Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	constable_n	justice_n	warrant_n	3,871	5	9.8211	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62926	God's revenge against murther demonstrated in the apprehension, prosecution & execution of Henry Symbal and William Jones, for the inhumane murther of Richard Sandford Baronet, murthered by them the 8th of Septemb., 1675.	Tonge, John, 17th cent.	1680 (1680)	Wing T1882; ESTC R16840	11,346	24

his Warrant he should have the Murtherers secured for the Reward promised upon which the Chief Justie not being in Town he procured a Warrant from one of the Judges of the Kings-Bench and so meeting the persons at the place appointed upon Discourse with them found that their Pretentions were nothing but Air and he leaning upon his Arm to consider of the matter immediately thought with himself the Murtherers were certainly fled and that these people were set on work with design to Amuze him and cause him to spend his time and money whilest the Murtherers might the more easily make their escape he leaving a Friend or two with them to keep them Company fancying that if the Murtherers were gone a Gentleman of his acquaintance must know of their going and be instrumental in assisting them to make their escape both which Suggestions proved true though it was done without any other ground but his own Imagination So going to enquire after that Gentleman he chanced into a House where the Murtherers Lodged that very night they had committed the Fact where he was told That Symbal had received a wound in his Breast by knowledg of which they were at Wallingford discovered to the Persuer He meeting with the Gentleman whom he went to look after charged him positively with his assisting the Murtherers in making their Escape which though the Gentleman denied at first yet after some time he said they were gone and that he had helped them away The Prosecutor asked him which way they were gone saying he resolved to follow them the other Answered him that he had hired them an Oyster Vessel at Billingsgate for ten Guineas to carry them to Callis and that they set Sail on Monday Morning betwixt four and five a Clock and that he see them down the River and said he hoped they were in France by that time which he said to deceive the Prosecutor that he might look no more after them But the Prosecutor as it were by Inspiration suspecting the Truth of this plausible Story which most men would have been satisfied withal told him peremptorily that he knew they were not gone that way but over Land and that if he would not Discover the Truth to him he would take him before a Magistrate and Charge him with the Fact and when he saw there was nothing but a Prison for him if he did not confess the Truth rather than go to Newgate he did acknowledg what he had said was false and that he did it on purpose to cause the Prosecutor to forbear further Search and that he did believe they were fled into the Country but whither he knew not for he left them at a Tavern on Sunday night in a great fear lest they should be discovered to the Prosecutor who had promised such a Reward for the Apprehending of them And so the Prosecutor satisfied with this took the Gentleman along with him and went to the Tavern where they were on Sunday night and that he might the better inform himself he pretended to be Symbals Uncle a Brewer which he did least they knowing him to be the Prosecutor should not discover the Truth to him and enquiring for the Master of the House he not being within asked for his Wife and told her that his name was Symbal and that he was Uncle to that unfortunate young man who it was said had killed the Person of Quality in White Friars on Wednesday last at night and that he had an account that Mr. Francis the Master of that house had been very civil to his Nephew and his Comrade and had assisted them to make their Escape the particulars whereof he was come to be satisfied in from his own mouth that he might better be able to acknowledg and gratifie the kindness done for said he if they be taken they are dead men Upon which the Gentlewoman Replied We hear indeed that the Prosecutor is a very severe man and will follow them very close but I hope they are now out of his way for my Husband hired them a Coach and went with them to Barnet and there sold them a Mare and hired them two Horses and a Guide But the Prosecutor asking which way they went from Barnet she Answered she did not know but her Husband would be within presently who would give a better account The Prosecutor sitting down expecting the Master of the Houses return and staying there till ten of the Clock at Night and the other not coming home he was directed to go to the Sign of the Ship in the Old-Baily and there the Prosecutor being known was necessitated to take his own name again for finding Francis there and being informed that he had been that day with Symbal the Brewer receiving money for the Mare that he had sold the Murtherers the Prosecutor going in told Francis who he was and charged him with assisting the Murtherers to make their escape from him and desired Francis to let him know which way they were gone that if possible he might find some means to Retrive them but Francis denying that he knew any thing of them and giving the Prosecutor scurrillous Language he having neither Warrant nor Constable ready he procured a Coach to be brought to the dore and forcing Francis into it took him before a Justice of the Peace who making his Mittimus to send him to Newgate he confest his conveying them to Barnet as is before described and that they went away from London about four a Clock on Monday Morning the tenth day of September and that at Barnet besides that they bought of him they hired two Horses more and a Guide for two days Journey outward without naming any place they would go to but gave Security for the return of the Guide and Horses upon the Thursday night following and upon the Wednesday Morning the Prosecutor went to Barnet and there he was informed that upon Monday in the Morning the Murtherers called at Gibbon near Bel-bar and enquired for one Cooke who was lately come out of Ireland and was upon the returning thither again but not meeting with him there after some stay at the Sign of the Bell at Bel-bar they proceeded on their Journey and went to Hatfield and so to Welling and then crossed the Countrey to Dunstable and kept that Road until they came to the Gibbit two miles beyond Fenny-Stratford and then left that Road crossing the Country went through Whadden-chace to a little Town called Horrod and from thence to Thame and so to Wallingford where they were Apprehended and at first denied their names but the Persuer telling Symbal that if he was not wounded in such a place viz. in the Breast then he was not the man he did look after and going to search for the Wound Symbal did acknowledg he was the man and confessed the Fact from thence they were sent to Reading-Goal and by Habeas Corpus removed to Newgate London It is worth Observation how they did cross