Charles Chanie (Cheney) als. Tomson, indicted and proved, and begged by the
Spanish ambassador, and since taken by command of the councell of state,
and is now in Newgate.
Andrew White, indicted, proved, reprieved before judgment, and banished.
Richard Copley, condemned and banished.
Richard Worthington, found guiltie and banished.
Edmond Cole, Peter Wright, and William Morgan, indicted, proved, and sent
beyond sea.
Philip Morgan, executed at Tyburne.
Edmond Ensher, als. Arrow, indicted, condemned, reprieved by the parliament
and banished.
Thomas Budd, als. Peto, als. Gray, condemned, reprieved by the lord mayor
of London, and others, justices, and since retaken by order of the councell
of state, and is now in Newgate.
George Baker, als. Macham, indicted, proved guiltie, and now in Newgate.
Peter Beale, als. Wright, executed at Tyburne.
George Sage, indicted by us, and found guiltie, and since is dead.
James Wadsworth.
Francis Newton.
Thomas Mayo.
Robert de Luke."
This catalogue tells a fearful but instructive tale; inasmuch as it shows
how wantonly men can sport with the lives of their fellow-men, if it suit
the purpose of a great political party. The patriots, to enlist in their
favour the religious prejudices of the people, represented the king as the
patron of popery, because he sent the priests into banishment, instead of
delivering them to the knife of the executioner.
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