WHereas on Tuesday the 8th of May, 1683. At a Tryal held at Guild-Hall London, Several persons were by a Jury found Guilty of a Ri­ot, committed on the 24th of June, 1682. In not departing from the said Hall, upon the Lord Mayor his adjourning there by Proclaimation, the Pole, which was then on Foot, for the choise of Sheriffs for London and Mid­dlesex for the year ensuing.

And Whereas Slingisby Bethell of London, Esq is named in the Information as guilty of the said Riot, in not depart­ing from Guild-Hall, after the Lord Mayor his said adjourn­ment by Proclaimation; And whereas upon the Oath of one, by the name of William Baly, that the said Bethell did not depart according to the Proclaimation, but stayed there after the same, he was found guilty by the said Jury. Now the said Bethell, not only knowing himself not guilty, but being also able to prove the same, and by several credible Witnesses, that he was at the time of the Adjornement in another place, and from thence went home, without ever coming at Guild-Hall or the Yard that Evening, hath endeavoured by all man­ner of ways to find out the said William Baly who swore a­gainst him, but cannot learn from whence he came, nor whi­ther he is gone; he the said Bethell, doth therefore hereby Chal­lenge the said William Baly to appear, and either to make good [Page] his Oath against him in the Face of the World, or confess his mistake, and clear him thereof; and in order thereunto, to leave word where he is to be found, either at the House called Garraways Coffee-House in the Exchange-Ally, or at Kid's Coffee-House, both near the Royal-Exchange; otherwise the said Bethell will hope to be reckoned guiltless, and the said Wil­liam Baly to have rashly sworn that which he was mistaken in, and cannot Justifie.

And now upon the whole, it may be observed, that there being at the aforesaid Adjournment (as is thought) at least One thousand persons in the Hall, whereof several Hundreds of them, may well be supposed to know the person of the said Bethell, especially the Lord Mayors Officers, and Servants, by his having been lately Sheriff of London and Middlesex: If he the said Bethell had been really in the Hall or Yard, at, or after the said adjournment, there could not have wanted a Croud of Witnesses to prove the same, instead of having the Proof thereof, to depend up­on the Testimony of a Single person, that is not to be found.