Selected quad for the lemma: death_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A53097
|
Captain Charles Newy's case impartially laid open, or, A true and full narrative of the clandestine proceedings aginst [sic] him as it was hatched, contrived, and maliciously carried on by Mrs. Margaret Newey, widdow.
|
Newey, Charles.
|
1700
(1700)
|
Wing N917; ESTC R42213
|
29,009
|
19
|
nor would the Grand Jury find the Bill For the People that Live and has done at Tyburn House for Tenn Year past has been often Examined about it Nay before the King and Councel the Gallows has been searched if any Nay les were driven in or any of the Mourning appeared there or there abouts nothing was ever found or seen The report is supposed to be occasioned by the Woman's Father's Death who now Lives in it and for whom they were at that time in Mourning That there was never any thing like it ever seen by any of that Family or any other Creature tho' several has been charged with it as the Lord Mohun c. a thing of that nature could not be without their hearing seeing or knowing of it their House being so nigh it and Windows looking towards it And that it was only a report is what they are ready to make Oath of before any Judge I had 3 or 4 to Swear this in Court least they should find the Bill and Try me upon it Immediately as they did upon others but the Court would not hear them I discharg'd 5 Recognizances before I was Committed of my Sisters creating who made her Sister her Sisters Husband her Maid and others as she her self did Swear the Peace against me which with her plausible Railing incensed the Justices Constables and those that heard her with Tears relate my supposed Crimes which Increased with her Invention So that I was look'd upon like a Mad Dog that every one ought to have a throw at which I am willing to believe occasion'd Mr. Turner's coming under pretence to assist the Constables and to a Assault me and then Indite me for Assaulting of him when they told me that the Constables were at the Tavern staying for me I sent to tell them that a Constable with another might come to me if they pleas'd for I 'd suppressed what Warrants my Sister's Malice had procured They ventured to come to me at last The Constable could not Read but the Beadle did and seem'd satisfied with it that I Resisted is certain tho in my Morning Gown and to no purpose they being about 40 in Number but that they Assaulted me having no Warrant to break open a Door is as certain And now I hope my Reader must loudly confess that all circumstances onely considered it will appear to every charitable Judgment that if I had in the least been conscientious to my self of having two or more Wives of Hanging the Gallows in Mourning of suborning a Villain that no Creature could depend upon unless his Swearing was to bring him out of Prison Must I not have been Esteemed to have totally lost my Understanding nay to a been a perfect Lunatick or lull'd into a Lethargie in not flying from Justice but it behoves us who are Mortals born to bear with all Afflictions and to try our Fortunes as often as we are Miserable for it is as possible to retrieve our former happiness as to fall from it The Witnesses against me are so many Pick-pockets Cheats and Villains raked together Hollingworth is known to have been Burnt with the Flower de luce upon his Back and to have been in New-Prison for making of Farthings one that sometimes passes for a Priest and at others for a Minister I saw him abjure the Protestant Religion in Paris and take up Popish Priests Orders upon him but now he pretends himself a Protestant again If such Wretches be believed there is nothing either in Heaven or upon Earth that can be secure from them They are Rogues that will Swear any thing Fellows known to be Thieves Cheats and in fine a Scandal to the very Alms Basket The Devil 's in my Enemies if they do not Win all they play for when they have the shuffling and packing of their Cards and keeping in or puting out as they themselves please The Town will not doubt of my having been pursued with the utmost Industry and Bitterness Imaginable and that I have had but little Favour shewn me which has left me but one Fireing Gun to call for help upon the springing of a Lake So Mortal a Sin is it to aspire or ask for ones own and so venial a slip to endeavour to take a way any ones Life with a non obstante of never so many Laws to the contrary My Sister who will out Swear or out Weep a Harlot when she vows Fidelity to her old Cully she is a true expectant Widdow at her old departing Usures Death Bed-side just sealing her sole Executrix She 's particularly marked by continual crying and insatiable Malice for no relenting thought or pittying Tear no Love of a Dead and too kind Husband can be capable to stop the Carreer of her unparrallel'd Ingratitude There never was perhaps since the creation so much noise made not only in this vast Citty but in all parts of Europe about a poor young Fellow whose highest Crime was living like a Gentleman unless you 'l believe perjured Villains or those that repeat what the others Swear or them he disoblig'd It 's a Sister in Law whole Interest it is to Lash me till I fly for Succour to the Grave that the World sees I am prosecuted by and by her mean Scandalous and Ridiculous Instruments Lousie Greasie Rogues Starving Indigent Varlets that have not Credit in the World for a Brumigham Groat had they been Men of Substance or Reputation or without Prejudice by whose Testimony I had been found Guilty I had then been silenced for ever in some lone Cave dark as despair if I had realy lost what 's dearer then Life the dreads of which makes me feel no less than all the Pangs of bleeding Death Racks and Tortures In which let me Die if I am Guilty My cruel Enemies I know will not deny me Dying But the Witnesses upon whose Oathes I am found Guilty are now known as well as the Whiping-post for Swearing Lying Cheating and for abandoned sort of mercenary Villains who were by my Sister pitched upon as the rarest Tooles that ever Ingeneer invented to mannage such a Machine That Man knows little of my Misfortunes that knows not what Tricks they play'd to Ruin me The Council for the King made a motion that they might have leave to lay me open as they call'd it which was granted And who was to lay me open but my Sister her Sister her Sister's Husband and her Maid For there was not a Creature that said the least thing against my Reputation but her party Never was there such a motion made by Council or granted by a C it signifying nothing to the matter of fact for which I was Indicted The question being not what I was Born or what Follies I had been Guilty of but what Laws I had broke To prove me no Gentleman Born my Sister being upon her Oath calls for a Creature that to describe I can only say was a Scare crow whom she declar'd to the Court was
1697. Copia vera Exam per. William Killvers Deput Custod ibar To the Keeper of New-Prison on Clarken-Well-Green or his Deputy I Indicted her but she got off by sham Bail so that I never saw nor heard of her till of late I Nonsuited her in the Action she got me Arrested in as is recorded in the Marshalsea and can be certified by Mr. Butler of Cliffords-Inn who was my Attorny in that Action and by his Clerk whose Bill of Charges I now have by me as well as other Affidavits to this purpose too long to be inserted here the Woman that Swore in Court I Cohabited with her Six Weeks in her House is notoriously Forsworn and found to be one of too black a Character for me to describe when I asked her whether she was sure I was the same Person she answered she did believe I was And when I asked her by what Marks she knew me or whether I wore my own Hair or a Perrywigg she said she could not tell it being 4 or 5 Years since so might be forgot Now how easy is it for me to prove that at the same time she Swore I Cohabited with Goodridge I had the Honour to be in the Family of a Noble Peer of this Relm And I do not believe that ever his Lordship knew or heard that ever I did any thing unworthy of a Gentleman or believes me Guilty of what 's laid to my Charge My Father was his Lordships Tennant and my Brother Deceas'd Sold his Lordship sometime before his Death what my Father left which I should have had share of as appears by Will and perhaps is not unknown to his Lordship My Wife did not appear in Court or was there any one that Married her or saw us Married they brought a Certificate from Lynn that such a Person was Married there whose Name was Ferrour and tho' the Indictment was Ferrow yet the Licence was Ferra which might have been three several Persons the Indictment was false and therefore they tell me it ought to have been Quashed and that Hollingworth ought not to have been made an Evidence for the King seeing he own'd he Forswore himself in Chancery and tho the Court told me that the Court of Chancrey was no Court of Record and that I ought to have produced a Record of his being proved Perjured yet my Lord Chancelor says it is Neither indeed ought Jones to have been allowed an Evidence against me for tho' an Oath in Chancery be no Record against Hollingworth yet the Old-Baily was one against Jones alias Ambtell alias Clement seeing it was there Recorded that he own'd himself Perjur'd the Sessions before But the Court seemed to Insist most upon my having own'd my self Married to several Women which was never yet allowed of as a proof For how many Gentlemen have kept Women that have passed by their Names yet was never Married to them Judge Nevill declared last Sessions that he would not for the World believe a Perjur'd Fellow's Evidence against any Prisoner tho' he should speak Truth and yet I have but Two upon whose sole Evidence I was found Guilty oth at are proved Perjured by their own Confessions under the Plausible pretence if I may so speak that one did not know what an Oath was and the other forc'd to it for fear I should Kill him Why did not the fright he pretends I put him to make him Committ Murder Robbery or rather Swear the Peace against me Was ever Man forc't to Forsware himself in Chancery Can any Mortal be forc't to it or is there a thing easier avoided Could he find no other pretence for his Perjury He that commits Murther excuses it by saying that he was Drunk and did not know what he did He that Steals that it was necessity put him upon it But the Law has no regard to their pretences or excuses or could it therefore ever be the Intention of our wise Law-makers to admit of a Perjur'd Fellows Evidence in cases of Life nay in any case when it appeared by any means that they had Forsworn themselves for to believe a Villain or a Perjured Wretch is not at all consistent with Justice or Reason for by so doing you 'll pass by the Guilty and destroy the Innocent Laws were not made for Enemies to Revenge themselves on each other but to do Justice and keep Peace Now that there is such Persons who out of Malice Fear or hopes to get something by the Persons Death do Forsweare themselves ought not to be doubted and if too easy a beleife be given to those that Swear at Random what certainty then has any Man for his Life or Estate Now that I was or ever could be believed to be Married to Hannah Goodridge cannot certainly enter into any unprejudiced Reader 's thoughts there being neither Reason nor Lust as aforesaid alledged by my very Enemies to induce me to it who had laid one Bastard to me and another to another Gentleman The World cannot but be satisfied what a notorious Jilting Whore she ever was nothing is surer than my Committing her to New-Prison for pretending such a Notion and contracting Debts in my Name for which I was Arrested and she Nonsuited not being able to prove her allegations by any but a most notorious wicked Villain whom my Reader sees has been proved Perjur'd therefore ought not to be believed Moreover if had been Married to her as she pretends why did she not prove it sooner Why did she suffer her self to be Nonsuited and committed to New-Prison if she was my lawful Wife why did she hide her self when she knew I own'd my self Married to another for two Years this May But she must Prosecute me just upon my Sisters Quarrel who put her on And tho' my said Sister Swore before the Recorder as appears by my Committment yet she declar'd to my Wife and Mrs. Succy Mair as was Sworn in Court that she was sure I never was Married to any Creature but to her self tho' I had lived with other Women which my Brother affirmed with Oaths and with other things to my Praise Now if this pretended Marraige was Celebrated as was Sworn by this perjured Villain why was it not Registered in the Church Book seeing there is a Statute that requires it Why was not the Clark or some Body else by to give her in Marriage I have asked most of Doctors Commons who all tells me it is no Marriage tho' she produced the Record that was Sworn at the Old-Baily against me that tho' she cannot Hang me yet will she contract Debts or get some Body to pretend to lend her Mony to keep me in Prison as she Imagins I need not say much to convince the World that I never Hung the Gallows in Mourning and that my Sister is Forsworn in that at least I hope it will be believed seeing she Swears shee 's sure I did it as appears by my Committment when the thing it self never was done