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<HEAD>THE CASE OF Robert Blackburne.</HEAD>
<P><DATE><HI>APril</HI> 2d. 1696,</DATE>
the &s;aid <HI>Blackburne</HI> was Committed to <HI>Newgate,</HI> and the <HI>Septem|ber</HI> following, putting in his Prayer, was admitted to Bail at the Se&s;&s;ions Hou&s;e in the <HI>Old Baily,</HI> and no Information coming again&s;t him, he was at the en&s;uing Se&s;&s;ions di&s;charg'd from his Bail, and ab&s;olutely Acquitted. By this his Chargeable Confinement having Contracted &s;everal Debts, and his Creditors being very pre&s;&s;ing upon him, he re&s;olv'd to go for <HI>Flanders,</HI> where he had &s;ome Relations, from whom he might rea&s;onably expect &s;ome A&s;&s;i&s;tance; and in order thereunto, he put him&s;elf on Board an <HI>Oftend</HI> Man of War, but not being able, for want of Money, to procure a Pa&s;s, he was by Capt. <HI>Na&s;h,</HI> His Maje&s;ty's Searcher, brought back to <HI>London,</HI> as a Su&s;picious Per&s;on, and Committed to the Cu&s;tody of one <HI>Davis,</HI> a Me&s;&s;enger; where, when he had remain'd for 3 or 4 Days, he, by his Sollicitor, repre&s;ented his Ca&s;e to Sir <HI>William Trumball,</HI> then Secretary of State; upon the Con&s;ideration of which, Sir <HI>William,</HI> as the &s;aid <HI>Blackburne</HI> was inform'd by his Sollicitor, was inclin'd to di&s;charge him; but he was &s;till delay'd, till the Parliament being about to pa&s;s a Bill for continuing the Im|pri&s;onment of one <HI>Counter,</HI> and others, which Bill having pa&s;s'd the Hou&s;e of Commons, and the &s;ad <HI>Blackburne</HI>'s Name not mention'd therein, <HI>Davis,</HI> the Me&s;&s;enger, knowing that he had formerly been Confin'd with the &s;aid <HI>Counter,</HI> and (altho' legally Acquitted, as afore|&s;aid,) made it his Bu&s;ine&s;s to get his Pri&s;oner, the &s;aid <HI>Blackburne,</HI> al&s;o included in the &s;aid Bill, that he might be Recommitted, and continued in Pri&s;on with the &s;aid <HI>Counter,</HI> &amp;c. by the Act that was then ready to pa&s;s the Hou&s;e: And accordingly, tho' no farther In|formation appear'd again&s;t him, when the Bill pa&s;s'd the Lords Hou&s;e, they, in their A|mendments, incerted the &s;aid <HI>Blackburne;</HI> whereupon, he was Recommitted to <HI>Newgate</HI> without ever being Examin'd; where he was kept two Years under &s;o Strict and Rigorous a Confinement, that no Friend was &s;uffered to &s;peak to him, nor could he take any Mea|&s;ures to &s;et forth the Hard&s;hip of his Ca&s;e, or obtain any Redre&s;s.</P>
<P><HI>He humbly believes his Ca&s;e to be Particular, in that he was never Acquainted with any one of tho&s;e Per&s;ons who have been put to Death for the late Con&s;piracy; nor did he &s;o much as ever know any, or either of tho&s;e whom he is in Pri&s;on with, until their Confinement. And be&s;ides, he de&s;ires it may be ob&s;erv'd, That he is not one of tho&s;e Per&s;ons for whom a Thou&s;and Pounds was paid for the Apprehending.</HI></P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>Midd. &s;&s;.</DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>AD <HI>Deliberat' Gaol. Dom. Regis de</HI> Newgate <HI>tent' pro Com'</HI> Middle&s;ex, <HI>apud Ju&s;tice Hall in le</HI> Old Baily <HI>in Sub|urbiis Civit.</HI> London, <HI>die in Cur' Scil.</HI> <DATE><HI>nono die</HI> Septembris, <HI>Anno Regni Dom.</HI> Gulielmi <HI>tert' nunc Regis</HI> Angl. <HI>&amp;c. Octavo.</HI></DATE></P>
<P>Robertus Blackburne <HI>tradit. in Bal. in Cur' for' De<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">iberat'</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Per Cur'</HI>
Harcourt.</SIGNED>
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<P><HI>Vera Copia Exact.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Per</HI> Matth. Smith. <HI>Cler' &amp;c.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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