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TRIAL FOR SHOOTING AT JOHN GREEN.
411
This act of mercy, however late, or from whatever mo-
tive, was the more meritorious, as great pains were taken by
some time-serving sycophants to prevent it: they told the
Viceroy, that Mr. Holwell, notwithstanding his losses, was
still possessed of enough to pay a considerable sum for his
freedom ; to which the Viceroy nobly replied, “ If he has
any thing left, let him keep it; his sufferings have been
great, and he shall have his liberty.”
Mr. Holwell and his friends being thus dismissed, imme-
diately took boat, and soon after arrived safe at the Dutch
settlement at Corcemabad, where he afterwards embarked
for England.
WONDERFUL COURAGE AND DEFENCE OF
JOHN GREEN,
AGAINST THE RIOTOUS COAL-HEAVERS, WITH THE TRIAL OF
JOHN GRAINGER, DANIEL CLARK, RICHARD CORNWALL, PA-
TRICK LYNCH, THOMAS MURRAY, PETER FLAHARTY, AND
NICHOLAS MTABE, FOR SHOOTING AT HIM, (CONTRARY TO
THE STATUTQE), ON THE 21sT OF APRIL, 1/68.
John Green, living at the bottom of New Gravel-lane,
Shadwell, deposed, that he was employed as deputy agent
under Mr. William Russel, who, as agent appointed by Mr.
Aiderman Beckford, was concerned in the execution of
the Act of Parliament for regulating coal-heavers; that
before this, they were under the direction of Justice Hodg-
son, and revolted from the coal-undertakers, insisting first,
upon 16d. a score, and then 18d., but at last, would have
nothing to do with the undertakers, and would have their
price under the Act of Parliament; that Mr. Russel and the
deponent had fixed upon an office at Billingsgate, for register-
ing the coal-heavers, but none of them came there, alleging
they were under the direction of Justice Hodgson, to whom
only they would apply; that the deponent was sent with a
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411
This act of mercy, however late, or from whatever mo-
tive, was the more meritorious, as great pains were taken by
some time-serving sycophants to prevent it: they told the
Viceroy, that Mr. Holwell, notwithstanding his losses, was
still possessed of enough to pay a considerable sum for his
freedom ; to which the Viceroy nobly replied, “ If he has
any thing left, let him keep it; his sufferings have been
great, and he shall have his liberty.”
Mr. Holwell and his friends being thus dismissed, imme-
diately took boat, and soon after arrived safe at the Dutch
settlement at Corcemabad, where he afterwards embarked
for England.
WONDERFUL COURAGE AND DEFENCE OF
JOHN GREEN,
AGAINST THE RIOTOUS COAL-HEAVERS, WITH THE TRIAL OF
JOHN GRAINGER, DANIEL CLARK, RICHARD CORNWALL, PA-
TRICK LYNCH, THOMAS MURRAY, PETER FLAHARTY, AND
NICHOLAS MTABE, FOR SHOOTING AT HIM, (CONTRARY TO
THE STATUTQE), ON THE 21sT OF APRIL, 1/68.
John Green, living at the bottom of New Gravel-lane,
Shadwell, deposed, that he was employed as deputy agent
under Mr. William Russel, who, as agent appointed by Mr.
Aiderman Beckford, was concerned in the execution of
the Act of Parliament for regulating coal-heavers; that
before this, they were under the direction of Justice Hodg-
son, and revolted from the coal-undertakers, insisting first,
upon 16d. a score, and then 18d., but at last, would have
nothing to do with the undertakers, and would have their
price under the Act of Parliament; that Mr. Russel and the
deponent had fixed upon an office at Billingsgate, for register-
ing the coal-heavers, but none of them came there, alleging
they were under the direction of Justice Hodgson, to whom
only they would apply; that the deponent was sent with a
3 g2