Accordingly, Wednesday the 5th of July, 1682, Thompson and Farwell stood in the Pillory in the Old Palace-yard at Westminster, with this writing over their heads:

"For Libelling the Justice of the Nation, by "making the world believe that sir Edmundbury Godfrey murdered himself."

At the end of the account of this Trial, pubfished in 1682, was added the following APPENDIX, containing several other AFFIDAVITS, which further confirm the testimony of Mr. MILES PRANCE; given upon the Trial of GREEN, BERRY, and HILL, for the Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey: With some observations touching Thompson, Pain, and Farewell.

murder, no discouragements or dangers they incur (by affronting and arraigning the public justice of the kingdom) hath been able to deter them from impudent attempts (impudent I may say, the rather, because done under a Protestant government) to sham off that murder from themselves, and making the whole prosecution to be only a design and contrivance of the Protestants against them. Witness first, that notorious sham of James Magrath, an Irishman, who (being assisted by the Popish priests, in Newgate, Mrs. Cellier, and Mrs. Gibbon, and others) pretended there were those that could make it appear, and prove, that sir Edmundbury Godfrey hanged himself, and that one Moor, who was clerk to sir Edmundbury Godfrey, cut him down, finding him hanging. Which matter being examined at the council board, and appearing to their honours to be a false and malicious contrivance, the said Magrath was dismissed with security for his appearance, and that project fell to the ground. But for the further satisfaction of the world (though I think nobody did believe that idle story) I shall here insert Mr. Moor's affidavit.

The Affidavit of Henry Moore.

AS it hath been of late by many learned pens, made appear, That the Papists do justify and countenance, nay, esteem meritorious, rebellions, murders, and massacres, against any Protestant prince or people (whom they reckon heretics) for the advancement of their religion; so it is as well known, that if those rebellions, murders, and massacres, be discovered, they can (if they shall think them needful) Henry Moore, late servant and clerk to sir have dispensations to forswear, lie, equivocate, Edmundbury Godfrey, deceased, maketh oath, do any thing to make the world believe that That upon Saturday the 12th of October, 1678, they are innocent, or make Protestants them- his said master having persons come before selves appear guilty of them. That there hath him about justice-business, till about nine of been a Popish Plot, (and a desperate one too) the clock in the forenoon: when the comin England, for the subversion of the Pro- pany were gone, he bade me help him on testant Religion, and Established Government, with his coat, which I did; and immediately I think no man doubts, only some persons he made me pull it off again, and give him whose interest i. is, may deny. And amongst another coat, which I did; and then he girt the several concurring evidences of this Popish his sword about him, and went out from his Conspiracy, the murder of that worthy gentle-house, which was the last time I saw him, till man and magistrate by that party, hath not been the least. That which induced the Papists to this murder, (as well as can be guessed by those who are strangers to that wicked action) was one or both of these considerations; namely, the hopes of finding and seizing the examination of Dr. Oates about the damnable Popish Plot which he had taken, and used to carry about with him, by which they thought to stifle the Plot: or else they thought, by this murder, to affrighten all active magistrates from being vigorous in the future examination, and further prosecution of their horrid conspiracy, though (through God's providence) they have been very much disappointed in both

these ends.

And the Papists are so sensible how much this murder pinches them, that after the conviction and execution of the persons for that

p. 1208, of this Collection. And in general as to the punishment of the Pillory, see the Note to p. 1208, of that Volume, and the passages there referred to. See also the letter of Mr. Justice Powys to Lord Chancellor Macclesfield, in the Case of Rex v. Hendley, (A. D. 1719) in this Collection.

after he was found dead in the fields, which
was the Thursday following. The constable of
St. Giles in the Fields, and several others with
him, came to my master's house, and told us,
that sir E. Godfrey was found dead and laid in
a ditch at Primrose-hill, and a sword thrust
through him; and said he had caused him to
be carried to the White-house: This being
late at night, the next day my master's two
brothers, and sisters, and myself, went thither;
and then I saw him lye upon a table in the
house where the constable had laid him,
which was the first time that I saw him, after
he went out of his own house, on Saturday the
12th of October, 1678. And then we brought
him home to his own house; and as I am in-
formed that there are several scandalous papers,
and words given out, That sir E. Godfrey
hanged himself; and that they do affirm, That
1, the said Henry Moore, should say that I
cut him down; I do hereby depose, That the
said report is utterly false; and that I did not
cut him down, nor ever said any such words to
any person whatsoever; or ever said that sir
E. Godfrey made away himself, or words to
that effect: Which said scandals are all false
and notorious lies.
HENRY MOORE.

about nine of the clock that very Saturday night that he was first missing, from his house man or two near the said sir Edmundbury in Hartshorn-lane; and that there was then Godfrey: And this deponent further sath That her said master, Robert Breedon, asking her (before the body of sir Edmundbury Godfrey was found) what news there was about sir Edmundbury Godfrey? She, this depones told him, That she heard no news of him, b that her fellow servant, John Oakely had told her, That he met sir Edmundbury Godfrey near the Water-gate at Somerset-house, the very Saturday night he was first missing from his house in Hartshorn-lane. And this deponent further saith, That she then asked the said John Oakely, If he was sure it was sir Edmund ? And he replied, he was very sure it was he, for he put off his hat to sir Edmundbury Godfrey, as he passed by him; and sir Emundbury Godfrey put off his hat to him again; and he also told her, That when he had passed sir Edmundbury Godfrey, he, the mit John Oakely looking back again, saw sir Edmundbury Godfrey stand still, and a man two hard by him,

ELIZABETH DEKIN.

Coram me, JOHN MOORE, Mayor.

The Affidavit of Robert Breedon. Robert Breedon of Hartshorn-lane in the

Yet, though this matter had proved so unsuccessful, they could not be quiet, but must make one experiment more, and that is contrary to the former: For now they declare, that he made away himself (so far they agree with Magrath) but it was by running his sword through his own body. And Thompson, Farewell, and Pain, are the men that are to manage this new invention; and they write and print the scandalous letters and libels you find in their trial: And lest any one should dare to question the truth of them, they boast, they can prove their assertions by 500 witnesses. Every body thought the murder sufficiently proved upon the trial of Green, Berry, and Hill, and were amazed to hear such a declararation, thinking it hardly possible for men to be so impudent, publicly to declare, they had 500 witnesses to prove a matter, when they had not one, as may be seen by their trial; for every witness made against them; and further proved, that he was murdered, and that parish of St. Martin's in the Fields, in the by strangling. But for these scandalous county of Middlesex, brewer, maketh oath, libels, they were brought before his majesty's That one night, betwixt Saturday the 19th most honourable privy council, who (upon day of October, in the year of our Lord, 1678, their owning those libels) committed them to and before the body of sir Edmundbury GodNewgate; and ordered the Attorney General to prosecute them; and accordingly you find frey was found, he coming home to his house by the trial he did; and they were convicted about nine of the clock at night, asked his ser and have since received judgment, and that vant maid, Elizabeth Dekin, If there were ye judgment hath been executed. But though the any news of sir Edmundbury Godfrey's beng found? or words to that purpose: who remurder was clearly proved at the trial of Green, Berry, and Hill; and though after all plied, That she heard nothing of his being these brags, that Thompson, Farewell, and John Oakely, did positively affirm. That he met found; but told him, That her fellow servant, Pain, made, That they could prove so much at sir Edmundbury Godfrey near the Water gate their trial, they could make out nothing; and at Somerset house in the Strand, that very Saso it was not necessary to call any more wit-turday night about nine of the clock, being the nesses for the king then; yet for the further satisfaction of the world, it hath been thought fit to print (besides what is printed with the trial, upon giving judgment) the following five affidavits all agreeing with Mr. Prance's testimony upon the trial of Green, Berry, and Hill; and as to the fi fr of them, see John Oalde d in the trial, at p. 96.

same Saturday that he was first missed from
his house in Hartshorn-lane; to which this
deponent replied, Sure John is mistaken: To
which Elizabeth Dekin answered, John Oakely
said, he was sure it was he; for when he met
him, he put off his hat to sir Edmundbury God-
frey, and sir Edmundbury Godfrey put off his
hat to him again.
ROBERT BREEDON,

Coram me, JOHN MOORE, Mayor.

The Affidavit of Ralph Oakely.

Ralph Oakely, citizen and skinner, maketh oath that he was an inhabitant in the parish of Little St. Bartholomews, London, in the month of October 1678, and that John Oakely his nephew, was then and is now a servant to Mr. Robert Breedon, of Harts-horn Lane in the parish of St. Martin's in the Fields, in the county

ROBERT OAKELEY. Coram me, JOHN MOORE, Mayor. he Affidavit of John Brown and William Lock.

Jolin Brown an! William Lock, both of the rish of Marylebone in the county of Middle, having been since subpæned to give evice for the king upon an information in Crown-office, exhibited against Nathaniel

and bloody Murder of sir Edmunk Godfrey, &c. (with allowance.) Prim by N. T. 1678.

his pack of hounds, at the very place where the body of sir E. Godfrey was afterwards A True and Perfect NARRATIVE of the late te found, and beat that very place with his hounds and the body was not then there, nor any gloves nor cane thereabout. The said deponent further saith, That the same day Mr. Henry Harwood, requested him this deponent that he would let him have his hounds the next day after being Wednesday, and he would find that hare which they could not find on Tuesday, or words to that purpose. And this deponent further saith, That he the said Harwood, hath several times since affirmed, That he did accordingly hunt in the same place and beat the same ditch, and said that the body was not there that Wednesday at noon, which said Henry Harwood is now newly dead. July 1, 1632.

RODERT FORSET.

Coram me, W. DOLBEN.

But because it may be thought strange that Protestants should espouse the cause of the Papists, it may be fit to give some account what these persons are, who have so zealously appeared in this matter; it is to be supposed (not without some ground) that Thompson (notwith standing his pretence that he was drawn in) knew those things he printed in the letters or several of them to be falsities, for Mr. George

Larkin does swear as follows:

The Affidavit of George Larkin.

On Friday the 18th of this instant, Mr. C per the coroner of Middlesex impannelled jury at the White House to enquire about occasion of the death of the said sir Edm bury and two surgeons (having been sworn) removed the body in the presence of coroner and jury, and found the wounds de it, which one of the surgeons searched vi his probe, and found one of them not abonn inch deep, the probe going against one of ribs, but the other being a little below the le pap, went quite through the body, his i was of a fresh colour, though in his life tas very pale, somewhat swelled, and a gree circle about his neck, as if he had been strang led, his blood being settled about his throat, the upper part of his breast, the surgeons ing reviewed the body, delivered their jur ments, that the wounds they found about were not the cause of his death; but that was suffocated before the wounds were ma And that which may fully persuade any pent of the truth hereof is, that there was not d drop of blood to be found in the place wheels though the ditch was dry, and it might have lay, nor the least appearance of any such thing been easily seen if there had been any. Are ther thing was, that the very bottom of t soles of his shoes were as clean as if he h but just come out of his own chamber, which was an evident sign that he was carried thither

A third thing very remarkable is, that one the jury affirmed that a servant of his mothers (who is owner of the ground where the body lay) with a butcher and two boys, made a very strict and narrow search in all parts of that ground for a calf that was missing upon Mon day and Tuesday last, and at that time there hy no dead body, belt, gloves, stick, or other thing, there.

George Larkin of London printer, maketh oath, that having heard the body of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey was found, this deponent on the 18th of October, 1678, went to see the said body which then lay at the White-house near Primrose-hill, and there met with Nathaniel Thompson, of London, also printer, who then proposed to this deponent the writing of a narrative thereof to print, wherein he desired this deponent's assistance, and therefore wished this deponent to take good notice of the body And notwithstanding he gives himself the and circumstances, and promised to do the name of the Loyal Protestant printer,' the like himself, and this deponent staid there with is not the first time he hath been charged with the said Thompson till the coroner's jury sate printing popish books, (I take still these let on the said body, and did see the said body ters and libels to be a limb of popery) for Wedstripped. And this deponent having conferred nesday the 30th of October, 1678, he was com with the said Thompson, and agreeing with mitted to the Gatehouse at Westminster, by the him in the circumstances; the said narrative, House of Lords for that very matter. As fer the same day, was written in part in the said Mr. Farewell, he was mightily afraid he should Thompson's house, and being finished, was be taken for a papist, Mr. Serjeant Maynard de read over by this deponent and the said Thomp-clared he thought he was of no religion: but son, who agreed with this deponent in the truth thereof.

Coram me, J. MOORE, Mayor. And upon this sight of the body, and comparing of notes with Mr. Larkin, he puts out a little pamphlet intituled, A True and Perfect Narrative,' &c. in which there is a paragraph or two quite contrary to what he prints in the letters. pray take it in the words of it.

if he be, I know which is most like to justify such practices. But though I cannot say any thing as to his religion, yet I have reason think the papists had a great kindness for his, for (not to mention other things) he was truste for Fenwick the Jesuit that was execute and that I think will appear by the following Affidavit, and also a kind of Will make by the said Fenwick.

See vol. 7, p. 311, of this Collection