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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37137	The dying speeches of several excellent persons, who suffered for their zeal against popery, and arbitrary government viz. I. Mr. Stephen Colledg, at Oxford, August 31, 1681, II. The Lord Russel in Lincolns-Inn-fields, July 21, 1683, III. Col. Sidney, on Tower-Hill, December 7, 1683, IV. Col. Rumbald,	Colledge, Stephen, 1635?-1681.; Russell, William, Lord, 1639-1683.; Sidney, Algernon, 1622-1683.; Rumbold, Richard, 1622?-1685.; Lisle, Alice, 1614?-1685.; Cornish, Henry, d. 1685.; Walcot, Thomas, d. 1683.	1689 (1689)	Wing D2957; ESTC R3148	29,338	40

Presbyterians are worse than the Papists God doth know that what I say I speak freely from my Heart I have found many among them truly serving God and so I have of all the rest that have come into my company Men without any manner of design but to serve God serve his Majesty and keep their Liberties and Properties Men that I am certain are not of vicious Lives I found no Dammers or those kind of People among them or at least few of them To his Son Kissing him several times with great passion Dear Child Farewel the Lord have mercy upon thee Good people let me have your prayers to God Almighty to receive my Soul. And then he Prayed And as soon as he had done spake as followeth The Lord have Mercy upon my Enemies and I beseech you good people who ever you are and the whole World that I have offended to forgive me whom ever I have offended in word or deed I ask every Mans pardon and I forgive the World with all my Soul all the Injuries I have received and I beseech God Almighty forgive those poor Wretches who have cast away their Souls or at least endangered them to ruine this Body of mine I beseech God that they may have a sight of their Sins and that they may find Mercy at his hands Let my Blood speak the Justice of my Cause I have done And God have Mercy upon you all To Mr. Crosthwait Pray Sir my Service to Dr. Hall and Dr. Reynall and thank them for all their Kindnesses to me I thank you Sir for your Kindness The Lord bless you all Mr. Sheriff God be with you God be with you all good People The Executioner Ketch desired his pardon And he said I do forgive you The Lord have mercy on my Soul. The SPEECH of the late Lord RUSSEL to the Sheriffs Together with the PAPER delivered by him to them at the Place of Execution on July 21. 1683. Mr. Sheriff I Expected the Noise would be such that I could not be very well heard I was never fond of much Speaking much less now Therefore I have set down in this Paper all that I think fit to leave behind me God knows how far I was always from Designs against the King's Person or of altering the Government and I still pray for the preservation of both and of the Protestant Religion I am told that Captain Walcot has said some things concerning my knowledg of the Plot I know not whether the Report is true or not I hope it is not For to my knowledg I never saw him or spake with him in my whole Life and in the Words of a dying Man I profess I know of no Plot either against the King's Life or the Government But I have now done with this World and am going to a better I forgive all the World and I thank God I die in Charity with all Men and I wish all sincere Protestants may love one another and not make way for Popery by their Animosities The PAPER deliver'd to the SHERIFFS I Thank God I find my self so composed and prepared for Death and my Thoughts so fixed on another World that I hope in God I am now quite weaned from setting my Heart on this Yet I cannot forbear spending some time now in setting down in Writing a fuller Account of my Condition to be left behind me than I 'll venture to say at the place of Execution in the Noise and Clutter that is like to be there I bless God heartily for those many Blessings which he in his infinite Mercy has bestowed upon me through the whole Course of my Life That I was born of worthy good Parents and had the Advantages of a Religious Education which I have often thank'd God very heartily for and look'd upon as an invaluable Blessing For even when I minded it least it still hung about me and gave me checks and has now for many Years so influenced and possessed me that I feel the happy Effects of it in this my Extremity in which I have been so wonderfully I thank God supported that neither my Imprisonmenr nor the Fear of Death have been able to discompose me to any degree but on the contrary I have found the Assurances of the Love and Mercy of God in and through my blessed Redeemer in whom only I trust and I do not question but that I am going to partake of that Fulness of Joy which is in his presence the hopes whereof does so wonderfully delight me that I reckon this as the happiest time of my Life tho others may look upon it as the saddest I have lived and now die of the Reformed Religion a true and sincere Protestant and in the Communion of the Church of England tho I could never yet comply with or rise up to all the heights of many People I wish with all my Soul all our unhappy Differences were removed and that all sincere Protestants would so far consider the Danger of Popery as to lay aside their Heats and agree against the Common Enemy and that the Churchmen would be less severe and the Dissenters less scrupulous For I think Bitterness and Persecution are at all times bad but much more now For Popery I look on it as an Idolatrous and Bloody Religion and therefore thought my self bound in my Station to do all I could against it And by that I foresaw I should procure such great Enemies to my self and so powerful Ones that I have been now for some time expecting the worst And blessed be God I fall by the Ax and not by the Fiery Tryal Yet whatever Apprehensions I had of Popery and of my own severe and heavy share I was like to have under it when it should prevail I never had a Thought of doing any thing against it basely or inhumanly but what could well consist with the Christian Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom And I thank God I have examin'd all my actings in that Matter with so great Care that I can appeal to God Almighty who knows my Heart that I went on Sincerely without being moved either by Passion By-End or Ill-Design I have always loved my Country much more than my Life and never had any Design of changing the Government which I value and look upon as one of the best Governments in the World and would always have been ready to venture my Life for the preserving of it and would have suffered any Extremity rather than have consented to any Design to take away the King's Life Neither ever-had Man the Impudence to propose so base and barbarous a thing to me And I look upon it as a very unhappy and uneasy part of my present Condition That in my Indictment there should be so much as mention of so vile a Fact tho nothing in the least was said to prove any such Matter but the contrary by the Lord Howard Neither does any Body I am consident believe the least