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B05867 An antidote against poison. Composed of some remarks upon the paper printed by the direction of the Lady Russel, and mentioned to have been delivered by the Lord Russel to the sheriffs at the place of his execution. Shower, Bartholomew, Sir, 1658-1701. 1683 (1683) Wing S3649; ESTC R184221 10,207 4

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and plain Points of Law First That Meeting and Consulting to make an Insurrection and in order thereunto to Seize upon the King's Guards which the Paper calls Stirs is not Treason within the Statute of Edward 3. Secondly That the Lord Russel's being present at the several Consults for managing the Insurrection and his part therein amounted only to Misprision of Treason and so concludes himself innocent of the Crime he stood Condemned for which was High Treason for compassing the Death and Destruction of the King by Conspiring to raise a Rebellion within the Kingdom These mistakes of the plainest points in Law are the only supports of the Lord Russel's Innocency whereby he comforted himself at his Death and may mislead others into the same Ruine To prevent which it is conceived seasonable upon this occasion to state clearly what the Law of the Land is upon these Points to the common understanding of every Subject As to the first Point The Meeting and Consulting to make an Insurrection against the King or raise a Rebellion within the Kingdom be the end thereof never so specious for Publick Good though the Rebellion be not actually raised is High Treason by the Laws of this Land It was so at Common Law by the consent of all the Books of Law that Treat of that Matter and no one Authority against it It is so since the Statute 25. Edw. 3. Cap. 2. within the first Branch of that Law against Compassing and Imagining the Death of the King The Death of the King in the Law is not restrained to the Killing of His Natural Person but extends as well to Civil Death as Natural To Conspire to Depose the King is equally High Treason with that of Killing the King So for Imprisoning of the King or seising or taking of him into the power of his Subjects or for laying any Force or Restraint upon him untill he do what his Subjects would have him These are all High Treason for compassing his Death either Natural or Civil and all Overt-Acts which declare the intent of effecting any of these Crimes as all Meetings Consultations and Argeements to rise in Rebellion and to seise upon the King's Guards which are his defence against Force and invite the aid and assistance of the King's Subjects of any other of his Kingdoms plainly are Overt-Acts of compassing the King's Death and so have been adjudged in all Times when ever such Case came into Judgement In the 2. 3. Phil. and Mar. one Constable dispersed divers Bills in the Night about the Streets in which was written That King Edward the 6 was alive and in France and at another time in Coleman street pointed to a young Man and said He was King Edward 6. These things tending only to Depose the Queen were adjudged High Treason for compassing her Death and Constable was thereupon Indicted Attainted and Executed The Case is cited in Calvins Case Co. 7. Rep. Fol. 106. 13. Eliz. Dyer 298. Doctor Story practised with the Government of Flanders to Invade the Realm with Force and declared by what means and in what manner and place the Invasion might be No Inva●●o● following it was referr'd to all the Judges to consider what Crime it was who resolv'd it to be High Treason Because an Invasion with Power could not be but of necessity it must tend to the Destruction or great Peril of the Queen 1. Jac. The Lord Cobham Conspired with Sir Walter Raleigh and other the Kings Subjects to make an Insurrection within the Realm in order to set up the Lady Arabella Steward to be Queen And to this purpose Treated with the Embassador of the Arch-Duke of Austria for procuring Money from the King of Spain and perswaded the Lady Arabella to writ Letters to the King of Spain for his assistance with Forces and Letters sent accordingly though the Insurrection did nor follow but a Discovery made before it was put in Execution The Lord Cobham and others of the Conspirators were Indicted of High Treason for Compassing the Kings Death and the several Meetings and Consultations for making the Insurrection and procuring the Invasion laid in the Indictment The Lord Cobham was Tried by his Peers Attainted and Executed The Lord Hale in his Pleas of the Crown 13. takes notice only of the Overt-Act of writing the Letters to a Forraign Prince inciting an Invasion which he allows to be a sufficient Overt-Act of that Treason which was laid in the Indictment for Compassing the Death of the King In the same Year of 1. Jac. the Lord Gray and other Conspirators met and consulted to make an Insurrection whereby they designed to seize the King into their power until he should grant them a Pardon for all Treasons a Toleration of the exercise of the Popish Religion and the removal of Twelve of the Privy Council and should make the Lord Gray Master of his Horse and several others of the Conspirators Lord Treasurer Lord Privy Seal and other great Officers They were Indicted for Compassing the King's Death and raising a Rebellion within the Kingdom and no other Overt-Acts laid in the Indictment but several Meetings Consultations and Agreements between the Confederates to raise a Rebellion for the purposes foresaid The Lord Gray was tried by his Peers and had Judgment to be Drawn Hanged and Quartered In Sir Henry Vanes Case Meeting and consulting about Treason were held sufficient Overt Acts. In Plunkets Case lately in the Kings Bench the Indictment was for High Treason in compassing the death of the King the Overt Acts alledged against him were Consulting to raise an Insurrection in Ireland and bringing of the French into Ireland and Collecting money in Ireland and holding Correspondencies in France for that purpose There was no proof of any design upon the Kings natural Person which was in England yet he was attainted and executed for High Treason though no Insurrection or Invasion followed so that there can be no Question at this time of day but that Meeting and Consulting to raise a Rebellion though it be not an actual levying of War within another Branch of the Satute of 25. Edw. 3. yet they are Overt-Acts of Compassing the Kings Death within the first branch of that Statute The other gross Mistake is that the Lord Russels Crime was onely Misprision of High-Treason Misprision of High Treason is the Concealment thereof by a person who had a bare knowledge of the Treason without any mixture of his consent But if the person be present at the Debates and Consultations though he say nothing if he do not immediately reveal but continues to meet and be present at their Debates he is a principal Traitour Where a Person was not present at the Debates and Resolves but is afterwards acquainted with them and give his Consent thereto it is High Treason and not a Misprision barely This was the Case of George Brooke to whom the Lord Cobham related the whole Conspiracy of setting up the Lady Arabella who consented to the same and was Indicted and Attainted as a principal Tratour in that Conspiracy Now the Lord Russel as he puts his own Case of being present at several Meetings where seizing of the Guards were treated of and horrid things spoken argues himself guilty of High Treason though he make a false Conclusion from those Premisses that 't was but Misprision But the Witnesses proving his reque●t Meetings and Consults and the last of them at his own house and his express consent to the Matters debated and agreed upon do put it beyond a Question to any man that desires not to be wilfully deceived that the Crime of the Lord Russel was not a bare Misprision of Treason but High Treason in the highest degree being to raise a Rebellion against the K●ng the Consequence whereof in all probability would have been the destruction of the King and subversion of the Government if not the desolation of the whole Kingdom I after this plain Accompt of the Lord Russels Case any persons be so hardy to think the Compiles of that P●per of greater skill in the Laws of the Land than the Reverend and Learned Judges who have judged his Crime to be High Treason the utmost comfort he can expect for his being deceived is that he shall have the like comfortable Speech prepared for him upon the like occasion FINIS EDINBURGH Reprinted by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to His most Sacred Majesty 1683.
are printed with the Trial. A clearer Evidence to prove the Facts charged of Meeting and Consulting to raise a Rebellion within the Kingdom and to seize the Kings Guards I believe the most experienced person in the Laws can never shew was ever produced at the Trial of any Traitor To the greatest and strongest part of the Evidence which is that of the Lord Howard and so much of Colonel Rumseys which relates to the General Rising of which the Witnesses make full proof the Paper gives no answer at all With what confidence then can the Author of that Paper introduce a dying man asserting his own Innocency charging the Jury with forwardness and injustice when the Criminal cannot deny the Facts upon which the Jury gave their verdict But these Facts whether true or false the Criminal would not examine And if he could not or would not assert them to be false no man of any common Ingenuity can doubt them to be true when sworn by credible Witnesses and found by a substantial Jury Yet to satisfie the Conscience of a dying Man and to cover the Scandal of so great a Crime from vulgar or partial Eyes these Consultations and Conspiracies to raise a Rebellion and foment a General Rising are represented to the People only as some Discourses about some Stirs They may be in Scotland some Stirs but in England they are and ever were stiled Rebellion As to the other Branch of the Overt Acts of Consulting to seize the Guards which the Paper makes the only Crime for which the Lord Russel was condemned this account is given by the Paper That the Lord Russel was at Mr. Shepherds house with that Company but once and there was no Undertaking then of securing and seizing the Guards nor none appointed to view or examine them some discourse there was of the feasiblenesse of it and several times by accident in general discourse elsewhere This account which the Lord Russel gives of this matter is rather a Confirmation of the Testimonies of Colonel Rumsey and Mr. Shepherd than an avoidance thereof He admits the feasibleness thereof was then discoursed of and at other times likewise They swore that the Persons appointed to view the Guards reported then they found them to be very remiss in their Duties and might be easily seized The Lord Russel remembers he was at Mr. Shepherds house but once Shepherd swore he was there with that Company twice and at the last time the Report was made after viewing of the Guards The seizing of the Guards was not the onely nor Principal Fact upon which the Lord Russel was condemned as appears by the Proof stated but it was one of the Instances to make out against him the general design of raising a Rebellion as one of the properest ways to secure the General Rising and was sufficiently proved by two Witnesses to have been consulted upon to that purpose Indeed to what other purpose can any man imagine the L. Russel his Accomplices who appeared to have been engaged in a design of a general Insurrection upon such proof as the Criminal could not deny the Fact should so often discourse of the feasiblenesse of securing the Guards as is confessed by the Lord Russel than in order to facilitate and secure their design of the General Rising And the Discourse the Paper owns to have been at the Lord Shaftsburies touching the same matter who throughout appears to be a principal Agent in the Design of the General Rising proves the seizing of the Guards to be part of that Design And though the Lord Russel then expressed a tenderness of shedding cold bloud as a thing detestable and so like a Popish practice yet that Deluge of Bloud which must necessarily have insued in the heats of a General Rising which is evident he pursued to his last did not at all affect him because this might become any Heroick Christian drawn in Armour by the Pensil of the Author of Julian and is not unlike to the practices of the ancient Christians so shamefully disguised by the same Author If then the Facts whereof the Lord Russel was found guilty by the Jury upon such pregnant proof be so evident how is it possible for a dying man before God and men to assert his Innocency with such assurance and so frequently repeated in his Speech to the Sheriff though short yet twice repeated 1. God knows how far I was always from designs against the Kings Person or of altering the Government 2. I profess I know of no Plot either against the Kings Life or the Government In the Paper delivered it is thus expressed Whatever apprehensions I had of Popery and of my own severe and heavy share I was like to have under it when it should prevail I never had a thought of doing any thing against it basely or inhumanely but what could consist with the Christian Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom Again I have always loved my Country much more than my Life and never had any design of changing the Government and would have suffered any extremity rather than have consented to any Design to take away the Kings Life In another place he thanks God his part was sincere and well meant and affirms his Crime to be but Misprision of Treason at most and Infers so I die innocent of the Crime I stand condemned for also he saith I know I was guilty of no Treason In the last place he concludes As I never had any design against the Kings Life or the Life of any man whatsoever so I never was in any Contrivance of altering the Government Half an eye may see their strokes are all drawn by the same hand with all Imaginable Skill to quiet the Conscience of a dying Criminal and at the same time by casting a mist before the eyes of the unthinking Multitude to possess them with the Innocence of the condemned Person and the cruelty of the Government towards him Let it be considered with what careful Restrictions and Limitations his Innocency is usher'd in That he knew of no Plot or design against the Person of the King or to Kill the King or to alter or change the Government That he never had a thought of doing any thing basely or inhumanly but what could consist with the Christian Rellgion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom That his Crime was but Misprision of Treason at most and so he is innocent of the Crime he stands Condemned for What need of all these cautions restrictions and evasive circumlocutions to a plain man at the hour of his Death to express his Innocency by If it had been real a few plain words would have done it better viz. That he was not ingaged in nor knew of any design of making an Insurrection or Rebellion within the Kingdom He heard the proof made and knew that was the Crime laid to his charge which is High Treason both at Common Law and within the first