore I have made this Recapitulation of the fore-going particulars to incite those who are better able to oblige the World with a more full knowledge of the vile Practices with this poor deluded timerous Wretch and then it may be evident that the Doctor gave him expectation if not assurance of Life to the very last Moment that he drew breath Remarks upon the Tryal of Mrs Elizabeth Gaunt at the Old-Bayly London upon the 19th day of October 1685. WEre my Pen qualified to represent the due Character of this Excellent Woman it would be readily granted that she stood most deservedly entitled to an eternal Monument of honour in the hearts of all sincere Lovers of the Reformed Religion All true Christians tho' in some things differing in perswasion with her found in her a universal Charity and sincore Friendship as is well known to many here and also to a Multitude of the Scotch Nation Ministers and others who for Conscience sake were thrust into Exile by Prelatick Rage These found her a most refreshing Refuge She dedicated her self with unwearied industry to provide for their supply and support and therein I do incline to think she out-stripped every individual Person if not the whole Body of Protestants in this great City Hereby she became exposed to the implacable fury of the bloody Papists and those blind Tools who co-operated to promote their accursed designs and so there appeared little difficulty to procure a Jury as there were well prepared Judges to make her a Sacrifice as a Traytor to Holy Church Upon Monday the 19th day of October 1685 Mrs Gaunt was arraigned upon an Indictment to this effect viz. That she intending to disturb the Peace and Tranquility of the Kingdom and to stir up Rebellion against the King and to subvert his Government and depose and put him to death for bringing her Traytorous purposes to pass she well knowing James Burton to be a Traytor did secretly and Trayterously entertain and conceal him and did give him Meat Drink and 5 l. in Money for his Maintenance and Sustenance She having pleaded Not guilty the following Jury was sworn Tho. Rawlinson Tho. Langham Ambrose Isted Tho. Pendleton John Grice Tho. Oneby William Cloudesley Richard Holford William Longboate Steven Colman Robert Clavel and William Long. Then Mr Attorney General said The Prisoner is indicted for harbouring Burton a great Traytor and procuring a way for his escape beyond Sea and giving him 5 l. to bear his Charges She and her Husband were the great Brokers for carrying over such Traytors as my Lord Shaftesbury and others He then called James Burton and demanded an account of him whether he were engaged in the matter of the Rye-House and how Mrs Gaunt harboured him Burton testified that Keeling brought him and Barber and Thompson into the company of Rumbold It looks as tho Keeling had been employed at White-hall to make as well as to discover this Plot for of the very small number accused of it We have him here drawing in three at once That upon Keeling's discovery he was put into the Proclamation for being at that Meeting and absconded about two Moneths and then Mrs Gaunt came to enquire of his Wife for him who brought her to him and she told him that there were some Persons about to make an escape and she would have him go along with them and sent him with Rumbold to Rochford-Hundred in Essex to take Ship but not liking the Vessel and the Weather being bad they returned to London That many Moneths afterwards Mrs Gaunt came and gave him 5 l. and sent him in a Boat to Gravesend from whence he went in a Vessel to Amsterdam Mary Gilbert Burton's Daughter was sworn and said that she met Mrs Gaunt with her Father in Houndsditch and they went to a
the Pannel and either he or his Clerk told him that Burton and Graham hadit and when he came again in the Evening to them for it one of them told him They had orders from above not to let him have it Sr James Forbes deposed that the Dake of Monmouth desired him to shew Mr Hambden a Paper written with the King 's own Hand which was for the Duke's owning of the Evidence of Romsey and others That he told the Duke that that Paper would make him infamous and would be a means of destroying many Men's Lives whereupon the Duke sent him with the Paper to the Earl of Anglesey who upon the reading of it presently wrote a a Paper of Reasons against it That before Sr James went to the Earl of A. the Duke told him if it were so as he had told him he would have the Paper again tho' he dyed for it whereupon Sr James ask't him how he would get it That the Duke said the King would shew it him and then he would tear it out of his Hand and then further said the Duke of York was his implacable Enemy That as soon as Mr Hambden had read the Paper he said he was a Dead Man and ask't leave of Sr James to shew it to his Father which he consented to That he returned to the Duke and gave him the Earl of Anglesey's Reasons against the Paper together with his own thoughts of it whereupon the Duke replyed that he saw they had a mind to ruine him and he was only brought into Court to do a Jobb and that he would not Sleep before he had retrived the Paper That the Duke told him how kindly the King had expressed himself to him and Sr James desired the Duke to save Colonel Sidney if possible but he feared he could not but said he had told the King how good a Man the Lord Russell was and how unjustly he had been put to death That at the desire of Mr Hambden the Duke went to visit him before he had his Pardon tho' he thought it to be very dangerous and was with him two or three Hours in private and Sr James believes it was about saving the Colonel's Life That the Duke's Servants told Sr James at the Cock-Pit that they were ordered not to suffer any of his old Friends or Whiggs and such and such in particular to see or pay a Visit to the Duke That the Duke told St James that the Lord Hallifax perswaded him to sign the Paper but whether it were for his good or not he knew not That when Sr James told the Duke how it was reported in the Town that he was come in to be a Witness he answered he never would That the next day after Sr James had given the Duke the Earl of Anglesey's Reasons and Mr Hambden's and his own Opinion Colonel Godfrey came to him and told him that the Duke had recovered the Paper and got it into his own possession and Sr James went to tell Mr Hambden Mr Charlton and Major Wildman of it Colonel Godfrey deposed That the first night the Duke of Monmouth came to Court he went to him with Sr James Forbes and the Duke told them how kind the King was to him in giving him his Pardon and that he believed he owed a great deal of it to the Lord Hallifax and several times he heard him say that the Lord Hallifax had been kind and servicable to him That the Duke said the King told him that he must submit to be askt Questions in publick concerning the Plot and must submit to him and not contradict him That within two or three dayes after the Duke surrendered himself he shewed him a Paper which was a Declaration or seeming Confirmation of the Plot with which the Lord Russell and Colonel Sidney were charged and he thinkes the Paper was signed with the Dukes name to it That the Paper which the Duke got from the King was not the same with the other and he believes he did not see that Paper That the Duke told him after the Paper had been sent to the Council that he had signed such a Paper he understood in general from him that this Paper was a Confirmation of the Plot the Lord Russell and Colonel Sidney suffered upon That he thinks the Duke told him the Lord Hallifax perswaded him to sign that Paper The Reasons he used were that he might keep at Court and be near the King or else he must go from thence Anthony Rowe Esq deposed That the Duke of Monmouth sent him to the King with two or three Letters whom he found very angry with him for the Company he kept Observe here what value that King put upon the Blood of Lord Russell and Col. Sidney c. and particularly the Lord Howard who he said was so ill a Man that he would not hang the worst dog he had on his Evidence That he heard the Duke had a Paper given him from the King to consider of he seemed unwilling to sign it but at last consented so he might not be askt to sign any other He being in the Bed-Chamber when the King told him he should not whether he signed it or not Mr Row knows not That this Paper was given to the King and shewed to the Council but they not likeing it it was either Burnt or Torn and another Paper drawn That about that time some thing of this being put into the Gazette Mr Row acquainted the Duke with it Who was displeased at it and bid them tell every Body they met that it was false That Mr Row doing so in the Coffee-house that night the King was acquainted with it and sent for him early the next morning and chid him and told him he did the Duke more hurt than he was aware of and commanded him to speak no more of it That the Duke told him he was resolved not to sign the second Paper That one day afterwards he and Godfrey and Barker were in the outward Room and the Lord Hallifax was with the Duke and Dutchess in her Room and the Duke came out to them once or twice and at last laid he had done it and that night he seemed angry with himself that he had signed the Paper for that it might hurt others and that if it had concerned none but himself he had not cared but said he would not rest till he had the Paper again and the next morning he told him he had got it That the Duke told them that the King had often press'd him to sign it and told him he should never see his face more if he did not do it but if he would he should ask him nothing but he would grant it But when he did sign it he knows not nor that there was any in the Room but the Dutchess and the Lord Hallifax That the Duke told him after he came out that the Lord Hallifax had over perswaded him and made him do it
to kill the King I take God to witness I never had any such design nor ever had a thought to take away the King's Life Neither ever had any man the impudence to propose so barbarous and base a thing to me Mr Nelthorp at his death in 1685 said I can with great comfort appeal to the great God before whose Tribunal I am to appear what I did was in the sincerity of my Heart thinking it my duty to hazard my Life for the Preservation of the Protestant Religion and the English Liberties which I thought invaded and in great danger to be lost As to the design of Assassinating or Murdering the late King or his present Majesty it was a thing I always detested and I never was in the least concerned in it Nor did I believe there was such a design I dye in Charity with all the World and can readily and heartily forgive my greatest Enemies and even those that have been the Evidence against me Mr Rouse declared that he was told that They did not intend to spill one drop of Blood and affirmed that Lee the Witness against him did by his Evidence make him the Author of the very words that came out of his the said Lee's own Mouth Mr Richard Rumbold who at his death at Edenburgh in 1685 was found to be a very brave Man most serious Christian and had been represented as the main Promoter of the Murdering design with his last breath desired all to believe his dying Words and therewith affirmed that he never directly or indirectly intended such a Villany as the death of King Charles the second and the Duke of York but declared that he abhorred the thoughts of so horrid an intention That he was sure this Truth would at the great day be manifest to all Men And he concluded that he dyed in the defence of the just Laws and Liberties of the Nation and said that for that Cause were every Hair of his Head and Beard a Life he would joyfully sacrifice them all and wisht he had a Limb for every Town in Christendom To conclude these solemn serious dying Declarations Protestations and Appeals to the heart-searching God have always out-weighed with me the Evidence of those two or three Witnesses who swore these Persons out of their Lives and by so doing saved their own And I did and do most stedfastly believe that the only Plot in that day was the same which the Almighty has at length owned and most signally prospered in the hand of our gracious August and Rightful Soveraign King William I mean the rescuing the Protestant Religion and the Laws and Liberties of England from a most impetuous Torrent of Popery and Tyranny wherewith they were very dangerously threatned And methinks it should even convert a Tory unless his Brains were pick'd out of his Shull by him who pick'd the Guineas out of his Pocket when he casts his Eye upon that apposite Emphatical Expression in the Observator vol. 2. Number 125. To deal freely with thee TRIMMER I have more Faith in the Words of one dying Traytor under the stroke of Iustice than of twenty Living Errata's PAge 34. last Line read Closet p 63 first line r and he be found p 91 line 9 dele that p 105 l 2. dele us p 151 l 25 r acquainted with p 203 l 5 for with r which p 213 l 20 for it is r its p 241 l 14 r possessed p 247 l 22 r always had p 252 l 25 r every day from that p 253 l 3 r Sr Robert p 277 l 26 r Gold-Finch p 288 l 9 r were not sent