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A75222	An account of the behaviour, confession and last dying speech of Sir John johnson who was executed at Tyburn, on Tuesday the 23d day of December. anno Dom. 1690. for stealing of Mrs. Mary VVharton, in company of Captain james Campbel and Archibald Montgomery, since fled.	Johnston, John, Sir, d. 1690.	1691 (1691)	Wing A243; ESTC R225964	5,777	8

Consent but however I cannot love him and therefore will not live with him but I will not hurt one Hair of any of their Heads This the Gentleman the Apothecary in Newgate street told me himself The next Sunday after this I sent one Mr. Angeire to my Landlord's House to take me out some Linnen out of my Chamber and he told me when he came back That there was none but the Maid at home Then says I I may go the more safe and take out some Linnen my self So I went to the House and saw my Landlord and Landlady who told me with all imaginable Expressions of Kindness That I should be safe but when I went in I was immediatly taken by the Constables there This is the Truth as near as I can speak it Gentlemen I tell you as I am a Dying Man that I never saw any thing done by Force neither was there any Intentions to force any thing upon this Gentlewoman contrary to her own Inclinations But indeed it is true I was a Stranger to the Laws of England which says That an Accessary shall be found Guilty as well as the Principal Here he stopp'd a little the Divines speaking to him then went on Gentlemen I had forgot one thing until these Reverend Divines put me in mind of it Mr. Montgomery told me That he would assure me that there should no Damage fall upon me in the whole matter when I was invited to the Wedding I told him that if I thought there were any evil designs in it I would sacrifice my self before I would have any hand in it Now Gentlemen give me leave to give you a little hint of the Hardships that I have met with since my imprisonment though by the way I do not at all reflect upon the good Constitutions of the Laws of this Land nor upon the King Judges nor Jury but only to some passages that occurred upon my Tryal First When I was brought before the Judges I subponn'd in Mrs. C. and her Maid who knew the thing before I knew of it when I brought them in as to be Witnesses for me they were immediatly indicted and brought in as Criminals so that their Evidence could not avail any ways for me And more which is a little hard the Coachman was brought in and they acquitted him to bring in his VVife a VVitness against me this is hard Now Gentlemen there is another hardship though not equivalent to this When Mrs. Campbel was sick that was not taken notice of but when Pontacks was brought to Witness That there was no Force at all used to this Lady Pontacks I pray God forgive him I freely and heartily do then said that he saw a discomposure in her Face which I take God to witness that I saw no such thing and when this man came in he declared quite contrary Nay the Serjeant at Law stood up and said What I warrant you are a Scots-man Yes says I yea says he I thought so So that I say why should a man meet with that hardship because he is a stranger or an Outlandish man And I cannot call my self an Outlandish man because I am the King 's Subject I desire Gentlemen that you would take this as from a Dying Man I speak it because I would not bring a disgrace upon my Family and I desire that you would consider of all the Tryals that I have met with not that I do as I told you before find any fault or any ways arraign the Constitution of the Law or Justice of the Nation no I would not do that by any means And sirs in the Printed Papers they have wronged me and have done me a great deal of Injury in them for they accuse me that I should commit a Rape in Chester Who did this I know not God forgive them I will declare the Truth how it was I was going to the Castle at Chester in the Night-time I found a Man and a Woman in the way I said to one of my Footman That it might be that those were some of the Persons that had abused my Sentry at their Posts for my Sentry were wont to be much abused this provok'd me to endeavour to seize this Man but I could not catch him then I ordered my Sentry to take care of the Woman till Morning lest she should be one of them that did abuse my Sentries The next Morning she told me That the Man made Suit to her to Marry her but some time after about a Week or 10 Days as I remember but it was a more considerable time than the Laws of England provide in that Cause for the Law says That if a Woman is ravished she must cry out but this she did not do for many Days after till I was gone to London and then she swore a Rape against me When I heard of it I writ to my Lieutenant to bring in proof that I never did any such thing to her A 〈◊〉 which I went to Chester and finding it true I ordered Post-horses to be made ready to come to complain to the King of the injustice that I had done me in this Case Then she said If she had a little Money to carry her to Ireland she would clear me in this Case and declare the Truth then I gave her 5 l. to declare the Truth which she gave under her hand and the next Day I presented this to the Major and I desired the Laws might be put in execution against her but she was gone Gentlemen this is the Truth concerning this Rape that I never had any Hand in such a thing There is another thing out that they have thrown upon me and that is That I should be concerned in such another thing as this in Holland Gentlemen there is one Mr. Sayers by name Servant to one Mr. Swinfoord he was in the same Town with me in Vtercht 6 Months he and many more will justifie me as to this That the World hath injur'd me and done me much wrong Gentlemen I must now exhort you to be careful for the Salvation of your own Precious Souls Gentlemen he that has been bred a Soldier has not lived so strict to the Rules of Christianity as some other Men. I must confess That I have left undone those things which I ought to have done and I have done those things which I ought not to have done But however Gentlemen let me intreat you yea all of you That you would remember your latter end I pray God that none of you all may come to an untimely end yet remember that you must come to an End your Time must have a Period I bless God my Life and Conversation has not been so odious and obnoxious to the World nor I hope in the sight of God but that I have Confidence in his Mercy and I hope that those Divines that have been with me can justifie That there is nothing that hath come from me but what hath proceeded from a true and a penitent Heart and I beg that you would offer up your Prayers to the Throne of Grace for me because no Man can say that he does not want the Prayers of the Righteous for God bids all Men to pray and not to faint Well Gentlemen he that made Heaven and Earth keep and defend you from all Misfortunes from the Power of Death and Hell and then you need not fear for Christ is able to save to the uttermost all that come to him therefore offer up your Prayers not only for your selves but for me who is a dying Man Then the Ministers prayed with him afterwards he he prayed privatly without Book for himself then he read two Prayers out of a Book entituled A form of Prayer for Prisoners and then he read the 51 and 103. Psalms then he prayed again for himself and afterwards stood up and put on his Cap himself after the Rope was about his Neck and fastned to the Tree he took his final leave of all the Spectators in a most humble manner recommending them to the Merciful Protection of Almighty God desiring the continuance of their Prayers to the last Breath hoping they would be so charitable as to joyn with him because the Prayers of the Faithful were of great Efficacy and availed much And indeed in all his whole Deportment from the Prison thither and in the time of his being there he behaved himself with great Humility towards God and very examplary towards all which drew great Lamentations and caused much concernedness to appear in the Physiognomies of all that beheld him After he had given the Signal the Cart drew away the Prisoner praying to God and holding up his Hands some small time after the Cart was gone away ADVERTISEMENT Whereas there is a Mistake in some of these Printed Narratives of Sir John Johnston's Last Speech this is to give Notice That the Landlord here mentioned to betray and seize him was not the Apothecary in Newgate-street but his former Landlord Re-printed in the Year 1691.