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A49553 Mr. Langhorn's memoires, with some meditations and devotions of his, during his imprisonment as also his petition to His Majesty, and his speech at his execution. Langhorne, Richard, 1654-1679. 1679 (1679) Wing L397; ESTC R5132 29,740 24

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or the like effect to any Person or Persons whatsoever 5. That I did never in all my Life-time write any Letter or other thing whatsoever unto or receive any Letter or other thing from Father Le Cheese or any French Jesuit whatsoever or from Father Anderton or Cardinal Barbarino or any other Cardinal nor did I ever see any Letter or the Copy of any Letter or other Paper or other Thing written or purporting to be written unto the said Le Cheese or unto the said Father Anderton or the said Cardinal Farbarino by any Person or Persons whatsoever other than the printed Letters printed in the Narrative of the Tryal of Mr. Edward Coleman lately Executed which I never saw otherwise than in the said printed Narrative nor did I ever hear any mention made by any Person whatsoever of the name of Le Cheese or Father Le Cheese before I read the said printed Narrative 6. That I did never in all my Life-time make any Entry or Entries into any Book or Books or ●ake or make or write or cause to be written into any Book or Books or otherwise any Letter or Letters or any Copy or Copies of any Letter or Letters written by the said Edward Coleman to any person or persons whatsoever 7. That I did never in all my Life time Enter or Register into any Book or Books Paper or Papers whatsoever or take or make or write or cause to be written any Copy or Copies of any Act or Acts Consult or Consults Determination or Determinations Order or Orders Resolve or Resolves or other matter or thing at any time made determined resolved passed decreed or agitated at any Congregation or Congregations Consult or Consults Chapter or Chapters Assembly or Assemblies of the Society or Order of the Jesuits or of any other Religious Order whatsoever nor did I ever see read or heard read nor did any person or persons at any time whatsoever ever communicate unto me any such Act Consult Determination Order Resolve Matter or Thing whatsoever 8. That I did never in all my Life-time to my knowledge belief or remembrance see or speak with Mr. Bedloe who gave Evidence against me at my Tryal until I saw him in that Court wherein he gave Evidence against me 9. That after the Month of November which was in the Year of our Lord 1677. I did never see or speak with Mr. Titus Oates before named until I saw him in the same Court where he gave Evidence against me at my Tryal 10. That I did never see in all my Life time to my knowledge belief or remembrance any Commission or Commissions Patent or Patents Grant or Grants Order or Orders Instrument or Instruments Writing or Writings or other Matter or Thing whatsoever under or pretended to be under the Hand and Seal or the Hand or the Seal of Johannes Paulus de Oliva or any other General of the Jesuits whatsoever other than the Paper or Instrument produced and shewed unto me in the said Court at my Tryal which whether it was signed or sealed by the said de Oliva I do not know 11. That I did never in all my Life-time write or cause or procure to be written any Treasonable Letter or Letters whatsoever or any thing which was or is Treason or Treasonable in any Letter or Letters Book or Books Paper or Papers or otherwise howsoever 12. That I believe that if I did know or should know of any Treason or Treasonable Design that was or is intended or should be intended against His said Majesty or the Government of this His Majesties Kingdom or for the Alteration by Force Advice or otherwise of the said Government or of the Religion now Established in this Kingdom and should conceal and not discover the same unto His said Majesty or His said Majesties Council or Ministers or some of them that such concealment would be in me a Sin unto death and eternal damnation 13. That I do believe that it is no ways lawful for me to lye or speak any thing which I know to be untrue or to commit any Sin or do any Evil that Good may come of it And that it is not in the power of any Priest or of the Pope or of God himself to give me a Licence to lye of to speak any thing which I know to be untrue because every such Lye would be a sin against Truth And Almighty God who is perfect Truth cannot give me a Licence to commit a sin against his own Essence And I do Solemnly in the Presence of God Profess Testifie and Declare That as I hope for Salvation and expect any Benefit by the Blood and Passion of my dearest Saviour Jesus Christ I do make this Declaration 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 Pard●n 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 dispense with or take upon him or them to dispense 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 imagine to express my sincere Loyalty and Innocency and the clear intention of my Soul I leave it to the judgments 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 dye 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 dye and that my being of that Religion which I here profess was the onely ground which could give them any hope to be believed or which could move my Jury to believe the Evidence of such men I have had not only a Pardon but
do Him any Bodily Harm Or to disturb the Government of this Kingdom as it is now Established by Law Or to Alter or go about to Alter the said Government or the Religion now Established in England by any way of Force III. That I neither am nor ever was at any time Guilty so much as in my most secret Thoughts of any Treason or Misprision of Treason whatsoever IV. That I do Believe That if I did know or should know of any Treason or Treasonable Design that was or is intended or should be intended against His said Majesty or the Government of this His Majesties Kingdom or for the Alteration by Force Advice or otherwise of the said Government or of the Religion now Established in this Kingdom and should conceal and not discover the same unto His said Majesty or His Majesties Council or Ministers or some of them That such Concealment would be to me a Sin unto Death and Eternal Damnation And I do Solemnly in the Presence of God Profess Testifie and Declare That as I hope for Salvation or expect any benefit by the Blood and Passion of Jesus Christ I do make this Declaration and every Part thereof in the Plain and Ordinary Sense of the Words 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 Authority or Person whatsoever or without any hope 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 whatsoewer should Dispense with or Annul the same or Declare that it was or is Null or Void from the beginning This with my Petition was Presented to His Majesty in Council on Thursday the 10th of July instant and after the reading of my Petition my said Protestation and Declaration was as I am informed begun to be read but when the person that read the same came to read that part of it in which I aver my Innocency he was not as I am informed permitted to read farther and it was declared That I was to expect no farther mercy unless I would make a Discovery of the Plot which God is my Witness I cannot do because I know nothing of it directly or indirectly And now having related all the particular Circumstances of my Case so far as my memory can recollect them and made such Protestations and Declarations as is before mentioned I shall only recommend to be considered by all impartial Judgments those solemn and serious Protestations which were made by those others who have lost their Lives already upon the Evidence given against them by the same Mr. Oates and Mr. Bedloe and pray that it may be duely weighed Whether the Solemn Oaths and Protestations of sober Men made by them immediately before their respective Deaths and this Protestation of mine before mentioned made at a time when my Confession and Discovery of a Plot or Treason against my King in case I had been privy unto or known such Plot or Treason would not only have saved my Life and secured me of a Pardon but would also have entituled me unto and in all probability put me into the full possession of Preferments and Advantages greater than I ever I thank my God coveted Be not more considerable to move a Belief of my Innocency than the Evidence given against me by my Accusers before-mentioned to move a Belief of my Guilt It is said it is not upon the bare Oaths of those two Witnesses but upon the Verdict of the Twelve Jurors that I am found Guilty I am sure that every judicious Person who understands our Proceedings in our Law of England in all Cases of this Nature doth know and can answer That the Verdict of the Twelve Jurors is grounded wholly upon the Evidence given by the Witnesses The Jurors Belief of the Witnesses produced and sworn to give Evidence against me was the foundation of their Verdict and justifies them in Law and the Verdict given by the Jurors doth in Law justifie the Judgment given by the Judges for the taking away of my Belief And I beseech God that the same Rule of Law may at the great and terrible day of Judgment acquit as well the Jurors who gave that Verdict as the Judges who gave that Judgment from all Guilt of my Blood But I must again refer it to the Consciences of all unbyassed judicious and good Men whether in Christian Charity the motives of Credibility founded upon such Judgment the Verdict which was solely grounded upon the Evidence of Mr. Oates and Mr. Bedloe be of greater force to a good and charitable Conscience to pronounce me Guilty than the several other motives which I have here represented will be found to pronounce me Innocent It will no way concern me as to my own particular whether the world shall adjudge me Innocent or not it is sufficient for me That my Conscience doth with great Joy and Peace acquit me And that the God of all Truth my dearest Jesus who is Truth it self doth know me to be Innocent And that the Consciences of those most Unhappy Men Mr. Oates and Mr. Bedloe will at the last day when the secrets of all hearts shall be made manifest be compelled to the Glory of God and their own shame To proclaim me Innocent I beseech Almighty God to give those miserable Men a true and sincere Repentance for the Sin which they have committed and by which they have drawn upon themselves the Guilt of my Innocent Blood I do here profess my self to dye a Member of the Holy Catholique and Apostolique Church of which the Bishop of Rome is the Supreme Visible Head of Government on Earth as the Successor of the Holy Apostle St. Peter And of which Church our blessed Lord Jesus is the Supreme Invisible Head of influence to Guide Govern and direct the same by his Holy Spirit And I do take my Religion to be the sole Cause of my being the Object of the Malice of my Enemies who are the Causers of my Death If what I here say be any wayes disbelieved because of my Religion I humbly recommend it to the consideratioin of sober Men whether such disbelief upon this ground be not 1. To cast a Reproach and Blemish upon the Honour and Reputation of all our most Pious Ancestors and our whole Nation who lived and dyed before the 20th Year of King Henry VIII and who did all live and dye in the same Faith and Members of the same Church of which by God's Grace I am now a Member though unworthy 2. To cast a like Reproach upon all the Princes States and People of the World