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The Great trappaner of England discovered being a true narrative of many dangerous and abominable practices of one Thomas Violet Goldsmith to trappan the Jews and to ruine many scores of families in and about London : the chief part hereof being sworn before Justice Powell and Justice Blomer and for the rest sufficient and plentiful witnesses are ready to be produced.
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the said Deponent to go along with him the said Tho. Violet into Dukes-Place whereupon the said Deponent went along with the said Tho. Violet into the place before mentioned and was by him the said Tho. Violet brought into the Synagogue of the Jewes in the place aforesaid and spake with one Mr. Moses their High-Priest that year and other Jewes and this Deponent saith further that the said Tho. Violet told the Jewes this Deponent was a fit man to do them service in the business which he the said Tho. Violet had treated with them about and that afterward he the said Deponent and the said Tho. Violet went together into Fish-street and that whilest they were there together the said Violet desired the said Deponent to procure some Patterns of Forreign Coyns and to bring them to the Jewes aforesaid to the end they might make choyce of such as they should think fitting whereunto the said Deponent answered that he thought this action to be unlawful but then the said Violet told the said Deponent that he should not need to fear any such thing for he the said Violet would acquaint the Parliament and Council of State concerning the business who would grant him the said Deponent and all the he should employ in this business an Act of Indempnity then this Deponent procured certain Patterns of Forreign Coyns and brought them to the Jewes aforesaid who when they saw them made choyce of them and desired the said Deponent to procure a great quantity of such Pieces as they had made choyce of Then this Deponent came to the said Violet and acquainted him what had passed betwixt this Deponent and the Jewes upon his bringing the said Patterns whereupon the said Violet promised the said Deponent 200 li. to begin the said work and desired him the said Deponent to acquaint Mr. Pight Clerk of the Irons in the Tower with the business in hand with this Caution that he should not discover to the said Pight that the said Violet was any way concerned in it and that this Deponent did accordingly acquaint Mr. Pight aforesaid that he the said Deponent did intend to make some Pieces as Meddalls for the new Emperour of Germany if the said Pight thought it to be lawful to which the said Pight answered that this Deponent needed not doubt to make them but the said Deponent might go on lawfully so that he was careful he did not meddle with the Coyns of this Commen-wealth And this Deponent saith further that upon the said Violets promising him protection as aforesaid and the said Pight his telling him the business was lawful he the said Deponent cast about 400 Pieces mixt mettall of Copper and Brasse which when he had done the said Violet came to him and told him that his design in this businesse wherein he had employed him the said Deponent was to Trappan the Jewes and to get half their Estates which he the said Violet said the Council of State had promised him for the discovery of the business when time should serve and that the said Deponent should share with him the said Violet in the Booty And moreover this Deponent saith that for the better carrying on of the said plot the said Violet told him the said Deponent that he should carry the Pieces which he should make for the Jewes to some Tavern and send for the Jewes thither and let them receive the the said Pieces there but withall he should give the said Violet notice of it first that the said Violet might come and apprehend them in the Intrim And this Deponent saith that when the said Violet had discovered this his intent unto him the said Deponent that the said Violet told the said Deponent that he the said Violet would stab the said Deponent the next time he met him if the said Deponent should by any means reveal or discover the said Violets design in the business aforesaid Again this Deponent saith that when the said Violet had discovered these his designs unto him the said Deponent that he the said Deponent did melt down again the pieces aforesaid which were made for the Jewes aforesaid And this Deponent saith lastly that the said Violet and the said Pight disagreed because the said Pight had not taken away the Farthing presses as he had promised the said Violet that then the said Violet did impeach the said Pight with confederacy with false Coyners and for allowance given to this Deponent to Coyne the Pieces aforesaid and that thereupon the said Pight did Impeach the said Deponent for Coyning the said Pieces which is the true ground of the prosecution against this Deponent These Affidavits are sworne and others to the same purpose by other Witnesses before divers of those Justices of the Peace as aforesaid And the said Violet hath produced before the said Justices and other Witnesses an Order from under Mr. Scots hand as he affirmed and others of the late Council of State to encourage him in this business here related And this Deponent with divers others further say that the said Violet did offer this Deponent 100 li. to suborne him falsley to swear against a Justice of the Peace of quality and worth to destroy him in his Estate and reputation and afterwards the said Violet did produce and shew unto this Deponent a paper of above 30 names of Aldermen Justices and other Gentlemen of worth and quality that the said Violet would have had this Deponent falsly to accuse and to be sworn against them but he refusing so to do the said Violet threatned to stab him as aforesaid and also the said Violet in further pursuance of his evil and wicked practises meeting with several honest Artists the said Violet shewed them a paper and after he had read it to them he told them in his discourse that if they would work for him he would get them a Warrant from the Council of State to indempnifie them if they would joyn and assist him to ensnare and Trappan several Gentlemen which said honest men as also the former Deponent with several others here are ready to make Oath of when thereunto required His Mask being now taken off he begins to appear in his Colours And truly I wonder he that hath from his youth dealt so much in Silver and Gold should now have so much Brasse in his Face as so impudently and in Print to Patronize his mischiefs under the names of such persons as the Lord Mayor of London the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal the Lord Chief Justice of England The Attorney General and several of the late Council of State named in his Papers as Mr. Scot and others and many other persons of Honour Worth and Quality for which presumption in all sober mens opinions he deserveth rather the whip or worse punishment then the least countenance or favour And in perusal of his printed papers besides his tedious Tautalligies multitudes of printed sheets of the same things over and over again
The Great TRAPPANER OF ENGLAND DISCOVERED BEING A True NARRATIAE of many Dangerous and abominable practises of one THOMAS VIOLET Goldsmith To Trappan the Jewes and to ruine many Scores of Families in and about LONDON Publshed as a Caution or as a Beacon fired to warn all men to beware of such an Enemy to Mankinde and to Arm themselves against him The chief Part hereof being svvorn before Justice Powell and Justice Blomer And for the rest sufficient and plentiful Witnesses are ready to be produced Printed In Defence of those whom it concerns in the year 1660. THE GREAT Trappanner of England DISCOVERED AS man was the Glory of the Creation so is there no savage more pernitious to Humane Society or the wel-being of mankind as depraved and degenerating man which may appear in this ensuing discourse Epitomizing some of the multitude of the black and foul enormityes of Thomas Violet a Name too sweet for so foul a Carkass His Birth was at Sea as though nature had ordained no Country should be burthen'd to own his Nativity being Ingendred between a poor Dutch Fidler and a Moorish Woman How he came into England without the help of the Devil or ever got into the repute to be intrusted in any mans Service as an Apprentise and so become a Member of this famous City of London I am altogether ignorant But shall trace him from his being to be a Goldsmith His first way of thriving was by Transportation of Gold the Coyn of this Nation which he followed till defeated and then detected such Merchants as dealt with him to some of their ruines and his gaine That trade sayling and being more apt to mischeif then to follow his lawfull Calling he procured under specious pretences of Service to the late King and Court in Nomine Dommine and the Nation a Pattent to set up an Office for Gold and Silver Wyer and Thred which he so well managed to his own benefit and the ruine of the Artificers as the cries of those Hundreds of undone Families their Wives and Orpheans sufficiently and wofully testifie Many and as great were the informations against him for divers Monopolies he had share in which in the mannagement of he so behaved himself that he could very hardly defend himself from Corporall punishment But that he was forced to disgorge most part of that ill-gotten Mammon which was sucked from him by some which were then Courtiers leaving little to himself except Infamy and shame and the Curses of those so ruined by his Cheats and Oppressions Thus did he shift from Post to Pillar living by that base way of Informing untill the unhappy difference and civill Warr of these Nations began when to piece up his Crazy Fortune fishing in these troubled Waters He would then turne Statesman and wish much pretended Allegiance to the King and as much zeale and duty to the Parliament he shufled his Cards so fouly and plaid his game so dishonestly that had he been caught at Oxford he had been hanged there hardly escaping the like here by a long and tedious Imprisonment and Sequestration of his Estate for which he now saith the State is in his debt 20000 l. which he hath often affirmed before Authority and in Courts of Justice and therefore said it is reason he should get it up againe some way or other How he hath lived since his inlargement I appeal to all that know him for instead of returning thanks to God for his deliverance and repenting of his former wickedness he continues still a Common and most Horrid Sweater a debauch'd Drunkard especially upon Sabbath days an Epicure and an abominable Lyer and guilty of many other ennormous and Inhumane Crimes to the great Scandal of our Christian Religion especially amongst the Jews with whom he is very conversant For what he can invent by lying he can easily ratifie by swearing and thereby hopes to possess himself of other mens Estates Honestly gotten And now I have named the Jews I thought it not amiss to give that people an Item of his Treacherous intentions to ruine them also Wearied with his former Contrivances he hath at length found out a new way to pay ould debts He Petitions and follows hard the Parliament and Councill of State to give him Authority to search for and find out false Coyners he having been more then sufficiently suspected himself for such practises to say no more till things be brought to farther light especially in Gold under the specious pretence of doing still the Common-wealth Service And to ingratiate himself for that service brings in a Catalogue of many by him found out The cheif whereof as he pleaseth to Name in his scandalous and lying Pamphlets are Tobias Knowles who was forced to appeare and receive a Tryall at the Old Baily Sessions this last 24th of February 1659. wherein indeed after a fair hearing the Jury brought him in Innocent The Residue of his Catalogue being Garrell Carter Preston Chitty Pight Hatford and others Having to their great dammage attended three Sessions for a Tryall expecting and much desiring it with Mr. Knowles his Tryall But this Violet although Richard Pight was the Prosecutor and not Hee prevailed to remove their Indictments by Certiorary into the Upper Bench with the Indictment against himself for the same offence The bill being found against him This he hath done in policy on purpose to suspend their Testimony being all or most of them witness against him Yet pretends he hath spent above 40 l. in prosecution when 't is only to deferr and put off Tryalls to save himself he having no good good Witness but such who have been guilty of the same facts But he spending on other mens Purses need not care what he spends And as to these men last mentioned I verily believe there is scarse one line of truth in all his Printed Pamphlets corcerning them But to keep my word with the Jews and to let the world see of what dangerous consequence it may prove to Arme such a desperate minded man with such Authority he fearing neither God nor man nor to destroy the life of any man though it were his own Father so he could but obtaine his own wicked ends This being the opinion of all that know him and is generally sayd of him having as bad a name as ever I heard man have Pray take this ensuing discovery taken before some of the Justices of the Peace which he so boldly Cites in divers his Printed Papers by the Oaths of Honest men Verbatim which may sufficiently demonstrate the reasons of his desired Authority And whether it be the Common good or his own private Lucre he intends to promote by it let any Rationall man judge The DISCOVERY This Deponent saith that in the beginning of last Spring Tho. Violet Gold-Smith came to this Deponent and told him this Deponent that the said Thomas Violet knew of a way that might make him the said Deponent for ever and so desired