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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63194	The tryal of Sr Thomas Gascoyne Bar. for high-treason in conspiring the death of the King, the subversion of the government, and alteration of religion, on Wednesday the 11th of February 1679 : at the Bar of the Kings Bench, before the Right Honourable Sir William Scroggs, Lord Chief Justice, and the rest of the judges of that court.	Gascoigne, Thomas, Sir, 1593?-1686, defendant.	1680 (1680)	Wing T2219; ESTC R6828	66,907	70

THE TRYAL OF S r Tho. Gascoyne Bar. FOR HIGH-TREASON In Conspiring The Death of the KING THE Subversion of the GOVERNMENT AND Alteration of RELIGION On Wednesday the 11th of February 1679. At the Bar of the KINGS BENCH BEFORE The Right Honourable Sir William Scroggs Lord Chief Justice And the rest of the Judges of that Court. LONDON Printed for Tho. Basset and Sam. Heyrick at the George in Fleet-street and at Greys-Inne-gate in Holborn 1680. THE TRYAL OF Sir Tho. Gascoyne Bar. On Saturday the 24th of Jan. 1679 Sir Tho. Gascoyne was brought to the Bar of the Court of Kings-bench to be Arraigned for High-Treason which was done accordingly in this manner Clerk of Crown SIr Thomas Gascoyne hold up thy hand Sir Tho. Gasc I cannot hear Clerk He saies he cannot hear L. C. J. Then somebody must repeat it that stands by him Mr. Recorder Do you hear what I say to you Sir Tho. Gasc No I cannot hear I am very deaf Then the Clerk of the Crown went down close to the Bar and went on thus Clerk of Crown Sir Thomas Gascoyne hold up thy hand which he did Thou standest indicted by the name of Sir Thomas Gascoyne late of the Parish of Elmett in the West-riding in the County of York Bar. for that thou as a false Traytor against our most Illustrious and excellent Prince King Charles the second thy natural Lord not having the fear of God in thy heart nor weighing the duty of thy Allegiance but by the instigation of the Devil moved and seduced the cordial love and true due and natural obedience which true and faithful Subjects of our said Lord the King should bear to him and of right are bound to bear wholly withdrawing devising and with all thy power intending to disturb the Peace and common Tranquillity of this Realm and to bring and put our said Lord the King to death and final destruction and the true Worship of God in this Kingdom by Law established and used to alter unto the Superstition of the Church of Rome and to move and stir up War against our said Lord the King in this Realm and to subvert the Government of this Kingdom The thirtieth day of May in the one and thirtieth year of our said Lord the King's Reign at the Parish of Barwick in Elmett in the said County of York in the West-Riding of the same County with divers other false Traytors unknown didst trayterously compass imagine and intend the death and final destruction of our said Lord the King and to change and alter and wholly to subvert the ancient Government of this Realm and to depose and wholly to deprive the King of the Crown and Government of this Kingdom and to root out the true Protestant Religion And to fulfil and accomplish the same most wicked Treasons and trayterous Imaginations and Purposes the said Gascoyne and other false Traytors unknown on the said thirtieth day of May in the one and thirtieth year aforesaid with Force and Arms c. at the Parish of Barwick aforesaid advisedly divelishly maliciously and trayterously did assemble unite and gather together themselves and then and there did devilishly advisedly maliciously craftily and trayterously consult and agree to bring our said Lord the King to death and final destruction and to depose and deprive him of his Crown and Government and to introduce and establish the Religion of the Roman Church in this Realm And the sooner to fulfil and accomplish the same most wicked Treasons and trayterous Imaginations and purposes thou the said Gascoyne and other unknown Traytors then and there advisedly maliciously and trayterously did further consult and agree to contribute pay and expend divers large sums of money to divers of the King's Subjects and other persons unknown to procure those persons unknown trayterously to kill our said Lord the King and to introduce the Roman Religion into this Realm And that thou the said Gascoyne afterwards to wit on the said thirtieth day of May in the one and thirtieth year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid didst falsely advisedly craftily maliciously and trayterously sollicit one Robert Bolron to kill our said Lord the King and then and there with an intent sooner trayterously to encourage the said Bolron to undertake the killing and murthering of our said Lord the King offeredst therefore to give and pay the said Bolron a thousand pounds of lawful money of England against the duty of thy Allegiance against the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity and against the form of the Statute in such Case made and provided How sayest thou Sir Thomas Gascoyne art thou guilty of this High-Treason whereof thou standest indicted and hast been now arraigned or not guilty Sir Tho. Gascoigne Gloria Patri Filio Spiritui Sancto I am no guiltie Clerk of Crown Not guiltie you must say Sir T. Gasc Not guiltie nor any of my Familie were ever guiltie of any such thing I hope I shall be tryed fairly Clerk of Crown How will you be tryed Sir T. Gasc By God and my Countrie Clerk of Crown God send thee a good deliverance Sir T. Gasc I desire that in order to my Trial I may have a Jurie of Gentlemen of Persons of my own Qualitie and of my own Countrie that may be able to know something how I have lived hitherto for I am above Fourscore and five years old L. C. J. Tell him he shall have a good Jurie of Gentlemen of his own Countrie Sir T. Gasc And besides my Lord I desire to know when I shall be tried Mr. Att. Gen. Some time about the latter end of the Term as soon as I can get a Jurie up Sir T. Gasc I do not know whether I can produce all my Witnesses at that time if there be not a longer time allowed me for I have a great many Witnesses to fetch up These Witnesses must be all here or I can't make my Defence and I know not how they shall be got hither in so little time L. C. J. Tell him he may have what Witnesses he pleases and the aid of this Court to fetch them Mr. Justice Dolben Name them who they are Mrs. Ravenscroft My Lord some of his Witnesses are at Paris Mr. Justice Dolben Why he will not be tried yet this fortnight Mrs. Ravenscroft They will not have time to come over between this and that Mr. Justice Dolben Mistriss he had reason to believe that he should be tried some time this Term for so the Council ordered it and therefore he should have got his Witnesses ready Mrs. Ravenscroft My Lord he did not know where they were till a week ago Mr. J●…stice Dolben Look you Mr. Attorney here is a Ladie that is I suppose fome Relation to this Gentleman Mrs. Ravenscroft He is my Grandfather my Lord. Mr. Justice Dolben She saies a fortnights time will be too little to get his Witnesses together for his Defence because some of the Witnesses are