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A53380	A display of tyranny, or, Remarks upon the illegal and arbitrary proceedings, in the courts of Westminster, and Guild-Hall London from the year, 1678, to the abdication of the late King James, in the year 1688, in which time, the rule was, quod principi placuit, lex esto : the first part.	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1689 (1689)	Wing O35; ESTC R16065	100,209	272

still believe that Popery was breaking in upon the Nation and that those who advance it will stop at nothing and declared his sorrow that so many Protestants gave their helping hand to it But he declared his hope that God would preserve the Protestant Religion and the Nation though he feared it would fall under very great Tryals and sharp Sufferings That the bare-fac'd Prophaneness and Impiety in the Nation gave Reason to fear the worst things that could befal a People He prayed God to prevent it and give those who shewed concern for the publick good and appear'd hearty for the Protestant Religion Grace to live so that they might not cast a reproach on that which they endeavoured to advance which he declared had often given him many sad thoughts As to his condition he said he had no repining in his Heart at it and did freely forgive all the World particularly those concerned in taking away his Life and conjured his Friends to think of no Revenge but to submit to the holy will of God. He declared as to his appearing in the business of the Bill of Exclusion that he thought the Nation in such danger of Popery and that the expectation of a Popish Successor put the King's Life in such danger that he saw no way so effectual to secure both as that Bill and that he thought his earnestness in that matter had no small influence in his present Sufferings As to his conspiring to seize the Guards the Crime for which he was condemned and which was made a constructive Treason to take away the King's Life to bring it within the Statute of Edward 3. His Lordship gave this account That he never was at Shepherd's but once and that there was no undertaking then of securing or seizing the Guards nor none appointed to view or examine them Some discourse there was about the feasableness of it and he heard it several times by accident in general discourse elsewhere but never consented to it as fit to be done That the Duke of Monmouth exclaimed against it and his Lordship said that he ever observed in him an abhorrence of all base things He thanked God that his part was sincere and well meant he observed that it was inferred that he was acquainted with the Heats and ill Designs of some great Men and did not discover them but that that was but misprision of Treason at most and so he dyed innocent of the Crime he stood condemned for and hoped that no body would imagine that so mean a thought could enter into him as to go about to save his Life by accusing others The part that some had acted lately of that kind had not been such as to invite him to love Life at such a rate He declared that he could not but think the sentence upon him very hard for nothing was sworn against him whether true or false but discourses about making some stirs That by a strange fetch the story of seizing the Guards was construed a design of killing the King and so he was cast in that He prayed God not to lay it to the charge of the King's Counsel the Judges Sheriffs or Jury That for the Witnesses he pittied and wished them well and should not reckon up the particulars wherein they wronged him but had rather their own Consciences should do that to which and the mercies of God he left them His Lordship added that from the time of chusing Sheriffs he concluded that the heat in that matter would produce something of this kind and that he was not much surprized to find it fall upon himself and wished that his Blood might satiate some Peoples Revenge He wished those Gentlemen of the Law who have great readiness in speaking would make more Conscience in the use of it and not run Men down by strains and fetches and impose on easie and willing Juryes to the ruin of innocent Men for to kill by forms and subtilties of Law is the worst sort of Murder He further wished that the rage of hot Men and the partiality of Juries might be stop'd with his Blood and said he should offer it up with more joy if he thought he should be the last to suffer in such a way He then concluded thus The Will of the Lord be done into whose Hands I commend my Spirit and trust that thou O most merciful Father hast forgiven me all my Transgressions The Sins of my Youth and all the Errors of my past Life and that thou wilt not lay my secret Sins to my Charge but wilt graciously support me during that small part of my Life now before me and assist me in my last Moments and not leave me then to be disordered by Fear or any other Temptation but make the light of thy Countenance to shine upon me For thou art my Sun and my Shield And as thou supportest me by thy Grace so I hope thou wilt hereafter crown me with Glory and receive me into the Fellowship of Angels and Saints in that blessed Inheritance purchased for me by my most merciful Redeemer who is I trust at thy Right hand preparing a place for me Into whose Hands I commend my Spirit Notes upon the Tryal of the honourable Algernon Sidney Esq upon an Indictment for conspiring the Death of the King and intending to raise a Rebellion Before the Lord Chief Justice Jeffrys Justice Wythens Justice Holloway and Justice Walcot at the King's-Bench upon the one and twentieth of November 1683. THis honourable Person Colonel Sidney having been long Imprisoned in the Tower without any prosecution brought his Habeas Corpus for the obtaining his liberty upon which being brought to the King's-Bench upon the 7th of November the Atturney General upon the sudden clapt an Indictment of Treason upon him to which he was instantly compelled to plead Upon the 21st of November he was brought to Tryal and this Jury pack'd by Graham and Burton was sworn upon him viz. John Aunger Carpenter Richard White William Lyn Laur. Wood Adam Andrews Emery Arguise Josiah Clerk George Glisby Nicolas Baxter Horse Rider William Reeves William Grove Cheesmonger John Burt. The King's Counsel were Sr Ro. Sawyer Attorney General Mr Finch Solicitor General Mr North Mr Dolben and Mr Jones The Indictment opened by Mr Dolben was to this effect That the Prisoner with others conspired the death of the King and to levy War in the Kingdom and sent one Aaron Smyth into Scotland to excite some to come from thence and to consult upon assistance to carry on those designs And that the Prisoner to perswade the People that it was lawful to raise Rebellion did cause a seditious Libel to be written containing expressions That the power is originally in the People c. Note the Indictment did not charge the Prisoner with publishing the Papers which was ever till now done when Libels have been made Criminal but their proof in this case would not come up to publishing Then the Attorney

Law and to defame the Justice of the Kingdom and to render as well the Witnesses as the Coroner contemptible and to deter others from detecting the Designs of Papists and to induce a belief that Green Berry and Hill were unjustly Executed and that Sr Edmundbury Godfry was Felo de se they did most impiously Compose and cause to be Printed and Published two false Scandalous and Defamatory Libels entituled Letters to Mr Miles Prance and three other Scandalous Libels called the Loyal Protestant and true Domestick Intelligence and did by these Libels suggest that Sr Edmundbury Godfry was Felo de se and did reflect on every of the said Witnesses as if they had contradicted themselves and Insinuate that the Coroner's-Jury did at first declare that he was Felo de se and that the Coroner used much Art and Skill to procure their Verdict to the contrary The Jury which tryed this Cause were Peter Houblon John Ellis William Barret Joshua Brooks Gervas Byfeild Jonathan Lee George Widdows William Sambrooke William Jacomb John Delinee Samuel Bayly and Samuel Howard The Counsel for the King were Mr Serjeant Maynard Mr Solicitor General Sr Francis Winnington Mr Williams Mr Thompson Mr Saunders and Mr Gooding Council for Paine Mr Yalden for Thompson Mr Osborne for Farwell Mr Thompson having opened the Indictment Mr Serjeant Maynard spoke to the Crime and declared it to be as impudent a thing as ever was done in that it scandalized the publick Justice of the Nation undertook to vindicate the Murtherers and to accuse the Proceedings of the Nation and then calling the Witnesses Sr John Nicholas Sr Philip Loyd and Mr Bridgman Clerks of the Council proved that the two Letters set forth in the Information were shewed to the Defendants at the Council and that Thompson owned the Printing both of them and that Farwell owned the carrying the first and Paine the carrying the second to Thompson After reading these Letters in Court Thompson's Intelligence of the 17 th of March 1681 was produced wherein it is contained as follows There is not in the said Letter meaning the said first Letter the least Item or Circumstance but what will be by undeniable Evidence made out to be Truth so that 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 be set forth and other Circumstances set out Another of those Intelligences of March 11 th 1681. given in Evidence ran thus Whereas Dick Janeway in this days 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 then it proceeds to challenge the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council to inspect the truth of that Letter and says That then the Fraud and Blindness put upon the World in Relation to the Murther of Sr Edmundbury Godfry will be manifestly proved A third of these Intelligences took a further step glorying in an imagined victory in this matter for it sayes Last Wednesday Nathaniel Thompson upon Summons appeared before the Lords of the Council about the Letters to Mr Prance concerning the death of Sr Edmunbury Godfry where he justified the matter and produced the Authors who are ready to prove by undeniable and sub stantial Witnesses c. that every tittle and jot a of these Letters are true And after adds 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 a 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 An honest English-man can never better express his admiration and detestation of the transcendent impudence of these vile Miscreants then in the Language of the late famous Baron of Wem upon another occasion with a small alteration of Words Good God! whither were we runing when many easie People were so strangely wrought upon by these Impostors and when the villainous and black Designs of some evil Instruments among us were so powerfully abetted and countenanced that they were arrived to this degree of assurance that they could beguile and delude not only some of the Shepherds of our Church of England with their silly innocent Flocks but even the King and his Privy-Council into the belief of so horrid a falshood and that at a time when not a hidden but a deeply contrived and detected Treason was carryed on amongst us for extirpating our Religion termed the Northern Heresie our Laws and Liberties The Conspirators had a fair Game of it whilst these Fellows were believed and they needed no other means to compleat their design I cannot but say my Blood does curdle and my Spirits are raised to see fellows so impudent as to brazen it out as these monstrous Villains do the blackness of their Souls the baseness of their Actions ought to be lookt upon with such horror and detestation as to think them unworthy any longer to tread upon the face of God's Earth But to return to the matter in hand from which I have digressed It being as aforesaid made out that the Defendants had published that what was testified against the Murderers of Sr Edmundbury Godfry was a lye Mr Saunders and Mr Gooding Counsel for Paine declared it was a rash and unadvised Act but not out of Malice and that he was sorry for what he had done and had offered to give any Satisfaction To whom the Lord Chief Justice replyed To me he said he would make it out by five hundred Witnesses they would make it as plain as the day and Counsellor Thompson added since the last time that was appointed for the Tryal they have printed that they would prove it by sixty Witnesses and were very sorry it did not come on Mr Yalden Counsel for Thompson said that he thought his Client was unfortunately drawn into the business by Paine and Farwell who turn all upon him now Mr Osborne Counsel for Farwell said It was a foolish thing to do as he had done but that his Client said he had several Witnesses who being called it was manifest that Farwell designed to have even then raised a doubt whether Sr Edmundbury Godfry was murthered or not but it appeared that of the eleven or twelve Witnesses he called there was not one but was as much against him as could be for they did plainly evince it that Sr Edmundbury Godfry was Killed and that by Strangling and so confirmed the evidence given against Green Berry and Hill. It being thus manifested that this was a cursed combination to affront the publick justice of the Nation and that done to the end to perswade the World there