the body in Somerset-yard, and gave me money for so doing, that if I would do this, both F. and I should have money enough; nor did I ever tell her that I was kept from Thursday to Sunday without meat and drink; nor were my hands ever chained behind me; nor was! ever locked to a staple driven into a floor with a chain not above a yard long, but what she hath written in her said book or libel is notoriously false and untrue; but on the contrary, during the time of my imprisonment I was civilly treated by the keeper and his servants. FRANCIS CORRAL. Jur. 6. Sept. 1680. Coram me,

ROBERT CLAYTON Mayor.

eth, viz. Soon after this, Francis Corral, a that lives at the sign of the Half-moon in Cheapcoachinan, that had been put into Newgate side did take me aside, and bid me name some upon suspicion of carrying away sir Edmond-person, and say they employed me to take up bury Godfrey's body, and lay there thirteen weeks and three days in great misery, got out; I went to see him, and found him a sad spectacle, having the flesh worn away, and great holes in both his legs by the weight of his irons, and having been chained so long doubled, that he could not stand upright, he told me much of his hard and cruel usage, as that he had been squeezed and hasped in a thing like a trough, in a dungeon under ground; which put bim to inexpressible torment, insomuch that he swooned, and that a person in the habit of a minister stood by all the while. That a duke beat him, and pulled him by the hair, and set his drawn sword to his breast three times, and swore he would run him through; and another great lord laid down a heap of gold, and told him it was 500l. and that he shall have it all, and be taken into the aforesaid duke's house if he would confess what they would have him, and one F. a vintner, that lives at the sign of the Half-moon in Ch-si. by whose contrivance he was accused, took him aside, and bid him name some person, and say, they employed him to take up the dead body in Somerset-yard, and gave him money for so doing; that if he would do this, both F. and he, should have money enough. He also told me, that he was kept from Thursday to Sunday without victuals or drink, having his hands every night chained behind him, and being all this time locked to a staple which driven into the floor, with a chain not above a yard long that in this great extremity, was forced to drink his own water; and that the jaoler beat his wife, because she brought victuals, and prayed that he might have it, and threw milk on the ground, and not look at him &c. For the reader's farther satisfaction of his great and cruel suffering, I refer to the party himself now living in Gunpowder-Alley in Shoe-Lane, and well known by his misfortunes.

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I Francis Corral of Gunpowder Alley in Shoe-lane, being the person before named, make oath that Mrs. Cellier was never with me in the prison of Newgate, and that I never told her there nor any where else that ever I was chained so long double that I could not stand upright, nor never told her that I had any hard or cruel usage there, nor that I was ever squeezed or hasped to a thing like a trough in a dungeon under ground which put me to torment, nor that I swooned, nor that a person in the habit of a minister stood by me at any time whilst in the prison, except when I went into the chapel to prayers; nor that any duke beat me, pulled me by the hair, or set his sword to my breast three times, or swore that he would run me through; nor that any great lord laid down a heap of gold, and told me it was 500l. and that I should have it all, and be taken into the aforesaid duke's house if I would confess, what they would have me; nor that F. a vintner

I Margaret, the wife of the said Francis Corral, make oath, That the said Gaoler never beat me because I brought victuals and prayed that my husband might have it; nor threw any milk on the ground; nor bid me be gone and not look upon him. Neither do I know, or believe, that my husband had any hard usage from any of the keepers during his imprisonment; but on the contrary, was civilly treated by them.

This deponent farther maketh oath, That on Thursday last she went with her husband to Mrs. Cellier's house; and her husband asked her, what she meant by putting such a com pany of lies upon him in her book. She answered, She had a mind to do it, and that if some of them were lies all were not. He told her, that she would ruin him, and bring him to a prison as he was before. She answered, That if he were arrested, she would bail him; and if he were cast into prison, she would maintain both him and his family, for that she had got money enough, and that she would have me to a lord or lords that would secure him, and bid me cheer up my husband, for that neither I nor my family should want, and gave me then five shillings, and bid me cheer up my husband with that. Sig. MARGARET CORRAL. Jur. 6, Sept. 1680. Coram me,

ROBERT CLAYTON, Mayor.

I, Francis Corral, within named, further make oath, That on Thursday last, I went with my wife to Mrs. Cellier's house, and asked her what she meant by putting such a company of lies upon me in her book. She answered, that she had a mind to do it, and that if some of them were lies, all were not. I told her, she would ruin me, and bring me into a prison, as I was before. She told me, if I were arrested, that she would bail me; and if I were cast into prison, she would maintain me and my family; for that she got money enough, and that she would have me to a lord or lords that would secure me. And she bid my wife to cheer me up, for that neither I, nor my family should want, and gave my wife five shillings, and bid her cheer me up with that. FRANCIS CORRAL. Jur. 6, die Sept. 1680. Coram me, ROBERT CLAYTON, Mayor.

own parents and relations, for their constant ' and faithful affection to the king and royal fa'mily, were persecuted, the king himself murdered, the bishops and church destroyed, the whole loyal party, merely for being so, opprest and ruined, and all, as was pretended by the authors of these villanies, for their being papists and idolaters, the constant character given by them to the king and his friends; and to make them odious, they assuming to themselves only the name of Protestants, making that the glorious title by which they

I, Matthias Fowler, living at the Half-Moon in Ch-si. vintner, make oath, That I never saw any duke or lord with Francis Corral, in this paper mentioned, in Newgate; nor did I ever see any duke beat him, or set a sword to his breast; nor did I ever see any lord lay down a heap of gold, and tell the said Corral it was 5001., and the said Corral should have it, if he would swear what the duke and lord would have him. Nor did I ever take him aside, and bid him name some person, and say, they employed him the said Corral to take up the dead body of sir Edmundbury Godfrey's in Somerset-pretended right to all things. These sort of Yard, and gave him money for so doing, and that if he would do this, both he and I should have money enough. But that the same is notoriously false and untrue.

MATTHIAS FOWLER. Jur. 8, die Sept. 1680. Coram me, ROBERT CLAYTON, Mayor.

The Indictment in this Case was as follows:
Rex versus Cellier for a Libel.

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proceedings, as I grew in understanding, produced in me more and more horror of the 'party that committed them, and put me on 'enquiring into that religion to which they pre

tend the greatest antipathy, wherein, I thank 'God, I found my innate loyalty not only con'firmed, but encouraged; and, let calumny say what it will, I never heard from any papist, as they call them, priest or layman, but that they and I, and all true catholics, owe our lives to the defence of our lawful king, which ' our present sovereign Charles the second is, whom God long and happily preserve so. ss. Juratores pro Dom' Rege super sacra. These sort of doctrines agreeing to my public mentum suum præsentant, Quod Eliz' Cellier morals, and no way, as ever I was taught, uxor Cellier, de parochia sanct" Clementis contradicting my private ones, commending Dacor' in com' Midd' Gen', eadem Eliz' existen' at the same time to me charity and devotion, religionis papalis, Deum præ oculis suis non I without any scruple have hitherto followed habens, sed instigatione diabolica mot' etglorying myself to be in communion with those seduct', et falso et malitiose machinans et in- (papistas innuendo) who were the humble intendens, serenissimum Dominum nostrum Ca-struments of his majesty's happy preservation rolum secundum, Dei gratia Angliæ, Scotiæ, from the fatal battle at Worcester, and whom Franciæ, et Hiberniæ Regem, et gubernatio-though poor, no temptation could invite to nem suam hujus regni Angliæ, necnon veram religionem protestan', infra hoc regnum Angliæ lege stabilit', in odium, infamiam, et contemptum inducere et inferre, et scandalum et infamiam imponere super quibusdam personis, qui producti fuissent testes, et testimon' dedissent ex parte dicti Dom' Regis contra præd' Eliz' Cellier, et alias personas, de alta proditione indictat' primo die Augusti, anno regni dict' Dom' Regis tricesimo secundo, apud prædict' parochiam sancti Clemen' Dacor' in com' Midd' præd', falso, malitiose, et seditiose scripsit et publicavit, et scribi, imprimi, publicari causavit, quendam fictum, falsum, et scandalosam libellum, intitulat', Malice defeated, or a brief relation of the accusation and deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier: wherein her proceedings both before and during her confinement are particularly related, and the mystery of the Meal Tub fully discovered; together with an abstract of her arraignment and trial, written by herself for the satisfaction of all lovers of ' undisguised truth.' In quo quidem libello continentur hæc falsa, ficta, et scandalosa verba, et figuræ sequentia: ss. 'I hope it will not 'seem strange to any honest and loyal person, of what way or religion soever, that I, being born and bred up under protestant parents, should now openly profess myself of another 'church (Ecclesiam Romanam, innuendo) for, education being in those times when my

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betray him to those, who by a pretended Protestant principle sought his innocent 'blood. These truths, I hope, may satisfy any innocent person in my present change; nor can they wonder at my continuance therein, notwithstanding the horrid crimes of treason and murder laid to the charge of some persons, considerable for their quality and fortunes, in that party: For when I reflected who were witnesses, and what unlikely things they deposed, and observed that many of the 'chiefest sticklers for the Plot were those, or the sons of those, that acted the principal part in the last tragedy, which history told me too had the prologue of a pretended popish Plot; I say, these things made me doubtful of the whole; and the more I searched for truth, the more I doubted that the old enemies of the crown were at work again for its destruction. I being fully confirmed in this, thought it my duty, through all sorts of hazards, to relieve the poor, imprisoned catholics who in great numbers were locked up in gaols, starving for want of bread; and this I did some 'months before I ever saw the countess of Powis, or any of those honourable persons that were accused, or receiving one penny of their money, directly or indirectly, till about the latter end of January (1678) the prisoners increasing very much.' Et in alia parte ejusdem libelli (inter alia) continentur

hæc falsa, ficta, et scandalosa verba, ss.

Scotchman, that had been put into Newgate

About this time I went daily to the prisons, to upon suspicion of carrying away sir Edmundperform those offices of charity I was obliged bury Godfrey's body, and lay there 13 weeks to; and on Thursday January 9, (1678.) I and 3 days in great misery, got out: I went to dined in Newgate, in the room called the Cas- see him, and found him a sad spectacle, having 'tle, on the master debtors side; and about four 'the flesh worn away, and great holes in both ' in the afternoon I came down into the Lodge, his legs, by the weight of his irons; and having with five women, of which three were protes- 'been chained so long double, that he could not < tants; and we all heard terrible groans and stand upright: He told me much of his hard < squeeks, which came out of the dungeon called and cruel usage, as that he had been squeezed 'the Condemned Hole: I asked Harris the turn' and hasped into a thing like a trough in a dun<key what doleful cry it was; he said it was a geon under ground, which put him to inexwoman in labour; I bid him put us into the pressible torment, insomuch that he swooned; room to her, and we would help her; but he and that a person in the habit of a minister drove us away very rudely, both out of the stood by all the while; that a duke beat him, lodge, and from the door. We went behind pulled him by the hair, and set a drawn sword the gate, and there listened, and soon found to his breast three times, and swore he would that it was the voice of a strong man in tor- run him through; and another great lord had ture, and heard, as we thought, between his laid down a heap of gold, and told him it was groans, the winding up of some engine. These 500l.; that he should have it all, and be taken 'cries stopped the passengers under the gate; into the aforesaid duke's house, if he would and we six went to the Turner's shop without confess what they would have him: And one F. the gate, and stood there, amazed with the a vintner, that lives at the sign of the Halfhorror and dread of what we heard; when one 'Moon in Ch- -St-, by whose contrivance ' of the officers of the prison came out in great 'he was accused, took him aside, and bid him haste, seeming to run from the noise: One of name some person, and say they employed him us caught hold of him, saying, Oh! what are to take up the dead body in Somerset-yard, and they doing in the prison? Officer. I dare not gave him money for so doing; that if he would 'tell you, mistress. Cell. It is a man upon the do this, both F. and he should have money rack, I will lay my life on it. Offic. It is some- 'enough. He also told me, that he was kept thing like it. Cellier. Who is it, Praunce? 'from Thursday till Sunday without victuals or Offic. Pray, Madam, do not ask me, for I dare 'drink, having his hands every night chained benot tell you; but it is that I am not able to 'hind him; and being all this time locked to a hear any longer; pray let me go. With that staple, which was driven into the floor, with a he ran away towards Holbourn as fast as he chain not above a yard long; that in this great 'could. We heard these groans perfectly to the extremity he was forced to drink his own water; ' end of the Old-Bailey: They continued till near and that the gaoler beat his wife because she 7 of the clock; and then a person in the habit brought victuals, and prayed he might have it, of a minister, of a middle stature, grey-haired, and threw milk on the ground, and bid her be accompanied with two other men, went into gone, and not look at him.' Et in altera parte the lodge; the prisoners were locked up, and ejusdem libelli continent' (inter al") hæc falsa, the outward door of the lodge also, at which I ficta et scandalosa verba sequentia: ss. My set a person to stand and observe what she arraignment, which, in confidence of my own could; and a prisoner loaded with irons was 'innocency, I continually pressed for; not but brought into the lodge, and examined a long that I knew the danger, as to this life, of entime; and the prisoners that came down as countering the devil in the worst of his instru low as they could, heard the person examined, ments, which are perjurers encouraged to that with great vehemency say often, I know no- degree, as that profligated wretch,' quendam thing of it; I am innocent; he forced me to Thomam Dangerfield testem product' ex parte bely myself; what would you bave me say? Dom. Regis contra præd' Elizabetham Cellier, will you murder me because I will not bely my-pro alta proditione innuendo) was, and has

self and others? Several other such like expressions they heard spoken, as by one in great agony. About four of the clock the next morning the prisoners, that lay in a place about the Hole, beard the same cry again two hours, and on Saturday morning again; and about eight of the clock that morning, a person I employed to spy out the truth of this affair, did see the turnkeys carry a bed into the Hole: she asked who it was for; they told her it was for Praunce, who was gone mad, and had torn his bed in pieces. That night the examiners came again, and Praunce was led away to the Pressyard. This, and many things of like nature, made me very inquisitive to know what passed in the prison. Soon after this Francis Corral a

been since his being exposed to the world in 'his true colours, both at mine and another's 'trial.' Et in altera parte ejusdem libelli continentur hæc falsa, ficta, et scandalosa verba sequen': ss. Nor have I since received any thing towards my losses, or the least civility from any of them, whilst Dangerfield,' prædict' Thomam Dangerfield iterum innuendo when made prisoner for apparent recorded rogueries, was visited by and from persons considerable quality, with great sums of gold ' and silver, to encourage him in the new villa nies he had undertaken, not against me alone, 'but persons, in whose safety all good men (as well protestants as others) in the three king 'doms are concerned.' Et in altera parte ejus

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271. Proceedings against the Five Popish Lords, viz. the Earl of Powis, Lord Viscount STAFFORD, Lord PETRE, Lord ARUNDEL OF WARDOUR, and Lord BELLASYSE, for High Treason: Together with the Trial of Lord Viscount STAFFORD: 30 CHARLES II.-1 JAC. II. A. D. 1678-1685.

[Of these five Lords, only one (Stafford) was brought to trial. The Proceedings against the others are nevertheless interesting and instructive in many respects; it is therefore thought proper not to omit them: and as those Proceedings are intimately connected with the Trial of Lord Stafford, arose out of the same transaction, and upon one prosecution, the whole are incorporated into one article, in order to avoid the many repetitions or references which would be inevitable if the Cases were separated.]

"Ordered, by the Lords spiritual and temporal in parliament assembled, That the constable of his majesty's Tower of London, or his deputy, do receive the body of the lord Petre, for treason wherewith he is charged, and keep him in safe custody within the said Tower, till he shall be discharged by due course of law; and this shall be a sufficient warrant on that behalf.

"To the constable of his majesty's Tower of London, his deputy and deputies, and every of them."

The House being informed, That the lord Bellasis, now a prisoner in the prison of the King's Bench, by warrant of the Lord Chief Justice of England, for treason, is so ill, that he cannot without danger be removed: It is ordered, That sir Charles Scarborough be, and is hereby, appointed to go and visit the said lord Bellasis, and give this House an account tomorrow morning in what condition of health he finds him.

Ordered, That his majesty be humbly desired from this House, that the lord Bellasis, now a prisoner in the prison of the King's Bench, by warrant of the Lord Chief Justice of England, for treason, being, as is informed, so ill that he cannot be removed, may have a guard set on him there; and that notice be taken of the names of all such persons as shall come to visit his lordship there.