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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63146	The tryal and condemnation of Mervin, Lord Audley Earl of Castle-Haven At Westminster, April the 5th 1631. For abetting a rape upon his Countess, committing sodomy with his servants, and commanding and countenancing the debauching his daughter. With the learned speeches of the Lord High-Steward, the arguments of the King's-Councel upon that occasion, and the Lord Audley's speech at the place of execution.	Castlehaven, Mervyn Touchet, Earl of, 1592?-1631.	1699 (1699)	Wing T2144; ESTC R219718	15,249	39

Counsellers to be Covered the Lords were call'd by their Names as followeth Earl of Po●●land Lord Treasurer Earl of Dorset and Middlesex Lord Chambl Earl of Manchester Lord privy Seal Earl of Arundel Lord Marshal Earl of Pembroke Earl of Kent Earl of Essex Earl of Warwick Earl of Carlisle Earl of Bedford Earl of Worcester Earl of Derby Earl of Leicester Earl of Salisbury Earl of Holland Lord Viscount Conway Lord Visc Wimbleton Lord Visc Wentworth Lord Visc Dorchester Lord Howard Lord Peircy Lord Strange Lord Clifford Lord North. Lord Peeters Lord Goring Judges Assisting at this Tryal Sir Nicholas Hyde Lord Chief Justice of England Sir Thomas Littleton Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Humphrey Davenport Lord Chief Baron Mr. Justice Jones Mr. Justice Whitlock Mr. Justice Crook Mr. Baron Denham The King 's Learned Counsel Mr. Sergeant Crew Mr. Attorney General Mr. Sollicitor General Sir John Finch Sir Thomas Fanshaw Clerk of the Crown Mr. Keeling with other Officers and Attendants The Lords having answer'd to their Names the Lieutenant of the Tower was requir'd to bring forth his Prisoner who was then in the Treasury Chamber and from thence was Guarded into the Court by the Warders of the Tower and being put into a place inclos'd for that purpose cover'd with Blew Bays and the Lieutenant of the Tower into another place adjoyning to it the Prisoner having made his Complement to the Lord High-Steward and the rest of the Noble Lords that were to Try him the Lord High-Steward spake to him in these words My Lord The King's Majesty being inform'd by common Fame and the Verdict of divers Gentlemen of Quality in the Country where you ●ive That you stand Impeach'd of several Great and Heinous Crimes that the Truth of the Charge may be known he has this day brought you to your Tryal therein imitating the Almighty in the XVIIIth of Genesis who came down to see if the Sins of the People were as Notorious as the Cry that was about them and truly the Kings of the Earth can have no better Example than what has been given them by the Great and all Wise King of Heaven and therefore our Sovereign who is God's Vicegerent upon Earth has now brought you to Justice and desires that all proceedings should be carried on with as much equality as the Rules of Equity and Justice themselves have prescribed And because my Lords the Crimes that will now be brought before you are of such a Horrid Nature that may justly raise in some of your Lordships a Detestation and in others Pity and Compassion I advise you to lay aside both these Considerations and let your Reasons and Consciences sway your Judgments and your Heads direct your Hearts My Lord Audley I question not but you are really satisfied as well as I am my self that the Noble Peers here Assembled have as much Justice in their Hearts as Noble Blood in their Veins and since such as they are to Try you if you are Conscious of your own Innocency speak without Fear for if you are falsely Accused those that do it shall not escape an Exemplary Punishment but if you know your self Guilty I advise you to give Honour to God and the King by Confessing your Faults for neither vain Confidence nor Subtlety can obscure or prevail against the Truth and if that touches your Heart your own Conscience will be a thousand Witnesses against you and God also who is greater than them all Persist not therefore in an Obstinate denial of the Truth for if you do God will put it into 'th Hearts of these Noble Lords to find it out and to do what is Just in relation to the Punishment of the Crime Consider of it and the Lord Direct you Lord Audley My Lord I have been six Months a Prisoner under a close Confinement without the Advice of Friends or Counsel and long Imprisonment has reduced me into a very weak Condition When I was in my best state of Health my Voice was very low and therefore I desire your Lordships will be pleas'd to allow me the liberty of Counsel to speak for me Lord High-Steward Your long Imprisonment has been a singular favour to you You have had more time than ever any Peer had that was brought to this Bar. However you shall ask nothing which the Law can give you but it shall be freely granted to you and therefore I will propound your Request to the Judges and leave them to give you satisfaction in it My Lords the Judges Will the Law allow us to give my Lord Audley the liberty of Counsel to speak for him I shall be glad to have your Opinions in it Lord Chief Justice Hyde In Criminal Causes Counsel cannot be allowed in matters of Fact in matters of Law it may Lord Chief Baron The Law is express in this Case and Counsel ought not to be granted Lord High-Steward Read the Indictment Clerk of the Crown Mervin Lord Audley Thou art here Indicted c. for that thou and Gyles Broadway Gen. both of Fountain Gifford in the County of Wilts not having the Fear of God before your Eyes but being moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil Did on the twentieth day of June in the Sixth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. at Fountain Gyfford aforesaid in the County aforesaid did by Force and Arms c. In and upon Ann Lady Audley then being in the Peace of God and our Sovereign Lord the King Make an Assault And the aforesaid Gyles Broadway the aforesaid Ann Lady Audley by Force and Arms against the Will of the said Ann then and there did violently and Feloniously Ravish and the said Ann then and there against her Will did Carnally know against the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King his Crown and Dignity and against the Statute in that Case made and provided what sayest thou Mervyn Lord Audley art thou Guilty of the Rape of which thou standest Indicted or not Guilty Lord Audley Not Guilty Clerk of the Crown How will you be Tryed Lord Audley By God and my Peers Then the Clerk of the Crown Read another Indictment against the Lord Audley to this effect viz. That he Mervin Lord Audley not having God before his Eyes nor respecting the Order of Nature but moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil the first of June in the Sixth Year of our Sovereign Lord Charles c. at Fountain Gifford in the said County of Wilts in the Mansion House of the said Lord Audley Did there by Force of Arms upon one Florentius Fitz Patrick Wickedly Devilishly Feloniously and contrary to Nature exercise Venery and the said Florentius Fitz Patrick then and there did Carnally know and that Detestable and Abominable Sodomitical Sin called Buggery not to be named among Christians Then and there with the said Florentius Fitz