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<HEAD>A BRIEFE REPLY TO THE NARRATION OF <HI>DON PANTALEON SA: By one</HI> of <HI>the Si&s;ters of the Gentleman Murthered on the New-Exchange, the</HI> 22. <HI>of</HI> November, 1653. <HI>Stilo Vet.</HI></HEAD>
<P>TRue it is, that my &s;i&s;ter and my &s;elfe (obliged thereunto by the Bonds of common nature, as well as tho&s;e of the &s;tricte&s;t affection that may become &s;o near a relation) have exhibited to the Coun|cell of State for ju&s;tice again&s;t the Murtherers of our dear Brother, our Petition in forme following.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Right Honourable, the Councell of State</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The Humble Petition of <HI>Elizabeth Wor&s;opp,</HI> and <HI>Frances Clarke,</HI> the di&s;con&s;olate Si&s;ters of <HI>Harcourt Greenway,</HI> late of <HI>Leckham&s;teed,</HI> in the County of <HI>Bucks,</HI> E&s;quire, decea&s;ed.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth:</OPENER>
<P>THAT on Tue&s;day the <HI>22.</HI> of <HI>November</HI> the Portugall Amba&s;&s;adours Brother, and divers others his Servants with Swords and Pi&s;tols came upon the New-Exchange, in a mo&s;t in&s;olent and riotous manner, where their &s;aid Brother civilly, and peaceably then being, was mo&s;t barbarou&s;ly (no provocation given them by him) &s;et on by the &s;aid Portuguez, and pi&s;toll'd in the head: of which wound (the very braine flying out there|at) within twelve houres after, in extreame angui&s;h and tor|ture he mo&s;t mi&s;erably dyed.</P>
<P>That he was their only Brother, and by who&s;e untimely death (as not exceeding the age of <HI>24</HI> years, and unmarried, their whole Name and Family is become utterly extinct, and they be|reaved not onely of the pre&s;ent comforts of a deare Brother, but faire hopes al&s;o of much future emolument, in the Right and Title which was in him for the recovery of his Fathers E&s;tate, neare <HI>1000</HI> l. <HI>per annum</HI> aliened from him.</P>
<P>It is therefore mo&s;t humbly de&s;ired, that the cry of their &s;aid Brothers bloud might bee heard in them, and that your Honours would be plea&s;ed to take into your Chri&s;tian con|&s;ideration
<PB N="3" REF="2">(none of your owne per&s;ons being &s;ecure from &s;o bold an a&s;&s;a&s;&s;ination) the foulne&s;&s;e of &s;o horrid a Mur|ther with all its due circum&s;tances and aggravations: whereby Ju&s;tice, according to the Lawes of God and the Nation, may bee impartially done on the Murtherers, and &s;uch other reliefe conferred on your Petitioners, as &s;hall &s;eeme to your Wi&s;domes mo&s;t meet and proper for them in this their mo&s;t &s;ad and mi&s;erable condition.</P>
<CLOSER>And your Petitioners &s;hall ever pray, &amp;c.</CLOSER>
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<P>NOw whereas by a late Printed paper, &s;ub&s;cribed by the name of <HI>Pantaleon Sa,</HI> the world is in &s;ome danger to bee impo&s;ed on to an erroneous faith, that the per&s;ons again&s;t whom we have petition'd have been too violently pro&s;ecuted by us, and (though in order to a legall triall) too rigorou&s;ly treated by the Ju&s;ticiaries of our Common-wealth, I conceived it mo&s;t imported mee (my &s;i&s;ters &s;ickne&s;&s;e indi&s;po&s;ing her otherwi&s;e) then by a&s;&s;ent to joyne with mee in &s;ome Animadver|&s;ions on the &s;aid paper, to vindicate to both Nations, Engli&s;h and Portuguez, at lea&s;t tho&s;e who under&s;tand Engli&s;h, the onely tongue I know to expre&s;&s;e my &s;elf in, as well the honour as the legality of the proceedings; and withall, that by tho&s;e the Engli&s;h Nobility, and the Citie of <HI>London,</HI> whom this paper endeavours to Cajole into &s;uch a commi&s;eration of his Per&s;on, and opinion of his innocency, that the horrid and barba|rous murther of an Engli&s;h Gentleman, in every thing
<PB N="4" REF="3">(as to the Murtherers) a mo&s;t innocent per&s;on, and one who (let mee without envy &s;ince hee is dead, affirme) had known valour and bravery enough to have rende|red him not only &s;erviceable, but an honour to his Na|tion, might be forgotten, and out of a foeminine, and in matters of bloud, unmanlike, and unchri&s;tian pitty a pro&s;ecution of Ju&s;tice again&s;t the Offenders might be remitted.</P>
<P>To the Relation of the fir&s;t dayes pa&s;&s;ages I &s;hall &s;ay little, nothing being more in my abhorrency then inci|vility, and e&s;pecially to &s;trangers, and yet unle&s;&s;e re|port bee very fal&s;e, if any of our Engli&s;h Gentlemen &s;hewed them&s;elves ill di&s;ciplined in the Ethicks, they found the Portuguez but uncivill Tutors: For un|le&s;&s;e for a word (perhaps too provoked) a blow, yea a &s;tab be (what I have more noble thoughts of them then to believe) Portugall Ju&s;tice, and foure afterwards upon one Portugall fortitude, they them&s;elves mu&s;t needs conclude Morality to have been as fouly tran&s;gre&s;t by &s;ome of their owne Nation.</P>
<P>But &s;uppo&s;ing an affront beyond a Gentlemans &s;uffe|rance, and a complaint to that Power under who&s;e protection hee was, beneath his honour, was there no nobler way of vindication then by a Riot? Street combates, and popular engagements were never held to have much of the Cavalier in them: But <HI>Don Pantaleon</HI> (whom were not his hands red with my Brothers bloud) I &s;hould equally honour with his
<PB N="5" REF="3">height of birth and minde profe&s;&s;eth that hee feared none, nor &s;u&s;pected in the lea&s;t that any would a&s;&s;ault him when they &s;aw him unarmed: I &s;hall not que&s;tion how unarmed he came on the Exchange, though (if report be true) hee had defen&s;ive Armes enough for more then one per&s;on; but if the evidence which hath been given in this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e be true, it will &s;ufficiently appeare, if he had no &s;word him&s;elfe, his &s;ervant who was at his heeles had two; and that when the Ex|change was cleared (I cannot but believe more through the civility then feare in the Engli&s;h that were on the place, or valour of the Portuguez) he was one of tho&s;e who when my dear Brother lay wallowing in his bloud and braines, in a triumphing, and braving manner, both of je&s;ture and language, went &s;la&s;hing their &s;words again&s;t the &s;tones.</P>
<P>But who that will not again&s;t Ju&s;tice it &s;elfe be par|tiall, can beleeve that the Exchange mens &s;hutting up their &s;hops began this &s;econd unhappy broyle? e&s;peci|ally if he con&s;ider indeed the warlike preparations to it: doth Gunpowder and Granadoes, and I know not what, u&s;e to be carried about for defence? Indeed I am none of tho&s;e that think there was a de&s;ign of be&s;iege|ing or blowing up the Exchange, but that their De&s;ign was revenge, I not only believe, but am very confident the proofe of their preparations all that day of all &s;orts of Armes, and invitation of others to their a&s;&s;i&s;tance, be&s;ides their own Family will make apparent enough.</P>
<P>Or who that were not &s;o nearely concerned could chu&s;e but &s;mile at the vanity of that in&s;inuation that it might bee an Engli&s;h man as well as a Portugall, that
<PB N="6" REF="4">&s;hot that di&s;a&s;trous Pi&s;toll, and that it was &s;hot from the a&s;cent of the lower walk to the higher, but I &s;hal &s;ay little of this at the pre&s;ent; I hope that their ju&s;t triall will not be long deferred, when I doubt not but it will be enough proved, that the bold murderer was a Por|tugall, that hee did that cruell and ba&s;e action upon an innocent and unprovided per&s;on, not by accident but by aime and de&s;igne, directing his Pi&s;toll to his head which fell at the feete of the bloudy murtherer.</P>
<P>But &s;urely to have cea&s;ed that needle&s;&s;e terrour it had been more proper to have fairely retreated, or at lea&s;t repelled the irruption of his &s;ervants then to have head|ded them to the driving off of the Engli&s;h on the place, and to have cleared him&s;elfe of the murther of my Brother: to have expre&s;t a &s;orrow for it, if not a care for him rather than a triumph: but his &s;orrow &s;ince now I beleeve he may have rea&s;on for it, I beleeve and blame him not, in this condition which I can hartily even for him as a Gentleman and a Chri&s;tian grieve, for to tell the faire&s;t tale he can for him&s;elf, but if in criminall acts the delinquents Rhetoricall envying again&s;t the unrea|&s;onablene&s;&s;e of them may argue the improbability of his commitment of them, I would wonder to heare in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n age of any one per&s;on guilty; and if the being a &s;tranger may excu&s;e bold a&s;&s;a&s;&s;inations and murders, His texts of Scripture, and <HI>Polyanthea</HI> may befreind him, but then what magi&s;tracy, what government is &s;ecure from the blodie&s;t and yet unpuni&s;hable a&s;&s;aults? yet I hope neither the per&s;ons concerned, nor any other will beleeve this from me to be the production of malice, or unchri&s;tianlike revenge; &s;ince I think it is no more then
<PB N="7" REF="4">what the rights of my mo&s;t unfortunate deare Brother extort from me. For I can, if my griefs may receive an addition, adde to them a harty &s;orrow for every unfor|tunate per&s;on (that neverthele&s;&s;e I cannot but hope) mu&s;t &s;uffer for this bloudy murther: I can heartily be|waile that a Gentleman of &s;o noble and illu&s;trious an extraction, &s;hould among&s;t &s;trangers, from whom his owne King (I may I thinke &s;ay by him) required amity and friend&s;hip, premeditatedly run him&s;elfe into &s;o di&s;|a&s;trous and ruinous an action, though I do profe&s;&s;e to all the world that neither my &s;i&s;ter or my &s;elfe who are the only neerly concerned per&s;ons do know that he hath afforded us a pitty or condolement in our un&s;peakable griefes, nor oblieged us to any &s;uch commi&s;eration by a civill me&s;&s;age that he was &s;orry for our mi&s;fortunes, notwith&s;tanding his flouri&s;h of comfort and &s;ati&s;facti|on at the end of his narration; but the comfort and &s;a|ti&s;faction I begge in the behalfe of my&s;elfe and &s;i&s;ter is ju&s;tice, which I humbly implore from God, the Magi|&s;trate, and all who may give it us, or a&s;&s;i&s;t us in the procuring of it, and which I doubt not but the unpar|ralleld equity of our Laws, and adhering of our Ju&s;ticia|ries to them will give us.</P>
<P>I &s;hall therefore &s;ay nothing more to tho&s;e in&s;inuati|ons of his kindne&s;&s;es or civilities to the Engli&s;h Gentry, &s;ince I cannot but believe every one of them will re|member my Brothers unhappy fate might have beene his owne.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>12. <HI>Decemb.</HI> 1653.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>FRANCES CLARKE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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