Francis Charteris (rake)

Colonel **Francis Charteris** (an yi masa *baftisma* a ranar 4 ga Afrilu 1675 - 24 ga Fabrairu 1732), wanda ake kira "The Rape-Master General",  sojan Scotland ne kuma mai kasada  wanda ya sami kuɗi mai yawa ta hanyar caca da Kudancin Tekun Bubble . An yafe shi da laifin yi wa bawa fyade a shekara ta 1730 kuma an yanke masa hukuncin kisa, amma daga baya aka gafarta masa, kafin ya mutu daga dalilai na halitta jim kadan bayan haka.

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Charteris a Edinburgh a kusan shekara ta 1675, ɗan John Charteris (ya mutu a shekara ta 1691 [?] ya mutu kafin shekara ta 1702), alkali, da matarsa, Mary, wacce wataƙila 'yar Sir Francis Kinloch ce, Baronet na 1. Iyalansa masu filaye ne kuma mallakar kadarori a Amisfield, kusa da Dumfries.[1] Ko kafin a yanke masa hukunci, mutane da yawa a Landan sun yi masa suna kuma sun raina shi a matsayin ɗan fashin teku. Ya yi aikin soja na yau da kullun, an kore shi daga aiki sau huɗu; karo na uku a Kudancin Netherlands ta hannun Duke na Marlborough, saboda cin hanci da rashawa, kuma karo na huɗu da Majalisar Dokoki ta amince da karɓar cin hanci. Duk da korarsa daga soja, ya tara dukiya mai yawa. [ana buƙatar hujja][citation needed]￼

## Rayuwa ta mutum
Charteris ya sanya Sally Salisbury uwargidan, amma ya watsar da ita a shekara ta 1704, lokacin da take da shekaru 14. Bayan da aka watsar da ita, wata budurwa, Uwargida Wisebourne, wacce gidanta a Covent Garden ta kasance daga cikin gidajen karuwai masu tsada da tsada a lokacin, ta dauki Salisbury. [ana buƙatar ƙa'ida]&#x5B;**&#x5D;

Charteris ya auri Helen Swinton, 'yar Alexander Swinton, Lord Mersington; 'yarsu Janet ta auri James Wemyss, 5th Earl of Wemyss، a cikin 1720, kuma jikansa, Francis Wemyss Charteris, 7th Earl ofWemyss, ya ɗauki Sunan budurwa a cikin 1732 lokacin da ya gaji dukiyar kakansa. 

## Rashin Anne Bond
Charteris zai aika bayinsa ta cikin ƙauyuka don ɗaukar mata don yin jima'i da shi. Hanyoyin da ya yi amfani da su sun sa matalauta a wasu sassan Ingila ba su so shi ba. Sunansa ya riga ya wuce shari'arsa don fyade wani bawa mai suna Anne Bond . Lokacin da aka hayar Bond, a ranar 24 ga Oktoba 1729, an sanar da ita cewa ma'aikatarta shine "Colonel Harvey" saboda tsoron cewa sunansa zai dakatar da ma'aikacinsa. Charteris yana da ma'amala da yawa waɗanda ke hayar mata a kai a kai don yin aiki a matsayin bayin, waɗanda za su makale a cikin gidan kuma akai-akai "tawali'u" su yi jima'i da shi. Lokacin da Bond ya fara aiki, nan da nan "Harvey's" ya kewaye ta, tare da tayin kuɗi; amma ta ki. A rana ta uku ta aiki, Anne ta fahimci cewa Harvey a zahiri Colonel Francis Charteris ne kuma ta nemi barin. An ki amincewa da wannan buƙatar, kuma an sanya ma'aikata don hana ta tserewa.

Kashegari da safe, 10 ga Nuwamba, Charteris ya kai hari kuma ya yi wa Bond fyade. Babu shaidu, kuma ma'aikatan Charteris a cikin dakin da ke gaba daga baya sun ba da shaida cewa ba su ji komai ba. Lokacin da Bond ya gaya wa Charteris cewa tana zuwa ga hukumomi game da Laifi, sai ya umarci ma'aikatan su buge ta kuma su kwashe kayanta kuma su jefa ta daga ƙofar, suna gaya musu cewa ta sace kudi daga gare shi. Tare da taimakon Mary Parsons, watakila tsohon ma'aikaci, Bond ya kawo korafi game da Laifi "harin da niyyar yin fyade. " babban juri na Middlesex da farko ya sami hujja don ci gaba da wannan cajin amma daga baya ya inganta cajin zuwa babban laifin fyade. 

A ranar 27 ga Fabrairu 1730, an yi wa Charteris shari'a don fyade a Old Bailey . Shari'ar ta kasance abin mamaki ga kafofin watsa labarai. Masu kare sun kai farmaki ga kyawawan halaye da dalilan mai shigar da kara, suna zargin ta da bin doka, karuwanci, sata da cin hanci da rashawa. Yawancin shaidu da takardun Charteris an nuna su karya ne, kuma juri da sauri sun same shi da laifi. A ranar 2 ga watan Maris, An yanke masa hukuncin kisa kuma an tsare shi a gidan yarin Newgate.

Earl na Egmont ya rubuta a cikin littafinsa 'Dukan duniya sun yarda cewa ya cancanci a rataye shi tun da daɗewa, amma sun bambanta ko a wannan lokacin'; yayin da Fog's Weekly Journal na 14 Maris 1730 ya ba da rahoton cewa 'Ba mu ji wani fyade da aka yi wa makonni uku da suka gabata ba. Kanar Francis Charteris har yanzu yana cikin Newgate.'  A ranar 10 ga Afrilu 1730, George II ya ba shi Gafarar sarauta bayan kamfen ɗin da ya haɗa da Scottish Lord Advocate Duncan Forbes, wanda ya hayar gida daga Charteris a Edinburgh, da Anne Bond kanta, mai yiwuwa ya sa ta hanyar alkawarin shekara-shekara.

A matsayinsa na mai laifi, ya kamata a rasa dukiyarsa a karkashin koyarwar mai kai hari, amma ya roki Sarki don dawo da shi. A cikin abun da ya yi don laifinsa, ya biya kudade masu yawa ga Sheriffs na Landan da Middlesex. An kuma zarge shi da ba da kyaututtuka masu yawa ga wasu muhimman mutane. Jonathan Swift ya yi sharhi game da Charteris a cikin waƙoƙi da yawa. A cikin Lines on the Death of Dr. Swift (1731), ya bayyana "Chartres" a matsayin, "mafi sananne, mugu, wanda ya girma daga ɗan ƙasa, ko mafi muni, zuwa wadata mai ban mamaki a Ingila da Scotland: yana da hanyar da za ta shiga cikin dukkan Ministoci a ƙarƙashin kowane canji, ko dai a matsayin mai karuwanci, mai ladabi, ko mai ba da labari. An gwada shi a saba'in [sic] don fyade, kuma ya fito ta hanyar sadaukar da babban ɓangare na dukiyarsa" (bayanin zuwa l. 189).￼

## Mutuwa
A cikin 1732, Chateris ya mutu daga dalilai na halitta a Edinburgh, mai yiwuwa daga yanayin da ya kasance a gidan yarin Newgate ya haifar. Ba da daɗewa ba kafin ya mutu, an ce ya bayyana cewa zai biya £ 150,000 ga duk wanda zai iya tabbatar masa cewa babu jahannama (daidai da £ 32,520,000 a 2023). An binne shi a Greyfriars Kirkyard; an kai hari ga akwatinsa a kan hanyarsa zuwa makabarta, kuma an ce an jefa gawawwakin cikin kabarinsa. Bayan mutuwarsa, John Arbuthnot ya buga "Epitaph on Don Francisco" a cikin The London Magazine (Afrilu 1732). A ciki, ya rubuta cewa Charteris mutum ne,

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