Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earl_n	edward_n	howard_n	10,858	5	12.3262	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95111	The true narrative of the proceedings at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bayly which began on Monday the 17th of this instant October, and ended on Wednesday the 19th following Giving an account of the most of the remarkable trials there, viz, for murder, fellonies, and burglaries, &c. with a particular relation of their names, and the places of their committing their facts, with the number of those condemned to die, burn'd in the hand, transported and to be whipt. But more especially the tryal and condemnation, of John King and John Winnel for murdering Robert Reeks yeoman of the guard, and several persons for high-treason.	England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London)	1681 (1681)	Wing T2829B; ESTC R185606	3,789	4

THE TRUE NARRATIVE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AT The Sessions-House IN THE OLD-BAYLY Which began on Monday the 17th of this instant October and ended on Wednesday the 19th following Giving an account of most of the Remarkable Trials there viz For Murder Fellonies and Burglaries c. with a particular Relation of their Names and the places of their committing their Facts with the number of those Condemned to die Burn'd in the Hand Transported and to be whipt But more especially the Tryal and Condemnation of John King and John Winnel for Murdering Robert Reeks Yeoman of the Guard and several persons for High-Treason John Pack was indicted for stealing a Horse from one William Pack living near Rochester in Kent the which he brought up to London and sold for about 4 pounds to one in Salsbury Court in Fleetstreet where upon Search the Horse being found he was apprehended upon his Tryal he pleaded that the prosecutor being his Master had lent him the Horse but not being able to make it appear and having at the same time Robbed his said Master of several other goods for which he broak open divers Chests Upon the Courts directing that although the Fellony was committed in another County yet the goods being found in London was a Fellony there they found him guilty of the Fellony One Fulnum a Dray-man was Arraigned For the Killing of Sarah Richardson a Girl of about 4 years of Age the manner of which as it appeared upon his Tryal was that he coming along the Lane with a loaded Dray in which were two Horses which were somewhat unruly one of them Flung out of the way and run the Dray up to the Wall where near to a Stoan-cutters Shop a stone of about 4 Foot long and 1 Square stood up an end behind which the Girl Run to save her self but the Dray coming one of the Wheels threw down the stone upon her which crushed her immediatly to Death without so much as her making the least out-cry Whereupon the Dray and Person being seased the Crowners Jury upon inquiry found it special but it being proved in Court that he did all he could to prevent the Accident and that he was exceeding sorry for what he had done the Jury brought him in not Guilty but the Court thought fit to bind him over to his good behaviour as likewise his Master the Brewer to answer it at the next Sessions for the Peace at Guild-Hall Francis Ferdenando a Dutch-man was indicted for Fellony and Burglary for he about the 17 of September last in the day time entred the House of Philip Frond in the Parish of St. Mary Woolnoth where going up Stairs he broak open a Trunk or Chest and took thence several Half-shirts and other Linen but the Mrs. of the house coming up he hid himself under the Bed where he had the Iron in his hand with which he committed the Burglary but being a Dutch-man and pretended he could speak no English the Court allowed him as the Law in that case requires A mixed Jury of half English and half Dutch he pleading by an interpreter his plea was that he being set upon run in thither for his own security but that allegation proved too weak the Jury found him Guilty The Petitions of the Right Honourable the Earl of Shaftsbury William Lord Howard John Wilmore John Rouse and Edward Whittakar were presented to the Court and read the substance of them imparting that they being Prisoners in the Tower of London under commitment for High-Treason and having petitioned the Honourable Court several times once more besought their Lord-ships that they might be brought thither by Habeas Corpus and either Bailed or Proceeded against according to the Proviso made in the Act for the securing the Liberty of the Subject As likewise another Petition of Samuel Wilsons servant to the Eearl of Shaftsbury and Prisoner in the Gate-House under a commitment of Treason was delivered to which the Court made answer that as for the 4 former they had formerly had the opinion of all the Judges that it is not in the Courts Jurisdiction to Bail them but the must apply themselves to the Kings-Bench Court in Term time and if there is prosecution they might be releived as to the last their Commission by which they sat being only for the Goal-delivery and the Prisoner not being in the County Goal they could not relieve him Thomas Baily wos indicted for High-Treason in cliping the Lawful Coin of this Kingdom the indictment specifiing 40 Elizabeth shillings 40 of King James's shillings and four half-Crowns of King Charles the first The Evidence against him was that he being apprehended in Carter Lane London a pair of Sheeres and several other Clipping Instruments were found about him the which he endeavoured to conceal and that he had been known to give several people two shillings in the pound to put away clipped monies by which means he had disposed of several hundreds of pounds the which in other mens Names he was wont to put to Goldsmiths and in a short time call it in again by which means he got large money in exchange and that several parcels of Clipped money was found in his Custody to which he pleaded that as for the Tools they were delivered to him by one Hix whom he supposed designed to bring him into the Trade and for the monies he said it was not his but appertained to other persons in whose behalf he had received it and being in Debt feared if he should have lodged it in his own Name it might have been Attached so that upon the hearing of the whole Evidence the Jury acquitted him though to the no small wonder of the Court. Anthony Morgan was indicted for Robing Anthony Dudy upon the High-way near Bagshot on the 10 of May last and taking from him his Horse Watch and 45 shillings in moneys numbered the prosecutor Swore possitivly that he was the man who rifled him and that some time after he found his horse where he had sold him as to the Horse several came in upon oath that it was the same Horse he road out upon but when the Prisoners evidence came to be heard the scene was altered for they deposed that the Horse so challenged was bought at Kettering in Northhampton shire and from thence the Buying and Selling of him was traced for two years space during which time he had not been let or hired to any person that was suspicious and the Master of the Horse which was seized deposed upon oath that the horse found in Custody of the Prisoner was not the Horse he lent the prosecutor but that they had far different marks upon which they left that and went on to the Robbery when the Prisoners Wi●nisses declared that he was at home at the same time the Ro●bery w●s committed and the better to strengthen it one of them deposed that he had paid him six pounds that very day and was in his company at the time the