An authentick account of the life of Mr. Charles Drew, late of Long-Melford in the county of Suffolk. Who was tried and convicted at Bury Assizes, for the murder of his father, Mr. Charles John Drew ... To which is added a faithful account of the trial. Of the said Charles Drew.

Date:
1740
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Credit: An authentick account of the life of Mr. Charles Drew, late of Long-Melford in the county of Suffolk. Who was tried and convicted at Bury Assizes, for the murder of his father, Mr. Charles John Drew ... To which is added a faithful account of the trial. Of the said Charles Drew. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *8; 4 Orders. At his Return, he found Humphries, Mr. * Charles Drew and Clark, (a Servant of Mr. Standley' s) 4 drinking a Bowl of Punch in the faid Mr. Charles 4 Drew's Bed-chamber. He was aiked to lit down, and c did partake of it, but heard no Converfation that tend- 4 ed to Mr. Charles \John Drew's Death. That Humphries 4 and he came away together about Ten o’Clock at 4 Night, to whom he faid, — Mr. Humphries, perhaps 4 I {han’t fee you again very loon, if old Fyfon is up, 4 let us take one Pot of Ale together. Humphries re- 4 ply’d, — with all his Heart, but that he had only Six- 4 pence in his Pocket ; upon which this Informant re- 4 plyed, how will you get to Loudon then ? Why, fays 4 Humphries, fomebody will credit me up, and then I 4 (hall get fome Money of my Uncle, or fome Friend. 4 But this Informant hath lince been informed, that he 4 changed a Guinea at the faid Fyfon's, whilft they were 4 drinking together, and paid the faid Fyfon three or four 4 Shillings that he ow’d him. And this Informant far- 4 ther faith, that he hath given the aforefaid five Guineas, 4 or near the faid Sum, to the faid Humphries's Wife, 4 and told her who they came from. * Ex. C, F. The Examination of Plampin Rrchardfon, of Melford, in the County of Suffolk, Gent, taken on Oath the 7th Day of March, 1739. before Sir Cordell Fire- brace, Bart. Suffolk, ? c ry'HIS Examinant faith, That on the to wit. \ 4 * 1 ft Day of Feb. laft, Mr. Charles 4 Drew, apply’d to him to know how he fhould pro- 4 ceed, on the Death of his late deceafed Father. 4 Who was advifed by this Examinant, to fend for the 4 Coroner, to take an Inquifition of the Manner of 4 his Death. The Coroner was fent for, who fum- 4 mon’d a Jury, made Inquifition, and it was found, 4 That the Deceafed was Ihot by fome Perfon un- 4 known. This Examinant faith, Mr. Drew, the 4 Younger, (notwithftanding the Inquifition was taken 4 where the faid Fadf was committed) altho* in the Houle, did not appear before, the Coroner or Jury, 4 altho* *