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B17222	The arraignment, tryal, and condemnation of Sir William Parkins Knt. for the most horrid and barbarous conspiracy to assassinate His Most Sacred Majesty King William, and for raising of forces in order to a rebellion, and encouraging a French invasion into this kingdom: who was found guilty of high-treason, March 24 1695/6 at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily: together with a true copy of the papers delivered by Sir William Parkins, and Sir John Friend to he sheriffs of London and Middlesex, at the time of their execution.	Parkyns, William, Sir, 1649?-1696.; Friend, John, Sir, d. 1696.; England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex)	1696 (1696)	Wing A3760; ESTC R11595	77,090	51

said other Traytors in this Kingdom of England to signify report and declare in Assistance Animation and Aid of the said Enemies of our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is in the War aforesaid and to stir up and procure those Enemies the more readily and boldly this Kingdom of England to Invade the Treasons and Traytorous Contrivances Compassings Imaginations and Purposes of you the said Sir William Parkyns aforesaid to perfect and fulfil and all the Premises the sooner to execute manage and perform and the Invasion aforesaid to render and make the more easy you the said Sir William Parkyns afterwards to wit the 10th day of February in the year abovsaid at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid and divers other days and times as well before as after there and elsewhere in the same County Falsly Maliciously Advisedly Secretly Traiterously and with Force and Arms with the aforesaid Robert Chernock and very many other false Traytors to the Jurors unknown did Meet Propose Treat Consult Consent and Agree him our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is by lying in wait and deceit to Assassinate Kiill and Murder and that execrable abominable and detestable Assassination and Killing the sooner to execute and perpetrate afterwards to wit the same day and year there Traiterously you did Treat Propose and Consult with those Traytors of the Ways Methods and Means and the Time and Place where when which way and how our said Sovereign Lord the King so by lying in wait the sooner might be Killed and Slain and did Consent Agree and Assent with the same Traytors that Forty Horsemen or thereabouts of those Traytors and others by them and you the said Sir William Parkyns to be Hired Procured and Paid with Guns Carbines and Pistols with Gun-Powder and Leaden-Bullets Charged and with Swords Rapiers and other Weapons Armed should lie in wait and be in Ambush our said Lord the King in his Coach being when he should go abroad to Attack and that a certain and competent number of those Men so Armed should set upon the Guards of our said Lord the King then and there attending him and being with him and should Over-power and Fight with them whilst others of the same Men so Armed him our said Lord the King should Kill Slay and Murder and that you the said Sir William Parkyns then and there did take upon you to provide Five Horses for those Men which should so kill and murder our said Sovereign Lord the King And also that you the said Sir William Parkyns your Treasons and all your Trayterous Intentions Designs and Contrivances aforesaid to execute perpetrate fulfil and bring to effect afterwards to wit the Day and Year last abovesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid Divers Horses and very many Arms Guns Carbines Rapiers and Swords and other Weapons Ammunition and Warlike Things and Military Instruments falsly maliciously secretly and Trayterously did obtain buy gather and procure and to be bought obtained gathered and procured did cause and in your Custody had and detained with that Intention them in and about the detestable abominable and execrable Assassination Kiliing and Murder of our said Lord the King and the Invasion aforesaid as aforesaid to use employ and bestow and also your Treasons and all your Traiterous Intentions Purposes and Contrivances aforesaid to execute perpetrate fulfil and fully bring to effect you the said Sir William Parkyns afterwards to wit the day and year last abovesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid Falsly Malitiously Advisedly Secretly and Traiterously divers Soldiers and Men Armed and ready to be Armed after the said detestable abominable and execrable Assassination Killing and Murder of our said Sovereign Lord the King so as aforesaid should be done perpetrated and committed to Rise and Muster and War and Rebellion within this Kingdom of England to make and wage and with the Enemies of our said Lord the King Foreigners and Strangers Subjects and Soldiers of the said Lewis the French King being about to Invade this Kingdom of England at and upon their Invasion and Entrance into this same Kingdom then expected to be shortly made themselves together with you the said William Parkyns to Join and Unite and into Troops and Legions to form you did Levy List and Retain and did procure to be Levied Listed and Retained and those Soldiers and Men for the Treasons Intentions and Purposes aforesaid then and there and afterwards in Readiness you had Against the Duty of Your Allegiance and against the Peace of our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is His Grown and Dignity As also against the Form of the Statute in this Case made and provided How say'st thou Sir William Parkyns Art thou Guilty of this High-Treason whereof thou standest Indicted or Not Guilty Parkyns Not Guilty Cl. of Arr. Culpritt How wilt thou be Tryed Parkyns By God and my Country Cl. of Arr. God send thee good Deliverance Parkyns My Lord If your Lordship pleases to favour me with a Word or two L. C. Just Holt. Aye What say you Sir Parkyns My Lord I have been kept in hard Prison ever since I was Committed no Body has been suffer'd to come to me till Fryday last then my Counsel came to me and being charg'd with many Facts as I see in this Indictment it will be necessary to have divers Witnesses to clear my self of these Particulars they are dispers'd up and down and I have had no time to look after them and therefore I beg your Lordship to put off my Tryal till another Day L. C. J. Holt. When had you first notice of your Tryal Parkyns The first Notice of my Tryal was on Wednesday last in the Afternoon L. C. J. Holt. That is a sufficient time of Notice sure you might have provided your Witnesses and prepar'd for it by this Time Parkyns But my Lord being kept so close Prisoner I had no Opportunity for it for it was not possible for me to get any Body to come to me till Friday Noon not so much as my Counsel and then there was but Two Days Saturday and Monday for Sunday is no Day for any Business and it is impossible for me to be ready in the Manner that I ought to be It is a perfect Distress and Hardship upon me to be put so soon upon my Tryal without my Witnesses and what should enable me to make my Defence therefore I humbly intreat your Lordship to put it off till another Day L. C. J. Holt. What Witness do you want Sir William Parkyns I have divers Witnesses my Lord that can give an Account where I was from Time to Time but they are many of them out of Town and I have sent about every way but cannot get them together in so short a Time L. C. J. Holt. When had he Notice of his Tryal Mr. Baker On Wednesday I told him that he must expect to be try'd this Day and withal that if

April the 10th 1696. I Do Appoint Samuel Heyrick and Isaac Cleve to Print the Tryal of Sir William Parkins Knight and Order that no other Person presume to Print the same I. Holt. The Arraignment TRYAL AND CONDEMNATION OF Sir William Parkins K nt For the Most Horrid and Barbarous CONSPIRACY To Assassinate His Most Sacred MAJESTY KING WILLIAM And for Raising of Forces in order to a REBELLION And Encouraging a French INVASION Into this KINGDOM Who was found Guilty of HIGH-TREASON March 24. 1695 6. At the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily TOGETHER With a true Copy of the PAPERS delivered by Sir William Parkins and Sir John Friend to the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex at the time of their Execution LONDON Printed for Samuel Heyrick at Grays-Inn Gate in Holbourn and Isaac Cleve at Serjeants-Inn Gate in Chancery-Lane 1696. Die Martis Vicesimo quarto Martij Anno Dom. 1695. Anno Regni Regis Willielmi Tertij Septimo This Day the Trial of Sir William Parkyns came on at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily for High-Treason in Conspiring the Death of the King and Promoting a French Invasion for the Restoring the late King James Cl. of Arr. CRyer make Proclamation Cryer Oyez Oyez Oyez All manner of Persons that have any thing more to do at this General Sessions of the Peace Sessions of Oyer and Terminer holden for the City of London and Goal-delivery of Newgate holden for the City of London and County of Middlesex and were Adjourned over to this day Draw near and give your attendance for now they will proceed to the Pleas of the Crown for the same City and County and God save the King Cl. of Arr. Middlesex Cryer Make proclamation Cryer Oyez You good men of the County of Middlesex summoned to appear here this day to try between our Sovereign Lord the King and the Prisoner that shall be at the Bar answer to your names as you shall be called every man at the first Call upon pain and peril shall fall thereupon Then the Jury that were Returned in the Pannel were all called over and the Appearances of those who answered to the Call were recorded About Ten of the Clock the Judges to wit the Lord Chief Justice Holt the Lord Chief Justice Treby and Mr. Justice Rokeby came into the Court. Cl of Arr. Set Sir William Parkyns to the Bar which was done Sir William Parkyns Hold up thy Hand Parkyns My Lord if you please I humbly beg the favour of one word before I am Arraigned My Wife coming to see me in my Distress sent up a Trunk of Linnen for our use and the Sheriffs of London have seized it and do detain it It has Linnen in it and all her necessary things and all things have been torn from me since I was Apprehended but what is there I have nothing to subsist upon but what is there for no Money can I get from any body no body will pay us a farthing Mr. Sh. Buckingham My Lord We were sent for to Mr. Secretary Trumball's Office and when we came there there was a Trunk that had been seized as belonging to Sir William Parkyns and when we came thither it was opened and there was in it some Houshold Linnen and some Plate and Mr. Secretary Trumball was pleased after having searched the Trunk to Seal it up and Deliver it to my Brother and me to be kept and this is all we know of it L. C. J. Holt. Where was this Trunk Seized Mr. Sh. Buckingham We found it in the Secretaries Office and it was Delivered to us there and we gave a Receipt for it to bring it down again when called for we did not Seize it L. C. J. Holt Look ye see Sir William Parkyns your Trunk was Seized I suppose in order to search for Papers Parkyns Yes I believe it was but I hope it shall be Delivered back now they have found nothing in it and I have nothing else to subsist upon but what is there L. C. J. Holt. Is there any Plate there What is there in the Trunk Mr. Sh. Buckingham There is some Diaper and Damask Linnen a Carpet and some pieces of Plate two or three hundred Ounces of Plate for ought I know We had it from the Secretaries Office we did not seize it Then the Judges consulted among themselves L. C. J. Holt. He ought to have his Plate to sell to support him that he may have Bread Parkyns Will Your Lordship please to direct the Sheriff to deliver it back L. C. J. Holt. Well some care or other shall be taken in it Parkyns My Lord I have nothing to subsist upon unless I can make something of what is there I have a Wife and four Children and nothing to subsist upon L. C. Just Holt. Let your Wife make application for it at the Secretary's it cannot now be done here Why did you not make complaint of it before If you had care had been taken in it Parkyns I was told there was a Petition for my Lord I was a close Prisoner and they told me there was a Petition but my Wife never mentioned any thing of it to me while afterwards and they talk'd of an Order of Council that they had for the Sheriff's seizing it but when I came to inquire into it there was no Order about it but only to search and examine it L. C. Just Holt. Well some order shall be taken about it Mr. Sh. Buckingham My Lord we have given a Receipt to the Secretary for it L. C. Just Holt. But he must have wherewithal to subsist and buy him Bread while he is in Prison Mr. Sh. Buckingham My Lord I see Mr. Burleigh there who was Sir John Friend's Sollicitor I would humbly move your Lordship that it may be enquired into how he came by the Pannel of the Jury Yesterday for it seems to reflect upon us as if we had given the Prisoner a wrong Pannel Mr. J. Rokeby No I think there can be no Reflection upon you but I think it would be very proper to have the matter examined L. C. Just Holt. Aye let Burleigh come in Which he did Pray how came you by that Pannel which you gave to Sir John Friend Burleigh My Lord I had Three several Copies sent me by Sir John Freind 's Friends to the Horn Tavern about three or four a clock and I delivered one of them to Sir John Freind but he had one before I delivered mine L. C. Just Holt. Who sent them to you or brought them to you Burleigh I had them brought to me by a Porter Mr. Baker You know you might have had it from the proper Officer for asking Burleigh I had them brought me from Sir John Friend's Friends L. C. J. Holt. Can you tell who had it from the Sheriff Burleigh My Lord I know not I had Three Copies sent me in a quarter of an hours time whence they came I know not the Sheriff knows me and every body else