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A63161	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.	Barnardiston, Samuel, Sir, 1620-1707.; England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.	1684 (1684)	Wing T2164; ESTC R30169	21,088	35

THE TRYAL AND CONVICTION OF S r. Sam Bernardiston Bar t. FOR HIGH-MISDEMEANOR AT The Session of NISI PRIVS Holden at GUILD-HALL LONDON For his Majesties Court of KINGS BENCH Before the Right Honorable Sir George Jeffreys KNIGHT and BARONET Lord Chief Justice of ENGLAND On Thursday Feb. 14. 1683. LONDON Printed for Benjamin Tooke at the Ship in S. Pauls Church-Yard 1684. I Do Appoint Benjamin Tooke to Print the TRYAL of Sir Samuel Bernardiston Baronet and order that no other Person presume to Print the same Geo. Jeffreys THE TRYAL AND CONVICTION OF Sir SAM BERNARDISTON BARONET FOR HIGH-MISDEMEANOR AT The Session of NISI PRIVS Holden at GUILD-HALL LONDON THere being in Hillary Term last an information in the Court of Kings-Bench preferred by his Majesties Attorny General against Sir Samuel Bernardiston for a very great Misdemeanor upon Oath made that he was so extreamly indisposed that he could not appear in Person without danger of his life the Court were pleased to respite his Recognizance which he by order of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council entered into the last Vacation to appear in this Court the First day of this Term and to allow him the liberty of Pleading to the Information by Attorney which he did And Thursday the 14th of February 1683. being the Session of Nisi Prius after the Term holden for the City of London and County of the same was appointed for the Tryal of this Cause and accordingly then the same came on and was tryed before the Right Honourable Sir George Jeffreys Knight and Baronet Lord Chief Justice of his Majesties Court of Kings-Bench in this manner Clerk Call away Cryer Cryer You good men of Nisi prius summoned to appear here this day between our Sovereign Lord the King and Sir Samuel Bernardiston Baronet answer to your Names and save your Issues Cl. Thomas Vernon and his Fellows Vous avez plein Inquest Call the Defendant Sir Samuel Bernardiston Cryer Sir Samuel Bernardiston come forth or this Inquest shall be taken by your default Mr. Williams He appears Cl. Gardez vostres Challenges Swear Thomas Vernon Cr. You shall well and truely try this Issue between our Sovereign Lord the King and Sir Samuel Bernardiston according to your Evidence So help you God Cl. Percival Gilburn who was Sworn and so the rest The Names of the Twelve were these Thomas Vernon Jur. Percival Gilburn Jur. Edward Bovery Jur. William Withers Sen. Jur. James Wood Jur. Robert Masters Jur. Samuel Newton Jur. George Torriano Jur. Kenelm Smith Jur. Thomas Goddard Jur. Thomas Amy and Jur. Richard Blackburn Jur. Then they were counted and Proclamation made for Information in usual manner Mr. Poultney May it please your Lordship and you Gentlemen of the Jury this Cause is between the King and Sir Samuel Bernardiston and it is upon an Information exhibited by Mr. Attorney General wherein he sets forth That there having been lately a Horrid Plot discovered as appears by the Convictions of those that have suffered justly for it and by the Evidence that has been given of it has been made so apparent that I do not question but that no man but who either has a hand in it or else bears a good will to it doth at all scruple the belief of it Sir Samuel Bernardiston the Defendant intending to scandalize and vilifie the Evidence wrote a Letter wherein are contained these Sentences The return of the Duke of Monmouth to White-Hall and his being received into extraordinary Favour of his Majesty hath made a strange alteration of affairs at Court for those that before spake of him very indecently now court cringe and creep to him His Grace complained to the King of the scandalous misrepresentation that was made of him in the Mondays Gazette upon which the Gazetter was called to accompt for it who alledged for himself that a Person of great Quality sent him in writing the words therein recited commanding him to put them in the Gazette Yesterday being the last day of the Term all the Prisoners that were in the Tower upon the late Sham Protestant-Plot were discharged upon Bayl. Mr. Bradon who prosecuted the Murther of the Earl of Essex the Information put in against him in the Kings-Bench by Mr. Attorney for a pretended Subornation c. was not prosecuted and his Bail was discharged And the passing Sentence upon the Author of Julian the Apostate and the Printer of the late Lord Russels Speech was passed over with silence Great applications are made to his Majesty for the pardoning Mr. Sidney in the Tower which is believed will be attained and that he will be banished The Lord Howard appears despicable in the eyes of all men he is under guard at White-Hall and 't is believed will be sent to the Tower for that the Duke of Monmouth will accuse him concerning the Testimony he hath given and the Papists and High Tories are quite down in the mouth their Pride is abated themselves and their Plot confounded but their Malice is not aswaged T is generally said the Earl of Essex was murthered The brave Lord Russel is afresh lamented The Plot is lost here except you in the Country can find it out amongst the Adressers and Abhorrers This sudden turn is an amazement to all men and must produce some strange events which a little time will shew And then he goes on further and saies in another Letter these words I am to answer yours of the 27 and 29 th past and truly I cannot but with great sorrow lament the loss of our good Friend honest Mr. John Wright but with patience we must submit to the Almighty who can as well raise up Instruments to do his work as change hearts of which we have so great an instance in the business of the Duke of Monmouth that no Age or History can parallel I am now throughly satisfied that what was printed in the Mondays Gazette is utterly false and you will see it publickly declared so shortly The King is never pleased but when he is with him hath commanded all the Privy Council to wait upon him and happy is he that hath most of his favour His Pardon was sealed and delivered to him last Wednesday 'T is said he will be restored to be Master of the Horse and be called into the Council Table and to all his other places and 't is reported he will be made Captain General of all the Forces and Lord High Admiral c. he treats all his old Friends that daily visit him with great Civilities they are all satisfied with his integrity and if God spares his life doubt not but he will be an Instrument of much good to the King ' and Kingdom He said publickly That he knew my Lord Russel was as Loyal a Subject as any in England and that His Majesty believed the same now I intend shortly to wait on him my self It would make you laugh to see how strangely our High-Tories and

Cause as they call it which was the Rebellion which brought that Blessed Martyr to His Death It is high time for all Mankind that have any Christianity or sense of Heaven or Hell to bestir themselves to rid the Nation of such Caterpillars such Monsters of Villany as these are Nay In these very Letters is contained the very Language of that cursed Murderer and Traitor Walcot himself That God Almighty in his own time would raise up Instruments I know Gentlemen you have heard and read what that bloody Traitor said to that effect and you hear what expressions like it are in these Letters I am sorry for the death of our friend honest Mr. John Wright but God can easily raise up Instruments to do his own work the very Language of Walcot And I would have you take notice of it Mr. Blackerby for I would have you take warning by these things Speaking to a Gentleman that was taking Notes Mr. Blackerby My Lord I have neither said nor done any thing that should give you occasion to speak thus to me Lord Ch. Just These Letters tell you God will be sure to raise up Instruments but what Instruments do they mean Instruments of Rebellion and Faction and Sedition which they most falsly call his own work For it is that Monstrous Sin Rebellion that they mean by it Instruments of Treason under pretence of fighting for God Almighty they would fain be fighting against the Government It was the Language of the former times wherewith they destroyed the best of Kings and subverted the best of Governments for a time and were very near having totally destroyed three Kingdoms under pretence of doing God good service And when once a People pursue such Principles and under the pretence of Religion endeavour to destroy Monarchy and Government it self it is high time for all honest men to look about them Nay and you may observe Gentlemen another thing in these Letters it is not only the destruction of the Civil Government the King and those that are in Authority near Him that are aimed at but all Persons that come with humble Representations of their Loyalty to Him all that Address themselves to the King to shew their Duty and their dislike of that damnable Design and Conspiracy against Him For now says Sir Samuel Bernardiston all the Sham Plot is quite blown off and we cannot find any here 't is lost except you can find it among the Addressers and Abhorrers in the Countrey or among a parcel of Clergy-men So that all Mankind that ever thought themselves obliged to congratulate that blessed and happy Deliverance either to own our Thankfulness to God for it to whom we owe more than we are able to pay for his great Mercy to us therein or to express our Joy to the King in humble Addresses Congratulating His Deliverance from the horrid Conspiracy lately designed against Him His Brother and the Government these Gentlemen because they are Loyal Subjects and desire to shew themselves so must be branded with the Names of Abhorrers Torys Addressers Sham-Plotters and all the Ignominy they can lay upon them This shews it was not only aimed at the Civil Magistracy but at all that dare be honest and oppose Faction and Rebellion As for any thing that he has said of me Sir Samuel Bernardiston shall write and speak of me as long as he pleases But though he says I am down in the mouth it is true I have a little lost my Tongue by my cold yet I hope I shall never lose my Heart nor Spirit to serve the Government nor forbear to use my utmost diligence to see that such Offenders as these Persons that entertain Principles so destructive to the Government be brought to condign punishment And be they who they will were they my own Brothers I should be of the same mind and in that mind I hope in God I shall live and dy Gentlemen the question before you is whether the Defendant be guilty of Writing these Malicious Seditious Letters for that they are Malicious and Factious no honest Man can doubt in the least and I do not find that the Counsell for the Defendant do offer to say any thing in defence of the Letters or can say but that they are as venomous Malicious Seditious Factious Tumultuous Letters as can be Written and I must tell you tread very near upon the Borders of High Treason it self I am sure I may venture to call it Cozen German to High Treason Now that he did Write and publish them you have this proof before you Mr. Blathwaite tells you That Sir Samuel did own three of them acknowledge them to be his own Writing before His Sacred Majesty in Council Atterbury the Messenger says he was by too when he did before the King acknowledge the Writing of those Three Letters As to the Superscription to one of those Three Letters you have the testimony of Osland the young Man that lived with Sir Samuel Bernardiston he Swears he Writ it by his direction being his Servant And as to the Fourth Letter this young Man does directly swear that the Original he Copied it by for it is his Writing he had from Sir Samuel Bernardiston and 't was of Sir Samuel's own Writing which he knows well being acquainted with his Hand and that Sir Samuel expresly directed him to Copy it out which he did by his Command and this is the same Letter and so though 't is not under his hand yet it is under his Mans and Written by his direction And he says he does believe the other Three to be his Hand-Writing So as to the Dictating and Writing of these Letters you have as full and as plain a proof as can be made And as to his Publishing of them which is another part of the Information and of which Mr. Williams said there was no proof I would say but this to you Is it not very preposterous absurd and sensless to think that ever it should enter into any Mans imagination that Sir Samuel Bernardiston would take such a wonderful deal of pains and care to Write these Letters to Sir Philip Skippon and to the other Two Men to tell them of his endeavours to take off Mr. Kedders scruples and perswade him to go down to Ipswich and to desire them to take care of the Sober Party and endeavour to get Sober Men into play and all will do well and that the Duke of Monmouth had denyed all the Plot and so given the lye to the King and the Courts of Justice and now there was a door opened for Sober Men to come in and God would raise up Instruments and the Sober Party will up again Do you think I say he would Write all this Fustian stuff for I can call it no better than stuff though it be very malicious stuff and carry to his Man to Copy out and Superscribe them and Seal them only to put them in his Pocket If you can believe