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lord_n	aforesaid_a	king_n	say_a	23,782	5	7.5787	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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