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A25625 An Account of the proceeding to judgment against Thomas Saxton, who received sentence at the King's Bench-Bar on Friday the 12th of February, 1685, upon a conviction of willful perjury 1685 (1685) Wing A345; ESTC R286 1,170 1

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An Account of the PROCEEDING to Judgment against Thomas Saxton who Received Sentence at the King's Bench-Bar on Friday the 12th of February 1685. Upon a Conviction of willful Perjury in For-swearing himself against Henry Lord Delameer Barron of Meer in the County of Cheshire c. HERE STAND I FOR PERJURY A Mongst all the Projects and Contrivings of wicked Mer none are so dangerous as those of insnaring their Fellow Creatures by false Oaths nothing so horrid Detestable as to make the Justice of the Nation the Executor of their Reverge or Advantage as in Case of Perjury it has of late been too sadly manifested and had not an expedient been found to put a stop to the Carrier of those Consciences or at least to their effects who bogled not at the blackest Falshoods What Streams of Innocent Blood had been by this time shead What Iniquity of that kind had been lest unpracticed But God whose peculiar Care it is to protect the Innocent Winks not at such Villany nor leaves it unpunished in this World has been Evident but to pass over former Perjuries and Perjurors whom Justice has made examplar I shall proceed to give the Reader an Account of one lately Committed and of the due Punishment the Law has directed to be inflicted upon the false Swearer which take as followeth Thomas Saxton a Person taken in the late Western Rebellion amongst other Persons having accused Henry Lord Delameer Barron of Meer in the County of Cheshire of High-Treason in Conspiring the Death of the King by Leavying War and Raising Rebellion c. The said Lord was thereupon Apprehended and Committed to the Tower of London and taking his Tryal upon an Indictment found upon the Oath of Saxton he was by his Peers acquitted in the open Hall of Westminster upon the 14th of January last and uppon that Tryal it appearing that Saxton was Perjured an Information was exhibited against him by his Majesty's special Command for wilful Perjury and he upon his Arraignment pleading not Guilty was on the 8th of February a second time brought to the King's-Bench-Bar and there puting himself upon the Jury for his Tryal the Juror upon full proof of his manifest Perjury found him Guilty without going from the Bar whereupon he was Remanded to Newgate and from thence on the 12th of February brought by a Rule of Count in order to receive his Sentence where having nothing material to offer in his own Defence after he had been heard to what ever he pretended on that occasion the Court proceeded to pass Se●rence as thus That he the said Thomas Saxton for his willful Perjury of which he had been sairly and fully Convicted should stand on and in the Pillory on Saturday the 13th of February before Westminster Hall On the 15th of February to stand on and in the Pillory at Temple Bar. On the 16th of February to be Whipt at the Carts Tail from Ludgate to Westminster On the 17th to stand on and in the Pillory before the Royal Exchange On the 19th to be Whipt from Newgate to Tyburn and Fined Five Hundred Marks And thus we see Justice meet with those that seek by unlawful ways the Ruin of others whether through Malice or by an incitement to self preservation FINIS This may be Printed February the 15th 1685. R. P. LONDON Printed by E. Mollet next Door to Mr Shiptons Coffee-House near Fleet-Bridge