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A40531 A full account of the apprehending of the Lord Chancellor, in Wapping as he was designing to make his escape: as also the manner how he was brought before the Lord Mayor; and from thence committed to the Tower, December 12. 88. 1688 (1688) Wing F2264; ESTC R215519 1,484 2

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A full Account of the Apprehending of the LORD CHANCELLOR in Wapping As he was designing to make his Escape As also the Manner how he was brought before the Lord Mayor and from thence committed to the Tower December 12. 88. IT is a generally receiv'd Maxim in this Kindom That no Man struggl'd with the Laws of England but he got a Fall Of which you have new a great Example in the present Lord of Wemm Lord Chancellour of England who ambitious of Honour and Grandeur baulk'd at no Violation of the Ancient and Fundamental Laws of this Realm to hoist himself into Exorbitant Power His Bold and Lofty Deportment when Chief Justice and his Domineering Pride when Lord Chancellor are too well known and he is now become himself an Example That Breach of Law in England is but a Sandy Foundation For after all his Ranting Vain-Glory and Imperious Pomp finding White-Hall too Hot to hold him he was forced to quit his glorious Purse and Mace and so flunk away with a Resolution to leave the Nation which he has Disturb'd with his Pernicious Counsels and to avoid the Reward of his Misdeeds by seeking Shelter in a Foreign Climate For Flight by the Law of England always implies Guilt To this Purpose laying aside his Gold Frogg-Button Gown he put himself into the Habit of a Seaman with a Fur-Cap instead of his Beaver and Diamond-Buckl'd Hat-Band and for the present took Sanctuary in Anchor and Hope-Alley perhaps because he thought there might be some kind of Spell in the Sign and Willing still to have Hope for his Friend left his Heart should break There he sent for the Master of a Collier to bargain with him for the Hire of his Vessel to carry him beyond Sea out of Harmes Way But the Mate more cunning then the Master smelt a Rat and full of Suspicions goes and informs the Headborough of the Place of the whole matter Who considering the present Condition of Affairs resolv'd to see whether it were a Man or a Mouse who was making such haste out of the Kingdom And so taking his Staff of Authority went to the House in Anchor and Hope Alley aforesaid in the Hamlet of Wapping aforesaid and going up Stairs found a certain Person in Seaman's Habit as aforesaid laid upon a Bedd between two Blankets without any other Wapping Accommodation so far as we can hear of for his Spirits were low upon which whether it were by Instinct or by some Private Whisper of my Lord's Fate in his Ear he gave him a broad-side Question and ask'd him Whether he were not the Lord Chancellor or no To which the Man between the Blankets reply'd He was With that the Headborough thought it his Duty to apprehend his Lordship and so having feiz'd him carry'd him to one Captain Jones's House a Master of a Ship till he could get a Coach and more Assistance and then brought him to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor's House in Grocers Alley It is not to be imagined what a Train his Lordship had to attend him all the way from the Place where he was taken which caus'd a great Fear in his Lordship and made him earnestly desire the Headborough To secure him from the Fury of the People not valuing the Expence of his Protection whatever it might be Upon which there was a Person ordered all the way to sit in his Lap before him to receive the Mire and Dirt if the Mobile should prove unmannerly When he was brought to Grocers Hall the Multitude that follow'd him fill'd all the Court to that degree that there was no going in or out To whom the Lord Mayor appearing from his Balcony deliver'd himself in few Words to this Purpose That he desir'd them to let him but have free Passage to and fro to his own House and he would take Care to acquaint the Lords of the Council that they might have Justice done and a good Account of their Prisoner And these Words his Lordship was forced to repeat twice by reason of the Noise below in the Yard From thence the Lord Chancellour was sent to the Tower where we leave him at present to his own serious Thoughts and Considerations FINIS