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A63185 The tryal of Nathaniel Thompson, William Pain, and John Farwell upon an information exhibited by the Kings Attorney General against them, for writing, printing and publishing libels, by way of letters and other prints, reflecting upon the justice of the nation, in the proceedings against the murderers of Sir Edmond-bvry Godfrey : at Guild-hal on Tuesday June the 20th, 1682, where after a full hearing they were convicted : together with an accompt of several affidavits read in His Majesties Court of Kings Bench and other matters at the time of their receiving sentence : to which is added by way of appendix, several other affidavits which further confirm the testimony of Mr. Prance, given upon the tryal of Green, Berry and Hill about that murder, with some observations touching the said Thompson, Farwell and Pain. Thompson, Nathaniel, d. 1687, defendant.; Paine, William, defendant.; Farwell, John, defendant.; England and Wales. Court of King's Bench. 1682 (1682) Wing T2207; ESTC R18230 39,778 52

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to fulfil and perfect afterwards to wit the 23th of February in the four and Thirtieth year of the Raign of our now Soveraign Lord the King at the parish of Saint Mary le Bow London with force and arms c. falsly unlawfully unjustly wickedly and diabolically made composed and caused to be printed a certain false scandalous and defamatory Libel Entituled a Letter to Mr. Miles Prance in relation to the Murther of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey In which said Libel amongst other things it is contained as follows And hearing that the Coroners Jury or Inquest were first of Opinion and accordingly declared he was felo de se and that there was much Art and Skill used to procure their Verdict to the contrary more particularly the refusing of the body at their instance and request to be opened And in another place of the same Libel it is further contained as follows They say that if a Man or any other Creature be strangled or hang'd and his body cold and the blood setled in the Veins as he must needs be if your Evidence be true meaning the Evidence of the said Miles Prance run twenty Swords through such a body not one drop of blood will come out but on the contrary his body when found was full of blood in so much that over and above the Cakes or great Gobbets of congealed putrified blood found afterwards in his Cloths the Constable when he pulled the sword out of his body it crashed against his back bone and gobbets of blood and water gushed or gubled out of that wound in abundance not only in that very place where the sword was pulled out but in all his passage to the White house especially there where his body was lifted over two high s●umps and also when he was laid upon the Table the blood and water so issued out of that wound that it ran from off the Table upon the Floor and from thence into the Cellar so that they do averr that that wound that he received by that Sword must of necessity be the Cause of his Death And in another part of the same Libel it is further contained as follows They observe that Bedloe's before the Committee of Lords and your Evidence in relation to this Gentleman's Death are as different as the East is from the West for you dogg him out of St. Clements the other decoys him from Charing Cross you swear he was strangled with an Handkercheif near the Stables going to the Water-side Bedloe that he was smothered with a Pillow in a Room in the great Court in Somerset house you say that he took Horse at Sohoe Bedloe says he took Coach at Clarendon-house with many more such like contradictions and considering the old Proverb fore-warned fore-armed a further and fuller accompt of the whole matter expect And that the said Nathaniel Thompson William Paine and John Farewell their most impious wicked and diabolical intentions to fulfil and perfect afterwards to wit the third day of March in the said four and thirtieth year of the Reign of the said late Lord the King at the said Parish of St. Mary le Bow London aforesaid with Force and Arms c. falsly unlawfully unjustly evilly maliciously scandalously and diabolically made composed and caused to be printed another false scandalous and defaming Libel intituled a second Letter to Miles Prance in reply to the Ghost of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey In which last mentioned Libel amonst other things it is further contained as follows Next whereas my Letter saith and that truly that the Coroners Jury were first of opinion and accordingly declared he was felo de se and that much Art and Skill was used to procure their Verdict to the contrary And in another place of the same last mentioned Libel amongst other things it is further contained as follows And it would be very material if the Coroner would declare what he received for that Job and of whom and what Evidence he had to induce the Jury to find as the Inquisition imports that he was strangled with a Linnen cloth a matter of fact never so much as spoken of until you came in with your Evidence which was not in some weeks after And I do again averr that the Body was required by the Jury to be opened and was refused and if the Body was in their and the Coroner's power as the Ghost insinuates such power was concealed from and denied the Jury And in another place of the same last mentioned Libel it is amongst other things contained as follows He is to understand that Mr. Brown the two Chirurgions meaning the said Zachary Skillarne and Nicholas Cambridge and Mrs. Curtis are no competent nor can be material Witnesses in this Case And in another place of the same last mentioned Libel it is further contained as follows But Mr. Prance it will be fully proved that the Body was full of Blood and that there was Cakes or Gobbets of dry Blood found in his Cloaths which with his Body stunk extreamly And it will be also fully and effectually proved that his Eyes Nostrils and Corners of his Mouth were Fly-blown And in another place of the same last mentioned Libel amongst other things it is contained as follows And as to the seventh and last Paragraph which relates only to the difference betwixt you and Mr. Bedloe's Evidence I must take notice that what you and and he swears is very contradictory And in another place of the same last mentioned Libel amongst other things it is further contained as follows But I cannot omit to take further notice of Mr. Curtis's Affidavit in relation to the Wax found upon the Cloths in which I cannot say but she may swear true but this I do averr that if it be so those drops were put upon the Cloths long after he was found And after the Jury had set on the body for there was no such thing then on the Cloths And I suppose this was some artifice used by those who either out of interest or design were desirous to comfirm his being murthered at Somerset house And the said Attorney General for the same Lord the King gives the Court here to understand and be informed That the said Nathaniel Thompson William Pain and John Farwell in their further prosecution aforesaid falsly wickedly and maliciously their contrivances and intentions aforesaid afterwards to with the 7th day of March in the four and Thirtieth year of our said Lord the King at the Parish of Saint Mary le Bow London with force and arms c. falsly unlawfully unjusty wickedly maliciously scandalously and devillishly composed made and caused to be printed a certain other false scandalous and defamatory Libel Entituled The Loyal Protestant and True Domestick Intelligence or News both from City and Country In which last mentioned Libel it is contained as follows that there is not in the said Letter meaning the said false scandalous and defaming Libel Entituled a Letter to Mr. Miles Prance
in relation to the Murther of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey before first mentioned the least item or circumstance but what will be by undeniable Evidence made out to be the truth So the said Mr. Prance having not as yet vouchsafed an Answer to that Letter he will speedily receive a further Letter relating to that Murther wherein the further truth will not only be fully set forth and other Circumstances set out And further that the said Nathaniel Thompson William Pain and John Farwell in their further prosecuting falsly wickedly and maliciously their contrivances and intentions aforesaid with force and arms c. falsly unlawfully wickedly maliciously and devillishly composed and caused to be Printed a certain other false scandalous and defamatory Libel Entituled The Loyal Protestant Intelligence c. In which last mentioned Libel amongst other things it is contained as follows Whereas Dick Janeway in this dayes Mercury promises an Answer to the late Letter to Mr. Prance c. This is to give him and all the world notice That such an Answer is impatiently expected by the Author of that Letter who questions not but to prove every Tittle of that Letter to the satisfaction of all mankind And besides he is very desirous that the Courantier according to his last Pacquet of Advice to Rome would go on and use his Interest to procure the Lord Mayor Court of Aldermen and Common Council of London to inspect the Truth of that Letter whereby it will appear inevitably that there is not one Papist or Popishly affected person concerned in that Letter or in the proof of the particulars thereof but the same with divers other material circumstances relating to the Murther of Sir E B Godfrey and the Fraud and Blind put upon the world in relation thereto will be more fully plainly and manifestly proved without giving ill Words or scurrilous Language or Reflections to any persons that really are or supposed to be therein concern'd in any circumstance whatsoever And that the said Nathaniel Thompson William Pain and John Farwell in their further prosecution aforesaid falsly wickedly and maliciously their contrivances and intentions after to wit The first day of April in the four and thirtieth year of the Reign of our said Lord the King with force and arms c. at the Parish of Saint Mary le Bow London aforesaid falsly unlawfully unjustly wickedly maliciously scandalously and devillishly made composed and caused to be Printed a certain other false scandalous and defamatory Libel Entituled the Loyal Protestant Intelligence c. In which last mentioned Libel amongst other things it is contained as follows Last Wednesday Nathaniel Thompson vpon Summons appeared before the Lords of his Majesties most honourable Privy Council about the Letters to Mr. Miles Prance concerning the Death òf Sir Edmondbury Godfrey where he justified the matter and produced the Authors who are ready to prove by undeniable and substantial Witnesses not in the least accused or suspected of Popery as the malicious Party do suggest that every Tittle and Iota of those Letters are true And that in another part of the last mentioned Libel amongst other things it is contained as follows Mr. Thompson and the Gentlemen his Friends are to attend the next Wednesday at Council where they do not doubt but that Honourable Board will put them into à Method to prove the whole or any particular which their Honours in their great Wisdom shall think convenient to be brought to the Test or Examination And further that the said Nathaniel Thompson c. the Twenty-third day of February in the abovesaid Thirty-fourth year of our said Lord the King and divers other days and times betwixt the said Twenty-third of February and the aforesaid Thirty-fourth year and the day of the exhibiting of the said Information at the Parish of St Mary le Bow London aforesaid knowingly and every of them knowing the said several Libels to be false malicious scandalous and seditious with Force and Arms c. falsly unlawfully unjustly wickedly maliciously scandalously seditiously and devillishly the said false malicious scandalous and seditious Libels uttered and published and each of them uttered and published in manifest contempt of the Laws of this Kingdom of England and the Scandal and Defamation of the publick Justice of the same to the evil Example of all others in like Case offending and against the Kings Peace his Crown and Dignity c. Then Proclamation for Information being made Mr. Thompson acquainted my Lord and the Jury with the effect of the Information as follows Mr. Thompson My Lord and you Gentlemen of the Jury This is an Information against Nathaniel Thompson William Pain and John Farwell and it is for writing and printing several Scandalous Libels about the the Death of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey In which we set forth that Green Berry and Hill were indicted for the Murder of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey and thereof convicted and attained and that the said Green Berry and Hill were executed for it that upon their Tryal for that Matter several Witnesses were examined namely Mr. Prance Bedloe Curtis and several others to prove Sir Edmondbury Godfrey murthered at Somerset-house and before the Tryal there was an Inquest taken by the Coroner of Middlesex by which it does appear that Sir Edmondbury Godfrey was murthered by several Persons unknown and that the Defendants to reflect upon the Justice of the Nation and scandalize the Witnesses produced at that Tryal and to make it believed that these Persons died Wrongfully did write and print several scandalous Libels and Letters one of them intituled a Letter to Miles Prance concerning the Murther of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey and in these Letters did suggest as if he had been felo de se and do reflect upon every one of the Witnesses as if they had contradicted themselves and also do reflect upon the Coroner as though he had bribed the Jury and do undertake by these Arguments and several others that you will hear to prove that Sir Edmondbury Godfrey murthered himself And that in another Libel that Thompson printed called his Loyal Protestant Intelligence he says he will make it out by a Cloud of Witnesses This we say is against the Peace of the King and defaming of the Justice of the Nation If we prove this matter upon them you are to find them Guilty Mr. Serj. Maynard My Lord The matter which you have now before you is as impudent a thing as ever was done Gentlemen Sir Edmondbury Godfrey was murthered and Green and the Contrivers of it have been executed for it the matter hath passed the Examination of the Parliament and the King and Council and all Now this Thompson is a Printer I may as well say a Printer of Libels for he does constantly print Libels against the Religion established and the Justice of the Nation The Jury that were impannelled upon the Coroners Inquest he says of them that they at first did agree that he murthered himself and afterwards did