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B02604 The case of Robert Blackburne Blackburne, Robert, prisoner in Newgate. 1700 (1700) Wing C974; ESTC R170972 1,021 1

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THE CASE OF Robert Blackburne APril 2d 1696 the said Blackburne was Committed to Newgate and the September following putting in his Prayer was admitted to Bail at the Sessions House in the Old Baily and no Information coming against him he was at the ensuing Sessions discharg'd from his Bail and absolutely Acquitted By this his Chargeable Confinement having Contracted several Debts and his Creditors being very pressing upon him he resolv'd to go for Flanders where he had some Relations from whom he might reasonably expect some Assistance and in order thereunto he put himself on Board an Oftend Man of War but not being able for want of Money to procure a Pass he was by Capt. Nash His Majesty's Searcher brought back to London as a Suspicious Person and Committed to the Custody of one Davis a Messenger where when he had remain'd for 3 or 4 Days he by his Sollicitor represented his Case to Sir William Trumball then Secretary of State upon the Consideration of which Sir William as the said Blackburne was inform'd by his Sollicitor was inclin'd to discharge him but he was still delay'd till the Parliament being about to pass a Bill for continuing the Imprisonment of one Counter and others which Bill having pass'd the House of Commons and the sad Blackburne's Name not mention'd therein Davis the Messenger knowing that he had formerly been Confin'd with the said Counter and altho' legally Acquitted as aforesaid made it his Business to get his Prisoner the said Blackburne also included in the said Bill that he might be Recommitted and continued in Prison with the said Counter c. by the Act that was then ready to pass the House And accordingly tho' no farther Information appear'd against him when the Bill pass'd the Lords House they in their Amendments incerted the said Blackburne whereupon he was Recommitted to Newgate without ever being Examin'd where he was kept two Years under so Strict and Rigorous a Confinement that no Friend was suffered to speak to him nor could he take any Measures to set forth the Hardship of his Case or obtain any Redress He humbly believes his Case to be Particular in that he was never Acquainted with any one of those Persons who have been put to Death for the late Conspiracy nor did he so much as ever know any or either of those whom he is in Prison with until their Confinement And besides he desires it may be observ'd That he is not one of those Persons for whom a Thousand Pounds was paid for the Apprehending Midd. ss AD Deliberat ' Gaol Dom. Regis de Newgate tent ' pro Com' Middlesex apud Justice Hall in le Old Baily in Suburbiis Civit. London die in Cur ' Scil. nono die Septembris Anno Regni Dom. Gulielmi tert ' nunc Regis Angl. c. Octavo Robertus Blackburne tradit in Bal. in Cur ' for ' De●iberat ' c. Per Cur ' Harcourt Vera Copia Exact Per Matth. Smith Cler ' c.