there is this room on the one hand, and the dining-room on the other. I think, there is a pair of stairs to go down at one corner of the entry, as I think, but the body was laid in a little square room at the head of the steps.

L. C. J. And must you go into the room to go to the dining-room?

Broadstreet. No, it is a distinct room; but the key was always in the door, and every day somebody went into it for something or another.

L. C. J. Will you undertake to say it was always in the door?

Broadstreet. Yes, it constantly was. Justice Wild. For my own part, I will not judge you but that his body should be carried there about nine o'clock at night a Saturday night, and remain there until Monday night, it is very suspicious, that if you were in the house, as you say you were, and used to go into that room every day, you must either hear it brought in, or see it.

Broadstreet. But we did neither, my lord. Justice Dolben. It is well you are not indicted.

Broadstreet. Mr. Praunce, you know all these things to be false, Mr. Praunce.

Praunce. I lay nothing to your charge; but you said before the duke of Monmouth, that Hill was gone from his lodgings before that time.

L. C. J. What say you, sir Robert Southwell?

Sir R. Southwell. There arose a little quarrel between them, about the time that Mr. Hill did leave those lodgings. Praunce said it was a fortnight after; Hill said, when he was upon his examination, that the same Saturday night that sir E. Godfrey was missing, he was treating with his landlord, and from that time, to the time he went to his new house, it was about a week or a fortnight.

L. C. J. But he did pretend he was gone before?

Broadstreet. No, my lord, I did not.

L. C. J. Two witnesses upon oath sware it, and you said it yourself, and gave it under your hand.

Broadstreet. My lord?

L. C. J. Nay, you will not hear, but you will talk; you say one thing now, and you set another under your hand.

Att. Gen. Have you not a brother that is in the Proclamation, one Broadstreet a priest? Broadstreet. I have a brother, whose name is Broadstreet.

Att. Gen. Is he not a priest, and in the Proclamation ?

Broadstreet. I hope I must not impeach my brother here. I said upon my oath, he came to town on Monday, and Michaelmas day was the Sunday following, and Lawrence Hill went away a fortnight after.

Sir R. Southwell. She swore then, two or three days after Michaelmas day.

L. C. J. You must know we can understand you through all your arts. It was not conve

nient for you at that time to say, that Mr. Hill went away about a fortnight after Michaelmas, for then the thing that was charged to be done, part of it in your house, would have been within the fortnight, for it was the 12th of October, but then you said only two or three days.

Sir R. Southwell. She did say, my lord, that about Michaelmas two or three or four days after he went away.

Broadstreet. I beg your pardon, I only said, I could not tell the time exactly.

L. C. J. Well, have you any more to say?

Mary Tilden. There was never a day but I went into that room for something or other, and if any body came to see me, there was so little space that the footmen were always forced to be in that room.

Justice Dolben. Were you there upon Sunday?

Mary Tilden. Yes, my lord, I was. Justice Dolben. Well, I will say no more; call another witness.

Hill. Catharine Lee.

L. C. J. What can you say, maid?

Lee. My lord, I did never miss him out of the house at those hours.

L. C. J. May be you did not look for him. Lee. I did go down every night to the door, to see if it were locked, and I went into the parlour to see that things were safe there.

L. C. J. You are a Roman Catholic, are you not?

Lee. Yes, I am.

Justice Dolben. Might not he go out of the house, and you never the wiser?

Lee. Yes, for I did not watch him continually.

Capt. Richardson. All that she says may be true by the place. The servants keep down a pair of stairs in the kitchen, and any one may come in, or go out, having so many keys, and they not know it that are below.

Lee. I went into the chamber every morning, as I went to market.

Justice Wild. Have a care what you say, and mind the question I ask you were you there on the Sunday, in that room where they say sir E. Godfrey's body was laid?

Lee. I cannot say, that I was in that room, but I called in at the door every day, and I was the last up every night.

Justice Wild. I will say that for thee, thou hast spoke with more care than any of them all. Then Daniel Gray was examined.

L. C. J. What can you say? What questions do you ask him?

Hill. I desire him to speak what he can say, where I was those five days that sir E. Godfrey was missing.

Gray. I kept my brother Hill company, from the 8th of October, till he took his house, which was about the 22nd or 23rd.

L. C. J. What time did you use to go to

bed?

Gray. About 9 or 10 o'clock at night.

L. C. J. What time did he go?

How. I was never bred up in the protestant

L. C. J. Where did you lie?

Gray. At my own house.

Praunce. He is a catholic, my lord, he was the queen's carpenter.

Just. Dolben. Nay, now you spoil all; you

Gray. Yes, I did.

Just. Jones. You say he took his house the 8th of October, when did he go thither?

Gray. Yes, he took his house the 8th of October, but he did not go thither till the one or two and twentieth.

Just. Dolben. But you cannot tell what he did at night?

Gray. No, not I.

Just, Dolben. Bat you were in his company till 8 or 9 o'clock at night?

Gray. Yes, my lord, I was.

L. C. J. How far did you live off of him?
Gray. About a bow's shoot.

L. Č.J. Look you, Mr. Hill, he does you no service at all, for he says he left yon about 8 or 9 o'clock at night, and he does not know what you did afterwards. Have you any more? Hill. Robert How.

L. C. J. Come, what say you? How. My lord, I met with Mr. Hill the 5th of October, he asked me whither I was going? I told him, home. I wish, said he, you would go a little back with me; I am about taking of an house, and I would have you view the repairs; accordingly we did go, and treated in the house about an agreement; for, said he, I will not agree with you (to the landlord) till we know what must be repaired. On Tuesday morning we met again, about 8 o'clock.

L. C. J. What day of the month was that? How. The 8th. And a Wednesday about noon we began to work for him, to repair his house, and we wrought that week every day, and for 12 days and an half in all, and he was every day with us, looking after coals, or beer, or something. On Saturday the 12th of October, we dined together, and parted with him about 1 or 2 o'clock, and about 2 o'clock I went back again to my work, and he said he was going towards Covent-Garden in St. James's, but he came back again, and I was gone first; I asked my man whether he was gone, or no; he said, he was there, but did

not stay.

L. C. J. What time was that?
How. A little before night.

L. C. J. What hour did your man say that he was there?

How. About an hour before they left work. L. C. J. What time was that?

How. About four o'clock, I think it was. L. C. J. Can you say where he was that night?

How. No, I cannot.

L. C. J. What religion are you of, are you

not a protestant?

How. Yes, my lord, I think so.

church?

Hill. What time was it on Saturday morning I was with you?

How. About nine o'clock.

L. C. J. How long did he stay?
How. From nine to two.

L. C. J. Are you sure it was nine ? How. No man can swear punctually to an hour.

L. C. J. What think you of ten? Howo. It was thereabouts. Recorder. If I am rightly informed by the clerks, he is outlawed for recusancy.

L. C. J. Is he so? Pray let us know that.

Harcourt. (One of the clerks of the CrownOffice.) My lord, I have made out several writs against him, for several years together, and could never get any of them returned.

Hill. He tells you, that I was with him from nine o'clock on Saturday morning, till one. Just. Jones. But that is but as true as he is a protestant, and how true that is, you know. Hill. Here is another witness; Mr. Cutler. Tho. Cutler. Upon the 12th of October, Lawrence Hill did come into my house, about four or five o'clock in the evening, and he staid there till between seven or eight, and then his wife came for him and said some gentlewoman was ready for her supper, and so he went home; and I saw him no more, till the day after he was taken.

L. C. J. Look you here, he speaks only about seven or eight o'clock. Well, have you any thing more to say?

Hill. There is one Richard Lazinby.

Lazinby. My lord, I was with him on Saturday the 12th of October, at the door, about twelve o'clock.

L. C. J. And you dined with him and How?
Lazinby. Yes, Sir.

L. C. J. But you did not see him afterwards? Lazinby. Yes, I did see him on Wednesday night, from five to seven at night.

L. C. J. What time was he carried out of Somerset-House?

Att. Gen. About eleven or twelve o'clock. at night.

Lazinby. That is the last time I was with him.

L C. J. Well, have you any more? Hill. Here is one Mr. Archbold, my lord. Archbold. My lord, I had occasion for a taylor, and I came to this man's house to seek for one Mr. Gray, that had formerly wrought for

me.

L. C. J. When was that?

And

Archbold. That was on Monday night. be having formerly wrought for me, I found him at this man's house; so Mr. Gray asked me,

testant?

Praunce was taken for the murder of sir E.

Godfrey. Says Hill, I am glad of that; I wish they were all taken. I came the next day after, and they told me he was taken out of his bed, for the murder of sir E. Godfrey.

L. C. J. Was it that very night that you came, that he was taken?

Archbold. Yes, it was.

L. C. J. You said he spoke of it before you at 7 o'clock, and you left him about 9, and he was taken that night; what then?

Hill. Why, then I had time enough to make if I had thought myself Guilty. my escape, L. C.J. As no doubt you would, if you had thought they would have been so nimble with you:

Archbold. He knew it the day before.

L. C. J. Well, have you any more to say? Mrs. Hill. There is Mr. Ravenscroft, my

lord.

L. C. J. What, that Ravenscroft that was sent away?

Mrs. Hill. Yes, my lord.

L. C. J. Then the marshal must send for him, if he be a witness for the prisoner. In the mean time, what can you say for yourself, Mr. Green?

Green. My lord, I would call my landlord and his wife.

L. C. J. What are their names?
Green. James Warrier, and his wife.

L. C. J. Call in Green's wife, and all her witnesses.

[Then Mrs. Hill, the Prisoner's wife, offered a Paper to the Court containing Observations upon the Indictment, which she desired them to read; but it was refused, and she bid to give it ber busbaud.]

Then James Warrier was examined. L. C. J. What say you to your landlord? Green. I ask him no questions at all, but desire him to tell what he knows.

Warrier. I will say, that the 12th of Oct., he was at my house, half an hour after seven, and he was not out of my house till after ten.

L. C. J. How can you remember that day? What day of the week was it?

Warrier. It was a Saturday.
L. C. J. How do you remember it was so?
Warrier. I have recollected my memory.
L. C. J. By what?

Warrier. By my work, and every thing exactly.

L. C. J. When did you begin to recollect yourself?-Warrier. A pretty while ago.

L. C. J. How long after sir E. Godfrey was murdered?-Warrier. A month after. L. C. J. What made you recollect yourself a month after?

Warrier. Because he was in prison in the Gate-bouse.

L. C. J. When was he taken up? Warrier. He was taken up in SomersetHouse, and not in my house.

L. C. J. But when did you recollect yourself? Warrier. When he was in prison.

Justice Wild. Pray, did you never think of this till he was in prison?

Warrier. It was when he was taken up. L. C. J. But, pray, when you came to recollect yourself, how did you come to do it? Warrier. I recollected it by my work. L. C. J. But what gave you occasion to recollect yourself since he was in gaol?

Sir Tho. Stringer. My lord, he was put into gaol for refusing to take the oaths; but he was not at all charged with the death of sir E. Godfrey at that time.

L. C. J. When was he put in for the death of sir Edmundbury?

Sir Tho. Stringer. The 24th of December.

L. C. J. Then there is all the remaining part of October, all November, and the former part of December, was past, how could you recollect yourself of the particular day?

Warrier. I called it to my mind by my work. Captain Richardson. My lord, I will rectify this mistake: Since their arraignment, I went to them to know what witnesses they had, and Green told me of his landlord and landlady; I then asked them, if they could say any thing could not do him any good at all. as to this particular day? and they said they

Warrier. I did not then call it to memory. L. C. J. When did you call it to memory?

Warrier. I did say I could not do it then presently, as I have done since, in five or six days.

L. C. J. How could you recollect it then? Warrier. By the time he came into my house, which was a week before, and by the work that was done.

L. C. J. What could the work do as to this? Can you tell by that any thing that is done at any time? Where were you the 9th of Nov. last? Warrier. Truly, I can't tell.

L. C. J. Why, how came you then to recollect what you did the 12th of October, when you did not know where you were the 9th of Nov.?

Warrier. I can tell a great many tokens, he was but 14 or 15 days in our house.

L. C. J. What did he do the 12th of October, that you remember so particularly that day?

Warrier. Sir, I remember other days besides that; but I say, I never knew the man out after nine o'clock, in my life.

L. C. J. Have you any body else? for this man, I can't tell what to make on't.

Green. Here is the man's wife to give evidence.

L. C. J. First consider what you say.
Mrs. Warrier. To tell you the truth, I

thought the man was so clear of this fact, that I never troubled my head with it; but when captain Richardson came to my house, I told him, that he never was in our house by daytime, except being cushion-layer in the chapel, be used to come at half an hour after eleven, and many times he did desire me, because we were Protestants, to put in a little flesh meat with ours; sometimes he would sit down and eat his meat in the kitchen, and his wife with him; and his wife would say to him, It is a troublesome time, pray see that you come home betimes. I did not at all remember the day of the month at the first, nor the action; but my husband and I have since remembered. We were desired by them once to eat a fowl with them; and my husband did command me the Sunday after to invite them to dinner with us, and I went in the morning very early, I think, and bought a dozen of pigeons, and put them in a pye, and we had a loin of pork roasted; and when he was gone to the chapel on Saturday in the afternoon, his wife came to me, and said, my husband is not well, and when he comes home will ask for something of broth; and away she went to market, to buy something to make broth of. While she was at market, her husband came home, and asked where his wife was? Why, Mr. Green, said I, she is gone to market: what an old fool, said he, is this, to go out so late, such a night as this is! But said he, again I will go to the coffeehouse, and drink a dish of coffee, and pray tell my wife so. In the mean time she returned, and by that time she had been above a little while, he came in again. And Mr. Green being there, my husband came in, and called to me, pr'ythee, sweetheart, what hast thou got for my supper? Pr'ythee, said I, sweetheart, thou art always calling for thy victuals when thou comest in. Then Mr. Green goes to the stairs, and calls to his wife, and bids her bring him down some victuals, and she brings down the bread and cheese, and he stayed there till it was nine o'clock; and then saith Mr. Green to his wife, Let us go up, for there is a fire.

L. C. J. What day was this, all this while? Mrs. Warrier. Why, it was the Saturday fortnight after Michaelmas day.

LC. J. Why might it not be that day three weeks?

Mrs. Warrier. It was that day he was missing.

Att. Gen. Why, there was no alarm taken of it a Sunday.

L. C. J. What say you, maid?

Maid. I can say, that he came in the Saturday fortnight after quarter-day, pretty betimes. L. C. J. Can you speak of any other time besides that Saturday fortnight? Maid. I can tell he came in every night before nine o'clock.

Green. I can take my oath, I was never out of my lodging after nine o'clock.

Hill. My lord, here is Mr. Ravenscroft now. L. C. J. Mr. Ravenscroft, what can you say? Mr. Ravenscroft. What I can say, my lord, is this: this Lawrence Hill, I have known him 13 or 14 years, and he served my elder brother so long, very faithfully. Afterwards he lived with Dr. Godwin, towards the latter end of the two last years, and he married my mother's maid.

L. C. J. What religion are you of? Mr. Ravenscroft. My father and mother were Protestants.

L. C. J. But you are a Papist, are you not? Mr. Ravenscroft. I have not said I am a Papist, yet.

Justice Dolben. In the mean time, I say you

are one.

Mr. Ravenscroft. Do you so? Then pray go to Southwark and see.

Att. Gen. My lord, I think he hath taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy. L. C. J. Well, pray, Sir, go on with your story.

Mr. Ravenscroft. If it please you, upon a Saturday, a little before Christmas, there was somebody taken, I think it was one Mr. Praunce, for I never saw the man, neither do I know him at all: and it was reported that he was taken upon the death of sir E. Godfrey, and I was glad to hear it. My house was in the Savoy, and my father's house is in Holborn; and I used often to go and see my father, and coming home again, I went to see the maid at her new house, she had not been

Mrs. Warrier. It was the Saturday fortnight after Michaelmas day.

of the house. I asked her what news? Says she, Here hath been a man here that tells us, that Praunce hath discovered several of the murderers of sir E. Godfrey; and they talk up and down strangely of it, and ask me whether my husband be acquainted with him? Then said I to her, Is he? She answered me, Very well, they have been often together; and so she told me the people did inutter, and talk

of her husband. But, said I, what says your husband to it? Says she, He defies Praunce and all his works. Said I, Where is your husband? Said she, He is within. I was very glad to hear it; for, said I, he living in Somerset House, and being acquainted with Praunce, I am glad to hear that your husband can be so courageous; so I went away, and came again thither the next morning, and found he was taken the night before. All that I say then, is, that it was a good evidence of his innocency, that when he had notice of it, he did not fly.

L. C. J. So then, your discourse was after Archbold had been there?

Ravenscroft. Archbold was there before me, and had spoken this in their company. I spake with her that night, and the next morning too; and all that I say is, if flight be a sign of guilt, as no doubt it is, Adam, ubi es? and courageousness is a sign of innocency, then this man is innocent.

L. C. J. But you say, she told you they were acquainted ?

Ravenscroft. My lord, I have one thing more to say. Upon the occasion of these things, this woman hath been often with me, and hath desired to know of me what defence she should make, for I saw Hill's wife and Berry's wife were all simple people, without defence for themselves, and they did desire that I would examine and see some of the witnesses, and see how it was, and she had gotten me some papers, and I conferred them together, there are witnesses that will attest the copy.

Att. Gen. What is all this to the purpose? Only this gentleman hath a mind to shew that he can speak Latin.

Ravenscroft. I thank God I can speak Latin as well as any man in the Court.

L. C. J. Well, all this is nothing. Ravenscroft. I declare it myself, if this man were guilty, rather than I would speak for him, if there wanted a hangman, I would do it myself.

L. C. J. Well, Berry, what have you to say? Berry. I desire Nicholas Trollop, and Nicholas Wright, and Gabriel Hasket, and Elizabeth Wilks, and corporal Collet may be called.

Corporal William Collet first examined. Berry. Did not you place a centinel on Wednesday night ? Collet. What Wednesday do you speak of, Sir?

Berry. That night the queen went from Somerset-House to White-hall.

Collet. Yes, this Nicholas Trollop I placed there first, the 16th of October.

L. C. J. How do you remember that? Collet. Because I have been called to an account before, and have given good reasons for it. Our company was at Somerset-house when the king came from New-Market, and the queen went to White-hall. Afterwards we were bid to fetch our centinels off about three or four of the clock in the afternoon.

L. C. J. Did you leave any soldiers there?

Collet. No, we did not, all our company went to Whitehall.

Justice Dolben. Are you sure there were no soldiers that night there?

Collet. Yes, we were commanded with a party to go thither again that night. L. C. J. What did you do then? Collet. I placed the centinels by the Porter's order.

I. C. J. Who was that, Berry? Collet. No, it was one that used to go about, and give orders where we should set them. L. C. J. How did you place them? Collet. This man I placed from seven to ten, then Nicholas Wright relieved him at ten, and stayed till one.

L. C. J. At what place?

Collet. To the Strand-ward.

Justice Wild. That was the gate they carried him out at.

L. C. J. Do you hear; whereabouts did you set the centinels? Within the gate? Collet. Yes, within the wicket.

L. C. J. That way he was carried out? Nich. Wright. There was no Sedan came out in my time.

Trollop. There was one came in, in my time, while I stood there.

L. C. J. Was it an empty Sedan? Trollop. I suppose it was, but we had no order to keep any out.

Justice Wild. But you might know whether it was an empty sedan or no, by the going of it through the wicket.

Collet. There is an empty sedan that stands there every night.

Trollop. It was set down within the gate. Justice Jones. If any sedan had gone out, you would not have staid them, would you? Collet. No, my lord, we had no order to stop any.

Justice Dolben. How can you then be positive that no one did go out?

Trollop. None did go out again in my time. Justice Dolben. Could not the porter open the gate, as well as you?

Collet. Yes, my lord, he could, but I should have seen him then: He did not open it in my

time.

Justice Wild. Let me ask you but one question; did not you go to drink nor tipple all that time?

Trollop. No, nor walk a pike's length off the place of centry.

Justice Wild. Has not Berry an house there hard by?

Trollop. Yes, but I did not drink one drop. Justice Dolben. How can you remember so particularly, so long ago?

Trollop. Why, I was twice before the committee.

Justice Dolben. But how long was it ago that you were questioned about this thing, after this night?

Trollop. A matter of a month or six weeks. Collet. For we were examined before Praunce was taken up.