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The Great trappaner of England discovered being a true narrative of many dangerous and abominable practices of one Thomas Violet Goldsmith to trappan the Jews and to ruine many scores of families in and about London : the chief part hereof being sworn before Justice Powell and Justice Blomer and for the rest sufficient and plentiful witnesses are ready to be produced.
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The Great TRAPPANER OF ENGLAND DISCOVERED BEING A True NARRATIAE of many Dangerous and abominable practises of one THOMAS VIOLET Goldsmith To Trappan the Jewes and to ruine many Scores of Families in and about LONDON Publshed as a Caution or as a Beacon fired to warn all men to beware of such an Enemy to Mankinde and to Arm themselves against him The chief Part hereof being svvorn before Justice Powell and Justice Blomer And for the rest sufficient and plentiful Witnesses are ready to be produced Printed In Defence of those whom it concerns in the year 1660. THE GREAT Trappanner of England DISCOVERED AS man was the Glory of the Creation so is there no savage more pernitious to Humane Society or the wel-being of mankind as depraved and degenerating man which may appear in this ensuing discourse Epitomizing some of the multitude of the black and foul enormityes of Thomas Violet a Name too sweet for so foul a Carkass His Birth was at Sea as though nature had ordained no Country should be burthen'd to own his Nativity being Ingendred between a poor Dutch Fidler and a Moorish Woman How he came into England without the help of the Devil or ever got into the repute to be intrusted in any mans Service as an Apprentise and so become a Member of this famous City of London I am altogether ignorant But shall trace him from his being to be a Goldsmith His first way of thriving was by Transportation of Gold the Coyn of this Nation which he followed till defeated and then detected such Merchants as dealt with him to some of their ruines and his gaine That trade sayling and being more apt to mischeif then to follow his lawfull Calling he procured under specious pretences of Service to the late King and Court in Nomine Dommine and the Nation a Pattent to set up an Office for Gold and Silver Wyer and Thred which he so well managed to his own benefit and the ruine of the Artificers as the cries of those Hundreds of undone Families their Wives and Orpheans sufficiently and wofully testifie Many and as great were the informations against him for divers Monopolies he had share in which in the mannagement of he so behaved himself that he could very hardly defend himself from Corporall punishment But that he was forced to disgorge most part of that ill-gotten Mammon which was sucked from him by some which were then Courtiers leaving little to himself except Infamy and shame and the Curses of those so ruined by his Cheats and Oppressions Thus did he shift from Post to Pillar living by that base way of Informing untill the unhappy difference and civill Warr of these Nations began when to piece up his Crazy Fortune fishing in these troubled Waters He would then turne Statesman and wish much pretended Allegiance to the King and as much zeale and duty to the Parliament he shufled his Cards so fouly and plaid his game so dishonestly that had he been caught at Oxford he had been hanged there hardly escaping the like here by a long and tedious Imprisonment and Sequestration of his Estate for which he now saith the State is in his debt 20000 l. which he hath often affirmed before Authority and in Courts of Justice and therefore said it is reason he should get it up againe some way or other How he hath lived since his inlargement I appeal to all that know him for instead of returning thanks to God for his deliverance and repenting of his former wickedness he continues still a Common and most Horrid Sweater a debauch'd Drunkard especially upon Sabbath days an Epicure and an abominable Lyer and guilty of many other ennormous and Inhumane Crimes to the great Scandal of our Christian Religion especially amongst the Jews with whom he is very conversant For what he can invent by lying he can easily ratifie by swearing and thereby hopes to possess himself of other mens Estates Honestly gotten And now I have named the Jews I thought it not amiss to give that people an Item of his Treacherous intentions to ruine them also Wearied with his former Contrivances he hath at length found out a new way to pay ould debts He Petitions and follows hard the Parliament and Councill of State to give him Authority to search for and find out false Coyners he having been more then sufficiently suspected himself for such practises to say no more till things be brought to farther light especially in Gold under the specious pretence of doing still the Common-wealth Service And to ingratiate himself for that service brings in a Catalogue of many by him found out The cheif whereof as he pleaseth to Name in his scandalous and lying Pamphlets are Tobias Knowles who was forced to appeare and receive a Tryall at the Old Baily Sessions this last 24th of February 1659. wherein indeed after a fair hearing the Jury brought him in Innocent The Residue of his Catalogue being Garrell Carter Preston Chitty Pight Hatford and others Having to their great dammage attended three Sessions for a Tryall expecting and much desiring it with Mr. Knowles his Tryall But this Violet although Richard Pight was the Prosecutor and not Hee prevailed to remove their Indictments by Certiorary into the Upper Bench with the Indictment against himself for the same offence The bill being found against him This he hath done in policy on purpose to suspend their Testimony being all or most of them witness against him Yet pretends he hath spent above 40 l. in prosecution when 't is only to deferr and put off Tryalls to save himself he having no good good Witness but such who have been guilty of the same facts But he spending on other mens Purses need not care what he spends And as to these men last mentioned I verily believe there is scarse one line of truth in all his Printed Pamphlets corcerning them But to keep my word with the Jews and to let the world see of what dangerous consequence it may prove to Arme such a desperate minded man with such Authority he fearing neither God nor man nor to destroy the life of any man though it were his own Father so he could but obtaine his own wicked ends This being the opinion of all that know him and is generally sayd of him having as bad a name as ever I heard man have Pray take this ensuing discovery taken before some of the Justices of the Peace which he so boldly Cites in divers his Printed Papers by the Oaths of Honest men Verbatim which may sufficiently demonstrate the reasons of his desired Authority And whether it be the Common good or his own private Lucre he intends to promote by it let any Rationall man judge The DISCOVERY This Deponent saith that in the beginning of last Spring Tho. Violet Gold-Smith came to this Deponent and told him this Deponent that the said Thomas Violet knew of a way that might make him the said Deponent for ever and so desired
imperfection of Language and multitudes of invented lyes by him and his Compliers And if the Reader compare the design of his four poor Workmen for which he seeks indempnity with the foregoing discourse which former discoveries will be averted also by some of those four to be true any one that runs may read the scope of his intentions There are but a few things more which I shall only glance at in this Epitome out of his printed papers for I confess I have already troubled my self and the Reader too much with so bad a subject All still under his former pretence of State Service First To strike at the well-being of one Richard Pight Clerk of the Irons a person well known by persons of quality who know him to be a faithful Servant to the State Onely he designs thereby to get his place though in his own false English he saith he would not accept of it yet I know where he hath told an intimate friend of mine it is that he aimeth at Another passage is That notorious falshood of his affirming himself to be the sole discoverer of the prize taken in Silver at Sea 1652. whereas the truth is one Abraham Johnson and others had made it known ten daies before Violet heard of it and were out in the prosecution several hundreds of pounds which by his Petitions to the Parliament and other Records may appear and Violet was only intrusted as a Solicitor in the business Besides this Silver was brought to the Tower by Cornet Day who did it with the hazzard of his life for which the Protector gave him for his good service 200 li. and justified in Richard Pights Petition lately to the Parliament yet this Violet hath the impudence to attribute this business to himself And one Lewellin whom he hath affirmed in several of his Papers to be boyld in Oyl in Dunkirk for uttering false Coyn is false and testified by one now in Town who lately came from thence that he is alive And one Walker who is lately come from Dunkirk whom he depends on as his chief Witness and hath caused to swear soon after his arrival was apprehended and lyes now in prison for a high crime acted before he went to Dunkirk who also was in prison there suspected for uttering false Coyn and 't is sed is come over but under Bayle He and such others his Confederates are the Witnesses he seekes for And further he saith in his Papers if himself and some of his Confederates which stand indicted may but have an Act of Indempnity he will discover a whole Nest of false Coyners as he calls them when as he himself is thought verily to be the chief Actor for whom he would have indempnity that so they may be Free to swear to destroy whom he pleases Whose daily practise and study it is to use all subtile Trappaning devices leaving no action or means unattempted to destroy others by his invented shameless lyes by large promises of Rewards and Feasting And getting Warrants unjustly to charge honest and peaceable men with things they are ignorant of and altogether guiltlesse in and are so far from acting as he desperately charges them that they abhorr the very thoughts of any such intentions Many other odious and damnable practises might here be added as well out of his lying Pamphlets as out of his Life and Conversation To name but one particular his desperate and hellish swearing If he had but paid according to Law for all the prophane Oaths he hath sworn I verily believe he hath sworn away a great part of the 20000 li. he saith the State owes him but in truth I am weary of looking both into his Papers and his Life and should not have troubled my self to have made this publick had he not been so impudent and incorrigible and like the deaf Adder to all admonition or repentance I shall now conclude with my prayers to Almighty God to turn him from his evil waies which I think is the discharge of my duty to him as a Christian wishing him no evil but good however I am sure this Narrative is the discharge of a Christian duty to my Country and to all I wish well unto who I verily think are causlesly great sufferers Only before I end let me tell you This Violet is now and hath been many years one of desperate fortunes and lives by shifts projects inticing sums of money from Gentlemen and Trades-men with large promises of Places or great Gaines with shuffling and shifting from Lodging to Lodging and running into peoples Debts feasting and drinking Wine immeasurably vpon other mens purses What if I should say 30 Bottles of Wine upon a Sabboth day he and his Comrades and his accomplices to Health and Carrouse as I amt credibly informed And by his own Confession before severall Witnesses the chief Abettor and Assistor of him with money at present or lately to carry on these his mischievous designs is one Rammage Farthing-maker in the Tower whose aime in all this business is To suppresse all Tools for making Farthings but his own the said Rammage having proffered a large weekly Sum to be paid to one party if all the Presses for making Farthings may be but taken away about London but only his that so he may have the sole Trade in his hands Farewell till farther occasion Reader HEre you have briefly the true Cause of this Viper VIOLET His Violent Rage and Prosecution Who is more fit to live among the Draggons in the Wilderness then among men Now let the world Judge Whether this be a man any way fit to be put in any Publick trust which he so much aims at FINIS