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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25874	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.	Cooke, Peter, d. 1696.; England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex)	1696 (1696)	Wing A3757; ESTC R3080	87,497	74

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 Upon this Indictment he has been Arraigned and thereunto has pleaded Not Guilty and for his Tryal hath put himself upon God and his Country which Country you are your Charge is to inquire whether he be guilty of the High-Treason whereof he stands Indicted or not guilty if you find him guilty you are to inquire what Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements he had at the time of the High-Treason committed or at any time since if you find him not guilty you are to inquire whether he fled for it if you find that he fled for it you are to inquire of his Goods and Chattels as if you had sound him Guilty if you find him not Guilty nor that he did fly for it you are to say so and no more and hear your Evidence Mr. Mompesson May it please your Lordship and you Gentlemen that are sworn this is an Indictment for High Treason against Peter Cook the Prisoner at the Bar and the Indictment sets forth That whereas there has been an open and cruel War for a long time and still is between his Majesty King William and the French King the Prisoner at the Bar not weighing the Duty of his Allegiance the First of July in the Seventh year of the King's Reign Did Compass and Intend to Depose and Deprive the King of the Title Honour and Dignity of the Imperial Crown of this Realm and likewise to put the King to Death and did adhere to the King's Enemies and to fulfil these Treasons he did Consult with Chernock and several other Traytors who were mentioned there and some of whom have been found Guilty of Treason and executed for it to send over to the late King James to perswade the French King to send over Soldiers and Arms to invade this Kingdom and to raise an Insurrection and Rebellion in it and to Deprive and put the King to Death and to compleat these Treasons it further sets forth That the Prisoner at the Bar did provide several Arms and Horses and this is laid to be against the Duty of his Allegiance against the King's Peace Crown and Dignity and against the Form of the Statute in that Case made and provided to this he had pleaded Not Guilty and for Tryal put himself upon the Country and Gentlemen if we prove these Facts laid in the indictment it s your Duty to find him Guilty Mr. Att. Gen. May it please your Lordship and you Gentlemen of the Jury the Prisoner at the Bar stands Indicted for High Treason Cook My Lord Chief-Justice if your Lordship pleases before the Witnesses are Examined against me I intreat you that they may not be both in Court together that one may not hear what the other swears tho' I suppose it is the same thing for they have been together both now and the last day L. C. J. Treby Mr. Cook I must tell you it is not necessary to be granted for asking for we are not to discourage or cast any Suspicion upon the Witnesses when there is nothing made out against them but it is a Favour that the Court may grant and does grant sometimes and now does it to you tho' it be not of necessity they shall be examined apart but at present this is not the time of Examination for the King's Counsel are now to open the Evidence before they examine the Witnesses but when the time comes for the Witnesses to be called and examined the Court will in favour to you take care that your Request be complied with Mr. Att. Gen. May it please your Lordship the Prisoner stands Indicted for High Treason in Compassing and Imagining the Death and Destruction of his Majesty and likewise in adhering to his Majesty's Enemies these are the Treasons specified in the Indictment the Overt Acts that are laid to prove these Treasons are That he with several other Traitors named in the Indictment did Meet and Consult and agree to send over Chernock into France to invite the French King to make an Invasion upon the Kingdom and did provide Arms for that purpose Gentlemen the nature of the Evidence that you will have produced to prove the Prisoner Guilty of these Treasons lies thus It will appear to you that there has been for some time a Conspiracy carried on by several Traytors and Wicked Persons to subvert the established Government of this Kingdom and destroy the Constitution of England by a Foreign Invasion of the French You will hear that this Conspiracy was laid wide and consisted of several parts one part was that of Assassinating his Majesty's Royal Person and that was to be done first as a Preparation and Encouragement to the French to invade the Kingdom the other part was the inviting the French King to invade us and the Prisoner at the Bar is accused of being concerned in that part that relates to the Invasion of this Kingdom by a French Power and tho' it may be the other part that of Assassinating the King be the Blackest part of the Conspiracy yet if the Prisoner at the Bar has been ingaged in the inviting a Foreign Power to invade the Kingdom my Lords the Judges will tell you in Point of Law that is as much an Overt Act of the Compassing the Destruction of the King and People of England and the Subversion of our ancient good Constitution as if he had been concerned immediately in the other part the Assassination But now Gentlemen that the Prisoner was ingaged in Inviting the French to Invade us you will hear proved by several Witnesses that there having been a Design last Year just before his Majesty

your Judgment Cook I did not know that I might offer any thing afterwards but if your Lordships think fit to communicate that to my Lords Justices I submit it to you Mr. Recorder Mr. Cook there is nothing appears upon this Paper that is matter of Law and so not serviceable to you now and therefore what you desire in it the Court will consider of afterwards Cook I do not understand the Law my Lord but I have heard the Court ought to be of Counsel for the Prisoner and I desire I may not suffer by my Ignorance Mr. Recorder I declare it for my part I know nothing that you can have any Advantage of in Arrest of Judgment if I did you should not lose the Benefit of it and you have had your Counsel assigned who have pleaded for you without restraint and if there had been any matter of Law that would have availed you in Arrest of Judgment no doubt they would have laid hold of that Advantage for you Cook I can't tell my Lord what is matter of Law Mr. Att. Gen. Your Lordship observes they took all the Objections that they could to the Indictment but there was none that they could fix Cl. of Arr. Then Cryer make Proclamation Which was done on both sides of the Court. Cryer Oyez All manner of Persons are commanded to keep silence while Judgment is in giving upon pain of Imprisonment Cook My Lord may I have my Paper again Mr. Recorder If you think it may be of any Service to you to leave it with the Court you may do so or if you desire it you shall have it again Cook I desire your Lordship to keep it Mr. Recorder I will receive it and it shall not be buryed I assure you Cook I don't hear what the Court says Mr. Recorder You say you did not hear what was said to you If you desire to have your Paper again you shall have it but if you desire to have it communicated above the Court will consider it and take care of that too Cook I desire your Lordship wou'd do it Then the Recorder proceeded to give Judgment thus Mr. Cook I think it useful to the publick and also at this time to you to observe that the Reign of the late King James was throughout one intire Design and Project form'd in Conjunction with the French King totally to subvert our Religion Laws and Liberties which grew so apparent to the Subjects of these Nations in so many Instances of fatal Consequence manag'd in such a Method and advanc'd so far that the People of these Kingdoms of all Qualities Ranks and Degrees did find it absolutely necessary for the Preservation of themselves and the neighbour Nations now in Alliance with us to pray in Aid of the then Prince of Orange as a Person not only nearly allied to this Crown but also intirely in the Interest of these Kingdoms and those neighbouring Princes and Countries that lay exposed to the Violence and ambitious Insults of France And the Love which that noble Prince did bear not only to us but to our Neighbours also disposed him to embrace that Invitation upon whose Arrival here that Predecessor from Motives that were invisible declin'd the Kingdom and the Government and left the People to themselves whereupon his present Majesty was necessarily and rightfully placed upon that Throne he so well deserv'd And this is now that King for whose Preservation all good People have associated and spare neither Lives nor Treasure to support and to continue in the Government and this is that King whom you have Traiterously conspired not only to dethrone but also to destroy and this is that People that you would have to swim in Blood and lose their Religion Liberty and Property These Matters need a History to relate at large I only touch them shortly to move good Men to rejoyce in their Deliverance and to move you seriously to reflect upon the Heinousness of your Crime Mr. Cook you are an English Man and must needs know that in this Place we frequently condemn to Death Clippers Coiners Thieves and Robbers and other such like Criminals and that justly and necessarily too for the Preservation of the Innocent and for the common Good Of what Condemnation must you and such as you be worthy then who have so horridly endeavour'd and design'd the fatal Ruin and Destruction of your own native Country and to render your fellow Subjects a miserable Prey and at the best to become Slaves and Vassals to a foreign Prince Let me also mind you That nothing is more sure than that after this you must receive a Judgment in another World and if that pass against you too that Sentence will be most terrible and your Sufferings without End And therefore I do advise you to imploy the few Days you have yet to live in Preparation for your future Happiness which cannot be duly done without a full Confession of this as well as other Crimes you have been guilty of I therefore charge it to you as your Duty and leave it with you at your utmost Peril that you honestly and faithfully discover all you know of this inhuman and traiterous Conspiracy and all the Persons that you do know to be guilty of it This will be the greatest Service you can do in this World and will be the best Preparatory Step that you can take towards a better And Sir there now remains no more for me to say but to pronounce that Sentence on you which the Law directs And that is this THat you Peter Cook be taken hence to the Place from whence you came and thence be drawn upon a Hurdle to the Place of Execution where you are to be hang'd by the Neck and cut down before you be dead that your Bowels be taken out and your Privy Members cut from your Body and both burnt in your Sight That your Head be cut off and your Body divided into four Quarters which Head and Quarters are to be at the King's Disposal and God Allmighty have Mercy upon your Soul Cook I beg if your Lordship please that I may have my Relations and Friends come to see me and some Divines the better to prepare me for another World Mr. Recorder Mr. Cook if you 'll give the Names of those that you would have come to you to the Officer Care shall be taken in it and you will not be denyed any reasonable Helps that may be had for your Preparation for Eternity Mr. Att. Gen. It is not fit he should be deny'd any reasonable Help but in the mean time there is reason for the Government to be cautious upon the account of what has notoriously past in the Case of some others Mr. Recorder If he give in the Names it will be considered of and Care taken that nothing be done but what is reasonable and safe Then the Prisoner was taken from the Bar and the Court proceeded to what was remaining of the Business of the Sessions FINIS Rookwood's Tryal 4. 13.