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A Full and prticular Account of five Men that were executed at London, for raising a dreadful Mob, in the Behalf of the Pretender. S I R, Every honest Man is sensible how unjustly the Rebellious Faction complains of Cruelty, when any of their Number is punished according to Law, for such Crimes as in all civiliz'd Nations are reckoned to be expiable no other ways than by Death. They bewail mightily the Fate of those Five Rebellious Wretches that were carried from Newgate in two Carts, to a Gibbet set up at the End of Salsbu- ry Court in Fleet-Street, where they were all executed in Sight of the Mug-House which they had demolished, and of many Thousand Spectators, and no doubt they will insert them among others of the Rebels in the High-Church Calendar of Mar- tyrs. How little Compassion the High-Church Mobs have upon those whom it is in their Power to Insult, is very well known throughout this City and Suburbs, but there is one flagrant Instance of their Barbarity, that has not yet been taken notice of in the Publick Prints, which I hope you'l insert as follows. On the 4th, 5th, and 17th of November last a Jacobite Mob attack'd the House of Francis Hoar at rhe Wbittingtons Chat in Chick- Lane. They consisted of at wretched a Crew as ever assembled on such Occasions, and they singled out that Man's House, because he had always been firm to the Protestant Succession, and in his Way expressed his Zeal for it. They attack'd it in the usual Manner, by Sur- prize, and with so great Fury, that they broke ail his Windows of a sudden, with their usual Cry, Down with the House; knock the Rogue and Ms Family on the Head. Or mond for ever. No King George, &c. There being very little Company in the House, the Man was not able to make a Defence ; But one of his Neighbours seeing the Mob so outragious, fired among them in Defence of the House, and wounded one of the Mob. Upon this some High-Church Constables, with Assistants of the same Stamp, who did not take the least Care to suppress the Mob, came immediately, and without any Warrant carry'd Mr. Hoar, his Wife and Daughter to New-Prison, for pretended Murder, tho' the Shot did not proceed from their House, nor was the Wound given to the Rioter Mortal, and he soon after perfectly recovered. These Constables &c. were so inhumane, that they would not leave one Person in the House to look after it, tho' Mrs Hoar did earnestly beg it of them, but instead of that, were so very officious, that they carried some People that came in accidentally for Drink, along with them to Prison, and charg'd them also with the Murder. Upon this Mr. Hoar was bound over, and Indicted for a Riot, but was acquitted upon Tryal before the Right Honourable Lord Justice Parker The Faction being thus disappointed of their just Revenge upon Mr. Hoar, they have since, according to their usual Methods. incensed his Creditors against him, and particularly his Brewer, who has arrested and committed him to Ludgate. The Jacks in the Neighbourhood were so malicious, and did so insult Mrs. Hear and her Children, that they could not go about their Lawful Occasions, so that the was oblibed to remove to the Queens Head in Smithfield ; but being still pursued by the Malice of the Jacks, who dissuaded every Body they cou'd from going to the House, her Husband and the with six Children are reduced to a starving Condition, and have nothing to subsist on but the Charity of well affected Persons, tho' Mr. Hoar had once very good Business both in his House, and by felling of Cattle in Smithfield: but ever since the Rise of Sacheverels Mobs in the last Reign, he his been the But of their Malice, which depriv'd him of his Way of Living. LONDON Printed, and EDINBURGH Re-Printed.
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1716 shelfmark: Ry.III.c.36(038)
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