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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63274	A true account from Chichester, concerning the death of Habin the informer whom, contrary to all truth, two infamous and impudent lyars, have published to be barbarously murdered : one affirming it to be done by the dissenters at Chichester, the other, by the coachman of Richard Farington, Esq. : with a relation of the most malicious design to make Mr. Farington himself guilty of the said pretended murder : published for the sake of truth.		1682 (1682)	Wing T2325; ESTC R3524	9,031	18

this performance or that he is to succeed Habin in the Office of an Informer Or that some other way is to be found out to reward his merit in this matter time must shew In the mean while all Wise and Sober Men wonder exceedingly that my Lord Bishop would meddle with such eager and vehement concern in a Sanguinary Case from which by Law that great Dignity is Exempted and do think that his Lordship had better consulted the honour of the Church and his own Reputation also if he had shewed himself more cool and temperate in this matter For though my Lord hath a very great kindness for Sir Iohn Farington Mr. Farington's Brother yet to shew it so mightily upon such odd occasions hath done no great Service to his Lordship nor Sir Iohn neither For people do publickly say That sub dio or in the Church Porch whitherto all persons might freely resort had been a much more proper place for a Coroners Inquest to have sate than under Lock and Key in a Bishops Palace especially too in such a Palace where the Bishop and his Predecessors have denied themselves to be within the Liberty of the City and refused to pay their Poors Tax whereupon many Suits and Differences have arose Wherefore upon the whole we judg all men will see at little reason to lay this Accident on Mr. Farington as some Gentlemen had to lay the wounding of his Lordships Coach horses on our Dissenters For the Horses were at Grass seven Miles distant from this City and in all probability were Goared by some of the fatting Cattel among which they fed For besides that it is contrary to the common Charity which Christianity obligeth us to have for all men to believe so ill of any without some proof So is it also manifestly opposite to Reason to credit that if any mans Rage and Malice should have carried him so many Miles to have mischiefed his Lordships Horses that he would not have done it throughly and kill'd them on the spot rather than to have given them such slight wounds as every silly Smith could Cure for be it known to the World his Lordships Horses are alive again and as well as ever and the Persons that wrought their Cure would think themselves jeered to be called by so much as the Name of Farriers 'T is true there was an Oath about to have been made by a Right Irish Evidence That one Mr. Nevill had wounded his Lordships Horses But just then hearing that the Gentleman was above Fifty Miles distant from the place he held his blow and we have unluckily miss'd that able Testimony yet we are so far from having that uncharitable thought that this person had any particular Malice in his Oath against Mr. Nevill that we do believe in our Consciences that for a Guinney more he would have Swore the Morocco Embassador had done it and we do also believe that if he had Sworn so he had said as much Truth as any of those Gentlemen that have published that matter And so much for the Horses But lest any should think that we speak this in favour of Dissenters we must crave leave to say That we are and are known to be for the Church of England and could heartily wish that Dissenters would leave off Conventicling and come to Church as on the other hand we could also wish that there were less bitterness in our Pulpits to invite them thither and that our little dapper Clergy-Wights would not keep such a Whigling nor give them so just occasion from their ill prating and worse living to keep from thence For this we may say for our Dissenters That abate their fault of not coming to Church they are dutiful and peaceable to the Government and friendly and neighbourly to their fellow Subjects and in the general conduct of their Conversation of very good Morals This is the true and candid Account of this Matter to all which if you add the Bishops displeasure against Mr. Farington for Managing the Suits of his Parish against him and the Recorders rage for his being chosen a Parliament-man for this City and the mighty dearness that is beween both them and Sir Iohn Farington and you will be so far from wondering that so industrious a Venom was laid out against him that you will rather admire that any Innocency could preserve him But God be thanked to the great joy of this City we can apply the Words of the Royal Prophet The Snare is broken and he is delivered FINIS

to execute the Malice and then Weapons or Instruments fit to set home that Malice to the Death of him to whom 't is born Neither of which can so much as pretended●y be fastened upon this poor unfortunate Coach-man And yet in the Proof of this matter you will see that not the Coach-man only but his Master too was strongly endeavour'd to be brought in guilty of Murder For on Saturday Morning the Recorder who had been all this while absent from the City returned and then the Lord Bishop and he caused Habin's Grave to be opened the Coroners Inquest to be new summoned to the Bishops Palace and to be new sworn again super visum Corporis with a higher aim now and not so much to make the Man as the Master the Murderer for commanding his Man to do it In order hereunto one Cressingham was gotten to swear That he saw Mr Faringt●n look ou● at his Window and bid his Man beat Habin soundly But the Iury on inquiry could not find any body that saw Cressingham so much as in the street where the Fact was committed Nor could Cressingham name any person that he saw there tho the street was full of people save only one and he proved so far from being in the street that unluckily he did not so much as rise fro● his Bed all that day till after the Fact was done as both himself and several others did testifie Nay divers affirm That Cressingham was asleep at his Mo●hers House in another qu●rte● of the City when this unfortunate F●ct was done 〈◊〉 that Cressingham rose not up till it was told him what the ●oach man had done to Habin And among the rest Cressingham's own Mother aver'd to Nine or Ten substantial pe●●ons That 〈◊〉 her Son had sworn he saw the Fact he was a 〈◊〉 R●gue for that he was asleep at her house till some Neighbours came in and told him that Habin was dead tho some say That after old Gooddy Cressingham had been 〈◊〉 and Dined with the Bishop she 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 her Confession as much as she could And Cressingham's Mothers House is at utterly out of sight of any thing done at Mr. Farington's Door as if it stood in Cheapside Wherefore after they had lock'd up the Inquest in the Bishop's Palace from Eleven of the Clock till Four and none permitted to go to them but whom the Bishop pleased nay some of the Iury threatned by the Bishop that if they did not find Farington Guilty he would have them before the King and Council Yet notwithstanding the Inquest were of opinion to acquit Mr. Farington unless Cressingham's Testimony was supported by some other The Cause being thus just ready to fall they desired the Inquest to Adjourn till Eight of the Clock on Monday which accordingly they did and by that time further Evidence should be gotten To have Evidence to get on Saturday night that must be used on Monday Morning one would think requires great dexterity to gain them and yet that Night a little Prentice-Boy of about 13 or 14 years old was haled away from his Masters House by two Publicans before the Mayor and the City-Iustices where we will not say by what Arts he was made and made to Swear that he saw both Mr. Farington and Cressingham too when Habin was Beat. But of this we are sure that when the Boy was called before the Inquest he better remembred himself and did upon his Oath deny that he saw Mr. Farington there or Cressingham either and yet afterwards the Boy was prevailed upon to unswear that and to swear that he saw Cressingham there but not Mr. Farington Some honest-mindded people bid the Lad as he went by them to consider what he Swore and to be sure to Swear the truth which made his Mother run up and down like one mad raving and crying My Son shall Swear for the Lord Bishop My Son shall Swear for the Lord Bishop I would not for ten pound but he should Swear for my Lord bishop For I have the most part of my Livelyhood from my Lord. Which furious passion in the Woman made People stare and wonder at her and the Bishop both and raised more doubts in mens minds than it is convenient to mention For if English Ears hear any Body to Swear upon such occasions for any others but for the King and Truth they straight grow jealous and fear foul play The Inquest being greatly dissatisfied in their Judgments concerning the Evidence that Cressingham and the Boy had given as disagreeing with each other and neither of them well agreeing with themselves and having a Cloud of other Credible Substantial and Unsuspected Witnesses that saw all the Action from first to last whose Testimony seemed more Concurrent and Agreeable to Reasons The Jury like discreet Men and such as were willing to search every thing to find out the Truth Resolved they would go and view the place themselves where this accident happened which accordingly they did and found that in the place where Cressingham Swore he stood when he saw Mr. Farington look out at the Window and commanded his men to bear Habin it was utterly impossible for Cressingham or any Man else to see Mr. Farington or any other look out at the Window So that returning to the Town-hall where the Jury that day sate fully satisfied they would not hear any more Witnesses though a great many more were present and offered themselves to Swear but immediately gave in their Verdict wherein every man did acquit Mr. Farington It appearing to them by the Oaths of Persons against whom there was no exception that Mr. Farington was so far from commanding his man to beat Habin that he was Extreamly angry with his man for doing of i● Thus ended this matter The next day this young Apprentice was taken from his Master by the Bishop into his House Whether for fear the Boy should blab the Threats and Arts that have been exercised on him to draw him to do what he did or to be better instructed in the new and modish science now in fashion they best know that did it tho the Boys Mother doth give out already that her Son shall yet Swear for my Lord Bishop against Mr. Farington for all this We only can say that this we are sure of from several honest Persons that the Child did nothing but Cry and say he was threatned to Swear what he did till Mr. Farington was acquitted and that then he did nothing but leap and express an high passion of joy for it and if upon his coming under his Lordships Roof the Boy assumed another nature 't is only a proof that miracles are not ceased Cressingham the Witness was formerly a Chorister but having not honesty enough to continue in the Office which generally doth not require over-much he was expell'd the Quire and is now so indigent and Infamous that his Credit will not pass for Twelve pence whether he be to be restored on