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Captain Charles Newy's case impartially laid open, or, A true and full narrative of the clandestine proceedings aginst [sic] him as it was hatched, contrived, and maliciously carried on by Mrs. Margaret Newey, widdow.
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Newey, Charles.
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Wing N917; ESTC R42213
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Captain Charles Newy's CASE Impartially Laid Open Or a True and Full NARATIVE OF THE Clandestine Proceedings aginst Him As it was Hatched Contrived and Maliciously Carried on by Mrs. Margaret Newey Widdow LONDON Printed for the Author in the Year 1700. Captain Charles Newey's CASE Impartially Laid Open. CANDID READER I Should be wanting to my self to you and indeed to the Publick should I not at this time of Day make known to the World how Strangely and Maliciously I have been Wronged and Traduced by the wild and causeless Malice of an Inhuman I had almost said Barbarous Sister And tho it is a very dificult Matter for me to express my Self in such words as shall undeceive the World and thorowly Convince the Vulgar with the truth of my Innocence especially considering we Live in an Age wherein Men have got the trick of Trooping after one another in Flocks like Sheep they follow the Bell and if the foremost leap the Bridge the rest Drowns for Company yet I hope my Reader will give me leave to Vindicate my Innocencie tho' I am told I might with more Safety have Ventured my Carcass with Dannel in the Lyon's-Denn than to have resisted the Torrent that was rais'd against me Yet even as I am not oblig'd to Suffer all the Dirt that can be raked out of the Kennells and Common-Shoars to be Plastered on my Face without Lifting up a Hand to wipe it off even so I ought not to suffer this Harmony of Lyes and Defamation to pass Currant without either Contradiction or Controul Conscience must be then fallen a Sleep and Truth Struck Dumb I hope I shall not be thought to do in this as some do by Cutting the Throat of their own Religion by Contending for it being very Sensible that there goes more than Greek or Latin to the making of a wise Man But to proceed I shall lay before your View in the first place the Commitment it self in the second shall so expatiat my self on each particular as I hope will fully Satisfy any Impartial Reader with the Truth of my Innocencie Here is the Committment it self by Vertue of which I was Committed to Newgate MIDDLESEX Receive into your Custody the Body of Charles Newey Gent. herewith sent you he having Confessed before me on his Examination that he is Lawfully Marryed to one Barbara Ferrour And Oath having been made before me by Margaret Newey Widdow that she hath several times heard the said Charles Newey acknowledge that he was Lawfully Marryed to one Hannah Goodridge And that both the said Barbara and Hannah are still Living The said Margaret Newey having likewise made Oath before me that she has heard the said Charles Newy Confess and Acknowledge and is sure that in some Short time after the Decease of the late Queen Mary he Hung the Gallows with Mourning for the said Queen He standing likewise Charg'd before me upon the Oath of Ralph Armfield Headborrough for drawing his Sword and presenting a Pistol at him and his Assistants and Beating him in the Execution of his Office you are therefore hereby required him safe to keep untill he shall be Discharged by due course of Law And for so doing this shall be your Warrant Given under my Hand and Seal the 18th day of November Anno Domini 1699. S. Lovell Recorder Copia Vera. To the Keeper of His Majesty's Goal of Newgate But before I proceed to handle each particular Branch Specifyed in this Committment I conceive it convenient to acquaint my Reader with the Nature of my first Tryal which will clear up the whole matter 1. The first and greatest Crime then which I was accused of and the only cause of my being found guilty of the rest was for endeavouring as the Wittnesses against me alleadg'd to take away my Brother's Life which indeed the World has some reason to believe tho' it was never my Intentions neither did it ever enter into my Thoughts He was extream week and solely Govern'd by his Wife who found him inclind to leave his Brother 's all he had but only her Thirds To prevent which she used all the Stratagems she could invent to create a Difference purely to accomplish her designes which she thoro'ly did by telling him that the Captains Lady who is of an Unspotted Reputation had stolen his Silver Tankard as she came to Visit her which can be asserted by Mr. Ferrour and his Wife at the Tebacce-Rowl in Newgate-market they having had it from my said Brothers own Mouth My Brother likewise by his Wives Perswasions went to one Mr. Clavises a Dutch School-master in the Pall-Mell where I had Lodg'd from time to time for Two Years and there reported all that Hell and Malice could invent against me telling the People of the House who till then entertain'd a good Opinion of me that I design'd to fling their Goods out at the Windows and Pawn them as I had done the pretended Stolen Tankard This he did several times when I was from Home and seeing I took no Notice of it He came one Sunday at Night with Constables having before Sir Charles Leigh Swore the Peace against me and disgrac'd me all he could amongst the Neighbours showing his Warrant and repeating what had been Invented by his Wife who at that time the Devil had not assured or had it entered into her thoughts that I Hung the Gallows in Mourning There was no living for me in England if my Brothers ill Usage continued I writ to him to forbear and told him what his Wife aim'd at Which Letters were produc'd against me in Court But finding that there was no being quiet or preventing to be believ'd what was told and is since Creditted by the whole Town not only in their Shop but every Body they met or knew and that my Prayers were of no use I was advised by some as unthinking as my self to prosecute my said Brother but not to that degree as to take away his Life for the thing for which he was Indicted was only a breach of Trust and purely done to induce him to let me alone I left several Trunks which contained what I had at my said Brothers House when I went to Norfolk but at my return found them all broken open in their Custody some they return'd me by fair means The grand Jury found the Bill and I had a search Warrant which I deferr'd serving in hopes he would forbear speaking Ill of me some of the aforementioned things were sound in their House as the Two Constables viz. one Mr. Phips who Lives at the Kings-head near Holbourn Bars can justifie as well as the other But it is not denyed that my Brother was Sick of the Foul Distemper under which he languish'd for Two or Three Years together he was Bail'd and did not Die in Newgate as was reported but at his own House His Wife together with those of her party perswaded him to make use of his Credit and what he had to ruine