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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41167	An enquiry into and detection of the barbarous murther of the late Earl of Essex, or, A vindication of that noble person from the guilt and infamy of having destroy'd himself	Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.; Braddon, Laurence, d. 1724.; Speke, Hugh, 1656-1724?	1684 (1684)	Wing F737; ESTC R25398	79,560	81

and loved after it Having now shown the end unto which the murder of this incomparable Earl was designed and adapted and the improvement which was made of it not only through endeavouring to establish thereby the belief of a Protestant Plot in general but to compass and facilitate the ruine of that religious and noble person my Lord Russel in particular we shall as a further inducement to perswade and convince the inquisitive part of mankind that some about St. James's and Whitehall where the contrivers and authorisers of that barbarous assassination lay open and unfold the motive and pique upon which it was done and what it was which gave the original rise to some mens implacable malice against that loyal as well as virtuous person And as it cannot be denied but this late Nobl ' Earl had received Titles of honor and places of Trust interest and advantage from his Majesty so it will be acknowledged that not only his Father but himself had laid all the obligations upon the Crown which it was possibl ' for Subjects in way of Acting or Suffering to do Nor is it less evident that notwithstanding both the Father my Lord Capel's Laying down his life for Charles the First and the English Monarchy and his Son Essex's manifold sufferings and services for Charles the Second and the Royal Family yet this honorable Person instead of quietly possessing any longer the just rewards of his own and Fathers merits or enjoying any more the wonted signs of his Princes favour was not onely debarred from and deprived of the respect and confidence which his Majesty had used to show him but was become the object of a great mans implacable hatred and boundless malice For though the Earl of Essex was a person whom nothing could corrupt from his loyalty to the King and the Established Government yet he was also a sincere and zealous Patriot of the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom and a couragious Defender as well as owner of the Protestant Religion And as he was none of those mercinary base and timorous Lords who would either connive at or concur in the introduction of Slavery and Popery so he was one of the principal of those heroick and generous Peers who had been active in detecting the Popish Conspiracy and who had laboured with the greatest industry to prevent the effects of that hellish conjuration of the Valican Louvre and St. James's for the extirpation of the Reformed Worship and the subversion of the ancient Laws and Priviledges of England And as he was known to understand more of the nature and extent of the Popish Conspiracy and who were concerned in it and to what degree than most persons in the Kingdom either were or ever had oportunities for so nothing can be more certain than that as hereby he became the most dangerous man in the whole Nation to the Papists but that he must consequently be the most special object of their jealousie fear and hatred 〈◊〉 as his publick Station in Ireland as well as his having been long a Member of His Majesty's Privy Council in England furnished him with manifold advantages which others wanted of knowing the tendency and penetrating into the bottom of all the Designs and Counsels which have been carrying on against our Religion and Legal Government so his scorning and abhorring to sacrifice his Conscience and Honour by either falling in with the Conspirators or by avoiding to withstand and oppose them in their attempts for the introduction and establishment of Popery and Arbitrariness made them to think of all ways and means how to destroy him And besides these forementioned advantages which he had above other men of knowing all the dimensions of the Popish Plot he received no small accession of light in that affair by having been always a Member of those Secret Committees which had the Examination of Persons and Inspection of Papers concerning that devilish Conspiracy Nor was the Earl insensible of the danger he was in upon this account and accordingly was wont sometimes to say to his intimate friends that as generally all the Papists and more particularly such of them as make the greatest figure in the Kingdom dreaded him by reason of the detection he was able to make of their horrid Machinations so he could not be without apprehension but that they would seek to destroy him in order to prevent it Alas poor Essex thy respect to some whom I forbear to name made thee wanting to save the Nation and thy self by revealing that while we had ParlJaments the knowledge whereof would have been a means to have prevented our ruine and as thou art now ill rewarded for thy tenderness to those ungratefull men so we are at once unhappily robb'd of the great Instrument that could have unmasked persons and things and denied ParlJaments from whose legal Authority as well as united Counsels and Wisdom we can only under God hope for the preservation of England from becoming the Seat of Popery and the Theatre of Tyranny Nor ought it to seem strange that the malic● of the Papists and of those who have conspired against our Rights and Priviledges should transport them to that measure and degree of rage against a person who had not only faithfully served his Majesty and the Crown but from whom they could expect no opposition but what was founded in the authority of our Laws and promoted in a ParlJamentary-way and which the King himself is bound by his Oath as well as the duty and trust reposed in him to second and give countenance unto For besides diverse Gentlemen of that temper and character whom they have destroyed or condemned by and under a Form of Law but indeed contrary to all the Laws of the Land and against the worst presidents even in the most absolute and despotical times there may be several Gentlemen mentioned whom they have cut off without the Form of any Process meerly because they either thought themselves prejudiced and withstood by them in their designs or were afraid of them by reason of the discovery which they were able to give of their conjurations against the Kingdom and of the villanies they had committed in subserviency to the establishment of Popery and Tyranny For not to mention either the Condemnation of that most Honourable Person the Earl of Argyle nor the Condemnation and Execution of that gallant Gentleman Collonel Sydney nor the late Barbarity used against their ancient Servant Sir Thomas Armestrong all which were directly repugnant to the Laws of the respective Kingdoms and contrary to all proceedings in other criminal and capital Cases were not my Lord Lucas Sir Robert Brook● and Sir Edmondbury Godfrey without being so much as arraigned or accused murthered by them only because they either found them opposite to their Romish and Arbitrary designs or knew them capable of revealing their hellish Counsels and Actions against the Nation the established Government and the Reformed Religion What Family in England had

sent the Footman home with a Note to the Steward in which amongst other things he ask'd for a Penknife for my Lord and when the Footman was gone about a little after 8. of the Clock my Lord sent one Mr. Russel his Warder to the Informant who came and ask'd him if the Pen-knife was come to which the Informant said no my Lord but I shall have it by and by to which my Lord said that he should bring him one of his Razors it would do as well and then the Informant went and fetched one and gave it my Lord who went then to pare his Nails and then the Informant went out of the Room into the Passage by the door on Friday the 13 and begun to talk with the Warder and a little while after he went down Stairs and soon after came the Footman with the Provisions and brought also a Penknife which the Informant put upon his Bed and thought my Lord had no more need of it because he thought he had paired his Nails and then the Informant came up to my Lords Chamber about 8 or 9 in the Forenoon on Friday the 13 of July with a little Note from the Steward but not finding his Lord in the Chamber went to the Close-Stool Closet-door and found it shut and he thinking his Lord was busy there went down and staid a little and came up again thinking his Lord had been come out of the Closet and finding him not in the Chamber he knock'd at the Door with his Finger thrice and said my Lord but no body answering he took up the Hanging and looking through the chink he saw Blood and a part of the Razor whereupon he called the Warder Russel and went down to call for help and the said Russel pushed the Door open and there they saw my Lord of Essex all along on the Floor without a Periwig and all full of Blood and the Razor by him and the Deponent further deposeth that the Razor now shewed to him at the time of his Examination is the same Razor which he did bring to my Lord and which did lye on the Ground in the Closet by my Lord. To this Information I shall subjoyn that of Thomas Russel one of the Warders of the Tower who being examined the 14. of July 1683. saith That on the 13. of the said July about 8 or 9 of the Clock in the Forenoon he was present when he did hear the Lord of Essex call to his Man Mr. Bomeny for a Penknife to pare his Nails and then for a Razor which Mr. Bomeny brought him and then my Lord went up and down the Room scraping his Nails with the Razor and shut the outward Door Mr. Bomeny half a quarter of an Hour afterwards not finding my Lord in his Bed-Chamber went down Stairs again believing that my Lord was then private in his Closet Bomeny came up about a quarter of an hour afterwards and knock'd at the door and then called My Lord My Lord but he not answering peep'd through a chink of the door and did see the Earl of Essex lying on the Ground in the Closet whereupon he did cry out that my Lord was fallen down Sick and then the Informant went to the Closet-door and opened it the key being on the outside and then did see my Lord lye down on the ground in his blood his Throat being cutt These are all the informations which the Inquest charged and sworn to enquire when by what means and how Arthur E. of Essex came to his death thought fit to take and upon the Depositions of these two Fellows who in case any violence were offered to my Lord must have been accessory to it they bring in and do say upon their oaths that the sayd Arthur Earl of Essex did voluntarily and feloniously cut his Throat It may indeed seem strange that there being other persons at that time in the house besides Bomeny and Russel particularly the Maid servant that they should neither be examined nor so much as called to know whether they could say any thing in that affair But it is not improbable that the contradictions in the Testimonies of the two Witnesses whom they had examined to one an other might discourage them from examining any more least they in what they might swear should contradict what both the former had said Now what I have to observe concerning the contradictions in the forego'ing Depositions they are either such wherein these Informations are directly contrary to the reports which themselves made to others about my Lords death or they are such wherein the Testimony of the one contradicts that of the other or lastly wherein the Information of one and the same person gainsay's and overthrow's it self For the first whereas both Bomeny and Russel do positively swear that it was not above a quarter of an houre and half from the time that Bomeny left my Lord in his Chamber pareing his Nailes to the time that they found him dead in the Closet yet this very Bomeny being ask'd the Question by one of my Lords Family soon after his death how long my Lord might have lyen dead before either he or the Warder discovered it replyed that he believed he must have lyen so above two hours for that when they first found him the Body was cold and stiff And whereas Russel deposeth that the Razor was given by Bomeny to my Lord after he was up and about eight or nine of the clock in the forenoon and that both he and Bomeny inform how they saw his Lordship upon the delivery of the Razor to him apply to the pareing of his Nailes yet this Rogue Bomeny having the property of lyars namely the want of a good memory affirmed to a person of good credit and who is ready to depose it upon Oath that from the time of his sending away the Footman with a Note to the Steward which was about or before six that morning on which the Earl died he did not see my Lord till the time that he found him killed and wallowing in his blood in the Closet And whereas there is not one word in Bomenies Information concerning my Lords being used to be taken with sudden Frensical passions and fitts or that he was particularly taken with one that morning before his death but the contrary plainly insinuated in the whole Information and also acknowledged at Mr. Braddon's Trial where tho he says that my Lord was melancholy yet he adds they took no notice of it nor had reason to suspect any thing more than ordinary all which directly contradicts what the Villain told an Eminent Dr. of the Church of England namely that his Lord was frequently taken with sudden Frensical passions and in particular with one that morning just before his death For said the perjured Rascal when the Earl of Essex saw my Lord Russel carried out of the Tower to be Tryed he struck his Breast and said himself was the cause of my Lord