item: #1 of 111 id: A25656 author: England and Wales. Court of King's Bench. title: An account of the proceedings against Nathaniel Thomson, upon his tryal at the Kings Bench-Bar Westminster who was tryed, and found guilty on Wednesday the 26th of November 1684. for printing a dangerous and seditious libel, intitled the Prodigal return'd home, asserting the Popes supremacy in ecclesiastical affaires, &c. date: 1684.0 words: 1999 flesch: 48 summary: An account of the proceedings against Nathaniel Thomson, upon his tryal at the Kings Bench-Bar Westminster who was tryed, and found guilty on Wednesday the 26th of November 1684. An account of the proceedings against Nathaniel Thomson, upon his tryal at the Kings Bench-Bar Westminster who was tryed, and found guilty on Wednesday the 26th of November 1684. keywords: books; tcp; text; thomson cache: A25656.xml plain text: A25656.txt item: #2 of 111 id: A25800 author: Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Earl of, 1629-1685. title: The speech of the Earl of Argyle at his trial on the 12th of December, 1681 date: 1682.0 words: 2245 flesch: 55 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A25800) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 48006) keywords: earl; eebo; english; majesty; tcp; text cache: A25800.xml plain text: A25800.txt item: #3 of 111 id: A25867 author: Overbury, Thomas, Sir, d. 1684. title: The arraignment and conviction of Sr VValter Rawleigh, at the Kings Bench-barre at Winchester. on the 17. of November. 1603. Before the right Honorable the Earle of Suffolke, Lord Chamberline, the Earle of Devon-shire, Lord Henry Howard, Lord Cecill, Lord Wotton, Sir John Stanhope Lord Chiefe Justice of the Common-pleas, Popham and Andrewes, Justice Gaudy, Justice Warberton, Sir William Wade, commissioners. / Coppied by Sir Tho: Overbury. date: 1648.0 words: 13485 flesch: 60 summary: Proceedings against Sir Walter Rawleigh knight, at the Kings Bench-barre, in Westminster, the 28. of October, 1618 -- Sir Walter Rawleigh's lettet [sic] to the king the night before his death -- A copy of Sir Walter Rawleighs letter to his wife, the night before his death. keywords: accusation; atturney; death; god; hath; hee; justice; king; law; letter; lord; lord cobham; man; master; rawleigh; sir; sir walter; vvalter cache: A25867.xml plain text: A25867.txt item: #4 of 111 id: A25874 author: Cooke, Peter, d. 1696. title: The arraignment, tryal, and condemnation of Peter Cooke, Gent. for high-treason, in endeavouring to procure forces from France to invade this kingdom, and conspiring to levy war in this realm for assisting and abetting the said invasion, in order to the deposing of His sacred Majesty, King William, and restoring the late King Who upon full evidence was found guilty at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily, on Wednesday the 13th of May, 1696. And received sentence the same day. With the learned arguments both of the King's and prisoner's council upon the new Act of Parliament for regulating tryals in cases of treason. Perused by the Lord Chief Justice Treby, and the council present at the tryal. date: 1696.0 words: 45297 flesch: 83 summary: And further , That the said Peter Cook , during the War aforesaid , to wit , the aforesaid First Day of July , in the Seventh Year abovesaid , and divers other Days and Times before and after , at London aforesaid , in the Parish and Ward aforesaid , to the said Foes and Enemies of the same our Lord the King , did Adhere , and was Assisting : And his aforesaid most Wicked and Devilish Treasons , and Trayterous Compassings , Contrivances , Intentions , and Purposes aforesaid , to Fulfil , Perfect , and bring to Effect , and in Prosecution , Performance , and Execution of that Trayterous Adhering , He the said Peter Cook , as such a False Traytor , during the War aforesaid , to wit , the same First Day of July , in the Year abovesaid , at London aforesaid , in the Parish and Ward aforesaid , and divers other Days and Times , as well before as after , there , and elsewhere in London aforesaid , Falsly , Maliciously , Advisedly , Secretly , and Trayterously , and by Force and Arms , with one Robert Chernock , Sir John Friend and Sir William Parkyns , Knights , ( which said Robert Chernock , Sir John Friend , and Sir William Parkyns , were lately severally Duly Convicted and Attainted of High Treason , in Contriving and Conspiring the Death of our said Lord the King that now is ) and with divers other False Traytors to the Jurors unknown , did Meet , Propose , Treat , Consult , Consent , and Agree to Procure from the aforesaid Lewis the French King , of his Subjects , Forces and Soldiers , then and yet Foes and Enemies of our said Sovereign Lord William , now King of England , &c. great Numbers of Soldiers and Armed Men , this Kingdom of England to Invade and Fight with , and to Levy , Procure , and Prepare great Numbers of Armed Men , and Troops , and Legions against our said Lord the King that now is , to Rise up and be Formed , and with those Foes and Enemies , at and upon such their Invasion and Entry within this Kingdom of England , to Join and Unite , Rebellion and War against our said Lord the King that now is , within this Kingdom of England , to Make , Levy , and Carry on the same : our Lord the King so , as aforesaid , to Depose , and Him to Kill and Murther : And further with the said False Traytors , the same First Day of July , in the Year abovesaid , at London aforesaid , in the Parish and Ward aforesaid , Trayterously did Consult , Consent , and Agree to send the aforesaid Robert Chernock as a Messenger from him the said Peter Cock , and the same other Traytors , as far as , and into , the Kingdom of France , in Parts beyond the Seas , unto James , the Second , late King of England , to Propose to him , and to Request him to obtain from the aforesaid French King the aforesaid Soldiers and Armed Men for the Invasion aforesaid to be made , and Intelligence and Notice of such their Trayterous Intentions and Adherings , to the said late King James the Second , and the said other Foes and Enemies , and their Adherents , to give and shew , and them to inform of other Things , Particulars , and Circumstances thereunto Referring , for the Assistance , Animating , Comforting , and Aid of the said Foes and Enemies of the said Lord the King that now is , in the War aforesaid : And to Stir up and Procure those Foes and Enemies the readilier , and more boldly , this Kingdom of England to Invade , the Treasons , and Trayterous Contrivances , Compassings , Imaginings , and Purposes of the said Peter Cook aforesaid , to Perfect and Fulfil ; also the same First day of July , in the Seventh Year abovesaid , at London aforesaid , in the Parish and Ward aforesaid , He , the said Peter Cook , divers Horses , and very many Arms , Guns , Muskets , Pistols , Rapiers , and Swords , and other Weapons , Ammunition , and Warlike Matters , and Military Instruments , Falsly , Maliciously , Secretly , and Trayterously , did Obtain , Buy , Gather together , and Procure ; and to be Bought , Gathered together , Obtained , and Procured , did Cause , and in his Custody had , and detained to that Intent , To use the same in the said Invasion , War , and Rebellion against our said Lord the King that now is , Him , our said Lord the King , of and from the Regal State , Crown , and Government of this Kingdom of England , to Depose , Cast down , and Deprive , and Him to Kill and Murther ; and the Designs , Intentions , and all the Purposes of him the said Peter Cook aforesaid , to Fulfil , Perfect , and fully to bring to Effect , against the Duty of his Allegiance , and against the Peace of our said Sovereign Lord that now is , his Crown and Dignity , as also against the Form of the Statute in such Case made and provided . Be it remember'd , that Sir Robert Sawyer , Knight , Attorney General of our Lord the King that now is , who for the same our Lord the King in this part sueth , came here in the Court of our said Lord the King , before the King himself at Westminster , on Thursday next after three Weeks of St. Michael , the same Term ; and for the same our Lord the King , brought here into the Court of our said Lord the King , before the said King , then and there , a certain Information against Cardell Goodman , late of the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields , in the Country of Middlesex , Gentleman , which Information follows in these Words . keywords: arr; att; challenge; cook; evidence; freeholder; gen; goodman; jury; king; london; lord; pannel; porter; prisoner; shower; sir; sir b.; sir john; time; treby cache: A25874.xml plain text: A25874.txt item: #5 of 111 id: A25877 author: Colledge, Stephen, 1635?-1681, defendant. title: The arraignment, tryal and condemnation of Stephen Colledge for high-treason in conspiring the death of the king, the levying of war, and the subversion of the government : before the Right Honourable Sr. Francis North, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common-Pleas, and other commissioners of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery held at the city of Oxon for the county of Oxon, the 17th and 18th of August 1681. date: 1681.0 words: 81678 flesch: 88 summary: Said he , There is no good to be expected from the King ; for he and all his Family are Papists , and have ever been such , you know it , Sir. Mr. Serj. Jeff. Said he , I would he would begin ; but if he do not , we will begin with him and seize him ; for there are several Brave Fellows about this Town that will secure him till we have those Terms that we expect from him . keywords: colledge; court; discourse; dugdale; evidence; gen; hath; haynes; house; j. mr; jefferies; jones; king; law; lord; man; oxford; papers; parliament; pray; serj; sir; smith; speak; thing; time; treason; witnesses cache: A25877.xml plain text: A25877.txt item: #6 of 111 id: A25878 author: England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas. title: The arraignment, tryal and condemnation of Stephen Colledge for high-treason, in conspiring the death of the King, the levying of war, and the subversion of the government Before the Right Honourable Sir Francis North, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common-Pleas, and other commissioners of oyer and terminer and gaol-delivery held at the city of Oxon. for the county of Oxon. the 17th and 18th of August 1681. I do appoint Thomas Basset and John Fish to print the arraignment, tryal and condemnation of Stephen Colledge, and that no others presume to print the same. Fr. North. date: 1681.0 words: 81485 flesch: 89 summary: Said I , by whom ? Said he , Colonel Warcupp hath been at me , and he tells me — Mr. just . Mr. just . keywords: att; colledge; court; dugdale; evidence; gen; hath; haynes; house; j. mr; jeff; jones; king; law; lord; man; papers; parliament; pray; ser; sir; smith; speak; thing; time; treason; witnesses cache: A25878.xml plain text: A25878.txt item: #7 of 111 id: A25881 author: Cole, John, Plumber, defendant. title: The arraignment, tryal, conviction and condemnation of Henry Harrison, Gent. for the barbarous murther of Andrew Clenche, of Brownelowe-Street, in the parish of St. Andrew's Holborne, in the county of Middlesex, Doctor of physick at the sessions of the goal-delivery of Newgate, holden for the city of London, at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily, on the 6th, 7th, and 9th days of April, 1692, in the fourth year of Their Majesties reign : and also the examination of the said Henry Harrison, taken the 6th day of January, 1691, before the Right Honourable Sir John Holt, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of Their Majesties Court of King's and Queen's Bench at Westminster : to which is also added, The tryal of John Cole, for the murther of the said Doctor Clenche. date: 1692.0 words: 25978 flesch: 82 summary: [35]: The tryal of John Cole, for the murther of Dr. Andrew Clenche, 1692. for the barbarous murther of Andrew Clenche, of Brownelowe-Street, in the parish of St. Andrew's Holborne, in the county of Middlesex, Doctor of physick at the sessions of the goal-delivery of Newgate, holden for the city of London, at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily, on the 6th, 7th, and 9th days of April, 1692, in the fourth year of Their Majesties reign : and also the examination of the said Henry Harrison, taken the 6th day of January, 1691, before the Right Honourable Sir John Holt, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of Their Majesties Court of King's and Queen's Bench at Westminster : to which is also added, The tryal of John Cole, for the murther of the said Doctor Clenche. keywords: c. j.; clenche; coach; darnell; doctor; harrison; house; j. mr; lord; man; mr harrison; mrs; night; prisoner cache: A25881.xml plain text: A25881.txt item: #8 of 111 id: A25937 author: England and Wales. Parliament. title: Articles of impeachment and accusation, exhibited in Parliament against Colonell Nathaniel Fiennes touching his dishonorable surrender of the city and castle of Bristoll, by Clement Walker and William Prynne, Esquires : together with a letter from Mr. Prynne to Colonell Fiennes. date: 1643.0 words: 3695 flesch: 33 summary: Articles of impeachment and accusation, exhibited in Parliament against Colonell Nathaniel Fiennes touching his dishonorable surrender of the city and castle of Bristoll, by Clement Walker and William Prynne, Esquires : together with a letter from Mr. Prynne to Colonell Fiennes. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 241:E78, no 3) Articles of impeachment and accusation, exhibited in Parliament against Colonell Nathaniel Fiennes touching his dishonorable surrender of the city and castle of Bristoll, by Clement Walker and William Prynne, Esquires : together with a letter from Mr. Prynne to Colonell Fiennes. keywords: articles; castle; city; colonell; enemies; enemy; fiennes cache: A25937.xml plain text: A25937.txt item: #9 of 111 id: A26127 author: England and Wales. Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery (London and Middlesex). title: An Account of the tryal and conviction of Sir John Friend for high-treason in conspiring the death of His Most Sacred Majesty, King William, and the subvertion of the government, &c. : at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily on Monday the 23d of this instant March, 1696, before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Holt, the Lord Chief Justice Treby, &c. date: 1696.0 words: 1676 flesch: 56 summary: An Account of the tryal and conviction of Sir John Friend for high-treason in conspiring the death of His Most Sacred Majesty, King William, and the subvertion of the government, &c. : at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily on Monday the 23d of this instant March, 1696, before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Holt, the Lord Chief Justice Treby, &c. 1696 Approx. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 372:4) An Account of the tryal and conviction of Sir John Friend for high-treason in conspiring the death of His Most Sacred Majesty, King William, and the subvertion of the government, &c. : at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily on Monday the 23d of this instant March, 1696, before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Holt, the Lord Chief Justice Treby, &c. Friend, John, Sir, d. 1696. keywords: eebo; friend; john; tcp; text cache: A26127.xml plain text: A26127.txt item: #10 of 111 id: A26301 author: Castlemaine, Roger Palmer, Earl of, 1634-1705. title: An account of what past on Monday the 28th of October, 1689, in the House of Commons, and since at the King's-Bench-Bar at Westminster, in relation to the Earl of Castlemaine date: 1690.0 words: 5455 flesch: 53 summary: Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. You are pleas'd Sir to lay so great a Charge upon me , that ( without shuffling or impertinence ) I might ask time to consider it ; Yet since I well know how much you value your time , and since time also may make what I say suspected more of Artifice then Candor , I shall now ( without further delay ) let you and this great Assembly see ( where so many of Birth and Quality are met ) how far I am from deserving either censure or reproach . keywords: earl; house; law; lordship; rome; sir; speaker; tcp; text cache: A26301.xml plain text: A26301.txt item: #11 of 111 id: A28667 author: Bond, Samson. title: A publick tryal of the Quakers in Barmudas [sic] upon the first day of May, 1678 by Samson Bond, late the preacher of the Gospel in Barmudas. date: 1682.0 words: 55103 flesch: 71 summary: and although it be likewise true , ( in a true sence ) that every man that cometh into the world , is enlightened by Christ ( i. e. with reason ) the Son of God , as he is the Eternal Word that made the World : yet , the Evangilist hath not in that Text asserted , that there is a Light ( or enlightening ) in every Man , as he cometh into the World , which is the true Christ , and our only Saviour ; so that , thou hast plainly and openly belied that holy Man Io●r , in saying of him as above , that he so witnessed ; Namely , that the Light , ( or inlighting ) in every Man , as he comes into the World , is the true Christ , and Mans only Saviour : for , this Evangelist witnesseth otherwis● , as ( in ver . That God sent Christ to save all men from sin and death ( as he F. E. said ) whose Sufferings , Sacrifice , Mediation , Intercession and Offices ( or words to this effect ) we do own & witness as inwardly wrought and performed in us , and for us : And there is ( as they further aver ) a Divine Elect Seed in the Saints , which is the true Christ ( still the Idol-light within ) and suffers under sin in them , and is to be raised of a justification and righteousness of the Elect Seed within ; so that according to their Divinity , Christs bodily sufferings in and by the flesh , which he took of the Virgin , signifies nothing for our Justification in the sight of God : whereas these are new , self-devised imaginations , whereof no mention is made in the inspired Scriptures of Truth : I grant , that some Scriptures are by them pretended for evidence ( which perhaps are some of the things ( as in the Preface ) said by them to have been forgotten ) sc . Amos 2. 1● . keywords: apostle; blood; body; christ; doth; faith; flesh; god; hath; heaven; holy; jesus christ; life; light; lord; lord christ; man; nazareth; paul; quakers; saviour; scripture; sin; son; spirit; text; thee; things; thou; thy; ver; word; ● ● cache: A28667.xml plain text: A28667.txt item: #12 of 111 id: A28857 author: Boteler, William, d. 1678. title: Boteler's case being an impartial narrative of the tryal, & penitent behaviour of Master UUilliam Boteler, executed September 10th at Chelmsford, about the murder of Capt. Wade : with the substance of a sermon preached on that occasion, and his last speech faithfully taken. date: 1678.0 words: 8981 flesch: 32 summary: Boteler's case being an impartial narrative of the tryal, & penitent behaviour of Master UUilliam Boteler, executed September 10th at Chelmsford, about the murder of Capt. Wade : with the substance of a sermon preached on that occasion, and his last speech faithfully taken. Boteler's case being an impartial narrative of the tryal, & penitent behaviour of Master UUilliam Boteler, executed September 10th at Chelmsford, about the murder of Capt. Wade : with the substance of a sermon preached on that occasion, and his last speech faithfully taken. 1678 Approx. keywords: boteler; captain; death; god; life; lord; parsons; tcp; text; thee; thou; wade; way cache: A28857.xml plain text: A28857.txt item: #13 of 111 id: A29404 author: Baillie, Robert, d. 1684. title: A brief account of the indictment, tryal, conviction and execution of Mr. Robert Bailzie of Jeresswood upon the 22th, 23th and 24th of December 1684 : at His Majesties capital city of Edinburgh in his ancient kingdom of Scotland : where the said Mr. Robert Bailzie was hanged and afterwards quartered for high treason. date: 1684.0 words: 2158 flesch: 60 summary: A brief account of the indictment, tryal, conviction and execution of Mr. Robert Bailzie of Jeresswood upon the 22th, 23th and 24th of December 1684 : at His Majesties capital city of Edinburgh in his ancient kingdom of Scotland : where the said Mr. Robert Bailzie was hanged and afterwards quartered for high treason. A brief account of the indictment, tryal, conviction and execution of Mr. Robert Bailzie of Jeresswood upon the 22th, 23th and 24th of December 1684 : at His Majesties capital city of Edinburgh in his ancient kingdom of Scotland : where the said Mr. Robert Bailzie was hanged and afterwards quartered for high treason. keywords: bailzie; majesties; robert; sir; tcp; text cache: A29404.xml plain text: A29404.txt item: #14 of 111 id: A30726 author: J. B. (John Butler) title: The true case of John Butler, B.D., a minister of the true Church of England in answer to the libel of Martha his sometimes wife : treating of a marriage dissolved and made null by desertion and of a lawful concubinage in a case of necessity, wherein lawful marriage conveniently or possibly cannot be obtained. date: 1697.0 words: 17223 flesch: 60 summary: The true case of John Butler, B.D., a minister of the true Church of England in answer to the libel of Martha his sometimes wife : treating of a marriage dissolved and made null by desertion and of a lawful concubinage in a case of necessity, wherein lawful marriage conveniently or possibly cannot be obtained. The true case of John Butler, B.D., a minister of the true Church of England in answer to the libel of Martha his sometimes wife : treating of a marriage dissolved and made null by desertion and of a lawful concubinage in a case of necessity, wherein lawful marriage conveniently or possibly cannot be obtained. keywords: adultery; bed; butler; case; children; church; complainant; concubinage; desertion; est; fornication; god; hath; holy; john; law; laws; man; marriage; martha; mary; non; respondent; self; son; thing; tho; time; tomkins; wife; woman; words; years cache: A30726.xml plain text: A30726.txt item: #15 of 111 id: A31192 author: Dangerfield, Thomas, 1650?-1685. title: The case of Tho. Dangerfield with some remarkable passages that happened at the tryals of Elizabeth Cellier, the popish midwife, and the Earl of Castlemain, at the Kings-bench bar at Westminster, before Sir Will. Scroggs Kt, Lord Chief Justice, &c. in the month of June, 1680 : together with divers informations never yet publisht, John Gadbury his testimony, with all its evasions, some points of law insisted upon by the king & prisoners counsel; and the chief justice his opinion given therein, the manner and occasion of Dangerfield's commitment to prison, and also of his being discharged again and some animadversions upon the L.C.J. words / written by the hand of an indifferent person. date: 1680.0 words: 23653 flesch: 72 summary: Cellier . Cellier . keywords: att; c. j.; cellier; councel; dangerfield; gad; hath; house; informant; king; l. c.; lord; lordship; man; mrs; mrs cellier; pardon; powis; question; saith; time; witness cache: A31192.xml plain text: A31192.txt item: #16 of 111 id: A31885 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: An ansvver to the articles against Master Calamy, Master Martiall, Master Burton, Master Peters, Master Moleigne, Master Case, M. Sedgwicke, M. Evans, &c. and many other painfull divines who were impeached of high treason by His Majesty : first answering particularly the articles themselves, then shewing the mis-information of His Majestie by the bishops, concerning the same : expressing the great care and vigilancy of those theologians which they have and doe daily undertake with great zeale for the rooting out of popery the confounding of Rome and for the erecting the pious truth and sincerity of the holy gospel of Christ. date: 1642.0 words: 1560 flesch: 51 summary: An ansvver to the articles against Master Calamy, Master Martiall, Master Burton, Master Peters, Master Moleigne, Master Case, M. Sedgwicke, M. Evans, &c. and many other painfull divines who were impeached of high treason by His Majesty : first answering particularly the articles themselves, then shewing the mis-information of His Majestie by the bishops, concerning the same : expressing the great care and vigilancy of those theologians which they have and doe daily undertake with great zeale for the rooting out of popery the confounding of Rome and for the erecting the pious truth and sincerity of the holy gospel of Christ. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 249:E132, no 7) An ansvver to the articles against Master Calamy, Master Martiall, Master Burton, Master Peters, Master Moleigne, Master Case, M. Sedgwicke, M. Evans, &c. and many other painfull divines who were impeached of high treason by His Majesty : first answering particularly the articles themselves, then shewing the mis-information of His Majestie by the bishops, concerning the same : expressing the great care and vigilancy of those theologians which they have and doe daily undertake with great zeale for the rooting out of popery the confounding of Rome and for the erecting the pious truth and sincerity of the holy gospel of Christ. keywords: articles; master; master calamy; text cache: A31885.xml plain text: A31885.txt item: #17 of 111 id: A34463 author: Fox, George, 1624-1691. title: Copies of some few of the papers given into the House of Parliament in the time of James Naylers tryal there, which began the fifth of December, 1656 date: 1657.0 words: 4825 flesch: 75 summary: Is Christ in you ? Now where is this councel and chief Priests against him ? It is better to judge of things which you truly understand , pertaining to this life ( but that you cannot ) till you come to the Light that enlightens every man that comes into the world , and so leads into the Kingdom of God and Christ that is not of this world ; for there is a Kingdom of the world which is not become the Kingdom of Christ , which is in the transgression ; and there are the blasphemers in the transgression of the life which the Scriptures of truth is given forth from , which judges the truth blasphemy . Now wait in the Light that you may receive the wisdom of God which comes from Christ , by which all things was created , that with it you may come to use the creatures with the wisdom by which they were created to the Glory of God . keywords: blasphemy; christ; god; hath; things; truth; world cache: A34463.xml plain text: A34463.txt item: #18 of 111 id: A35351 author: Cullen, Francis Grant, Lord, 1658-1726. title: Sadducimus debellatus: or, a true narrative of the sorceries and witchcrafts exercis'd by the devil and his instruments upon Mrs. Christian Shaw, daughter of Mr. John Shaw, of Bargarran in the County of Renfrew in the West of Scotland, from Aug. 1696 to Apr. 1697. Containing the journal of her sufferings, as it was exhibited and prov'd by the voluntary confession of some of the witches, and other unexceptionable evidence, before the Commissioners appointed by the Privy Council of Scotland to enquire into the same. Collected from the records. Together with reflexions upon witchcraft in general, and the learned arguments of the lawyers, on both sides, at the trial of seven of those witches who were condemned: and some passages which happened at their execution. date: 1698.0 words: 42008 flesch: 50 summary: Whereas this Allegation is enforced , by pretending it were of dangerous consequence to allow such Witnesses to prove Meeting with the Devil , since Satan might have represented other●… by their False shapes . by Witnesses , and Tit. Witch●…raft . keywords: body; case; child; commissioners; damsel; day; devil; father; fits; girl; god; good; hand; head; house; lord; manner; margaret; minister; mother; mouth; night; persons; place; power; prisoners; satan; seiz'd; self; thee; things; thou; time; tormentors; witchcraft; witches; witnesses cache: A35351.xml plain text: A35351.txt item: #19 of 111 id: A38261 author: Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674. title: The proceedings in the House of Commons, touching the impeachment of Edward, late Earl of Clarendon, Lord High-Chancellour of England, Anno 1667 with the many debates and speeches in the House, the impeachment exhibited against him, his petition in answer thereto : as also the several weighty arguments concerning the nature of treason, bribery, &c. by Serj. Maynard, Sir Ed. S., Sir T.L., Mr. Vaughan, Sir Rob. Howard, Mr. Hambden [sic], and other members of that Parliament : together with the articles of high-treason exhibited against the said Earl, by the Earl of Bristol in the House of Lords on the 10th of July, 1663 : with the opinion of all the learned judges therein. date: 1700.0 words: 34430 flesch: 67 summary: And tho' I know not what the Legislative Power of a Parliament cannot do , yet it is not in the power of the Parliament , King , Lords , nor Commons , to declare any thing to be Treason which is not in the Common-Law Felony before . Then we told them , That we must Report to them , that be the Treason what it would , we could not go to the Lords to have it punished without that disadvantage , which the Publishing the Treason before-hand would expose us to by making of Witnesses , escaping of Parties , and the like ; then bad them consider , whether if we should lay before them a Treason in every Thing circumstanced as Gun-Powder Treason , they would not Imprison the Party till the whole Matter was opened . Lords . keywords: bill; case; charge; clarendon; commons; earl; hath; house; impeachment; judges; king; law; lords; majesty; man; parliament; power; question; sir; thing; tho; time; treason; way cache: A38261.xml plain text: A38261.txt item: #20 of 111 id: A38860 author: Russell, William, Lord, 1639-1683. title: An exact account of the procedings [sic] at the Old-Bayly this July the 13, 1683 with a true survey of the tryal of the Lord Russel, John Rouse, William Hone joyner, Capt. William Blage who were indicted for high treason in conspiring the Kings death, and raising arms to subvert the goverment [sic] and alter the religeion [sic], and conpsreing [sic] the death of his royal brother James Duke of York : the Lord Ruslel [sic], John Rouse, William Hone, and one Captain Thomas Walcot, being all 4 condem'd to be hang'd, drawn and quarter'd. date: 1683.0 words: 2733 flesch: 63 summary: An exact account of the procedings [sic] at the Old-Bayly this July the 13, 1683 with a true survey of the tryal of the Lord Russel, John Rouse, William Hone joyner, Capt. William Blage who were indicted for high treason in conspiring the Kings death, and raising arms to subvert the goverment [sic] and alter the religeion [sic], and conpsreing [sic] the death of his royal brother James Duke of York : the Lord Ruslel [sic], John Rouse, William Hone, and one Captain Thomas Walcot, being all 4 condem'd to be hang'd, drawn and quarter'd. An exact account of the procedings [sic] at the Old-Bayly this July the 13, 1683 with a true survey of the tryal of the Lord Russel, John Rouse, William Hone joyner, Capt. William Blage who were indicted for high treason in conspiring the Kings death, and raising arms to subvert the goverment [sic] and alter the religeion [sic], and conpsreing [sic] the death of his royal brother James Duke of York : the Lord Ruslel [sic], John Rouse, William Hone, and one Captain Thomas Walcot, being all 4 condem'd to be hang'd, drawn and quarter'd. Russell, William, Lord, 1639-1683. keywords: death; king; lord; tcp; text; william cache: A38860.xml plain text: A38860.txt item: #21 of 111 id: A38938 author: Brewster, Thomas. title: An exact narrative of the tryal and condemnation of John Twyn for printing and dispersing of a treasonable book with the tryals of Thomas Brewster, bookseller, Simon Dover, printer, Nathan Brooks, bookbinder, for printing, publishing, and uttering of seditious, scandalous, and malitious pamphlets : at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayly, London, the 20th, and 22th of February, 1663/4. date: 1664.0 words: 27257 flesch: 84 summary: Said he , I have no skill in correcting . Said he , It was my bad fortune to meddle with it ; said I , You lost a Press but a little while since , I wonder you would do this ; he seemed to be sorrowful . keywords: book; brewster; creek; dover; guilty; hide; house; indictment; jury; king; l. ch; lord; man; print; sheets; time; twyn cache: A38938.xml plain text: A38938.txt item: #22 of 111 id: A38972 author: Fox, George, 1624-1691. title: The examination and tryall of Margaret Fell and George Fox (at the severall assizes held at Lancaster the 14th and 16th days of the first moneth, 1663, and the 29th of the 6th moneth, 1664) for their obedience to Christs command who saith, swear not at all also something in answer to Bishop Lancelot Andrews sermon concerning swearing. date: 1664.0 words: 12675 flesch: 67 summary: In the Hebrew language it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But let your Communication be yea , yea , nay , nay , whatsoever is more then these cometh of evil ; in the Hebrew its 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And further proof , see how Jamse lived in the same Doctrine and practice , and held it forth to the 12 tribes which was the Jews , who had the oath of God , and was to swear in the time of the law ; see his general Epistle in the 5th Chap. and also speaking in the second Chapter of such as drove them before the Judgment-seat , but in the 5th Chapter this is his command above all things , My brethren swear not at all , neither by heaven nor by the earth , in the Greek its 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This you may call creatures or made things : But mark James goes further , and faith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 — nor by any other oath , but let your yea , be yea , and your nay , be nay , lest you fall into Condemnation , 9thly , And as for the oath of Supremacy & the other , it is to acknowledge the King of Eng. and Allegiance to him , which things hath been manifest and practised by us , but not by such as sware Allegiance to the Kings father , and swore the one way and the other way , and hast not thou and many of you taken the oath against him , and such as have sworn one while for him , and another while against him ; how are they in Allegiance to him that swears one way and another way ? and cannot there be in truth and faithfulness Allegiance to the King without swearing ? for now how should we stand in Allegiance to Christ if we did not obey his commands the King of Kings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for he commands us not to swear , but keep to yea and nay , and one of his great Embassadours to Nations that went with his Message to the twelve tribes saith , above all things my Brethren swear not at all , lest you fall into condemna●ion . keywords: christ; judge; king; law; oath; saith; thou; time cache: A38972.xml plain text: A38972.txt item: #23 of 111 id: A39604 author: Fitzharris, Edward, 1648?-1681. title: The last speech of Edward Fitz-harris at the time of his execution at Tyburn, the first of July, 1681 date: 1681.0 words: 1497 flesch: 67 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A39604) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 63756) keywords: fitz; harris; tcp; text cache: A39604.xml plain text: A39604.txt item: #24 of 111 id: A40570 author: England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London) title: A full and true account of the proceedings at the sessions of oyer and terminer, holden for the city of London, county of Middlesex, and goal-delivery of Newgate; which began at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bayly, on Wednesday, April 26. and ended on Fryday, April 28, 1682 Where were many remarkable proceedings, but more especially the tryal of James Boucher, and Walter Archer, for killing the bayliff of Westminster. As also, in relation to the person accused for getting his daughter with child: together, with the names of those that received sentence of death, the number of those burn'd in the hand, transported, and vvhip'd. date: 1682.0 words: 2919 flesch: 56 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 37043) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2145:22) keywords: eebo; english; evidence; house; sessions; tcp; text; works cache: A40570.xml plain text: A40570.txt item: #25 of 111 id: A40572 author: England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London) title: A full and true account of the proceedings at the sessions of oyer and terminer, holden for the city of London, county of Middlesex, and goal-delivery of Newgate; which began at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bayly, on Thursday, Iune 1st. and ended on Fryday, Iune 2d. 1682 Wherein is contained the tryal of many notorious malefactors, for murders, fellonies, burglary, and other misdemeanours, but more especially the tryal of Jane Kent for witch-craft. Together, with the names of those that received sentence of death, the number of those burn'd in the hand, transported, and vvhip'd. As likewise some proceedings in relation to the persons that violently took the lady out of the coach on Hounslow-Heath. date: 1682.0 words: 3092 flesch: 56 summary: In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. Wherein is contained the tryal of many notorious malefactors, for murders, fellonies, burglary, and other misdemeanours, but more especially the tryal of Jane Kent for witch-craft. keywords: evidence; iohn; london; prisoner; sessions; tcp; text cache: A40572.xml plain text: A40572.txt item: #26 of 111 id: A40574 author: England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London) title: A full and true account of the proceedings at the sessions of oyer and terminer, holden for the city of London, county of Middlesex, and goal-delivery of Newgate; which began at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily, on Wednesday, Septemb. 6th. and ended on Thursday, September 7th. 1682 Wherein is contained the tryal of many notorious malefactors, for murders, fellonies, burglary, and other misdemeanours, as likewise the tryal of Ralph Benton for killing the boy in Walbrook, and what relates to the sister of Stephen Colledge. together, with the names of those that received sentence of death, the number of those burn'd in the hand, transported, and to be vvhipp'd. date: 1682.0 words: 2849 flesch: 60 summary: In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 37342) keywords: eebo; house; london; sessions; tcp; text; works cache: A40574.xml plain text: A40574.txt item: #27 of 111 id: A41761 author: Impartial hand. title: The Grand pyrate, or, The life and death of Capt. George Cusack, the great sea-robber with an accompt of all his notorious robberies both at sea and land : together with his tryal, condemnation, and execution / taken by an impartial hand. date: 1676.0 words: 8857 flesch: 38 summary: I understand that the common people of the Colony manifested agreat dissatisfaction at the concernment of those that interested themselves , also that the authority resented the same , and took security from one Dominick Bodkin an Irish man , the principal correspondent with Cusack , to respond the claims of such as were concerned in the said Ship , and should in a year and a day prosecute the same ; but the said term being elapsed and no demand made , his Bonds became void , and he by the improving of what his profit was there , is become very considerable , and this year hath been here with a very rich Cargo ; and had the order you intimate met him , it might possibly have prevailed for some competent satisfaction ; the Magistrates and People hearing a general displacency against those that were concerned , but him in particular , as being the only and immediate Agent ; he is gone hence for Virginia and thence is intended for Flanders , with at least a 1000 Hogs heads of Tobacco in two Ships upon his imployment ; and in regard his success here hath been so good , 't is probable he may come here again . Edward Creswel of London-derry maketh Oath , that about the first day of July last past , being aboard the Ship , called the Robert , one Mr. Calhoone being owner , the said Ship being bound from Amsterdam to Newcastle , one Symon Harcourt being Master , did take in one Smith , alias Dixon , alias Cusack , with several others of the said Cusacks Companions , pretending them selves to be passengers , and the said Ship being at Sea , this Deponent did often observe the said Harcourt and Cusack and the rest of the pretended Passengers whispering together , which gave this Deponent cause to believe , that the said Harcourt and Cusack , and the rest of his pretended Passengers , did intend to surprize and seize the said Ship ; soon after one of Cusacks Companions ( this Deponent being asleep ) came to him with a Sword drawn in his hand , and did awake this Deponent striking him over the ▪ face with the flat of his Sword , and calling him Dog , Swearing several Oaths , using the Deponent in a very ill manner , and said the Ship was their own , and that they seized her by Vertue of a French Commission , and afterward came up with three Ships , two Swedes , and one Dane , and Robb'd them , leaving them not so much as Victuals to maintain them for Twenty four Hours , having taken their Sails , Cables and Anchors , leaving them to the mercy of the Sea , and one Main-Sail ; and having begged on their knees for their Fore-Sail , and Anchor , in a passion they let their Water go out of their Casks which was more dear to them than their Victuals , he bidding them go , the Devil would furnish them with Sails and Anchors ; this Deponent having humbly begged for a Sute of his own Cloaths , after all being taken from him but his Shirt and his Drawers , Cusack with his Sword drawn caused him to leap over board , and if the Danes Boat had not been near , ( whom they had Robb'd ) this Deponent had been drowned ; and this Deponent further maketh Oath that they took out of the said Swede Ship , a parcel of Dollars to the value of 1000. keywords: boat; captain; cargo; cusack; deponent; english; george; men; power; sea; ship; tcp; text; time; vessel cache: A41761.xml plain text: A41761.txt item: #28 of 111 id: A41804 author: Grascome, Samuel, 1641-1708? title: An appeal of murther from certain unjust judges, lately sitting at the Old Baily to the righteous judge of heaven and earth; and to all sensible English-men, containing a relation of the tryal, behaviour, and death of Mr. William Anderton, executed June 16. 1693. at Tyburn, for pretended high treason. date: 1693.0 words: 16619 flesch: 44 summary: ( Pardon the Expression , for the very Words were used , ) and therefore no matter whether the Law was strained , or not ; they had caught a Man whom they thought fit should die , if not for his Crimes , yet for Example : And thus we have bravely secured our Lives , Liberties and Estates , when men are hanged for Reasons of State , not for Offences against Law. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. keywords: anderton; books; case; evidence; jury; law; life; man; matter; men; printing; prisoner; stephens; thing; time; treason cache: A41804.xml plain text: A41804.txt item: #29 of 111 id: A42872 author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. title: Master Glyn's reply to the Earle of Straffords defence of the severall articles objected against him by the House of Commons Published by speciall direction, out of an authentick copy. date: 1641.0 words: 18183 flesch: 40 summary: My Lords , I beseech you give me leave ; there is no greater safety to Kings and people , then to have the throne incircled with good Counsellers ; and no greater danger to both , then to have it encompassed with wicked and dangerous ones ; and yet I beseech you call to mind how hee hath attempted to deprive the subject of all meanes to discover this danger , by insinuating to your Lordships , what a dangerous thing it were , if Counsellers should be called in question for giving of counsell ; for who then ( saith he ) would be a Counseller ? where is your safeguard ? where is the Kings service ? Is not this , as much as in him lies , to deprive the people of the means whereby they must make themselves happy , and whereby the King must be happy , that is , by his having good Councellours about him ? and yet he infuses that venome , that the questioning of Counsellours is dangerous both to King and Peeres , if it should be brought into example . He begins with the fifteenth Article , and pretends that that is not proved ; the ground and foundation of that Article was a warrant issued out by himselfe to a Sergeant at Armes , one Savill , which gave directions and power to that Serjeant to lay souldiers on any person that should contemne the Processe of the Councell ▪ boord in Ireland ; that was the effect : Now ( sayes he ) this warrant is not produced , and addes , that the Judges will tell your Lordships , that if a man bee charged with any thing under hand and seale , the deed must be produced and proved , or else no credit is to bee given to it . keywords: answer; article; hath; hee; himselfe; ireland; king; law; lord; lordships; parliament; people; power; strafford; treason; warre; words cache: A42872.xml plain text: A42872.txt item: #30 of 111 id: A43633 author: Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708. title: Scandalum magnatum, or, The great trial at Chelmnesford assizes held March 6, for the county of Essex, betwixt Henry, Bishop of London, plaintiff, and Edm. Hickeringill rector of the rectory of All-Saints in Colchester, defendant, faithfully related : together with the nature of the writ call'd supplicavit ... granted against Mr. Hickeringill ... as also the articles sworn against him, by six practors of doctors-common ... Published to prevent false reports. date: 1682.0 words: 65214 flesch: 55 summary: Nor does the Rubrick say , that Men are bound to take a pair of Oars , and go by Water to Fulham to be confirmed — as if men were dipt with the Error Anabaptistical , and thought it necessary to go to Heaven by Water , ( more then needs . ) Prudent Men ( tho' ) and Men of Courage ( like a Lyon , or a right English Mastiff ) stalk and walk on , when little Currs bark at them , answering their yelping , only with Contempt : Convicia , si irascaris , tua divulgas , spreta exolescunt , saith Tacitus ; If you seek to revenge Slanders , you proclaim them as your own ; But if you despise them , they vanish of themselves . keywords: bishop; book; canons; cause; church; clergy; common; contrary; court; day; declaration; defendant; devil; england; english; george; god; good; hand; harris; hickeringill; honour; house; judg; judgment; jury; justice; king; kingdom; law; laws; london; lord; lordship; man; men; nay; non; oath; parliament; people; plot; poor; power; prelates; reputation; right; self; sir; statute; tell; thing; tho; thou; time; truth; verdict; way; witnesses; words; world; writ cache: A43633.xml plain text: A43633.txt item: #31 of 111 id: A43885 author: Carleton, Mary, 1642?-1673. title: An historical narrative of the German princess containing all material passages, from her first arrivall at Graves-end, the 30th of March last past, untill she was discharged from her imprisonment, June the sixth instant. Wherein also is mentioned, sundry private matters, between Mr. John Carlton, and others, and the said princess; not yet published. Together with a brief and notable story, of Billing the Brick-layer, one of her pretended husbands, coming to New-Gate, and demanding of the keeper her deliverance, on Monday the eighth instant. Written by her self, for the satisfaction of the world, at the request of divers persons of honour. date: 1663.0 words: 9883 flesch: 65 summary: Wherein also is mentioned, sundry private matters, between Mr. John Carlton, and others, and the said princess; not yet published. Wherein also is mentioned, sundry private matters, between Mr. John Carlton, and others, and the said princess; not yet published. keywords: askt; carlton; great; house; husband; king; lord; mary; person; self; stedman; time; world cache: A43885.xml plain text: A43885.txt item: #32 of 111 id: A45671 author: Harrison, Henry, d. 1692. title: A true copy of a letter, Writen by Mr. Harrison, in Newgate, to a near relation, after his condemnation for the murther of Doctor Clinch. date: 1692.0 words: 1526 flesch: 66 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A45671.xml plain text: A45671.txt item: #33 of 111 id: A46139 author: Cornwallis of Eye, Charles Cornwallis, Baron, 1655-1698. title: An impartial account of the trial of the Lord Conwallis [sic] date: 1679.0 words: 7202 flesch: 72 summary: Lord _____ not guilty . Cl. Cr. Virtute , &c. L. H. Stew. Call the Constable of the Tower to return his Precept and his Prisoner . keywords: centinel; conwallis; evidence; high; lord; lord conwallis; lord high; murder; prisoner; steward cache: A46139.xml plain text: A46139.txt item: #34 of 111 id: A46510 author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II) title: A proclamation, whereas upon information we have received against Charles Earl of Macclesfeild, we have thought fit to direct our warrant for apprehending the said Earl for high treason James R. date: 1685.0 words: 1087 flesch: 63 summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A46510) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 58192) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: earl; eebo; tcp; text cache: A46510.xml plain text: A46510.txt item: #35 of 111 id: A49468 author: Anderson, Lionel, d. 1710, defendant. title: A brief account of the proceedings against the six popish priests, condemned for high-treason on the 17th day of this instant January, 1679/80 viz. Lionel Anderson, alias Munson, William Russell, George Parry, Henry Starkey, James Corker, and Will. Marshal, two Benedictine monks, formerly tryed with Wakeman : with whom was likewise tryed Alexander Lumsdell : who though he appeared to be a priest, yet being born in Scotland, he continues upon a special verdict : the heads of the evidence against each of them, and their defences and behaviour. date: 1680.0 words: 2779 flesch: 61 summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). keywords: eebo; evidence; priests; tcp; text cache: A49468.xml plain text: A49468.txt item: #36 of 111 id: A49785 author: Lakeland, Mother. aut title: The lawes against vvitches, and conivration And some brief notes and observations for the discovery of witches. Being very usefull for these times, wherein the Devil reignes and prevailes over the soules of poore creatures, in drawing them to that crying sin of witch-craft. Also, the confession of Mother Lakeland, who was arraigned and condemned for a witch, at Ipswich in Suffolke. Published by authority. date: 1645.0 words: 3402 flesch: 66 summary: And for the better restraining the said offences , and more severe punishing the same , be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid ; That if any person or persons , after the said Feast of St. Michael the Archangell next comming , shall use , practise , or exercise any invocation or conjuration of an evil and wicked spirit : or shall consult , covenant with , entertaine , imploy , feed , or reward any evil and wicked spirit , to or for any intent or purpose ; or take up any dead man , woman , or child , out of his , her , or their grave , or any other place where the dead body resteth ; or the skin , bone , or any other part of any dead p●rson , to be imployed , or used in any manner of Witchcraft , Sorcery , Charme , or Inchantment , or shall use , practise , or exercise , any Witchcraft , Inchantment , Charme , or Sorcery , whereby any person shall be Killed , Destroyed , Wasted , Consumed , Pined , or Lamed , in His or Her body , or any part thereof ; that then every such Offender , or Offenders , their Ayders , Abetters , and Councellors , being of any of the said offences duly and lawfully Convicted and Attainted , shall suffer paines of death as a Felon or Felons , and shall lose the priviledge and benefit of Clergy and Sanctuary . And further , to the intent that all manner of practise , use or exercise of Witchcraft , Inchantment , Charme , or Sorcery , should be from henceforth utterly avoided , abolished , and taken away : Be it Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament , that if any person or persons , shall from and after the said Feast of St. Michaell the Archangell next comming , take upon him or them , by Witchcraft , Inchantment , Charme , or Sorcery , to tell or declare in what place any Treasure of Gold or Silver should or might be found or had in the earth , or other secret places ; or where goods , or things lost , or stolne , should be found or become , or to the intent to provoke any person to unlawfull love , or whereby any Cattell , or Goods of any person shall be destroyed , wasted , or impaired ; or to hurt or destroy any person in his or her body , although the same be not effected and done , that then all and every such person or persons so offending , and being thereof lawfully convicted , shall for the said offence suffer imprisonment by the space of one whole year , without baile or maineprise ; and once in every quarter of the said year , shall in some Market-Town , upon the Market day , or at any such time as any faire shall be kept there , stand openly upon the Pillory by the space of 6. hours , and there shall openly confesse his or her errour and offence . keywords: devil; party; person; spirit; text; witches cache: A49785.xml plain text: A49785.txt item: #37 of 111 id: A50863 author: Baillie, Robert, d. 1684. title: The tryal and process of high-treason and doom of forfaulture against Mr. Robert Baillie of Jerviswood traitor by His Majesties special command ... date: 1685.0 words: 18791 flesch: 41 summary: Nevertheless , it is o● verity that the said Mr. Robert Baillie of Jerviswood , shaking off all fear of God , respect and regard to His Majesties Authority and Laws ; and having conceived most unjustly , a great and extraordinary malice and harted against His Majesties Person and Government , and having designed most Traiterously to debar His Royal Highness , His Majesties only Brother , from His due Right of Succession , did amongst many other Traiterous Acts , tending to promove that wicked Design , endeavour to get himself Elected one of the Commissioners for Negotiating the settlement of a Colony of this Nation in Carolina , in one or other of the days of the Moneths of January , February , March , April , or May , One thousand six hundred and eighty three years ; and that he might thereby have the sreer and better access to Treat with the Earls of Shaftsbury and Essix , the Lord Russel and others , who had entered into a Conspiracy in England against His Majesties Person and Government , and with Colonel Rumsay , Walcot , West , and Ferguson , and others who had likewise Conspired the Murder of His Majesties Sacred Person , and of the Person of His Royal Highness ; and finding that he could not get himself Elected one of the said Commissioners , he resolved to go to London upon his own expenses , and declared to severals ( whom he took great pains to draw in to be his accomplices ) that his Design was to push foreward the People of England , who did nothing but talk , that they might go on effectually ; and after he had settled a Correspondency here , he did go up to London in one or other of the saids Moneths , with Sir John Cochran and Commissar Monro , and did then , and there , Transact with the saids Conspirators , or one or other of them , to get a sum of Money to the late Earl of Argile , a Declaired Traitor , for bringing home of Men and Arms , for raising a Rebellion against His Majesty , and Invading this his Native Countrey ; and so earnest was he in the said Design , that he did chide those English Conspirators , for not sending the same timcously , and lamented the delayes used in it ; and perswaded the late Earl of Argile and others in his name to accept of any him , rather than not to engage : and amongst the many meetings that he had at London , for carrying on the said Traiterous design , there was one at his own Chamber , where he did meet with the Lord Melvil , Sir John Cochran , and the Cessnocks Elder and Younger , and amongst others , with Mr. William Veatch a declared Traitor , and there he did treat of the carying on of the said Rebellion , and of the money to be furnished by the English for Argyle , for buying of Armes . And that if the Scots would attempt any thing for their own relief , they would get assistance of Horse from England ; and from that meeting , he or ane , or other of them did send down Mr. Robert Martin to prevent any rysing , till it should be seasonable for carying on of their Designs , which Mr. Robert , after he came to Scotland , did treat with Palwart and others , for carying on of the said Rebellion , by securing His Majesties Officers of State , His Castles and Forces , and by putting his Correspondents here , and there Associates , in readiness , to assist the late Earl of Argyle ; and after the said Mr. Baillie had engadged many of his Countrey-men in England , and had assured his Correspondants here , that the English were resolved to seclud his Royal-Highness from his due right of Succession , thereby to encourage them to concur in the said Rebellion , and Exclusion , he flew to that hight , that he did particularly and closly correspond with Mr. Robert Ferguson , Sir Thomas Armstrong , Collonel Rumsay , and Walcot , who were accessory to that horrid part of the Couspiracy , which was designed against the sacred Life of His Majesty , and the Life of His Royal-Highness , and did sit up several nights with them , concerting that bloody Massacer : at least the said Mr. Robert Baillie of Jerviswood was , and is guilty of having correspondence with the late Earl of Argyle , and Mr. William Veatch declared Traitors , and of being art and part of an Conspiracy , for assisting of these who were to rise in arms against His Sacred Majesty , and for exclusion of His Royal Brother , and of concealing and not revealing the accession and proposals of others for that effect . keywords: arms; baillie; case; deponent; design; earl; england; jerviswood; john; late; london; lords; majesties; money; pannal; robert; scotland; sir; tarras; time; treason; william; witnesses cache: A50863.xml plain text: A50863.txt item: #38 of 111 id: A50871 author: Baillie, Robert, d. 1684. title: The tryal and process of high-treason and doom of forfaulture against Mr. Robert Baillie of Jerviswood traitor ... date: 1685.0 words: 18810 flesch: 40 summary: Sometime thereafter , Mr. Shepherd told the Deponent , that he had communicat the Contents of the Letter above-named , to Colonel Sidney , and that Colonel Dunvers was present , and told the Deponent , that Colonel Sidney was averse from imploying the late Earl of Argile , or medling with him , judging him a man too much affected to the Royal Family , and inclin'd to the present Church-Government ; yet Mr. Shepherd being put upon it by the Deponent , still urg'd , that one might be sent to the Earl of Argile ; but as Mr. Shepherd told him , he was suspected upon the account of his urging so much ; yet afterwards he press'd , without the Deponents knowledge , that the Deponent being to go to Holland however , might have some Commission to the Earl of Argile , which he having inform'd the Deponent of , the Deponent told him , that he himself would not be concern'd , but if they would send another , he would introduce him ; but nothing of this was done : upon which the Deponent went over , without any Commission from any body , to Holland , never meeting with James Stuart above-nam'd : He was introduc'd to the Earl of Argile , with whom he had never before convers'd ; and did there Discourse what had past betwixt Mr. Shepherd and him ; and particularly , about remitting of Money to the said Earl from England ; of which the said Mr. Stuart had written to the Deponent , namely of 30000 pounds Sterling ; and of the raising of 1000 Horse and Dragoons ; and the securing the Castle of Edinburgh , as a matter of the greatest importance : The method of doing this was propos'd by the Deponent , to be one hour , or thereby , after the relieving of the Guards : My Lord Argile was of Opinion , that without them nothing was to be done ; and that if that number were rais'd in England to the said Earl , he would come into Scotland with them ; and that there being so few Horse and Dragoons to meet them , he judg'd he might get the Countrey without trouble , having such a standing Body for their Friends to Rendezvous to ; and the said Earl said he could show the Deponent the conventient places for Landing , if he understood ; and as the Deponent remembers , where the Ships could attend . keywords: argile; arms; baillie; case; deponent; design; earl; england; jerviswood; late; london; lords; majesties; money; pannal; person; robert; scotland; sir; tarras; time; treason; william; witnesses cache: A50871.xml plain text: A50871.txt item: #39 of 111 id: A50890 author: Baillie, Robert, d. 1684. title: A true and plain account of the discoveries made in Scotland, of the late conspiracies against His Majesty and the government extracted from the proofs lying in the records of His Majesties Privy Council, and the high justice court of the nation : together with an authentick extract of the criminal process and sentence against Mr. Robert Baillie of Jerviswood / extracted by command of His Majesties most honourable Privy Council of Scotland ... date: 1685.0 words: 37541 flesch: 40 summary: WEst much way daily at I i● with 69415358475944503322 then or 4253514857485352 or a if to 5644693941445057 at in 5744525844524244 of he cause other to keep and also did 58445240525357 persons any thing they of any if gave any Mr. M. did thereof knew these and relation 39505360435352 and go he 585644405862 any with any in or 3648525●445642●3 5159524445 he send Air to be 40504056514443 Sheils is as done extremities to them knew 3951485248575844 657 if 4056 51445●66 others any other and knew to if or to if persons of and imploy 384250445649 person him any thing others say they plea●e will to to of money out of him if their now he the 3157 457 52●349 he 233246504057465360 who who of person did or they or any to a here where any arrived the and you are 58●452445●58 you that others conversed since write to the was imployed and knew or present kept with going 446950 to the of for the perswade go be for fear found to or above that the 384●485642594858 go 6942 44●7525349 away drawn correspondence 4653●9445651445258 any of 4●●051485058●3 2 Mr. the 49485246●7 my or and with at had for of 48●2584456534640●85●5657 are as pre●dent is desirous things given 44 the privat or the if send 50 party person M. to any other and with and or or to 42535956●85453565844 5957 effect named disswade the to or money swear 5●444144 50●85352 any persons and roll to 332246504057465360 any the if any black 6053435738 place meeting the C. and for M. any they Rebels before meeting Stile L. in go what as , lib. A true and plain account of the discoveries made in Scotland, of the late conspiracies against His Majesty and the government extracted from the proofs lying in the records of His Majesties Privy Council, and the high justice court of the nation : together with an authentick extract of the criminal process and sentence against Mr. Robert Baillie of Jerviswood / extracted by command of His Majesties most honourable Privy Council of Scotland ... keywords: argile; arms; baillie; carstares; conspiracy; council; deponent; design; earl; england; having; horse; ierviswood; iohn; king; late; letter; little; london; lord; majesties; men; money; pannal; party; person; robert; scotland; sir; tarras; thing; thought; time; treason; witnesses; words cache: A50890.xml plain text: A50890.txt item: #40 of 111 id: A52228 author: England and Wales. Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery (London and Middlesex). title: Nevvs from the sessions, or, The whole tryal of George Allen the butcher vvho murthered his vvife in the fields behind Islington, on Friday the 5th of this instant February, and the manner how the same came to be discovered : as also the full tryal of John Harter the oastler, for stealing au [sic] horse, and an hundred and twenty pounds of money, for which he is convicted of felony : with the tryals of several other malefactors for divers notorious crimes, and other remarkable passages at the sessions begun at Justice-hall in the Old Bayly, the 19th of Febr. 1674/5. date: 1675.0 words: 2654 flesch: 55 summary: Nevvs from the sessions, or, The whole tryal of George Allen the butcher vvho murthered his vvife in the fields behind Islington, on Friday the 5th of this instant February, and the manner how the same came to be discovered : as also the full tryal of John Harter the oastler, for stealing au [sic] horse, and an hundred and twenty pounds of money, for which he is convicted of felony : with the tryals of several other malefactors for divers notorious crimes, and other remarkable passages at the sessions begun at Justice-hall in the Old Bayly, the 19th of Febr. Nevvs from the sessions, or, The whole tryal of George Allen the butcher vvho murthered his vvife in the fields behind Islington, on Friday the 5th of this instant February, and the manner how the same came to be discovered : as also the full tryal of John Harter the oastler, for stealing au [sic] horse, and an hundred and twenty pounds of money, for which he is convicted of felony : with the tryals of several other malefactors for divers notorious crimes, and other remarkable passages at the sessions begun at Justice-hall in the Old Bayly, the 19th of Febr. 1674/5. England and Wales. keywords: eebo; english; george; sessions; tcp; text cache: A52228.xml plain text: A52228.txt item: #41 of 111 id: A52398 author: Norfolk, Henry Howard, Duke of, 1655-1701. title: His Grace the Duke of Norfolk's charge against the Dutchess before the House of Lords, and the Dutchesses answer with the depositions at large of the witnesses that were examined on both sides. date: 1692.0 words: 5562 flesch: 46 summary: 2003-12 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2003-12 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2004-08 Melanie Sanders Sampled and proofread 2004-08 Melanie Sanders Text and markup reviewed and edited 2004-10 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE PROCEEDINGS Before the House of Lords , Between the Duke and Dutchess OF NORFOLK , &c. His GRACE the Duke of Norfolk's CHARGE Against the DUTCHESS , BEFORE THE House of Lords , AND THE Dutchesses Answer . JVdith Stourton saith , that she was Servant to the Dutchess of Norfolk when the Report was of the Dutchess and Mr. Germain , which was about a week before the Duke and Dutchess went to France , she was asked by the Lord Peterborough in the presence of the Duke of Norfolk in the Dukes house in St. James's Square ( where they shut the Door ) as she would answer it before Almighty God , if she did not know whether his Daughter was an Adulteress ? Her answer was , as she hoped to see God in Heaven , the Dutchess was as Vertuous as any woman alive , for ought I know , she saith , that what she then said is true , and if she should pretend to say any other , she should wrong her self , she saith , that no one was present beside the Lord Peterborough and the Duke , when they Examined her , and that she saw no Shirt or VVastcoat at that time , and that she doth not Remember that she said to Mrs. Webb any thing concerning the Dutchess and Mr. Germaine , and thinks she never spoke with Mrs. Webb , and she was not at Windsor when the Duke was at Portsmouth , she saith , there was a Report of Scandalls which she was sorry for . ELizabeth Camell saith , that she went with the Duke and Dutchess of Norfolk into France , they went together very lovingly , and parted so , she thinks the Duke staid with her about a fortnight , the Dukes Eye was ill , and my Lady went often to him , and when she did so we retired , my Lady dressed his Eye , they Eat and Drank together every day , they did not Lodge together that she knows : keywords: duke; dutchess; germaine; house; lady; lord; mrs; norfolk; saith cache: A52398.xml plain text: A52398.txt item: #42 of 111 id: A52636 author: H. N. title: A Letter concerning Sir William Whitlock's bill for the trials in cases of treason written Oct. 1693 upon the request of a friend who is an honest member of the House of Commons, and now committed to the press upon the solicitation of several who think it may be of publick use to let it come abroad before the next meeting of the Parliament. date: 1694.0 words: 4758 flesch: 52 summary: Indeed our best Princes have always sold us for our Money the best Commodities , good Laws : But even the worst of Princes must give the People good Laws , whilst the House of Commons keeps the Pu●s● , and the Crown stands in need of our Supplies . 2007-12 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-12 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-04 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-04 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A LETTER concerning Sir William Whitloc●● Bill for Trials in Cases of Treason , written Oct. 16●● upon the Request of a Friend who is an honest Mem●●● of the House of Commons ; and now committed to 〈◊〉 Press upon the Solicitation of several who think it 〈◊〉 be of publick Vse to let it come abroad before 〈◊〉 next meeting of the Parliament . keywords: bill; king; law; men; prisoner; tcp; text; trials cache: A52636.xml plain text: A52636.txt item: #43 of 111 id: A52652 author: England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London). title: The narrative of the sessions, February 26. 1678/9. With a particular account of the tryal of the notorious coiners, that received sentence for treason: and all other malefactors condemned, burnt in the hand, or to be whipt, and their respective crimes. Licensed, February 27. 1678/9. date: None words: 3382 flesch: 59 summary: In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 30898) keywords: eebo; february; house; money; stealing; tcp; text; woman cache: A52652.xml plain text: A52652.txt item: #44 of 111 id: A53577 author: Harrison, William, fl. 1660. title: A true and perfect account of the examination, confession, trial, condemnation and execution of Joan Perry, and her two sons, John and Richard Perry, for the supposed murder of Will. Harrison, Gent Being one of the most remarkable occurrences which hath happened in the memory of man. Sent in a letter (by Sir Thomas Overbury, of Burton, in the county of Gloucester, Knt. and one of His Majesty's justices of the peace) to Thomas Shirly, Doctor of physick, in London. Also Mr. Harrison's own account how he was conveyed to Turky, and there made a slave above 2 years, when his master (who bought him there) dying, he return'd to England; in the mean while, supposed to be murdered by his man-servant, who falsly accused his own mother and brother as guilty of the same, and were all three executed for it on Broadway-Hills, in Gloucestershire. date: 1676.0 words: 7112 flesch: 47 summary: A true and perfect account of the examination, confession, trial, condemnation and execution of Joan Perry, and her two sons, John and Richard Perry, for the supposed murder of Will. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1838:16) A true and perfect account of the examination, confession, trial, condemnation and execution of Joan Perry, and her two sons, John and Richard Perry, for the supposed murder of Will. keywords: brother; campden; harrison; house; john; master; mother; perry cache: A53577.xml plain text: A53577.txt item: #45 of 111 id: A55937 author: England and Wales. Assizes (Southwark) title: The Proceedings at the assizes in Southwark, for the county of Surrey begun on Thursday the 21th of March, and not ended till Tuesday the 26 of the same month, 1678 : being an account of the tryal of the woman for murdering her husband, with exact proof that came in against her, and her confession and pleas at the bar : upon which she was found guilty, and condemned to be burnt to ashes : as likewise, the tryals and condemnation of two notorious high-way-men : of a woman for murdering her bastard-childe : and of a man for another murder : together with a fall relation of all other remarkable passages there, and the number how many are to die, with their several facts : how many burnt in the hand, and how many to be transported, and to be whipped. date: 1678.0 words: 2505 flesch: 62 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A55937) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 58456) keywords: eebo; english; hand; tcp; text; woman cache: A55937.xml plain text: A55937.txt item: #46 of 111 id: A55942 author: England and Wales. Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery (London and Middlesex). title: The proceedings at the Sessions House in the Old-Baily, London on Thursday the 24th day of November, 1681 before His Majesties commissioners of Oyer and Terminer upon the bill of indictment for high-treason against Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury : published by His Majesties special command. date: 1681.0 words: 27193 flesch: 77 summary: Said I , my Lord , I suppose his Guards can't defend him from the whole Kingdom . Said I , I would not have your Lordship expose my cause in these day's . keywords: booth; earl; foreman; gentlemen; jury; king; lord; lord shaftsbury; papilion; parliament; shaftsbury; sir; smith; thing; time; witnesses cache: A55942.xml plain text: A55942.txt item: #47 of 111 id: A55947 author: Fitzharris, Edward, 1648?-1681. title: The proceedings in relation to the tryal of Edward Fitz-Harris, at the Kings-bench-bar in Westminster-Hall, who stands indicted for high-treason which proceedings were on Wednesday the 4th. and Saturday the 7th. of this instant May, 1681 ... date: 1681.0 words: 2556 flesch: 52 summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A55947) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 56969) ON the 4th of this Instant , about 9 in the Morning , Edward Fitz-Harris was brought from the Tower by Water , strongly Guarded to the Kings-Bench-Barr in Westminster-Hall ; where being demanded what he would plead , he delivered his Plea which was ready drawn up in Writing to the Court , and prayed that it might be Read , which was Granted ; but before the Reading of it , one of the Counsel for the Prisoner stood up , and desired that he might be heard a few words , which were to this purpose , That they had endeavoured what in them lay to draw up their Plea to concurr with the Law in all points : And farther , That they had taken a view of the Jornals of the Lords house , and the Entrys of the House of Commons , to incert from them what was material in the behalf of the Prisoner , and hoped the Plea was such , as could not be refused , and therefore prayed that it might be Read and Accepted . keywords: commons; court; prisoner; tcp; text cache: A55947.xml plain text: A55947.txt item: #48 of 111 id: A59394 author: Hewit, John, 1614-1658. title: The several tryals of Sir Henry Slingsby, Kt., John Hewet, D.D., and John Mordant, Esq., for high treason, in Westminster-Hall together with the Lord President's speech before the sentence of death was pronounced against the afore named Sir H. Slingsby and Dr. Hewet, being the 2 of June, 1658, at which time the said Mr. Mordant was by the court acquitted : as also the manner of their execution on Tower-Hill the 8 of June following, with the substance of their speeches on the scaffold. date: 1658.0 words: 20884 flesch: 76 summary: The several tryals of Sir Henry Slingsby, Kt., John Hewet, D.D., and John Mordant, Esq., for high treason, in Westminster-Hall together with the Lord President's speech before the sentence of death was pronounced against the afore named Sir H. Slingsby and Dr. Hewet, being the 2 of June, 1658, at which time the said Mr. Mordant was by the court acquitted : as also the manner of their execution on Tower-Hill the 8 of June following, with the substance of their speeches on the scaffold. The several tryals of Sir Henry Slingsby, Kt., John Hewet, D.D., and John Mordant, Esq., for high treason, in Westminster-Hall together with the Lord President's speech before the sentence of death was pronounced against the afore named Sir H. Slingsby and Dr. Hewet, being the 2 of June, 1658, at which time the said Mr. Mordant was by the court acquitted : as also the manner of their execution on Tower-Hill the 8 of June following, with the substance of their speeches on the scaffold. keywords: act; commission; court; desire; law; lord; mordant; parliament; pres; said; sir; sir h.; slingsby cache: A59394.xml plain text: A59394.txt item: #49 of 111 id: A60819 author: Anderson, Lionel, d. 1710. title: Some of the most material errors and omissions in the late printed tryals of the Romish priests at the Old-Baily, Jan. 17, 1679 date: 1680.0 words: 4345 flesch: 81 summary: 'T is very true , I did it ; but , my Lord , I will shew you , Mass is no proof of a Priest : for , 1. the Statute makes a difference between saying Mass , and being a Priest ; in punishing Priests , with Death ; but saying of Mass , with a pecuniary mulct of 200 Marks , and a years Imprisonment . My Lord Chief Justice , I will bring Witnesses to prove , that I did never say Mass at Wild-house , nor went to the Chappel ; for some ( forsooth ) would needs have me to have been Excommunicated for writing for the Kings Temporal Jurisdiction over all his Subjects , ( independent of the Pope ) as appears by a Letter of the Bishop of London on my behalf , to Sir Clement Armiger . keywords: anderson; lord; mass; starkey cache: A60819.xml plain text: A60819.txt item: #50 of 111 id: A61836 author: Strode, William, 1600 or 1601-1645. title: Master Strovvd his speech in Parliament on Tuesday the third of January in reply to the articles of high treason against himselfe, the Lord Kimbolton, Master Pym, Sir Arthur Haselrigg, Master Hambden and Master Hollis exhibited by His Majestie wherein he cleareth himselfe concerning the same, 1642. date: 1642.0 words: 1601 flesch: 53 summary: Master Strovvd his speech in Parliament on Tuesday the third of January in reply to the articles of high treason against himselfe, the Lord Kimbolton, Master Pym, Sir Arthur Haselrigg, Master Hambden and Master Hollis exhibited by His Majestie wherein he cleareth himselfe concerning the same, 1642. Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 96705) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 259:E199, no 50) Master Strovvd his speech in Parliament on Tuesday the third of January in reply to the articles of high treason against himselfe, the Lord Kimbolton, Master Pym, Sir Arthur Haselrigg, Master Hambden and Master Hollis exhibited by His Majestie wherein he cleareth himselfe concerning the same, 1642. keywords: himselfe; master; parliament; text; treason cache: A61836.xml plain text: A61836.txt item: #51 of 111 id: A63087 author: Alsop, James. title: Treason and murther discovered Being a true and perfect relation of the tryal & condemnation of James Alsop the father, and William Alsop his son for treason and murder; at the assises held at Chelmsford for the county of Essex, on Wednesday the 25th of March, 1674. Also the wonderfull discovery both of the treason and murder; with the sentence of the court for the manner and places of their execution. Written by a person who was present at the tryal. date: 1674.0 words: 3493 flesch: 60 summary: Treason and murther discovered Being a true and perfect relation of the tryal & condemnation of James Alsop the father, and William Alsop his son for treason and murder; at the assises held at Chelmsford for the county of Essex, on Wednesday the 25th of March, 1674. Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 36569) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2100:17) Treason and murther discovered Being a true and perfect relation of the tryal & condemnation of James Alsop the father, and William Alsop his son for treason and murder; at the assises held at Chelmsford for the county of Essex, on Wednesday the 25th of March, 1674. keywords: allsop; house; james; murther; silver; william cache: A63087.xml plain text: A63087.txt item: #52 of 111 id: A63139 author: Carew, John, d. 1660, defendant. title: The tryall and condemnation of Col. Adrian Scrope, Mr. John Carew, Mr. Thomas Scott, Mr. Gregory Clement, Col. John Jones, who sate as judges upon our late Soveraigne Lord King Charles their several answers and pleas at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily, Friday the 12th of October 1660, before the Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer appointed by His Majesty for that purpose. date: 1660.0 words: 2624 flesch: 71 summary: The tryall and condemnation of Col. Adrian Scrope, Mr. John Carew, Mr. Thomas Scott, Mr. Gregory Clement, Col. John Jones, who sate as judges upon our late Soveraigne Lord King Charles their several answers and pleas at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily, Friday the 12th of October 1660, before the Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer appointed by His Majesty for that purpose. The tryall and condemnation of Col. Adrian Scrope, Mr. John Carew, Mr. Thomas Scott, Mr. Gregory Clement, Col. John Jones, who sate as judges upon our late Soveraigne Lord King Charles their several answers and pleas at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily, Friday the 12th of October 1660, before the Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer appointed by His Majesty for that purpose. keywords: col; court; john; lord cache: A63139.xml plain text: A63139.txt item: #53 of 111 id: A63140 author: England and Wales. Court of King's Bench. title: The tryal and condemnation of Dr. Oliver Plunket, titular primate of Ireland, for high-treason at the barr of the Court of King's Bench at Westminster, in Trinity term, 1681. date: 1681.0 words: 25279 flesch: 85 summary: The tryal and condemnation of Dr. Oliver Plunket, titular primate of Ireland, for high-treason at the barr of the Court of King's Bench at Westminster, in Trinity term, 1681. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1296:27) The tryal and condemnation of Dr. Oliver Plunket, titular primate of Ireland, for high-treason at the barr of the Court of King's Bench at Westminster, in Trinity term, 1681. Plunket, Oliver, Saint, 1629-1681. England and Wales. keywords: att; c. j.; come; duffy; gen; ireland; king; l. c.; lord; mony; moyer; plunket; time; witnesses; wyer cache: A63140.xml plain text: A63140.txt item: #54 of 111 id: A63142 author: England and Wales. Court of King's Bench. title: The tryal and condemnation of Edw. Fitz-Harris, Esq., for high treason at the barr of the Court of King's Bench, at Westminster, on Thursday the 9th of June, in Trinity term, 1681 : as also the tryal and condemnation of Dr. Oliver Plunket, titular primate of Ireland, for high treason ... date: 1681.0 words: 58528 flesch: 84 summary: Gen. My Lord , I pray your Judgment in point of Law ▪ I doubt not you will do the King right , as well as the Prisoner , I could not get a Copy of the Pannel , till last night about 4 a Clock ; ●ere is prepared a Copy with crosses and marks who he should challenge and who not , and truly , My Lord , since I had the Pannel ▪ upon looking over it , I do find the Sheriff hath returned three Anabaptist Preachers , and I know not how many Fanaticks , and since there are such Practices as we find in this Case , we doubt there may be more , and therefore I pray she may be removed . Just . Let us s●e the Paper . keywords: att; c. j.; come; duffy; everard; evidence; fitz; fitz harris; french; gen; hand; harris; hath; ireland; king; l. c.; libel; lord; man; men; money; moyer; mrs; murfey; paper; plunket; prisoner; said; self; serj; sir; thing; time; treason; witnesses; ● ● cache: A63142.xml plain text: A63142.txt item: #55 of 111 id: A63143 author: Borodzycz, George, d. 1682. title: The Tryal and condemnation of George Borosky alias Borotzi, Christopher Vratz and John Stern for the barbarous murder of Thomas Thynn, Esq. together with the tryal of Charles John Count Coningmark, an accessary before the fact to the same murder who was acquitted of the said offence : at the sessions in the Old Bailey, Tuesday February 28, 1681. date: 1682.0 words: 40464 flesch: 89 summary: Said I , certainly my Lord will pay you his Wages ; how long have you serv'd him ? said he , a little while , and then said I , if you lived with him , what do you know of this business . Said I. keywords: captain; count; hanson; l. c.; lord; man; polander; pray; sir; sir fr; thing; thynne; time; watts; williams; win cache: A63143.xml plain text: A63143.txt item: #56 of 111 id: A63146 author: Castlehaven, Mervyn Touchet, Earl of, 1592?-1631. title: The tryal and condemnation of Mervin, Lord Audley Earl of Castle-Haven At Westminster, April the 5th 1631. For abetting a rape upon his Countess, committing sodomy with his servants, and commanding and countenancing the debauching his daughter. With the learned speeches of the Lord High-Steward, the arguments of the King's-Councel upon that occasion, and the Lord Audley's speech at the place of execution. date: 1699.0 words: 8689 flesch: 68 summary: The tryal and condemnation of Mervin, Lord Audley Earl of Castle-Haven At Westminster, April the 5th 1631. The tryal and condemnation of Mervin, Lord Audley Earl of Castle-Haven At Westminster, April the 5th 1631. keywords: crimes; earl; god; high; justice; king; law; lord; lord audley; lordships; rape; sir; skipwith; steward cache: A63146.xml plain text: A63146.txt item: #57 of 111 id: A63147 author: Staley, William, d. 1678. title: The tryal and condemnation of Mr. Will. Staley for high-treason, at the Kings-Bench-Bar at Westminster, on Thursday the 21st of Nov. 1678 who was there condemned to be hang'd, drawn, and quarter'd for speaking of desperate, malicious, and treasonable words against the Kings most excellent majesty : with the particular evidence given against him, the defence he made for himself, and all other material circumstances. date: 1678.0 words: 1911 flesch: 60 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text; words cache: A63147.xml plain text: A63147.txt item: #58 of 111 id: A63149 author: England and Wales. Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery (London and Middlesex). title: The Tryal and condemnation of several notorious malefactors at a sessions of Oyer and Terminer which began at the sessions house in the Old Baily with the names of those who received sentence of death, burnt in the hand, transported, and to be whipt, and most remarkably of John Sadler who whipt the child to death at Racliffe. date: 1681.0 words: 2729 flesch: 58 summary: The Tryal and condemnation of several notorious malefactors at a sessions of Oyer and Terminer which began at the sessions house in the Old Baily with the names of those who received sentence of death, burnt in the hand, transported, and to be whipt, and most remarkably of John Sadler who whipt the child to death at Racliffe. The Tryal and condemnation of several notorious malefactors at a sessions of Oyer and Terminer which began at the sessions house in the Old Baily with the names of those who received sentence of death, burnt in the hand, transported, and to be whipt, and most remarkably of John Sadler who whipt the child to death at Racliffe. keywords: eebo; english; evidence; house; john; sessions; tcp; text cache: A63149.xml plain text: A63149.txt item: #59 of 111 id: A63152 author: Friend, John, Sir, d. 1696. title: The tryal and condemnation of Sir John Friend, Knight for conspiring to raise rebellion in these kingdoms : in order to a French invasion : who upon full evidence was found guilty of high-treason at the sessions-house in the Old Bayly, March 23th, 1695/6. date: 1696.0 words: 24579 flesch: 83 summary: The tryal and condemnation of Sir John Friend, Knight for conspiring to raise rebellion in these kingdoms : in order to a French invasion : who upon full evidence was found guilty of high-treason at the sessions-house in the Old Bayly, March 23th, 1695/6. The tryal and condemnation of Sir John Friend, Knight for conspiring to raise rebellion in these kingdoms : in order to a French invasion : who upon full evidence was found guilty of high-treason at the sessions-house in the Old Bayly, March 23th, 1695/6. keywords: attor; blair; c. j.; gen; j. friend; j. h.; james; john friend; king; l. c.; lord; men; sir j.; sir john cache: A63152.xml plain text: A63152.txt item: #60 of 111 id: A63153 author: England and Wales. Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery (London and Middlesex). title: The tryal and condemnation of Sir William Parkyns, kt., for the horrid and execrable conspiracy to assassinate His sacred Majesty King William, in order to a French invasion of this kingdom who upon full evidence was found guilty of high treason, at the sessions-house in the Old-Baily, March 24, 1695/6 : together with a true copy of the papers delivered to the sheriffs of London and Middlesex, by Sir J. Freind [sic] and Sir W. Parkins, at the place of execution. date: 1696.0 words: 30802 flesch: 85 summary: The tryal and condemnation of Sir William Parkyns, kt., for the horrid and execrable conspiracy to assassinate His sacred Majesty King William, in order to a French invasion of this kingdom who upon full evidence was found guilty of high treason, at the sessions-house in the Old-Baily, March 24, 1695/6 : together with a true copy of the papers delivered to the sheriffs of London and Middlesex, by Sir J. Freind [sic] and Sir W. Parkins, at the place of execution. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 677:11) The tryal and condemnation of Sir William Parkyns, kt., for the horrid and execrable conspiracy to assassinate His sacred Majesty King William, in order to a French invasion of this kingdom who upon full evidence was found guilty of high treason, at the sessions-house in the Old-Baily, March 24, 1695/6 : together with a true copy of the papers delivered to the sheriffs of London and Middlesex, by Sir J. Freind [sic] and Sir W. Parkins, at the place of execution. keywords: att; ewbank; gen; holt; horses; king; lord; parkins; porter; sir; sir w.; sir william; time; william parkins cache: A63153.xml plain text: A63153.txt item: #61 of 111 id: A63161 author: Barnardiston, Samuel, Sir, 1620-1707. title: The tryal and conviction of Sr. Sam. Barnardiston, Bart. for high misdemeanor at the session of nisi prius holden at Guild-Hall, London, for His Majesties Court of Kings Bench before the Right Honorable Sir George Jeffreys ... lord chief justice of England on Thursday, Feb. 14, 1683. date: 1684.0 words: 11555 flesch: 79 summary: Barnardiston, Samuel, Sir, 1620-1707. 1684 Approx. Barnardiston, Samuel, Sir, 1620-1707. keywords: gentlemen; king; letters; lord; man; osland; samuel; sir; williams cache: A63161.xml plain text: A63161.txt item: #62 of 111 id: A63162 author: England and Wales. Court of King's Bench. title: The tryal and conviction of Thomas Knox and John Lane for a conspiracy to defame and scandalize Dr. Oates and Mr. Bedloe thereby to discredit their evidence about the horrid popish plot : at the Kings-Bench-Bar at Westminster, on Tuesday the 25th of Novemb. 1679 ... : where upon full evidence they were found guilty of the offence aforesaid. date: 1680.0 words: 26433 flesch: 82 summary: The tryal and conviction of Thomas Knox and John Lane for a conspiracy to defame and scandalize Dr. Oates and Mr. Bedloe thereby to discredit their evidence about the horrid popish plot : at the Kings-Bench-Bar at Westminster, on Tuesday the 25th of Novemb. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 370:13) The tryal and conviction of Thomas Knox and John Lane for a conspiracy to defame and scandalize Dr. Oates and Mr. Bedloe thereby to discredit their evidence about the horrid popish plot : at the Kings-Bench-Bar at Westminster, on Tuesday the 25th of Novemb. keywords: bedloe; chief; evidence; iust; knox; lane; lord; money; oates; osborne; sir; thing; time; waller cache: A63162.xml plain text: A63162.txt item: #63 of 111 id: A63164 author: Derby, James Stanley, Earl of, 1607-1651. title: The tryall and plea of James Earle of Derby, prisoner of war, before a court martiall at Chester, Octob. 1. 1651 The articles were severall particulars of treason, by his invading England, raising forces, &c. The answer is a confession of the fact. The plea is a plea of quarter, which he conceives to be a good bar to a tryall for life, by court martiall or councell of war, though not against a meer civill judicature. His plea was over-ruled by the court upon this account, that the court martiall was directed by Parliament. So that the court proceeded to sentence, only gave him a fortnights time from the first of October. From this sentence he appealeth to his Excellency the Lord Generall. date: 1651.0 words: 3505 flesch: 68 summary: And I doubt not but in matter of Law the Court will be to me instead of Counsell in Court . So that as such Court Martiall retains it's proper Lawes and Jurisdictions for the support of it self ; so the pleas and liberties incident to that cannot be denyed the Prisoner . keywords: court; court martiall; derby; martiall; plea; quarter; war cache: A63164.xml plain text: A63164.txt item: #64 of 111 id: A63169 author: Bromwich, Andrew, defendant. title: The trial, conviction and condemnation of Andrew Brommich and William Atkins, for being Romish priests, before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs, at summer assizes last at Stafford held there for the county of Stafford, where they received sentence of death accordingly together with the tryal of Charles Kern, at Hereford assizes last for being a Romish priest. date: 1679.0 words: 10007 flesch: 85 summary: Ch. J. Do you believe this to be the man ? J. Then Gentlemen of the Jury , the question you are to try , is whether ●●drew Brommich be a Popish Priest or not : To prove that he is , here is a woman , one Anne Robinson , that swears she received the Sacrament of him in a Wafer once at Christmas last , and twice at Mr. Birch's , and twice at Mr. Pursals , and that he gave it to several others at the same time . keywords: edwards; guilty; jones; jury; l. ch; lord; mrs; priest; time cache: A63169.xml plain text: A63169.txt item: #65 of 111 id: A63172 author: England and Wales. Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery (London and Middlesex). title: The tryal of Capt. Thomas Wallcot for high-treason in conspiring to compass the death of His Majesty, and to subvert the government who was tryed this 12th of July at the Sessions-house in the Old-Bayley, and there found guilty of the said high-treason : being an impartial relation of the most materials during the said tryal : as likewise what occured in relation to James Duke of Monmouth, Ford Lord Grey, and others. date: 1683.0 words: 2288 flesch: 53 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 42346) keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text; thomas; treason cache: A63172.xml plain text: A63172.txt item: #66 of 111 id: A63173 author: Coleman, Edward, d. 1678, defendant. title: The tryal of Edward Coleman, Gent. for conspiring the death of the King, and the subversion of the government of England and the Protestant religion who upon full evidence was found guilty of high treason, and received sentence accordingly, on Thursday, November the 28th, 1678. date: 1678.0 words: 41363 flesch: 71 summary: My Lord , I did not see this Letter in several days after the papers brought me from Bradly ; when he came in with Three great Baggs , and a Box of Letters on Sunday night ; Said I , which are Mr. Coleman's principal papers ? Said he , those that are in the large speckled cloath Bagg ; for these we took first in the Scritore : These I took , and meddled not with the other , I presume other Clerks of the Council can give a particular account where this paper was found . The tryal of Edward Coleman, Gent. keywords: chief; coleman; council; day; design; duke; england; father; french; good; hand; house; king; know; letter; lord; money; oates; papers; parliament; religion; self; sir; thing; time cache: A63173.xml plain text: A63173.txt item: #67 of 111 id: A63176 author: Warrington, Henry Booth, Earl of, 1652-1694, defendant. title: The tryal of Henry Baron Delamere for high-treason, in Westminster-Hall, the 14th day of January, 1685, before the Right Honourable George Lord Jeffreys, Baron of Wemm, Lord High Chancellour of England, constituted Lord High Steward on that occasion on which day, after a full hearing, the Lord Delamere was acquitted from all matters laid to his charge. date: 1686.0 words: 43403 flesch: 77 summary: The tryal of Henry Baron Delamere for high-treason, in Westminster-Hall, the 14th day of January, 1685, before the Right Honourable George Lord Jeffreys, Baron of Wemm, Lord High Chancellour of England, constituted Lord High Steward on that occasion on which day, after a full hearing, the Lord Delamere was acquitted from all matters laid to his charge. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 583:12) The tryal of Henry Baron Delamere for high-treason, in Westminster-Hall, the 14th day of January, 1685, before the Right Honourable George Lord Jeffreys, Baron of Wemm, Lord High Chancellour of England, constituted Lord High Steward on that occasion on which day, after a full hearing, the Lord Delamere was acquitted from all matters laid to his charge. keywords: account; att; day; duke; england; gen; grace; h. steward; house; l. delamere; l. h.; law; lord delamere; lord h.; lord high; lords; lordships; message; monmouth; pray; saxon; sir; time; town cache: A63176.xml plain text: A63176.txt item: #68 of 111 id: A63178 author: England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London) title: The tryal of John Giles at the Sessions-House in the Old Bayly, held by adjournment from the 7th day of July, 1680 until the 14th day of the same month the adjournment being appointed on purpose for the said Giles, his trial for a barbarous and inhumane attempt to assasinate and murther John Arnold. date: 1681.0 words: 18964 flesch: 79 summary: I asked Mr. Giles what was the occasion of his haste ? Said he , For fear we shou'd be stopt in our Journey , as suspected-to be concerned in Mr. Arnold's Business . The tryal of John Giles at the Sessions-House in the Old Bayly, held by adjournment from the 7th day of July, 1680 until the 14th day of the same month the adjournment being appointed on purpose for the said Giles, his trial for a barbarous and inhumane attempt to assasinate and murther John Arnold. keywords: arnold; bar; bed; clock; day; evidence; giles; john; lord; man; night; prisoner; record; richmond; sir; thing; time cache: A63178.xml plain text: A63178.txt item: #69 of 111 id: A63179 author: England and Wales. Court of King's Bench. title: [The tryal of John Hambden for conspiring the death of the king, and raising a rebellion in this kingdom at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bayly, London ... 30th of December, 1685 ...] date: 1685.0 words: 38796 flesch: 80 summary: For that you being a Pernitious and Seditious Man , and a Person of a Wicked mind , and of an impious , unquiet , and turbulent Disposition , and contriving , practising , and falsly , unlawfully , unjustly , maliciously , turbulently , and seditiously intending the Peace of our Soveraign Lord King Charles that now is , and the common Tranquility of this Kingdom of England , to disquiet , molest , and disturb , and as much as in you lay , Sedition within this Kingdom of England , to incite , stir up , and procure , and the Government of our said Lord the King in this Kingdom of England into danger to bring , And that you the said John Hambden , your most Impious , Wicked , and Seditious Intentions aforesaid , to fulfil and perfect , and bring to effect the last day of June , in the Five and Thirtieth year of the Reign of our said Soveraign Lord the King that now is ; and divers other days and times as well before as after , with Force and Arms , &c. At the Parish of St. Giles in the Fields , in the County of Middlesex , unlawfully , unjustly , maliciously , and seditiously did assemble your self , meet , consult , conspire , and confederate with divers evil disposed Subjects of our said Lord the King to the Jurors unknown , and with the said Persons did treat concerning your said most Wicked and Seditious Compassings , Imaginations and Purposes aforesaid , to be executed , fulfill'd , and brought to effect ; and further that you the said John Hambden your most Wicked , Impious , and Seditious Contrivances , Practices and Intentions aforesaid , to fulfil , perfect , and reduce to effect , then , and there , viz. keywords: att; duke; evidence; gen; gentlemen; hambden; house; king; l. c.; lord; lord howard; man; pray; sidney; sir; thing; time; williams cache: A63179.xml plain text: A63179.txt item: #70 of 111 id: A63182 author: Gibbons, John, d. 1651. title: The triall of Mr. John Gibbons, in Westminster-Hall, before the High-Court of Justice, beginning July 18. 1651 date: 1652.0 words: 11184 flesch: 53 summary: The triall of Mr. John Gibbons, in Westminster-Hall, before the High-Court of Justice, beginning July 18. 1651 Gibbons, John, d. 1651. The triall of Mr. John Gibbons, in Westminster-Hall, before the High-Court of Justice, beginning July 18. 1651 Gibbons, John, d. 1651. keywords: charge; court; doe; gibbons; life; lord; man; master; read; witnesses cache: A63182.xml plain text: A63182.txt item: #71 of 111 id: A63190 author: Castlemaine, Roger Palmer, Earl of, 1634-1705. title: The tryal of Roger Earl of Castlemaine for high treason in conspiring the death of the King, the subversion of the government, and introducing of popery and arbitrary power : before the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs &c. at the King's Bench Bar at Westminster the 23th of June 1680 where he was acquitted. date: 1681.0 words: 23688 flesch: 80 summary: You shall understand that he stands Indicted by the Name of Roger Palmer Esq ; Earl of Castlemain in the Kingdom of Ireland ; for that he as a false Traytor against our most Illustrious and Excellent Prince and Lord , Charles the Second , by the Grace of God of England , Scotland , France and Ireland King , Defender of the Faith , &c. and his Natural Lord ; not having the Fear of God before his Eyes , nor weighing the Duty of his Allegiance , but being moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil , his Cordial Love , true due and Natural Obedience , which true and Faithful Subjects of our said Soveraign Lord the King ought to bear towards him , altogether withdrawing , and contriving , and with all his might intending , to disturb the Peace and common Tranquility of this Kingdom , and to bring and put our Soveraign Lord the King to Death and final Destruction , and alter the true Worship of God within this Kingdom established to the Superstition of the Romish Church , and to stir up and move War against our said Soveraign Lord the King within this Realm of England , and to subvert the Government thereof , the Twentieth day of June in the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of our said Soveraign Lord , Charles the Second , of England , Scotland , France and Ireland , King , Defender of the Faith , &c. at the parish of St. Giles in the Fields in the County of Midd. with divers other false Traitors , to the Jurors unknown , did traiterously imagine and intend the killing , death and final destruction of our said Lord the King , and to change and alter and utterly subvert the Ancient Government of this Kingdom , and to depose and wholly to deprive our said Lord the King of his Crown and Government of this Realm of England , and to extirpate the true Protestant Religion : And to accomplish and fulfil the same most wicked Treasons and Traiterous Imaginations and Purposes aforesaid , the said Roger Palmer Esq ; Earl of Castlemain in the Kingdom of Ireland , and other false Traitors , to the Jurors unknown , the same Twentieth day of June , in the Thirtieth Year aforesaid , with force and Arms , in the Parish of St. Giles in the Fields aforesaid , in the County aforesaid , Advisedly , Devilishly , Maliciously , and Traiterously , did assemble , unite , and gather themselves together , and then and there , Advisedly , Devilishly , Maliciously , Subtily , and Traiterously did consult and agree , to bring our said Soveraign Lord the King to Death and Final Destruction , and to deprive him of his Crown and Government of England , and to Introduce and Establish the Religion of the Church of Rome in this Kingdom ; and the sooner to fulfil and accomplish the same most wicked Treasons and Traiterous imaginations and purposes aforesaid , he then and there did Falsly , Maliciously , and Trayterously promise divers great Rewards , and did pay divers Sums of Money to several Persons unknown ; and then and there falsly and traiter ously did write divers Notes , to incite several other Persons to accomplish the Treasons aforesaid , against the Life of our Soveraign Lord the King , his Crown and Dignity , and contrary to the form of the Statute in such Case made and provided . J. ●aymond , He hath Papers wherein he hath entred Memorandums to refresh his Memory , but these Papers he hath not by him . keywords: att; c. j.; d. oates; dangerfield; general; hath; j. jones; king; l. c.; lord; lord castlemain; lordship; man; oates; prisoner cache: A63190.xml plain text: A63190.txt item: #72 of 111 id: A63191 author: Bradshaw, Dearing, defendant. title: The tryal of Rowland Walters, Dearing Bradshaw, and Ambrose Cave, for murthering of Sir Charles Pymm, Bart., at the sessions held at the Old-Bailey on Friday the first day of June, 1688 before the right honourable Sir John Shorter Kt. Lord Mayor of the city of London and Sir Bartholomew Shoares Kt. recorder of the same city, together with others His Majesties justices of the peace for the city of London, and County of Middlesex. date: 1688.0 words: 5858 flesch: 81 summary: The tryal of Rowland Walters, Dearing Bradshaw, and Ambrose Cave, for murthering of Sir Charles Pymm, Bart., at the sessions held at the Old-Bailey on Friday the first day of June, 1688 before the right honourable Sir John Shorter Kt. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 479:5) The tryal of Rowland Walters, Dearing Bradshaw, and Ambrose Cave, for murthering of Sir Charles Pymm, Bart., at the sessions held at the Old-Bailey on Friday the first day of June, 1688 before the right honourable Sir John Shorter Kt. keywords: charles; court; lord; pymm; sir; sir charles; walters cache: A63191.xml plain text: A63191.txt item: #73 of 111 id: A63192 author: England and Wales. Court of King's Bench. title: The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt. at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2d. and 6th, 1662 together with what he intended to have spoken the day of his sentence (June 11) for arrest of judgment (had he not been interrupted and over-ruled by the court) and his bill of exceptions : with other occasional speeches, &c. : also his speech and prayer, &c. on the scaffold. date: 1662.0 words: 59562 flesch: 60 summary: It is not lawful either for King or Parliament to urge Authority and compel Obedience as of Right in any such Cases , where ( according to the Law of Nature ) the People are at Liberty , and ought to have a Freedom from yeelding Obedience , as they are and ought to have when ever any would compel them to disobey God , or to do things that evidently in the eye of Reason and common sense , are to their hurt and destruction . The Fourth Querie is , Whether he , in this Case , that keeps his Station and place of Trust , wherein God and the Law did set him , with care to demean himself according to the best of his Vnderstanding , agreeably to the Law and Customes of Parliament , and pursuant to their Votes and Directions , ( so long as they sit and affirm themselves to be a Parliament ) and uses his best endeavours in the exercise of that publick Trust , that no Detriment in the general come unto the Common-wealth by the failer of Justice , and the necessary Protection due from Government , without any designing or intending the Subversion of the Constitution , but onely the securing more fully the Peoples Liberties and just Rights , from all future Invasions and Oppressions , be not so far from deserving to be judged Criminal in respect of any Law of God or Man , that he ought rather to be affirmed One that hath done his Duty , even the next best that was left to him , or possible for him to do , in such a dark stormy season , and such difficult Circumstances ? keywords: act; authority; body; case; christ; counsel; court; day; death; duty; england; god; good; government; hath; henry; judges; jury; justice; king; kingdom; law; laws; life; lord; man; nature; parliament; people; power; prisoner; right; self; sir; state; statute; things; thou; time; treason; vane cache: A63192.xml plain text: A63192.txt item: #74 of 111 id: A63193 author: Stapleton, Miles, Sir, 1628-1707, defendant. title: The tryal of Sr. Miles Stapleton Bar. for high treason in conspiring the death of the King, &c. at York assizes on the 18th day of July, 1681 before the Right Honourable Sir William Dolben knight, one of the Justices of the Court of Kings bench and William Gregory, Esq; one of the barons of the court of exchequer then judges of assize for the northern circuit : to which is added the tryal and condemnation of Mr. Thomas Thwing for high treason at the summer assizes before. date: 1681.0 words: 13363 flesch: 88 summary: Stapleton, Miles, Sir, 1628-1707, defendant. 1681 Approx. Stapleton, Miles, Sir, 1628-1707, defendant. keywords: bol; bolron; dolb; king; lord; lowder; miles stapleton; sir miles; sir tho; sir thomas; stapleton; thing; time cache: A63193.xml plain text: A63193.txt item: #75 of 111 id: A63194 author: Gascoigne, Thomas, Sir, 1593?-1686, defendant. title: The tryal of Sr Thomas Gascoyne Bar. for high-treason in conspiring the death of the King, the subversion of the government, and alteration of religion, on Wednesday the 11th of February 1679 : at the Bar of the Kings Bench, before the Right Honourable Sir William Scroggs, Lord Chief Justice, and the rest of the judges of that court. date: 1680.0 words: 34720 flesch: 91 summary: Said Sir Thomas , I know not what you are about , but if you do well for your self , I am satisfied . There was a great deal of Mony owing to Sir Thomas , and he came to Sir Thomas to agree about it , and he desired me to be bound with him to Sir Thomas : Said I , Mr. Bolron , how shall I be secured ? Said he , there is a great deal of Money of which I never gave Sir Thomas any accompt , I will gather it in and secure all , and so Sir Tho. keywords: bolron; c. j.; chief; dolben; gascoyne; gen; house; jones; king; l. c.; lord; money; mowbray; sir; sir thomas; tell; thing; thomas gascoyne; time cache: A63194.xml plain text: A63194.txt item: #76 of 111 id: A63195 author: Bethel, Slingsby, 1617-1697. title: The tryal of Slingsby Bethel, Esq., upon an indictment preferred by Robert Mason against him of which he was found guilty at the general quarter sessions of the peace for the town and burrough of Southwark at the Bridge-house, holden and kept before the right honourable Sir Patience Ward, Lord Mayor of the city of London, Sir Thomas Allen, Sir William Hooker, Sir Thomas Bloudworth, Sir James Edwards, and Justice Pyrs, on Wednesday, October 5, 1681. date: 1681.0 words: 8401 flesch: 75 summary: The tryal of Slingsby Bethel, Esq., upon an indictment preferred by Robert Mason against him of which he was found guilty at the general quarter sessions of the peace for the town and burrough of Southwark at the Bridge-house, holden and kept before the right honourable Sir Patience Ward, Lord Mayor of the city of London, Sir Thomas Allen, Sir William Hooker, Sir Thomas Bloudworth, Sir James Edwards, and Justice Pyrs, on Wednesday, October 5, 1681. The tryal of Slingsby Bethel, Esq., upon an indictment preferred by Robert Mason against him of which he was found guilty at the general quarter sessions of the peace for the town and burrough of Southwark at the Bridge-house, holden and kept before the right honourable Sir Patience Ward, Lord Mayor of the city of London, Sir Thomas Allen, Sir William Hooker, Sir Thomas Bloudworth, Sir James Edwards, and Justice Pyrs, on Wednesday, October 5, 1681. keywords: bethel; blows; coat; lord; mason; pole; robert; sir; thompson cache: A63195.xml plain text: A63195.txt item: #77 of 111 id: A63198 author: Castlehaven, Mervyn Touchet, Earl of, 1592?-1631, defendant. title: The trial of the Lord Audley, Earl of Castlehaven, for inhumanely causing his own wife to be ravished, and for buggery date: 1679.0 words: 5150 flesch: 68 summary: The Prisoner being brought to the Bar by the Lieutenant of the Tower , the Lord Steward spoke to him , bewailing of his Case for falling so far from God , and expressed his sorrow for him , not only as for a Subject , but as a Peer ; and withall gave him this Caveat ; that in , and out of all the Confession , and Deposition concerning this business , the Earl never fell into these foul Crimes , until he first fell from God , and changed his Religion , and that by Fountayle , and by perswasion of his Neighbour Roman Catholicks , and that he leaving God , God left him , and that the Dignity , of the Person did aggravate the Crime . So the Earl pleads , not guilty , and submits himself to God , his Peers , and the right of his Cause . keywords: death; earl; god; law; lord; majesty; steward; tcp; text; wife cache: A63198.xml plain text: A63198.txt item: #78 of 111 id: A63205 author: Staley, William, d. 1678, defendant. title: The tryal of William Staley, goldsmith for speaking treasonable words against His Most Sacred Majesty and upon full evidence found guilty of high treason : and received sentence accordingly, on Thursday, November the 21th, 1678. date: 1678.0 words: 5266 flesch: 81 summary: I have this to say in Justification of my self , and Allegeance to my Prince and King , that I never thought , nor imagined , or contrived any way , but have been a true Subject to the King upon all occasions ; I am sorry it proves so , Gods will be done , my Soul depends upon it ; I am a dying man by the Statute , never with Intention , or any thought or ill will , spake I any word about this matter . This they will not own when it comes to be an objection and penal upon them , but they will never get the Pope of Rome to declare he hath not a power to Excommunicate what he calls a Heretick , King , and if he does , that the Subject is not discharged from his obedience , they would do great service to their Papist friends , if they could obtain such an Edict . keywords: chief; king; man; prisoner; self; witness; words cache: A63205.xml plain text: A63205.txt item: #79 of 111 id: A63211 author: Anderson, Lionel, d. 1710, defendant. title: The tryals and condemnation of Lionel Anderson, alias Munson, William Russel, alias Napper, Charles Parris, alias Parry, Henry Starkey, James Corker, and William Marshal, for high treason, as Romish priests, upon the statute of 27. Eliz. cap. 2 together with the tryal of Alexander Lumsden, a Scotchman, and the arraignment of David Joseph Kemish for the same offence : at the sessions of Oyer and Terminer in the Old-Baily, on Saturday, January 17th, 1679. date: 1680.0 words: 27232 flesch: 89 summary: Why can I ask Counsel after Plea pleaded ? Lord Ch. J. Mr. J. Pemberton . keywords: anderson; c. j.; court; hath; know; l. c.; lord; marshall; mass; oates; prance; priest; recorder; time; witnesses cache: A63211.xml plain text: A63211.txt item: #80 of 111 id: A63214 author: Barrow, William, 1610-1679, defendant. title: The tryals and condemnation of Thomas White alias Whitebread, provincial of the Jesuits in England, William Harcourt, pretended rector of ]ondon, John Fenwick,procurator for the Jesuits in England, John Gavan alias Gawen, and Anthony Turner, all Jesuits and priests; for high treason: in conspiring the death of the King, the subversion of the government, and Protestant religion. At the Sessions in the Old-Bailey for London and Middlesex, on Friday and Saturday, being the 13th and 14th of June, 1679. Published by authority. date: 1679.0 words: 56553 flesch: 86 summary: Now we will run to a g●● ad humin●m , 〈◊〉 this ●●re the 25th of April , Old Style , how did Mr. Williams me●t with Mr. Hilsly i● Cali● , ●●d r●store him his money , when the 24th old stile Mr. Williams was at the co●sul● 〈◊〉 London ? What day was it that Mr. Hilsly went away ? keywords: april; c. j.; come; day; dugdale; evidence; fenwick; gaven; harcourt; hath; ireland; j. mr; john; july; king; know; l. c.; letter; lord; lord chief; man; oates; sir; thing; time; town; whitebread; witnesses cache: A63214.xml plain text: A63214.txt item: #81 of 111 id: A63217 author: England and Wales. High Court of Admiralty. title: The Tryals of Joseph Dawson, Edward Forseith, William May, [brace] William Bishop, James Lewis, and John Sparkes for several piracies and robberies by them committed in the company of Every the grand pirate, near the coasts of the East-Indies, and several other places on the seas : giving an account of their villainous robberies and barbarities : at the Admiralty sessions, begun at the Old-Baily on the 29th of October, 1696, and ended on the 6th of November. date: 1696.0 words: 18153 flesch: 87 summary: The Tryals of Joseph Dawson, Edward Forseith, William May, [brace] William Bishop, James Lewis, and John Sparkes for several piracies and robberies by them committed in the company of Every the grand pirate, near the coasts of the East-Indies, and several other places on the seas : giving an account of their villainous robberies and barbarities : at the Admiralty sessions, begun at the Old-Baily on the 29th of October, 1696, and ended on the 6th of November. 1696 Approx. The Tryals of Joseph Dawson, Edward Forseith, William May, [brace] William Bishop, James Lewis, and John Sparkes for several piracies and robberies by them committed in the company of Every the grand pirate, near the coasts of the East-Indies, and several other places on the seas : giving an account of their villainous robberies and barbarities : at the Admiralty sessions, begun at the Old-Baily on the 29th of October, 1696, and ended on the 6th of November. keywords: c. i.; charles; dan; guilty; holt; i. holt; l. c.; lord; men; prisoners; ship cache: A63217.xml plain text: A63217.txt item: #82 of 111 id: A63223 author: Corker, James Maurus, 1636-1715, defendant. title: The tryals of Sir George Wakeman Baronet. William Marshall, William Rumley, & James Corker, Benedictine monks For high treason, for conspiring the death of the King, subversion of the government, and Protestant religion. At the Sessions in the Old-Bayley, holden for London and Middlesex on Fryday the 18th. of July 1679. Published by authority. date: 1679.0 words: 51844 flesch: 82 summary: C●●k●r . For that you as false Traitors against the most Illustrious , Serene & most Excellent Prince Charles the Second , by the Grace of God of England , Scotland , France , & Ireland , King , Defender of the Faith , &c : your Supream and Natural Lord , the fear of God in your hearts not having , nor weighing the duty of your Allegiance , but being moved & seduced by the instigation of the Devil & the cordial love , true ▪ due & natural Obedience , which true and faithful Subjects of our said Sovereign Lord the King , do & of right ought to bear , towards him , our said Soveraign Lord the King utterly withdrawing and ende●● ouring and intending with all your strength the Peace and common Tranquility of this Kingdom of England to disturb , and the true Worship of God within this Kingdom of England used , and by the Laws of the same established , to overthrow , and the Government of this Realm to subvert , & Sedition and Rebellion within this Kingdom of England to move stir up and procure , and the cordial love , true , due and natural obedience , which true and faithful Subjects of our said Soveraign Lord the King , ought and of right are bound to bear towards him our said Soveraign Lord the King wholly to withdraw , put out & extinguish , & Him our said Soveraign Lord the King to death & final destruction to bring & put , you the said Sir George Wakeman , William Marshall & William Rumley the 30th day of August , in the 30th . keywords: august; bedloe; c. j.; corker; day; dugdale; evidence; george wakeman; hand; hath; house; j. mr; jury; king; l. c.; letter; lord; marshall; oates; plot; pray; sawyer; sir; sir g.; sir george; tell; thing; time; wakeman; william; witnesses; ● ● cache: A63223.xml plain text: A63223.txt item: #83 of 111 id: A63228 author: England and Wales. Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery (London and Middlesex). title: The tryals of VVilliam Ireland, Thomas Pickering, & John Grove, for conspiring to murder the King who upon full evidence were found guilty of high treason at the session-house in Old-Bailye, Dec. 1, 1678, and received sentence accordingly. date: 1678.0 words: 33073 flesch: 81 summary: when M●●ss was going to be said , one said it was too late , for it was after ●● a 〈…〉 but Mr. Whitebread said it was not after noon ●●i●● we had ▪ din'd ; and you k●●● 〈…〉 that M●●ss●●s have been said at one or two of the clock in the af●●ern●●● Mr. Just . Sir Cr. Levings , Pr●●y , ●●●m whom had your Brother that money ? M●● . keywords: august; bedlow; c. j.; day; england; evidence; fenwick; grove; ireland; j. mr; john; king; l. c.; letter; lord; o ●; oates; pickering; religion; sir; thomas; time; whitebread; witnesses; ● e; ● l.; ● s; ● t; ● y; ● ● cache: A63228.xml plain text: A63228.txt item: #84 of 111 id: A63336 author: Ayloffe, John, d. 1685. title: A true account of the proceedings against John Ayloff, and Richard Nelthorp Esquires at the King's-Bench-Bar date: 1685.0 words: 2435 flesch: 60 summary: A true account of the proceedings against John Ayloff, and Richard Nelthorp Esquires at the King's-Bench-Bar Ayloffe, John, d. 1685. 1685 Approx. A true account of the proceedings against John Ayloff, and Richard Nelthorp Esquires at the King's-Bench-Bar Ayloffe, John, d. 1685. keywords: ayloff; eebo; nelthorp; tcp; text; treason cache: A63336.xml plain text: A63336.txt item: #85 of 111 id: A63409 author: Edwards, Susanna, d. 1682. title: A True and impartial relation of the informations against three witches, viz., Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles, and Susanna Edwards, who were indicted, arraigned and convicted at the assizes holden for the county of Devon, at the castle of Exon, Aug. 14, 1682 with their several confessions, taken before Thomas Gist, Mayor, and John Davie, alderman, of Biddiford, in the said county, where they were inhabitants : as also, their speeches, confessions and behaviour at the time and place of execution on the twenty fifth of the said month. date: 1682.0 words: 11669 flesch: 72 summary: A True and impartial relation of the informations against three witches, viz., Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles, and Susanna Edwards, who were indicted, arraigned and convicted at the assizes holden for the county of Devon, at the castle of Exon, Aug. 14, 1682 with their several confessions, taken before Thomas Gist, Mayor, and John Davie, alderman, of Biddiford, in the said county, where they were inhabitants : as also, their speeches, confessions and behaviour at the time and place of execution on the twenty fifth of the said month. 1682 Approx. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 853:22) A True and impartial relation of the informations against three witches, viz., Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles, and Susanna Edwards, who were indicted, arraigned and convicted at the assizes holden for the county of Devon, at the castle of Exon, Aug. 14, 1682 with their several confessions, taken before Thomas Gist, Mayor, and John Davie, alderman, of Biddiford, in the said county, where they were inhabitants : as also, their speeches, confessions and behaviour at the time and place of execution on the twenty fifth of the said month. keywords: aforesaid; biddiford; day; grace; informant; john; mayor; saith; susanna; temperance; thomas cache: A63409.xml plain text: A63409.txt item: #86 of 111 id: A63434 author: Satterthwayt, John. title: A true and perfect narrative of the tryal and acquitment of Mr. John Satterthwayt at the assizes held at Kingston, March 13 being accused for firing the house of Mr. Peter Delanoy, dyer in Southwark / written in his own hand, in a letter to his friend in London. date: 1680.0 words: 3090 flesch: 68 summary: A true and perfect narrative of the tryal and acquitment of Mr. John Satterthwayt at the assizes held at Kingston, March 13 being accused for firing the house of Mr. Peter Delanoy, dyer in Southwark / written in his own hand, in a letter to his friend in London. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 900:36) A true and perfect narrative of the tryal and acquitment of Mr. John Satterthwayt at the assizes held at Kingston, March 13 being accused for firing the house of Mr. Peter Delanoy, dyer in Southwark / written in his own hand, in a letter to his friend in London. keywords: clock; delanoy; house; john; tcp; text cache: A63434.xml plain text: A63434.txt item: #87 of 111 id: A63585 author: England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London) title: The true narrative of the proceedings at the sessions for London and Middlesex, begun April the 30th, 1679 giving an exact account of the tryal of a popish priest, condemn'd for high treason, a maid tryed for firing her masters house, and divers for murder, robbery on the highway, burglary and other notorious crimes : with the number of all that are condemn'd to die, were burnt in the hand, or to be whipt, and each persons particular crime, and circumstances of discovery, apprehension, &c. date: 1679.0 words: 3201 flesch: 60 summary: The true narrative of the proceedings at the sessions for London and Middlesex, begun April the 30th, 1679 giving an exact account of the tryal of a popish priest, condemn'd for high treason, a maid tryed for firing her masters house, and divers for murder, robbery on the highway, burglary and other notorious crimes : with the number of all that are condemn'd to die, were burnt in the hand, or to be whipt, and each persons particular crime, and circumstances of discovery, apprehension, &c. England and Wales. The true narrative of the proceedings at the sessions for London and Middlesex, begun April the 30th, 1679 giving an exact account of the tryal of a popish priest, condemn'd for high treason, a maid tryed for firing her masters house, and divers for murder, robbery on the highway, burglary and other notorious crimes : with the number of all that are condemn'd to die, were burnt in the hand, or to be whipt, and each persons particular crime, and circumstances of discovery, apprehension, &c. England and Wales. keywords: gentleman; hand; house; london; prisoner; tcp; text cache: A63585.xml plain text: A63585.txt item: #88 of 111 id: A63587 author: England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London) title: A true narrative of the proceedings at the Sessions-house in the Old-Bayly; from Friday the 14th of this instant January, to Munday the 17th; being a full and true account of the tryals, examinations, and condemnations of several malefactors, for several crimes. And also an account of the tryal of four several persons for committing four several murthers. A man for killing a bayliff, a boy for killing his fellow prentice, a man for killing his fellow-workman, and another for killing a man in Black fryers. With an account how many are condemn'd, how many burn'd in the hand, to be transported, whipt at the carts tail, and to stand in the pillory. With permission, Roger L'Estrange date: 1676.0 words: 2990 flesch: 56 summary: In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. Readers , what can subdue , what can asswage The bloody hands of men this sinful age ? A fervent Prayer from a religious heart . keywords: account; eebo; house; man; tcp; text cache: A63587.xml plain text: A63587.txt item: #89 of 111 id: A63589 author: England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London) title: A true narrative of the proceedings at the Sessions-house in the Old-Bayly at a sessions there held; which began on Wednesday the 13th of this instant Decemb. and ended on Saturday the 16th, 1676. Setting forth the several facts and tryals of several malefactors. With the tryal of the maid that set her master's barns on fire at Harrow on the Hill, at Michaelmas last. With an account how many are condemned, burn'd in the hand, to be whipt, and transported. With allowance. Roger L'Estrange. date: 1676.0 words: 2724 flesch: 61 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A63589) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 38178) keywords: eebo; house; prisoner; sessions; tcp; text cache: A63589.xml plain text: A63589.txt item: #90 of 111 id: A63590 author: England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London) title: A true narrative of the proceedings at the Sessions-house in the Old-Bayly at a sessions there held on Wednesday the 17th of January 1676/7. Giving a full account of the true tryal and sentence of Lodowick Muggleton for blasphemous words and books. As also the tryals and condemnation of a vvoman for killing her bastard-child; and of a man for personating another person in giving bayl before a judge. With an account how many are condenmed, burn'd in the hand, to be whipt, and transported. With allowance. Roger L'Estrange. date: None words: 2029 flesch: 60 summary: Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A63590) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 38180) keywords: books; sessions; tcp; text; works cache: A63590.xml plain text: A63590.txt item: #91 of 111 id: A63591 author: England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London) title: A True narrative of the proceedings at the sessions-house in the Old-Bayley, at a sessions there held on the 1st and 2d of June, 1677 being a true relation of the tryal and condemnation of the grand highway-man that robbed the ministers near Uxbridg : with the tryal of the midwife for pretending to be deliverd of a stone dead child, with the tryal of the two searchers that were her confederates : and all other considerable transactions there, with the number of those condemned to die, burnt in the hand, to be transported and whipt. date: 1677.0 words: 2894 flesch: 58 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 106395) keywords: child; man; sessions; tcp; text; tryal cache: A63591.xml plain text: A63591.txt item: #92 of 111 id: A63593 author: England and Wales. Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery (London and Middlesex). title: A True narrative of the proceedings at the sessions-house in the Old-Bayley, December 12, 13, 14, & 15, 1677 containing the tryal of the woman for coyning, who is condemn'd to be burnt : with an account of the highway-men : also the tryals and condemnation of several other notorious malefactors : and also the number of those that are condemn'd, burn'd in the hand, transported, and to be whipt. date: 1677.0 words: 2786 flesch: 57 summary: A True narrative of the proceedings at the sessions-house in the Old-Bayley, December 12, 13, 14, & 15, 1677 containing the tryal of the woman for coyning, who is condemn'd to be burnt : with an account of the highway-men : also the tryals and condemnation of several other notorious malefactors : and also the number of those that are condemn'd, burn'd in the hand, transported, and to be whipt. A True narrative of the proceedings at the sessions-house in the Old-Bayley, December 12, 13, 14, & 15, 1677 containing the tryal of the woman for coyning, who is condemn'd to be burnt : with an account of the highway-men : also the tryals and condemnation of several other notorious malefactors : and also the number of those that are condemn'd, burn'd in the hand, transported, and to be whipt. England and Wales. keywords: condemn'd; eebo; english; hand; tcp; text; woman cache: A63593.xml plain text: A63593.txt item: #93 of 111 id: A63595 author: England and Wales. Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery (London and Middlesex). title: A True narrative of the proceedings at the sessions-house in the Old-Bayley, April 11, 12, & 13, 1678 setting forth the facts and tryals of several prisoners for felonies, burglaries, treason, and other crimes : with a particular account of the tryal and condemnation of two women for high treason, clipping the kings coyn, who are sentenced to be burnt to ashes : and likewise the tryals and condemnation of one for robbing on the highway, and two others for horse-stealing and other felonies : and an exact relation of all other remarkable proceedings : with the number of those that are condemn'd, burn'd in the hand, and to be whipt. date: 1678.0 words: 2634 flesch: 61 summary: Two women were severally tryed for and co●victed of Felony , for Shopli●ting ( as they c 〈…〉 ) a practice become so frequent , that a Tradesm●n scarce dares trust his Wares to Customers v●ew , they have so often been robb'd under pretence of buying . A Gentleman took a Tryal for killing a man , but there was no sufficient Evidence that the Prisoner was the party ; onely one young woman pr●ssed somewhat largely divers circumstances , to whose credit there were on the other side several witnesses examined : keywords: eebo; felonies; stealing; tcp; text; treason cache: A63595.xml plain text: A63595.txt item: #94 of 111 id: A63597 author: England and Wales. Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery (London and Middlesex). title: A True narrative of the proceedings at the sessions-house in the Old-Bayley, May 16, 17, & 18, 1678 setting forth the tryal & condemnation of Charl. Pamplin, for killing Lieutenant Charles Dalison, neer Covent-Garden : with a particular account of the tryals and condemnation of three men for robbing on the highway, and two others for horse-stealing : and likewise the tryal and conviction of a yound [sic] lad for stealing one hundred and forty pounds out of a goldsmiths shop in Lumbard Street : and an exact relation of all other remarkable proceedings : with the number of those that are condemn'd, burn'd in the hand, and to be whipt, &c. : these are to give notice, that the book of the sessions that came out first, printed for Benj. Harris, is false, imperfect, and without order. date: 1678.0 words: 3292 flesch: 63 summary: THe first that came to hi● tryal , was a little boy , pretending not to be above ten years of age , for stealing a silver S●lt of the value of ten pounds , out of a Goldsmiths shop . A man and a woman were indicted for stealing a bay Mare , taken out of a stable in Essex on the 4th of March last , and brought by the woman at the Ba● into an Inne in Aldersgate-street . keywords: dalison; sessions; stealing; tcp; text; tryal; woman cache: A63597.xml plain text: A63597.txt item: #95 of 111 id: A63599 author: England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London) title: A True narrative of the proceedings at the sessions-house in the Old-Bayley, on the 3 and 4 days of July, 1678 containing the tryals of several persons for murder, many for robberies : one young fellow found guilty of a rape, also the tryal of a female-Muggleton for blasphemy, and for all the other malefactors that for any considerable crimes were there arraigned : with the number of those that are condemn'd, burn'd in the hand, and to be whipt, &c. date: 1678.0 words: 3221 flesch: 57 summary: In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 106400) keywords: eebo; english; house; prisoner; tcp; text; woman cache: A63599.xml plain text: A63599.txt item: #96 of 111 id: A63601 author: England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London) title: The true narrative of the procedings [sic] at the Sessions-house in the Old-Bayly. Or the trial and condemnation of six notorious Popish priests & Jesuites, for high-treason viz. William Russel, alias Napper, James Corker, Lionel Anderson, alias, Munson, Charles Parry, and Alexander Lunsden. At a commission of oyer and terminer there held, on Saturday the 17th of this instant January 1679. date: None words: 1980 flesch: 60 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: alias; english; tcp; text cache: A63601.xml plain text: A63601.txt item: #97 of 111 id: A63608 author: England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London) title: The true narrative of the proceedings at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bayly which began on Wednesday the 13th of this instant April and ended on Thursday the 14th following Giving an account of most of the remarkable trials there, viz. for murder fellonies and burglaries, &c. with a particular relation of their names, and the places of their committing their facts, with the number of those condemned to die, burn'd in the hand, transported and to be whipt. But more especially of the trial and condemnation of that notorious highway-man Randolph Poulson, and John Francis Dickison for high-treason, who received sentence to be hang'd drawn and quartered, and Ann Price for murther date: 1681.0 words: 2871 flesch: 52 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A63608) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 30213) keywords: english; house; john; prisoner; tcp; text; works cache: A63608.xml plain text: A63608.txt item: #98 of 111 id: A70679 author: Norwood, Robert, Captain. title: The case and trial of Capt. Robert Norwood, now prisoner in New-gate, truely and impartially stated, and published for satisfaction of my allied friends, and very many others desirous thereof. Together with some observations upon the law and its professors, very worthy a most serious consideration. Both which, (with a brief answer, by way of postscript, to a secret calumny charged upon me) are here presented to the view and judgement of the whole nation: which, if duly considered, with the shrot [sic] discourse annexed, will clearly discover where England's death and life lies. date: 1652.0 words: 10074 flesch: 53 summary: That the soul of man is of the essence of God , and , That there is neither heaven nor hell but what is here . And truely , for any man or men to conquer , that him or themselves may reign and rule , sit in and enjoy their Seats and Places conquered , his or their private and particular interests and accommodations , is not thank-worthy ; but this , To make or give enjoyments to others : and this , at least in form and shew , hath been the practice of all Conquerors ; of which this Nation hath had manifest experience : keywords: answer; hath; judge; law; life; light; love; men; nation; self; things; truth cache: A70679.xml plain text: A70679.txt item: #99 of 111 id: A70694 author: Wall, John, Saint, 1620-1679. title: A narrative of the proceedings and tryal of Mr. Francis Johnson, a Franciscan, at Worcester last summer-assizes Anno Dom. 1679 written with his own hand as followeth. date: 1679.0 words: 19088 flesch: 58 summary: For , before I or any man else can understand the Contents of these Oaths to be true , as to call God to witness that I believe them to be as true , just and righteous , I must be able to desine what is Faith or Heresie in these Contents I swear to , and I must know the full extent of all cases of this nature that God has left to all Temporal Princes and their Power ; I must also understand the full extent of all cases of this nature of power spiritual which God hath left in his Church in or over Christian Kingdoms of Temporal Monarchs , which power in these Oaths I am to swear on the one side , and forswearing the other . To this my Answer to my Lord was , That I had all my life time been so fearful of such rash Judgment , that I do declare it in the presence of God , as I did before him , that I had rather dye , than presume to pronounce the sentence of damnation against any man ; but I told his Lordship , that if he pleased to give me leave , I would relate what I had said to him , and others , upon the like occasion , which the Judge being willing to hear , I told him , that I being at this man's Mother-in-law's house , who was of no Religion , no more than this Witness , and the Mother desiring to hear what Catholicks held , and the reasons for which we believe such points of Faith , I told her what we held , and shewed her the proofs for what we held in her own Bible , and when she made any difficulty whether such texts of Scripture were to be understood as we understood them , or in any other sense , I shewed her out of the Protestant Practice of Piety , and out of the Protestant Common Prayer-Book , that not only Catholicks ▪ but all Protestants understood them in such a sense ; and she having those Books by her , I turned those places to her to read in her own Books , and so she did , and yet neither the Bible , nor Common Prayer-Books , nor Practice of Piety , could satisfie , or make her believe ; whereupon I told her , that if she were a Christian , she must believe something ; for , as she believed , so she should be saved : — I told her also what the Bible declared to her , That without Faith it was impossible to please God , and I bad her consider the text that saith , Whatsoever is not of Faith is sin ; as also the text that saith , The just man liveth by Faith , and desired her to read those words of our Saviour , where he saith , He that believeth shall be saved , but he that believeth not shall be damned ; which she did read ; and this Witness being then present , and I saying the same then before him , I suppose , from this text , he accused me that I should say , he would be damned , because I repeated , and shewed them our Saviour's words , as they appear in that place of Scripture . keywords: charity; death; faith; god; hope; judge; king; life; man; oaths; priest; self; things; witness; world cache: A70694.xml plain text: A70694.txt item: #100 of 111 id: A75778 author: Bateman, Charles, d. 1685. title: An account of the tryal of Charles Bateman, chirurgeon, for high- treason, in conspiring the death of the late King and the subversion of the government &c. who was tryed and found guilty, at Justice-Hall in the Old Bayly, on the 9th of December, 1685. The tryals of John Holland and William Davis, for conspiring against, violently assaulting, and without any warrantable cause, imprisoning William Chancey ... who were tryed and found guilty ... on the 10th of December, 1685. As also the tryals of John Holland, William Davis, and Agnes Wearing, for a notorious burglary and felony ... in the house of Leonel Gatford ... who were tryed and found guilty ... on the 11th of December, 1685. date: 1685.0 words: 11120 flesch: 16 summary: The tryals of John Holland and William Davis, for conspiring against, violently assaulting, and without any warrantable cause, imprisoning William Chancey ... who were tryed and found guilty ... on the 10th of December, 1685. The tryals of John Holland and William Davis, for conspiring against, violently assaulting, and without any warrantable cause, imprisoning William Chancey ... who were tryed and found guilty ... on the 10th of December, 1685. keywords: agnes; bateman; chancey; davis; evidence; gatford; holland; house; john; king; lady; ring; time; william cache: A75778.xml plain text: A75778.txt item: #101 of 111 id: A76061 author: Franklin, Robert, 1630-1684. title: A murderer punished and pardoned, or, A true relation of the wicked life, and shameful-happy death of Thomas Savage imprisoned, justly condemned, and twice executed at Ratcliff, for his bloody fact in killing his fellow-servant, on Wednesday, Octob. 28, 1668 / by us who were often with him in the time of his imprisonment in Newgate, at at his execution, Robert Franklin, Thomas Vincent, Thomas Doolitel, James Janeway, Hugh Baker ; to which is annexed a sermon preached at his funeral. date: 1679.0 words: 25268 flesch: 68 summary: If the wrath of God , if Hell and Damnation , if everlasting Misery be to be avoided , then Sin is : for as sure as God is true , Sinners must be damned if they flee not sin . And lastly , be careful to spend the Lords-day , and all thy other spare time in the service of God , as reading , Praying , hearing the Word preached , which may be a means to preserve thee from the guilt of sins of this nature , and other sins likewise , if thou apply thy self seriously to this work . keywords: blood; christ; company; day; death; god; hath; heart; hell; lord; man; mercy; prayer; sin; sins; soul; thou; time; world cache: A76061.xml plain text: A76061.txt item: #102 of 111 id: A77144 author: Bower, Edmund. title: Doctor Lamb revived, or, VVitchcraft condemn'd in Anne Bodenham a servant of his, who was arraigned and executed the lent assizes last at Salisbury, before the right honourable the Lord Chief Baron Wild, judge of the assise. Wherein is set forth her strange and wonderful diabolical usage of a maid, servant to Mr. Goddard, as also her attempt against his daughters, but by providence delivered. Being necessary for all good Christians to read, as a caveat to look to themselves, that they be not seduced by such inticements. By Edmond Bower an eye and ear witness of her examination and confession. date: 1653.0 words: 18679 flesch: 31 summary: And my friendly Reader , not to detein thee from thy more serious imployment any longer , I say , thou hast this relation , truly and faithfully related unto thee ; for what good or advantage would it be to me , to give a false relation of the same ? which if I should , many hundred spectators can disprove me ; but my own heart knows , and all observers can testifie , that the foregoing History , is the birth and true issues of the life and death of the Witch ; neither hast thou it penned or illustrated with counterfeit colours of curious language , for I know it matters not what Speech we use in telling truth , and I obliged my self in my undertakings to use the same words and expressions as both the Witch and Maid used , and have not made them speak my words in this relation . She was a woman much adicted to Popery , and to Papistical fancies that she commonly observed , and would declare to her neighbours ; she would often tell those , that had converse with her of lucky and unlucky days , which she would have them observe in their employments ; she was likewise addicted much to Gossipping ( as the vulgar call it ) to tell strange unheard-of tales and stories of transactions , and things that have been , and might be done , by cunning and wise people ; she was one that would undertake to cure almost any diseases , which she did for the most part by charms and spels , but sometimes used physical ingredients , to cover her abominable practices ; she would undertake to procure things that were lost , and to restore stoln goods , upon which employments she was made use of by many people , and amongst the very many that came to her , there came one Anne Styles ( then a servant to Richard Goddard Esquire , of the Close in new Sarum ) who had lost a silver Spoon of her Masters , and it was suspected by many servants of the house , that the Spoon was stollen , who amongst themselves resolved to send this Anne Styles to Anne Bodenham , or the cunning woman , to discover the person that had stoln the spoon ; she whereupon having receiv'd from the Cook Maid Bread and Meat to give the VVitch , went to the Witches house , where she was entertain'd very kindly , and at her comming the VVitch shaked her by the hand , rubbed her Head and Temples , and told her she knew wherefore she came , but said the wind did not blow , nor the Sun shine , nor Jupiter appear , so that she could not help her to the spoon ; withall told her , that she should shortly have occasion to come again to her about a greater matter ; And then the VVitch took of the Maid 12. pence , and also bid the Maid give her a Jug of Beer , which she did ; after which the VVitch told the Maid the spoon should be brought again shortly , by a little Boy which did use to her Masters house ; And when the Maid came home , she told the Cook Maid , and Elizabeth Roswel an other of the servants in the same house , what the VVitch , had told her ; At which time then Elizabeth Rosewel told Anne Styles , that Master Thomas Mason , Son in Law to Master Goddard , had lost three pieces of gold , of 22. shillings a piece , and that Master Mason desired her to go to the VVitch to know who had the same , and withall bid her give the VVitch what mony she demanded , and he would repay her ; whereupon the Maid went to the VVitches house again , who bade her come in , and told her she was welcome , and asked her wherefore she came ; to whom the Maid answered , for gold that was lost ; and the VVitch immediatly replyed , it was Mr. Masons gold , and that Master Goddards Boy , Robert Beck-ford , had been twice before with her about it ; the VVitch put on her Spectacles , and demanding seven shillings of the Maid which , she received , she opened three Books , in which there seemed to be severall pictures , and amongst the rest the picture of the Devill , to the Maids appearance , with his Cloven feet and Claws ; after the VVitch had looked over the book , she brought a round green glass , which glass she layd down on one of the books , upon some picture therein , and rubbed the glass , and then took up the book with the glass upon it , and held it up against the Sun , and bid the Maid come and see who they were , that she could shew in that glass , and the Maid looking in the glass saw the shape of many persons , and what they were doing of in her Masters house , in particular shewed Mistriss Elizabeth Rosewel standing in her Mistriss Chamber , looking out of the Window with her hands in her sleeves , and another walking alone in her Masters Garden , one other standing in a room within the Kitchin , one other standing in a matted room of her Masters , against the Window , with her Apron in her hand , and shewed others drinking with glasses of Beer in their hands ; after the Witches shewing this to the Maid , she then bad her go home , which when she came home , she asked the people ( she so saw in the Witches glass ) what they had been doing while she had been wanting , and by their answers to her she found that they had been doing what she saw they were in the glass , and the Maid relating this to Elizabeth Rousewel , she replyed , that Mistriss Boddenham , ( meaning the said Witch ) was either a Witch , or a woman of God . keywords: devill; doe; god; goe; good; hath; house; maid; mistriss; room; self; thing; time; vvitch; witch cache: A77144.xml plain text: A77144.txt item: #103 of 111 id: A87169 author: Axtel, Daniel, d. 1660. title: The speech of Maj. Gen. Harison, upon his arraignment, tryal, and condemnation; with the sentence of death pronounced against him, to be hang'd, drawn, and quarter'd As also the speeches of Alderman Tich Mr. burn, Hugh Peters, Col. Axtel, and Col. Lilburn; at the sessions house in the Old Bayley, before the most honourable Lords, and others His Majesties commissioners of Oyer and Terminer; upon the reading of the charge and indictment of high-treason, that they had wilfully, maliciously, and trayterously, advised, abetted, assisted, contrived, and compassed the death of our late dread soveraign Charles the first by the grace of God of ever blessed memory King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. date: 1660.0 words: 2179 flesch: 64 summary: The Speech of Major Gen. Harrison , Sir Hardress Waller , and Hugh Peters , at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayley ; upon the reading of the Bills of Indictment , &c. THe Bill of Indictment being ( on Tuesday last ) read at Hicks-Hall , against those unjust Judges , who contriv'd , arraign'd sentenc'd , and executed that most vertuous Prince our late Soveraign King Charles the First of ever blessed Memory ; And the said Bill being found by the Grand Jury of Knights and Gentlem●n of quality of the County of Middlesex , on Wednesday ( Octob. 'T is probable , he may have regret of Conscience , for ushering in his former Doctrines ( or rather Blasphemies ) of Heresies and Rebellions ; and with the Penitent thus contemplate with a ferve●t Spirit O miserable and wretched Souls , to use such Barbarisme against our Gracious Soveraign , and Protes●●●● 〈…〉 ay the wisest of men and the b●st of Princes . keywords: -early; charles; col; death; text cache: A87169.xml plain text: A87169.txt item: #104 of 111 id: A88579 author: Love, Christopher, 1618-1651. title: A cleare and necessary vindication of the principles and practices of me Christopher Love, since my tryall before, and condemnation by, the High Court of Iustice. Whereby it is manifested, that a close prison, a long sword, a High Court, and a bloody scaffold, have not in the least altered my judgment. Whereas also the cruelty of the sentence, the insufficiency of the proofs, and my own innocency, are demonstrated. As also my grounds and reasons of giving in a narrative, and the lawfulness of the matter and titles of my petitions (though to usurpers) manifested and maintained. Together with a declaration of my judgement concerning Cromwells unlawfull invasion of the kingdom of Scotland. Written by me Christopher Love, Master of Arts, minister of Lawrence Iury, London; penned by me the eighth of August, fourteen days before my death. date: 1651.0 words: 30137 flesch: 60 summary: So Athaliahs Usurping is called by the Spirit of God reigning , yet the spirit of God ownes not her right to reigne , but approved of the killing of her , and the setting up Ieh●ash the true and lawfull heire in her room . I will not turn away the puni●●ment of Tyrus because they have delivered the whole cap●ivity to Edom , and remembred not the brotherly Covenant . keywords: blood; court; death; desire; god; hath; house; king; lawes; letter; life; love; man; men; nation; parliament; petition; present; scotland; sentence; things; titles; witnesses; words; yea cache: A88579.xml plain text: A88579.txt item: #105 of 111 id: A88821 author: Lakeland, Mother. title: The lawes against vvitches, and conivration. And some brief notes and observations for the discovery of witches. Being very usefull for these times, wherein the Devil reignes and prevailes over the soules of poore creatures, in drawing them to that crying sin of witch-craft. Also, the confession of Mother Lakeland, who was arraigned and condemned for a witch, at Ipswich in Suffolke. Published by authority. date: 1645.0 words: 3388 flesch: 65 summary: They have often pictures of clay or wax ( like a man , &c. made of such as they would be witch ) found in their house , or which they roast , or bury in the earth , that as the picture consumes , so may the parties bewitched consume , 4. There are other presumptions against these Witches ; as if they be given to usuall cursing , and bitter imprecations , and withall use threatnings to be revenged , and their imprecations , or some other mischief presently followeth , Ber. 61.205 . And for the better restraining the said offences , and more severe punishing the same , be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid ; That if any person of persons , after the said Feast of St. Michael the Archangell next comming , shall use , practise , or exercise any invocation or conjuration of an evil and wicked spirit : or shall consult , covenant with , entertaine , imploy , feed , or reward any evil and wicked spirit , to or for any intent or purpose ; or take up any dead man , woman , or child , out of his , her , or their grave , or any other place where the dead body resteth ; or the skin , bone , or any other part of any dead person , to be imployed , or used in any manner of Witchcraft , Sorcery , Charme , or Inchantment , or shall use , practise , or exercise , any Witchcraft , Inchantment , Charme , or Sorcery , whereby any person shall be Killed , Destroyed , Wasted , Consumed , Pined , or Lamed , in His or Her body , or any part thereof ; that then every such Offender , or Offenders , their Ayders , Abetters , and Councellors , being of any of the said offences duly and lawfully Convicted and Attainted , shall suffer paines of death as a Felon or Felons , and shall lose the priviledge and benefit of Clergy and Sanctuary . keywords: devil; party; person; text; witch; witches cache: A88821.xml plain text: A88821.txt item: #106 of 111 id: A89263 author: Moore, Mary, fl. 1650. title: Wonderfull newes from the north. Or, A true relation of the sad and grievous torments, inflicted upon the bodies of three children of Mr. George Muschamp, late of the county of Northumberland, by witch-craft: and how miraculously it pleased God to strengthen them, and to deliver them: as also the prosecution of the sayd witches, as by oaths, and their own confessions will appear, and by the indictment found by the jury against one of them, at the sessions of the peace held at Alnwick, the 24. day of April, 1650. Novemb. 25. 1650. Imprimatur, John Dovvname. date: 1650.0 words: 11727 flesch: 66 summary: After this she continued well till Candlemas . ON Candlemas Eve , betwixt the houres of one and two in the afternoone , being the Sabboth , her mother with most of her servants being at Church , onely her two Brothers , and two Sisters with her , she was suddainely striken with a great deale of torment , called for a little beere , but ere they could come with it , the use of her tongue was gone , with all her limbs , pressing to vomit , and such torments , that no eyes could looke on her without compassion : Her mother comming home with a sad heart , beheld her childe , using what meanes could be , but no ease , till eleaven or twelve a Clock at night she fell into a slumber and slept till six in the morning ; as soon as Berwick gates were opened her mother sent for Phisitions , both of soule and body , with the Lady SELBY , Colonell FENVVICKS Widow , with other friends , who forth with came to behold this sad fight , with many others that came to the childe waking out of her sle●pe , which was without present torment , but had lost the use of both limbs , tongue , stomacke , onely smiled on them , and signed , that we could understand she had all her other senses very perfect , but would let nothing come within her mouth of any nourishment , for her Jawes were almost closed : Physitians gave their advice , with other friends ; and what could be had , was gotten for her : but her signes from the beginning were , away with these Doctors Drugs , God had layd it on her , and God would take it off her . It is a great mercy that he granted me patience to endure my payne ; if it had pleased God I should have beene content as well with torment as releasement . keywords: angels; brother; cause; day; death; god; hath; justice; life; lord; mother; mrs; power; sayd; sister; svvinovv; time; torment cache: A89263.xml plain text: A89263.txt item: #107 of 111 id: A91287 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The subjection of all traytors, rebels, as well peers, as commons in Ireland, to the laws, statutes, and trials by juries of good and lawfull men of England, in the Kings Bench at Westminster, for treasons perpetuated by them in Ireland, or any foreign country out of the realm of England. Being an argument at law made in the Court of Kings Bench, Hil. 20 Caroli Regis, in the case of Connor Magwire, an Irish baron ... fully proving; that Irish peers, as well as commons may be lawfully tried in this court in England, by the statute of 35 H.8.c.2. for treasons committed by them in Ireland, by a Middlesex jury, and outed of a trial by Irish peers: which was accordingly adjudged, and he thereupon tried, condemned, executed as a traytor ... By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolnes Inne. date: 1658.0 words: 33724 flesch: 61 summary: With that of p Sy●vester●●a●●us , who ●●●●●ing the Constitutions made at the Council of Cassils in Ireland under this King Henry for the Government of the Church , and ●eformation of the manners of the Irish , there recorded at large , concludes thus . year of his Raign at Dublin in Ireland , did create Brian Magwire , Father of the said Connor Magwire , Baron of Iniskellin in the County of Farmanagh in the said Realm ; and granted to him and the Hei●●males of his body , the title , honor and dignity of the said Barony , and to have a place and voice among the Peers and Nobles of Ireland in the Parliaments of that Realm ; By virtue whereof the said Brian was seised in his demesn as of Fee tayl of the said Barony , and dyed seised thereof at Dublin 1 Feb. 12 Caroli . keywords: act; acts; bench; c. 1; c. 2; c. 3; case; charta; commons; cooks; court; eliz; england; english; forein; good; hath; high; instit; ireland; irish; jury; justice; kings; law; lawfull; laws; lord; magna; manner; parliament; peers; persons; quod; realm; statute; treasons; tryal; tryed; words; ● ● cache: A91287.xml plain text: A91287.txt item: #108 of 111 id: A92567 author: Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Marquis of, 1598-1661. title: The last proceedings of the Parliament in Scotland, against the Marquesse of Argyle. Together, with the speech and defence of the said Marquesse, in vindication of himself from the aspersions of his having a hand in the deaths of His late Majesty, James Duke Hamilton, Marquesse Huntley, Marquesse of Montross. And of his dealing with the English after Worcester fight. date: 1661.0 words: 5325 flesch: 55 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). keywords: advocates; english; lord; majesties; majesty; marquesse; parliament; tcp; text; time cache: A92567.xml plain text: A92567.txt item: #109 of 111 id: A94198 author: Heron, Edward, Sir. title: A vindication from Colonell Sands: being the true copie of a letter sent from Colonell Sands to His Excellence the Earle of Eseex [sic] from Worcester the 8. of October. Wherein Colonell Sands doth declare his resolution to maintaine the cause hee hath begun, with the hazard of his life and fortunes. Also manifesting to the world, that those reports of his being slaine, with the contents of the Lord Faulklands letter, to be false and scandalous. With his humble desire to his Excellence, that the coppie of his resolution might be presented to the Parliament, that they might be satisfied concerning his fidelity. Read in the audience of both Houses of Parliament, and by them approved of. Whereunto is annexed seven articles of impeachment of high treason, exhibited in Parliament, against Sir Edward Heron, High Sheriffe of the county of Lincolne. date: None words: 1925 flesch: 58 summary: With his humble desire to his Excellence, that the coppie of his resolution might be presented to the Parliament, that they might be satisfied concerning his fidelity. Read in the audience of both Houses of Parliament, and by them approved of. keywords: colonell; house; parliament; sands cache: A94198.xml plain text: A94198.txt item: #110 of 111 id: B00045 author: Flower, Margaret, d. 1618. title: Witchcrafts, strange and wonderfull: discovering the damnable practices of seven witches, against the lives of certaine noble personages, and others of this kingdome, as shall appeare in this lamentable history. ; With an approved triall how to finde out either witch or any apprentice to witch-craft.. date: 1635.0 words: 8636 flesch: 47 summary: Shee further saith , That upon Friday night last , her Spirit came to her and told her , That there was a bad woman at Deeping who had given her soule to the Devill : and that her said Spirit did then appeare unto her in a more ugly for me then it had formerly done , and that it urged her much to give it something , although it were but a piece of her girdle , and told her that it had taken great paines for her , but shee saith that shee would give it nothing , and told it that shee had sent it to no place , but onely to see how my Lord Rosse did , and that her spirit told her , that he should doe well . Shee further faith , That finding a glove about two or three yeares since of Francis Lord Rosse , on a dunghill , shee delivered it to her mother , who put it into hot water and after tooke it out and rubd it on Rutterkin the Cat , and bad him goe upwards , and after her mother buried it in the yard , and said a mischiefe light on him , but hee will mend againe . keywords: death; devill; earle; flower; god; ioane; lord; margaret; mother; owne; saith; shee; spirit; tcp; time; witch; witches cache: B00045.xml plain text: B00045.txt item: #111 of 111 id: B06084 author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694. title: A letter written to my Lord Russel in Newgate, the twentieth of July, 1683. date: 1683.0 words: 1349 flesch: 62 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06084) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179135) keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: B06084.xml plain text: B06084.txt