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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41167	An enquiry into and detection of the barbarous murther of the late Earl of Essex, or, A vindication of that noble person from the guilt and infamy of having destroy'd himself	Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.; Braddon, Laurence, d. 1724.; Speke, Hugh, 1656-1724?	1684 (1684)	Wing F737; ESTC R25398	79,560	81

him Nor according to the measures of Wisdom or in consistency with the Principles of true Reason can any Man be a Friend to Religion and Natural Rights without being an avowed Adversary to that great Man himself as well as to his Contrivances But what do you think O ye Peers and Gentlemen of England are not all your Lives threatned in the destruction of this one Nobleman The Laws that could not protect him will be as unable to defend you If the Tower of London which is his Majesty's Royal Palace as well as the State Prison could not secure the Earl of Essex from the irruption and violence of Assassinates Can you either hope for or promise your selves safety in your Country Dwellings For if they want Pretences of destroying you by Persons in Ermine and Scarlet they have no more to do but commissionate and arm Russians and Banditti against you And when it may not be found convenient to assault your Lives by Strangers and hired Rascals whom you do not know they understand the Art of debauching your Valet's de Chamber and the Servants into whose hands you commit the care of your Persons to stab or poison you Into what a deplorable condition are English Gentlemen reduced being exposed if they stay in the Nation to be either sworn out of their Lives by false Witnesses or murdered by bloody Assassinates or if they withdraw and retreat into Foreign Countries made liable to be pursued to Outlawries And which was never known in any Kingdom of the World till Sir George Geffry's had given us a President an Outlawry does as certainly destroy a Man if the outlaw'd Party once fall into their hands as if he had drunk Poison or were stab'd through the heart with a Stilleto Of this the unfortunate Sir Thomas Armstrong is an Example of the first impression who albeit apprehended within the twelfth Month which is the time the Statute allows for a Person to come in and have the benefit of a Trial notwithstanding an Outlawry was yet executed by a Rule of the Court of King's Bench without being allowed a Trial tho he most earnestly demanded it as a right of the Subject and what the Law of the Land gave him a just claim unto And which is worthy to be remarked as shewing the different treatment which Protestants meet with beyond what was measured out to the worst and most criminal Papists The same Attorny General who opposed Sir Thomas Armstrong's having the liberty and benefit of a Trial and who required a Rule of Court for his Execution upon the bare Outlawry did but a few Years before in the case of Levallian and Don O Carney two of the Ruffians who in the Popish Conspiracy were to have killed the King at Windsor not only plead for the Reverse of their Outlawry tho they had been above two Years outlaw'd and came not in till they knew there was but one Witness could swear against them Mr. Bedloe the other Witness being dead but he withal told my Lord Chief Justice Pemberton that there being an Error in the Fact through their absence beyond Sea when the Outlawry was issued out against them the Reverse of it was a thing of course which they had a Right to demand and which the Court was bound by the Duty of their Office and Place to grant Seeing therefore that those of you O English Peers and Gentlemen who remain either faithful to God in the matter of Religion or true to your Country in the business of Civil Rights can neither hope to escape the Malice and Rage of your Enemies by staying at home nor by going abroad is it not time to be at last so far awakened out of your Lethargy as to demand Justice upon those bold and enormous Malefactors that were the Contrivers and Perpetrators of this horrid Murder upon this Noble and Innocent Lord. Can you believe you have discharged your Duty either to your Maker your Prince your Country your Selves your Posterity or to your murdered Friend till you have fill'd the Ears of his Majesty with a cry of innocent Blood barbarously shed and till you have demanded melius inquirendum into the manner of that Noble Man's Death and have brought the Authors and Instruments of his Assassination to undergo the Justice and Severity of the Law Let me tell you O Peers and Gentlemen that this is both what Heaven and Earth do expect from you And if you continue to neglect it you will in the account of God be reckon'd amongst Accessories to that Guilt and in the Esteem of Men be held for a dastardly and degenerate People But if all Men shall either prove so intimid or so supine as to be regardless of the Command and Authority of God their own Personal Safety the Wrath that impends over the Nation upon the cry of innocent Blood Awake then and stir up thy self thou All-seeing and Righteous Lord who beholdest Mischief and Spite to requite with thy hand and make thy Wisdom known in the Detection and thy Justice in the Punishment of this horrid Crime For thou hast not only devolved the Inquisition after Murder upon those who are trusted with Rule among Men but hast charged thy self with it and hast said The Blood of your Lives will I require at the hand of Man and at the hand of every Man's Brother will I require the Life of Man and whoso sheddeth Man's Blood by Man shall his Blood be shed And we do the rather make this Appeal unto thee O Lord not only because they who are advanced unto the Seats of Judgment are either unaccessable or Patrons of what they should search out and punish but because they who take upon them to minister in thy holy Things have prophaned thy Name made contemptible thy Ordinances and deceived thy People whom they should have informed both by vindicating the Authors of this bloody Murder from the Guilt and Suspition of it and by defaming and wounding the Memory of an innocent and guiltless Person While the Conspirators against our Religion and Laws have been like Wolves ravening to shed Blood and to get dishonest Gain these Mercenary Men have daub'd them with untempered Mortar making the King glad with their Wickedness and the Princes with their Lies 'T is to them that the Enemies of Protestancy and English Rights owe the success of all their Attempts and it is they whom the Nation ought to accuse of being the Instruments that have betray'd us to Popery and Slavery For to omit their other Villanies by which they have fought as well to ruine the Nation as oblige the Popish Faction they have endeavoured to ingratiate themselves with that traiterous Party by becoming Advocates for Assassinates and Concealers of Massacres The aspersing this Innocent and Noble Person whose Spittle some years ago they were ambitious to lick up with the Infamy of being Felo de se and they managing that wicked Fiction to the involving others in the Guilt of a Plot hath been a Year's employment for some of the Clergy to exercise their Talent upon hoping thereby to pave their way to rich Benefices Nor is there any thing so base which some of the Clergy will not prostitute themselves unto and glory in if it may but serve the Designs of St. James's and prevent the detection of the Crimes whereof a great Man is guilty A Fresh example we have of this in an Ecclesiasticks turning Informer and causing a Souldier to be made run the Gantlet and to be cashier'd For a certain high flown Tory being viewing the Tower did with a kind of pleasure on the remembrance that the Earl of Essex had there fatally ended his days ask'd a common Sentinel where the Chamber was in which my L. of Essex had cut his Throat To which the Souldier who was neither a Stranger to the Reports that went concerning the Death of that Noble Person nor to divers Circumstances importing by what means and hands he had fallen reply'd pointing at the same time to the Room that is the Chamber where the Earl of Essex was killed And because the honest Fellow would not own to that inquisitive Person that my L. of Essex had murder'd himself but persevered in saying he was kill'd in such a place therefore did the Divine inform against him and brought him to suffer what I have related Which as it represents unto us the Principles of the present Clergy so it confirms the Assassination committed upon that Noble Peer O therefore thou holy One to whom Justice belongeth shew thy self yea lift up thy self thou Judg of the Earth cause their Mischief to return upon their own Heads and for the Violence of their Hands and the Sin of their Mouth let them be taken in their Pride that all Men may know God hath not for saken the Earth but that he ruleth in Jacob even unto the Ends of it FINIS * Braddons Trial p. 4. * Braddon's Trial p. 45. 55. * Braddon's Trial p. 3. ibid. pag. 63. * My Lord Russels Tryal p. 38. † Ib. p. 59. * See Mezerny's Life of Henry 4. * See the Information exhibited to the Committie of ParlJament p. 5. 〈◊〉 13. * See Braddox's Trial p. 48. * Bradd Trial p. 38. 39. * See Braddon's Trial p 37 49 50 51. * See Braddons Tryal p. 3 20 6● * Braddons Tryal p. 4. 60. * 〈◊〉 Trial p. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. * ●●●●ders Trial p. 1 2. * Braddons Trial p. 2. 70. * Braddon's Trial p. 2 70. * Braddons Trial p. 55 61. * Braddons Trial p. 45. * Braddon's Tryal p. 17. * Braddon's Tryal p. 43. † Braddon's Tryal p 69. * Bradd Tryal p. 47 48. * Braddon's Tryal p. 47. † Bradd Tryal p. 58. 69. * Braddon's Trial p. 45. † Bradd Trial p. 45. compared with p 69. * Trial p. 40.