THE Grand-Jury for the County of Middlesex, having on Satur­day the Twenty fifth of February, had a Bill preferr'd to them, against Count Charles John Conningsmark, Vratz, Boroski, and Sterne, as the Inhumane Actors of that Barbarous and Unmanly Murther, (the Three last being actually concerned in it) and against Harder, Dubar­tin, and Merckman, as the Accessaries in abetting and concealing the same; unanimously returned them Billa vera; upon which, about Nine of the Clock this morning, being the Twenty Eighth of this instant February, they took their Tryals in the Old-Bailey, being brought from Newgate to the Sessions-house, which was as follows.

The first that were brought were the Three Murtherers; some time after them, the Two persons that were suspected to be privie in it; and immediately after the Count, whose Beauty and Youth drew sorrow from all persons that were Spectators; his Countenance seemed very composed, and his looks did shew him to be under a particular dissatisfaction. The Count came from Newgate in a Coach, and so was guarded into the Court.

[Page 2]The Prisoners being brought to the Bar, and the Jury called over, the Indictment was read, they being Indicted in this Order, by the Names of George Boraski, Christopher Vratz, John Stern, and Charles John Con­ningsmark, for that they on the Twelfth of February, 1681. not having the fear of God before their eyes, &c. did Maliciously, and of Malice forethought, Assault and Murther Thomas Thynn Esq in the Parish of St. Martins in the Fields. After the reading the Indictment, some time was taken up in interpreting the words of the Indictment to the Prisoners at the Bar, by Sir Nicholas Johnson, whom the Court assigned to be their Interpreter: which being done, they were severally asked, whether Guilty or not Guilty? to which they all pleaded, Not Guilty; and being de­manded how they would be Tryed? they answered, by God and a Ju­ry of half English and half High-Dutch; the Count desired by his In­terpreter, on the behalf of himself and the rest of the Prisoners at the Bar, that those English-men that were to be of his Jury, might be nei­ther Sir Thomas Thynn, or any other that were related to, or had any dependence upon Mr. Thynns Family; in answer to which, my Lord Chief Justice Pemberton, bid Sir Nicholas assure them, they should not. He de­sired likewise, that he might have the Pannel, that so when the Jury was called, he might know the better how to except against, which was granted. He excepted against about Twenty, and those Englishmen that were called, he asked them all if they had any acquaintance with Mr. Thynn. The Jury being Sworn, the Foreman whereof was Sir William Roberts, the Indictment was read to the Jury, and they directed to in­quire, whether George Boraski, Christopher Vrats, and John Stern were Guilty or not Guilty of the Felony and Murther whereof they stand In­dicted; and if they find them Guilty, what Goods and Chattels they had when the Murther was committed, or if Not Guilty, whether they fled for the same, and if they did, they were to inquire what Goods and Chattels, as if they had found them Guilty, and that if they should find cause not to find George Boraski, Christopher Vrats, and John Sterne guilty, who are in this Indictment charged as Principals in this Fellony and Murther, you are not to inquire further concerning Charles John Connings­mark, who is charged as an Accessary, by abetting and procuring the same. Then the Indictment was learnedly opened, first by one of Lin­colns-Inn, and then by Sir Francis Withins, who also learnedly urged the heinous aggravations of the Crime; first from the Dignity and use­fulness of the person Murthered, and secondly from the bold and impu­dent, as well as barbarous and cruel manner of committing the Murther; which being done, the Evidence for the King was called in and Sworn; the Evidence was very full against them, some tending to prove that Capt. Vrats entertained Boraski and Sterne as his Servants, and that they took Horse and rid out together Armed, Boraski with a Blunderbuss, and Vrats and Sterne with Pistols, and that the Pistol which was taken up near the place, and soon after the Murther was committed, was Ʋrats's. The Coachman who drove Mr. Thynns Coach, and some others, proved they were all Three in Company, and that they road up to the Coach to­gether, and that Vrats stopped the Coach while Boraski discharged the Blunderbuss into the Coach, and that then they rid away together. There were many more Witnesses Examined on both sides, but the matter of fact appearing so plainly, the Jury after having been some time in debate, re­turned, and found the Three Assassinates Guilty of the Murther; as for the farther particulars, we refer you to a more large account.