The Brick-makers Lamentation from New-gate:
OR,
A true Report of the Indicting, Arraignment, Tryal, and Convicting of four of the Brick-makers
Court of In-justice: for the Notorious Riot committed on the Body of one Richard Lambart,
Brick-maker of Fullum, who they Arraigned, Indicted, and had almost Executed, for some pre-
tended idle words. Their Examination, and Tryal, and Sentence they are to undergoe, exprest
as followeth.
The Tune is, Packingtons Pound.
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GOod people come hither and listen a while,
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Ile tell you a story shall make you to smile
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For such a bold project there never was heard,
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As now in this Ballad shall soon be declard;
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The Brick-makers they
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This project did play,
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The Elventh of August as people do say:
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Let this be a warning that others take heed;
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Their court of in-justice will smart for the deed.
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In Rainy wet weather it was I suppose,
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When each bonny Brick-maker steeled his nose,
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They drink their cups round, & do merrily prate
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Each Brick-maker seemed a Lord in conceit;
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Whilst thus they Carrouse,
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And call on the House,
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One of them his bread and his cheese he did lose
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And one in the company there he did atackt,
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As guilty of Fellony for this bold act.
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They calld him Dick Lambart whom he did ac-cuse,
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Who, he said, such activity often did use;
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And there for his life he would have him be tryd
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A Judge and a Jury this deed should deside;
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A Court there was calld,
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The Cryer he bawld
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And there with his flounder-mouth loudly he yauld.
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And then on the bench for a judge there set down
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One in a red wastecoat which servd for a gown.
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A Judge and a Jury, and Clarks did appear,
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A Sheriff and also a Hangman was there,
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The Judge being set and prisoner brought forth
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The plaintiff be there on a brickbat took oath,
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that to his great cost
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Too lately he lost,
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Some bread & some cheese which he savd for a toast,
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And that Richard Lambart had taken his peck,
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Who for it deservd to be noosd by the neck.
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FOr this he had sentance by which he was forst
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To be burnt in the hand with an apple hot roast
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And afterwards he on that apple must feed,
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This Sentance he had for his Fellonious deed;
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But now comes the worst
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More bad then the first,
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Poor Richard his fortune it was so accurst;
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A Witness held forth, and he there did declare,
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That Richard spoke Treason and he did it hear.
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He said the Kings drums they did make a great sound
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But in the midst of them no guts to be found,
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And that the Kings horses with Iron were shod,
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And often on dirt and on stones they have trod;
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That they so were fed
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With butter and bread,
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They lost all the Rases what ever was laid:
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And that the Kings Goshauks had got no more foul
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Then is in the night-bird thats called an Owl.
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This was the Indictment on which he was tryd,
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The Jury was sworn on a Brickbat beside,
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The Evidence there did make it out plain
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And Lambart away from the Bar he was tane;
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Their Jury went out,
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And brought it about,
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That Lambart was guilty of Treason no doubt;
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And then by the Judge he was sentencd, that he,
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Should hang by the neck on the Tiborn Tree.
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A Clay cart they got, and a horse int beside,
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And put Lambart in it, and him fast down tyd,
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And then unto th Gallows they do him convey,
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With a Guard of their Officers all on the way,
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A Brickbat to read,
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As they did proceed,
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And then on the Gallows they hangd him indeed:
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Thus have you heard of the Brick-makers Court,
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who hang men in earnest, and count it their sport.
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A Groom of the Kings stables came riding that way,
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Seeing this rebel rout to them did say,
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I see youve condemned this man in the Town,
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But heres a reprieve and he must be cut down: This being done,
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Away then did run,
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This Court of In-justice each mothers Son.
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The Judge and the Hangman was tane in the act
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And two of the Jury-men since for that fact.
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This court of In-justice appeared in time
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At Seshions house there for to answer their crime
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A hundred pound is laid on each head,
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Or else due imprisonment till it be paid:
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In New-gate they are,
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Remaining in care,
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Of farther punishment they are in fear:
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And thus you have heard of the Brick-makers Court
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Who hang men in earnest & count it their sport.
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