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A63971	The Protestant Martyrs: or, The bloody assizes Giving an account of the lives, tryals, and dying speeches, of all those eminent Protestants that suffered in the west of England, by the sentence of that bloody and cruel Judge Jefferies; being in all 251 persons, besides what were hang'd and destroyed in cold blood. Containing also, the life and death of James Duke of Monmouth; his birth and education; his actions both at home and abroad; his unfortunate sentence, execution and dying-words upon the scaffold: with a true copy of the paper he left behind him. And many other curious remarks worth the reader's observation.	Tutchin, John, 1661?-1707.	1688 (1688)	Wing T3382AA; ESTC R220942	22,249	20

refine them and not to ruin them whatever the World may think Heb. 12. 3. to 12. Prev 3. 11 12. Mat. 10. 18. to 40. Mat. 16. 24. to 28. We are to imitate our Saviour in his Sufferings as x Pet. 2. 23. and 1 Pet. 16. to 20. We are neither to despise our Afflictions nor to 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 to God to punish us for our Sin Though 't is a Comfort when we may say to them with David Psal 59. 3. Not for my Transgressio 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 ordinary false Hearts chusing 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 Kings 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 Chr. 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 join with Job Chap. 13. 15. and the Psalmist Psal 22. 4. and 16. 7. and shall pray as Psal 74. 19. to 24. and Psal 122. 6. to 9. and Luke 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 pnt an End to their present Trials And I intreat all People to forgive me wherein I have offended and concur with me to pray Toat the great good and merciful God would sanctify my present Lot and for Jesus Christ his sake pardon all my Sins and receive me to his Eternal 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 Colonel RVMBOLD AT the same place died Colonel Richard Rumbold June 26 1685. most of what occurred considerable in his Defence and Speech you have had already in the Business of the Assassination Two or three Passages more there are worth Remarks in the same as Arguments of his Sense and Courage For this Cause he says we●e every Hair of his Head and Beard a Life he 'd joyfully sacrifice 'em all That he was never Antimonarchical in his Principles but for a King and Free Parliament the King having Power enough to make him great and the people to make 'em happy That he died in the Defence of the just Laws and Lib rties of the Nations That none was marks by God above another for no Man came into the World with a Saddle on their Backs nor others booted and spurr'd to ride upon 't And being askt if he thought not his Sentence dreadful Answered He wisht he had a Limb for every Town in Christendom The next Place was Lyme where many of Note died particularly Col. Holmes who was the first of those there executed near the same place where they landed when they came a-Shoar with the Duke of Monmouth being brought to the Place after some Difficulty for the Horses that were first put into the Stedge would not stir which obliged those concerned to get others which they did from the Coach-man who had that Morning brought them to Town when they were put into the Sledge they broke it in pieces which caused the Prisoners to go on Foot to the place of Execution where being come as I told you before the Colonel began thus at the Foot of the Ladder He sat down with an Aspect altogether void of Fear but on the contrary with a kind of smilin● countenance so began to speak to the Spectators to this purpose That he would give them an Account of his first Undertaking in the Design which was long before in London for there he agreed to stand by and assist the Duke of Monmouth when Opportunity offered in order to which he went to Holland with him and there continued until this Expedition in which God had thought fit to frustrate his and other good Mens Expectations He believed the Protestant Religion was bleeding and in a Step towards Extirpation and therefore he with these his Brethren that were to suffer with him and thousands more had adventured their Lives and their All to save it but God Almighty had not appointed 'em to be the Instruments in so glorious a Work yet notwithstanding he did verily believe and doubted not but that God would make use of others that should meet with better success though the Way or Means was not yet visible but of this he did not doubt He also was satisfied of the Duke's Title so that Matter did not afflict him on account of his engaging on his Score And going on further with a Discourse of this Nature he was asked by a Person Why he did not pray for the King He with a smiling Countenance answered I am sorry you do not yet understand the Difference between speaking and praying And having ended his Discourse he then prepared himself by prayer for his Dissolution which was very devout and pious for half an hour Col. Holmes in his Prayer not mentioning the King he was charged as before to which he replied He prayed for him in general praying for all Mankind Thus fell the valiant and good Christian Col. 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 The Last Speech of Dr. Hicks I am now going into that World where many dark Things shall be made perfectly manifest and clear and many doubtful Things fully resolved and a plenary Satisfaction given concerning them all Disputes and Mistakes concerning Treason Rebellion and

notorious Crimes such as the unhappy Fate of the Earl of Essex and my Father of ever blessed Memory and others now covered over with Jesuitical Policy should have been detected and avenged I have lived and shall now die in the Faith of this That God will work a Deliverance for his People and then will be discovered the great and horrid and scarcely to be parallell'd Villanies our Enemies have heen guilty of but now you see my Case is desperate yet know that I die a Martyr for the People and shall rather pity the State that their false and covetous Minds have brought themselves and me to than discover who are the Persons concerned in my Overthrow and I heartily forgive all that have wronged me even those that have been Instrumental in my Fall earnestly praying for their Souls And I hope King James will shew himself to be of his Brother's Blood and extend his Mercy to my Children even as he was wont to his greatest Enemies they being not capable to Act and therefore not conscious of any Offence against the Government A Copy of the Duke of Monmouth's LETTER to the King Dated from Ringwood the 8th of July 1685. YOUR Majesty may think it is the Misfortune I now lie under makes me make this Application to you but I do assure your Majesty it is the Remorse I now have in me of the Wrongs I have done you in several things and now in taking up Arms against you For my taking up Arms it never was in my Thoughts since the King died The Prince and Princess of Orange will be Witness for me of the Assurance I gave them That I would never stir against you but my Misfortune was such as to meet with some Horrid People that made me believe things of your Majesty and gave me so many false Arguments that I was fully led away to believe That it was a Shame and a Sin before God not to do it But Sir I will not trouble your Majesty at present with many things that I could say for my self that I am sure would move your Compassion the chief end of this Letter being only to beg of you That I may have that Happiness as to speak to your Majesty For I have that to say to you Sir that I hope may give you a long and happy Reign I am sure Sir when you hear me you will be convinced of the Zeal I have for your Preservation and how heartily I repent of what I have done I can say no more to your Majesty now being this Letter must be seen by those that keep me Therefore Sir I shall make an end in begging of your Majesty to believe so well of me That I would rather die a thousand Deaths than excuse any thing I have done if I did not really think my self the most in the wrong that ever any Man was and had not from the bottom of my Heart an abhorrence for those that put him upon it and for the Action it self I hope Sir God Almighty will strike your Heart with Mercy and Compassion for me as he has done mine with the Abhorrence of what I have done Therefore I hope Sir I may live to shew you how Zealous I shall ever be for your Service and could I say but one Word in this Letter you would be convinced of it but it is of that Consequence That I dare not do it Therefore Sir I do beg of you once more to let me speak to you for then you will be convinced how much I shall ever be Your Majesty's most Humble and Dutiful MONMOVTH There was also a short Paper Printed at that time with his Speech wherein he declares That his Father had told him in his Life-time that he was never Married lo his Mother which he hop'd would be a means for King James to use his Children with the more tenderness We shall now proceed to give an Account of the Persons that suffer'd for the sime Cause some of the more principal of which whose Essigies are hereunto affix'd 't is thought worth the while to Treat distinctly of giving an Exact List of the other and the Places where they suffer'd and First of those remarkable Brothers Mr. Benjamin and Mr. William Hewling the Elder was a Captain of Horse and the Younger a Lieutenant of Foot in the Duke of Monmouth's Service They got on Ship-board after the Defeat at Sedgmore but were Cast away on the Coast again and so taken The last William was Executed at Lyme where just before he went to die he said to one of his Fellow-Sufferers Here is a sweet Promise for us I will not leave you comfortless I will come unto you One taking Leave of him he said Farewel till we meet in Heaven presently I shall be with Christ O! I would not change Conditions with any that stay behind for ten thousand Worlds Pray remember my Dear Love to my Brother and Sister and tell them I desire they would comfort themselves that I am gone to Christ and we shall quickly meet at the Glorious Mount Sion above Afterwards he Prayed for near half an Hour with great Fervency Blessing God earnestly for the Blood of Jesus Christ Praying for the Peace of the Church of God and of these Nations in particular When he was going out of the World with a Joyful Countenance he said Oh! now my Joy and Comfort is that I have a Christ to go to and so gently resign'd his Spirit to God the 12th of Sept. 1685. As to the Elder Brother when he had receiv'd the News of his Brother's Death and that he died with so much Comfort and Joy he replied We have no cause to fear Death if the Presence of God be with us and added Perhaps my Friends may think this Summer the saddest Time of my Life but I Bless God it has been the sweetest and most happy time of all Speaking of the Disappointment of their Expectations in the Work they had undertaken he said With reference to the Glory of God the Prosperity of the Gospel and the Delivery of the People of God We have great cause to lament it but for that outward Prosperity that have attended it it 's but of small Moment and Death would have ended i● The Day of his Execution with others being come it is remarkable that they sat in the Sledge near half an Hour before the Officers could make the Horses draw at which they were greatly enrag'd there being no visible Obstruction from either Weight or Way but at last the Mayor and Sheriffs hawl'd them forward themselves Baalam like driving the Horses Being come to the Place of Execution and having embrac'd his Fellow-Sufferers he desir'd of the Sheriff that he might Pray particularly but he could not grant it only ask'd him if he would Pray for the King He answer'd I Pray for all Men. He then desir'd he might sing a Psalm but the Sheriff told him it must be with the Halters about their

I have done his Will tho' it does cross Man's Will and the Scriptures that satisfie me are Isa 16. 4. Hide the Outcasts bexray not him that wandereth And Obad. 13 14. Thou shouldst not have given up those of his that escape in the Day of his Distress But Man says You shall give them up or you shall dye for it Now who to obey judge ye So that I have Cause to rejoyce and be exceeding glad in that I suffer for Righteousness sake and that I am accounted worthy to suffer for Well doing and that God has accepted any Service from me which has been done in Sincerity tho' mixed with manifold Infirmities which he hath been pleased for Christ's sake to cover and forgive And now as concerning my Fact as it is called alas it was but a little one and might well become a Prince to forgive but he that sh ws no Mercy shall find none And I may say of it in the Language of Jonathan I did but taste a little Honey and lo I must die for it I d●d but relieve an unworthy poor distressed Family and lo I must dye for it Well I desire in the Lamb-like Gospel-Spirit to forgive all that are concerned and to say Lord lay it not their Charge but I fear he will not Nay I believe when he comes to make Inquisition for Blood it will be found at the Door of the furious Judge who because I could not remember Things through my Dauntedness at Burton's Wife 's and Daughter's Vileness and my Ignorance took Advantage thereat and would not hear me when I had called to mind that which I am sure would have invalidated their Evidence tho' he granted something of the same Nature to another yet denyed it to me My Blood will also be found at the Door of the unrighteous Jury who found me Guilty upon the single Oath of an out-lawed Man for there was none but his Oath about the Money who is no legal Witness though he be pardoned his Out-lawry cannot be recalled and also the Law requires two Witnesses in point of Life And then about my going with him to the Place mentioned 't was by his own Words before he was Out-lawed for 't was two Months after his absconding and tho' in a Proclamation yet not High Treason as I have heard so that I am clearly murdered by you And also Bloody Mr. A. who has so insatiably hunted after my Life and though it is no Profit tlo him through the ill Will he bore me left no Stone unturned as I have ground to believe till he brought it to this and shewed favour to Burton who ought to have dyed for his own Fault and not bought his Life with mine and Capt. R. who is cruel and severe to all under my Circumstances and did at that time without all Mercy or Pity hasten my Sentence and held up my Hand that it might be given all which together with the Great One of all by whose Power all these and a Multitude more of Cruelties are done I do heartily and freely forgive as against me but as it is done in an implacable Mind agaigst the Lord Christ and his righteous Cause and Followers I leave it to him who is the Avenger of all such Wrongs who will tread upon Princes as upon Mortar and be terrible to the Kings of the Earth And know this also that though ye are seemingly fixt and because of the Power in your Hand are writing out your Violence and dealing with a despight●ul Hand because of the old and new Hatrred by impovering and every way distressing those you have got under you yet unless you can secure Jesus Christ and all his Holy Angels you shall never do your Business nor your Hands accomplish your Enterprizes for he will be upon you e'er you are aware and therefore O that you would be wise instructect and learn is the Desire of her that finds no Mercy from you Elizabeth Graunt The Earl of Argyle WE must now take a Step over into Scotland that poor Country which has been harass'd and tired for these many Years to render them perfect Slaves that they might help to enslave England to prevent which and secure the Protestant Religion which 't was grown impossible to do but by Arms this good Lord embarkt from Holland about the same Time with the Duke and arrived in Scotland with what Forces he could make to which were added some others who joined him which after several Marches and Counter-marches were at length led into a Boggy sort of a Place on Pretence or with Intention to bring him off from the other Army then upon the Heels of 'em where they lost one another dispersed and shifted for themselves the Earl being taken by a Country-man and brought to Edinburgh where he suffered for his former unpardondable Crime requiring Care should be taken of the Protestant Religion and explaining his taking the Test conformable thereto for the Legality of which he ha● the Hands of the most eminent Lawyers about the City He suffered at Edinburgh the 30th of June 1685. His Speech has a great deal of Piety and Religion nor will it be any Disgrace to say 't was more like a Sermon 'T is as follows The Earl of Argyle's last Speech June 30. 1685. JOB tells us Man that is born of a Woman is of few Days and full of Trouble and I am a clear instance of it I shall not say thing of my Sentence or Escape about three years and a half ago nor of my Return lest I may thereby give Offence or be too tedious Only being to end my Days in your Presence I shall as some of my last Words assert the Truth of the Matter of Fact and the Sincerity of my Intentions and Professions that are published That which I intend mainly now to say is To express my humble and I thank God chearful Submission to his Divine Will and my Willingness to forgive all Men even my Enemies and I am heartily well sati●fied there is no more Blood spilt and I shall wish the Stream may stop at me And that if it please God as to Zerubbabel Zech. 4. 6. Not by Might nor by Power 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 stumble at it seeing they ought not for God Almighty does all Things well for Good and holy Ends tho' we 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 tolerable but desirable We ought to have a deep Reverence and Fear of God's Displeasure but withal a Hope and Dependance on him for a blessed Issue in Compliance with his Will for God chastens his own to