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A63398 A true and impartial account of the Duke of Monmouth's being taken into custody, and his putting in bail before Judge Raymond September 25, 1682 1682 (1682) Wing T2491; ESTC R5984 2,958 6

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A True and Impartial ACCOUNT OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH's Being taken into Custody and his putting in Bail before Judge Raymond September 25. 1682. THe following Narrative is not calculated with a design to inflame parties or to please the humor or to raise the credit of one separate Interest by false Flourishes and Insinuations and by raising injurious Inferences and Consequences thereupon but an innocent endeavour to gratifie the inquisitive by a true and full Relation of the manner how his Grace the Duke of Monmouth was taken into Custody which has been a surprize to the minds of many who we know have an earnest desire to be satisfied with the particular Account of that whole Affair And in the management of this Narrative 't will be superfluous to give the Read●r the particular Transactions of his Grace's Progress towards the Western parts of this Kingdom for that may be had in most of the Intelligences but I shall contain my self within the Limits of relating those most eminent passages that happened from September the 16th the Date of the Warrant for his Graces Apprehension to September 25. when his Grace put in Bail But that the Reader may clearly understand the whole I must remind him of what he has read in Print of the Duke's being present at several Horse-Races this year and among the rest this at Wallis in Cheshire where he won the Plate and a great deal of Applause and a great Concourse of People as well attending his Grace there as following him elsewhere Information was given in to his Majesty of several Riotous and Tumultuous Assemblies caused by his Grace whereupon a Warrant was issued out from Sir L. Jenkins one of his Majesties Principal Secretaries of State to Attach his Grace Duke of Monmouth Dated Sept. 15th 1682. and directed to one of his Majesties Serjeants at Arms which being delivered to the said Mr. Serjeant he applied himself with all expedition to find his Grace and was made acquainted that his Grace did bend his Journey towards Newcastle under Line whither he also steered his Course receiving Information that on Sunday the 17th his Grace was at the Earl of Maxfield's and on Monday Sept. 18 his Grace came to Trentham where he supped and also dined the next day being Sept 19. and the same day went to Newcastle where 't is supposed he ●●ay that night And on Wednesday the 20th his Grace came to Stafford on his Journey towards London where also the same day came the Serjeant at Arms having pursued his Journey with all imaginable diligence and understanding that his Grace with his Retinue had alighted at a private House in the Heart of the Town being a Mercers he went thither and found His Grace in a very spacious Room with such Provisions as the House could afford with several eminent Gentlemen of that and other Counties that usually attend those Recreations that are held at such sea●ons of the year He made up to his Grace and delivered his Message who received it with that deportment as is suitable to men of his Figure in the world His Grace desired to see his Warrant which was under the Hand of Sir L. Jenkins Knight one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council and Principal Secretary of State and was to this effect WHereas His Majesty hath received Information that James Duke of Monmouth hath lately appeared in several parts of this Kingdom with great Numbers of People in a riotous and unlawful manner to the disturbance of the Publick Peace and to the Terror of his Majesties good Subjects These are therefore in His Majesties Name and by his special Command to will and require you forthwith to repair to any place where you shall understand the said Duke of Monmouth to be and him forthvvith to apprehend and bring in safe Custody before me or any of the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council to answer to such things as on His Majesties behalf shall be objected to him the said Duke of Monmouth and for so doing this shall be your VVarrant and all Mayors Sheriffes Constables and all others His Majesties Officers are hereby required to be herein aiding assisting to you as they will answer the contrary at their Peril To John Ramsey Esquire one of His Majesties Serjeants at Arms. Which Warrant his Grace having read He readily and chearfully submitted to and immediately repaired towards London and that very night Lodged at Coesell in Warwickshire The next day being Thursday September the 21. His Grace departed thence and came about noon to Coventry where notwithstanding Mr. Sergeant took all the care possible to prevent any disorders or tumults but it being bruited abroad that his Grace was under restrictions the multitude gathered thick and broke out into several shouts and acclamations They departed after a very short stay and came that night to Tocester in Northamptonshire where his Grace lay But here very late at night a Drummer would needs entertain His Grace with a point of War and would not be perswaded to desist though he was told he disturbed His Grace's rest till Mr. Serjeant was forced to exert his Authority and commanded him to leave off or to do the contrary at his peril September the 22. His Grace came to St. Albans and there Lodged In the mean while Sr. Thomas Armstrong had hastened to London and procured an Habeas Corpus from Judg Raymond with which he met his Grace at St. Albans Whereupon there arose a considerable Debate between His Grace the Duke of Monmouth His Councel and the Serjeant at Arms whether the Habeas Corpus should supercede the Warrant or not but the Serjeant at Arms managing that Affair with great prudence perswaded His Grace to appear at White Hall which he did the 23. instant being Saturday before Sr. Lionel Jenkins where he refusing to be examined by him was recommitted by a second Warrant to the same Serjeant at Arms the Substance whereof is to this purpose WHereas James Duke of Monmouth now remains a Prisoner in your Custody for several Riots by Him committed and hath been required to find Sureties which he hath refused You the said Serjeant are required to keep the said Duke in custody till he shall find Sureties to keep the Peace till the first day of next Michaelmas Term or be discharged according to Law And so abiding in durance Saturday Sunday and part of Monday at Serjeant Ramsey's House in York Buildings in the Strand where his Grace was visited by several persons of Eminent Quallity He was on Monday in the forenoon presented to Judg Raymond where the Serjeant at Arms made this following Return on both the Warrants to the Writ of Habeas Corpus according to the Statute in that case provided The Substance whereof you have here translated for your better understanding I John Ramsey Esq one of the Serjeants of our Lord the King at Arms Thomas Raymond Knight one of the Justices of our Lord the King to a Plea before the said King to be held and assigned in these Writs and the Scedule annexed are mention'd Humbly certifying that before the coming of these Writs to me directed to wit the twentieth day of September in the year of the Raign of our Lord the King Charles the Second that now is King of England c. the thirty fourth Year I have taken the Body of the within named James Duke of Monmouth in the aforesaid Writs mentioned by virtue of a certain Warrant the Tenor whereof you have read before And this is the Cause of the Taking and Detaining of the aforesaid James Duke of Monmouth whose Body before the said Judge Raymond the day and place in the aforesaid Writ mentioned is ready to have as by these Writs is intended and to me is directed The Judg thereupon accepted Bail to two several Recognizances on the several Warrants the Duke in a Recognizance of ten thousand pound and his five Sureties two thousand pound each on the first Recognizance and three thousand pound a piece on the second Recognizance which Bayl were the Earl of Clare Lord Russel Lord Grey of Wark Levison Gower Esq and John Offsey Esq And thus you have the best Account that can be given of Matter of Fact in reference to the late Business of the Duke of Monmouth which was the whole design of this Paper to inform the Readers knowledg thereabout And let him if he thinks fit draw from thence what Inferences and Conclusions he please which will not be decided untill Michaelmas Term next LONDON Printed for Alexander Johnson 1682.