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life_n	blood_n	death_n	die_v	5,200	5	5.7048	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53577	A true and perfect account of the examination, confession, trial, condemnation and execution of Joan Perry, and her two sons, John and Richard Perry, for the supposed murder of Will. Harrison, Gent Being one of the most remarkable occurrences which hath happened in the memory of man. Sent in a letter (by Sir Thomas Overbury, of Burton, in the county of Gloucester, Knt. and one of His Majesty's justices of the peace) to Thomas Shirly, Doctor of physick, in London. Also Mr. Harrison's own account how he was conveyed to Turky, and there made a slave above 2 years, when his master (who bought him there) dying, he return'd to England; in the mean while, supposed to be murdered by his man-servant, who falsly accused his own mother and brother as guilty of the same, and were all three executed for it on Broadway-Hills, in Gloucestershire.	Overbury, Thomas, Sir, d. 1684.; Harrison, William, fl. 1660.	1676 (1676)	Wing O614A; ESTC R223782	11,721	32

whether he would yet confess what was become of his Master he answered he was murdered but not by him The Justice of Peace then telling him that if he knew him to be murdered he knew likewise by whom he was so he acknowledged he did and being urged to confess what he knew concerning it affirmed that it was his Mother and his Brother that had murdered his Master The Justice of Peace then advised him to consider what he said telling him that he feared he might be guilty of his Master's Death and that he should not draw more innocent Blood upon his Head for what he now charged his Mother and Brother with might cost them their Lives but he affirming he spoke nothing but the Truth and that if he were immediately to die he would justify it the Justice desired him to declare how and when they did it He then told him that his Mother and his Brother had lain at him ever since he came into his Master's Service to help them to Money telling him how poor they were and it was in his Power to relieve them by giving them Notice when his Master went to receive his Lady's Rents for they would then way-lay and rob him And further said that upon the Thursday Morning his Master went to Charringworth going of an Errand into the Town he met his Brother in the Street whom he then told whither his Master was going and if he way-laid him he might have his Money And further said that in the Evening his Mistress sent him to meet his Master he met his Brother in the Street before his Master's Gate going as he said to meet his Master and so they went together to the Church-yard about a Stone 's Throw from Mr. Harrison's Gate where they parted he going the Foot-way cross the Church-yard and his Brother keeping the great Road round the Church but in the Highway beyond the Church met again and so went together the Way leading to Charringworth till they came to a Gate about a Bow 's Shoot from Campden Church that goes into a Ground of the Lady Campden's called the Conygree which to those who have a Key to go through the Garden is the next Way from that Place to Mr. Harrison's House when they came near unto that Gate he the said John Perry saith he told his Brother he did believe his Master was just gone into the Conygree for it was then so dark they could not discern any Man so as to know him but perceiving one to go into that Ground and knowing there was no Way but for those who had a Key through the Gardens concluded it was his Master and so told his Brother if he followed him he might have his Money and he in the mean Time would walk a Turn in the Fields which accordingly he did and then following his Brother about the middle of the Conygree found his Master on the Ground his Brother upon him and his Mother standing by and being asked whether his Master were then dead answered No for that after he came to them his Master cried Ah Rogues will you kill me At which he told his Brother he hoped he would not kill his Master who replied Peace Peace you are Fool and so strangled him which haveing done he took a Bag of Money out of his Pocket and threw it into his Mother's Lap and then he and his Brother carried his Master 's dead Body into the Garden adjoining to the Conygree where they consulted what to do with it and at length agreed to throw it into the great Sink by Wallington's Mill behind the Garden but said his Mother and Brother bad him go up to the Court next the House to hearken whether any one were stirring and they would throw the Body into the Sink And being asked whether it were there he said he knew not for that he left it in the Garden but his Mother and Brother said they would throw it there and if it were not there he knew not were it was for that he returned no more to them but went into the Court-gate which goes into the Town where he met with John Pierce with whom he went into the Field and again returned with him to his Master's Gate after which he went into the Hen-roost where he lay till twelve o'Clock that Night but slept not and having when he came from his Mother and Brother brought with him his Master's Hat Band and Comb which he laid in the Hen-roost he carried the said Hat Band and Comb and threw them after he had given them three or four Cuts with his Knife in the Highway where they were after found And being asked what he intended by so doing said he did it that it might be believed his Master had been there robbed and murdered and haveing thus disposed of his Hat Band and Comb he went towards Charringworth c. as hath been related Upon this Confession and Accusation the Justice of Peace gave Order for the apprehending of Joan and Richard Perry the Mother and Brother of John Perry and for searching the Sink where Mr. Harrison's Body was said to be thrown which was accordingly done but nothing of him could be there found The Fish-pools likewise in Campden were drawn and searched but nothing could be there found neither So that some were of Opinion the Body might be hid in the Ruins of Campden-house burnt in the late Wars and not unfit for such a Concealment where was likewise Search made but all in vain Saturday August the 25th Joan and Richard Perry together with John Perry were brought before the Justice of Peace who acquainting the said Joan and Richard with what John had laid to their Charge they denied all with many Imprecations on themselves if they were in the least guilty of any Thing of which they were accused But John on the other Side affirmed to their Faces that he had spoken nothing but the Truth and that they had murdered his Master further telling them that he could never be quiet for them since he came into into his Master's Service being continually followed by them to help them to Money which they told him he might do by giveing them Notice when his Master went to receive his Lady's Rents and that he meeting his Brother Richard in Campden Town the Thursday Morning his Master went to Charringworth told him whither he was going and upon what Errand Richard confessed he met his Brother that Morning and spoke with him but nothing passed between them to that Purpose and both he and his Mother told John he was a Villain to accuse them wrongfully as he had done But John on the other Side affirmed that he had spoken nothing but the Truth and would justify it to his Death One remarkable Circumstance happened in these Prisoners Return from the Justice of the Peace's House to Campden viz. Richard Perry following a good Distance behind his Brother John pulling a Clout out of his Pocket dropped a Ball