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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65349	A general mistake co[r]rected, or, The vindiction of the right honourable the Countess Dowager of Essex and the bishop of Salisbury in the gazette of the 31st of July last : no argument against, but for the truth of the murder of that great patriot Arthur, late, Earl of Essex : in a letter to a friend, August the 2d, 1690.	T. W.	1690 (1690)	Wing W120; ESTC R7160	2,425	3

A General Mistake Corrected OR THE VINDICATION OF THE Right Honourable the Countess Dowager of ESSEX AND THE Bishop of SALISBURY In the GAZETTE of the 31st of July last No Argument against but for the truth of the Murder of that Great Patriot Arthur late Earl of ESSEX In a Letter to a Friend August the 2d 1690. SIR IN last Thursdays Gazette you will find the Right Honourable the Countess Dowager of Essex and the Reverend Father in God Gilbert Lord Bishop of Salisbury have entirely disavow'd what a Discourse touching the Murther of the late Earl of Essex hath fastned on them Their Denyal is thus worded Viz. Whereas in a Letter to a Friend written by Mr. Lawrence Braddon touching the Murther of the late E. of Essex an Account is given Page 54 and 55 of some Discourse that the Countess Dowager of Essex and the Bishop of Salisbury had upon that Subject at a Meeting with several Lords The Countess Dowager and the Bishop find themselves so much w●●●g'd in that Relation that they have thought it became them to Disavow it intirely the whole Discourse fastned on them being false and nothing to THAT PVRPOSE having been upon that Occasion mentioned by either of them July 24. E. Essex Gil. Sarum I perceive this is through Mistake generally misapply'd for last Night meeting with some who had been ever prejudic'd against the belief of this Murder and had often heard me say That I doubted not but that unfortunate Earl was treacherously taken off and that I was therein confirm'd upon reading a late Letter to a Friend written by Mr. Braddon upon that deplorable Subject These Gentlemen believing that by this Gazette they had got an Objection which at one Stroke intirely defeated the whole Power of the Proofs in that Letter which they confess'd they had not read immediately very warmly accosted me herewith and upon this occasion very scurrilously reflected upon Mr. Braddon for imposing upon the World such as they call'd them villanous and false Proofs for that pretended Murder I not then remembring that particular part of the Book to which this denyall had Relation did immediately fetch the Discourse and I then found that this Vindication was so far from denying any of the Proofs which had been brought to testifie that Treachery that on the contrary it intirely disavow'd the most material Argument I could ever yet hear brought to justifie the Belief of the Self-murder which that Letter mentioneth in pag. 54 55 where Mr. Braddon after he had given numerous Evidences in many Particulars which put together almost demonstrate the truth of that complicated Cruelty saith by way of Objection against the Murder as followeth Viz. I shall now mention one or two more Objections against my Lord's being murther'd and then draw to a Conclusion The first is this viz. the Right Honourable the Lady Gou●●●ess-Dowage of Essex having heretofore declared whether lately I cannot say That she did believe her Lord cut his own Throat and being so possessed some time after this Committee had several times sate she desired several Lords amongst which some were of this Right Honourable Committee to meet at her House and after her Honour had acquainted their Lordships with the occasion of her request an eminent Divine and now Bishop did inform their Lordships what were the Reasons that moved her Honour to believe that her Lord did indeed lay violent hands on himself the Chief if not the Only where of was That some sho●● time before my Lord's Commitment to the Tower his Lordship seemed to be under a great concern of mind but then declared That the trouble he was in did not arise from any thoughts of Self-preservation for Himself was the least of his Care but the thoughts of his Family what would after his Death become of them was what did indeed trouble him As for himself be was resolved what to do SEVERAL TIMES VERY RESOLVTELY REPEATING THAT EXPRESSION AS FOR MY SELF I AM RESOLVED WHAT TO DO This I was told by a Gentleman then present who as I have great reason to believe would have represented every thing to the best advantage as far as Truth would permit on the behalf of such Objections So far that Letter This you find is not brought by Mr. Braddon as an argument to prove my Lord's being murther d● but on the contrary rais'd by way of Objection against the Belief thereof which Objection Mr. B. here saith he received from One then present but if that Gentleman who is said to have given the Information was mistaken in his relation the Author of the Letter for that deserves no reflexions and it can hardly be supposed that Mr. Braddon would without some grounds have rais'd such a material objection as this would have been had it been true against the proof of that Murther for endeavouring the Detection whereof he hath been so barbarously treated by the Corruption of the late Misgovernment neither hath the substance of what is here objected been discredited or at least rejected by those who are and have ever been most zealous for stifling this Discovery For how often have these Gentlemen in all publick Places urg'd in effect the same viz. the Countess and the Bishop of Salisbury's Belief of the Self murther and their satisfying several Honourable Lords in the Truth thereof as what should convince all men of the reality of that Self-violent But this common and as these Men thought unanswerable Argument for such satisfaction is now struck dumb being stript of its Credit when thus solemnly and publickly entirely disavow'd and NOTHING TO THAT PVRPOSE having been upon that occasion mentioned by either of those two Honourable Persons The Gentlemen who at first so hotly assaulted me upon reading this denyal and the things deny'd finding this to be the TRVE State of the Case soon became more cool and ingenuously confess'd they had been impos'd upon and before we parted did frankly acknowledge their rashness in their reflexions wherefore they protested they began to doubt of the Truth of the Self-murther in the Belief whereof they before thought themselves upon good grounds well convinced And hereupon they did desire me to lend them that Discourse promising that they would read the whole and without prejudice weigh what is therein said to he prov'd after they have done this I doubt not but some if not all of them will be satisfy'd of the Truth of that most barbarous State-treachery a more cruel Murther than which in all its relations consider'd this Kingdom never saw And that we never may see the like part acted over again but that the Actors Aiders Abetters and Concealers of this may in this World receive their just Reward is the hearty Prayers of Sir your very humble Servant T. W. A Letter in Proof of the Murther of the late Earl of Essex written by L. Braddon Gent. who was upwards of Five Years prosecuted and imprison'd for endeavouring to discover the same Sold by most Booksellers London Printed for the Author 1690.