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A33226	Clamor sanguinis, or, The Cry of blood being a short but true account of a barbarous and bloody assault made on Thursday night, the 15th of this instant April, 1680, on the body of John Arnold, Esq., one of His Majesties justices of the peace for the county of Monmouth, who at this instant lyes desparately wounded at his lodgings near Temple-bar, London.		1680 (1680)	Wing C4404; ESTC R35639	2,849	4

CLAMOR SANGVINIS OR THE CRY of BLOOD Being a Short but True ACCOUNT OF A Barbarous and Bloody Assault made on Thursday Night the 15th of this Instant April 1680. On the Body of John Arnold Esq One of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of MONMOVTH Who at this Instant lyes desparately Wounded at his Lodgings near Temple-Bar London The tender Mercies of the wicked are Cruelty THE great Creator made Man in his own Image and therefore forbad in his Holy and Righteous Law any attempt to be made for the destruction of him and was pleased early to provide for his safety by making it expresly Penal on whomsoever should shed Blood wilfully He that sheddeth mans blood by man shall his blood be shed Yet so miserably corrupted are our Natures that forgetting these Holy Commands almost every Week affords us sad and lamentable Examples of the Cry of Blood against our Land and amongst too many others we cannot but with horror particularly remember that infamous Murder committed by the Papists on that Vigilant Worthy and Renowned Justice Sir Edmondbury Godfrey whose remembrance ought never to be blotted out of the Memory of every Loyal Protestant and one of whose Successors in Vigilance and laborious Endeavours for Discovery of the Plot and obliging the audacious Papists to conform to the Kings Majesties Laws that Worthy Gentleman the subject of this present Discourse was Therefore to detain you no longer in an unnecessary preamble be pleased to know that John Arnold Esq One of His Majesties Justices of Peace for the County of Monmouth having been some years before the Discovery of the late horrid Plot esteemed a loyal and dutiful Subject and useful Person in his Countrey It pleased His Majesty to put him into the Commission of the Peace for the County where his Estate and Family is where his Demeanor was such in His Majesties service as was well approved by all except the Papists who were and yet are very numerous in that County against some of whom at the Assizes he had given Information and prosecuted as he was bound by his Oath and Duty of his place to perform yet so it was at that time that a little before the Plot brake out he was put out of Commission and coming to London was very desirous to understand his Offence and being informed that Coleman then a Servant to the Duke of York since Executed at Tyburn for the design to Murder the King and bring in Popery into this Nation c. had offered somewhat in his prejudice He went to the said Coleman desiring to know what he had to charge him withall for he was ready to answer any Misdemeanor before King and Council but received nothing else of an answer from him but insolent and sawcy language refusing to give him opportunity to speak with his Master and saying He was not at leasure to answer such a Fellow as he was which being spoke to a Gentleman of his worth you may well imagine could not but move him to some passion and amongst other expressions he parted with this fatal Oracle to Coleman Sirrah I shall live to see you hanged But suddenly after the Plots breaking out His Majesty was pleased to put Mr. Arnold again into a larger Commission than before since which it is abundantly known to all men how careful and painful he hath been in the Kings Service particularly in discovering the Jesuits Colledge Books and Popish Trinquets in Herefordshire which he by Order of Councel publickly caused to be Burnt Also his seizing and prosecuting Father Lewis that notorious Villain and Priest and divers others Also his earnest endeavour to inform the Judges against admitting Papist Grand Jurors in the Counties where they came These publick services for his King and Countrey you may well believe by this time of day had made him more Enemies of the Papist Party being frequently threatned by them to be murdered and particularly by one Evans which Evans was a Jesuit executed in the County of Clamorgan and who some time before his apprehension had threatned to pistol Mr. Arnold Yet it pleased God to preserve him from their fury till this instant time when having been at a Tavern with some Lawyers of his acquaintance near Temple-Bar in order to prepare himself to a trial of some matters that were the next day to be heard before King and Council and coming from thence about ten in the evening the 16th of this instant towards his Lodgings which were not far off the said Tavern when he came by Bell-yard near Jackanapes-lane end Four or Five Bloody Assassinates who no doubt had dogged him most part of the day as Justice Godfrey was coming close up to him on a sudden threw a large Campane Cloak over his head and muffled him up and at that instant thrust him into the dark part of the Lanes end where they villanously threw him down stamped on his breast and made more than twenty thrusts of their swords at him but not above seven took place on him by reason of a Wastcoat he wore to keep his body straight not as armour as is vainly reported made with stiff Whale-bone which in that hurry and in the dark they observing their swords would not enter to kill him dead cryed out The Rogue hath armour therefore cut the Dogs throat which immediately they attempted by giving him many dreadful slashes on both sides yet so as by Gods good providence cut not his Wind-pipe they only using these hellish expressions Damn ye Dog now pray for the Soul of Captain Evans But at that instant a Link-boy coming by they left the poor Gentleman miserably mangled yet living and carried to his Lodging not without some hopes of his recovery though extreme dangerous by reason of much loss of blood and those inhumane bruises Godfrey-like on his breast We must not forget that these bloody Villains were so intent on their cursed design that in the hurry they wounded one of their own Companions in the Leg which though escaped will we hope prove a good occasion of discovery and for that since the writing hereof his Majesty hath been pleased to issue out his Order of Council declaring 100 l. to the Discoverer and pardon for the fact to him that shall come in And thus we leave this worthy English-man to the care of his Chyrurgeons and desire if it might so please God he may yet recover to be a living Monument of their merciless Cruelty And in the mean time though we cannot point out his Murderers yet we verily believe they may be known by those marks that Reverend person gave of the inhumane Murderers of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey in his most excellent Funeral-Sermon for him and even before his Murderers were known May all true Protestants be awakened at this sad Catastrophe yet not discouraged but remember Admiral Coligni was shot in his Coach at Paris which proved but a dismal Prologue to that Parisian Massacre that followed some days after wherein he himself with many thousands of Protestants were most inhumanely butchered by the Papists And because we are on so sad a Theme we would not have it forgotten how Mr. Mowbray and Evidence for the King against the Plotters in York-shire was lately assaulted and stabbed as he passed Lincolns-Inn-fields and little less is daily done by those that stab the Kings Evidences in base Calumnies on their persons and reputations who have so clearly proved a Plot against the Kings Life and Kingdom by the Papists that both King Lords and Commons have declared a full satisfaction in it To conclude You have now seen the King stabb'd as it were in Effigie in Two of His Justices of the Peace in the space of little more than one year by these Sons of Violence to the great dishonour of God and against the Crown and Dignity of the King What remains but to beseech God to preserve his Anointed from these sons of Zerviah and to abhor their cursed and ungospel-like Religion and to be prepared to vindicate the Kings Honour and the Protestant Religion against all opposers To which we hope all good men will say AMEN LONDON Printed for R. Janeway 1680.