<!DOCTYPE ETS PUBLIC "-//UMDLPS//DTD EEBOPROOF 2.0//EN">
<ETS>
<TEMPHEAD>
<REVDESCR>
<CHANGE>
<DATE>2010-03-03</DATE>
<RESPSTMT>
<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
<RESP>MURP</RESP>
</RESPSTMT>
<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B000019.pdcc.</ITEM>
</CHANGE>
</REVDESCR>
</TEMPHEAD>
<EEBO>
<IDG S="marc" R="UM" ID="A95084">
<STC T="W">T2775</STC>
<BIBNO T="oclc">42475249</BIBNO>
<VID>151407</VID>
</IDG>
<TEXT LANG="eng">
<FRONT>
<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="1" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 77 -->
<P>A True NARRATIVE OF All the PROCEEDINGS AGAINST The Weavers, At a Court of <HI>Oyer</HI> and <HI>Terminer,</HI> held at Ju&s;tice-Hall in the <HI>Old-Bayly</HI> upon the &s;ame occa&s;ion, On Thur&s;day the 16th of <HI>September</HI> 1675.</P>
<P>With an Account of the manner of their Deportment there, and al&s;o of the Puni&s;h|ments allotted them for their Offence.</P>
<P>How many are to be fined, and how many to &s;tand in the Pillory.</P>
<P><HI>London:</HI> Printed in the Year 1675.</P>
<PB REF="2" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 78 -->
<PB REF="2" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 78 -->
<GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page">
</DIV1>
</FRONT>
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="text">
<PB REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 79 -->
<PB N="3" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 79 -->
<HEAD>A True NARRATIVE OF All the PROCEEDINGS AGAINST The Weavers.</HEAD>
<P>IT is, &s;ufficiently known to mo&s;t per&s;on a|bout this Citty, what great mi&s;chief and di&s;orders happened by the In&s;urrection of the <HI>Weavers</HI> in <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> la&s;t, not only to the breaking of the publick Peace, but to the great damage of &s;everal per&s;ons who&s;e Looms and In&s;truments of Trade they forcibly took a|way from them and burned.</P>
<P>Great care was then taken by the worthy She|riffs and other Magi&s;trates of the City, by all
<PB N="4" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 80 -->fair means at fir&s;t, if po&s;&s;ible, to &s;uppre&s;s them, and to per&s;wade them to be quiet; and that if they were grieved as they pretended they were, they &s;hould take what remedy the Law would allow them, and not per&s;i&s;t to di&s;turb the Peace of the City: but when &s;uch &s;ofter allays could not a&s;&s;awage the Calenture of their raging fury, but they per&s;i&s;ted day after day in continual Tumults to pro&s;ecute their Riotous de&s;ignes, &s;ome of the principal of them were taken and committed to &s;everal Pri&s;ons, in order to be pro|ceeded again&s;t by Law, for an Example and war|ning to others that &s;hould offend in the like na|ture.</P>
<P>And to this end a Court was held by &s;pecial Commi&s;&s;ion of <HI>Oyer</HI> and <HI>Terminer</HI> at Ju&s;tice Hall in the <HI>Old-bayly</HI> upon Thur&s;day the &s;ixteenth of <HI>September</HI> In&s;tant, for the Tryal of the &s;aid Ma|lefactors, where were pre&s;ent &s;everal Ju&s;tices and other Magi&s;trates.</P>
<P>After the Commi&s;&s;ion read, the Pri&s;oners were Arraigned, and then the Jury were called, which con&s;i&s;ted of E&s;quires and Gentlemen of good Quality; and as they were called over, the Pri&s;oners being Eleven in number, &s;tanding at the Bar, had liberty given them to make their Challenges; after which the Jury being &s;worn, the other ten were withdrawn, and the eleventh continuing at the Bar, they proceeded fir&s;t a|gain&s;t him, and the Indictment read, which was to this Effect: <HI>That he with &s;everal other per&s;ons
<PB N="5" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 80 -->to a great number, did Riotou&s;ly a&s;&s;emble together upon the nine and tenth of</HI> Augu&s;t, <HI>and did break open the hou&s;es of one J. M. and C. and took a|way and burned their Goods, to the great di&s;turbance of the Peace,</HI> &amp;c. after which the Kings Council opened the Charge and the Witne&s;&s;es were &s;worn, which were the afore&s;aid <HI>C.</HI> and <HI>M.</HI> with &s;everal other per&s;ons, who by their Evidence did &s;atisfie the Court the pri&s;oner was one of the Rabble, who were about an hundred in number; and that he with the re&s;t, were out on Munday and Tue&s;|day the ninth and tenth of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and that he was one of them that laid hand on their Goods, and was aiding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to the burning of them. This Evidence was proved again&s;t him. Notwith&s;tanding he began a plau&s;ible &s;tory for him&s;elf, as that he kept in all day on Munday, and that on Tue&s;day he was with the Con&s;table on the Watch till four in the afternoon, and then in his way homewards lighting on the place where the &s;aid Rioters were a&s;&s;embled neer the hou&s;e of the &s;aid <HI>C.</HI> and an out cry being made as if &s;ome Murder were done in the hou&s;e, the &s;aid <HI>C.</HI> de&s;ired that he and two other men would come into his hou&s;e to be witne&s;&s;es what the matter was, where they found all things peaceable and quiet; and that then he and the &s;aid <HI>C.</HI> went to drink together; and that by his own confe&s;&s;ion he got the &s;aid <HI>C.</HI> to give a Bill of the Penalty of one hundred pound that he &s;hould never u&s;e the Engine as they call'd it, any more; which Bill
<PB N="6" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 81 -->was read in the Court, and it appeared that upon his giving of the &s;aid Bill, the Rioters departed; by which, and other circum&s;tances, the Court ob|&s;erved that this man was a principal Ring-leader of the Faction.</P>
<P>After his Trial was over, another was called: it appeared by the Evidence that he al&s;o was one of the number; and that although he did not lay violent hands on the Looms that they had ta|ken, yet that he had per&s;waded the party from whom they were taken, to deliver them up into their hands, to avoid the trouble of having them taken from him; which the Court &s;aid was all one to make him guilty with the re&s;t, for that he might be per&s;waded to, out of fear of wor&s;e mi&s;chiefs that they might do to him; And that to be pre&s;ent in any &s;uch Riotous meeting, and not to indeavour to &s;uppre&s;s them, or be in the lea&s;t abo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ing to them, was &s;ufficient to make a per&s;on Equally Guilty with them.</P>
<P>After this, two more were called up; one of them carryed him&s;elf very In&s;olently, and &s;tood upon his Ju&s;tification, although the Fact with which he was Charged, which was of the &s;ame Nature with the former, was Evidently proved again&s;t him. It is Ob&s;erv<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">e, that the Court of their abundant Clemency towards the Pri&s;oners, indea|voured both with him, and the former Pri&s;oner to bring them to an ingenuous Confe&s;&s;ion of their Faults without troubling the Court with bring|ing Proofs (which were not wanting) again&s;t them,
<PB N="7" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 81 -->acquainting them, That the King of his graci|ous Clemency to them, had ordered the Indict|ments to be &s;uch, as &s;hould neither extend to Life nor Member, but only Tre&s;pa&s;s; And that if they would ingenuou&s;ly Confe&s;s the Matters Charged again&s;t them, and humble them&s;elves to the Court, they &s;hould find the more Favour: up|on which, One of the Two la&s;t mention'd Pri|&s;oners fell on his Knees and beg'd Mercy, con|fe&s;&s;ing his Indictment, and &s;o did two others af|ter him; which carriage of theirs, the Court was plea&s;ed to take into Con&s;ideration, and it fared the better with them. The re&s;t &s;tood upon their Tryal, and their &s;everal Facts proved again&s;t them, which being for the manner much of the &s;ame Nature of the former, it would be too re|dious to recount the Particulars. In fine, there|fore, after a full hearing of the &s;everal Evidences again&s;t them, and what they could &s;everally &s;ay in their own Defence (in which the Court gave them a great deal of Liberty, the Jury went upon their Verdict, and returned them all Guilty; upon which the Court broke up for the Fore|noon.</P>
<P>In the Afternoon after the Court had di&s;patch'd &s;ome other bu&s;ine&s;s the Pri&s;oners were again call'd to the Barr to receive their Sentence, in which the Court fir&s;t acquainting them of the Notori|ou&s;ne&s;s of the Crimes they had been Convicted of, told them next, what Penalty they had thereby made them&s;elves lyable to: that the
<PB N="8" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 82 -->&s;ame might have been made <HI>High Trea&s;on,</HI> and they therefore have &s;uffered as <HI>Traytors:</HI> But that his Maje&s;ty of his Gracious Goodne&s;s had been willing to di&s;pence with the Rigor of tho&s;e Sanguinary Laws, and to &s;uffer them to be procee|ded again&s;t upon &s;uch Indictments as &s;hould in|danger neither Life nor Member; And therefore that tho&s;e Three Per&s;ons who had Confe&s;t their Indictments, and &s;ubmitted them&s;elves to the Court, &s;hould be Fined Twenty Marks apiece, to lye in Pri&s;on till their Fines were paid, and to be bound to their Good Behaviour for their Lives. And for the other Eight, for their Con|tumacy, they were thought worthy of a greater Puni&s;hment; and &s;o were Fined Five hundred Marks a Man, to lye in Pri&s;on till their Fines were paid; to &s;tand three &s;everal Dayes on the Pillory: to find Sureties for their good Behavi|our for their Lives. After which Sentence Pro|nounced, in a little time the Court broke up, and the Se&s;&s;ions concluded.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
<PB REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 82 -->
<PB REF="7"><!-- PDF PAGE 83 -->
<PB REF="7"><!-- PDF PAGE 83 -->
</DIV1>
</BODY>
</TEXT>
</EEBO>
</ETS>
