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A71165	The second and last collection of the dying speeches, letters, and prayers &c. of those eminent Protestants who suffered in the west of England (and elsewhere) under the cruel sentence of the late Lord Chancellour, then Lord Chief Justice Jefferys : with an account of their undaunted courage at the barr and afterwards : with the most remarkable circumstances that attended their execution.	Tutchin, John, 1661?-1707.	1689 (1689)	Wing T3383A; ESTC R32831	17,427	32

had a Limb for every Town in Christendom Mr. Ansley's Last Letter SIR I Now send you my last Farewel being going to lay down my Life with Joy and assurance of Life Eternal for which Blessed be the Holy one of Israel who never leavs nor forsakes those that put their trust in Him I give you many Thanks for your Kindness to me the Lord make it up to you by pouring upon you a Dayly Portion of his most holy Spirit and Deliver you from your Bonds My Eenmies have done what they could to Afflict this Body but Blessed be the most High who has given me Strength Patience and Courage to Endure all they can lay upon me The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Fellowship of his Holy Spirit attend you which is the Prayer of your Dying Friend but Living Brother in Christ Jesus Abraham Ansley From Taunton-Castle Sept. 21. 1685. A HYMN made by Mr. Joseph Tyler a little before His Execution O Lord how Glorious is thy Grace How wondrous large thy Love At such a dreadful Time and Place To such as Faithful prove If thou wilt have thy Glory henee Tho shameful Deaths we Dye We Bless Thee for thy Provedence To all ETERNIT● Let the Spectators see thy Grace In thy poor Servants Shine Whilst we by Faith behold thy Face In that blest Son of Thine The Men our Bodies may abuse Christ take our Souls to Rest Till Thou bringest forth that Joyful News You are my Fathers Blest Appear for those that plead thy Cause Preserve them in thy Way We own King Jesus and his Laws And dare not but Obey Great God confound thy Cruel Foes Let Babylon come down Let Englands King be one of those Shall Raze Her to the Ground Though Christ we yield our Souls to Thee Accept us on his score That where he is there we may be And Praise the evermore Mr. Sampson Lark's Letter to a Friend just before his Execution MY Dear Friend I am ready to be Offered and the time of my Departure is at hand I have through Grace fought a good Fight have finished my course have kept the Faih and am in hopes of the Crown of Righteousness prepared for me and all Gods Faithful ones The experiences I have had of the promises hath given me comfortable hopes that he will carry me to the full end of my Journey with his Name and that Truth of his wich I have made Profession of My great Crime is for my being a Preacher of the Gospel and here I am to be made a Sacrafice where I have mostly Preached Christs Gospel I think my Judges have devised this punishment for my hurt but I trust God will turn it to my good the great trouble I have is for those good Hearts that I must leave behind me But this is my comfort knowing that all such as fear God he will be a Father to them My Dear Wife is greatly troubled but through Mercy much supported and something quieted if any of you have opportunity to give her help I hope you will do it as for our confessing our selves Guilty it was expresly as to matter of Fact and not of Form and this I did with some freedom and the rather because all my worthy Brethren that went before me took that way and the many ways having been used to have a further Discovery yet nothing of that kind by any but onely by Captain Jones Since our Sentence some wretched-men hath been with us to draw from us a Confession of our being Rebels that we might have their Absolution I Bless God he has hitherto helped me to be Faithful and I hope he will not leave me in the most needfull time I must Conclude being ready to be called away my Dear Love to all my Christian Friends and especially those in the Goal the Lord be with you all Amen Your Dying Friend in hopes of Eternal Life through Jesus Christ Amen Sampson Larke From the House of my Blessed Bondage in Dorcester Sept. 7th 1685. The Last Speech of the Lady Alicia Lisle GEntlemen Friends and Neighbours it may be expected that I should say something at my Death and in order thereununto I shall acquaint you that my Birth and Education was both near this place and that my Parents Instructed me in the Fear of God and I now dye of the Reformed Protestant Religion that if ever Popery should return into this Nation it would be a very great and severe Judgment that I dye in expectation of the Pardon of all my Sins and of acceptance with God the Father by the imputed Righteousness of Jesus Christ he being the End of the Law for Righteousness to every one that believes I thank God through Jesus Christ that I do depart under the Blood of Sprinkling which speaketh better things then that of Abel God having made this Castisement an Ordinance to my Soul I did once as little expect to come to this place on this occasion as any Person in this place or Nation therefore let all learn not to be high Minded but fear The Lord is a Soveraign and will take what way he sees best to Glorifie himself in and by his poor Creatures and I do humbly desire to submit to his Will Praying to him That I may possess my Soul in Patience The Crime that was laid to my Charge was for entertaining an Non-conformist-Minister and others in my House the said Minister being Sworn to have been in the late Duke of Monmouths Army but I have been told that if I had denyed them it would not at all have effected me I have no excuse but surprize and fear which I believe my Jury must make use of to excuse their Verdict to the World. I have been also told That the Court did use to be of Counsel for the Prisoner but instead of Advice I had Evidence against me from thence which though it were only by hear say might possibly affect my Jury my defence being but such as might be expected from a weak Woman but such as it was I did not hear it Repeated again to the Jury which as I have been informed is usual in such cases However I forgive all the World and therein all those that have done me wrong and in particular I forgive Colonel Penrudduck although he told me that he could have Taken these men before they came to my House and I do likewise forgive him who desired to be taken away from the Grand Jury to the Petty Jury that he might be the more nearly concerned in my Death as to what may be objected in reference to my Conviction that I gave it under my hand that I had Discoursed with Nelthrope that could be no Evidence against me being after my Conviction and Sentence I do acknowledge His Majesty's Favour in Revoking my Sentence I pray God to preserve him that he may long Raign in Mercy as well as Justice and that he may Raign in Peace and that the Protestant

but by my spirit saith the Lord of Hosts I know Afflictions spring not out of the dust God did wonderfully Deliver and Provide for me and has now by his special Providence brought me to this Place and I hope none will either insult or be stumbled at it seeing they ought not for God Almighty does all things well for good and holy Ends though we do not always understand it Love and Hatred is not known by what is before us Eccles 9. 1. 8. 11 12. 13. Afflictions are not only foretold but promised to Christians and are not only tollerable but desirable We ought to have a deep Reverence and Fear of God's displeasure but withal a firm Hope and Dependance on him for a blessed Issue in compliance with his Will for God chastens his own to Refine them and not to ruine them whatever the World may think Heb. 12. 3. to 12. Prov. 3. 11 12. 2 Tim. 1. 8. 2 Tim. 2. 11. 12. Mat. 10 18 to 40. Mat. 16. 24. to 28. We are to imitate our Saviour in his Sufferings as 1 Pet. 2 23. and 1 Pet. 4. 16 to 20. We are neither to despise our Afflictions nor faint under them both are extreams We are not to suffer our Spirits to be exasperated against the Instruments of our trouble for the same Affliction may be an effect of their Passion and yet sent by God to punish us for Sin Thô it is a Comfort when we may say to them with David Psal 59. 3. Not for my Transgression nor for my sin O Lord. Nor are we by fraudulent Pusillanimous Compliances in wicked Courses to bring Sin upon our selves Faint Hearts are ordinarily False Hearts choosing Sin rather than Sufferings and a short Life with Eternal Death before Temporal Death and a Crown of Glory Such seeking to Save a Little Loses All and God readily hardens them to proceed to their own Destruction How many like Hazael 2 King. 8. 13. run to Excesses they never thought they were capable of Let Rulers and others read seriously and weigh Prov. 1. 10 to 20. 2 Chron. 28. 6 to 17. Prov. 24. 11 12. and Prov. 28. 10. and avoid what is bad and follow what is good For me I hope by God s strength to joyn with Job Chap. 13. 15. and the Psalmist Psal 22. 4. and 167. and shall Pray as Psal 74. 19 to 24. and Psal 122. 6 to 9. and Luk. 1. 74 75. and shall Hope as Psal 94. 14 15. I do freely forgive all that directly or indirectly have been the cause of my being brought to this place first or last and I pray God Forgive them I pray God send Truth and Peace in these Three Kingdoms and continue and increase the glorious Light of the Gospel and restrain the Spirit of Prophanity Atheism Superstition Popery and Persecution and Restore All that have back-slidden from the Purity of their Life or Principles and Bless his whole People with all blessings Spiritual and Temporal and put an end to their present Trials And I intreat all People to Forgive me wherein I have Offended and to concurr with me to Pray That the great good and merciful God would sanctifie my present Lot and for Jesus Christ his sake Pardon all my Sins and receive me to his Everlasting Glory It is suggested to me that I have said nothing of the Royal Family and it remembers me that before the Justices at my Trial about the Test I said that at my Death I would Pray That there should never want one of the Royal Family to be a Defender of the True Ancient Apostolick Catholick Protestant Faith which I do now And that GOD would enlighten and forgive all of them that are either luke-warm or have shrunk from the Profession of it And in all Events I pray God may provide for the Security of his Church that Antichrist nor the Gates of Hell may never prevail against it The HUMBLE PETITION OF THE WIDDOWS AND FATHERLESS CHIDREN IN THE West of England TO BE Presented to this present Convention WE to the Number of a Thousand and more Widdows and Fatherless Children of the Counties of Dorset Somerset and Devon our dear Husbands and tender Fathers having been so Tyrannously Butcher'd and some Transported our Estates sold from us and our Inheritance cut off by the severe and harsh Sentence of George Lord Jefferies now we understand in the Tower of London a Prisoner who has lately we hear endeavoured to excuse himself from those Tyrannical and Illegal Sentences by laying it on Information by some Gentlemen who are known to us to be good Christians true Protestants and English-men We your poor Petititioners many hundreds of us on our Knees have begg'd Mercy for our dear Husbands and tender Parents from his Cruel Hands but his thirst for Blood was so great and his Barbarism so Cruel that instead of granting Mercy for some which were made appear to be Innocent and Petitioned for by the flower of the Gentry of the said Counties he immediately Executed and so barbarously that a very good Gentlevvoman at Dorchester begging on her Knees the Life of a worthy Gentleman to Marry him and make him her Husband this vile Wretch not having common Civility with him and laying aside that Honour and Respect due to a Person of her worth told her Come I know your meaning some part of your Petition I will grant which shall be that after he is Hanged and Quartered you shall have that Member you best like when living and so I will give Orders to the Sheriff These with many hundred more Tyrannical Acts are ready to be made appear in the said Counties by honest and credible Persons and therefore your Petitioners desire that the said George Jefferies late Lord Chancellour the Vilest of Men may be brought down to the Counties aforesaid where we the good Women in the West shall be glad to see him and give him another manner of Welcome than he had there three Years since And your Petitioners shall ever Pray c. FINIS ADVERTISEMENT THere will now speedily be Publisht a Treatise Entituled The Bloody Assizes or A Compleat History of the Life of GEORGE Lord JEFFERIES from his Birth to this present time c. Wherein amongst other things is given a true Account of his unheard of Cruelties and barbarous Proceedings in his whole Western Circuit the manner of his coming to Dorchester his Tyrannical Behaviour there his Affronts to the Sheriffs and chief Gentlemen of Devon-shire Dorset-shire Somerset-shire c. His barbarous Practices at Exeter Taunton and the City of Wells the Tryals and Condemnation of 947 Persons with their undaunted Courage at the Barr and remarkable Circumstances that attended their Executions Faithfully Collected by several West Countrey Gentlemen now in London who were both Eye and Ear-witnesses Which will be Sold by John Dunton at the Black Raven in the Poultrey over against the Compter ☞ The First and Second Collection of Dying Speeches Letters Prayers c. of those who suffer'd in the West sold by J. Dunton at the Black Raven in the Poultrey ☞ The Joy of Faith er a Treatise opening the true Nature of Faith by S. Lee sold by J. Dunton