Anonymous, John Arnold,
England’s Second Warning-piece; or Observations on the barbarous attempt to murther Justice Arnold April the 15th 1680
[London 1680]
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The notorious Judge Arnold’s star rises after a fabricated murder attempt.
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Main description
The full title reads:
England’s second warning-piece; or Observations on the barbarous attempt to murther Justice Arnold April the 15th 1680. Containing 1. A true relation of the matter of fact. 2. Some remarks on the circumstances. 3. A true copy of the pretended speech of Evans the popish priest, executed in Glamorganshire (as it was lately printed by the papists) in revenge of whose prosecution, this assassination is presumed to have been committed. With a comment on the hypocritical speech of that dying traytor. [London? : s.n., 1680]
The volume is paginated as follows: 8 p.
The volume collates as follows: A-B2. Caption title. No imprint.
ESTC: R12204 Wing E3049. A scarce pamphlet.
Condition
The Volume is in good Condition disbound, trimmed to fit into a former volume, with some mild general toning, as well as some small creases and fox marks.
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Biography / Bibliography
JOHN ARNOLD (born 1634), Whig politician
The eldest son of Nicholas Arnold, succeeded him as sheriff in 1669. He led the Whig and ultra-Protestant faction in Monmouthshire against the Tory and moderate Protestant marquis of Worcester (later 1st duke of Beaufort), who as president of Wales had Arnold removed from the commission of the peace early in 1678. Arnold retorted by opposing Worcester’s attempt to enclose Wentland forest and sending to the Speaker of the House of Commons a letter denouncing the activities of local recusants, on which he was questioned and thanked at the bar of the House (27 March 1678). The charges were examined by a committee presided over by Sir John Trevor (1637 – 1717), which produced a full report resulting in the dispersal of the Jesuit house at Cwm, Herefordshire, and the executions of Frs. David Lewis, Philip Evans, John Lloyd, and others. Although a conforming Anglican, he worked in association with prominent local Dissenters like Samuel Jones, with whom he was later alleged to have been engaged in seditious designs.
In September 1679 he unsuccessfully contested Monmouth borough against Worcester’s heir, but unseated him on petition (26 November 1680) on the ground of the exclusion of the out-boroughs. Meanwhile (April 1680) an alleged Catholic-inspired attempt on his life, elevated through scandalous pamphlets such as ‘England’s Second Warning-piece’, (now believed to be a fabrication, although John Giles of Usk was convicted and punished for it) made him a popular hero alongside Shaftesbury, Oates, Bedloe, and other leaders of the country party, and he became prominent in exclusionist circles both at home and at Westminster, where he was re-elected for Monmouth in 1681. But his star waned with the Tory reaction of 1682, and in November 1683 Beaufort secured a King’s Bench verdict against him of scandalum magnatum, which he vainly tried to avert by further accusations against papists.
In default of paying £10,000 damages, he was in prison for several years, losing the seat he had obtained on the Middlesex and Westminster benches. He was again returned for Monmouth in the Convention Parliament (January 1689), but chose Southwark when he was elected for both in the following month. He failed to get the judicial verdict quashed, but recovered his seat on the Westminster and Middlesex benches (3 April 1690), maintaining his association with Oates, his coffee-house intrigues and his advanced political sentiments; but although he sat once more for Monmouth from 1695-8 he had no further influence in the House. After his death Llanthony and Llanvihangel were sold by his heir NICHOLAS ARNOLD (born 1669) to the Harley s of Brampton Bryan.
Author: Emeritus Professor Arthur Herbert Dodd, (1891 – 1975)
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