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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28146	The bill of indictment exhibited against John Giles, on Wednesday the 14th instant, for his barbarous attempt upon the body of Justice Arnold together with the sentence he received ...	Giles, John, of Usk.	1680 (1680)	Wing B2894; ESTC R1195	3,441	4

THE Bill of Indictment Exhibited against JOHN GILES On Wednesday the 14th instant For his Barbarous ATTEMPT upon the Body Of Justice ARNOLD For which he was then Tryed and found Guilty Together with The Sentence he received on Saturday last being the 17th instant As also what happened concerning Mr. HERBERT in reference to the said Justice ARNOLD MR. John Giles being suspected for having been one of those that made the late Barbarous and Inhumane Attempt upon the person of John Arnold Esq one of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Monmouth last April in Jackanapes-lane neer Temple●bar after the indefatigable care of Edmund Warcup Esq to little effect here in Town by the farther diligence of the Justices of the Peace in the Country the Justice of Heaven still pursuing the Malefactor was upon several Informations and strong presumptions at length apprehended in Monmouthshire upon his Apprehension Mr. Arnold very ill and weak of the Wounds and Bruises he had received took a Journey from his House to see and speak with the said John Giles whom he had no sooner seen and heard speak but he positively upon Oath charg'd him to be guilty of the Crime of which he was before onely suspected Thereupon he the said John Giles was brought up to London to be Tryed for the Fact in order to which he was brought to the Bar at the Sessions-house in the Old-Bailey upon Wednesday the 14th of this instant July 1680 where the Jury being Sworn by the Names of Christopher Plucknet William Dod Anthony Nurse John Burton Nathan Goodwin George Wood James Partridge Lawrence Wood John Bradshaw William Withers Edward Probie Richard Bromfield The Indictment THe Jurors for our Lord the King upon their Oaths do present That John Giles late of the Parish of St. Dunstans in the West in the County of Middlesex Gent. not having God before his eyes but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil contriving and maliciously by a most wicked Conspiracy with divers other Malefactors to the Jurors unknown forethought and had intending one John Arnold Esq a faithful Subject to the King and oné of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Monmouth inhumanely to Maime Wound Kill and Murder the 15th of April in the Thirty second year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. with the said Malefactors unknown at the Parish of St. Dunstans in the West aforesaid in the County of Middlesex aforesaid in and upon him the said John Arnold then and there being in the peace of God and the King voluntarily and of his malice forethought with force and Arms that is to say with Swords Staves and Knives of design and by lying in wait did make an Assault and him the said John Arnold did then and there Beat Wound Maim and evilly intreat and the Throat and Face of him the said John Arnold did grievously cut with a certain Knife also divers almost Mortal Wounds then and there to the said John Arnold that is to say one Wound of the depth of seven Inches in his Body between his Belly and his left Pap two Wounds upon his Breast and two Wounds in his Left Arm with certain Swords then and there did give and impose so that 't was despair'd of the said John Arnolds Life and other enormities then and there unto him did bring to the great damage of the said John Arnold and against the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity After a full hearing of the Evidence on both sides the Jury withdrew and having debated together about half an hour returned and brought the Prisoner in Guilty Which done the Court Adjourned till the Saturday following the 17th of July at which time the Court being sate John Giles was brought to the Bar to whom the Right Worshipful Sir George Jefferies the Worthy Recorder of the City of London delivered himself to this effect The RECORDERS Speech to John Giles YOu the Prisoner at the Bar you have been Indicted for a very vile Offence an Offence in its nature that deserves a greater Punishment than the Law does inflict upon any such Offences There is a Jury has convicted you of this Crime against whom had you any Objection you might have made your Challenge And now you stand Convicted here It is only the Duty of the Court to pronounce that Judgment against you which they think may be reasonable to inflict upon such an Offender And I must needs say it was one of the basest and barbarous Actions that Mankinde could possibly be guilty of and it was an action of so much filth and baseness that the Law could not foresee any man would be guilty of and therefore hath not made provision for a Punishment proportionable to it But inasmuch as we understand by Mr. Arnold's motion to the Right Honourable the Lord Major you have a charge of Children therefore the Court takes some consideration not that they think to extend any Mercy to you for your own sake But Clemency they they think they are bound to have for those that have not offended but with regard too as they ought to have a care that things of this nature be not only intended as a Punishment to the Offendor but as a means to terrifie all other people from being guilty of such extraordinary Villanies And because they will have a regard to your posterity therefore they do not think fit to put so great a Fine upon you as this Fault does deserve But on the other side they have thought fit you should be made an Example and that your own Corpse should have as great a Punishment as the Law will allow And therefore in the name of the Court I do pronounce this to be your Sentence The Court does think fit that you be put upon the Pillory towards Lincolns-Inne fields as near to the place where this barbarous Fact was committed as may be and there you are to stand from the Hour of Twelve till One one day at Noon-day And at another day from the hour of Twelve till One over against Grays Inne in Holborne And another day between the same Hours just by the May-pole in the Strand These three several days you are to stand upon the Pillory and to have a Paper put upon your Hat wherein shall be signified to all People that come by the Offence of which you stand Convicted And next to deterre all others from committing the like the Court does think fit likewise to award That you should pay to the King the Sum of Five Hundred Pound and that you be Committed till such time as you pay that Money And because it is to be both a Punishment to you and a Determent to all others from committing such Villanies as these are you are to finde good Sureties for your good Behaviour during Life Sentence being pronounc'd and the Prisoner remov'd from the Bar Rich. Cavenagh was brought to the Bar and prayed to be Discharged but was by Mr. Arnold charged with threatning of one Philip Staneright one of the Kings Witnesses for which reason and for that also a new Evidence was come in against the said Cavenagh with some farther charge relating to Mr. Arnold's business the Court thought fit for want of Bail to continue him a Prisoner Then Mr. Herbert appeared and prayed to be Discharged from his Recognizance to appear at the Old-Baily but being accused by a Woman for calling her Whore Jade and very ill Names and holding up his Staff at her and threatning to beat her for being a Witness against his Friend Gyles as also for taking away her Horses as she was going to the Mill and the reason was because she was to be a Witness at London against Gyles But she being a married Woman and none appearing that would be bound to prosecute him for it he was not bound over to answer it till another Complaint came in against him Which was immediately made by Mr. Ballard and another Gentleman who charged Mr. Herbert that in Whitsun-week last upon a discourse about choosing Knights of the Shire for Monmouth and the saying of one in the company that 't was thought Mr. Arnold would stand for it Mr. Herbert should make answer I will circumcize the other side of his Cheek first or He must have the other side of his Cheek circumcized first Upon which the Court ordered he should not be Discharg'd but remain bound upon the former Recognizance to appear there next Sessions and the Court gave him several sharp Reprehensions for his malicious and unmanly words and proceedings This being the second of the King's Witnesses and a Woman that he had barbarously treated still passionately giving the reason that they were Witnesses against his Friend John Giles as it was proved on Oath before the Court by several Witnesses Then Sir Thomas Allen acquainted the Court that a Gentleman had inform'd him the day before that Mr. Herbert told him that Mr. Arnold wounded himself and cut his own Throat which the Court lookt upon as an high Effect of a malicious Ingratitude Mr. Arnold having besought his Majesty when Mr. Herbert was in Newgate to have his Release Mr. Arnold replied that Mr. Herbert had been more ungrateful to his Majesty who had graciously pardon'd him greater Offences and lately for he had spoken worse of his Majesties Person and Government than he had done of him as it had been proved before his Majesty and of which he believed his Majesty was well satisfied The Court told Mr. Herbert he was a shame to all English men and bound him by Recognizance to appear and answer this Offence at the Kingsbench-Bar the first Day of the next Term. FINIS