A Brief
Historical Relation
&c.
by Narcissus Luttrell
1679 / 80 - February
In which Tryalls, a Pillory and a Prison Break
February: The 3d, Mr. Tasborough and Mrs. Price came to their tryall at the kings bench barr for endeavouring to suborn and make Mr. Dugdale retract his evidence, by proffering him 1000l. and the security of his person, either here or beyond sea, if he would sign a note of recantation. The matter was proved against them very plainly; so that the jury, without stirring from the barr, brought them in guilty.
The 4th, Daniell Finch esq., first commissioner of the admiralty, and Sidney Godolphin esq., one of the commissioners of the treasury, were sworn of his majesties privy councill, and took their places at the board.
The 5th, in the afternoon, at Guild-hall, Benjamin Harris, bookseller, came to his tryall for publishing a scandalous and seditious pamphlet called the Appeal from the Country to the Citty, and was found guilty of the same.
One Charles Ingleby esq., a barister at Graies Inn, was committed to the kings bench prison, for being in the plott, on the testimony of Mr. Boldron.
The 17th broke out a fire in Coney counrt in Graies Inn, in the chamber of one Mr. Addys, about 3 in the morning: it burnt violently for three hours, and then abated. It consumed about fifty or sixty chambers.
The 17th, Benjamin Harris, bookseller, stood for an hour in the pillory over against the old Exchange, according to sentence against him, for printing a seditious libell call'd the Appeal from the Citty to the Country: he and his party hollowed and whooped, and would permit nothing to be thrown at him.
The 23d, severall prisoners in Newgate pickt out the stones of the prison walls, and seven who were committed for burglary and felony made their escape.
The 4th, Daniell Finch esq., first commissioner of the admiralty, and Sidney Godolphin esq., one of the commissioners of the treasury, were sworn of his majesties privy councill, and took their places at the board.
The 5th, in the afternoon, at Guild-hall, Benjamin Harris, bookseller, came to his tryall for publishing a scandalous and seditious pamphlet called the Appeal from the Country to the Citty, and was found guilty of the same.
One Charles Ingleby esq., a barister at Graies Inn, was committed to the kings bench prison, for being in the plott, on the testimony of Mr. Boldron.
The 17th broke out a fire in Coney counrt in Graies Inn, in the chamber of one Mr. Addys, about 3 in the morning: it burnt violently for three hours, and then abated. It consumed about fifty or sixty chambers.
The 17th, Benjamin Harris, bookseller, stood for an hour in the pillory over against the old Exchange, according to sentence against him, for printing a seditious libell call'd the Appeal from the Citty to the Country: he and his party hollowed and whooped, and would permit nothing to be thrown at him.
The 23d, severall prisoners in Newgate pickt out the stones of the prison walls, and seven who were committed for burglary and felony made their escape.
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