A Debate from beyond the Grave: James Annesley was a Villain not a Victim

May the Angels and Ministers of Grace preserve us from this felonious Phantom; this ghoulish Gunman; this Afterlife Assassin: James Annesley who has possessed the Account of the noble Apostate Abe in a Vain Attempt to defend his Name and Honour. An’t please you, my Lords and Ladies, I intend to comprehensively rebut his Assertions and demonstrate that he was, indeed, a Villain, not a Victim. Forsooth! The debate is afoot. While it is true that I was no Paragon of Virtue before my Opponent killed me, I was no Thief and I did not steal any Net. I made an Honest Living as a Carpenter and merely supplemented my meagre Income by a-poaching of Fish, which is a Crime that hath no Victims, at least not of the Human Kind. I beg leave to explain. Even today, My Lords and Ladies, Riparian Landowners own the Right to Fish in a River that flows through, or next to, their Property and to also deny Others the Right to Fish in that Stretch of the River, an’t please you, my Lords and Ladies, Joseph Redding was the Game-Keeper to Sir John Dolben, Lord of the Manour of Yeoveney, whose Duty it was to prevent poaching on his Master’s Land, although my Son and I were on the Property of Mr Sylvester when I Mr Annesley shot me, and the Court declared that Redding and Annesley were Trespassers by coming into it, and therefore answerable for the Consequences. That as to Mr Annesley, there was not only implied, but express Malice proved upon him, for that after he had killed me, and he was for beating out my Son's Brains, only because he would not let him and Mr Redding run away with my Net. That as to Mr Annesley’s claim to his suppos’d claim to the Title and Estate of Lord Altham. Earl of Anglesey, he may or may not have been deceived and disinherited at the behest of his Uncle, but either Way, he was not morally entitled to it.The Land the Great Estates of the British Isles were once Common Land, where any British Citizen was free to Roam with Impunity and to graze their Livestock without Let or Hindrance. However, following the Norman Conquest of 1066, William the Bastard of France, gifted large Parcels of Common Land to trusted Norman Barons and treacherous Members of the Anglo-Saxon Establishment who were prepared to commit their fellow Citizens to a life of miserable Serfdom by propping up William’s Regime in the Provinces. This is how the Great Estates were Established: they are founded on Property stolen from the People of Britain and have been Handed down from one Generation of treacherous Bounders and Cads to the Next: if Mr Annesley’s Uncle did Stitch him up like a Kipper, as he claims, then it was because Treachery is in the Blood of his Kith and Kin: the very same Blood which flowed his own Veins, and which caused him to shoot me Dead without any Pity or Mercy in order to get his murdering Hands on my Fishing-Net, and is why he has never shown any Remorse for his heinous Crime.An’t to please you, my Lords and Ladies, I will conclude by stating that this ghastly Ghost wants to be remembered as an ill-treated Aristocrat when the Reality is he was a Cold-Blooded Killer. Thank you my Lords and Ladies, an’t to please you, here be my Source: http://www.historyonthenet.com...