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death_n	life_n	lord_n	time_n	9,350	5	3.4640	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75607	The arraignment, confession, and condemnation of Alexander Knightley for the horrid and execrable conspiracy to assassinate His sacred Majesty, K. William, in order to a French invasion of this kingdom: at the Kings Bench Bar, Westminster, on the 30th of April, and the 20th and 25th of May.	Knightley, Alexander, d. 1696.	1696 (1696)	Wing A3748A; ESTC R210494	7,838	12

Knightley Not guilty Cl. of Arr. Culprit how will you be try'd Knightley By God and my Countrey Cl. of Arr. God send you a good deliverance Knightley With submission to your Lordship I did not expect in this weak condition that I am in to be brought at this time to the Bar That having taken me off extremely from the application that I should have otherwise made of my self to my Defence but seeing there is no Mercy to be had here I will endeavour to have Patience and undergo my Fate as well as I can L. C. J. Holt. Mr. Knightley you have no reason to find fault for when I was acquainted you were ill and desired a Physician I ordered one to be sent to you and yesterday in the Afternoon you sent word you were so sick that you could not be brought hither to day but your Doctor was with me last night and upon Discourse with him I did apprehend you were not so ill but that especially considering the weather you might very safely be brought to the Bar to day Knightley The Gentleman that brought me the Copy of the Indictment found me very ill and I have been ill ever since this day sevennight L. C. J. Holt. Well now let us see what time we shall appoint for the Trial. Mr. Att. Gen. When your Lordship pleases to appoint L. C. J. Holt. I think you cannot try it till Wednesday fortnight Mr. Clark That day is free my Lord. L. C. J. Holt. It being upon a Certiorari the Venire facias must be Returnable upon a common day and there must be 15 days between the Teste and the Return Mr. Att. Gen. May it not be Tuesday then that the Jury appear L. C. J. Holt. You cannot have it before Wednesday for that is the Return-day Mr. Clark Tuesday fortnight is appointed for the Trial between Pride and the Earl of Bath Mr. Att. Gen. Then it must be upon Wednesday for there must be 15 days between the Teste and the Return L. C. J. Holt. Well take back your Prisoner and bringing him here again on Wednesday fortnight you shall have a Rule for it Then the Prisoner was carried back Die Mercurii Vicesimo Maij 1696. In Banco Regis Dominus Rex versus Knightley THis day being appointed for the Trial of the Prisoner he was brought to Westminster-Hall and the Jury were call'd over as soon as the Court appeared in the Hall and the Defaulters recorded and about 11 of the Clock the Prisoner was brought to the Bar. Cl. of the Crown Alexander Knightley Hold up thy Hand Which he did Those good men that thou shalt hear called and personally appear are to pass between our Sovereign Lord the King and Thee upon the Trial of thy Life and Death If therefore thou wouldst challenge them or any of them thy time is to speak unto them as they come to the Book to be sworn before they be sworn L. C. J. Holt. Mr. Knightley I perceive you have a Desire to speak something let us hear what you have to say Knightley I humbly beg your Lordship's leave that I may speak before the Jury be called What I have to say I beg I may have your Leave to read because I have a bad Memory Reads MY Lord I hope to save the Jury and the Witnesses against me a great deal of trouble and design to take up very little of your Lordship's time But in the first place I think my self obliged to Thank your Lordship for your great Indulgence in granting me so much time between my Arraignment and Trial the greatest part of which I have employ'd to appear before the great Tribunal of Heaven I speak in the face of the World here That I am convinc'd I cannot hope to be happy hereafter without a just Abhorrence of and a sincere Repentance for that Crime for which I here stand Indicted And since Confession is an essential part of Repentance I do acknowledge I was to have been concern'd in some part of the Barbarous Assassination and was unhappily surprized into a Consent to Act in it though in my heart I did abominate the Fact as much as any man living but under some Honourable and Fair Pretences I was drawn in at first and then of a sudden became so far engaged that by a mistaken Notion of Honour I thought I could not retreat without the Infamy of Cowardise My Lord I humbly crave your Lordship's Permission to acquaint you how that some time since I was brought before some of the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council where I do assure your Lordship I did freely own and fully discover my being concerned in that horrid Design and I here openly confess the same with that Sorrow and Repentance as becomes a man of Honour and Conscience My Lord There is one Circumstance particular in my Case I most humbly beg leave to insist upon and urge to your Lordship in my behalf which is That it was upon my Confession as I conceive that Mr. Harris now a principal Evidence against me was first discovered so that my own Confession has been a great means to take away my Life I expect after a few words now in this solemn Court to receive from your Lordship the Sentence due upon the Conviction from my own mouth of a Crime for which I cannot in modesty hope so much above my Deserts the King 's most Gracious Pardon yet the greatness of my Offence does not rob me of all thoughts of Mercy whilst I throw my self absolutely and entirely at His Majesty's Feet for it and I humbly beg of your Lordship as a Privy Councellor That you would represent my unfortunate Case to their Excellencies the Lords Justices of England as an Object of His Majesty's Favour And now my Lord I shall not detain your Lordship and the Court any longer but my next words Convict and lay me under the Just Sentence of Death So to my Indictment I beg leave to plead Guilty and throw my self entirely upon the King's Mercy and do desire my former Plea to my Indictment may be withdrawn Cl. of the Crown Thou haft been Indicted and Arraigned of High Treason in Compassing and Imagining the Death and Destruction of the King how sayst thou Alexander Knightley art thou Guilty of the High Treason whereof thou standst Indicted or Not Guilty Knightley Guilty my Lord. Cl. of the Crown Art thou content to withdraw thy Plea Not Guilty Knightley Yes Sir Cl. of the Cr. Do you plead to the Indictment Guilty or Not Guilty Knightley I am Guilty Mr. Att. Gen. Then my Lord we desire since he relinquishes his Plea of Not Guilty that you will Record his Confession and since he has Confest the Indictment we have nothing more to do but wait the Judgment of the Court. L. C. J. Holt. We shall not give Judgment now Mr. Att. Gen. If the Prisoner have any thing to say for himself your Lordships I suppose will hear him