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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

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. LONDON Printed for Samuel Heyrick at Greys-Inn-Gate in Holbourn and Isaac Cleave at the Star next to Sergeants-Inn in Chancery-lane MDCXCVI De Termino Pasche Anno Regni Regis Gulielmi Tertii Octavo In Banco Regis Die Jovis Tricesimo Aprilis Anno Domini 1696. THIS day the Keeper of Newgate brought to the Bar of the Court of Kings Bench Alexander Knightley by virtue of a writ of Habeas Corpus issuing out of that Court for that purpose to be Arraigned upon an Indictment of High Treason found against him at the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer holden for the County of Middlesex which Indictment by Writ of Certiorari was removed into the Kings Bench. The Return of the Habeas Corpus was delivered and then the Prisoner was Arraigned thus Clerk of Arraignment Alexander Knightley hold up thy hand which he did Thou standest Indicted by the name of Alexander Knightley late of the Parish of St. Paul Covent-Garden in the County of Middlesex Gent. for that you not having the fear of God in your heart nor weighing the duty of your Allegiance but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil as a false Traytor against the most Serene most Illustrious and most Excellent Prince our Sovereign Lord William the Third by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. your supreme true rightful lawful and undoubted Sovereign Lord the cordial Love and true and due Obedience Fidelity and Allegiance which every Subject of our said Lord the King that now is towards him our said Lord the King should bear and of right ought to bear withdrawing and utterly to extinguish intending and contriving and with all your force purposing and designing the Government of this Kingdom of England under him our said Lord the King that now is of right duly happily and very well-establish'd altogether to subvert change and alter as also the same our Lord the King to death and final destruction to put and bring and his faithful Subjects and the Freemen of this Kingdom of England into intolerable and most miserable slavery to Lewis the French King to subdue and inthral the Tenth day of February in the seventh year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is and divers other days and times as well before as after at the Parish of St. Paul Covent-Garden aforesaid in the County aforesaid falsly maliciously devilishly and traiterously you did compass imagine and contrive purpose design and intend our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is to slay kill and murther and a miserable slaughter among the faithful Subjects of our said Lord the King throughout this whole Kingdom of England to make and cause and your said most wicked most impious and devilish treasons and traiterous compassings contrivances and purposes aforesaid to fulfil perfect and bring to effect you the said Alexander Knightley afterwards to wit the same tenth day of February in the year abovesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid and divers other days and times as well before as after there and elsewhere in the same County falsly maliciously advisedly secretly traiterously and with force and arms with very many other Traytors to the Jurors unknown did meet propose treat consult consent and agree him our said Lord the King that now is by lying in wait and deceit to assassinate kill and murther and that execrable horrid and detestable Assassination and killing the sooner to execute and perpetrate afterwards to wit the same day and year and divers other days and times at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid traiterously you did treat propose and consult with those Traytors of the ways manner and means and the time and place where when how and in what manner our said Sovereign Lord the King so by lying in wait might be slain and killed and that you did consent agree and assent with the same Traytors that forty Men on Horseback or thereabouts of whom you the said Alexander Knightley were to be one with Guns Muskets and Pistols charg'd with Gunpowder and Leaden Bullets and with Swords Rapiers and other Arms armed should lye in wait and be in ambush the same our Lord the King in his Coach being when he should go abroad to attack and that a certain and competent number of those Men so arm'd upon the Guards of our said Lord the King him then attending and being with him should set upon and should fight with them and subdue 'em whilst others of the same Men so armed him our said Lord the King should assassinate kill slay and murther and you the said Alexander Knightley your treasons and all your traiterous intentions designs and contrivances aforesaid to execute perform fulfill and bring to effect afterwards to wit the aforesaid tenth day of February in the seventh year abovesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid divers Horses and very many Arms Guns Muskets Rapiers and Swords and other Weapons Ammunition and Warlike things and Military instruments falsly maliciously secretly and traiterously you did obtain buy gather together and procure and to be bought obtain'd gathered together and procured did cause with that intent to use employ and bestow them in and about the detestable horrid and execrable assassination killing and murther of our said Lord the King that now is as aforesaid and the same premises the more safely and surely to execute ●o and perform you the said Alexander Knightley with one Edward King late for High-treason in contriving and conspiring the death of our said Lord the King that now is duly convicted and attainted by the consent and assent of divers of the Traitors and Conspirators aforesaid the said tenth day of February in the seventh year abovesaid traiterously did go and come to the place propos'd where such intended assassination killing and murther of our said Lord the King by lying in wait should be done performed and committed to view search and observe the conveniency and fitness of the same place for such lying in wait assassination and killing there to be made performed and committed and that place so being seen and observed afterwards to wit the same Day and Year your Observations thereof to some of the said Traytors and Conspirators you did relate and impart to wit at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid against the Duty of your Allegiance and against the Peace of our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is his Crown and Dignity and against the Form of the Statute in this Case made and provided How sayst thou Alexander Knightly art thou guilty of the High-Treason whereof thou stands indicted or not guilty

to it L. C. J. Holt. But I say we cannot by the course of the Court give Judgment now for after a person is Convicted here whether by Confession or Verdict he ought to have four days from the time of such Confession or Verdict to move in Arrest of Judgment if there be so many days of the Term remaining if not then the longest time that can be had in the Term is allow'd In Staley's Case it was otherwise practised Judgment was given the same day that was in the time of the Popish Plot and is a Case not to be imitated because not justified by any President before that time or since but it has been always observ'd to have four Juridical days for moving in Arrest of Judgment if so many remain of the Term. Die Lunae Vicessimo Quinto Die Maii An. Dom. 1696. Being the last day of the Term the Prisoner was brought from Newgate to the Kings-Bench-Bar Mr. Att. Gen. If your Lordship please I desire the Judgment of the Court to be pronounc'd upon Mr. Knightley upon his Conviction Cl. of the Crown Alexander Knightley hold up thy hand which he did thou hast been Indicted and Arraigned for High Treason in Compassing and Imagining the Death of the King and adhering to the Kings Enemies what canst thou say for thy self why Judgment should not be given against thee to dye according to the Law Knightley I have nothing more to say my Lord than what I have said Cl. of the Crown Cryer make Proclamation for Silence Which was done on both sides the Court. Cryer O Yez Our Soveraign Lord the King straitly charges and commands all manner of persons to keep silence while Judgment is in giving upon pain of Imprisonment L. C. J. Holt. Mr. Knightly You are by your own Confession convicted of High Treason in designing the Murder of the King and the Subversion of the whole State of England in promoting an Invasion from the French its most antient and inveterate Enemies It hath appeared before your Arraignment not only by the Evidence that hath been given at former Trials but even by the signs of the times and the manner of some mens actings that there hath been for some years last past a Train of Plots and Conspiracies against this Government and when the various means which the Conspirators did project among themselves for its ruin proved ineffectual it was at last resolved among some of the Conspirators to assassinate the King as the most certain way of accomplishing their end In which design you were deeply engaged and was an active instrument in the carrying it on being sent to view the ground on both sides the Water and with others that were sent with you reported your opinion which was the most convenient place to attack the King and his Guards And tho you did the last time you were at the Bar urge by way of extenuation of your crime that you being engaged in the Interest of the Late King and thereby supported you was surprized into this barbarous design which being proposed to you you thought your self obliged in Honour to engage in it which is so far from an extenuation that it is an high aggravation For Men of honourable Principles tho most zealously disposed to the advancement of any particular Interest yet always detest the use of base and vile means Therefore when the Assassination of the King was proposed you had an opportunity to have retreated with Honor and might have refused to be further concerned but you rather pursued this wicked enterprize with great Zeal And tho you are by your Profession a Roman Catholick and may for that reason think that your crime is mitigated because you acted in the behalf of a Prince of your own Religion which you hoped thereby to introduce Notwithanstding all which your offence is highly aggravated in respect of the ingratitude and folly with which it is attended For there is no English Papist that is Master of any property but it is interested in the preservation of this Government to which the whole Party of them hath been and still are continually obliged for its Moderation and Justice for instead of being exposed to the Severity of those Laws to which they are obnoxious they have had the same indulgence in the enjoyment of their Religion and the same protection and as much benefit in the destribution of the Common Justice of the Realm as any other of the Kings Subjects therefore none of them could ever expect to mend their condition under a French Domination But the contrary is foreseen by all considering Men For the English Papist as well as Protestant would have been reduced to a most dismal stare if you had obtained your end For it is against all the Rules of Reason and the Experience of all Ages to imagine that the French King would spare English Papists more than Protestants for it is not Zeal to Religion or Affection to the Interest of the Late King that hath excited him to invade England but it 's his Pride and Ambition to conquer the three Kingdoms and to reduce this to be a Province to France Indeed the pretence of restoring the Late King and introducing the Popish Religion may serve to delude some warm and unwary Zealots to engage in his assistance who do not consider that if they should be successful would be as certainly destroyed as others but with more disadvantage to themselves For after they shall have survived the Liberty of their Country have embrued their own hands in their Countrymens Blood they will be at the Mercy of the Conqueror who can never think it his Interest to trust them but will despise them for being such villanous Traitors to their own Country Nay rather these Englishmen who by their courage and resolution shall endeavour to defend their Country tho they should be unfortunately vanquished will meet with a much better reception for they will have given assurances that they may be confided in when the others have by such a wicked Treason given a demonstration to the contrary There being then nothing to be said that can palliate such a crime as that of which you are convicted but you having taken a different course the last time you were at the Bar from what you took at first you have relinquished your Plea of No● Guilty and have confessed the Indictment I wish out of charity to your person it was as sincere as I think it it was prudent in you for after several Convictions of others that were your Accomplices you could not be a stranger to the Evidence upon which they were grounded you must therefore in all probability have expected to have undergone the same fate If your Confession be a real effect of your Repentance you will reap the advantage of it in the next world but what confequence it will have in this I cannot say For the heart of the King is in the hand of the Almighty which as the Rivers of Water he turneth whithersoever he will Live therefore for the time to come in expectation of a speedy Death and prepare your self to appear before another Judgment Seat to the making of which important preparation I shall dismiss you first discharging the Court of the Duty now incumbent upon it in giving that Judgment which the Law hath appointed And the Court doth award That you be conveyed from hence to Newgate the Prison from whence you came and from thence you are to be drawn upon a Hurdle to Tyburn where you are to be hanged by the Neck and while you are alive to be cut down your Privy Members are to be cut off and your Bowels to be cut out of your Body and burnt in your view your head is to be cut off and your Body is to be divided into four parts and your Head and your Quarters are to be disposed where his Majesty shall appoint And I pray God to have mercy upon your Soul Knightley My Lord I am truly sorry for what I have done and I humbly thank your Lordship and the rest of the Judges for your favour to me Then the Prisoner was carried back to Newgate FINIS ADVERTISEMENT THE Tryals of Charnock King Keys Sir William Parkins Sir John Freind Ambrose Rookwood Cranbourn and Lowick for the Horrid and Execrable Conspiracy for Assassinating In Sacred Majesty King William and for encouraging a French Invasion are all Sold by the Order of the Lord Chief Justice Holt for Samnuel Heyrick at Grays-Inn Gate Holbron and Isaac Cleave at Serjeants-Inn Gate Chancery-lane