Volume 1

Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters.

Date:
[1819?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    At the Sessions held before the worshipful the mayor of the city of Bristol, Michael Foster, Esq. recorder, and others of his Majesty’s justices of the peace for the said city, March 26, 1741, Samuel Goody ere, late commander of his Majesty’s ship Ruby, was indicted for aiding-, assisting*, and abetting, the murder of Sir John Dinely Goodyere, Bart. At the same time, Matthew Mahony and Charles White were separately indicted for the actual murder of the said Sir John Dinely Goodvere, Bart. Mr. Smith, an attorney-at-law, in College- green, Bristol, deposed, that the Sunday before this murder was committed, the deceased, by the deponent’s invitation, was to dine at his house the Sunday following, of which the prisoner being apprised came into theneighbour- hood, and sent for this deponent, and earnestly interceded with him to admit him into the com¬ pany of his brother, the Baronet, under the pretence, as the prisoner said, to accommodate and reconcile their differences in an amicable manner.