Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus: Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecutedHart, W. H. (William Henry)
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Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus: Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecuted
Hart, W. H. (William Henry)
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That a Duke beat him, Pull'd him
by the Hair, and set his drawn Sword to his breast three times,
and swore he would run him through; and another great Lord, laid
down a heap of Gold, and told him it was five hundred Pounds, and
that he should have it all, and be taken into the aforesaid Duke's
house, if he would confess what they would have him; and one F. a
vintner, that lives at the sign of the Half Moon in Ch---- St----
by whose contrivance he was accused, took him aside, and bid him
name some person, and say, they Imploy'd him to take up the dead
body in Somerset-yard, and gave him mony for so doing; that if
he would do this, both F. and he, should have mony enough. He
also told me, that he was kept from Thursday till Sunday without
victualls or drink, having his hands every Night Chain'd behind
him, and being all this time locked to a staple which was driven
into the Floor, with a chain not above a yard long, that in this
great extremity, was forc'd to drink his own water; and that the
Jaylor beat his wife, because she brought victuals, and prayed
that he might have it, and threw Milk on the ground, and bid her
be gone, and not look at him._ Et in altera parte ejusdem libelli
continentur (inter alia) hæc falsa ficta et scandalosa verba
sequentia scilicet _My arraignment, which (in confidence of my own
innocence) I continually prest for. Not but that I knew the danger,
as to this Life, of encountering the Devil in the worst of his
Instruments, which are PERJURERS INCOURAGED to that degree as that
profligated Wretch_ quendam Thomam Dangerfield testem productum ex
parte domini regis contra prædictam Elizabetham Cellier pro alta
proditione innuendo _was, and has been since his being exposed
to the World in his true colours both at mine, and at another's
Tryal_. Et in altera parte ejusdem libelli continentur hæc falsa
ficta et scandalosa verba sequentia scilicet _Nor have I since
received anything towards my losses, or the least civility from any
of them. Whilst Dangerfield_ (prædictam Thomam Dangerfield iterum
innuendo) (_when made a Prisoner for apparent Recorded Rogueries_,)
_was visited by and from Persons of Considerable Quality, with
great Sums of Gold and Silver, to encourage him in the new
Villanies he had undertaken, not against Me alone, but Persons in
whose Safety all good Men (as well Protestants as others) in the
three kingdoms are concerned._ Et in altera parte ejusdem libelli
vocati _A Postscript to the impartial reader_ continente hæc falsa
ficta et scandalosa verba sequentia scilicet _And whensoever his
Majesty pleases to make it as safe and honourable to speak truth
as it is apparent it hath been gainful and meritorious to do the
contrary, there will not want witnesses to testify the truth of
more than I have written and persons that are above being made the
hangman's hounds for weekly pensions, or any other considerations
whatsoever_.
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