The Proceedings of the Old Bailey

 

  Roger Swiny was Indicted for the Murther of one   Richard Jones a Baliffs follower , in  Lincolns-Inn-Fields , the circumstance in nature thus, five or six Bailiffs and their followers, waiting to Arrest one Harris for a debt of sixty pounds; due from him to one   Timothy Pride , the which he having notice of sent for the Prisoner and his Brother to Guard him out about some important affair, and they accordingly came; whereupon they three crossing the Rails, went on till they came into the little Fields; the Bailiffs still following them to Lincolns-Inn back Gate, made a stand, and as the Bailiffs swore, they called to them; whereupon they coming up, the Prisoner and his two Companions drew their Swords and in manfully defending of themselves, the aforesaid   Richard Jones received a wound on his Brest five inches deep, of which he fell down and died, yet notwithstanding he received his Deaths-wound by the Brother of the Prisoner, the Prisoner as an accomplice was found Guilty of the Murther and Fellony.

[Death. See summary.]