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<P>A True and Impartial ACCOUNT OF THE <HI>Birth, Parentage, Education, Life</HI> and <HI>Conver&s;ation</HI> OF <HI>Edmund Audley,</HI> Who was Executed at <HI>Tyburn</HI> on <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> the 22d. of <HI>June,</HI> 1698. for the Barbarous Murther of Mrs. <HI>Hannah Bullevant</HI> in St. <HI>Martins le Grand,</HI> near <HI>Alder&s;gate.</HI></P>
<P>AS ALSO, An Account of his Marriage with a Mini&s;ters Daugh|ter at <HI>Exeter;</HI> the occa&s;ion of his leaving her, and his coming to <HI>London;</HI> with other &s;trange pa&s;&s;ages of his Life from his Birth, to the time of his &s;hame|ful Death.</P>
<P><HI>To which is added,</HI> The Particulars of his <HI>Tryal</HI> and <HI>Condemnation;</HI> as al&s;o his Di&s;putes with &s;everal <HI>Divines</HI> in <HI>Newgate,</HI> to|gether with his <HI>Speech</HI> and <HI>Confe&s;&s;ion</HI> at the place of Execution.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 letter">ikewi&s;e, An Account of the &s;ad Accident that hap|pened at his going out of <HI>Newgate,</HI> by the Fall of St. <HI>Pulchers</HI>-Church-Wall, which killed &s;everal Per|&s;ons, and dangerou&s;ly wounder many others.</P>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>J. R.</HI> in <HI>Little Britain,</HI> 1698.</P>
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<HEAD>A True and Impartial Account of the Birth, Pa|rentage, Life and Conver&s;ation of <HI>Edmund Audley,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>MR. <HI>Edmund Audley</HI> was Born at <HI>Swan&s;ey</HI> (it being a Sea-Port in <HI>Clamorgan&s;hire</HI> in <HI>Wales</HI>) <HI>Anno</HI> 1661. His Father Mr. <HI>Humphrey Audley</HI> being a Merchant, who dealt in mo&s;t &s;orts of Commodities, and lived in good Credit and Reputation, being no le&s;s beloved than well known in tho&s;e parts, having two Sons and two Daughters, the elde&s;t of the Sons was this <HI>Edmond,</HI> to whom he gave good Education, in order to qualifie him for the management of his bu&s;ine&s;s in the way of Merchandizing. How|ever, finding his Inclinations wholly bent to Learning, and &s;eeing he had improved him&s;elf therein, &s;o far as to attain Arithmetick, fair Wri|ting, and &s;everal parts of the Mathematicks; his Father advi&s;ed him to keep a School in <HI>Swan&s;ey,</HI> which he willingly a&s;&s;ented to, and accordingly continued in that Station with indifferent &s;ucce&s;s for two or three years; but being of a mutable and un&s;ettled Fancy, he de&s;ired of his Father to procure him a place of Re&s;idence at <HI>Exeter,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> order for a School there, which in a &s;hort tim<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> was effected, and that &s;eemingly to his &s;atisfactio<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="2 letters"> However, he had not been long in <HI>Exeter</HI> befo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="2 letters"> he fell in Love with a Beautiful Young Wom<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="2+ letters">
<PB N="3" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 9 -->Daughter to an Nonconformi&s;t Mini&s;ter, who&s;e Father had a re&s;pect for him, upon the account of his Parents, whom he knew, but not &s;o much as to make him his Son in Law, which Mr. <HI>Edmond</HI> perceiving, and knowing the Maid had a more than ordinary Love for him, took the advantage of the Old Gentlemans ab&s;ence one Evening, and &s;tole her away privately in the Night; And the next Morning three or four Miles from thence, was Married together, contrary to the knowledge of her Father and Mother: Which news, tho' very unwelcome to them, yet con&s;idering it was pa&s;t Remedy, they in&s;tantly &s;ent for their Son and Daughter, and in &s;hort, a Reconciliation was made, and Mr. <HI>Audley</HI> and his Bride were admitted into the number of their Family, where they lived lovingly together for &s;ome time, till a &s;trange Whim&s;ey (or rather Jealous Humour) po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed his Noddle, that his Wife was Di&s;loyal, though he could never &s;hew any ju&s;t ground for that &s;u&s;pition, yet his Jealou&s;ie encrea&s;ing, (it being a Fire which is &s;ooner kindled, than extin|gui&s;hed) he &s;ecretly made a motion to &s;ome Mini|&s;ters for a Divorcement; but not being able to give a ju&s;t Rea&s;on for &s;uch a &s;eparation, his Moti|on was not only rejected, but him&s;elf much re|proved, for having &s;uch an unworthy opinion of an Innocent and Vertuous Woman (for &s;o &s;he was generally e&s;teem'd) However, being much perplexed, he takes a Hor&s;e, (&s;ome &s;ay without leave) it being in the Year 1695. and comes to
<PB N="4" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 10 --><HI>London,</HI> leaving his Wife with Child, who no &s;ooner under&s;tood of his rude and abrubted de|parture, but mi&s;carried, and &s;oon after dyed.</P>
<P>I &s;hall omit particularizing his undecent Beha|viour towards her before his departure, and of his attempting to &s;ell her, being loath to reflect too much upon the unhappy Memory of this un|fortunate Per&s;on, and that chiefly for the &s;ake of his Father and Mother, who at the writing hereof were both living at the place afore&s;aid, being very Godly, Religious, and hone&s;t People.</P>
<P>Being come to <HI>London,</HI> he much frequented the Company of the Di&s;&s;enting Clergy, and u&s;ed all the endeavours po&s;&s;ible to advance him&s;elf to the Mini&s;try, having procured a Letter from an Emi|nent Nonconformi&s;t Mini&s;ter of the <HI>We&s;t</HI> of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> by way of Recommendation to Mr. <HI>James,</HI> who&s;e Meeting is in <HI>Nightingale-Lane</HI> in <HI>Ea&s;t-Smithfield,</HI> where he was admitted to Preach &s;everal times; and was al&s;o introduced to Preach &s;everal times in many <HI>Presbyterian</HI> Meetings in and about <HI>London,</HI> particularly in <HI>Southwark,</HI> &amp;c. However, having no fix'd Station a&s;&s;ign'd him, he at la&s;t became U&s;her to a School near <HI>Ea&s;tcheap,</HI> where his Revenue only amounted to 5 <HI>s. per</HI> Week and Dyet; but his Pride and lofty Spirit &s;oon put him out of that mean (tho' hone&s;t) Im|ploy, often &s;aying (to u&s;e his own Expre&s;&s;ions) <HI>That he was called to proclaim the Go&s;pel;</HI> but whether with Sword and Pi&s;tol, I leave the Reader to judge, for he was often ob&s;erved b<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="5" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 10 -->his Landlady (where he lodged about a twelve Month &s;ince) to threaten &s;everal Per&s;ons (whom <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">e called Traytors and Con&s;pirators) with &s;e|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">ere puni&s;hments, if he could bring his Bu&s;ine&s;s <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">bout, which in part he perform'd upon the Per|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">on of Mrs. <HI>Bullivant,</HI> as hereafter will appear.</P>
<P>Having ofren frequented many Meeting-hou&s;es, and Preached in others, he of late much u&s;ed to come to Mr. <HI>Dolittle</HI>'s meeting in <HI>Silver-&s;treet;</HI> and we under|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters">and by his own Confe&s;&s;ion &s;ince, that he much ob|&s;erved one Mrs, <HI>Hannah Bullivant,</HI> pretending that &s;he was in a Plot again&s;t the King and Government, though I believe there's more in it than he has declared) he goes to Mr. <HI>Taylor</HI> a Gun-Smith near <HI>Algate,</HI> and asked him, If a Gentleman had not been there over Night for a pair of Pi&s;tols; and being an|&s;wered in the Affirmative, he &s;aid he came for them, and in &s;hort, they made a Bargain. During which time, Mr. <HI>Audley</HI> behaved him&s;elf like a warey Buyer, and not like one di&s;tracted, as the Gun-Smith made Oath of at his Tryal: Having paid for them, he gets &s;uitable Amunition, and a Sword by his &s;ide, as al&s;o a Lathing-Hammer in his Britches, and goes &s;ometime after to the Meeting-hou&s;e in <HI>Silver-&s;treet,</HI> where he finds Mrs. <HI>Bullivant,</HI> his pretended King-killer, but whether he minded the Sermon or Mrs. <HI>Bullivant</HI> mo&s;t, may be ea&s;ily judged by the following di&s;cour&s;e.</P>
<P>The Meeting being done, out comes <HI>Audley</HI> to watch for this &s;uppo&s;ed Traytori&s;s, but not being willing to put his barbarous de&s;ign in Execution, where &s;o many People were together, (as fearing to kill the Righteous with the Wicked,) he followed her till &s;he went in|to a Shop in <HI>Silver-&s;treet,</HI> where having occa&s;ion to &s;tay about half an hour, <HI>Audley</HI> walked backward and for|ward till &s;he came out, and then he dogg'd her into
<PB N="6" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 11 -->Saint <HI>Martins le Grand,</HI> near <HI>Alder&s;gate,</HI> where &s;eeing the Street clear of People, fired one of his Pi&s;tols at her which tho' it mi&s;&s;ed, yet the noi&s;e &s;o affrighted her (be|ing &s;o nigh) that &s;he ran directly into a Glovers Shop at the Corner of <HI>Bell-Court,</HI> where he clo&s;ely followed her, and Shot her dead with the other Pi&s;tol upon the place; whereupon he was &s;eized, and that Evening be+ing the fir&s;t of <HI>June,</HI> was by Sir <HI>Edward Clark</HI> commit+ted to <HI>Newgate,</HI> where he remain'd till <HI>Thur&s;day, June</HI> the 9th. at which time he was brought to the Bar a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> the <HI>Old-Baily,</HI> where he was Indicted for the afore&s;aid Barbarous Murther, who after the Jury was call'd and &s;worn, had the boldne&s;s (or rather Impudence) to ex+cept both again&s;t Judges and Jury too, telling the Cour<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>That they were concern'd in a Plot and Con&s;piracy again&s;t the King, and therefore he appeal'd to the King and Council to be tryed:</HI> Adding, <HI>That he would not be tryed by tho&s;e wh<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> were Enemies to the King and Government.</HI> However, the Court rejecting his frivolous and trifling Arguments proceeded to his Tryal. And being asked whether Guil+ty or not? he &s;aid, He owned that he kill'd the Wo+man, but pleaded Not Guilty of the Murther, alled+ging, That the decea&s;ed was (with &s;everal others) con|cern'd in a Plot to take away the King's Life, and tha<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> he had been at &s;everal Magi&s;trates (whom he named in order to have her and others Apprehended, and find|ing no Warrant could be obtain'd, and the King and Nation in danger, he conceived it lawful in &s;uch a de+&s;perate ca&s;e to execute Ju&s;tice him&s;elf. Whereupon four Evidences &s;ucce&s;&s;ively were called, who depo&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> That the Pri&s;oner pur&s;ued Mrs. <HI>Bullivant,</HI> &s;hooting o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> Pi&s;tol at her in St. <HI>Martins</HI> near <HI>Alder&s;gate,</HI> and afte<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">+wards followed her into a Glovers Shop in <HI>Bell-Co<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2+ letters"></HI> and there &s;hot her on the left &s;ide of the Body, of whi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> Wound &s;he immediately dyed: And further depo&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> That he &s;aid that he had killed Queen <HI>Mary,</HI> who ha<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="7" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 11 -->been there Incognito, and that he endeavoured to e&s;cape. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="3 letters">ther Evidences depo&s;ed, That they had &s;everal times <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="3 letters">rd the Pri&s;oner Preach at Meeting-hou&s;es, and ne|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="3 letters">er could perceive either in his Behaviour or Di&s;cour&s;e, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">hat he was any ways troubled with Madne&s;s, Frenzey, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">r any thing like being Craiz'd or Di&s;tracted. And <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">eing asked &s;ome Que&s;tions of his knowledge, relating <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">o the particulars of his Pretended Plot, he &s;aid, <HI>That <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">f he made Confe&s;&s;ion in Court, it was the way to have the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">lotters e&s;cape:</HI> But added, <HI>that he knew of</HI> 30 <HI>Waggon <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">oad of Arms which was brought into the City for the late King</HI> James<HI>'s Service one morning before day, and that he <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">ad &s;een the Prince of</HI> Wales <HI>in the</HI> Lobby Chamber; <HI>and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">hat he had kill'd the Woman, &s;uppo&s;ing her to be the late Queen, having &s;een her often at</HI> Mr. Dolittle<HI>'s Meeting-<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">ou&s;e.</HI> But being told that King <HI>James</HI>'s Queen was of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> contrary Religion to come to a Meeting-hou&s;e. He <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">eplyed, <HI>That the very Devils could transform them&s;elves <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">nto Angels of Light.</HI> However, the Evidence being <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">lain and full, the Jury thereupon brought him in Guilty of <HI>Wilful Murther;</HI> and on the <HI>Monday</HI> follow|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">ng he received Sentence of Death for the &s;ame.</P>
<P><HI>His Conference with &s;everal Divines, during his Confinement in</HI> New|gate <HI>&s;ome Dayes before Execution, concerning the Barbarous Murther of Mrs.</HI> Bullivant.</P>
<P>A Learned Divine of the Church of <HI>England</HI> told him. That by <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">his cruel Murther, he had &s;tained the <HI>Chri&s;tians Religion</HI> he profe&s;&s;ed. He replyed, That tho' many apprehended it to be a Bloody Fact, yet <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">e thought otherwi&s;e of it, by rea&s;on he thought that Mrs. <HI>Bullivant</HI> was in a wicked Con&s;piracy again&s;t the pre&s;ent Government. But being told, A private Per&s;on ought not to have killed her, but rather have accu&s;ed her in &s;ome Lawful Court of Ju&s;tice. He &s;aid, He con|ceived the Fact to be no Murther, by rea&s;on his Con&s;cience &s;tirred him up to perform it. But he was told, That was a wicked and Devili&s;h <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word">word. And further asked him, Whether any one had hired him to <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">urther her. He an&s;wered in the Negative. And being further <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;tion'd, What was the grounds of his Malice again&s;t her? He <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="4+ letters">rly reply'd, That he would give no further Account than what he
<PB N="8" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 12 -->had done already. And &s;eem'd much to depend upon his <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="3 letters">+ceited knowledge, and continued very &s;ullen and ob&s;tinate, tho' <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> way re&s;embling a Lunatick, or di&s;tracted Per&s;on, either in Di<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="4+ letters"> or Behaviour, as Dr. <HI>Bedford</HI> and &s;everal other Divines can witness.</P>
<P>On the 22d of <HI>June,</HI> about Noon, Mr. <HI>Edmond Audley</HI> was conve<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">+ed from <HI>Newgate</HI> to <HI>Tyburn</HI> in a Cart with two other Criminals; <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> appeared very ob&s;tinate and wilful for a con&s;iderable time, who b<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">+ing asked; What induced him to kill Mrs. <HI>Bullivant?</HI> He &s;aid, <HI>He d<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> it for the common good of the Kingdom:</HI> And continued to repeat h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> former Whim&s;ical Stories of a <HI>Plot again&s;t the King;</HI> and upon th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> Ordinary's telling him, That 'twas &s;uppo&s;ed he killed her upon h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> preventing his Marriage with a Young Gentlewoman. He &s;aid, <HI>was very fal&s;e,</HI> and added, <HI>that there was a Con&s;piracy to bring in t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> late</HI> King James; wi&s;hing, <HI>that he had an oppertunity to declare his mi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> to the King about it,</HI> adding <HI>that he knew &s;everal of the Plotters;</HI> b<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> being de&s;ired to declare who they were, He &s;aid, <HI>he would make Confe&s;&s;ion to any but his Maje&s;ty.</HI> Whereupon it Was demanded in wh<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> Profe&s;&s;ion he Dyed, He &s;aid, <HI>in the Faith of a Chri&s;tian as revailed the Scripture, de&s;iring the Mini&s;ters not to ask him any more Que&s;tions hinder his Devotions.</HI> So after having refu&s;ed to join in Prayer wi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> the Ordinary, he made a &s;hort and &s;ilent Prayer to him&s;elf, and was turn'd off with the re&s;t of the Criminals.</P>
<P>At his going from <HI>Newgate</HI> with the other Crm<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2+ letters">als, a ver<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> Strange and Surprizing Accident happned, for ju&s;t before the Ca<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> (wherein he was with two other Criminals, reached the end of S<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>Pulchers</HI> Church-yard, the Wall being thronged and Loaded with Crou<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> of Numerous Spectators who pre&s;&s;ed to &s;ee him, the greate&s;t part <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> it fell Flat to the Ground, almo&s;t from one end to the other, and wit<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> it Multitudes of People one upon another, doing Extraordinary D<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">+mage, Killing a VVine Porter out right, who Dwelt in <HI>Nightingga<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> Lane,</HI> and with the violence of its fall, Mi&s;erably Squeezed to peic<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> Armes, Leggs, Backs and Thighs of many, (Some &s;ays) to th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> Number af above 40 Per&s;ons, 4 or 5 of which are &s;ince Dead of the<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> VVounds, and tis Doubted that &s;everal of the re&s;t are Mortally hu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="3 letters"> This unhappy Accident obliged the Officers to Convey the Criminal<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> through Pye-Corner and &s;o down Ho&s;ier-L<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters">e, the like having n<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> been known in the Memory of any Man Living before.</P>
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