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lord_n	esquire_n	sir_n	william_n	33,990	5	9.6455	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63205	The tryal of William Staley, goldsmith for speaking treasonable words against His Most Sacred Majesty and upon full evidence found guilty of high treason : and received sentence accordingly, on Thursday, November the 21th, 1678.	Staley, William, d. 1678, defendant.	1678 (1678)	Wing T2237; ESTC R228446	8,697	14

THE TRYAL OF WILLIAM STALEY Goldsmith For Speaking Treasonable Words Against His Most Sacred MAJESTY And upon Full Evidence found Guilty of HIGH TREASON And received Sentence accordingly on Thursday November the 21 th 1678. LONDON Printed for Robert Pawlet at the Bible in Chancery-Lane near Fleetstreet 1678. November 20. 1678. I Do appoint Robert Pawlet to Print the Tryal of William Staley and that no other presume to Print the same WILLIAM SCROGGS THE TRYAL OF WILLIAM STALEY Goldsmith For Treasonable Words Upon which he was Condemned for High Treason Nov. 21. 1678. MR. Staley being accused of High Treason was on the 20th day of November 1678. brought from Newgate and arraigned at the Kings Bench Bar and the next day was brought to the same place to receive his Tryal where being come and the Jury Impannelled the Court told the Prisoner that if he would challenge any of the Jury he must speak unto them as they came to the Book to be sworn and before they were sworn the Prisoner challenging none the Jury were sworn viz JURY Sir Phillip Matthews Sir Reginald Foster Sir John Kirke Sir John Cutler Sir Richard Blake John Bifield Esquire Simon Middleton Esquire Thomas Cross Esquire Henry Johnson Esquire Charles Vmfrevile Esquire Thomas Eaglesfield Esquire William Bohee Esquire The Indictment Read You stand Indicted by the name of William Staley c. Cryer If any can give Evidence on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King against William Staley let him come forth and he shall be heard Sir Creswel Levins The Prisoner stands Indicted as not having the Fear of God before his Eyes being led by the Instigation of the Devil not minding his Allegiance but Traiterously endeavouring the Death and Destruction of our Sovereign Lord the King he did on November the 14th in the thirtieth year of the King falsly wickedly and traiterously Compass Imagine Devise and Invent the Killing the King that he did maliciously contrive I say the Death of our Lord the King of England To this he hath pleaded Not Guilty You are to try whether he be guilty or not Kings Serjeant Maynard The Offence is as great as can be and will be prov'd as clear as can be Call the Witnesses to prove the Offence Attorn Gen. It would be fitting before we enter upon the Evidence to give some account why among so many Offenders some of them of greater Quality than William Staley we chose first to bring this man to Tryal It is not unknown to any man that lives in England what a Discovery there hath been of horrid and damnable Designs against the King's Person and the Protestant Religion There are a sort of men in the World that endeavour what they can to cry down this Discovery as that it was altogether Suppositious and a Fable It is true some are so charitable as to think the Roman Catholicks in England might endeavour to promote the Roman Catholick Religion but that they should have a Design against the Kings Person is a Fiction But they shall be convinced by the Tryal of this man that there was such a Design seeing the Prisoner even since the Discovery of this devilish Plot and after so many have been imprisoned for it doth persist in a Treasonable mind and a Trayterous attempt against the King's Person the clear Evidence of which is his speaking those words with which in the Indictment he is charged This Prisoner by Religion is a Roman Catholick he calls himself so in plain English he is a Papist and finding that since this Plot was discovered his trading decay'd being one that was a Banker for the Catholicks he grew enraged that their Money was called so fast for and being in the company of one Fromante a Foreigner at a Cook 's shop he takes notice of the discovery of the Plot being a very great well-wisher to it and enters into a great Passion and spake these words of the King That he was a great Heretick and the greatest Rogue in the World then holding up his hand he clapt it upon his Heart and said I would with this hand kill him my self These words were heard by two Gentlemen that were present but spoken in French William Carstaires a Witness Attorn Gen. Acquaint the Court and Jury what you know of any words spoken by the Prisoner about killing the King Witness So far as I know or can give an account it was about Eleven of the Clock in the day on the fourteenth day of this month he call'd for a pot of Ale and a slice of Rost Beef which when it was called for his Landlord said it should be brought him there was another Frenchman with Staley a stranger to me they discoursed together in French and Staley then said twice over The King was a grand Heretick making this Demonstration with his hand upon his Breast and stampt five or six times with his Foot in great Fury The old man Bartholomew Fromante his Friend said That the King of England was a Tormentor of the People of God and he answered again The King of England and repeated it again in a great Fury the King of England is a great Heretick and the greatest Rogue in the World there 's the Heart striking his hand on his Breast and here 's the Hand that would kill him my self and he said further the King and Parliament think all is over but the Rogues are mistaken Lord Chief Just Did you know Staley Witness No my Lord I had never seen him before L. Chief Just What did you do upon this Witness I did not know what to do being ignorant of the Laws of the Country I thought it was a great matter and being sensible that Staley was gone out I caused one to attend him and came to his Fathers Shop and looked up and down and the next day I apprehended him L. Chief Just Are you sure looking upon the Prisoner that was the man Witness Yes L. Chief Just Did you see him when he spake the words Witness Yes I saw him there was no more distance betwixt the two doors but just as far as that Gentleman and me his face was strait toward us L. Chief Just Were you in the same Room Witness No but just over against it the Doors were open L. Chief Just How near were you to him Witness Seven or eight foot from the place where I was and where he was He was standing at one door and I at the other In French the words were spoken he making a Demonstration stamping with his foot I would kill him my self which the Prisoner would have evaded by saying the words signifie I would kill my self The Prisoner farther said that the King and Parliament thought all was over but the Rogues were beguiled and deceived Alexander Sutherland Witness Mr. Sutherland Tell what you heard the Prisoner at the Bar say were you there Witness Yes L. Chief Just Which was nearest to him he or you Witness He was nearest to