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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>A Full and True ACCOUNT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF Tho. Harris, Gent.
High Con&s;table of the <HI>Hundred</HI> of <HI>O&s;wald&s;tone,</HI> in the County of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">BEING THE Manner of Finding the HEAD of the <HI>Late Murder'd Per&s;on,</HI> Who was Cut to Pieces: It being found be|tween Twelve and One a Clock at Night, in a <HI>Hou&s;e of Office</HI> near the <HI>Hou&s;e</HI> of Mr. <HI>Fre&s;|near,</HI> a <HI>Fringe-maker,</HI> near <HI>Exeter-Exchange,</HI> on <DATE><HI>Sunday-night,</HI> the 5th In&s;tant <HI>February,</HI> 1687.</DATE></HEAD>
<P>HAving received a Warrant from Sir <HI>James Butler,</HI> and Sir <HI>Robert Clerk,</HI> Two of His Maje&s;ties Ju|&s;tices of the Peace for this County of <HI>Middle&s;ex;</HI> that they were credibly informed that the Head of the Wounded Per&s;on is &s;lung into a Hou&s;e of Office, be|longing to Mr. <HI>Fre&s;nean</HI> a Fringe-Maker near <HI>Exeter-change</HI> in my Hundred, or &s;ome other Hou&s;e-Office near adjacent there|unto, did therefore in His Maje&s;ties Name, require me to cau&s;e
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diligent Search to be made in the &s;aid Hou&s;es of Office, or in any other, of which I &s;hould have ju&s;t cau&s;e to &s;u&s;pect for the Head, and give an immediate Account of what I &s;hould do herein to them, or &s;ome other of His Maje&s;ties Ju&s;tices of Peace for the &s;aid County. Given under their Hands and Seals the Fifth day of <HI>February,</HI> 1687/8.</P>
<P>Pur&s;uant to this Warrant I &s;ent for my Con&s;tables and Offi|cers, and procured &s;ome Night-men, who went to the place and began to work about Eleven at Night, and &s;o continued till about half an hour after Twelve, at which time the Night|men brought up the Head, which was wrapt up in a Cloth, with one Ear hanging out of a hole in the Cloth, and when it was taken out, I order'd it immediately to be wa&s;h'd very clean, and carryed to the Watch-hou&s;e: And the Head and Face is without any manner of Defacement, Wound, or Scar; but may be known by any man who formerly knew the Per&s;on, the Vi&s;age remaining very plain.</P>
<P>About five a Clock this Morning, being the &s;ixth of this In|&s;tant <HI>February,</HI> I went to the Right Honourable the Earl of <HI>Craven,</HI> who ordered me to wait on him to <HI>White-Hall,</HI> in or|der to attend and give His Maje&s;ty an account thereof; which being done, His Maje&s;ty was plea&s;ed to order that the Head &s;hould be conveyed forthwith to the Body, which lies in St. <HI>Giles</HI> Bone-hou&s;e, where it now is, and may be &s;een by any that have the Curio&s;ity to repair thither: And this is a true Ac|count, Witne&s;s my Hand,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Tho. Harris,</HI> High-Con&s;table.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London</HI> Printed, and are to be Sold by <HI>Randal Taylor.</HI> 1688.</P>
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