State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 2 (of 2)
History
State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 2 (of 2)
Trials -- Great Britain
TRIVETT--I believe that is the man, my lord. On the gentleman's
ordering them to make more haste, five or six of them caught
him up in their arms, and carried him along; and as they were
got down about the corner of Mr. Brown's wall, he insisted upon
their making more dispatch, and then they hurried him as far as
captain Osborn's dock. By that time his clothes were ruffled
and shoved up to his arm-pits; they put him down, and settled
his clothes, and then I saw his face, and knew him to be sir
John Dineley: he cried out murder several times, and said, they
were taking him on board to kill him, he believed. As they were
going with him along, he cried out to Mrs. Darby, For God's
sake assist me, they are going to murder me. I told Mrs. Darby
it was sir John Dineley: she said she knew him; the cloak was
then over his face. As they got him further, he called out to a
little girl, to get somebody to assist him, for they were going
to murder him. They pushed him along to Mrs. New's house, and
made a little stop there, and then they brought him to the
water-side, where was a boat; they put out a plank with ledges
nailed across: he was ordered to go on board the boat; they got
him on board, and put him to sit down in the stern-sheet: then
he cried out, For God's sake, gentlemen, if any of you know Mr.
Jarrit Smith in the College-green, tell him my name is sir John
Dineley. One of the men put his cloak and covered him, and
before he could say any more, that gentleman (pointing to the
prisoner Goodere) took his hand and put it on his mouth, and
would not let him speak any further, and ordered the boat to be
pushed off, which was done; and the tide making up strong, the
boat got almost to the other side. I heard that gentleman
(pointing as before) say, Have you not given the rogues of
lawyers money enough already? Do you want to give them more? I
will take care that they shall never have any more of you; now
I'll take care of you.
THE RECORDER--Prisoners, will either of you ask this witness
any questions?
GOODERE--No, I never saw the man before in my life.
_Thomas Charmsbury, sworn._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account