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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31231	The compendium, or, A short view of the late tryals in relation to the present plot against His Majesty and government with the speeches of those that have been executed : as also an humble address, at the close, to all the worthy patriots of this once flourishing and happy kingdom.	Castlemaine, Roger Palmer, Earl of, 1634-1705.	1679 (1679)	Wing C1241; ESTC R5075	90,527	89

and Protestation and every part thereof in the Plain and Ordinary Sense wherein the same stands Written as they are commonly understood by English Protestants and the Courts of Justice of England without any Evasion or Equivocation or Delusion or Mental Reservation whatsoever And without any Dispensation or Pardon or Absolution already granted to me for this or any other purpose by the Pope or any other Power Authority or Person whatsoever Or without any hope expectation or desire of any such Dispensation and without thinking or believing that I am or can be acquitted before God or Man or absolved of this Declaration or any part thereof although the Pope or any other Person or persons or Power or Authority whatsoever should dispence with Or take upon him or them to dispence with or Annul the same Or declare that it was or is or ought to be Null or Void in part or in the whole from the beginning or otherwise howsoever Having made this Declaration and Protestation in the most plain Terms that I can possibly imagin to express my sincere Loyalty and Innocency and the clear intention of my Soul I leave it to the Judgment of all Good and Charitable persons whether they will believe what is here in this manner affirmed and sworn by me in my present Circumstances or what is sworn by my Accusers I do now farther declare That I die a member though an unworthy one of that Holy Catholick and Apostolick Church of Christ mentioned in the Three Holy and publick Creeds of which Church our Lord Jesus Christ is the Invisible Head of Influence to illuminate guide protect and govern it by his Holy Spirit and Grace and of which Church the Bishop of Rome as the Successor of St. Peter the Prince of the Apostles is the visible Head of Government and Unity I take it to be clear That my Religion is the sole cause which moved my Accusers to charge me with the Crime for which upon their Evidence I am adjudged to die and that my being of that Religion which I here prosess was the only ground which could give them any hope to be believed or which could move my Ju●●y to believe the Evidence of such men I have had not only a Pardon but also great Advantages as to preferments and Estates offered unto me since this Judgment was against me in case I would have forsaken my Religion and owned my self guilty of the Crime charged against me and charged the same Crimes upon others But blessed be my God who by his Grace hath preserved me from yeilding to those Temptations and strengthened me rather to choose this death than to stain my Soul with sin and to charge others against truth with Crimes of which I do not know that any person is guilty Having said what concerns me to say as to my self I now humbly beseech God to bless the Kings Majesty with all temporal and eternal Blessings and to preserve Him and His Government from all Treasons and Traitors whatsoever and that his Majesty may never fall into such hands as His Royal Father of Glorious Memory fell into I also humbly beseeh thee O God to give true Repentance and Pardon to all my Enemies and most particularly to the said Mr. Oates and Mr. Bedloe and to all who have been any ways accessary to the taking away of my Life and the shedding of my Innocent Blood or to the preventing the King's Mercy from being extended unto me and likewise to all those who rejoyced at the Judgment given against me or at the Execution of the said Judgment and to all those who are or shall be so unchristianly uncharitable as to disbelieve and to refuse to give credit unto my now Protestations And I beseech thee O my God to bless this whole Nation and not to lay the guilt of my Blood unto the charge of this Nation or of any other particular person or persons of this Nation Unite all O my God unto thee and thy Church by true Faith Hope and Charity for thy mercies sake And for all those who have shewed Charity to me I humbly beg O my Jesus that thou wilt reward them with all Blessings both temporal and eternal 13 July 1679. R. Langhorn Mr. Langhorns's Speech at the time of Execution WHen the Hangman was putting the Rope over his Head he took it into his hands and kissed it Afterwards He said I would gladly speak to Mr. Sheriff HOW who coming up to him he addressed himself thus Mr. Sheriff I having some doubt whether I should be suffered to speak in relation to my Innocency and Loyalty I did for that Reason prepare what I had to say and what I intended to say in Writing and it is delivered into your hands Mr. Sheriff and therefore for the particular and precise Words and Expressions I do refer my self to that and I hope you will be so just to my Memory that you will permit it to be seen I shall therefore make only a short Preface and I do declare in the Presence of the Eternal God and as I hope to be saved by the Merits and Death of my dear Jesus That I am not Guilty directly or indirectly of any Crime that was sworn against me I do not speak this to Arraign the Court of Publick Justice either Judges or Jury but those Men that did swear it and the Jury had liberty to believe or not believe as they pleased And I do like wise say with the same Averrment That I did never in my Life see any Commission or Patent or any Writing or any other Thing under the hand of Johannes Paulus de Oliva c. S. Nor under no other Hand L. No nor under any other Hand of any Commission or Patents for the Raising of an Army or any Thing else against the King S. What was the Patent for for Nothing L. I never saw any nor do I believe there was any And whereas I have read in a Narrative that I sent a Commission by my Son to the Lord Arundel of Warder and that I delive'rd another to the Lord Petre or Petres with my own hands I take God to Witness that I never knew him in my life or ever to my knowledge saw the face of that Lord nor did I send or know of any thing that was sent to my Lord Arundel of Warder of that nature S. Shorten your business you have Mr. Langhorn and your Party so many ways to Equivocate and after Absolution you may say any thing L. I refer my self to that Paper I gave you Mr. Sheriff S. I think it is not fit to be Printed I will do you no wrong L. I do not think you will S. You have already printed a Paper or some body for you L. Sir I did not Print it and it was done without any Direction or Permission of mine The Lord preserve his Majesty from all manner of Treason and preserve Him from falling into such Hands as His Royal Father

know him That Oates was then so far from laying any positive Treason to his Charge for as to the Payment of the 5000 l. to Sir George Wakeman 't was a Hear-say as not seen by Oates that the Board after they had heard his Defence did instead of sending him to Newgate commit him only to a Messenger 'till his Papers were Examin'd And whereas Oates Accuses him at present of ordering about the 21 th of August 80 l. for the Windsor-Russians and giving of the Messenger a Guinney He was then in Warwick-shire having left London on the 15th of August without ever returning till the 31th late at Night Oates reply'd That he said at the Council He could not swear he had seen him before For his Eyes were bad by Candle-light and Candle-light alters the Sight much But when he heard him speak he could have sworn it was he yet did not say so because he was not askt Besides he design'd then to lay no more to his Charge than was matter for an Information for Prisoners might supplant Evidence when they know it That the Information which he then gave against him was as near as he could remember his writing News Letters with base Reflections Moreover he was so weak and tired through his late Fatigue and Watchings that upon his Salvation he could scarce stand upon his Legs which together with his Want of Mem●ry was the best Answer he gave the Court why he omitted the present weighty Matters as also the Account of the 80 l. and the other Particulars in relation to the King's Murder at Windsor Nor could Sir Robert Southwel witness any thing new to Oates's Advantage more than that he did in Council say That if Mr. Coleman's Papers were searcht there would be Matter he believ'd found in them that would cost him his Neck Which on the one side most People deemed an easie Surmise seeing Coleman was generally known to be a great Intriguer and on the other side they imagin'd Oates might as well have then Charged him with down-right Treason if what he here alleadged had not been a Fiction of a later Date For 't was impossible to say He thought there was Hanging matter in a Man's Letters and through Lassitude or any other Pretence not to be able to tell the King That the same Person had Contriv'd his Death if it were really Design'd But as for Mr. Coleman's Absence on the 21 th of August as before the Chief Justice told him That if the Cause did turn on that Matter he would stay 'till his Book were brought which Mr. Coleman urg'd could prove his said Absence but that he doubted the Cause would not stand on that Foot and yet if that were the Case it would do him little Good This is the Sum of the Reply to Mr. Coleman's Plea in relation to Oates But Sir Thomas Doleman who was one of the Clerks of the Council attested in Court not only that Oates said at the Board He knew not Mr. Coleman well and to the best of his Remembrance That he had no Acquaintance with him but also That Mr. Coleman was Examin'd before Oates spake Which evidently shews that Oates knew him no better after his speaking than before As for Bedlow's Charge 't was to this Effect That Sir Henry Tichbourn told him That he brought a Commission for Mr. Coleman and the Lords from the Principal Jesuits of Rome That he carried a Pacquet from Mr. Coleman to La Chaise Dated April 75. That he Delivered the said Letters to La Chaise and brought Mr. Coleman and Answer That he did not understand what was in it because it was in a Language he did not well understand but it was about carrying-on the Plot. That Mr. Hartcourt went to Mr. Coleman with Letters and took him the said Bedlow along with him but made him stay over the Way That Hartcourt afterwards beckon'd him in and there he heard Mr. Coleman say If he had a Hundred Lives and a Sea of Blood to carry on the Cause he would spend it all for the Establishment of the Church here and if there were a Hundred Heretical Kings he would see them all Destroy'd That Mr. Coleman saw him in Somerset-House-Gallery coming from a Consult with great Persons which he is not to name here but 't would make the Bottom of the Plot to tremble Mr. Coleman made little Answer to him besides protesting that he never saw him before Nor was there any of Mr. Coleman's Family that had ever seen him which had been Morally impossible had he received and brought Letters as he pretended Besides few of the Auditory could comprehend how Bedlow did know that the Letter which he said he brought from Paris and yet understood not was about carrying on the Plot or why Mr. Hartcourt should just call him in from over the way for no other Reason for Bedlow gives not the least but to hear Mr. Coleman's Treasonable Expressions in his Zeal for the Church But more especially how the said Bedlow could carry La Chaise a Letter from Mr. Coleman dated April 75. and yet Mr. Coleman's first Letter to h●m was his Long one of September 29 75. and came to the said Father's Hands on the 22 of October following Now for Mr. Coleman's Letters Though He acknowledged them full of very Extravagant Expressions yet he hoped he said they were not Treasonable and that Some of the Expressions would explain there was no Plot or Intention to Kill the King For the Reader may not only find him telling La Chaise That the Labourers were few and the Harvest great which assures us that Few were concern'd with him but shewing him all along that the promis'd Advantages to the French King and Religion were to accrew by the Dissolution of the Parliament which MONEY the Aid and Assistance he expected from France and not Force was to Effect No wonder then Money being the Thing he aimed at and hinted also by him in almost every other Line of each Letter if he kept no Correspondence as he solemnly protested he did not with France after the Year 75. when we see him complain in his Last Letter That his Christian Majesty was not with Him and his Party to the Degree of helping them with Ten Thousand Crowns For the Truth is that Court presently found for all his Pretences that he had no Interest with the Duke or with our Leading Men Nay we see he could not so much as perswade his Highness to Sign a Letter which he had prepared without Order as he confesses and the Court acknowledges to give him Countenance with La Chaise Besides who can imagine Mr. Coleman should expect or dream to wheedle in La Chaise without telling him of a Pestilent Heresie to be subdued of a mighty Work on their Hands to wit the Conversion of three Nations