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A38869	An exact account of the trial between Sr. William Pritchard, Kt. and alderman of the city of London, plaintiff, and Thomas Papillon, Esq, defendant in an action upon the case at the sessions of nisi prius holden for the Court of King's Bench at the Guild-Hall in the city of London, on Thursday the 6th of November, 1684, in Michaelmas term, in the 36th year of the reign of King Charles the Second, before Sir George Jefferies, Kt. and Baronet, then Lord Chief Justice of the said Court of King's Bench : to which is added, the matter of fact relating to election of sheriffs, as it was printed in the year 1682.	Pritchard, William, Sir, 1632?-1705, complainant.; Papillon, Thomas, 1623-1702, defendant.; England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.	1689 (1689)	Wing E3587; ESTC R12402	61,421	42

in checking and rebuking some Gentlemen who had the courage in his hearing to claim their Rights Surely as his Lordship hath taken no notice of what befel Sir Samuel Sterling and Sir Edward Bromfield for Offences not near so heinous as those he is guilty of so he never read of one Sir Nicholas Brember Lord Mayor of London that was condemn'd to be hang'd in Richard Knighten the 2d's time and with much ado upon the King's intercession had the favour to be beheaded and this for neglecting the duty of his Place and acting conformably to the dictates of Court Ministers particularly for undertaking at the pleasure of the King to be Mayor without the consent and against the will of the Citizens And as this may instruct Sir John Moore what he may in due time expect seeing the imposing such Officers as Sheriffs upon the City not only without the concurrence but against the Declaration of the Free-men is a much greater Crime than the serving Mayor at the Command of the King without their consent so it may forewarn Mr. North and Mr. Box what is likely to befall them if they take upon them the Office of Sheriffs against the Will of the Citizens For if King Richard's requiring Sir Nicholas Brember to hold Mayor without being duly Elected could not save his Head from the Block much less can Sir John Moore calling these Gentlemen forth to the Office of Sheriffs protect them from the Punishment to which by the Law they shall be found liable for so doing And as they will be bold Men that will undertake the Office of Sheriffs upon the bare Authority of my Lord Mayor's word so I know not how the present Sheriffs can resign the Gaols c. unto such persons who pretend to the Office of Sheriffs by no better Right Nay I will be bold to say That should my Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen have the confidence to swear Mr. North and Mr. Box on Michaelmas Eve that the Common-Hall may Vote them out and chuse others in their Room on Michaelmas-day But it is pleasant to observe how this pretended Election of North and Box for Sheriffs against the ensuing Year works already with the Papists and our Masquerade Protestants for they not only begin to talk of blasting the belief of the Popish Plot but of Hanging Protestants by Wholesale And whereas Mr. Duncomb was contented a few days ago with the Lives of 9 or 10 nothing less will now serve them than the destroying of Scores if not Hundreds and this within the compass of London and Middlesex However this we have to rely upon that whereas Mr. North had only 107 hands and Mr. Box 1353 in all the Books Mr. Papillon and Mr. Dubois had upwards of 2700 Hands a piece reckoning in my Lord Mayor's Books with those of the Sheriffs and were Proclaimed to be duly Elected by the proper Officers And as we cannot think that the King will connive at so unjust a thing and which so directly subverts all the Laws by which he hath sworn to Govern so we are assured that the Judges in his Majesty's Courts will esteem no punishments severe enough as well for them that shall act as Sheriffs by no better Warrant as for him that hath taken upon him to declare them for such against all Law as well as President And as my Lord Mayor may be already sensible how his Fellow-Citizens resent his late illegal carriage and behaviour towards them by the many Actions entred against him to which they have demanded appearance so he will find that all that is hitherto done in order to right themselves and chastise his usurpation upon their Franchises is but like a few drops before a strom in comparison of what he must afterwards look for Nor must Sir J. E. and Sir W. P. c. think to escape being called to an account not only for abetting the Mayor in all these Invasions upon the Privileges of the City but for exciting him unto and hurrying him upon them And as it is evident what esteem they have of his Lordship by using him as a Tool to do such unjustifiable and enormous things which were they themselves in the Chair they would neither have the boldness nor indiscretion to attempt so their thus managing a Person whom they stile their Friend as well as one to whom they are bound by their Oaths to give safe and good Advice rendreth them Offenders against Truth Justice and the Rules of Friendship as well as against the Rights of the Corporation and their own Oath And as for other Officers they ought to reckon themselves accountable as for other misdemeanors in this Affair so for disobeying their Masters in refusing to pronounce and proclaim what the Common-Hall whose servants they are required and commanded them to do And should the Commons of London quietly digest and overlook the disobedience and obstinacy of these Fellows whom they have raised and made I will say that they have not only forgotten their Authority but that they deserve to be ridden and trampled upon by their meanest Officers P. S. The after Proceedings of making Sir Pet. Rich Sheriff with the method used in Swaring him and Sir D. North into that Office the Hustings in Guild-Hall being guarded by a Company of the City Trained Bands under the Command of Lieutenant-Collonel Quiney This and much more of that Days Transactions is too notorious to be forgotten or that it needs at large to be again related Yet the Reader may remember from this illegal Election issued the Death of those excellent Persons the Lord Russel Col. Sidney c. and the designed Ruine of that worthy Citizen Tho. Papillon Esq FINIS

AN EXACT ACCOUNT OF THE TRIAL BETWEEN Sr. WILLIAM PRITCHARD Kt. And Alderman of the City of London Plaintiff AND THOMAS PAPILLON Esq Defendant In an Action upon the Case At the Sessions of Nisi prius holden for the Court of King's Bench at the Guild-hall in the City of London on Thursday the 6th of November 1684. In Michaelmas Term in the 36th Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second Before Sir GEORGE JEFFERIES Kt. and Baronet then Lord Chief Justice of the said Court of King's Bench. To which is added The MATTER of FACT relating to ELECTION of SHERIFFS as it was printed in the Year 1682. LONDON Printed and sold by Richard Janeway in Queens-head-Court in Pater-Noster-Row MDCLXXXIX Pasche xxxvi to Car. Secundi Reg. London ss WIlhelmus Pritchard Miles nuper Major Civit. praedict quaerit de Thoma Papillon in Custod Marem c. pro eo videlicet quod cum duodecimo die Februaris Anno nostri Domini Caroli Secundi nunc Regis Angliae c. tricessimo quinto ipsem idem Wilhelmus Pritchard ac antea abinde pro separat menses ex tunc prox sequend extitit Major Civitat ' London praedict in Officium Majoratus illius debito modo elect praefect jurat ac secundum Consuetudinem Civitat London praedict a tempore cujus contrar memoria hominum non existit in eadem usitat approbat Officium suum Majoratus illius indies intendere debuit pro assiduam diligent ipsius Wilhelmus in regimine Civitat illius pro ipsum secundum debitum Officii sui praedict exequend performand ad honorem dignitat ad Officium illud spectant pertinen praedictus tamen Thomas existens unus de Commitat Civitat praedict sub regimine dicti Wilhelmi virtute Officii sui praedicti praemissor non ignarus sed machinans false ac malitiose invidens felici statui ipsius Wilhelmi in Officio suo praedict necnon ipsum Wilhelmum in executionem Officii illius minus juste inquietare disturbare praedicto duodecimo die Februarii Anno tricesimo quinto superdicto idem Thomas Papillon pro vexatione praefat Wilhelmo adhibend eodem Thoma ad tunc non habente aliquam legitimam vel probabilem Causam Actionis versus ipsum Wilhelmum false malitiose prosequunt fuit extra cur dicti Domini Reg. coram ipso Rege nunchit scilicet apud Westmon in Com. Middlesex adtunc adhuc tent ' existem quoddam Breve ipsius Dom. Reg. de alias Capias versus ipsum Wilhelmum per nomen Wilhelmi Pritchard Militis adtunc Coronator Civitat ' London praed direct ' per quod quidem Breve idem Dominus Rex nunc eidem tunc Coronatori praecepit quod capet ipsum Wilhelmum Pritchard si invent ' foret in Civitat ' London praed ea salvo custodiret ita quod herent Corpus ejus coram Domino Rege apud Westm die cur ' prox post quindenum Pasche ex tunc prox sequend ac respondend praefat ' Thomae Papillon pre nomen Thomae Papillon Armiger de placito trangres quod idem tunc Coronator haberet ibi tunc breve illud Et praedictus Thomas Papillon ex ulteriori nequitia malitia sua praecogitat ' versus ipsum Wilhelmum postea ante retorn ' Brevis praedicti scilicet vicesimo quarto die Aprilis Anno tricesimo superdicto apud London praed videlicet in Parochia Sanctae Mildredae Virginis in Pulletria in Warda de Cheap London praedicum Breve de alis Capias cuidem Johanni Brome Gent. adtunc Coronator Civit ' London praed existem deliberavit exequend ac adtunc ibidem apud Wilhelmum adtunc Major ' Civitat ' London praed ut praefert ' existem praetextu Brevis illius pro Corpus suum capi arrestari ac in Prisona sub Custod ejusdem tunc Coronator per spatium sex horarum ex tunc prox sequem detineri malitiose minus juste procuravit in vituperator ' derogation ' vilipendium praedici Wilhelmi Officii Majoratus ipsius Wilhelmus praed necnon ad damnum prejudicium gravamen ipsius Wilhelmi manifest ' ubi revera de facto praedictus Thomas Papillon praedico tempore captionis arrestionis detentionis ipsius Wilhelmus in Prisona sit ut praefert ' fact ' non habuit aliquam justam vel probabilem causam Actionis versus ipsum Wilhelmum in Premisis praed unde idem Wilhelmus dic ' quod ipse deteriorat ' est damnum habet ad valent ' decem mille librarum inde produc ' sertam c. Die Jovis 6º Novemb. Anno Dom. 1684. Mich. Ter. 36º Car. 2o. B. R. At the Session of Nisi prius for the City of London held at Guild-hall Pritchard versus Papillon London ss SIR William Pritchard late Lord Mayor of the City of London having in Easter Term last brought an Action upon the Case for falsely maliciously and without probable Cause procured him to be arrested and imprisoned in his Mayoralty against Thomas Papillon Esq The Defendant pleaded not Guilty and thereupon Issue being joyned it came this day to be tried before the Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys and the Jury sworn to try this Cause were these Bartholomew Ferryman Thomas Blackmore Thomas Symonds William Whatton John Green Thomas Amy Jospeh Baggs Daniel Chandler John Reynalds John Allen Joseph Caine and William Withers jun. Mr. Mundy May it please your Lordship and you Gentlemen of this Jury Sir William Pritchard Knight late Lord Mayor of the City of London is Plaintiff and Thomas Papillon Esq is the Defendant And this Gent. is in a special Action upon the Case wherein the Plaintiff does declare That whereas the 12th of Februaery in the 35th Year of this King and before and after for several Months then next ensuing he was Mayor of the City of London being duly elected and sworn into the Office of Mayoralty of the said City and according to the Custom of the said City time out of mind he ought daily to attend the said Office in the diligent Government of the said City according to the Duty of his said Office which he was to execute to the Honour and Dignity belonging thereunto That the Defendant Thomas Papillon being one of the Commonalty of the said City and under the Government of the Plaintiff by virtue of his Office aforesaid not being ignorant of the Premises but contriving and falsly and maliciously envying the happy Estate of the Plaintiff in his said Office as also unjustly to disturb the Plaintiff in the Execution of his said Office the said 12th day of February in the 35th Year aforesaid the Defendant for vexation to the Plaintiff not having any lawful or probable Cause of Action against the Plaintiff falsly and maliciously did prosecute the King 's Writ of alias Capias out of the Court of King's Bench against the

Plaintiff by the Name of Sir William Pritchard Knight directed to the then Coroner of the City of London by which Writ it was commanded the said Coroner to take the Plaintiff if found within the said City and safely keep him so as to have his Body before that Court at Westminster upon Wednesday next after 15 days of Easter then next following to answer the now Defendant in a Plea of Trespass And that the Defendant of his further Malice against the Plaintiff afterwards and before the return of the Writ to wit upon the 24th day of April in the 35th Year aforesaid at London to wit in the Parish of St. Mildred the Virgin in the Poultry in the Ward of Cheap London delivered the said Writ of alias Capias to one John Brome Gent. then being Coroner of the said City to be executed and then and there the Plaintiff then being Mayor of the said City by virtue of that Writ maliciously and unjustly did procure to be taken and arrested and detained in Prison under the Custody of the said Coroner for the space of six hours to the Disgrace and Scandal of the Plaintiff and his said Office as also to the manifest Damage Prejudice and Grievance of the Plaintiff Whereas in Truth and in Fact the Defendant at the time of the taking arresting and detaining of the Plaintiff in Prison as aforesaid had not any just or probable Cause of Action against the Plaintiff in the Premises whereby the Plaintiff says he is injured and which he lays to his Damage 10000 l. To this the Defendant has pleaded Not Guilty If we that are of Counsel for the Plaintiff shall prove this matter unto you Gentlemen that we have laid in the Declaration that has been opened unto you you are to find for the Plaintiff and I hope will repair him in Damages for this Affront and Injury Mr. Attorn Gen. May it please your Lordship and you Gentlemen of the Jury I am of Counsel in this Case for the Plaintiff and this Action is brought Gentlemen to vindicate the Honour of the Chair from such Affronts as these which in no Age till of late days our Times of Faction and Confusion it ever met with That by a Person that is a Citizen of London and one of the Commonalty that ought to have paid Submission to the Lord Moyor as his Chief Magistrate and was bound so to do by his Oath as a Free-man should without Cause of Suit arrest the Lord Mayor of the City That there was no probable Cause is evident by his not proceeding in the Action that he had thus brought But Gentlemen we shall shew you in the course of our Evidence that there lay a further Malice in this Case and that there was a Design in it against the Government For we shall give you Evidence that this Design was laid to carry on the great Plot against the Lives of the King and his Brother and for the Subversion of the Government For they contrived it so that they would imprison the Mayor and then thought they the Loyal Citizens will interpose to rescue him and then the Party should rise to assist the Officer he having the Countenance of Authority and being in the Execution of the King's Writ especially if it be considered then who was Coroner and so a publick Commotion would be made a general Mutiny and that would be a fit Opportunity in the Confusion of the City wanting its Chief Governor of doing what they designed Gentlemen we shall prove all that is laid in the Declaration and likewise that the End of this Business was to have had a Commotion for the accomplishing their great Conspiracy as has been opened That Sir William Pritchard was arrested in his Mayoralty I suppose will be agreed or else we shall prove it Mr. Ward Yes yes we agree it Mr. Sol. Gen. Then we will go on and prove the manner of it Swear Mr. Gorges and Mr. Keeling which was done Mr. Keeling pray will you tell my Lord and the Jury were you made a special Bayliff to arrest Sir William Pritchard when he was Lord Mayor and what did you do upon it tell all you know of it and what was designed by it Keeling My Lord all that I do know of it is this It was upon the 24th day of April I have the Warrant here to shew I met with Mr. Goodenough at Mr. Russel's the Cook in Ironmonger-Lane and several others were there and I went away a little while and came again While I was gone from them they put my Name into the Warrant and upon that Warrant I did arrest Sir William Pritchard who was then Lord Mayor at the Suit of Mr. Thomas Papillon I suppose this is the Gentleman pointing to the Defendant I had no Order for it from Mr. Papillon nor ever spoke with him about it but I had Order from the Coroner who upon the arresting of him took my Lord Mayor into his Custody Mr. Attorn Gen. Where was my Lord Mayor then Keeling At Grocers-Hall Mr. Attorn Gen. Was that the place he kept his Mayoralty in Keeling Yes it was so Mr. Sol. Gen. What was he doing when you arrested him Keeling There was some Disturbance upon it among the Officers and People there The Coroner came up to him and said Sir I have a Writ against you I pray you would please to give an Appearance at the Suit of Mr. Thomas Papillon and another at the Suit of Mr. John Dubois and some words there past between him and the Coroner and my Lord Mayor refusing to give any Appearance the Coroner Mr. Brome bid us execute our Warrants upon which I came up to my Lord Mayor and touched him upon the Shoulder and said I arrest you at the Suit of Thomas Papillon Esq and one Ferdinando Burley arrested him again at the Suit of Mr. John Dubois Mr. Attorn Gen. What did you do with him when you had arrested him Keeling The Coroner dismist us and as I take it carried him home to his House Mr. Att. Gen. What Instructions had you what to do in case he made any Resistance and did not submit to the Arrest Keeling I know of no Instructions about any such thing Mr. Soll. Gen. Who was by pray when Orders were given you to arrest my Lord Mayor Keeling Both the Goodenoughs Mr. Att. Gen. He in the Proclamation you mean and his Brother Keeling Yes Richard and Francis Goodenough Mr. Soll. Gen. And who else pray Keeling Several that I did not know Mr. Att. Gen. Can you remember any Body besides the Goodenoughs in particular Keeling There was one a Tallow-Chandler and a great many that I did not know Mr. Sol. Gen. How many do you think there were and where was it Keeling I believe there were about thirty or forty and it was at Russel's the Cooks in Ironmonger-lane Mr. Att. Gen. Did they all come along with you to Grocers-Hall to arrest my Lord Mayor Keeling No