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A40537 A Full account of the tryal of Godfrey Cross for high treason in adhering to the King and Queen's enemies by giving intelligence to the French fleet : as also in endeavouring to depose them of their royal crown and dignity by raising rebellion and discord amongst Their Majesties liege subjects &c. : at the King's Bench Bar at Westminster on Friday the 21st day of November, annoque Dom. 1690. 1690 (1690) Wing F2273; ESTC R26733 4,005 2

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some who were on the Top of the Steeple That they saw the Boat coming from the Fleet ashoar and a Man landed about twelve a Clock at Noon on the said 6th of July and afterwards arming himself he raised the Town and coming to the Sea-side he found it to be Godfry Cross the Prisoner at the Bar whom he toook at some Rods Distance from the Shoar and said to him Neighbour Cross is not this a shameful thing of you to go a Board of an Enemy Did you go to give Intellence how our Town stood effected Or did you go to carry Letters Upon which the Prisoner gave him very abusive Language and said You one eyed Dog what have you to do c. After which he was seized and and carried to Lidd and examined by the Bayliff not denying the Matter charged against him Nor that he had not been on Board the Fleet but complained that he had lost his Mare Which was confirmed also by another Witness that help'd to apprehend him and that he had given a Crown to the Boatmen that set him 〈…〉 Shoar and that he had been a Board three or four Vessels of the French Fleet. There were two other Evidence who gave account of his Examination and that he did own to have been on Board the French Fleet And that he had brought two Letters from on Board the French Admiral written by Sir William Jennings which were found about him The first was directed to one Mr. Bryant Bowles of Deal the other to one Mr. Thomas Tedman a● Dover dated on Board the French Admiral and signed by Sir William Jennings The Contents of them were both to the same purport viz. To invite any of their Majesties Subjects to come on Board the Fleet and if they did they should have liberty to go back for they came not to hurt any Person but to protect all Loyal Subjects and to punish Rebellious ones For that the Fleet was as much the King of England 's as ever it was the French King's c. The Prisoner being ask'd What he had to say in his Defence against so home a Charge answered That he had but little to say but that he had always been a true Protestant and a Church of England-Man as he himself termed it and never did nor intended any harm to any one And that he had done no dammage so was willing to submit to the Judgment of the Court. Although when he was apprehended he pretended that he rode into the Water to look after some Boards that were floating there and the Men in the Boat asked him to drink a Drachm which he did And after two of the Men forced him off his Horse into the Boat but was looked upon as a feigned Excuse But in the Conclusion a further Proof was brought against him which was omitted through Inadvertency viz. That when he was on Board the French Admiral Sir William Jennings asked him In what Posture the Nation was to which he the Prisoner replyed That for the Town they had affrighted most of the People out of it and the rest were making provision for themselves Or Words to the like effect c. The King's Councel after this made several Reflection upon the hainousness of the Crime and that his going on Board to the King's Enemies Fleet and giving them Intelligence was a manifest Token of his adhering to them so consequently must be found High Treason although the Court seemed to be of the contrary Opinion at the first and that it was but a Misdemeanour But after the Councel had pleaded it further the Lord Chief Justice summ'd up the Evidence in a particular and distinct Manner to the Gentlemen of the Jury telling them That if they did believe that he went voluntarily on Board and did bring those Letters from Sir William Jennings and that they were to perswade Men to forsake their Allegiance and to endeavour to restore the late King and to assist all those that were for the Late King Then they must find him Guilty But if he did this ignorantly and not to seduce the King's Subjects from their Allegiance then they must find him Not Guilty c. After which the Jury withdrew for the space of about a quarter of an Hour and returning they brought him Guilty of High-Treason Licensed November 22 d 1690. LONDON Printed for Langley Curtiss near Fleet-bridge 1690.