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A75089 An account how the Earl of Essex killed himself in the Tower of London, the 13th. of July 1683 As it appears by the coroners inquest, and the several informations following. Farnham, E. aut 1683 (1683) Wing A176; ESTC R229465 2,920 4

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AN ACCOUNT How the Earl of Essex Killed Himself in the Tower of London The 13th of July 1683. As it appears by the Coroners Inquest and the several Informations following THe Information of Paul Bomeny Servant to the Earl of Essex for about three or four years now last past taken upon Oath the fourteenth Day of July Anno Regni Caroli Secundi Dei Gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defensoris c. Tricesimo Quinto Annoque Domini 1683. SAith That when my Lord came to Captain Hawley which was the 11. Instant my Lord of Essex asked him for a Pen-Knife to Pare his Nails as he was wont to do to which this Informant answered Being come in haste he had not brought it but he would send for one and accordingly sent the Footman with a Note for several things for my Lord amongst which the Pen-Knife was inserted and the Footman went and gave the Bill to my Lords Steward who sent the Provisions but not the Pen-Knife and he told the Footman he would get one the next day When the Footman was come my Lord asked if the Pen-Knife was come This Informant answered No but he should have it the next day and accordingly he on the twelfth Instant in the morning before my Lord of Essex was up this Informant sent the Footman home with a Note to the Steward in which amongst other things he asked for a Pen-Knife for my Lord and when the Footman was gone about or a little after eight of the Clock My Lord sent one Mr. Russel his Warder to this Informant who came and then he asked him if the Pen-Knife was come This Informant said No my Lord but I shall have it by and by to which my Lord said That he should bring him one of his Rasours it would do as well And then this Informant went and fetched one and gave it to my Lord Who then went to Pare his Nails and then this Informant went out of the Room into the Passage by the Door on Friday the thirteenth Instant and begun to talk with the Warder and a little while after he went down Stairs and soon after came the Footman with the Provisions and brought also a Pen-Knife which this Informant put upon his Bed and thought my Lord had no more need of it because he thought he had Pared his Nails and then this Informant came up to my Lords Chamber about eight or nine in the Forenoon on Friday the thirteenth Instant with a little Note from the Steward but not finding his Lord in the Chamber went to the Close-stool Closet-Door and found it shut And he thinking his Lord was busie there went down and staid a little and came up again thinking his Lord had been come out of the Closet And finding him not in the Chamber he knocked at the Door with his Finger thrice and said my Lord But no body answering he took up the Hanging and looking through the Chink he saw Blood and a part of the Rasour Whereupon he called the Warder Russel and went down to call for help and the said Russel pushed the Door open and there they saw my Lord of Essex all along the Floor without a Periwig and all full of Blood and the Rasour by him And this Deponent further Deposeth That the Rasour now shewed to him at the time of his Examination is the same Rasour which he did bring to my Lord and which did lie on the Ground in the Closet by my Lord. BOMENY THe Information of Thomas Russel one of the Warders of the Tower who had the Custody of the Earl of Essex taken the Fourteenth day of July Anno Regni Caroli Secundi Dei Gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defensor ' c. Tricesimo Quinto Annoque Dom. 1683. SAith That on Friday the Thirteenth Instant about Eight or Nine of the Clock in the Forenoon he was present when he did hear the Lord of Essex call to his Man Mr. Bomeny for a Pen-knife to pare his nails and then for a Rasour which Mr. Bomeny brought him and then my Lord walked up and down the Room scraping his nails with the Rasour and shut the outward door Mr. Bomeny half a quarter of an hour afterwards not finding my Lord in his Bed-Chamber went down stairs again believing that my Lord was then private in his Closet Bomeny came up about a quarter of an hour afterwards and knocked at the door then called My Lord My Lord My Lord but he not answering peeped through a Chink of the door and did see the Earl of Essex lying on the ground in the Closet whereupon he did cry out That My Lord was faln down sick and then this Informant went to the Closet-door and opened it the Key being on the outside and then did see my Lord lye on the ground in his bloud his Throat being cut Thomas Russel THe Information of Robert Sherwood of Fanchurch Street Chyrurgion taken the Fourteenth day of July Anno Regni Caroli Secundi Dei Gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defensor ' c. Tricesimo Quinto Annoque Dom. 1683. SAith That he hath viewed the Throat of the Earl of Essex and does find that there is a large Wound and that the Aspera Arteria or Wind-pipe and the Gullet with the Jugular Arteries are all divided Of which Wound he certainly died Robert Sherwood THe Information of Robert Andrews of Crutchet Friers Chyrurgion taken upon Oath the Fourteenth day of July Anno Regni Caroli Secundi nunc Regis Anglia c. Tricesimo Quinto Annoque Dom. 1683. SAith That he hath viewed the Throat of the Lord of Essex and does find That it was cut from the one Jugular to the other and through the Wind-pipe and Gullet unto the Vertebres of the Neck both Jugular Veins being also quite divided Robert Andrews Tu●●● London ss AN Inquisition Indented Taken at the Tower of London in the County of Middlesex the Fourteenth day of July in the Five and Thirtieth Year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. Annoque Dom. 1683. before Edward Farnham Esq Coroner of the said Lord the King of the Liberty of the Tower of London upon view of the Body of Arthur Earl of Essex then and there lying Dead by the Oaths of Daniel Colwell Esq William Fisher Thomas Godfel Esq Thomas Hunt Nathaniel Mountney Esq Thomas Potter William How Robert Burgoine Eleazar Wiggins Thomas Hoggsflesh Henry Crips Richard Rudder William Knips John Hudson John Kittlebeater Lancolet Colson Morgan Cowarn Thomas Bryan William Thaxton Richard Cliffe Zebadia Richard William Bayford and Theophilus Charter good and lawful men of the Liberty of the Tower of London aforesaid who being Charged and Sworn to enquire how and in what manner the said Arthur Earl of Essex came to his Death upon their Oaths say that the aforesaid Arthur Earl of Essex the thirteenth day of July in the said five and thirtieth year of His now Majesties Reign at the said Tower of London in the said County of Middlesex about the ninth hour of the same day in the Forenoon not having God before his Eyes but being moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil of his Malice fore-thought at the Tower of London aforesaid in the said County of Middlesex then and there being alone in a Closet with one Rasour of the value of one shilling Voluntarily and Feloniously Cut his Throat and did thereby give himself one Mortal Wound it being cut from the one Jugular to the other and through the Wind-pipe and Gullet unto the Vertebres of the Neck both Jugular Veins being also quite Divided of which said Mortal Wound the said Arthur Earl of Essex instantly Died and thus the aforesaid Jurors upon their Oaths say That the aforsaid Arthur Earl of Essex in Manner and Form aforesaid did Voluntarily and Feloniously as Felo de se Kill and Murther himself against the Peace of our Lord the King His Crown and Dignity In Witness whereof as well I the said Coroner as the Jurors aforesaid to this Inquisition have put our Hands and Seals the Day and Year abovesaid Vera Copia Examin'cum Originali Per E. FARNHAM Edinburgh Re-printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to His most Sacred Majesty 1683.