State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 2 (of 2)
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State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 2 (of 2)
Trials -- Great Britain
JOHN FUSSELL--I had this handkerchief from Mahony on the 19th
of January last, the night when we took him, I found it on his
neck; when he was seized he took it off; I took it out of his
hand, it was bloody then as it is now, I put it into my pocket.
_John Mitchel_, the chief clerk to the Town Clerk, produced the
examination of Matthew Mahony, taken before the Mayor, voluntarily
signed by Mahony in the Mayor's presence, and signed by the Mayor.
_Clerk reads the Examination in these words:_
City and county of Bristol, to wit. The voluntary Examination
and Confession of Matthew Mahony, a native of Ireland, aged
about 21 years. This Examinant confesseth and saith, That about
sixteen or seventeen days ago, and several times since, he was
desired by Mr. Goodere, captain of the _Ruby_ man-of-war, now
lying at King-road, in the county of the city of Bristol, to
seize his, the captain's, brother, sir John Dineley Goodere,
bart., and bring him on board the said man-of-war; and that on
Tuesday last, this examinant, and the crew belonging to the
man-of-war's barge, and Edward Mac-Daniel, John Mac-Graree, and
William Hammon, privateer's men, were placed by the said
captain at the White-Hart alehouse, opposite St. Augustine's
Church, in order to seize sir John Dineley Goodere that day;
but it so happened that the captain forbid them to do it then.
And that on Sunday last, this examinant, the said barge's crew,
or the greatest part of them, and George Best, cock-stern of
the barge, the said Edward Mac-Daniel, John Mac-Graree, William
Hammon, and one Charles Bryer, privateer's men as aforesaid,
were again placed at the White-Hart aforesaid, to seize the
said sir John Dineley Goodere, and waited there for some time;
and he coming out of Mr. Jarrit Smith's house, and coming under
St. Augustine's church-yard wall, this examinant and his
comrades pursued him, and near the pump there they came up with
him, and told him there was a gentleman wanted to speak with
him; and he, asking where the gentleman was, was answered, a
little way off, and he went quietly a little way; but no one
appearing, he resisted and refused to go; whereupon this
examinant and comrades sometimes forcibly hauled and pushed,
and at other times carried him over St. Augustine's butts,
captain Day's rope-walk, and along the road to the hot-well
(captain Goodere being sometimes a little behind, and sometimes
amongst the crowd all the way), till they came to the slip
where the barge lay. But sir John was very unwilling to go,
made the utmost resistance, and cried out murder a great many
times; and when he was put into the barge, called out and
desired somebody would go to Mr. Jarrit Smith, and tell him of
his ill-usage, and that his name was sir John Dineley;
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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