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Castlehaven maintained his innocence, and the trial aroused considerable public debate. After some deliberation, the Privy
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Now forasmuch as there hath been speech and rumour of my unsettledness in my religion, I have for explanation, thereof, not only made
Confession of my Faith to two worthy doctors; but for better satisfaction to the world in that point, express the same in writing under my hand signed; which as it is
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in 1621 and that within a few years he was so close to
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First I doe believe in the blessed and glorious
Trinity three persones and one eternall and everliving God, God the Father, God my Redeemer, & God my Sanctifier. I doe rely wholie upon the merit death and passion of oue blessed Saviour Christ Jesus and upon his mediation for the remission of my
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I doe believe the booke of Comon praier allowed in the Church of
England to bee an excellent forme for the Service of God and soe use the same, and for the rest of my beliefe I doe referr it to the true Orthodox faith of oue Church of England and from the Articles received att this present In the
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Laurence FitzPatrick and Giles
Browning were each put on trial for their roles in the offences. FitzPatrick testified that Lady Castlehaven "was the wickedest woman in the world, and had more to answer for than any woman that lived". Both men were convicted and subsequently executed.
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taken place. The case remains of interest to some as an early trial concerning male homosexuality, but ultimately its greatest influence proved to be as a precedent in spousal rights, as it became the leading case establishing an injured wife's right to testify against her husband.
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Laurence (or
Florence) FitzPatrick; and assisting Giles Browning (alias Broadway) in the rape of his wife Anne, Countess of Castlehaven, in which Lord Castlehaven was found to have participated by restraining her.
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the Dean of St Paul's and a Doctor Wickham visited Castlehaven daily, both to comfort him and settle him in his religion. Winniffe drafted a Confession of Faith and Castlehaven signed it.
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Skipwith with an annual pension, and he was accused of attempting to have Skipwith inseminate both Anne and her daughter Elizabeth, to produce an heir from Skipwith instead of his son.
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which had been constructed for his execution. Concerned about rumours suggesting his lack of faith had prompted his downfall, he said the following to the assembled crowd:
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Massarella, Derek (November 2017). "'& thus ended the buisinisse': A Buggery Trial on the East India Company Ship Mary in 1636".
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The Trial of the Lord Audley, Earl of Castlehaven, For inhumanely Causing his Own Wife to be Ravished and for Buggery
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