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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>A SAD AND LAMENTABLE ACCOUNT OF A Barbarous and Bloody-Murther, Committed upon the BODY OF Sir William He&s;cot, KNIGHT.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">At the <HI>Globe Tavern</HI> in <HI>Fleet-&s;treet</HI> on the 14th of <HI>November</HI> 1684. For which <HI>Henry</HI> St. <HI>Johns</HI> E&s;q; and Colonel <HI>Web,</HI> &s;tand Committed to the County Goal of <HI>Newgate.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CONTAINING <HI>The Material Circum&s;tances, Relating to the Death of the &s;aid un|fortunate</HI> GENTLEMAN.</HEAD>
<P>'TIS of late become the unhappine&s;s of our Nation, that it's Natives too frequently tran&s;ported with pa&s;&s;ion, ra&s;hly and unadvi&s;edly dip their Hands in Blood, up|on &s;uch little and frivolous occa&s;ions, that they in|&s;tead of Vindicating their Honour and Reputation render them&s;elves contemptable, nor can a plainer demon&s;tration be expo&s;ed as example, to deterr Men from &s;uch madne&s;s for the future, than the &s;ad Relation of what I here propo&s;e, which take as fol|loweth.</P>
<P>On <HI>Fryday</HI> the 14th of <HI>Novemb.</HI> in&s;tant, in the Evening Sir <HI>Wil|liam He&s;cot,</HI> a <HI>Wilt &s;hire</HI> Gentleman of known worth and reputation, go|ing to the <HI>Devil Tavern</HI> near <HI>Temple-Bar,</HI> to drink with divers Per|&s;ons, after having &s;tayed there for &s;ome time, one of the Company de&s;ired him to go to the <HI>Globe Tavern</HI> near <HI>Shooe-lane,</HI> telling him, and the re&s;t of the Company, that he could Command there a Gla&s;s of good Wine; which offer, after &s;ome difficulty being embraced by the decea&s;ed, and tho&s;e that were pre&s;ent, they came thither a|bout Ten at Night, and being &s;hewed up one pair of &s;tairs, after &s;ome Bottles drinking, and a general recommendation of the Wine, it growing late and the Company increa&s;ing, Sir <HI>William</HI> was not o|ver de&s;irous to &s;tay, yet upon &s;ome importunity became &s;o unfortu|nate, as not to follow his own inclinations, till at length di&s;putes
<PB REF="2">aro&s;e about Racing and Setting, or who had the be&s;t Hor&s;es or Dogs capable of imploy on that occa&s;ion, the principal di&s;|cour&s;e, being between Sir <HI>William He&s;cot,</HI> and <HI>Henry</HI> St. <HI>Johns</HI> E&s;q; who came with him from the fir&s;t mentioned <HI>Ta<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ern</HI> to the latter, and &s;ome Wagers were propo&s;ed in order to a Tryal of Racing, but it came to no re&s;ult, for Colonel <HI>We<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1+ letters">,</HI> another of the Company backing or taking Mr. St. <HI>Johns</HI> part, and the whole Company which con&s;i&s;ted of Nine Per&s;ons, being divided in opinions, as to the Wa|ger hot words aro&s;e between the decea&s;ed, and Mr. St. <HI>Johns</HI> the latter telling the former he was an A&s;s, and that he had no Hor&s;e ca|pable running an Hundred pound Wager, which was the Wager that had been propo&s;ed, to which Sir <HI>William</HI> as roughly replying, and returning the word Fool, threatning Language on both &s;ides in&s;ued, &s;o that by flinging of Bottles and Pipes the Hou&s;e was Ala|rumed, and the &s;cufle growing hot, the Drawer run up, where he found Mr. St. <HI>Johns</HI> with his Sword drawn, as likewi&s;e div<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rs other Swords, and that Sir <HI>William He&s;cot</HI> was relieved in much di&s;order towards the Window, &s;uppo&s;ed to be Wounded, which afterwards appeared no le&s;s; whereupon the Watch being called, came into the Room, where the Con&s;table of the Night commanded the Kings Peace, and thereupon the Swords were put up and delivered into his Hands, the Parties &s;urrendering them&s;elves, at what time order was taken to &s;earch Sir <HI>William,</HI> who after &s;ome &s;taggering and reel|ing again&s;t the Chaires, was fallen on the flore, when upon opening his Cloaths the Blood in abundance i&s;&s;ued forth, &s;o that the Chirur|geons that were &s;ent for, in vain u&s;ed their endeavours to &s;ave his Life; for having declared him&s;elf a dead Man, and intimated as well as he could by what hand he fell, as likewi&s;e, with his Eyes lifted up, de&s;ired as it were mercy for his Soul, he fainted away, and al|though he breathed for the &s;pace of an hour or more, yet he could not be brought to &s;peak or give any other Signs of Life.</P>
<P>Upon &s;earch of the Body by the Coroners inque&s;t, which for that purpo&s;e were Impanell'd on the 15th, it was found that a Wound of Six Inches, was given him near the Navel, and three others in the Groine, or rather the bottom of his Belly, his right hand like|wi&s;e was &s;lit between his Fore-finger and Thumb, as likewi&s;e his Middle-finger almo&s;t cut off, in all probability by putting by a pa&s;s or having the Sword drawn through his hand, when upon Exami|nation of the Witne&s;&s;es, it no ways appearing his Sword was drawn, but that he had received the Wounds, or &s;ome of them from Mr. St. <HI>Johns,</HI> and that Colonel <HI>Web,</HI> was active in abetting the &s;aid Mr. St. <HI>Johns,</HI> the Jury found it Murther; in Mr. St. <HI>Johns</HI> as Principal, and in Colonel <HI>Web</HI> as Acce&s;&s;ary: Whereupon they were committed to <HI>Newgate,</HI> and the re&s;t of the Company <HI>viz.</HI> Mr. <HI>Brown,</HI> Mr. <HI>Grub,</HI> Mr. <HI>Ma&s;chaline,</HI> Mr. <HI>Stoaks,</HI> Mr. <HI>York, &amp;c.</HI> bound over in con&s;iderable pe|nalties, to appear the next Se&s;&s;ion to be holden in the <HI>Old Baily</HI> for <HI>London</HI> and <HI>Middle&s;ex.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>L. C.</HI> 1684</P>
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