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A55936 The proceedings at the assizes holden at York, the 24th day of July, 1680, before ... Sir William Dolben ... and Sir Edward Atkyns ... then judges of assize for the northern circuit, against several prisoners then indicted for the horrid Popish Plot against the life of the King and for subversion of the government and Protestant religion : with an accompt at large of the arraignment of Sir Miles Stapleton ... , and of the tryal, condemnation and execution of Thomas Thwing for the same plot. Thwing, Thomas, d. 1680.; England and Wales. Assizes (York) 1681 (1681) Wing P3557; ESTC R24478 22,623 36

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the Kings life knowing you could not otherwise accomplish it You are I am satisfied a Priest of the Romish Church therefore all that I can say to you in reference to your future state you will not value for you account me an Heretick as you do the King and I am content to be so esteemed in so good Company therefore I shall wave it As you are a Gentleman I will give some respect to you and I will not pass Sentence on you among the rest of the Prisoners that are found Guilty of Felony and Murder but will do it by your self The Law doth command the Court and the Court doth award That you be carried from hence to the place from whence you came that is the Prison and from thence you are to be drawn to the place of Execution you are there to be hanged by the Neck you are to be cut down before you are dead and your Intrails are to be taken out of your Body and thrown into the Fire before your face and your Head is to be parted from your Body and your Body separated into four Quarters and your Head and your Quarters are to be disposed according to the Kings pleasure And the Lord have mercy on your Soul Thwing Innocens ego sum The Proceedings against Sir Miles Stapleton Baronet SIR Miles Stapleton Baronet was Indicted at a Sessions of Oyer and Terminer in the West-Riding of the County of York and the Indictment was removed by Certiorari to the Kings-Bench where Sir Miles Stapleton having been Arraigned and pleaded to the same Not-Guilty was sent down by Nisi prius to be tryed in the County of York The Indictment was For that he as a false Traytor against our most illustrious and excellent Prince King Charles the Second his natural Lord not having God before his eyes nor weighing the Duty of his Allegiance but by the instigation of the Devil being moved and soduced the cordial Love and true due and natural Obedience which true and faithful Subjects of our said Lord the King should bear to him and of right are bound to bear wholly withdrawing devising and with all his power intending to disturb the peace and common tranquility of this Realm and to bring and put our said Lord the King to death and final destruction and the true Worship of God in this Kingdom by Law established and used to alter to the Superstition of the Church of Rome and to move and stir up War against our said Lord the King in this Realm and to subvert the Government of this Kingdom the 30th day of May in the 31th year of our said Lord the Kings Reign at the Parish of Barwiek in Ellmet in the said County of York in the West-Riding of the same County with divers other false Traitors unknown did traiterously compass imagine and intend the Death and final Destruction of our said Lord the King and to change and alter and wholly to subvert the Ancient Goverment of this Realm and to depose and wholly to deprive the King of the Crown and Government of the said Kingdom and to root out the true Protestant Religion And to fulfill and accomplish the same most wicked Treasons and trayterous Imaginations and Purposes the said Sir Miles Stapleton and other false Traytors unknown on the said 30th day of May in the 31th year aforesaid with Force and Arms at the Parish of Barwick aforesaid advisedly devillishly maliciously and trayterously did assemble unite and gather themselves together and then and there did devillishly advisedly maliciously craftily and trayterously consult and agree to bring our said Lord the King to death and final destruction and to depose and deprive him of his Crown and Government and to introduce and establish the Religion of the Roman Church in this Realm and the sooner to fulfill and accomplish the said most wicked Treasons and trayterous Imaginations and Purposes the said Sir Miles Stapleton and other unknown Traytors then and there advisedly maliciously and trayterously did further consult and agree to contribute pay and expend divers large Sums of Money to divers of the Kings Subjects and other persons unknown to procure those persons unknown trayterously to kill our said Lord the King and to introduce the Roman Religion into this Realm against the Duty of his Allegiance against the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity and against the Form of the Statute in such case made and provided The Jury being called Mr. Justice Dolben took notice to Sir Miles that there were but few appeared and therefore told him he would do well not to challenge too many of them Sir Miles thereupon said he should not challenge Many and enquired whether those that served on the Lady Tempests Mr. Thwings and Mr. Inglebyes Juries did now appear And the Judge answered him that if they did care should be taken that they should not be sworn Then the Jury being called to the Book Sir Miles challenged these viz. Sir David Fowles Barronet Robert Bell Gen. John Eastoft Esquire John Dixon Gen. William Bethell Esquire Thomas Wood Gen. William Caley Esquire Robert Turner Gen. Towers Driffield Esquire John Beckwith Gen. Marmad Trueman Esquire Sim. Warrener Gen. John Wright Esquire Gervase Hatfeild Gen. John Green Esquire John Coates Gen. And only two of the Jury returned viz. Thomas Fletcher Gen. Robert Gudgeon Gen. were sworn Mr. Justice Dolben Sir Miles I see you must stay till the next Assizes for you challenge so many here will not be a Jury gotten Sir Miles If your Lordship please I shall be content and do desire the Jury may be called that served the first day nay all the three Juries if you please Mr. Justice Dolben That is you would chuse all of one way and leave the others where is the indifferency of the Tryal then But come call them I cannot deny it The three Juries called and five challenged viz. Thomas Worsley Esquire Roger Fretwell Gen. Samuel Tenant Gen. Roger Lee Esquire Robert Bushell Gen.   And these sworn viz. Sir Thomas Pennyman Baronet Thomas Rooksby Esquire William Stone Thomas Conyers Christopher Tankerd Esquire who was excepted against by Sir Tho. Stringer as one that disparaged the Evidence of the Plot and called his Dogs by the Names of Oates and Bedloe which the Judge allowed to be a good Exception but there being no Witnesses in the Court to prove it he was sworn Mr. Justice Dolben Sir Miles you must stay till next Assizes we have not a full Jury Sir Miles Here are Gentlemen in the Court your Lordship may take whom you please Mr. Justice Dolben I cannot do it without the Kings Counsel move for a Tales which as this case stands they will not do And so he was remanded to Prison and Remanet pro defectu Juratorum entred upon the Record A Reprieve being obtained for Mr. Thwing he remained Condemned in the Castle of York until about the middle of October Mr. Justice Dolben attended his Majesty in Council and gave a full Account of the several Tryals and of his satisfaction in the Evidence Whereupon an Order of Council was made for the Execution of Mr. Thwing and upon the 23. of October according to the Sentence he was Drawn Hanged and Quartered at York having first protested his Innocency of all that was sworn against him but gloried that he was a Priest and had performed the Priestly Function about 15 years and desiring all true Catholicks if any such were there to pray for him and begging God to bless and preserve the King his Queen the Duke of York and all other good Christians he yielded himself to the Executioner FINIS Note that upon Sir Thomas Gascoynes Tryal it appeared in his Almanack that he had made this memorial there with his own hand viz. The 15th of April 1676 Memorand acquaint Mr. Thomas Thwing with the whole designe * Earn Wilson was a witness the day before for the Lady Tempest