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A27409	The bloody assizes, or, A compleat history of the life of George Lord Jefferies, from his birth to this present time ... to which is added Major Holmes's excellent speech, with the dying speeches and prayers of many other eminent Protestants : none of which were ever before publish'd ...	Bent, James.; Holmes, Abraham, d. 1685.; Tutchin, John, 1661?-1707.; Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.; Dunton, John, 1659-1733.; J. S. (John Shirley), fl. 1680-1702.	1689 (1689)	Wing B1905; ESTC R23364	51,348	72

the day being great they should want time So then he stopt and replyed he could make application where he should not meet with interuption and so apply'd himself to Prayer which he performed with great Devotion and Zeal for a quarter of an hour to the great satisfaction of the Auditors and so taking leave of his suffering Brethren he mounted the Stage which was to be the last Act he made in this World being on the Ladder he saw some of his Friends and Neighbours weeping and mourning for him to whom he spake pray weep not for me I am going to a place of Bliss and Happiness wherefore pray repair to your Houses and ' ere you get thither I doubt not but I shall be happy with my God and Saviour where all tears shall be wiped away and nothing shall remain but Hallelujahs to all Eternity There was also Mr. William Hewling of London a young Gentleman under twenty who came over with the D. of M. he seemed to be in a calm and composed frame of Spirit and with a great deal of Courage and Seriousness he behaved himself there is already something said of his converse and discourse which amongst others is Printed therefore we shall say nothing more of him but that in all manner of Appearance he dyed a good Christian true Protestant and doubtless now enjoys the benefit of it there were several worthy Men more there Executed viz. Mr Christopher Battiscombe Dr. Temple Captain Madders Captain Mathews Captain Kid c. in all twelve who all of them dyed with that Courage and Resolution as became Christians and such who eminently had adventured their Lives and Fortunes in defence of what was most dear to them and namely our Religion which though God did not think those fit to defend and secure it yet in his infinite wisdom we hope it will be in some measure secured by other Instruments the Glory of the same being only due to him So that now leaving this Place we proceed to other parts of the Country where with the like Butchery were only five Executed amongst which was one M. Tyler of Bristol who had had Command in the Dukes Army where he behaved himself very stoutly to the last after the Army was dispersed he amongst others were taken received Sentence of Death at Dorchester and here brought for the Completion of the same and from hence we hope was Translated to Heaven he spent his time between the Sentence and Execution very devoutly in confirming and strengthening those that were to be his fellow Sufferers And made it his business to bring them to a willingness to submit to and a preparedness for Death The day being come and he brought to the Place of Execution he thus spoke my Friends you see I am now on the brink of Eternity and in a few minutes shall be but Clay you expect I should say something as is usual in such cases as to the matter of fact I dye for it doth not much trouble me knowing to my self the ends for which I ingaged with the D. of M. were both good and honourable here being stop'd and not suffered to proceed farther he then comforted his fellow sufferers desiring them to joyn with him in Singing a Hymn which he himself composed for the occasion as followeth 1. O Lord how Glorious is thy Grace And wondrous large thy Love At such a dreadful time and place To such as Faithful prove 2. If thou wilt have thy Glory hence Though a shameful death we dye We Bless thee for this Providence To all Eternity 3. Let these Spectators see thy Grace In thy Poor Servants shine While we by Faith behold thy Face In that blest Son of thine 4. Though Men our Bodies may abuse Christ take our Souls to rest Till he brings forth the joyful news Ye are my Fathers blest 5. Appear for those that plead thy Cause Preserve them in the way Who own King Jesus and his Laws And dare not but obey 6. O God confound our cruel Foes Let Babylon come down Let England's King be one of them Shall raze her to the Ground 7. Through Christ we yield our Souls to thee Accept us on his Score That where he is there we may be To Praise thee ever more After the Hymn Sung he Prayed devoutly for half an hour after Prayer he gave great satisfaction to all present of his Assurance of Heaven had many weeping Eyes for him and was much lamented in the Town tho a stranger to the place so unbuttoning himself said to the Executioner I fear not what Man can do unto me I pray thee do thy work in mercy for I forgive thee with all my Heart and I also pray to God for to forgive thee dont mangle my Body too much and so lifting up his hands to Heaven the Executioner did his Office there was also one William Cox that dyed with him who also dyed very couragiously despising the shame in hopes and expectation of a future better Estate he and his two Sons were some of the first that came to the D. of M. and all taken and all condemned together the Father only suffered the Sons by providence were preserved when he was going to Execution he desired leave to see his Sons then in another Prison in the Town to whom he gave his Blessing and though he was going to be Executed yet had that satisfaction to hope that God would preserve them which was so An Account of those Executed at Sherborn AT Sherbon in the same County were Executed twelve who all dyed Couragiously especially one Mr. Glisson of Yeovel in the County of Somerset his extraordinary deportment and carriage at the Place of Execution was so very considerable as gave great satisfaction to his Friends and Amazement to his Enemies he declared to the World that he dyed a true Protestant and had not ingaged with the D. of M. but Judged it high time to stand up for the Defence of the same though God Almighty had thought fit to frustrate his designs and to bring him to that Place to Seal the same with his Blood also John Savage and Richard Hall of Culliton in the County of Devon suffered at the same time and Place in their particular Conversation they valued most those that they saw most of Piety in and pittyed others that they saw not so well prepared saying that the remembrance of our vanity may cause compassion towards such as were in such a Condition exhorting all to be serious and to consider their latter end which deserved the greatest attention of mind the way to dye comfortably being to prepare for it seriously and if God should miraculously preserve us from this Death now before our Eyes It should be the duty of us all to spend the remaining part of our time in such a manner as now when we see death just at the Door At the hour of Execution their chearfulness and comfort was much increased saying now the will of

Memory of Stephen Colledge departed meaning the Joyner that was Executed at Oxford for which he was Indicted upon an Information and found Guilty yet he being at large thought fit to withdraw himself to avoid the Rigor of the Fine c. when so it fell out that this person going the Circuit as Lord Chief Justice accompanied with a great many on Horseback Mr. Best came by and asked one of the Company what Judge that was who replyed the Lord Chief Justice Jefferys and he unadvisedly told that party his name was Best and desired him to remember his Service to his Lordship upon notice of which he immediately caused him to be fetched back and committed him to York Gaol from whence he was brought by Habeus Corpas to the Kings-Bench and Imprisoned for a Fine of 500 l. c. And other instances of the Greatness of his Stomach tho' in another nature is that which so remarkably happened at Kingston upon Thames at the Midsummer Assizes held there for the County of Surry 1679. At this Assize being Council in a Case upon Nisi prius before Sir Richard Weston one of the Barons of the Exchequer and desiring to ingrosse all the questions without suffering those on the other side to ask the Witness what was convenient in carrying on and managing the Cause he was desired by the Judge to hold his Tongue c. upon which some words passing this Person told him he did not use him like a Conncellor curbing him in the managing his Breviate c. to which the Judge fiercely replyed Ha! since the King has thrown his favours upon you in making you Chief Justice of Chester you think to run down every body if you find your self aggrieved make your complaint here 's no body cares for it And this Person replying That he had not been used to make complaints but rather stopped those that were made when being again Commanded to hold his Tongue he sat down and wept for anger c. And here by the way it will not be amiss to let the Reader have a taste of some passages that happened on the publick Stage of business in the Jocular part of this great Mans Life and the Repartees he met with of which I shall instance a few Once it happened upon a Tryal that a plain Country fellow giving Evidence in the Court and pressing it home moved this person who was Councel on the other side to pick a quarrel with the poor mans Leather Doublet and amongst other Interrogations bawl'd out You fellow in the Leather Doublet pray what have you for Swearing the Man upon this looking steadily on him replyed Truly Sir if you have no more for Lying than I have for Swearing you might wear a Leather Doublet as well as I This bluntly retorted moved at that time much laughter and filled the Town with the discourse of it Another time it so fell out that some Musitioners brought an Action against a person at whose Wedding they had play'd for the Money they were promised or expected when in the midst of the Evidence this Person called to one of them viz. You Fidler c. at which the Man seeming to be disgusted he again upon the parties alledging himself to be a Musitioner demanded what difference there was between a Musitioner and a Fidler As much Sir said he as there is between a pair Bagpipes and a Recorder and he then being Recorder of London it was taken as a suitable Repartee Being at a Country Assize as Judge an old Man with a great Beard came to give evidence before him and not doing it to his mind he began to cavil with his Beard and amongst other expressions told him that if his Conscience was as large as his Beard he might well swear any thing This so nettled the old blade that without any respect to his greatness he briskly replyed My Lord If you go about to measure Consciences by Beards your Lordship has none Many more of this kind might be mentioned but not being greatly to the purpose they are willingly omitted But to return to the thread of this Discourse passing by his vehement and pressing Discourse to the Jury against William Lord Russel on his Tryal at the Old-Baily which some say greatly influenced them to find him Guilty and add that he did it out of a Pique in remembrance he was one of the Members of the Parliament before whom he was brought on his Knees We find him by this time Trying of Dr. Titus Oats upon two Informations upon the account of his Swearing to the White-Horse Consult and Ireland's being in Town and after a long Debate wherein many sharp Repartees passed the Jury made a shift to find him Guilty as to the Circucumstances I referr you to the Tryal but the Sentence was severe and of its Effects few are ignorant wherefore I shall pass it over as also that of Mr. Tho. Dangerfield another of the Evidences in discovering the Contrivances and carrying on of the Popish Plot which the Papists by these manner of Proceedings accounted to be damn'd to the lowest Erebus And now before any thing remarkably happened the Kingdom was allarum'd by the landing of the late Duke of Monmouth at Lyme in Dorset-shire and the Earl of Argyle in Scotland but however these two unfortunate Gentlemen miscarrying and losing their Lives left a great many of their miserable Followers to feel the severity of Punishment and as for the gleanings of the bloody Field in England they came to the sifting of this Person who with others going down with a Commission to Try them all the Indignities the Dissenters had put upon him came fresh into his remembrance so that he made them find the Laws more cruel than the Sword and wish they had fallen in the Field rather than have come to his handling for he breathed Death like a destroying Angel and sanguined his very Ermins in Blood a large Account of which you shall have in its proper place But by the way for the sake of the West-Country Reader I shall here add a true and impartial Narrative of the late Duke of Monmouth's whole Expedition whilst in the West seeing that was the Prologue to that bloody Scene that you 'l hear by and by was acted by George Lord Jefferies the Subject of our present Discourse To begin then May 24. Old Stile We left Amsterdam about two of the Clock being Sunday Morning and in a Lighter Sail'd for the Texel our Vessels being sent before us thither but meeting with extream cross Winds all the way we Arrived not till Saturday Night and then went all on Bord. Here our Man of War with about 32 Guns where the Dukes Person was was under an Arrest by order of the States of Amsterdam on the Complaint of our Envoy they presuming we had been clear but we broke through our Arrest and Sunday Morning at break of Day set Sayl for England We had in all three Ships that of 32

Eleaven more were brought from Dorchester to Lyme six in a Coach and six in a Cart as he was drawn through the Town he chearfully beholding the People advised them not to be discouraged at their severe Deaths for that though it was their hard fortunes to loose the day in so good a Cause yet he questioned not but it would be Revived again and by such means as he nor they could not imagine God I hope and trust will never let this Nation to fall into Popery being brought to the Inn where they stoped near two hours untill the Butchers had prepared every thing ready for the slaughter they were visited by a very worthy Divine and Vicar of that Town who offered them those spiritual helps usually in those Occasions which some of them Embraced and others not their Principles being Different from the Church of England The Jaylor speaking to Coll Holmes to knock off his Irons he said Great Men of State wear Chains and 't is accounted for their honour but though there is a vast difference betwixt those Golden ones and mine yet I take mine to be more Honourable as that good Apostle said he accounted it an honour to suffer shame for his Masters Name the Sledge being in readiness they prepared to enter it but Alas who should draw such Men to Execution though Men were so bloody the very Beasts refused to draw them and instead of going forward they went backwards and could by no means make them do it which so inraged some Persons that they took the Coach Horses out of the Coach and placed them to the Sledge but presently the Sledge broke in peices then spake this worthy good Man Pray Gentlemen you see all your strivings will not do to draw us to Execution I verily believe there is more in it then you are aware of pray read about the Prophet that went out of Gods way his Beast saw that he could not Give us leave and we will walk to the place Being there come the Coll. prepared first to mount that Tragical Stage the heads of his Speech you have before therefore his Prayer take as followeth Coll. Holme's Last Prayer MOst Glorious most great and most merciful God there is none in Heaven nor in Earth that is like unto thee Heaven is thy Throne and the Earth is thy footstool who shall say unto thee what doest thou here we are poor deplorable Creatures come to offer up our last Prayers and Services unto thee we beseech thy favourable Ear to our Prayers and the comfort of thy holy Spirit at this time we praise and magnifie thy name for all the dispensations of thy providence towards us especially for this thy providence in bringing us to this place and at this time to suffer shame for thy Name help and assist all of us to submit to thy will patiently Pardon all our Sins remove them out of thy presence as far as the East is from the West and accept of us in the merits of thy Son Jesus Christ thou who art the searcher of hearts and tryer of Reins let there not at the moment of death be the least spark of Sin indwelling in us nor the strivings of Flesh and Blood that may hinder us from a joyful passage unto thee give us patience also under these sufferings and a deliverance to all others from undergoing them and in thy good time work deliverance for poor England let thy Gospel yet florish amongst them hasten the downfall of Antichrist we trust the time is near come prevent O Lord this effusion of Christian Blood and if it be thy will let this be the last Lord bless this Town let them from the highest to the lowest set the fear of God before their Eyes Bless all sorts and Conditions of Men in all Ranks and Qualities pardon all their Sins give them all true Repentance and the Grace of thy holy Spirit fit and prepare us for the chearful fulfilling of thy holy will let the Comforter be still with us be merciful to all our Friends and Relations and Acquaintance forgive our Enemies accept of our thankfulness for all the Mercies and favours afforded us and hear and graciously answer us in these our Requests and whar else thou knowest needful and expedient for us and all for our Redeemer the Lord Jesus Christ his sake who Dyed for us that we might Reign with him for ever and ever to whom with thee and thy Blessed Spirit of Grace be ascribed as is most due all honour glory and Praise both now and for ever after which imbracing his Fellow sufferers and kissing them and giving them some ghostly Comforts he desired help of the Sheriff to go up the Ladder having but one Arm and the Gallows higher then ordinary which was granted And in a short time after the Executioner did his Office thus fell the valiant and good Christian C●ll Holmes his dying Words we have now found come to pass he was much lamented by all that saw him except by some that 't is feared are delivered up to a feared Conscience Mr. Christopher Batiscombe his last Speech and Prayer imediately before he suffered at Lyme 12th of September 168● HE was well known to be a Gentleman and of a good Estate in Dorchester shire and a true Protestant well beloved among the Gentry of that Country It was his fortune to be concerned with the D. M. and was very faithful to him to the last during the time of the Bloody Assizes at Dorchester where he received his Sentence of death was divers times sent for to the Chamber of the then L. C. J. and promoted with offers of Life to betray some Gentlemen which he refused saying he scorned to purchase his Life by such indirect means and he accordingly chose death rather then Life seeing it could not be purchased but by such unworthy means The day being come he prepared himself and received the Holy Sacrament walking down to the Place of Execution with much chearfulness and Christian Courage when he was mounting the Ladder smiled and said I am not afraid of this I am going to a better Place from a poor and miserable World to a Celestial Paradise a Heavenly Jerusalem I might have chosen whether I would have undergone this Death if I had hearkened to the L. C. J. but it was upon such unworthy terms that should I have accepted of my Pardon it would have been troublesome to me I dye a true Protestant I am in Charity with all Men God preserve this Nation from Popery the Lord bless you all so taking his leave of them he knew after Prayer he lanched into Eternity Some Passages Relating to Mr. Sampson Larke with his Prayer at the same time and place when Executed IMmediately after Col. Holmes was Executed this good Man was ordered to prepare to follow accordingly going to deliver some few Words to the People some whereof were formerly of his Congregation but being told he could not expect much