The Town: Its Memorable Characters and EventsHunt, Leigh
History
The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events
Hunt, Leigh
London (England) -- Description and travel; London (England) -- History
misgave him; and Carliel got another accomplice, named Irweng. "These
two, about seven o'clock in the evening (to proceed in the words of
Coke's report), came to a house in the Friars, which Turner used to
frequent, as he came to his school, which was near that place, and
finding Turner there, they saluted one another; and Turner, with one
of his friends, sat at the door asking them to drink; but Carliel and
Irweng, turning about to cock the pistol, came back immediately, and
Carliel, drawing it from under his coat, discharged it upon Turner,
and gave him a mortal wound near the left pap; so that Turner, after
having said these words, 'Lord, have mercy upon me! I am killed,'
immediately fell down. Whereupon Carliel and Irweng fled, Carliel to
the town, Irweng towards the river; but mistaking his way, and
entering into a court where they sold wood, which was no thoroughfare,
he was taken. Carliel likewise fled, and so did also the Baron of
Sanchar. The ordinary officers of justice did their utmost, but could
not take them; for, in fact, as appeared afterwards, Carliel fled into
Scotland, and Gray towards the sea, thinking to go to Sweden, and
Sanchar hid himself in England."[86]
James, who had shown such favour to the Scotch as to make the English
jealous, and who also hated an ill-natured action, when it was not to
do good to any of his favourites, thought himself bound to issue a
promise of reward for the arrest of Sanquire and the others. It was
successful; and all three were hung, Carliel and Irweng in Fleet
Street, opposite the great gate of Whitefriars (the entrance of the
present Bouverie Street), and Sanquire in Palace Yard, before
Westminster Hall. He made a singular defence, very good and penitent,
and yet remarkably illustrative of the cheap rate at which plebeian
blood was held in those times; and no doubt his death was a great
surprise to him. The people, not yet enlightened on these points,
took his demeanour in such good part, that they expressed great pity
for him, till they perceived that he died a Catholic!
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