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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64729	Innocency and truth vindicated an account of what hath been, or is ready to be deposed to prove the most treacherous and cruel murder of the Right Honourable Arthur, late Earl of Essex : with reflections upon the evidence, and the most material objections against this murder discuss'd and answered, in a conference between three gentlement concerning the present inquiry into the death of that noble Lord and true patriot.	Braddon, Laurence, d. 1724.; V. P.	1689 (1689)	Wing V10; ESTC R25177	149,907	113

desire to see their Books in that Month of July to see whether any Goods were bought in Town by the said Mr. Holmes or Mrs. Hewit for proving Hewit in Town proves Holmes likewise in Town because it s sworn and can be prov'd they both went out of Town together or any Money paid between the 6th and 26th of July by either of these After a very long and tedious Inquiry all those Tradesmen being altogether Strangers to Mr. Braddon he providentially met with this Mr. W. who very readily shewed his Book wherein is entred as before 〈◊〉 This Book hath not been of any use to Mr. W. for almost five Years and it was a very great Providence this had not been torn out seeing the Book for some Years had been used as waste Paper and the very next Leaf to this torn out and lost L. Upon the smallest matters things of the greatest moment many times do depend who could have thought this entry so preserved would have been serviceable in so weighty and just a cause T. No one Providence is independent but the most considerable occurrences are often brought about by things of the least consideration Joseph's Dream preserved his Aged Father and all his Brethren and in them all that sprang from them from that pale Famine that otherwise might have devoured not these only but Egypt it self And Ahasuerus not being able either to Dream or Sleep not only saves the Jews from their Enemies but destroys their very Enemies themselves L. What can Holmes and Hewit say in Vindication of this notorious false Defence T. As soon as Mrs. Hewit understood such a Taylors entry was against her Oath she with Holmes's Wife went to this Taylor and desired to see his Book which being shewed Hewit first pretended that this Entry was forged and new but when Mr. W. declared he could safely and would depose that the Entry was real it was then pretended that the Gown was sent into the Country after Mrs. Hewit but when in answer to that Mr. W. declared he could depose that Mrs. Hewit was in Town when that Dust-Gown was made and delivered and that she then pretended she was about going into the Countrey but how many days after she did go he could not tell Mrs. Hewit told him if he did Swear that he would take off her Brothers life and Holmes's Blood would be upon his head L. This is a Villanous and False Suggestion to prevent the detection of Blood and evade the punishment for the vilest Murder I am sure of this if Mr. W. should upon Oath deny what he can with safety assert he would draw the guilt of Perjury on his Head. And not only so but this Perjury being in protection of a Murder to that Perjury he would add the guilt of my Lord's Blood seeing by that Perjury he doth endeavour to stifle the Discovery and prevent the Prosecution of the most Treacherous Barbarous and Cruel Murder in all circumstances consider'd our Nation ever knew If he that protects a Murderer being well assured that he is such in his House to avoid the common methods of Justice deserves in our Law to answer this Evasion which makes him accessary after the fact with nothing less than his Life How much more criminal before God is he that by Perjury endeavours to frustrate the Execution of Justice upon the the like offender the first doth an action in it self abstracted from the end hospitable nay it may be charitable and his intentions which argues his after assent to the Murder renders him a Criminal But the second commits one of the greatest Transgressions which in it self deserves almost Death with the same ill design as the first wherefore most certainly he is the greatest Criminal of the two by that addition of Perjury to the same offence And though our Law in this case punish not the second Offender with Death yet I am sure and I think all men will own that the second most deserves it That D. S. was a Servant at Holmes's the day of my Lord Russel's Tryal and my Lord of Essex's Death and that Mr. Holmes and Mrs. Dorothy Hewit were then in Town farther appears from the words of a Dying man who upon his Death-bed did several times declare he knew D. S. then there a Servant and Holmes and Hewit then in Town and both Holmes and Hewit that morning pretended they would go to my Lord Russel's Tryal This Person did often for several days before his Death declare this as what he could answer as a great truth before that God before whom he was shortly to appear and all this he did confirm with almost his very last breath This Person did farther declare that when D. S. was a Servant to the said Mr. Holmes and a little before she left Holmes's Service she told this Informant she was much troubled with somewhat which lay upon her mind upon which this Informant was desirous to know what it was but the said D. would not tell being unwilling and afraid upon which this Informant advised her to go to some Divine and disclose it L. If the positive Depositions of the Living and the last Breath of a Dying man then dropping into Eternity where this Relation had it been false would 〈◊〉 eternally tormented him may be credited Hewit and Christopher are most notoriously perjured and the Parson himself about being forsworn for about hath sav'd him from a flat Perjury and consequently Mr. Holmes's Defence thus Sworn to is false throughout T. Who then can otherwise conclude but that his charge is true L. It 's very probable that some or other that knew Mr. Holmes or Mrs. Hewit might see one or both of them at my Lord Russel's Tryal if they were there or might that night hear them confess their having been there for this was a very notorious thing and a sight which People of their Religion and Characters would rejoyce to see and delight much in the Repitition of G. It 's not unlikely but that others may remember they saw them that day and heard them give an account of both my Lord Russel's Tryal and the Earls Death for both these things are so remarkable as may fix the remembrance of Holmes's and Hewits being in Town in some of their acquaintance T. I think the Taylors Book before observed and the words of a Dying-man will be sufficient to convince all mankind Nevertheless I can't but say this that it 's the duty of every Person that can be positive in Hewits or Holmes's being in Town that day the Earl of Essex was murdered which was the same day my Lord Russel was try'd or their being in Town the day just before or next after for that Week proves Hewit Perjured who Swears she and Holmes went out of Town the Week next before and returned not till the 26th of the same month I say whosoever can be positive in this and reveals it not consents to the Death of my Lord and though

a surprize amongst his Relations this great surprize would be as pleasing to the Person that withdrew as it would be astonishing to his Friends and therefore it was pretended to be believed by some that Mr. Hawley had privately withdrawn under this Consideration but six Weeks discovered his Person and time may likewise detect those Bloody and Barbarous Men that murthered him They were so very cruel in this Murther that his Face was so changed through violence that it could not be known to be his and there was nothing that did more if any thing did besides discover the Body to be his than his having three Stockings upon one Leg and two Stockings and a Seer-cloath upon the other as for his Cloathes they were stript off and nothing but Stockins and Shooes remaining on when the Body was found L. Certainly that God who requires Blood for Blood and who by this ordered the Discoveries of the Person will in his great Wisdom and Justice by some means or other of which His Wisdom is never to seek in the choice or His Power in the use discover these Instruments of Cruelty that in this Life they may receive their just Reward which is for the most part though sometimes after many years duly paid towards such vile Offenders T. Besides this addition of Blood other violent Methods were used to prevent a discovery by punishing such Soldiers as seemed to disbelieve upon very good grounds my Lord's Self-murther this appears by this Information following viz. Richard Jorden declareth That sometime that Summer the Earl of Essex dyed and not long after the said Earl's Death he saw a Soldier ty'd to the Wooden Horse in the Tower by order of Lieutenant-Collonel Nichols and whipt after a very cruel manner And this Deponent heard the said Lieutenant-Collonel tell the Soldier he ought to be hanged This Deponent further declareth That he was just after informed by the Marshal that whipt the said Soldier That by order of Lieutenant-Collonel Nichols he gave the said Soldier 53 Stripes tho' the usual number was but 12 and that the said Soldier had lain a fortnight before in close custody and been fed only with Bread and Wather and all only for the Offence following viz. Some short time after the Death of the late Earl of Essex a Divine * Dr. H. of Norfolk Prebend of Norwich coming into the Tower the said Soldier was sent with him to shew him the Tower and as the Doctor was almost over against Major Hawley's the Doctor asked the said Soldier which was the Chamber wherein the late Earl of Essex did cut his Throat whereupon the said Soldier pointing to the Chamber in which the Earl had been Prisoner declared That is the Chamber in which it 's said the Earl of Essex cut his Throat The Doctor then asked the Soldier what he did believe to which the Soldier answered That he did believe in God but being prest by the said Doctor to tell him whether he did believe my Lord cut his Throat the said Solder then replied He would not say he did believe it for which only saying the Punishment aforesaid was inflicted L. Such Extravagant Punishments upon so slight Grounds was enough to deter all other Solders from discovering what they knew for if this Soldier for only declaring he would not say he did believe my Lord did cut his Throat was thus barbarously whipt what must such Soldiers expect as should have asserted my Lord was by others murthered and gave their Reasons for such belief by telling what they saw and heard with relation to this Perfidious and Cruel Murther most certain this would have met with if possible worse whipping than Doctor Oates ever suffered or been punished by some private Stab or other destruction to avoid the Matter 's being brought upon the publick Stage G. I do remember Meake is said to have declared the day after my Lord's Murther that many Soldiers were enjoined to secrecy It were well if these would according to their duty appear and declare what they know and by whom they were thus basely commanded to be secret for this Officer could not but believe That whoever gave him Orders to lay that Injunction was privy to the Murther and therefore this Officer was grosly Criminal in being this Instrument to stifle the detection and most certainly are those Soldiers Criminal which shall not now appear and judicially declare what they know to be true so that Justice may have its due course against those most barbarous and vile Offenders For if the time of this bare-faced Cruelty against such Soldiers that knew any thing of this matter and revealed it was a time of silence most certain now the Government joins in the Prosecution is the time to speak and whosoever refuses now to speak becomes not a little Criminal in such his silence L. I have been informed the Father of William Edwards was turned out of his Place for what his Son had said T. That the Father was turned out about nine days after Mr. Braddon's Tryal is very true and this done by special Order under King Charles the Second's own Hand without any cause shown or any reason to be guessed at any other than his Son's Offence L. I do remember at Mr. Braddon's Tryal Mr. Wallop whose Courage and Zeal for the Liberty of the Subject hath been Notorious in the most dangerous times did suggest that the Father thought himself in danger of losing his place from what his Son had declared Whereupon my Lord Chief Justice Jefferies very sharply reproved Mr. Wallop for reflecting in this upon the Government as though the Father should be punished for the Son 's speaking what he knew If the suggesting the danger of the Place was a Reflection upon the Government most certainly the Government did strongly reflect upon its self in turning Old Edwards out and giving no reason for such Dismission which made him conclude and all the World believe that the Father was turned out only for his Son's Relation T. The old Jewish unjust Proverb was here inverted for The Son had eaten sower Grapes and the Father's Teeth were set on edge so that this Transgression in its punishment did directly ascend and the Father answered for the Son's Iniquity or rather for what the then Government falsly called so L. I think every Man 's own Transgression is enough for him to bear T. I shall conclude all with what after my Lord's Death passed as to Webster and Holmes which seems to confirm the Truth of their Guilt in this Matter I shall begin with Webster The very day of my Lord's Death Webster brought home to his House my Lord's Pocket-handkerchief all Bloody and shaked It seeming extreamly overjoyed saying There was the Blood of a Traytor and the very next day pulls out of his Pocket a Purse of Guineas and in great Joy shaked it one of his Neighbours told the Gold and found there was 49 Guineas and a French Pistole

Harangue thereupon would my Lord Chief Justice at this Tryal have made G. I am very well satisfied the Doctor will soon be convinced of the falseshood of that Relation which Bomeny as before gave him when he doth once find that it stands in Opposition to what he hath twice deposed L. Whosoever this Doctor be of whom you give so good a Character if he shall pretend to believe the Account Bomeny gave him when it thus stands in Contradiction to those Relations Bomeny hath twice given upon Oath he is not deserving of that fair Character but may justy be suspected as one prejudiced in this Matter against the truth which maugre all Opponents will one day and that speedily shine through all Clouds of Opposition which the Malice and Oppression of some and Impudence of others have raised against But blessed be God as 't is the Duty so it hath been the Practice of this Government to incourage this Prosecution T. Let the Doctor but reconcile the several Contradictions of Bomeny's Informations given the Coroners Jury and at Mr. Braddon's Tryal before at large observed and I will then reject all other Evidence and believe with the Doctor That my Lord did indeed cut his own Throat but till then I must beg this Doctor 's Pardon if in this matter I will not admit of his belief as a Rule for mine L. I do very much wonder that this Reverend Doctor should in the least be influenced by what this Bloody Rascal told him for that 's allowing a Villains being Evidence in his own Case which no Law will admit in Opposition to what is Sworn Now seeing this false Fellow was to lay the Murder at my Lord's Door or take it upon himself either as Privy to it or Acting in it I think his 〈◊〉 ought scarce to be received De bene esse as the Lawyers term it that is to be believed or disbelieved as upon farther Inquiry it shall seem to deserve Credit S. If all these Contradictions before observ'd between Bomeny Munday and Russel had appeared to the Coroners Inquest they ought upon these only to have quitted my Lord from that perfiduous imputation of Self-murther and laid it at the door of those Treacherous and Cruel Men who by their Perjury which so plainly appeared in these gross Contradictions villanously and falsly charged his Lordship with it T. In the History of Susanna it 's related That Daniel standing in the midst of the People said Are ye such fools ye sons of Israel that without examination or knowledge of the truth ye have condemned a Daughter of Israel verse the 48th The People had received the Accusation of the Elders whose Qualifications gave no small credit to their Evidence for it 's said verse the 41st The Assembly believed them as those that were the Elders and Judges of the Land. Nevertheless Daniel justly condemned the Assembly for pronouncing rash Judgment without examination or knowledge of the Truth In this Case an Accusation was not to be admitted for truth without strict examination of the matter and such scrutiny was proper as was a-part so that one might not hear the relation of the other and thereby be enabled to agree in their Evidence which without doubt they would had they been examined together If the Testimony of these two Elders were to be throughly sifted by a strict judicious and separate Examination how much rather the Relation of Bomeny and Russel in this Case for in that it did not appear any other ways than by the defence of the Accused that there was the least malice in the Accusers or that their Interest much less their Lives before the Charge depended on the truth of the Fact for these Elders had suffered nothing by Susanna's Innocence provided they had not falsly and maliciously testified against her But here it was plain to every man's understanding that these two Mens Bomeny's and Russell's very Lives lay at stake for most certain it is That such as were in the Chamber and kept the Chamber-door the Chamber not being above 14 foot square and no other way in or out must be either acting in or privy to this Barbarity if such it were for this very reason this Coroner and Jury should have been very inquisitive and scrutinous in their Interrogations and taken all care possible that the one should not have heard or been informed of the Examination of the other by which they would have found these two in greater incoherences and contradictions if possible than they are now guilty of G. Indeed it 's a great wonder they did not agree in every particular considering how fair or rather favourable the Coroner and Jury were to them T. In the History of Susanna you find in the Charge not the least incoherence besides one Contradiction and that only as to the place where but In this Case how many and how notorious Inchoherences and Contradictions have been observed in several respects and therefore how much more rational is it to conclude as the Assembly did in that Case verse the 61st That these Witnesses are convicted out of their own mouths by those many and those so very notorious oppositions in their Testimonies G. In the Contradictions of these Sinners there is a clear discovery of their Sin and may they receive the just fruits of this their Treachery which so plainly appears by the many oppositions in their Relations L. I must confess I never saw so short an Account thus cramm'd with Contradictions I do find the common Observation is herein verified viz. The contradiction of Sinners is the discovery of Sin and I think no impartial man who shall hear these Contradictions but must be satisfied neither of these spoke true and he that through the excess of his Charity for these three Villains or their Master or his Folly or rather somewhat of a worse and different nature from either shall in Coffee-Houses and other publick Places make it his business to weed out these Contradictions to reconcile these three Mens Relations in the main so that my Lord may still be thought a Self-murderer and yet at the same time object against my Lord's being Murdered from every Colour of incoherence in case any had happen'd which I believe there hath not tho about Sixty in this Case have been Sworn in the Evidence to prove my Lord's Murder I say whosoever appears thus Partial gives great Cause to be thought and censured as very Corrupt and one whose Zeal is greater for the chief Author of this Murder and his bloody Party than for either Truth or Justice But to return to this Reverend Doctor of whom you were speaking Can the Doctor think that this Fellow who was immediately attending upon my Lord at the time of his Death and hath as before plainly appears by their Contradictions with two others forged a Story to transfer their own and others Guilt upon his Head whose Throat they barbarously Cut or permitted to be Cut I say